Good idea, always helps me!


Oh no, I know how you feel! Me too.


Oh dear, sorry to hear you are having such a bad time! *Hugs* I hope your day off is good.


How awful for you, I hope you can get through this quickly. Perhaps they can give you something to help with the nausea.


Mothers are like that! Sorry to hear about this.

You think you have your finances all figured out and then...
- The car needs more fixing up before the next MOT (-£300)
- Your friends are planning your other friend a surprise birthday meal and spa day (-£100)
- You have to change the date for your son's birthday party, which means the deposit and the cost is due before the next payday (-£200)
- Universal Credit have decided that when you had an account with them two years ago, they overpaid you (-£550 but possibly payable in monthly installments)

All in one day

Oh no! That sucks.

Realizing I forgot which office in the closest city to me was my appointment.

I didn't know if it was one of the other.

At least I can call in the morning and find out.

I think Youtube has been having a stroke for the past week.
My feed is suddenly full of news channels, political podcasts, reaction channels, drama, general talking heads, gaming speedruns(?!) and videos I've watched years ago. I've already spent more time trying to get rid of that stuff showing up, but it seems that the options to select 'I'm not interested' and 'Don't recommend this channel' mean nothing at all because the same videos keep popping back up.

I think it's bitten by the same bug as all the other social channels + Google...

I don't even bother logging in at Youtube, or check the front page (I don't have an account, so I don't subscribe, either). I just look for videos within whatever area of interest it is, and if I like the general content from a video creator, I save the channel as a bookmark, and check for updates when I'm bored. Painfully old-fashion, but I just can't deal with another feed that sends me a lot of crap to doomscroll...

It has been a shit week; I'm glad it is over. Really it has been a shit two weeks, whatever.



As for YouTube, it is turning into another version of TikTok brain rot. I do have a membership with a channel. It is a sims channel that I've been watching for many years and the rest of them are mostly benign. LGR Birds, some music channels ( Clamed by Nature) and a few others. There is Caleb Hammer, but I always find it interesting to see how many ways people can screw up with money. It is also a reminder not to do said stupid things...

YouTube never sends me updates. I have them bookmarked and find new videos that way. I wouldn't go near the YT homepage with a 10-foot pole.

Well, I'm super interested in Geopolitics, nuclear things, and list channels all of the sudden. What a shitshow.
I'm reverting back to the good ol' way of Youtubing, too.

My eldest aunt got a staph infection while at work and is currently in the hospital undergoing treatment, along with my grandfather, who needed stitches in his eye brows attempting to feed her cat. My eldest and youngest uncles had to help in the car shuffle.

So yes, I have to put up with the fact the call to family this holiday season on Thanksgiving Day may have some technical challenges.

In other words... Please stand by.