#firjii shitposts

[firjii]

heh so apparently on my trip I’m probably *not* going to Oxford for Tolkien’s house because there might not be time, I’m probably *not* going to the horse museum because “it looks like it’s just a sales pitch,” and despite most things opening at 10am, we’ll have to be on the road by 8 most days.

oh but it’s okay, we’re going to at least one RAF museum, we’re trekking the fuck to the east coast to bullshit about BMW’s at a car repair shop, and we’re planning a night of accomodation and half a day’s plan around a HAM radio swap meet. 😒

I’m rioting if he says we can’t go to Alnwick next. I’m not paying for this trip but it’s definitely not my trip anymore. As usual, I’ll be the tagalong that everyone is surprised is exhausted and bewildered.

#do not reblog #firjii shitposts #not da

[firjii]

why must granite exist as a countertop material, like who the FUCK decided it was a good idea to take something that makes a hugely loud noise when glass and ceramic even gently come in contact with it and stick it all the hell over kitchens and bathrooms, two places that can already produce impressive echoes from the smallest noises

#😖😭😡😬🤢 #firjii shitposts #spd problems #hyperacusis #not da

[firjii]

someone like a year ago: “you should get another power cord for that, it’s not good to be without a backup”

me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

someone today: “😬 are those...*whispers* bare wires?”

me: “yyyyyyarp”

someone: “how long has it been like that?”

me: 🤔💅

someone: “please, i’m. begging you. get another cord.”

me, finally: “yeah fair”

#firjii shitposts #not da

[firjii]

dem quality migraine feels

"I'm hungry but I might throw up but food might help but please don't make me SMELL the food"

"I'm tired so I won't pick a fight but also do not fucking tempt me because I will throw down for literally any reason today even though I'm tired"

random quick flashes of giddiness when the pain subsides for a few minutes followed by more tired (and possibly more pain) because giddy takes energy you don't quite have but can't always remind yourself that you don't have

YAY STIMS AND TICS because they might be the only thing that keeps you from going batshit on everyone but also you can't really indulge them much today because it's iMpOLitE to do that at a place of work, “ :/// “  

the single 100-watt light bulb in the bathroom is as bright as a dozen supernovas

hydration almost sorta kinda barely helps but also aggros your stomach a little but you'll be even more aggro without it, so... 

"please universe, i'm. begging you. don't let the phone ring again for the rest of the day"

#migraines #firjii shitposts #not da

[firjii]

@thejeeperswife replied to your post “about me”

What happened in your childhood!? Surgery on your eyes, broken hip, and falling on your head!? My parents would have wrapped in packing bubbles! Glad your feeling better...? :)

akshfjkdhgkjfhkgj listen, between birth and age 10, I variously

(under a cut in case someone doesn’t want to read medical stuff)

had seizures (hip fracture was related to one of them), which theoretically settled down quite awhile ago but I have zero concrete guarantees that they’re truly gone (about a third of my family has them in the first 6 months of life but I was glaringly the most severe recorded case)

had chicken pox that nearly hospitalized me

had several severe ear infections, which might or might not have eventually contributed to my current hyperacusis mess in some way

almost choked to death from a minor but persistent respiratory infection

had at least 4 major concussions and quite a few other assorted head bumps

fell off a horse, again headfirst (it was *completely* my fault but there you go)

got attacked by the family dog (no lasting damage but we did get rid of the dog within the week)

came fairly close to drowning in a pool

had my first migraine at age 7

walked 1-2 miles home in Texas in summer because I forgot my own phone number and didn’t know how to ask my friend’s parents to call home for me

It’s just dumb luck that I didn’t break a bunch of bones in the process.

As for the eyes, I was born with one crossed and one lazy. Eye surgery is kind of iffy and imprecise under the best circumstances (this was long before lasik existed and it’s not the kind of thing that lasik can help anyway afaik), so getting more than one isn’t unheard of. 

...in retrospect, all of that might explain a few things. XD

thank you for coming to my gross Ted talk.

#thejeeperswife #not da #firjii shitposts

[firjii]

it's a wild ride working for someone who doesn't always remember the difference between an email address and a website but mocks you for not knowing how to fix obscure errors on a binary code level when you've had literally no reason to ever do so

it's a wild ride working for someone who doesn't know how to spell the simplest words in his native language but tremendously disapproves that you don't have worldwide time zone differences memorized when you had literally no reason to ever do so

it's a wild ride working for someone who doesn't know there's a "sort by" file function on computers but laughs at you for not knowing about a SUPER obscure and trivial toggle on your phone that you might use exactly twice in your entire life

it's a wild ride working for someone who claims to not have time for TV but laughs at you for not keeping up with all the latest shows 

it's a wild ride working for someone who complains about student debt forgiveness but laughs at you for buying most of your clothes at thrift stores and almost never eating out 

it's a wild ride working for someone who usually only gets his news in 2-minute chunks during radio talk show breaks and calls anyone who gets their news online a conspiracy theorist

it's a wild ride working for someone who ridicules the concept of online friends but hasn't actually had time for lunch and a prolonged casual conversation with irl friends for about 20 years

it's a wild ride working for someone who condones and borderline endorses Chicago-style corruption but screams about government bureaucracy 

it's a wild ride working for someone who's tired as all hell but mocks anyone who's not a weekend warrior

it's just a wild ride man

#yeah yeah i know...i almost need a 'rant at work' tag now... #firjii shitposts #not da #milennial problems

[firjii]

me @ me: how about uhhhh you get your shit together a little bit?

also me: *spends 40 minutes eating 2 pieces of toast*

#no context #firjii shitposts #not da

[firjii]

Big brain: not worrying about singing notes perfectly in tune

Exploding brain: only using autotune when a note went horribly wrong

Galactic brain: heeheehee artificially low voice fun nice pretty

#OR ALTERNATIVELY: i'm dicking around with my own music and massively reworking something so i can do whatever the hell i want #firjii shitposts #not da

[firjii]

It’s a special level of surreal when you’ve heard of many places in a country you’re going to visit but you really can’t remember where the hell they are.

Like I’m aware of many English place names but what the fuck is in the west country? What comprises East Anglia? Wait, where’s the boundary line with Scotland again? xD xD xD

And you can bet your ass I’m going to learn it all by the time I travel, but for now I’m in that mode of s uf fer i ng  trying to figure out logistics (also rural American sense of distance vs. zonked out tourist distance). Like shiiit, my sense of direction is spotty at best and that’s if I’m in an area I’ve been to hundreds of times.

#ignore the whining american #XD #firjii shitposts #not da

[firjii]

me: "well I didn’t sleep completely horribly last night so I should do something useful today”

my lizard brain: “let’s add some more shit to the Super! Secret! Blog project! That hardly anyone will see! Because today we feel like being private in public! :)))))))”

#asfhdkjgfhkdgj no really idk why I started that other thing #it's redundant content #but somehow the quietness is appealing so...away we go #purely to say we did it #hhhHHHHhhhhhhh y'all i just wanna present screenshots as the goddamn art they can be #as...yanno...something with a few feet of breathing room from fandom if that makes any sense #firjii shitposts #not directly da

[firjii]

surprising audio stuff I’ve learned so far:

there is no such thing as too many saved versions of a project so for the love of all that is holy just make another save if you’re not sure about something and want to sleep on it

visual aids and diagrams are not only helpful but actually necessary sometimes - it doesn’t matter how silly they might be as long as they make sense to you as the creator

NAME YOUR GODDAMN TRACKS PROPERLY GODDAMMIT

if you’re used to subtlety in music and an effect seems like too much, it’s probably actually just about enough. Applies doubly if you’re not used to dealing with reverb.

having said that, adding tiny increments of effects as a trial-and-error type of thing is also totally valid as long as you remember what order things are supposed to be added

SERIOUSLY GIVE YOUR TRACKS REAL LABELS

YOU WILL NOT FUCKING SURVIVE IF YOU DON’T HAVE A CONSISTENT NAMING SYSTEM

I DON’T CARE IF YOU CALL LAYERS DIFFERENT COLORS OR NAME THEM AFTER YOUR PETS

JUST FIND A SYSTEM AND STICK TO IT

PLEASE AND THANK YOU

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[firjii]

The continuing saga of prepping for my U.K. trip:

travel dates and airfare = done

passport = applied for

international-friendly SIM card = purchased

Not figured out yet:

where the fuck to go and what to do (plenty of choices, it’s just going to be super hard to narrow the list down to fit it into 8 days including airfare days)

where to stay (we’re going to be merciful and stay near the outbound airport for the last day or two but nothing is booked yet)

how much spending to limit myself to (I’m paying for very little of this trip but I want to limit myself to “shit I truly can’t obtain in America” and that’s ummm...tricky, but maybe I can itemize a list of things I’m hunting for)

refresher course on the differences between U.S. and U.K. English (tbh I’m not horribly worried about this because I do watch U.K. shows and movies almost more than American ones these days?? but it’s worth keeping in mind anyway)

on a similar note: looking up food ingredient terminology so it’s easier to avoid the things I try to avoid when buying packaged food (don’t laugh, there are some linguistic discrepancies) - happily no outright food allergies to worry about though

buy some plug adapters (could probablyyyy do that when we get there xD xD but I want to minimize steps for the first day or two)

hhhHHHHHhhhhhhhhh I wanna see stuff in Scotland and Wales and N Ireland too but sdkjfhdjksghkjfjgk there’s just not enough time if I estimate based on my average energy level these days and I don’t want to be one of Those People(tm) who’s hopping around an hour here there and everywhere to check things off a list for a week

various “what do I pack/wear” questions

basically everything

fucking hell I’m dysfunctioning so hard on this so far

seriously I’m approaching it like homework

10 minutes at a time

halp

this really is a place on my dream vacation list

I’m just utter shit with planning things

but at least I have a few more weeks to decide (trip is in April but I figure it’s good to have most things planned with at least a month to spare??)

#firjii shitposts #not da

[firjii]

So boss will be gone half the day today. 

Pros:

theoretically much less smoke exposure today

no goddamn dot matrix printer while he’s away

don’t have to sit through 40-minute rambling convos of two or more people with zero volume control of their voices [yes I know there can be a scientific basis for this and I genuinely feel bad for you if you struggle with this problem, but most of the time with these assholes it’s just that they don’t give two shits about being disruptive] 

I can go at my own pace and not stress about something taking an hour

I can take a bunch of little breaks if I want/need to

the option of listening to music

Cons:

going by the richness in the air, he smoked at least twice before I came in today so there’s an ambient residual waft anyway (there really aren’t any windows to open, I guess I could leave the back door open but it’s snowing today)  

being in a constant state of coiled readiness in case the phone rings and continually mentally preparing myself for a hyperacusis and/or APD and/or stammer or garbled speech incident

if people come in to look at shit or ask repair questions I have like a 50/50 chance of dealing with a pissy man because these guys go into meltdown when you say you don’t know anything about the equipment (like BRUH that’s not why I’m here, is it so hard to believe that a small business might hire someone for officey things) 

the possibility of making change for someone (I can do it but I’m slow af and usually get stuck in a double-checking loop)

bathroom breaks will be tricky because God forbid I miss a phone call while I’m here alone and someone leaves a message and he suddenly decides to get irrational and dock half an hour of pay because he thought my 4 minutes of comfort and basic body maintenance was actually me hiding away for awhile [NO I AM NOT TAKING THE CORDLESS INTO THE BATHROOM, THAT’S STUPID, NOT DOING IT]

due to my high gag reflex and slow chewing tendencies, lunch will be almost impossible 

no fucking way will I actually put music on because that makes my startle reflex more complicated if something else comes up

I still have accounting things to do and numbers are Quite Hard(tm) when your focus is actually constantly silently on 5 or 6 different things because you have to do it all yourself if something comes up [listen some people just aren’t cut out to run a fucking storefront, it doesn’t mean you’re lazy or stupid]

okay I’m good for awhile, thank you for listening

#firjii shitposts #not da

[firjii]

me: ok it's time to work on that new music some more

my lizard brain: nah we're gonna revisit some old shit!!

me: ;-;

my lizard brain: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#ffs #whyyyyyy must i be like this #it will only end in tears #firjii shitposts #not da

[firjii]

basically all I did at work today so far was scan shit and print shit and send a few emails but y’all I want to go hoooooooome

#hhhh #firjii shitposts #not da

[firjii]

hey don’t you love that your entire digestive system can simultaneously send you 10 super mixed signals, lmao isn’t that fun when you can’t tell if you’re thirsty or you’re about to throw up or maybe you just need a pee real bad, lmao isn’t that amazing 

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