rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]

aspiring enby, probably AuDHD. I Don’t Know What I’m Doing, and that’s okay.

Read the Gender Accelerationist Manifesto: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/vikky-storm-the-gender-accelerationist-manifesto

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Cake day: August 15th, 2023
  • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.nettoHistory@hexbear.net•Dongfeng missiles - New General Megathread for the 18th-20th of October 2024English
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    24 days ago

    it’s me again, with another rant

    Weather Stripping.

    Holy fuck I hate this stuff. You go to the house store, and you look at like 50 different options for the bottom of your door, and you realize that you need to know exactly how many atoms wide your damn front door is if you want good clearance, ok that one’s on me.

    But then you see the kind you got last year and you think to yourself “that one never really worked that well and it kinda started falling apart pretty quick” so you decide to take a chance and get one that looks like it might last a bit longer. You know you’ll have to cut it to length anyway, since that’s what you do with stripping.

    So you finally get around to trying to install it, it’s cold, it smells like allergies outside, and despite the fact that the base of the stripping you bought matches the depth of your door (thank fuck) AND the width appears to match too, you still have to hammer it on because it’s very tight. And since your partner is busy making breakfast because you insisted on doing this by yourself so you could “get it out of the way” you struggle. And… well, turns out it’s too wide. It’s really hard to get on, and get off, and so now you’re trying to use fucking garden shears to cut this thing to length…

    Apparently, the correct tool for this is a hacksaw. Every year we do this, we forget to get a hacksaw. So I use garden shears. Random scissors. Anything but the rotary tool. I have to take it off to cut it. At this point my partner has come to help because I am clearly agitated, lol (and coffee is dripping anyway).

    Okay, so despite the fact that this weather stripping is from the same brand as the previous one, the holes don’t line up. So I have to make new holes in the door. No problem… I take it off (ow btw, it was on very tight), cut it shorter, put it back on, hammer it for several minutes while making sure it doesnt slip off further in, but because I’m sitting on my ass on a tile floor I can’t get enough pressure to actually get the screws to catch. I am too stubborn and angry to put a drill bit on and try to do this right, so I kinda just grab the door handle with one hand and press with the other. It works.

    Time to test. The stripping now makes the worst sound imaginable when we open the door. It is the Bad Noise. I am utterly spent today already and now I’m being goddamn triggered by my own front door.

    I hate weather stripping.

    Edit: OK look I framed houses for like 8 months, it was easier than this as far as finnickiness goes. Maybe next time it’s better just to get someone who actually knows what they’re doing.

  • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.nettoHistory@hexbear.net•Dongfeng missiles - New General Megathread for the 18th-20th of October 2024English
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    25 days ago

    I decided to try to make some music tonight, don’t really know why. After getting frustrated for a while, I realized that the big thing holding me back was trying to use a keyboard and mouse to input notes and rhythms. This probably sounds super obvious to everyone, but like … as soon as I grabbed a guitar, I was able to come up with a chord progression & pattern in like less than a minute. And a bit of a silly little melody, too.

    I thought I was unable to make music anymore, lol. I didn’t even record the guitar (for the chords, I wanted more of an electronic vibe), I still entered the progression with mouse clicking, but just having that contact with a playable instrument and suddenly I was a musician again.