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xantha

@xantha@petrous.vislae.town

data and dog wrangler. georgia tech cs alum. she/her

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dropped my phone and broke the case, is this like a bicycle helmet and I should get a new one

xantha, to random
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checking on my framework preorder no reason at all 🙃

xantha, to random
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cool how the recall news didn't f with their stock price

xantha, to random
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dang wordfeud, you don't have to be rude about it.

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haven't been to the movie theater since 2019. kind of wanna go see Furiosa in theatre but do not even really know which theaters here have decent seats etc. how busy are theaters now? blah blah

xantha,
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whoa the theatres here still have matinee rates 🤯 haven't seen that since college??! unless this is a change from the past few years.

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it's always funny to me when they ask me if i'm wearing contacts at the eye doctor because my vision is so awful it would be immediately obvious if I weren't. (obviously the folks checking me in don't know how strong my prescription is! it's just funny to me)

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Admiring the neighbor’s deftness in handling an ungainly hose.

xantha,
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@Binder 🥵🥵🥵

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police just knocked on the door 😩 she looked like she didn't believe me when I told her the cameras don't record (like I'm giving them to you anyway). someone stole construction stuff from the house they're building across the street.

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in a very don't want to deal with other people kind of mood. also my work laptop just spontaneously rebooted for the second time in three days.

xantha,
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I have my annual eye exam this afternoon. here's hoping everything looks good. maybe my prescription won't even have changed? that would be unique.

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last night in the dark: spouse: i cut back the invasive brazilian pepper tree and trimmed up some of the hibiscus. 🌺

me: great, thanks.

this morning upon returning to the house after dog walk: um ... what happened to this plant, why is it cut down to the ground? it is not a brazilian pepper tree. 😩

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it's still too hot for a walk just yet so we did a little frisbee. she gets bored after about ten passes but has fun until that point 😂 now she's lying in the front watching construction crews build a house across the street

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me at work: hi, we need to do x because y.
work: noooo do we have to?

me at home: hi we need to do a because b.
home: noooo we have time.

😩

xantha,
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i'm just trying to protect all of us

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after spending yesterday in a disaster recovery design mess all day, I just can't focus today.

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in elementary school, in 4th grade we were able to add band/orchestra/chorus to our schedules. I really wanted to play violin but it was $75 a semester to rent one and we couldn't afford it. I made my own violin with a box, scrap wood for the neck and bow, huge rubber bands for the strings. It didn't work too well. I cried.

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while almost everyone else went to band/orchestra/chorus, I worked on the apple ][e we had in the classroom and became part of the school's troubleshooters who went around to classrooms when a teacher had trouble with a computer/printer and fixed it up. (helpdesk lmao)

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the teacher pulled me aside after a week and asked me to move to the guitar ensemble class (I would not because my just-broken-up-with exbf was in there) but he gave me their music and I did perform with them a couple of times.

I borrowed a friends bass and we formed a band and screamed and made a lot of noise and wrote terrible songs.

xantha,
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then I went away to college and since I didn't have any guitars, stopped playing. and stopped playing to the point that I recently found out that my serious bf from that time never knew I played guitar at all! 🤯

then I married into a musician family (partner, his bro, bro's wife-- all competitive pianists), partner plays like every instrument, though mostly as a drummer in bands.

xantha,
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I really wanted to play bass so I would practice bass lines on the acoustic guitar. 😂 couldn't afford a bass guitar. couldn't get a job because I had to stay home to take care of my siblings.

my second semester of my senior year of high school I needed to fill in a class period so I threw guitar class in there.

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so I played guitar at home some but not with any regularity then. in junior high I had music class one quarter and we were allowed to play guitar, keyboard, or both. I tried both but gave up on piano and went to guitar.

I kept playing at home and studied chord diagrams and learned music theory from books we had around the house.

xantha,
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my parents met in guitar class in high school (seriously) and so we did have a classical and an acoustic guitar in the home. my dad would let me come with him when he went to chuck levin to get strings or whatever and he always tested out an electric. eventually he bought one (right after his parents died?) and it was a huge deal. he was always pretty cool about letting us play it.

xantha,
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so like, certainly my half-assed mostly self-taught, mostly noodling, unserious guitar history is nothing to these serious musicians.

it was weird though, because so many of my high school friends thought I'd go on to be a musician somehow, and it's like totally not something people who were close to me from college on had any idea about, like I hid it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

xantha,
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Twenty three years later(! 2018), I was finally like, I can afford a guitar now. I don't need to be serious. I don't need to explain this to anyone. I don't need to play every day. I can just do what I was doing in my preteen and teen years and enjoy making sound come out of an instrument. I can enjoy putting things together and learning new techniques. It doesn't have to be for anyone else, it can just be something that's enjoyable for me.

Binder, to random
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Wtf is a harrison butker

xantha,
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@Binder sadly went to my alma mater

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