maz’s statuslog
If you really love a sunrise, but you don't like getting up early and don't like being cold then this has to be the best week of the year for you.
3 weeks agoDoes a big yawn and stretch as if waking from a long slumber, channels inner Samwise Gamgee
Well, I'm back.
3 weeks agoThe rain is returning, gently, softly, unhurried and just as we need, like feeding gruel to the starving land before it can handle a proper meal.
Long may it stay this way and prevent flooding happening.
2 months agoSlow going trying to get things done so far today. Might be a good day for retreating into the shell and resting for a while.
2 months agoToday's the day when I finally get to start reading "Sea Of Charms" by Sarah Beth Durst. Quite possibly my favourite cosy fantasy world and having a new story to enjoy in it is such a treat to me. Really looking forward to this one.
I particularly love Sarah's sentient plants, so much so I have a plushie Meep on my shelves and IYKYK just why I would.
Meep!
2 months agoI miss puddles.
2 months agoWith my personal site having finally got to a version 1.0 stage, I'm able to now spend some time tinkering with more omg.lol page setup and poke at the other features.
Honestly, the amount of things I can come up with to do to avoid doing work really is infinite.
2 months agoThe drive home on a Friday evening is always the most fraught of the week, it's like everyone has run out of their social niceties reserves by now and everyone else on the road is an obstacle to their getting home. Caution in spades for me I think.
3 months agoThe relief that comes with getting everything successfully set up and working on a new server is palpable!
3 months agoVery grateful for the kindnesses of community this morning.
3 months agoA new pair of Crocs are upon my feet today, which means that simultaneously I am at the point of maximum boingy comfort and maximum foot fartyness.
The struggle is real. And by real I mean fake.
3 months agoHave got a little project I'm tinkering with that's mostly ready to go, but I'm waiting on an artist to finish a tiny illustration for it.
Absolutely could not be happier to wait than to fling slop at it instead.
Support young artists who are making art their way. Enjoy the opportunity to go slower and nurture some patience.
3 months agoTonight shall be for going to the beach to watch the skies for Perseid meteors. Its not the height of the shower yet, but it'll be the best conjunction of clear skies, nothing to be up early for the next day and non-heatwave temperatures.
There shall be chairs and cloaks and music and conversation, the sound of an incoming tide and the soft cloak of night away from lots of lights. If we're very, very lucky there might even be a shooting star to glimpse, but by now, after the tradition of doing this every August, its long since stopped being about measuring the night by what you see, but by the beauty of the moments together. Its one of the best nights of the year.
3 months agoI love the little routine of looking after my plants in the morning; the insistent ivy that has been with me over 5 years, the thirsty fern that wants water every day and have been with me over 4 years, the rosemary and mint and my aloes and succulents for over 3 years. My little moss terrariums. Its a lovely morning activity and yes, nothing I've added in the past 3 years have I been able to keep alive!
At least my long term green friends are still with me!
3 months agoWe all feel more comfortable in being certain about something, in being confident that we know the truth of things.
We have an option of which way to go when we choose to know.
The path to judgement is short, swift and easy. The path to understanding is long, slow and winding.
Perhaps easier to see how the Internet brought a great deal more of the former than the latter.
There is also a seldom walked third path; becoming comfortable with uncertainty. Embracing mystery. Accepting that you will never fully know.
I'm still looking for where that path begins. Or perhaps you simply have to step off the path that you are on to find yourself walking it instead.
3 months agoThere was a taste of autumn on the breeze this morning. It felt good.
3 months agoDifficult day as bigotry and prejudice become enshrined in law in Great Britain today, the lives of trans people becoming more fraught and precarious immediately, the lives of any woman who does not conform to a rigid gender stereotype being eroded also.
No good ever comes of removing rights, only restraining privileges. The inability of many to recognise the difference between those is demoralising.
3 months agoIt started with a casual reference to a new game in the omg.lol irc, so I go and look and turns out the publisher is having a sale and what's this game "Herdling" that I can get for half off.... How it's going is that now my entire personality is taking care of precious, beautiful calicorns and I'm going to bed to snug a stuffed Appa as the closest approximation I have available to a calicorn.
Does that count as getting something done today?
3 months agoI have never had as many rain ambience videos playing as I have during this drought. I need the hope of water!
3 months agoSomehow the makers of Sky: Children of the light have made their game able to run on anything; I tried it on the absolute cheapest potato of a tablet this morning and it still ran beautifully.
I call witchcraft.
3 months agoI do believe that by this time of year that the day self is thoroughly exhausted, after months and months of having to run things for many long hours at a time.
The relief that comes when noise finally turns to quiet and the lights get turned down or out is palpable; finally the day self can shut off and let the night self run things for a while.
There's a lot to be said for discovering and befriending your night self.
3 months agoReclining decorously in bed, candles flickering, book nooks illuminated, listening to an owl hooting into the moonlit night.
I think I just hit my life's peak romantic gothic vibes.
3 months agoBedtime on warm nights can be so weird. You don't really get in bed and snuggle down, it's too warm for that. You kinda wander around in your jammies for a bit and then eventually just lay down on your bed, not in.
It's like you're going to bed in Skyrim.
3 months agoThat dilemma when you've broken something on a site and you can't decide whether to find and fix the error, or make the 404 page pretty instead.
3 months agoHad some time before bed, which I could have spent on some code and image work for a personal project or I could have sat in the garden and watched the foxes coming and going, in between gazing at the stars in the clear night sky.
You'll still be there tomorrow, project, I've got much more important things to be doing.
Foxes say hi btw.
3 months agoMy shower sounds like there's a baby seal trapped inside it. That can't be good, especially for the baby seal.
3 months agoToday I learned that Funshine Bear is a transmasc icon and that is definitely queer care bear knowledge I was not imagining I'd have today. Love it, go give a bear to your transmasc friends!
3 months agoDecided to have a fresh from the bakery pastry for breakfast this morning. Dropped crumbs all over a brand new keyboard. I regret nothing!
3 months agoThere are few moments in life more satisfying as when you write a new piece of code and it works as intended.
3 months agoMy fundamental sense of exhaustion is exhausting.
3 months agoNothing feels more Monday than an emergency doctors appointment
3 months agoNature has a habit of determinedly finding a way.
Every year, the lime tree outside finds a way to deposit a flower leaf on my desk; even though the window is now fitted with a screen that would seem to render it an impossibility, today I get in to discover that the breezy day has blown out the screen and there, deposited in the middle of my desk, is a lime tree flower leaf.
3 months agoIntroverted, but excited to hear about your pets.
3 months ago"Attended" a live to your living room gig from the shower for the first time today, so that's something....weird, probably.
3 months agoStanding out in the rain feels glorious right now.
3 months ago