BadGopher

Friday

A reality show where every challenge is entering wi-fi passwords on increasingly obstinate home office products. The winner just gets a baseball bat and free rein on every piece of equipment they touched during the episode.

I’ve been tasked with figuring out a livestream for the folks that can’t travel. The setup is kinda ridiculous. I’m heading down to the beach after work to do a dry run and see if the 5G speeds are good enough to actually pull it off.

I met up with Charles the other day and filled him in. Mostly managed to keep it together when I got into some of the finer points, which is progress, I guess.

In general I’m doing okay. Still sucks, but I think that part doesn’t change. My ability to focus on things is starting to come back and that’s helping a bit with the low key anxiety radiating the plate of to-do’s I’ve been ignoring the past 3 weeks.

The last time I went to Universal Studios they were all about their digital dinosaur prowess and I was all about their fancy Silicon Graphics workstations. There was a ride where ET said something almost like my name at the end. I’m sure not much has changed in the past 30 years. I’m taking a day next week to go find out.

today's challenge was entering my wi-fi password on a brother laser printer using only up down and ok buttons and i accidently pressed ok twice after the 14th character in the password and the whole thing reset also good since we were sitting in front of a somewhat busy Starbucks at the time and I typically prefer not to make a scene in public

Tell me about your pet insurance? Please and thank you.

save me from the listicle hell that is google search results A bouquet was sent to the house last week One of the cats found the bouquet The bouquet had lilies in it I'd rather not field another call about where to find $$$$ for an emergency vet bill (she's the sweetest and I hope she pulls through) (I don't know how she's doing but I'll find out when I get the total for the bill) ((there's another cat in the house and I want to make sure they're both insured moving forward)) with all due respect the month of may can go fuck itself
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Throwback Thursday is still a thing, right?

gpoy i thought the evidence of me as a pink bunny rabbit was lost to the sands of time i loved that teddy ruxpin i set that photo of me holding my Special Person Award as my background for this morning's status call and it was a hit that thing where you scan a bunch of photos where you only looked at the front and not the back and didn't think anything of the scan-the-back-of-the-photo-too feature so you get a fun lil gut punch when you find the note you wrote on the back of mom's copy of your 6th grade school photo. talking to the manager yesterday morning about needing work as a distraction and they were like 'i was the same way. it sucks.' and yeah

My sister–or maybe it was my BIL, I don’t know, last Thursday was a long time ago–mentioned something about a friend offering to take them to a rage room in a few weeks after things settled a bit and I pulled out my phone and said why don’t we do that tomorrow, and so we did.

Anyhow, here’s a lil video of me getting my implement of destruction stuck in a toaster and subsequently freeing it.

unmute for the commentary track from the peanut gallery if you can't find catharsis naturally store-bought is fine