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2024 has started on a wrong foot, I should say.


At the end of November 2023, I finally caught Covid-19 despite all the precautions I have taken. I was moderately flattened to bed, and I'm still having lingering effects from two and half week bout it took to start testing not-positive. Easily fatigued, sore throat. I'm pissed off that I caught it, because our city messed up the vaccination program and now I can't get the booster vaccine until three months later and right now variants seem to be spawning furiously.


I was supposed to have kittens, with calculated time being New Year's Eve. Wow! What a timing! Unfortunately, Lobsang pulled Oscar-worthy performance of false pregnancy. She had pink nips! She had even milky dots in them! She was affectionate and purring and craving for tummy-rubs (all of those are no-no in her usual mode of behavior). She even tried to give birth three times, with some definite mess involved! Third time was when I and the breeder called false pregnancy and since then she has stopped all that and is back to her usual crabby self during daytime hours.


While recovering from this false pregnancy is not a reason for a vet visit, it looks like she has caught some sort of problem with her anal glands. A vet visit this Friday. Siiiigh.


But not all that has been bad. I got a new desktop in May 2023, and RTX 3090 in it has been an absolute butt-kicker for making art or watching videos.


Downside being that I still hate Windows 11, and I want to kick its ass until it dies. I have managed to tame its ridiculous behavior by doing some registry and other tweaks, so no ads, no Microsoft overall ridiculousness, other than desire to reboot whenever it wants (and even there I managed to tame it somewhat).


Finnish politics are utterly fuckt up. Totes and I shall say, McGotes. And those fucked up politics will catch me and fuck me up, and this is before we reach the class of potential LGBTQ+-bigotry coming from the rightwing assholes. My unemployment continues, and so-called "austerity for thee, but not for me" plans from the government of utter muppet-fuckers are going to dunk me deeper into poverty, as prices are also rising and employers are looking for younger, more easily fooled people to employ.


On top of everything, it does not help that eastward, there's a country that has been known to say things like "Finland being independent from us is a mistake that should be fixed as soon as possible", which has driven us to an another solution that doesn't tickle me either, but it is what it is.


Life shall go on, until capitalistic humanity snuffs it out.

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Sooo, it turns out that now I have 4 cats, two adults and two cattens. Mort and Lobsang are here to stay; Lobsang will continue the line, Carisma is now spayed, and Mort is staying because nobody wants a broken kitten ๐Ÿ˜ญ (Shush! She's not broken! She's the most lovable lil' snugglefluff!). Didi continues being Didi.


Both kittens are absolutely crazy about getting wet -- that is, they WILL accompany their hoomins to shower and sauna and both will run under shower water, and Lobsang is especially delighted about being soaking wet and running around like a miniature sabretooth cat in a jungle of her imagination.


I'm kinda stuck with my art thing (and now that I said that, all of the sudden I have an idea ๐Ÿ˜ฎ). I'm going to try and see if I can waken up 3D urge after doing some painting and embroidery in real life. I'll probably have to do some Lootmas cards and such as well. Other future prospects include "I need to bake a turkey, and figure out what kind of stuffing I want to do for it". I think I'll go with "nutty" this year. I promise to post pics and recipe as well.


Things are still annoyingly chaotic, but at least my ADHD medication keeps me from exploding all over the place, I can exist. Hopefully I can take it further, beyond just existing...

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KITTENS!

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So, Carisma's final litter of kittens is here. You can see the adorable bebs in their Twitter. https://twitter.com/DidiCarisma/


You can also read what happened, but please heed content notes, they are there for a very good reason.

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Right! I have survived 2020 mostly unscathed. There was a massive building complex renovation, which meant evacuating for three weeks to AirBnB place: me, Otter, both cats, while renovation team was hammering our apartment into shape. Basically everything except walls, ceiling and windows was swapped to something new and shiny and even those got replaced in bathroom and sauna.


I have documented most of this in my kittytwitter account; everything started in February, mostly with outdoors repairs, as our building (out of three) was the last one to get apartment stuff done. In August, my kitties were gifted extra space! Our August and September was furious packing up of our stuff and both cats figured out that something must be afoot.


That was confirmed when both of them got scooped into their own carriers and packed into car and hauled to a strange new place. Oh noes! Actually, they kind of liked it. It was a really compact (read: kinda small, like you have no idea) place, and they were determined to find out the best ways to make it known to us. Seriously, nights (and daytime naps) were an extremely close experience.


Otter works from home, which in this instance meant that he was working from our place of refuge; I was out of my worklike thing, since I had none of my tools available, all I had was my phone and tablet with BT keyboard. And there was exactly one tiny table where to work and where to eat lunch, approximately 75 cm x 65 cm in size -- just enough to fit his laptop and my tablet + keyboard, both with a mug of their own, pack of hankies and some munchies like potato chips.


It was intense and it was also a tiny bit tense at times, as we both need lots of personal space and two cats being in our face 24/7 wasn't exactly improving the situation. Oh, and on top of that? We also had a raging pandemic going on in our world, wear a mask, keep distance. What's even more fun than that?


Getting diagnosed with things and starting a new medication right before temporary move to that place!


On the upside, this is actually genuinely good news: I have long suspected and it is now confirmed. I have ADHD (inattentive type) and I'm on autism spectrum. Psych team said that all signs are extremely there and obvious for both.


I have been prescribed Concerta (right now, 36 mg + 18 mg) to my ADHD control; studying and surveying me showed that I am unlikely to need therapy for either condition, as I came across rather well-balanced despite all the things in my life. It works quite well! My issues with depression have completely subsided (save for SAD, since it is wintertime right now and I'm in Finland, sunshine is not happening here), my focus is better. I still need to shape up, but shaping up is happening slowly.


While our renovated place is nice (Carisma sure thinks so), there are still issues with things and stuff to unpack and shelve. It might be happening faster, if we still weren't self-isolating from most of the world, because of *gestures at everything* everything. I am in definite risk group (history of strokes), Otter is edging closer due to age, and we both have older age people in our immediate family cluster, who need to be kept clear of bugs.


So far so good, we have been avoiding covid-19 and its variants. I am back to my worklike thingie again, and despite some hitches with software (dreadfully embarrassing, but video editing software decided to update and it changed something and I have no idea what), it has started out well.


It is 2021, and although things are still quite poo because of *gestures at everything* everything, let's hope that this year still gets better, shall we? Even better, let's try to make it a better one.

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Heyyyy, what's up, my pandemic peeps?


I know what isn't up -- that's my secondary server! PSU gave up Magic Smoke (tm), first when it shut down, second time when I tested what's wrong with this POS, third time as I was putting in a new fuse and forgot to unplug it from the power cord, and by that point, I decided setting up a new server is less of a hassle than trying to figure out if motherboard or other elements have fried up as well.


Luckily, all data was intact (since I have it RAIDed and before I went a-testing, I unplugged HDs), so all that remains is transferring data and reconfiguring services.


Oh maaaaannnn. Got any idea what kind of leap there is between CentOS 5 and CentOS 8? GUI for a server utterly blows goats (what's with this look-like-an-app craze?) and systemctl can go and <censored> <censored> <censored> with <censored>.


Soooo... I'll just go and disappear back to sysadminlands for a while. Ta!

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