pro tip: if you just had a massive earthquake yesterday with continuing aftershocks and it’s now super windy, which also means spooky noises, that is not the smartest context in which to play a Silent Hill game unless you actively want to be keyed up and jumping at nothing
which, I mean, that probably helps for making the experience more authentic but it’s not great on the nerves
HEY BODY, WHY ARE WE SO SHAKY ALL OF A SUDDEN, I ate before I even got very hungry so WHAT GIVES
how I was planning to spend my weekend:
work more on trying to revive my computer (specifically: manually update the video driver in case that’s the problem, and run a repair install from the Windows 7 disc)
finish one outstanding Etsy commission and try to complete another
play more Silent Hill 2
go through my entire stash of gifts to reorganize, get a better sense of who I still need to get gifts for, and weed out old stuff to donate somewhere
do some writing
what I guess I’ll be doing this weekend (instead or in addition to?):
cleaning. so much cleaning. my room was bad before but now it’s EXTREMELY bad and I’ll probably have to deal with some of the pre-existing mess to even be able to deal with the new mess, so that could take A LONG FUCKING TIME because it will mean making an even bigger mess to make room for stuff
messaging the customers for my two outstanding Etsy orders to say hey, I will still do my best to get this to you by Christmas but we have A Situation up here and among other things I’m not sure when mail will start up again
Yep, I’ve lived in one part or another of Alaska basically all my life, including five years in Utqiagvik/Barrow, the northernmost community in the US. I’ve experienced a lot of earthquakes during that time, but nothing like this–most of them don’t even knock stuff off the shelves. Of course, I think this was the region’s biggest earthquake since the huge one in 1964 (a 9.2, which makes it…100 times stronger than yesterday’s, I think?), over 20 years before I was even born, so it’s safe to say a lot of us have never experienced an earthquake this big. The fact that we had no deaths or serious injuries this time despite a lot of damage is probably a good lesson in the importance of safety regulations, actually, because without all the building codes put in place after the 1964 quake, I doubt we’d have weathered this one as well as we did.
yeah, I’m still not sure if it’s because that’s a challenging feature to implement or if it’s a deliberate choice on AO3′s part. I wish you could at least block specific users from commenting, though.
yesterday: scary massive earthquake, aftershocks, a few hours of also scary isolation where I wasn’t sure I could even call the power company or 911 if necessary, huge mess, big painful splinter in my finger from trying to get to the cable outlet (which I might have worsened by trying to dig it out, so I put medical tape on my finger overnight and I really hope that helps work the splinter out, because this would be a bad and dumb time to have to see a doctor)
today: huge mess to clean up, and stupid internet comments! first my dad replied “Ugh” to the Facebook version of this post without elaborating, and I’m like…the best thing is to ignore it but I really want to say “sorry you seem to think it’s inappropriate that I’m dealing with a bad situation by getting some slightly dark humor from it”, and honestly I’m especially annoyed that he didn’t elaborate at all so I’m supposed to fucking guess what he meant (side note, it got several likes from others, including others here in Anchorage)
oh but then he left a totally normal comment on my (also irreverent tbh) picture of Hazy, and now he’s texting to find out if I still want to see Ralph Breaks the Internet tonight as we’d planned pre-earthquake because the theater is actually open, and I’m so tempted to say something like “ooh idk, it seemed like you were offended by me finding any humor about or during earthquake cleanup so I’d think you wouldn’t want to (also, seems kinda irresponsible to get on the roads already and make employees serve you for something totally unnecessary)”
and then I checked my inbox and found this:
this is. a fic about how Wanda is DEEPLY FUCKING TRAUMATIZED and has been since she was a LITERAL CHILD and that trauma led her to do things she now feels guilty about BECAUSE THEY AFFECTED UNRELATED INNOCENT PEOPLE
TONY’S FEELINGS ARE LIKE. A FUCKING FOOTNOTE HERE, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE HE ACTUALLY DOES BEAR SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR HER FRANKLY HORRIFIC CHILDHOOD TRAUMA, AND IF ANYONE SHOULD APOLOGIZE FIRST FOR THE WHOLE CLUSTERFUCK IT SHOULD (BUT WON’T) BE HIM
but that would be an unproductive reply for many reasons (not least because if you’re going to read this fic about Wanda’s AWFUL TRAUMA and still go “but Tony,” you’re not interested in any other viewpoints), and really I should just ignore it too and maybe delete it. although I also kinda want to reply with just this:
ohhhh I think my dad meant “ugh” as in “ugh what a mess,” okay that’s fine BUT HE COULD HAVE SAID SO
yesterday: scary massive earthquake, aftershocks, a few hours of also scary isolation where I wasn’t sure I could even call the power company or 911 if necessary, huge mess, big painful splinter in my finger from trying to get to the cable outlet (which I might have worsened by trying to dig it out, so I put medical tape on my finger overnight and I really hope that helps work the splinter out, because this would be a bad and dumb time to have to see a doctor)
today: huge mess to clean up, and stupid internet comments! first my dad replied “Ugh” to the Facebook version of this post without elaborating, and I’m like…the best thing is to ignore it but I really want to say “sorry you seem to think it’s inappropriate that I’m dealing with a bad situation by getting some slightly dark humor from it”, and honestly I’m especially annoyed that he didn’t elaborate at all so I’m supposed to fucking guess what he meant (side note, it got several likes from others, including others here in Anchorage)
oh but then he left a totally normal comment on my (also irreverent tbh) picture of Hazy, and now he’s texting to find out if I still want to see Ralph Breaks the Internet tonight as we’d planned pre-earthquake because the theater is actually open, and I’m so tempted to say something like “ooh idk, it seemed like you were offended by me finding any humor about or during earthquake cleanup so I’d think you wouldn’t want to (also, seems kinda irresponsible to get on the roads already and make employees serve you for something totally unnecessary)”
and then I checked my inbox and found this:
this is. a fic about how Wanda is DEEPLY FUCKING TRAUMATIZED and has been since she was a LITERAL CHILD and that trauma led her to do things she now feels guilty about BECAUSE THEY AFFECTED UNRELATED INNOCENT PEOPLE
TONY’S FEELINGS ARE LIKE. A FUCKING FOOTNOTE HERE, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE HE ACTUALLY DOES BEAR SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR HER FRANKLY HORRIFIC CHILDHOOD TRAUMA, AND IF ANYONE SHOULD APOLOGIZE FIRST FOR THE WHOLE CLUSTERFUCK IT SHOULD (BUT WON’T) BE HIM
but that would be an unproductive reply for many reasons (not least because if you’re going to read this fic about Wanda’s AWFUL TRAUMA and still go “but Tony,” you’re not interested in any other viewpoints), and really I should just ignore it too and maybe delete it. although I also kinda want to reply with just this:
Check out this jerk all relaxed because she’s already forgotten about the SCARY THING and aftershocks and she doesn’t have to clean up a huge mess today
I'm a defeatist but I don't have to be 