Dullsters

I’ve had two wisdom teeth removed as a teenager since they were growing horizontally. The two others were left there because they were pretty far in, removing them was riskier and they weren’t causing any trouble. Gum was tender lately and this morning I realized this is because a wisdom tooth just erupted.

By neighbors’ dad insists on mowing their lawn at least twice a week, especially when I’m trying to enjoy my hammock.

Feels good.

I went down to the hardware store, and found there were two sizes of tub lever covers, so I bought both sizes, intending to return the other unneeded one.

I don’t like people who smoke at bus stops or who litter

I live in a legal state, so the other day I enjoyed the luxury of buying a THC cartridge from my local dispensary, and began using it as one does. Things were A-OK for a couple days, but suddenly the cartridge stopped working. I did some troubleshooting, and the best I could tell was that it was just faulty, and that as luck would have it, that fault wouldn’t appear until I had already used about a quarter of the product.

It got me thinking: I had the freedom to turn around any time I wanted. I felt the desire to turn around somewhere between the start and end of the street. But I ended up walking to an end of the street as marked by a street sign. It felt better, mentally, to stop at a preexisting stopping point/boundary than to do it somewhere where a point/boundary wasn’t marked out. Human tendency towards order, I suppose (aside from those of us who choose chaos). Neat little quirk of human brains.

But couldn’t find anything I wanted to play.

It also came with an ink converter thing which I might need if I use ink bottles.

I set up Adguard Home to resolve DNS queries for my home network, but AT&T router doesn’t allow setting DNS server so I had to also use the DHCP server. Still have it using plain DNS because I didn’t want to set up certificates, but might still later even if it’s just proxying DoT/DoH.

Pulled into work sitting in my car jamming out under a severe thunderstorm warning, heard what sounded like a train. Oh fuck. Tornado! Then I see the train in my rearview. Oh, right. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Different types, but it feels like a funny coincidence that I saw so many same-color cars in the cul-de-sac around the same house. Just those cars and one grey one.

I noticed water backing up into my sink when my dishwasher drains. Oh no, I thought. A partial blockage. I used some Liquid Plumr.

Made a poster for a school club with a certain design.

I shared it with a coworker and she found it funny too. It’s !thelittlethings@lemmy.cafe, like finding human-recognizable acronyms in serial numbers for something that isn’t peanut butter and jelly.

Sometimes I accidentally microwave my food for one second.

As I was approaching a staircase, I realized that the distance to the stairs meant I should start with my left foot. I realized it felt really wrong to start going down the stairs with my off foot. Most excitement I’ve had today.

It doesn’t say so on the branding, but but the barcode reader goes both ways and it will pop open a locker for you to use. Nice for avoiding lines or getting a receipt after hours.

Louder bird sounds than I have ever heard before, though that could just be a factor of my own proximity to the bush and how many birds were congregated at the bush. I stopped and put my glasses on to look, but by then most had flown away.

Woke up to pee and smelled it and now I’m too excited for the morning to go back to sleep.

Kind of funny that it was stapled despite there being no need for one.

Everybody else wanted to crush it, so I jumped up to rescue it (I don’t believe in the senseless killing of creatures that are just minding their own business). Let it crawl on a bit of tissue and took it to the exit to remove it from the premises.

Came back from running errands this morning to a wet basement and no hot water. Turns out those two things were related. Hot water heater gave up the ghost and sprung a leak. I did notice it sounded extra gurgle-y after I got out of the shower this morning.

I was wondering why the Kill-A-Watt wattmeter that I normally leave things in the room plugged into was beeping. Turned out that having an electric kettle and a space heater both on on a circuit were enough to drive the power usage over the 1800W that a normal US household circuit can provide, and that apparently the thing beeps in that case. It let me flip off the kettle before the circuit breaker flipped, which was nice.

Thought that was funny.

With the age verification for discord talks, I decided to resurrect an old phpbb2 board I had set up in the 00s for a MUD I played. But the php on my host is too new of a version, so I set up phpbb3.

They were a mess. They look much better now.

Just saw a massive rat in the back garden. Might not fit in the box! Anyway, be gone ye blighter!

I had to deal with old paper documents that have information for something that needs to be completed for one of my workplace’s customers today. I saw that customer’s name written in a very different font and color than the way it’s written on the customer’s official branding—it basically looked like word art, like someone just doodling with the customer name as inspiration. Not sure if the customer made that, or someone at my workplace did, and it is from too long ago to ask anyone today, but it was nice to see. Job-having adults still being human and doodling in the margins like we did in school.