So, what are some of the coolest things you accomplished this year?
10I learned how to do a javascript image slider! I think those things are way cool and I’ve got a ton of old scanned photos and a ton of graphic software to enhance images.
I found a few places where you can subscribe (it’s not that much money), but the amount you create is limited. Like you can only have three at a time. If you want a new one, you have to overwrite the old one and the old one you have entered in your weblog will now be the new one.
Kinda not what you want on your blog, yanno?
It’s javascript. So, I found one and sat my fat ass down one day and really concentrated on how to do it and I did it!
My first before/after photo slider.
And we set up FIVE security cameras! Well, one is in the living room, so that doesn’t count. We’ve got them for critters. Cats, raccoons, opossums, the occasional rat (there’s video of an opossum grabbing a rat!) and coyotes. Hubby kind of wanted them because there’s a little bit of local drug dealing going on up the street, so the security is a thing for him.
Besides saving the video to memory cards that are installed in the camera, I also have them saving to a hard drive in the house. It took me weeks to get all of the settings correct and wouldn’t you know?
I haven’t watched them. The hard drive they’re on is an external hard drive attached to my router and I can view them on the Plex app.
But I still think it’s cool.
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I made an omelet that didn’t fall apart.
@OnionSoup That is a fine accomplishment. It really is. Mine usually end up all over the stove.
@lisaviolet mine used to. They would look pretty in the pan but then I would try to get them out and they would fall apart. I don’t know why but lately my omelettes are staying in one piece… And I don’t even know what I’m doing different to make them work now.
@lisaviolet @OnionSoup God invented scrambled eggs for a reason. I am guessing that reason is because I can’t make an omelet.
@OnionSoup But I bet you broke a few eggs…
@lisaviolet @OnionSoup @yakkoTDI
Scrambled eggs are for those of us who want Breakfast NOW.
Omelets are for people who care more about what breakfast looks like.
@lisaviolet @werehatrack @yakkoTDI they’re obviously similar, but Omelettes have a superior texture… And nobody would ever write a musical about scrambled eggs.
/youtube something rotten make an omelette
I had a kid get married and leave the nest. Indirect accomplishment in a way…
@zinimusprime Congratulations. Are you planning on remodeling the extra room? Media? Cave? Crafting? Exercise?
@lisaviolet Thanks! We turned it into a guest room so I don’t have to keep giving up my office. It’s been great. We had dinner with them last night too and it’s awesome seeing them doing well.
LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!
I survived it
So far
@Cerridwyn Well, that’s pretty cool. Way better than the alternative.
@lisaviolet absolutely
@Cerridwyn @lisaviolet I think the real problem when it feels like it isn’t better than the alternative.
@Cerridwyn @lisaviolet @xobzoo Amen!
Here’s the video of the opossum catching the mouse/rat.
I figured out the work around to get my Raspberry Pi Zero 2w to connect to wireless networking. I just wish I knew enough to get it fixed in the upstream software.
I grew some good tomatoes thanks to the woman who gave away bunches of seedlings on Nextdoor. The best ones were a variety I’d never heard of before, Hungarian Heart. They’re HUGE and delicious and the skins weren’t tough the way all the other varieties’ were.
@Kyeh Wow! Those are HUGE! Yum!
@Kyeh @lisaviolet @mediocrebot will agree this is awesome.
i don’t like tomatoes much, save some of the heirloom ones. used to have a lady at the farmer’s market eons ago that grew a bunch of different ones
POPSOCKETS! SPROCKETS! DAVY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
@Cerridwyn @lisaviolet I’m hoping to grow some more next year!
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @lisaviolet Those are some beauts! Nothing like a sandwich-sized tomato slice that fills every bite…
@Cerridwyn @ircon96 @Kyeh @lisaviolet
Due to extensive travel plans this summer I didn’t plant much of a garden this year. My only tomatoes were volunteers that came up in the (old) chicken pen. They made not quite ping pong ball size tomatoes all summer, and I just picked half a gallon to bring up to my son’s in Pittsburgh for our trip yesterday. Still a bunch on the vines to last til our first frost…
@Cerridwyn @ircon96 @Kyeh @lisaviolet
Quit my toxic, stressful job after being there 23 years, only the last 3 were bad. Still have not found a job, so have learned to love pb&j sammies and have depleted my pasta drop stash
@cbilyak Leaving a bad situation is hard (and potentially very scary), but absolutely worth it.
Here’s hoping you manage to get back on your feet soon!
@lisaviolet congrats on the accomplishments!
Nothing exciting here. I did finally take the time this year to dry all the herbs I grow mixed in my flower beds. So now I have them properly stored for the winter.
Think I am going to get another start off my dads fig tree for the yard so maybe I can start drying them or making jam or something. Currently have one, but it is still young and only produces one or two a day when it gets going. TBH I just snap them off and snack on them, not enough to do much more.
@tinamarie1974 I agree, @lisaviolet, those are impressive things you accomplished!
@Kyeh @lisaviolet
Was outside when it was quite cold. (Forget how cold.)
Survived. Didn’t even whine much.
/giphy brrrr
I’m finally recognized as legal guardian of my parents. (I just have to figure out how to take care of them.)
@pakopako Not an easy task. You will do the best you can, and it will be enough.
@pakopako
Make sure to take time for yourself. It can be very overwhelming at times and ask for help when you need it. There’s a lot of resources out there depending on what they’re dealing with. Reach out and see what can help you.
The best bits are things that only I am likely to appreciate, for Reasons. But there were some, which is better than I could say for most of 2017 and 2018. And it looks like 2025 will peak in January and slump into a swamp from there on.
Hey, get off my back, there are 53 days left in the year! But seriously, where does the time go?
@ircon96 I wonder how it can go by so fast, yet day by day just drags at times.
@ircon96 @lisaviolet Same. I recently passed my 3rd year of retirement, but it feels like maybe half that. And how can it be only a little more than 6 weeks to Christmas?
@lisaviolet @macromeh So true about the flying vs. dragging effect, and of course it never seems to be the right one on the right occasion; e.g., root canals never fly by.
@ircon96 @macromeh (When I have to generate shipping labels to Canada, I’m known to be heard muttering “I’d rather have a root canal”.)
Decided to go ahead and “retire” from my job as an ER nurse. Still working PRN now and then, but pretty infrequently. I will Have put 10 days in between mid July and the end of the year at my current planned schedule. OTOH I’ve done a bunch of traveling since then. Will have been in 8 different countries this year.
@chienfou
For the non-medical peeps- PRN= per diem or “as needed”.
I’m so jealy- I still have about another 8 months until I can retire and get partial vesting in the state retirement plan.
Good on ya! I’m living through you vicariously until then, so keep up the fun, err good work!
Oh man, I have done so, so much this year after decades of crippling depression leaving me to do basically nothing. I learned blacksmithing and mycology. I wrote a book about local folklore, scandals, and ghost stories! I got into grad school. I got my insurance licensure, realized I fucking HATED working in insurance, and quit to follow my dreams. I started working as a storyteller and debuted a story at my state’s storytelling festival. I’m really proud of me this year for the first time in ages.
@LizZPardz
I/we’re proud of you too!
Sounds like you had a banner year.
Would it be rude of me to ask what made the year one of breakthrough for you?
best,
PA
/giphy way to go!
@PhysAssist Sorry for the late response! Honestly, it was finally being put on the right treatment (ketamine) and getting a chance to stumble forward for the first time as an adult. I’m having that fail-a-bunch-at-a-lot-of-things-to-figure-out-what’s-for-you phase in my 40’s that most of my peers had in their 20s, but I’m not mad about it! Glad to be here.
And thanks for the kind words!
@LizZPardz
No worries!
A simple MYOB would also have been fine.
I’m really happy that you found something that helps.
FWIW, I’m nearly ready to retire and I’m
@LizZPardz
[Sorry I got kicked out…]
Still at that trying to figure things out stage…
Best,
PA
Crevice garden! Used to be a crappy patchy grass strip next to the garage. Read the book on crevice gardening and bought the stones last year. Over the spring I bought the dirt, gravel, perlite, vermiculite, and chicken grit to form a mound, stuck the stones in and put the plants in. 23 out of 25 hardy succulents lived and the ice plants I propagated in exploded out of the crevices. Had to cut them back three times.
@russellmz That looks great. I will have to borrow that book once I move.
@russellmz That’s so pretty! I might have to try that.
@russellmz Nice!
@Kyeh @russellmz I know, right?