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oh cool, our landlord is finally fixing the fucking hole in our bathroom ceiling (has been there for like an entire ass year). nice of them to eventually get around to it, i guess

After a couple of months doing photosynthesis, my ADHD medication finally decided to allow me to study this morning. But no more than 90 minutes. Now I'm again in my endless scrolling and doing nothing productive.

Besides that, I'm trying to be more active in kbin.social / lemmy instances to create more content through comments or post and engage, knowing the inevitable doom from Reddit (although I have an user on sopuli since last year).

Think I'll have to share in calling this week total chaos as the last few days I've been moving across the country to pursue an internship at NASA. It'll be my first week at work there so here's hoping it goes well. I also have a class I'm currently taking with an exam tomorrow. Very stressful indeed.

Very good! Just found this community, learning to navigate the site a bit (so far it's nice and straightforward). Made some onigiri for the first time with scrambled egg filling. Came out decent!

It's been good so far. We had thought one of my cats had cancer, but we got a call from the vet yesterday and it turns out she doesn't, so that's excellent.

I'm trying out this timer app to try and keep myself on some kind of schedule. So far so good!

Woke up at 3am and couldn't fall back asleep, but it's a freaking GOOD day, got some caffeine, not a lot of meetings at work today, and the Lemmy community grows, I'm loving it here

It's going pretty good because I think I'm finally making some progress towards being more focused. Although I need to confess that was pretty thrilled with the onboarding on lemmy and checked it a lot during the weekend.

Apart from that I'm cutting ties with general stuff and news and focusing on: books (reading The Stranger right now), one single magazine about current issues in the world, hearing good music and starting to play an old RPG after great advice I received on c/gaming. I'll workout after work and then start a campaign.

I had two absolutely wonderful dates yesterday and I'm still glowing from the experience.

Helping to manage and grow beehaw these last few days has kept me exceptionally busy. It's fun and exciting and challenging and I need to make sure to balance that against my own mental health and if/when to engage with users and when to let others help.

I'm really annoyed with my care team right now when it comes to coordinating the next post-op steps for my peripheral nerve stimulator. I have a lot of feedback for them, but right now just trying to understand what I need to do next and what I need to do to get them to program my shoulder implant. I guess I'm a cyborg bunny now, officially 🤖🐰

Really good here! My mom is visiting and I took a week off, so I’m fixing up the house while she’s helping with the kids. I’ve cleaned the garage, put cat6 drops in every room, and repainted my deck. And it’s only day 3!

I'm doing pretty great. Spent all weekend volunteering at pride events and meeting lots of amazing people. Been having fun hanging around beehaw too so that's been a positive as well 😊

I've had better weeks. One of my guinea pigs who has been sick for a while got sick enough that she had to be put down, with the added bonus that this became obvious about 15 minutes before I had to go meet my new landlord to pick up the keys to my new apartment. On the plus side, moving into the new apartment has been easy, I thought I would need to do a lot of back and forth to move stuff before the movers come to take the big things, but seems like that's mostly done. Also, my other guinea pig is doing well despite the loss of her friend, so that is good also.

My partner lives in the US, and I'm Canadian. It's been stressful for both of us to pay for visits and to be constantly saying goodbye. I need to get a stable income, then we'll be able to live together. We've been working on an indie game together, and I hope it'll do well. Our Steam page just went up, which feels really nice.

Monday is the one day of the week that I have to go into the office so it starts off with me being exhausted (somehow my sleep schedule got messed up last weekend despite me trying to go to bed at a decent hour) but that improves somewhat over time.

A new roommate moved in last weekend and she’s definitely a lot more outgoing than I am but she seems nice so as long as she pays her rent on time I think we’ll get along fine.

Not a fan of the people that previously worked on the application I’m maintaining, to be honest.

My wife and I decided we will start trying to get pregnant. we have not, because we live check to check. shes 41 now, and we are just getting older so why not take a chance?

Self love, and self compassion are new concepts in my life this week. I typically rely on repression, and pushing how I feel down. I aim to replace my coping technique from repression, to a more positive and healthier self love.

Like a few others here, this is my first comment and I look forward to new possibilities and new friends, and I hope you have a great rest of your week.

National Novel Writing Month, the big event in November, has two smaller events in April and July called 'camps'. I finished my first novel (that was started during NaNo 2021) in February, and took some time off after I finished it. But now with the July camp looming, I'm scrambling to get the outline and character sheets done in time to start my sequel come the 1st.

No idea if I'll get done in time, but I really hope I do. I really want to participate in this event.

So, my week? Crazy and busy but productive.

I been doing a lot of journaling lately. Also I'm new here. You know why

Good weekend so far. Worked on code all weekend and made some definite progress. Can't seem to get the final bit of Assembly working. Joined Lemmy on Friday and it is nice to be here. I promised myself I wouldn't lurk this time around as I would like to see instances grow.

So far so good! Chores done around the house and it’s looking like I’ll have some extra time for reading and gaming this week!

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Getting off to a decent start. Meetings scheduled throughout the day, but at least they aren't the useless type where I sit in on them for good reason.

My company is hosting our big event of the year towards the end of the month. We're expecting about 600 people this year. While we've been preparing for the last several months, the stress and worry didn't hit me until today. We have three weeks until we ship our stuff out to the event center and I'm in charge of the logistics. And there are worries that not everything we need will arrive before ship via freight.

I'm also unveiling some new software for some of our volunteers to use at the event. I have no clue if this is going to work, but from my admittedly limited testing with coworkers, it seems like it will. If it doesn't work, that's OK, we can revert to an older system on the fly. But I really want it to work, because I think it'll be a better experience for the volunteers, attendees, and my coworkers. Plus I don't want to have wasted all this time researching and setting this up.

On the plus side, last week my event manager and I met with the AV rental company. We were able to knock off $25,000 from the initial quote by getting rid of stuff we didn't need and by deciding to run some AV stuff ourselves. Didn't feel so bad about splurging on upgrades to my train/plane tickets after that!

This is my 17th edition of this particular annual event. Yeah, I've been with the company that long. Anyway, it always comes together and our attendees are always greatly pleased. If there are issues behind the scenes, our attendees never see or know about them. We have several veteran staff who've helped run this event more times than me, So any stress and worry is generally overblown. But we still never want to rest on our laurels.

Regardless, I'll be happy on July 2, because the event will be over!

Took 2 weeks off of work to get a nice mental reset, its been a crazy past year. Been spending time at the beach and it has been amazing.

I feel like I'm in some sort of limbo. I've got Basedow's Disease (aka Graves' in the anglophone world) and N+1 other autoimmune conditions, and for the past 4 years after my diagnosis I feel like I've just been… existing, trying to cope.

I generally feel awful physically because my body is literally attacking itself, and I'm just so tired all the time. I'm not employed because I can't concentrate enough to program anymore, so days just blur into each other. Lately I've been more down in the dumps than usual, questioning why I even bother with, well, anything really.

Meh. Not great. First I had a sleep study wherein I did not sleep at all, and now I'm trying to install some software I need to do homework and it is absolutely not cooperating.

Overall, it's a good start. I'm making progress in the garden, I started playing around with Linux (making this comment from a Manjaro VM, wanted to test it out before I install it to a drive) and the weather has been great.

Work-wise is dreadful. A lot of people got laid off recently, and while I am one of the lucky few to remain, it has sent my stress levels through the roof trying to keep things operational. I don't want to jump ship and leave the other remaining devs in an even worse position though, so I'll be seeing it through until I'm sent to the chopping block.

this weeks proving to be an interesting one thata for sure ive set myself up to learn laravel to help set up a wiki for this site as talked about on the discord while simultaniously needing to go deal with some personal problems wich will have me dunning around the city a lot wel see how it works out

Doing well, thank you for this thread. I'm having a bit of career crisis as I don't know what job I want to get next. Tired of tech and feeling lost haha. I'll figure it out :)

So far so good for me! Got some work lined up this week and I’m hoping to learn some more of a web framework that I’ve been trying to get used to. ☺️

idk, i've been stuck between a rock and a hard place for awhile but this weeks been rougher than usual. Weirdly I'm feeling hopeful for the future though, maybe it has to get worse before it gets better.

Work was hectic, trying to figure out where to buy a house (well likely townhouse) and being pulled in two different directions. I need to get my life figured out but procrastinating on it is just so much easier haha

Honestly, finding this place has been the highlight of my month! This week has been crazy busy at work. About 4 different projects all started going on at once on top of my normal work load and it's been a bit draining. But, i put in for a couple vacation days a month ago and am going to be spending it at a friend's doing lán parties and just general hanging out.

I hope all y'all's is going well! Or will soon be!

Not too great, honestly. I’ve been sick ans unmedicated. However I made myself look food at work and had a day off to relax today and so that was cool. One more day of work and I’m off for another two as well!

Been a little difficult. Trying to just take one day at a time.

I have been reading This is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nichole Perlroth. It's a book about modern cybersecurity.

I have been mainly getting up, working (from home) and going to bed.

Back to work after a week of PTO. Company had some layoffs while I was out (my org is not affected). Home theater receiver died this morning, while I don't have time to investigate -- needs either a factory reset or a full swap-out.

I spun up a lemmy instance for my friends and I. Great success so far :)