WOAH I broke one thousand neocities followers recently. It's absolutely nuts how massive that feels compared to so many other social medias where followers kind of come and go, and numbers below like 50k don't mean shit. It means a lot to me on neocities though!! All these followers are fellow coders and prospective coders with inner worlds I get to glimpse with each and every follow!! I like to click on the new followers and see if they've made anything with the vast open range of html and css at their fingertips yet. I've found some of my favorite sites that way, actually. I'm thinking about making a special little page as a "thank you" of sorts. I have to poke around and learn a bit of javascript for what I have in mind, though.. Hrrmm. In the meantime, I've got to add a button to all my pages (sob) so you can navigate to this page from anywhere. That's kind of a scary thought, actually. Having my little webjournal lying open for all to see..? Unrelated but I've noticed I have a typing quirk where I don't like using pronouns. Not in a dipshit conservative way but in a short, clipped, impersonal style kind of way. It takes genuine effort for me not to sound like fucking Rorschach from Watchmen. I'm going to get going on that webpage now to distract me from that disturbing thought. Rorschach autistic confirmed?
-Loopy
Dying my hair right now !! This is the first time I've ever done something fun with my hair besides cut it so I hope it comes out cool. I'm jumpy about posting my face online but I might just take a pic if I like it lol. 27 ass years on this planet and I've never dyed my hair lmfao. Also big plans for this weekend! It's Calochortus season where I'm at and I plan on scouting out around the Auburn canyon area to see if I can spot some good ones from the trails. I really love having some short term goals like this. Helps me to remember I'm alive :)
-Loopy
I went bouldering up in the Tahoe basin a few days back. Really gorgeous weather for it. I was actually out looking for Calochortus and Lupinus species but we're still barely touching the beginning of spring up there in the peaks, unseasonably warm + dry weather notwithstanding. I came up sorely disappointed from a botanist's perspective, BUT! I did get to climb rocks and nearly fall into the lake picking up someone's discarded gatorade bottle. I took some photos from the big rock I had lunch on. It's not pictured, but on the very top of that rock, (a Sierra Nevada batholith-typical granidiorite) there's a ground-down spot where some Washoe people must've been grinding their meals for a century. It's well used, and the spot that's most comfortable to sit next to it has the view pictured below. It's a perfect spot to have lunch at, and I clearly wasn't the first to think so.
(The second photo is the gatorade bottle location). I also forgot to bring any sunscreen with me for that trip. I'm very overcooked. I'd do it again in a heartbeat for these views, though.
-Loopy
I don't have many nonnative plants in containers left after this winter's garden purge, but the ones I do have suffer terribly from snail infestations. Normally I just chuck them into the asphalt for the birds but this February I found an itty bitty baby snail (so small you could see into the shell! You could watch it digest!) and decided to keep it as a pet. Snails are about the only animals I would ever condone taking out of the "wild" to adopt, considering most garden snails you'll see in your neighborhood are introduced species from Eurasia. I've tenetively dubbed it Snailbert. In the month and a half since I adopted it, it's grown about five times its original size. Bigge snail. I got it a big olive jar to live in.
Anyway I got pulled over last night and ticketed for driving without a licence. Picking up my brother from work. Who DOES have a licence. Just another fun little peek into my astonishingly good luck. Just as I think I've got all my ducks in a row, here comes life with a steel chair. Is it like that for everyone? Teetering on the edge of poverty just to be met repeatedly with setback after setback? I can't be the only one, right? Oh well. I'm not bothered about the ticket. I'm bothered about the inevitable fucking payment plan I'll have to keep track of on top of all the rest of my debt. Fuck this noise man. I'll add this blurg entry to the long list of entries to follow that should've been written in my actual physical journal.
All that aside, I've had the Eagles' album "The Long Run" playing on repeat. It's one of those albums I've been listening to as long as I've been alive. My old busted CD is the only thing I have left of my dad. It holds a lot of weight. Helps that the music is great too.
-Loopy
I was just watching this video about one of my favorite bands, Innerpartysystem, (really thought provoking vid) and I just kept thinking about how the thesis of it all is "Innerpartystem's lyrical genius was a warning" and how so many of these dystopia-themed artistic works aren't always so much "warnings" as they are commentary on the observed world around them. Like so many commentaters of Orwell's, people have made the distinction between the work being written as a commentary rather than a warning for nebulous future generations. Orwell and Innerpartysystem are direct products of the times they're written in (in this case, a time of rampent capitalist hedonism and disconnection with reality afforded to the 1%). It's like. Orwell and Innerpartysystem aren't trying to "warn you". They're laying bare the depravity of the world we live in through well constructed and easily digestible fiction. It's a tinted mirror held up to the realities of today; the fact that these realities seem to be ever-repeating and their reflections evergreen is less a testament to either artist's predictive capabilities as it is a reminder of the unfailingly banal quality the lack of innovation, imagination, and worship of stagnation that the upper eschelons of society possess.
and all I've said is just instead of telling you that Innerpartysystem's music is really fucking good.
-Loopy