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it's my month people get ready for the big event
but first the groundhog
read some more of 2666 last night im going to get reading again i swear
high of 67 today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
springtime day. we're gonna get tricked by this groundhog i just know it
feeling on the verge of something. like something's coming. i think it's that damn groundhog. i think he's gonna do something big this year
somehow i tricked myself into actually working today at work
manic obsession levels High as rowen tries to get his printer working on the imac
just found a pristine half full pack of smokes on the ground
this feels flounder coded
https://twitter.com/_snailll/status/1752103169587318989
spending too much money. have to stop now
have to work out before i go to bed. i will do these things!
i can flounder from my papasan chair now
sleepy sleepy crazy, i want it to be spring so i can read outside. grateful for my friends and beck. and my unrelenting courage(?)
loving the "official explanation" jim davis gave for why garfield hates mondays
booted up my imac to write this post because i'm just that cool
spent most of the day with X. we went to an antique mall (i bought jeans and a set of coasters), then we saw the st louis symphony perform peter and the wolf among other things thanks to free tickets i got cuz im friends with a lovely person who works there. then we went to my house and danced around and watched the green knight
i like them a lot and i'm trying to intentionally avoid codependence... trying to balance intentional action toward healthy dating and also living in the moment, because both are important. like, if i spent all the time worrying about what i'm doing, that is a terrible thing, but also i don't want to date them blindly. y'know? i want to give it some thought, but only some.
i think i tend to become overcommunicative which is helpful and good sometimes but other times it is totally a crutch for my anxiety. i have to work on placing trust in the other person. and i think i've done a good job with that lately.
it's funny because i never have this problem with my friends, i just need to work on transferring that to my romantic life. but that makes sense because romance is, at some level, about opening your heart to someone. and that can be a very difficult thing to do without hurting you or them.
anyway, tomorrow i'm going back to work (bleh), then seeing the talented mr ripley at the alamo.
i will sign off by saying the green knight is a great movie and everyone should watch it
posting from mac os 9
it's definitely less cute than os X but it runs better on this computer
enjoyed the open mic last nite and the nite before playing mancala with X. yayy
the old mac is so cool. this is exactly the kind of shit i eat up like candy. and i can play adventure games on it !!!
i think my next project is to get the imac connected to my printer. which apparently is possible
excited to play mancala with X tonite
the weather is punching me in the gut like today i had to do the thing where i text my boss i'm coming in an hour late cuz i could barely move
but now i feel really good so turns out listening to your body is really good for you
i did not succeed in putting os 9 on my imac because my CD burner is dead so i have to get another one ack. wait thinking about it i think my old computer has a cd burner on it
and i think i found it... the papasan chair that's going to cure me
but that's the last money i'll ever spend i swear
why the f doesn't anyone make a giant papasan chair
im going to try to dual boot mac os 9 onto the imac. my tech know-how stops at the “my grandson’s a computer whiz” level so wish me luck
dream report: me and a bunch of other people navigating a rotting abandoned house, half the floor would collapse if you walked on it. was bringing a bike with me. found a bunch of towels themed after mario kart courses, took one. we all sat in a room and introduced our dnd characters. it was getting dark, so we carefully traversed back out the house. i forgot my towel so i went and got it
flounder is cool because you can subsume the angst and ennui of people you dont know and also learn how to grow a plant from a single cell
i have the morning off 2day cuz of weather yayyyyyyyyyyyyy
whole day off
my pokemon search is going well (trying to catch them all in gen 4). i have all the legendaries including manaphy that i had to play pokemon ranger for. just got feebas. i need one more fossil, then the rest are pretty much “find em in the grass”. but there are a ton of those that i dont have. and i also have to level them up to evolve
i feel like i have come to a good agreement with winter. i wont ruffle its hair, and it wont mine. i exist in my home, and sometimes i hang out with my friends or X. i go to work with both a sigh and grit. i listen to new wave and look at my dog. yesterday i played ddr and did the best ive ever done. and at the end of the day, i take a deep breath and send a piece of myself forward into spring
this is earth and it’s nice, because we came here to have a good time through a lot of empty space
past couple days ive been so into cleaning it’s awesome???
so tired today
posting on flounder from my iMac g3 blueberry
stl folks, just know that next wednesday it's gonna be high of 48. cling to that as i am
organizing things in my house
my train got canceled cuz its too cold but i got another train for tomorrow
we went to a store that had so many zines it was cool
just watched the fly
im really happy the radio/tv station wikipedia people are getting their day in the limelight
painting
successfully read on the train
bugleague and i watched C.H.U.D.
on da train to chicago to see bugleague
do i tell X about flounder or not so i can post about them on here :P the most difficult decision of my life
watched the neverending story last night. pretty sure that was the first time i watched it from start to finish
here is what i have to do today
-work
-go home and work out
-nap maybe if i can swing it
-vacuum?
-back to work lol
winter end NOW
addicted to haircut 100. played some for R and they were unimpressed :P
i've been watching so many movies lately it's crazy
my hot take is every disappointing franchise film sequel is the best movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Jcrk6jGfo
i don't like texting it's so hard
winter is so hard i should be living on the equator
wait i might like texting now. X and i are having a text rap battle. they called it a "rap cold war". i think that is really funny
it's getting to the point where i really need to do things for my job and i just... can't... bring myself to do them........
i'm spending money recklessly on the internet again........
good rowen: i'm trying to stop eating out so much. i'm getting off doordash. i'm going to aldi because it's cheaper
bad rowen: i just spent $400 on an iMac g3 blueberry 1999 fruit pc with matching colored keyboard and mouse
it snobed
everett true is so cool
watched legally blonde
good, movie
i made a gitlab account to test the mario fan game i worked on when i was 17 and now gitlab's adding me on linkedin and calling me at work ;-; vendors amirite
X and i watched man on wire. hardcore recommend
remember when actor mike butters said "pepsi for tv game" in the pepsi-based japanese-only videogame pepsiman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dy7VUQb780
i've been thinking about that a lot lately
wow i just signed my lease for next year and they didn't increase my rent. they even told me they were going to when i signed last year. this is awesome
honestly it's so funny how happy this is making me rn
going to the goodbye house show on saturday demanding all the ambient noiseheads make their next 40 minute track centered around this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dy7VUQb780
rowen getting out of sick here is my plan
NOW
-do dishes
-shower
-go to bed normal time
TOMORROW
-go to work
-go home
-ddr
-bonus: lunch with mothbaby
-go get my tattoo from S finished
-back to work
-clean my house
-hang out with X
-bedtime
THURSDAY
-work harder than i did on wednesday
-help O with her zine
-hang out with E <-------------------------------------im here right now
these are my plans
i would also like to state that for the first time in my long life, today i intentionally bred an egg move onto a pokemon. it was mean look onto absol from smeargle capturing it off a golbat. i am now a true gamer
apparently the mario fan game i worked on when i was 17 is finally coming out. that is crazy
working my last fjucking garden glow (garbage glow) and i can't wait to go out of here and leave
i'm hanging out with X tomorrow yay
been a bit off lately, i think because beck and i haven't been walking cuz of his injury, plus i've been sick so i can't do ddr. all i can do is sit! i've even watched movies
bored at work but i don't really have anything interesting to write on flounder
i've been playing pokemon............
one of my friends and one of my other friends just broke up with each other... that's all i know. i think i'm going to get the tea on thursday
i am a sucker for gossip, which is usually fun and occasionally not great. but usually fun
haven't really been thinking about much lately... ice over my brain
i feel bad for beck, i can tell he's bored. i've been trying to give him things to do. he's kind of a funny dog in that he's not really a self-starter. he rarely tries to get me to play with him, but if i start playing with him he gets excited about it
i was sick on new years. the last thing i did in 2023 was watch indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull
i went to the history museum the other day and they have a cool thing where you can color on the walls and color in stl buildings. it kinda rocked, recommend
theres a lot out there in the world to see but i think i could live another six or seven years in stl and not regret it. doesnt mean i will tho
