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alee_grrlLife has been fairly quiet. I've been working from home and pretty much getting everything delivered, which is weird but probably wise for now.
I did have my first outing in months this past Sunday. My heart-parents invited me down (they live about an hour away) for an outdoor socially distant cook-out with just the three of us. They've been isolated as well and we all took precautions to make it as safe a gathering as possible. It was lovely to see them both (and to pet Waffle, their adorable and sweet little dog). It was really hard not to be able to hug them, but I am super glad I went and got to hang out for a few hours. The weather was perfect (just the right temp and the bugs weren't too bad yet), and the clear mountain air was divine.
In less fun news, my primary laptop died completely on Sunday. Refused to acknowledge it had an operating system installed. I did a clean install, but I've been having a lot of trouble with it lately so decided to bite the bullet and look at getting a new laptop. One of my heart-sisters had a good recommendation for a laptop that would suit my needs at a reasonable price (she just recently had to buy one to work from home as all she had was a Chromebook). My new laptop should be arriving next Sunday. In the meantime I have my even older laptop (that I also had to do a clean install on to keep running), which I have been using mostly for watching stuff since the keyboard is jankey and some of the keys don't work at all (thankfully the letter keys work, even if they are sticky and cranky sometimes). I can't complain though, the laptop that died was in heavy use for seven years and this one is 10 years old. So I've definitely gotten my mileage out of both of them.
It is going to be ridiculously hot for Vermont for the next couple of days (91 degrees for the high today and 93 tomorrow), so I won't be moving from in front of my fan much. I am contemplating a window unit a/c, but we don't usually get too many days of that level of heat. So I may just wait and see and if we turn out to have an abnormally hot summer then I probably will buy one.
Otherwise, life is quiet. I am finally starting to actually feel better, and fingers crossed that will continue to improve. I haven't gotten much writing done lately and want to get back to finishing my current Teen Wolf work in progress fic.
Mostly I've watched way too many true crime/creepy story videos on youtube and played a lot of games on my phone. 😂
I did have my first outing in months this past Sunday. My heart-parents invited me down (they live about an hour away) for an outdoor socially distant cook-out with just the three of us. They've been isolated as well and we all took precautions to make it as safe a gathering as possible. It was lovely to see them both (and to pet Waffle, their adorable and sweet little dog). It was really hard not to be able to hug them, but I am super glad I went and got to hang out for a few hours. The weather was perfect (just the right temp and the bugs weren't too bad yet), and the clear mountain air was divine.
In less fun news, my primary laptop died completely on Sunday. Refused to acknowledge it had an operating system installed. I did a clean install, but I've been having a lot of trouble with it lately so decided to bite the bullet and look at getting a new laptop. One of my heart-sisters had a good recommendation for a laptop that would suit my needs at a reasonable price (she just recently had to buy one to work from home as all she had was a Chromebook). My new laptop should be arriving next Sunday. In the meantime I have my even older laptop (that I also had to do a clean install on to keep running), which I have been using mostly for watching stuff since the keyboard is jankey and some of the keys don't work at all (thankfully the letter keys work, even if they are sticky and cranky sometimes). I can't complain though, the laptop that died was in heavy use for seven years and this one is 10 years old. So I've definitely gotten my mileage out of both of them.
It is going to be ridiculously hot for Vermont for the next couple of days (91 degrees for the high today and 93 tomorrow), so I won't be moving from in front of my fan much. I am contemplating a window unit a/c, but we don't usually get too many days of that level of heat. So I may just wait and see and if we turn out to have an abnormally hot summer then I probably will buy one.
Otherwise, life is quiet. I am finally starting to actually feel better, and fingers crossed that will continue to improve. I haven't gotten much writing done lately and want to get back to finishing my current Teen Wolf work in progress fic.
Mostly I've watched way too many true crime/creepy story videos on youtube and played a lot of games on my phone. 😂
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Date: 2020-05-26 09:26 pm (UTC)>93
I scoffed, thinking it was normal until I saw the words Vermont. Man alive, that must be terrible. That's pretty warm for this time of year up there, huh?
I love true crime and creepy story videos! I really enjoy listening to Corpsehusband on youtube, or Scare Theatre. My FAVORITE is Corpsehusband's 2 hour Search-and-Rescue-Officer-for-the-National-Parks special! It's so haunting!
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Date: 2020-05-26 09:40 pm (UTC)If I were still in Louisiana, I'd be scoffing too 'cause that's nothing. But here in Vermont we tend to get maybe three or four days above 90 during the whole of summer, usually a couple in July and a couple in August.
I shall have to look up Corpsehusband. I watched a whole lot of Reign_Bot and LazyMasquerade's stuff, and Reign_Bot explores some of the really weird horror tales told via youtube and twitter as well as some true crime and other dark tales. Lazy's got a really lovely voice and narration style so I got super hooked. I have a bunch more videos to watch of his. But I have to pace myself or I wind up unable to sleep. 🤣 I'm a ridiculous scaredy cat sometimes, so it's kind of hilarious that I love horror and true crime.
I also enjoyed DarkCuriosities who has some non US centric stories (and a lovely Scottish accent to boot).
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Date: 2020-05-26 10:24 pm (UTC)Reign and Lazy are both great, I especially love LM. I like Corpsehusband, he finds some really great stories. I haven't heard of Dark Curiosities, though, I'll have to give him a gander.
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Date: 2020-05-26 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-05-26 11:07 pm (UTC)Damn, I'm sorry to hear your laptop is going kerflooey, backing everything up and setting up a new one just the way you like it is always a slog. I hope the new one works out well.
Thank you for mentioning the video channels on YouTube, I'm going to have to check those out. Horror is not generally my thing, but it would be a good change of pace.
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Date: 2020-05-26 11:16 pm (UTC)I find it nice to listen to/watch these while playing a mindless game on my phone. They don't require as much attention as some of the shows on other streaming sites do.
And yeah, I might just go ahead and get an a/c unit. It's not a good sign to have 90 plus degree days just after memorial day when we usually don't get them til mid to late June (usually a day or two and then get another couple of days in July and August).
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Date: 2020-05-26 11:58 pm (UTC)Stay cool my friend!
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Date: 2020-05-27 12:04 am (UTC)Hope you are staying cool now that summer seems to have arrived. <3
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