Comradeship // Freechat

Bro I wake up, take care of prolewiki. Then before going to bed I take care of prolewiki. That's my weekends.

I've been out the last two days with some family. A short weekend trip to a touristy lake which everyone talks about but I hadn't gotten to before now. Saw a couple cool old cities and towns and an entire island turned into a botanical garden by some feudal descendants of some sort. Grabbed a couple neat craft beers, had dinner on the lake shore, avoided all but the most mild sunburn. It's been a decent weekend.

Contrary to my username, I spent pretty much all of yesterday asleep. Today I'm gonna make the lemmy UI look good on larger screens.

I installed Gentoo alongside Debian and Windows, took me an entire day 😅

Also I saw on distrowatch that there is an open source OS on development that can run Windows stuff natively (.exe programs and all these things), It's called ReactOS. I tried installing it on my PC but the USB just wouldn't boot :(

And this isn't from my weekend but I discovered that I absolutely love the KDE Classic cursors for some reason. I guess it's because they are so simple and kinda give retro vibes.

My partner and I are on the last few days of our Summer Solstice holiday. We hiked up a local mountain with a friend yesterday and today we're recovering on the sofa from a week of hiking, hill walking, and slightly-too-much food.

I'm alternating between reading some sci-fi on my e-reader (currently reading Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks), writing some psuedo-code for a single-user headless ActivityPub server I'm thinking of implementing for fun, and brewing tea. I might watch a movie later, if I get the urge.

Earlier, as part of a bonus Solstice gift, I set up my partner's laptop with an N64 emulator, a USB N64-like controller, and some old games she enjoyed as a child so she's on the other side of the sofa full of nostalgia and smiling, engrossed in her games.

Our cat is curled up on my feet and stretched out onto my partner's lap; her favourite cuddle position.

Worked 2 jobs, sold drugs, helped a gf w.o a car get to and from work, met some of her friends, watched my aunt's dogs, questionable haunted experience, did way too much drugs, alienated some people, got a call from my best friend for first time in months, walked through the rain, had a panic attack, sold more drugs, did too many drugs, sexual intercourse, tried unsuccessfully to put my phone down, exported some beats, push-ups, met homeless lady, looked at some clouds, sobered up, collapsed from exhaustion, internal battle between theism/atheism, stole extremely fancy alcohol, made some really bomb burritos, disassociated, dispassionate, disassembled and left the pieces lying around wherever, saw Howl's Moving Castle for the first time, procrastinated music, wrote a song, asked myself where the time went. All of that shit I guess.

I was performing in a musical, it was pretty cool.

Yesterday, I got breakfast at a restaurant with my family including some who live out of state. I practiced ping-pong, looked at memes, and listened to podcasts. I went outside for an hour and a half hacking at vines with a hatchet (while listening to the audiobook of ‘decolonial marxism’). Today, I’m forced to be at church and there is a church potluck later. I intend to pick berries later.

Not a great deal, mostly tried to relax unsuccessfully as I return to work after a 2 week break tomorrow. Unfortunately brain did the opposite of go brr so yeah, not the most fun weekend.

Together with my wife trying to not get mad with our 20 month boy in heat and eating very unhealthy food 😁

I stayed inside with a fan

Worked a little bit on lemmy code base, tried writing a script that can generate an absurd number of posts and comments in my local setup to test some optimisations but I got bored and lost interest. Started reading this book "The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition" but have not made much progress.

It's so hot I don't want to do anything except drink beer and play Top Spin 4.

Your weekend sounds top notch. It's definitely important to allocate yourself some time to just rest.

My saturday I worked about 13 hours between my two jobs, and then played Diablo 4 with some friends online. Sunday I have to write a test for a course I'm taking that I've been putting off, and other than that I'm gonna go attend a football/soccer match in the afternoon and then just relax and try to recuperate for the week ahead.

I always want to go out partying on my weekends but as I get older I have to pick and choose, as it pretty much writes off the entire next day and potentially part of the following day. I have too much that needs to be done for that. At the same time I find it so boring if I'm not out.

Yesterday, I spent the day with my girlfriend and my roommate, we went to a local Filipino festival (both of them are Filipino), kinda boring, mostly just groups recruiting and realtors peddling their services. Otherwise a good day.

Today, I went for a 25km bike ride around the city, along the beach to the main university for the region for lunch. Total 140m elevation gain. Feeling proud of myself, not the longest ride, but one of the toughest hills I've done so far. (NW Marine Drive towards UBC for any locals, feel free to send a message if you are!)

Potty training, unsuccessfully. I think we've concluded the kiddo needs more time before jumping in. I've never experienced stress on the levels of a walking talking pee bomb before. I've been on high alert all weekend, and had to call in some backup today. It leaves you exposed.

Whoever you think you are, wait until a toddler is marching around the house with no sense of reason, no diaper (instead, undies), and no bladder control. You'll know just how easy you'll crack under pressure.

It'll come with time I guess.

You really do sacrifice a large portion of your identity for the sake of your kids. But I can't wait until they are able to enjoy the things we enjoy. Until then I am but a humbled Sheppard, working on enjoying the things they currently enjoy.

Destroyed my back and knees mucking out the sheep shelter, watched the new Mario movie which wasn't that bad actually, hung out with a friend that was visiting, and got to talk to my big brother on the phone. Pretty good weekend.

Saturday I visited my grandmother and I took a pair of pants to be fixed, I looked for my dog ​​that ran away when I saw the garage open, and soon he came home, and in the afternoon I ran 7km, and at night I went out and had dinner.

End of the season celebrations with my football team and some Street Fighter. Also preparing to visit my GF and applying to become a nurse.

Overtime.

I spent a lot of time mentally sweating about a possible danganronpa fanfiction. It's basically HOI4 now, for some reason.

i went to a library and got a graphic novel that i really like, got ice cream, and grinded on tetr.io

I think I just played tears of the kingdom yesterday, and today I went to watch the new Spiderverse movie with my friends. It was nice to hang out with them in person since we all live on the extreme ends of town and don’t have to time to chill, thankfully we chat fairly consistently online.

I watched a lot of vids by leftist, trans rights and vegan content creators and drank way too much beer. I.e. business as usual.

Did a bunch of drawing and visual design work (how do I want this character's wings to fold up around them when they aren't using them? What should faerie/elven ears look like in this setting? What does this world's magic look like?) for a comic idea. I toyed with and narrowed in on a bi-weekly/monthly production schedule of what I think I can hit as a solo creator. And brainstormed a few ideas of shorter (5-10 pages ideally) runs with these characters, in the world, and using the production schedule.

I swear it is part of the fun of webcomic/graphic novel art and it was a really good weekend, lol.

read the news, shitpost, study, shitpost went out for a rollerblade, shitpost, made some music, shitpost. enjoying my last free time before go back to daily grind tomorrow.

I decided to suffer from work-related anxiety most of the weekend.

We took the kids to the local Pride festival and that was actually a lot of fun. Then I ordered a man purse that I hope will help me get more organized and keep my ctlutter-stress in check.

Oh and I finished the book I have been trying to get through so now I can jump back into theory.

Working on my 2d Unity game, working on coding problems on Exercism, I am so close to being done the C++ problem set on that site, like 87%. Having a horrible time trying to pick what to write my paper on in Environmental Sociology, there just seems like so much to write about, even if I focus on my region.

Playing Thief Gold and loving it, I'm going to check out the open source clone as soon as I'm done. Installed and booted up New Vegas to show my gf the amazing game I've been talking about and OMG, it was a liiiitle jankier than I remember, I really should have installed the mods first if I wanted the game to look polished.

I checked into the library to ask about a casual job I applied for... It's been screening for like 2 months.

Well I've tried continuing working on librecmc (It did compile!), and the fucking thing won't for some reason let itself fit on a 4mb squashfs damn it (No longer doxxable info).

I've went for a night hike with friends, the sunrise was something to say the least.

And I've done some unimportant stuff too.

I played a modded version of Skyrim where everyone is a furry

I normally always work on the actual weekend, but during my days off I try to stay away from computers too much (if you ever really care to check, you can expect there to be a couple days every week I don't ever post here). I can't entirely, I am on call 24/7, but I try not to look at PCs if I can avoid it.

Most of my days off I do some combination of sleeping, reading, and cooking in generally that order.

This weekend I mostly played FFXVI. I don't game as much anymore, but there are a few big releases I definitely go in for.

i try to order my folder of "useful info of communism", sometimes i try to program to create encryption methods, drawing, modelling, and discuss with people on social networks about politics

Tried to enjoy the outdoors! Well, I succeeded, but it was so hot I had to take lots of breaks. But I managed to neaten up the garden. I listen to (mostly Spanish) audiobooks while I do that.

I got through about three hours of Assata Shakur's Autobiography in Spanish. It's a great book. One memorable line (if I got the translation right) is, 'Never let your enemies decide who your enemies are.'

With a little more sleep it would've been a perfect weekend.

I'm also growing some herbs indoors. I have coriander, basil, and mint. The first two are doing great and I've been using them in dishes. The mint is growing but slowly. Can't wait for some home-grown mint tea!

Made up a bunch of recipes from cheap local produce. I'm usually a terrible cook so it's been a very fun and error-prone experience. Also did a lot of napping.