jonobie

jonobie, 5 days ago to random

I have a scab on my elbow because I … leaned too hard or long on it, and my skin just decided to give up in that spot?

Middle aged bodies are weird and fragile in more ways than I expected.

jonobie, 6 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

So this is how my morning went, not sad about it at all...

Also working on take 3 to get decent steel cut oats for breakfast. I feel like this is bizarrely challenging - the past two days they've stuck to the pan and didn't seem like they had enough water. Today I partially covered them and they didn't stick, but were more chewy than I liked Anyone have a favorite method of preparing steel cut oats?

jonobie, 13 days ago to Seattle

The #seattle monorail is such a bizarre thing. Basically just a tiny little connector between two parts of the city. But super useful if you’re going between them!

jonobie, 18 days ago to random

I used to be thrilled every time #AffinityDesigner launched and was like "Do you want to install the update"? Yes! Free! Awesome! Works better!

...Now that they're owned by Canva, I have this fear that every update might be The One that starts the enshittification.

jonobie, 19 days ago to random

So far the winning feature of Linux Mint appears to be the extension "Cinnamon Dynamic Wallpaper". 🤣 I mean, c'mon, isn't this cool?

jonobie, 19 days ago to random

Installed Linux Mint on a Virtual Box to start playing with it as a possible home OS in the future. So far, so good, although I haven't done much beyond adding some basic stuff. The fonts and graphics look a wee bit fuzzy, which I'm suspecting is the fault of Virtual Box (or the interaction) instead of Cinnamon, but we'll see how that wears over time.

Pondering whether I want to do the GNOME integration with Google or if that just means I'm going backwards on my de-Googling progress. Hm.

jonobie, 21 days ago to random

The #WNBA is fascinating how many things are for the “female gaze”. The dancers are fully clothed. The halftime show is a BUFF male gymnast with a PUPPY as part of his act. Lol.

jonobie, 21 days ago to random

#SeattleStorm versus #IndianaFever. I think this is my first professional basketball game! Pretty decent seats!

#WNBA

jonobie, 23 days ago to random

Major pet peeve: Labyrinths ARE NOT mazes. They are different things. One has a non-branching path that leads to the center. The other does not.

Kills me that Discovery got this wrong in the otherwise amazing space library episode.

jonobie, 26 days ago to random

More boggling at the #NCE.

One of the sample tests I just took was like "which of these is a defense mechanism" [a psychoanalytic thing]. I answered and got it wrong.

So I read my #Obsidian writeup about it to see why I missed it. It wasn't there. ...Huh, did I just forget to add it?

Turns out stuff online sometimes shows as few as 5 defense mechanisms or as many as 32. Which one is the canonical list? Who knows.

THIS IS RIDICULOUS.

jonobie, 27 days ago to random

I've had very few teachers in my life that I felt moved to write thank you notes to.

... I'm currently writing basically everyone in the Saybrook counseling department and a fair number of the adjuncts too.

Just to say, yanno, thanks for the minor act of helping me change my life.

jonobie, 27 days ago to random

Thoughts as I'm attempting to memorize the two types of interval schedules and the two types of ratio schedules for reinforcements.

1. I wonder if the NCE plans to do ANY of the work that the social work test did, in showing that it's terribly racially biased. (https://www.psychotherapynotes.com/social-work-exam-data-shows-major-racial-disparities/)

2. I'm pretty damn sure that other than the notion of "reinforcing a behavior consistently helps form it and sporadically helps lock it in," I will NEVER use any of these words in my actual work.

#counseling

jonobie, 28 days ago to random

I’ve been using reusable period options since I was 24. I’ve used sea sponges, the Keeper cup, Glad Rags, New Moon Pads, and a stay-at-home mom’s variety of cloth pads. I was so freaking excited to see period underwear make it into a Wirecutter review - feels big time! And, I gotta say, of things I’ve tried, the Goat Union Overnight underwear Wirecutter recommended is by far the most secure thing I’ve worn. I wore it through “red Niagara” today and nary a leak.

jonobie, 28 days ago to FiberArts

I’m a bit stressed putting together my new Kromanski; it has text about voided warranty if the front and back are flipped. It doesn’t have nearly as clear instructions as the SampleIt did. Also, my right side heddle blocks’ little wooden nubs is not really going in. :-(

Can anyone tell if there’s anything obviously wrong so far? Also, on the Kromskis, is the logo generally on the front side or the back side? That might help me orient a bit.

@weaving #weaving

jonobie, 29 days ago to random

Apparently in #perimenopause the question of “am I having my period today” does not have a deterministic answer. Sweet. 🙄

jonobie, 1 month ago to random

Wowza. Booking a Lyft right now to downtown shows $75. Yellow Cab App shows $30-40. Am gonna give the new app a whirl and cross my fingers that the fare isn't ridiculous with a meter. (One thing I don't love about cabs.)

Last time I took a cab from the airport, it was fully $20 less than the same trip had been a week earlier with Lyft. The rideshare apps are seeming like no longer such a good deal...

jonobie, 1 month ago to random

Oh, this is fun. In organizing my files, I found a logo I created FIFTEEN years ago - my very first foray into vector art. I had no idea what I was doing, so it was sort of half vector and half... not. I'd literally painted in fill where printing hadn't worked the way I expected. I spent a bit cleaning up lines to make it more reusable. Still might play with the colors some, but it's fun to see the before (left) and after (right). I made the card's arms more buff. :)

jonobie, 1 month ago to FiberArts

Looking at my cart at The Woolery, and there is basically endless squeeing.

(The cart is full of Kromski 32" loom and loom accessories. SQUEEEEEEEEEE MOAR #weaving here I come.)

jonobie, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

So that happened today… MA of Counseling complete! <level up sound>

jonobie, 1 month ago to random

I feel like my nose is breaking some law of physics. The amount of snot coming out seems to be far in excess of what I’ve taken in.

jonobie, 1 month ago to random

People who think those who are cold can always “put on another layer” have clearly never worn upwards of 5 layers at once and then tried to add yet another on top of that. 🥶🥶🥶

Brought to you by a frozen human who is currently wearing all of her layers plus a borrowed layer and feels like a sausage.

jonobie, 1 month ago to random

My father was a professor at Kent State; I grew up hearing about the National Guard shooting. With kid logic, I thought one part of the campus was "unsafe", before later realizing it happened before I was born. (Ancient history!) I later realized it was a mere six years prior, so far closer in their memory than, say, 9/11/01 is in mine now.

For years, I could locate where I was to non-Ohioians by saying "Kent State". That faded a few years ago, but I feel like I'm hearing it come up more now.

jonobie, 1 month ago to random

Ding, dong, noncompetes are dead: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/23/ftc-noncompete-agreements/

jonobie, 1 month ago to random

Pondering as I read the latest compendium from the Society of Psychotherapy Research (best bang-for-buck society I’m in)… I often summarize and capture articles in my #Obsidian #personalKnowledgeManagement system. But rarely go through and try to re-validate and remove old or incorrect stuff. It’s hard to do that with over a thousand topics and years of notes. How do others manage this side of #PKM ?

There’s a metaphor in here about how our brains work, I think.

jonobie, 1 month ago to random

A scientist has twelve identical flasks of bacteria, running for 70,000 generations (years!) to investigate the role of chance over time. A fascinating article about the divergent flask and what that means:

https://behavioralscientist.org/is-it-all-a-fluke-lessons-from-playing-god-in-the-long-term-evolution-experiment/