If you played "Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical", the "Orpheus" dlc is out! I love it! The whole thing is so very Hermes. Like, that's just the best way to describe it. 😄

28 ton sacred boulder returned to the Kaw. I was part of the way through reading this when I realized I was crying.

https://www.kcur.org/news/2024-06-26/kaw-kanza-sacred-rock-lawrence-kansas-flint-hills-monument-tribe

This is a fossilized Tylosaurus tooth! That means it's a minimum of 65 million years old. I held it in my hand! Very briefly, though. I'm absolutely shaking with awe and joy, and I didn't want to drop it.

Someone acquired it for me and it will stay with me in my house! This is...this is a lot! This is important! I'm probably going to start crying soon. Good tears!

I just saw the email from explore.org! It's Bear Cam season! 🐻🥳

I have been watching the bears at Brooks Falls catch salmon for many summers now!

It's day 100 for my tiny lake monsters! 🥳 I don't think I really believed I could keep Sea Monkeys alive this long.

https://youtu.be/Ml-xNXXIvBI

I was so happy with myself for calling the plumber yesterday. Less happy with getting up early because they're coming out today. But the hot water will get fixed!

I called the plumber, and that counts as an achievement for the day! 🙌 Go, me!

There's a visitor in my yard today. I'm a little concerned about why a bat would be out during the day. We've seen them in the evenings before, so we know they live on our property. It could be the heat. If they don't go home tonight, I may need to call a wildlife rehabilitator tomorrow.

He screwed a lot of things up. Nobody's perfect. But if the worst thing you do is curse your child with the ability to love, you did a good job.

I stayed offline most of today, just like I did with the one last month. I almost made it all the way without thinking about what day it's recognized as. I don't know if it will ever stop hurting. Probably not. I've discussed how I grieve with therapists. They say I just stay aware of it longer than most people. Sometimes I do wish I couldn't love so much. But he taught me. And he's not here anymore. So I have to do it.

Suddenly, a Sim would be exhausted, starving, and need to go to the bathroom. They could end up just standing there and crying until they passed out in a puddle of their own pee. All the needs crashed when they came out of the zone.

Now I'm thinking it makes more sense if the needs bars are seen as a Sim's awareness of their own needs. The needs are still changing, but the Sim doesn't know it. Being in the zone is hyperfocus, and it interrupts interoception.

Our family is made up of a mix of autistic people, ADHDers, people with PTSD...not just one of each. There's overlapping and combining. And this has me rethinking something about The Sims. Specifically, when a Sim is "in the zone".

When that was added, my friends and I talked about how it was good that a Sim in thier zone didn't have their needs moving much, but it was hell when they stopped what they were doing!

<insert screaming into the void>

Happy pride, y'all! 🏳️‍🌈 When you're queer, you're family. 💜

If you're not out, you're still family. There are many valid reasons to stay quiet. You are still loved. We just have more family than we know.💜

That includes queer military. We know you're there. We love you. 💜

We just watched the finale of "Star Trek: Discovery". I cried twice. I yelled in joyful shock! And the thing that shocked me...so well done! It's the kind of thing I normally would see coming a season ago and everyone would tell me I'm wrong until it's revealed. But they did it in a way that made that impossible.

And now... I miss them already. That crew became as much fictional family to me as TNG.

I got a new deck of cards. I am really picky about how Hekate is portrayed. Neopaganism has done a lot of appropriating and manipulating. I was glad to see the creator is a member of the Covenant of Hekate. There's a higher standard for research. Looking through the cards, I think they'll be great for self-examination and growth work.

Learned something interesting today...I can't taste coconut. I love the smell! But I've always wondered how other people could so clearly taste it in things. I always thought it was a subtle taste that just mixed well and you'd only notice if it wasn't there.

I don't have the biggest achievements in my family, but I am the one who will really stick with something.

If you're a musician, please monitor your heart rate as you read this. I got new strings for the violin and will be changing them.

I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get my neice's violin tuned properly. Each string was one note lower than it should be, and I just couldn't get any better without serious risk of a snap. Then I found out why.

Those are the strings I helped her put on 8 years ago.