Alright! I successfully got a custom skin working in my game, though I'd just thrown the art for it together in five minutes so it looks terrible. And I just now while writing this got up to move the rest of the laundry into the dryer, so now I just wait a couple hours for it to get dry and then I can put the bedding back on the bed and sleep in it. I am physically exhausted.
God it's exhausting being the change I want to see in the world. It'd be nice if other people were the change I wanted to see in the world too sometimes
Oh boy my everything hurts
Oof ouch owie my bones
And you KNOW nothing got entirely dry so I get to sleep in damp sheets tonight
Back on my bullshit (learning toki pona)
So last week I ended up not able to go over to dad's because he wasn't feeling well, and this week I'm not going over to dad's because ash has been having a migraine for four weeks and even aside from that his schedule today was weird in a way that made logisticing getting to dad's before he'd be picking me up difficult. But I called him to at least catch up over the phone if not in person
Some family news: He only has about a month left of DUI classes/meetings/whatever, and then a month of reorientation I think he called it, which will probably be over zoom. Also the office where he's doing the DUI thing is moving to a location only a half mile from the house, which will be a much nicer walk than the two miles he's currently doing every week
Des is apparently doing pretty poorly -- dad is calling her every morning to wake her up and get her to work, and she says she'll call him again after work but it sounds like instead she just goes right back to sleep. She hasn't visited him in a while, keeps saying she will and then doesn't even call or anything, just doesn't show up. I don't want to say it to my family because My Family but it sounds to me like she caught covid at some point and now has long covid, but it could also be some other virus-activated long-term illness (she had that bout of strep throat not long ago). I hope she gets help for whatever is going on because it's not sounding good
We also talked a little about Erik's transportation job and I told him I'd find out if it's a service he could use to get to his appointments -- right now he takes uber for everything, which gets expensive.
Apparently Dennis' birthday was last week and mom called dad to find out if dad had a way to contact him, because the phone number she has for him is deactivated. We of course haven't seen or heard from Dennis in years since he fucked off without saying anything after a few years of screwing us over while he was living at the house, so. I assume he moved out of the city to somewhere else, as he is wont to do.
Dad apparently does hear about Jon (Dennis' son who had a very troubled childhood and teenagerhood and young-adult-hood) occasionally; he's managing a store (I think he said Lowe's?) now, still living in Texas. I knew he had a child, now, but dad says the woman he married had four children before they got married, too, so. I hope he's doing alright and has matured some, it sounds like that's likely
Gay is doing alright, but it sounds like dad wishes she had more social contact besides him -- since Greg died she doesn't get any chance to talk to anyone. Apparently whenever Greg came over he would put in effort to talk with her for a while and she would remember and recognise him when she saw him. I also worry about dad himself not having any social outlets, he's a pretty gregarious and extraverted person, which is frankly why he's had such a drinking problem since there's little for adults to do socially that aren't drinking. It sounds like no one really comes over to see him anymore, though hopefully as we come out of winter he gets out golfing regularly again
We talked for about an hour and most of it was about his adolescence in Japan and then a bit about some programming stuff he used to do (I brought up that I was learning Python). He honestly sounded like he still might be a little sick, or maybe he was just tired -- just like, his voice was a little off.
I was thinking about going out and running an errand anyway but I think I'll stay inside. I did get out and do my pool walk, if I can get back to doing it daily I might build up my stamina enough again to be able to actually do things
Turned out to be a good thing I stayed inside because I didn't end up having that much energy anyway
Achievement unlocked: used toki pona to tell Dave to eat a dick
"mije lili (the boy) ... li jo (has) ...
poki (contains).
mije lili li poki e ... lawa (head) ...
pi lili ... pi insa lili (small inside).
lawa lili... (small head)
... a. sona? (understanding)
mije lili li poki sona lili (the boy has a small brain)"