Yes! Today I DID work on the computer some more! (Also I cleaned the bathroom but that's not even vaguely interesting.)

Anyway without going into too much detail (again), I lost. ( ...I went into too much detail again though, so that's under the cut. )

Anyway, Ubuntu isn't a bad backup, and at least I could get it installed. Plus one of the people I play multiplayer games with occasionally is a full-time Ubuntu user, so if I run into any weird problems I can't figure out how to fix via my usual shaking of the internet (likelihood: high) I have someone I can ask! Though honestly I'm not going to be needing too much shit on this one anyway; firefox is preinstalled so the other two big ones are going to be Discord (which can run in the browser anyway), and Steam. And hey, I know these can run on Ubuntu, given Friend, so the real question is if they can run on ARM... which they probably can!

In non-computer talk, it's apparently going to get hotter again as the week goes on, so I'mma make the Christmas pav tomorrow. It's only like a week earlier than I'd usually do it, that's fine for pav - the thing you've gotta worry about is the cream, and that's always morning-of anyway!

But first, it is naptiem. Yes.

Came home today! Ended up meeting A when she got home; some fucking asshole rang me at 6:30am - and turned out to be a wrong number so it wasn't even a useful call! - so I uh. Didn't sleep that well and slept in fairly late. So yeah, they got in just a couple of minutes after I finished breakfast, whoops!

Her husband dropped me home, though, so that was very nice of him! I wasn't really looking forward to taking the train, though of course I would've. But got to avoid changing trains in town where there are Many People, yaaaaay~

Haven't really done a huge amount other than that. Went out and did some chook maintenance stuff after tea with Mama, since it was so hot yesterday and they needed their water topped up anyway. Played some Terraria, too. That's pmuch it.

No computer stuff today, didn't have the brain for it. Maybe tomorrow! (Have some moving-stuff-around plans with Mama so I may turn into a pancake instead.)

But now, I'm go nap in my bed yessss. Best couch! Magic couch! No other couches compare! Also my dragonite is a GREAT pillow, better than A's squirtle I borrowed last night! (Not that squirtle is bad! Would happily use it again! Just, dragonite more comfy, yesss.)

Went into town and met up with A today! It was a lot of fun! We derped around poking at stuff a lot, particularly art stuff, which is always fun! :D

And then there was multiplayer Terrarira when I got home! Which was ALSO fun! Just, both of those things in one day was a lot.

However! I did manage to get an SD card, and it booted as an install device and... um. Pretty sure the entire computer is running off the SD card, and it can't see the freaking internal SSD. Which is a problem! So tomorrow there will be Some Research. But also I'm going over to catsit for A overnight - she's going for a family Christmas thing that's too far away for a day trip - so idek how much I'll actually get done. Still! Progress has been made, which is always nice! :3

Also even if I don't have an actual fix tomorrow I'll get to poke around the new desktop environment and see if I DO actually like it, which is also important! (The place I have it set up for installing the OS is also not great for actually using the computer, simply due to the fact that if I'm installing an OS I want to have my desktop on as well so I can Do Computer while waiting for shit to download/unpack/install, heh.)

Anyway, bed now. Am very sleepy! Hopefully I can get to sleep without pulling the blanket out since I'm... not gonna be here tomorrow night and who knows what the weather will do... it's Quite Warm and I suspect I will melt in my usual doona.

Wow I'm suddenly really tired. I wasn't until like. Five minutes ago. Which given the time is actually pretty weird, heh.

Anyway! I forgot to say yesterday, Sushi has been banned back into the cone full time, because he licked his tail enough that part of it was a raw pink colour, siiiigh. It healed up again pretty quick, so I don't think it was actually raw, but we're not gonna let him do it again! Nope!! We'll see how the tail looks tomorrow, since that's when he's supposed to be fully healed, but I'm guessing I'll leave it on another day or so to be sure.

Honestly didn't do a whole lot today, annoyingly. But I DID get to play multiplayer Terraria for a couple of hours, so that was fun! Had to finish early because of my father's bday dinner, though, which was also great!

( Food rambles )

Other than all of that, mostly just reading today. Some solo Terraria this evening too, but that's about it. According to the tracking new computer should be here tomorrow! It maintained it was gonna come today until mid-afternoon, even though that was clearly not gonna happen (it wasn't even in the right city yet!), but hopefully tomorrow is accurate! Am excite!!! :D

I went shopping with Mama this morning, as planned. Got Mama her present! Also got part of a present for my father, too, so that's a start! Still no idea what to get for Sibling though orz orz orz

And then this afternoon took Sushi to the vet! He REALLY didn't want to get into the carrier, and once we managed to get him in there he sulked the entire way there, through the vet visit, and back home. Sigh. SO DRAMATIC, SUSHI.

Anyway, turns out we were there a week early (I put down the wrong date on my calendar, whooops), but the vet saw him anyway - luckily there wasn't another appointment, or if there was they were running super late - and she's super happy with how he's healing! He's allowed to have the cone off for a bit, too, though not overnight yet. This pleases him omg. He apparently also groomed so much fur out of his coat Mama had to get the vacuum out! Which is! A lot!!! :O Bet he's feeling way better now!

I played a bunch of multiplayer Terraria when we got home, too, which was super fun! :3 Still getting our asses absolutely smashed in the expert mode game, heh. We beat Plantera in the standard mode game though! :D

Also! I think I will be getting a new raspi to replace the shitty laptop - the 500+ kit and the official portable screen are a little more expensive than a super cheap laptop, but much much shinier. And probably better made. You know. On the balance of things. :D Will talk to Mama about it tomorrow - will probably be partially paid for by them as a Christmas present - but feeling pretty secure in the decision right now. :3

No work on the chook run thing today, because weather. Damnit, weather! We're getting SO CLOSE!!! Maybe tomorrow...

I DID do some knitting today, though! :D Plus I de-furred a pillow that's been a favoured Sushi-bed which was. A lot of fur. Mama's got an extremely handy tool for it - it's meant for de-pilling clothes, but it works great on furry stuff, much better than its actual intended use. Pillow is still fairly pilled, but very very little fur left. :D

Also helped out with putting the Christmas tree up, which is of course making me realise how little time there is until Christmas, fffff. Time, why are you like this???

...speaking of, time to go the fuck to sleep. Yes.

So, Mama and I worked on the chook shed thing this morning, until Mama Needed a break (she got lightheaded, I suspect because she'd also mown the lawn this morning and only had some toast), and it's... getting there? We attached the last pole and put the door hinges on! Maybe we'll finish some time this year!

I also went through more of my stuff and got rid of some more things! Lots of HS-era stuff. Also sorted some more stuff into art binders, so I'm able to get rid of two hanging files in my one hanging file drawer, which is nice! Not that they were big ones, but still. Progress! (The biggest one at the moment is manuals/warranties, which is uh. Well. I HAVE gone through it and done a cursory search, and I DID throw some stuff out, but... Probably need to do a more involved one at some point. A lot of it's manuals for stuff I still use though, so it's not a high priority.)

Anyway, probably back to the hanging files tomorrow, I just kinda ran out of brain. So many decisions!!! Did some colouring in after that, and then Terraria this evening, where I'm just building minecarts across the map and that kind of extremely simple work, which is good when out of cheese error. Yes.