2026-09-11

Returning from disruption to development due to loss of water access via multiple well water system failures. But car is now operational as well, leading to increased ability to travel distances solo. Began working Goodwill cashier job a couple weeks ago. Reduces available development time and tires me out a bit. I owe deliverables to DOF and DIHG organizations. I will be reorganizing my schedule to accomodate my new job while making sure I spend appropriate time towards my deliverables. The weeds/defense zone, workshop and living space organization, processing of our recycling into goods, and preparing the soil for fall gardening is top of mind. I’ve started a new hugelkulture mound, a very large one, near the compost where raised beds used to be. I plan to use a strategy for weed control that will involve filling polystyrene(?) bags with dirt, and then leaving them around the edge of the house where I want to kill the invasive grasses for a few months. I am extremely sorrowful that we were not at home for much of monsoon season. We missed the critical moment where we would have captured the rain that could have powered many of my gardening goals… We were a bit late purchasing the gutters anyway, but then everything else happening, eroded our time away completely. I imagine we might appreciate being able to install the gutters during cooler temperatures though, so maybe it isn’t so bad. So, I want to focus on the parts of my notes today that are relating to:

• Things we learned about well systems
• Fall gardening activities
• Repurposing recyclable packaging

• I went to the [[long night of the museums]] with [[Sebek]] and [[Nina]].
• Thank you [[CM]]!

• [[feelings]]
• [[work]]
• yesterday I had a lovely evening with [[J]] and [[C]].
• [[straight like an arrow]]

• [[Jetsunma pagma drolma la chag tsal lo]]

• [[Berni]] and [[Carolina]] have been visiting and I’m thankful for it
  • We had a good day yesterday despite the situation.
• [[Lady Burup]]‘s death is shattering. I am changed even as I try to stay true to how I was with her.
  • I’ve been thinking, remembering and crying a lot. Also thinking about the [[futures lost]].

• I am shattered by the death of [[Lady Burup]] yesterday, [[2026-08-23]], and for her suffering since Thursday when she got sick suddenly and critically. I am struggling to process what happened and am submerged in grief.

• Various issues have led to me to try other browsers. I used [[Microsoft Edge]], but I really dislike how it inherits [[Chromium]]’s 90-day history retention.
  • [[Firefox]] is Firefox. It’s good until there’s that one page that wasn’t tested with it. WebGL performance is only decent. Either way, I’m specifically using Firefox Developer Edition. And while setting it up for beyond testing web pages:
    • [[Rayleigh Moderation]] is broken in various ways. Probably just the fault of mine. But I’m not in the mood to touch some frontend code.
  • Tried out [[Vivaldi]]. Somehow, Rayleigh Moderation is broken once again. This time, it was about ‘access keys.’. They just… didn’t work?
  • Even Chromium itself is rotten in some way. Actually, I think it æffects all Chromium-based browsers in some way? There’s this particular issue that randomly locks up inputs for a tab. That happening for Microsoft Edge motivated me to look at other browsers. And the specific Chromium build I used didn’t play video on Rayleigh Moderation.
  • For Rayleigh Moderation, I ended up dedicating [[Google Chrome]] for it.
    Vivaldi seems really nice, but syncing doesn’t actually carry over the visited link colors. Firefox does, so I’m going to try using that for the next months. There’s some benefits already:
    • [[uBlock Origin]] will be working fine and well for the foreseeable future.
    • Seems stable on large pages?
    • fop
• Removing the color of a:visited is inherently the root of all evil. [[Don’t eat the snow where the dragons go]] from now.

• Flancia is the revolution against [[Moloch]].
  • I will go into the [[heart of Moloch]] and strike, strike, strike them down if I have to! As I would their agents; but I would rather forgive, yet not forget; make amends, offer reparations to those we’ve hurt and those that Moloch and his (is it a he?) agents have hurt, help humanity and our friends heal and move on towards a better future.