Steal Compass / Drive North / Disappear

I said yesterday's entry would be short and I hammered out ninety thousand words about worms 🙄 500 words today, max

Fediworms league signups still open at rentry.co/fediworms. Two players on board for a potential game this weekend!

Ok that's all, thanks for reading my 500 words. Just kidding. Totally worth wasting 2.2% of my word budget on this dumb joke. Now 4.6%. I'll stop now

I realized Minecraft doesn't fit on my MP<—>ES spectrum because it's co-op. Well, there are competitive unofficial modes, but it's thought of as a cooperative game. My spectrum needs another axis. Minecraft at one end and... Idk, Among Us at the other? I haven't played it.

My monthly psych appointment is today. It's a video call, but these are a lot shorter than therapy (~20m) so I don't change my schedule like I do with therapy. I usually sneak off to the conference room and call it a break, but there's some official business going on, people have been having meetings in there all week. I reckon I'll go to the "break room" in the basement and hope nobody comes in. Nobody usually does, and when they do it'll only be for a minute. I probably won't be talking about anything super-sensitive, but it's still uncomfortable. I wish there was somewhere I could go to make a private phone call. Like, officially. Workplaces should privacy rooms, somewhere you can go to be alone for a few minutes that isn't a lavatory. I guess that's a luxury reserved for management only.

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Okay, psych appointment done. I ended up going outside. He ended up doing a phone call instead of video for whatever reason, probably because his support staff is a little clueless. They called me 10m before the appointment and asked a bunch of irrelevant questions, then probably put the wrong thing in the system. It went ok. He's happy with my progress, no changes to my meds. I intended to ask for his thoughts about an autism assessment, but I didn't want to have to shout into the phone over the nearby traffic and big truck that pulled into the parking lot right after I stepped outside. We have an in-person appointment next month, I'll bring it up then. It doesn't seem as urgent now that my ADHD is treated. And honestly, I think it's less likely that an autism diagnosis makes sense for me. Probably I was experiencing the overlapping symptoms more strongly, and that was coloring my perception.

face the music

Remember how when new albums started coming out on CD in addition to cassettes, the CD always cost more? Even though a cassette is a complex machine composed of a plastic shell, reels, screws and magnetic tape, and a CD is just a plastic disc? But the record companies charged like 30% more for the CD, just because they could? Napster in 1999 was what the music industry deserved.

Okay that's it for today. Stay safe everyone and I'll