For my Famichiki friends: I’ll be in Japan in mid-January! Visiting a friend in Tokyo, possibly going on a weekend trip someplace else. Still figuring out the logistics.

@FlockOfCats My orchestra’s playing Halloween music a full week into the next season. Anachronism!

@cavanholi Self-hosting with Proton as a backup. But work is 100% GSuite, unfortunately.

@osakajack Self-pity is nothing to be ashamed of when things are tough. But you aren’t a bad person just because you’re struggling financially. You’re really, really not.

(Also, sorry this is so late, I keep forgetting to check here in favor of Bluesky…)

Well, I made the whole orchestra laugh AND made our conductor spit out his water mid-gulp, so I think I’m officially In The Group now.

DANG, Costco (at least in the US) is selling a 50-pack of POSCA markers for $100:

https://www.costco.com/p/-/posca-50-count-marker-set-with-carrying-case/4000399428

I didn’t know they could do that! No wonder my transfer gates have almost always been close by. (Minus that one time I had ~10 minutes to go from Concourse A to D in ATL. But they stretched out their final boarding call in anticipation of us stragglers.)

Also, him being so overprotective of Bix. But maybe he just never had an opportunity to openly express his love for Marva, and he’s able to open up now.

Of course, time changes people. It could also be that S1’s characterization has had 3 years to shape how I perceive Cassian.

As an aside, I wonder how many normies know what BBY means. ;)

I’m further into it now and it’s coming together. I guess S1 was very focused in terms of plot, and S2 feels more random (e.g., the Lord of the Flies situation that took 2 episides to resolve for some reason).

And it’s hard for me to reframe Cassian as a committed, confident member of the Rebellion, after spending S1 scrambling to escape from a situation he was thrown into and relying on others to bail him out (until the very end, of course).

REALLY IRONIC that secure.com, an apparently very comprehensive cybersecurity service, is being used to spoof a tidal wave of spam that I’ve started receiving since canceling a Capital One credit card. I guess that’s the point, though, to give it legitimacy.

Started watching Andor S2 last night. It feels like a completely different show, and not in a good way. I assume it gets better?

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I’m just so grateful to have this. And I’m so glad I never gave it up.

But that’s where experience comes in; if you know you’re right, you’re brave enough to play when others seem silent. (A friend said tonight that my cues/confidence help her…no pressure!)

And a newcomer also has that bravery, so we can both be anchors/guides for the rear players. It helps me a lot.

Finally there’s another person in the back of the 2nd violins whose playing I can actually hear. Most people around me play VERY quietly; I can only hear people way up front. So when I play a loud or weird passage but can’t hear anyone around me playing it, it’s easy to feel like I’m messing up.

Are Pittsburgh’s Italian yinzers still kicking up a fuss over the rightful dethroning of Columbus, and refusing to consider actual better Italians to adulate? #IndigenousPeoplesDay #ColumbusDay #Pittsburgh #PGH

@jwisser “Invincible” will probably win. It’s the most hopeful by far. But I might find a way to incorporate some others as like a tiny-font text border or something.

@jwisser “Dig Down” is another contender, just for the “god looks the other way and a clown takes the throne” part…but the rest is pretty intense.

And the rest of their stuff can be misinterpreted by people looking for an excuse. Even though “Will Of The People” is SO CATCHY.

@jwisser

KNIGHTS OF CYDONIA (just more lyrics than what we mentioned)

Come ride with me Through the veins of history / I'll show you a god who Falls asleep on the job / And how can we win When fools can be kings / Don't waste your time Or time will waste you

No one's gonna take me alive / The time has come to make things right / You and I must fight for our rights / You and I must fight to survive