Finished reading: Hell Difficulty Tutorial by Cerim 📚
★★★☆☆

An interesting book, with a rather weird start to it all. The character development is a little lacking (I really want to know more of the backstory of the main character) but the magic / skill system is interesting.

🔗 Global Microsoft Meltdown Tied to Bad Crowdstrike Update - Krebs on Security // krebsonsecurity.com

A faulty software update from cybersecurity vendor Crowdstrike crippled countless Microsoft Windows computers across the globe today, disrupting everything from airline travel and financial institutions to hospitals and businesses online.

The Crowdstrike issue is striking everywhere, two people on my Team can’t use their computers today…and I’m one of them. 😭😤

I was in a bit of a “mood” yesterday, just not in a happy place. I finally went for a three-ish mile walk late last night came to the conclusion, for my own mental health, I need to take a tiny break from the news (not tech of course) for a while. 😔

I rarely talk about politics online but I saw this today and I haven’t been able to put it out of my head. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Enjoying the “new” version of @overcast.fm but everyone was right, muscle-memory is a bit of a barrier. 🤣🎙️🎧

🔗 LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads - MacStories // Niléane // macstories.net

Threads hasn’t felt like a breath of fresh air for all who tried to use it. In my experience as a trans woman, at its best, it has felt like Jack Dorsey’s old Twitter: a social platform overrun by an opaque moderation system, free-roaming hate speech, and a frustrating algorithm that too often promotes harmful content.

Yet another reason to avoid Threads, seems like Facebook (I refuse to call them by their “M” name) are just ignoring harassment, as they’ve always done. 🏳️‍🌈

Finished reading: Department of Dungeon Studies 1 by J Pal 📚
★★★★☆

The start of a promising series (I hope, sometimes authors just never write again), the magic system is complex and difficult to follow at times, as is the history, but this is a great book. 👏🏻

It’s too dang hot for coffee today, so I decided to make some “fast” iced coffee in my @atp.fm pint glass. 🧊☕️ Thought it was pretty cool, seeing the coffee melt the ice. 🤣

A friend was talking about sushi earlier in the week and thus, I had a bit of a craving…so, sushi for dinner!
😋 🍱 📷

#Flashback-Friday 📷 2018-10-30

My Partner and I used to go to a local pizza bar, they had a wood-fire pizza oven and made the best food. 😋🍕 “Had” in the sense they’ve recently closed; they survived the pandemic but never seemed to fully recover. 😭📷

I had to take my servers offline…the rain from Texas has arrived and my basement is now flooding. 😭🌊🖥️

Every time I try to use the iPad for anything other than a reader / video viewer, it’s an exercise in frustration… 😔 Why can only one sound source be active? 😱 #RoadTrip

Finished reading: The Undying Caverns by Shane Purdy 📚
★★★☆☆

#Flashback-Friday 📷 2013-04-27

If you think the flooding is bad this year, back in 2013, large portions of the riverfront were soaked & closed. Something not pictured, directly to the right of me was a parking garage with a few cars stuck underwater. 🌧️🚗⛈️

I ate far too much at “the girls” (my lady-friends from college) annual 4th of July barbecue party; everything tasted great but I ended up with a stomach ache afterwards. 🤣