Walker Riley

make cheeseburger soup (it's a thing). Recipe called for 1/2# of hamburger. I threw a whole # in and it still isn't really enough. Not sure what the person who made that recipe was thinking....

I guess I'll be the one to say it. The next to last episode of Bleach was just too busy. Way too busy. I get they were trying to correct the bland ending in the manga, but this was a bit overcorrecting. It was really hard to follow what the hell was going on and where.

the fan spins but I really don't know if I see any appreciable difference. Suppose I'll know in a few hours. if the inside temp climbs rather than stays steady then it's helping.

A former friend moved back to town. Messaged her to say hi. Offered dinner to catch up. Just got a laughing face emote as a response. I'm assuming she has zero interest in reconnecting. Two way street and I've walked halfway down it.

Watched Helluva Boss S3E2. That was exactly the response I said would come out of Moxxie way back when S2 ended.

Is there a particular reason the devs don't bother with actual mini-game events in #FFXIV anymore? This year's halloween event is yet another variation on "run around and talk to people". Where's the haunted house pve where we have to solve riddles to get points? what happened to having fun?

My pellet stove is doing overtime this year. It's close to being cold enough that I have to fire up the furnace regardless. but right now I'm spending 7 bucks every two days to heat what would cost me 35 bucks every day with costs right now. Probably closer to 10 bucks with electricity.

I'm finding it harder and harder to care about #FFXIV when they pull stunts like this. Advertising 24h left on the event and then shutting the servers down during that 24h period is just asinine.

I'm looking on various art sharing websites I frequent and the number of artists that I've followed for years who just up and stopped posting is disheartening.

Welp. Mice again. Which means traps in the attic space again. I ain't dealing with them all winter like I did last year.

Looks like it's going to be a cold winter early this year. Fucking fantastic. House got real chilly overnight because I refuse to turn on the heat until the last minute. Plus side is sleeping under four layers of blankets is comfy cozy.

spent the day shredding more leaves and burning a whole lotta scrap wood and cut saplings and now all I can smell hours later is woodsmoke.

"As a child I watched my friends draw using references and grow as an illustrator. I see that happening again now..." No, you idiot, that's not what is happening. The people using LLM to generate images are not using references to draw. The aren't drawing at all!

Four hours of blowing, raking, and mulching leaves for my lawn to look exactly like it did when I started. Autumn can go fuck itself.

Man do I love paying two to four times as much as I did one year ago for basic utilities all because one fucking dipshit had a temper tantrum.

One year ago to the day I paid $3.299/g for #2 oil. Today I paid $5.899/g One fucking year, all because no one has a fucking spine to check one man's ego.

Hey, someone care to try and explain why the best way to level the SOLO JOB from 15 to 50 is by partying and doing dungeon runs? THE FUCKING SOLO JOB!? #finalfantasyXIV

So....cuttings died. suckers died. so now I've some sassafras seeds I purchased from a botonist down in PA. 9 are in wet sand in the fridge to go through their cold strat period. I'm going to do another few in pots and leave them outside all winter. MAYBE I'll have a sapling to plant soon.

Out of minor curiosity I looked up Otaku World to see if it even still exists. Not only does it still exist, but they reverted back to their pre 2000s website. Nostalgia x1000. Hardly any of the links work but it's a bit of pre net enshittification and I'm here for it. #anime

so I did not see my queen. The Formic may have killed her. No brood. but a few bees that were emerging. Maybe a quarter of bees I had two weeks ago. But...no queen cells either. Gonna give the hive a week before I write it off for the year. she could be hiding and recovering. #beekeeping

On one hand, I should buy oil now before the price goes any higher. On the other hand, if I wait until the midterms and the current admin is castrated, the prices should go down. On the other other hand, I don't think I can trust that is going to happen.

might only be able to do 1.25" thick limbs with my folk's little junky harbor freight chipper but it's nearly free wood chippings that I needed to get rid of anyways and my garden beds look 100x better with it.

The daily login bonuses were locally calculated as well further shedding light on just how badly Mistwalker lied to use about how hard it would be to make Terra Battle single player offline. About the only thing non-multiplayer they couldn't do offline if they had wanted was the pay-to-win store.

just one half hour of cutting wood and I'm sweating bullets and my stomach feels like I've not eaten in days. I know I'm not the young'un I used to be but this is a bit weird even for me.

Android forced another update on me today and now my phone is taking twice as long to charge. Coincidence? I don't think so.

I truly and honestly cannot believe I'm playing Terra Battle again on my phone of all things after so long. Thank you so much to Anzensan and Project Liminal Gate. Mistwalker, this proves you could have released it as a single player game at any time, you lying sacks of sack. #terrabattle

OMG...I just learned that a guy named anzensan just got Terra Battle running fully locally on Android devices. And I'm working now to get the thing running on my phone. One of the best mobile f2p games ever made, canned, and now revived. #terrabattle

Remember when Amazon did free 2-day delivery and didn't beg you to sign up for their shitty subscription service? And remember when 2-day delivery actually meant you got it in two days from hitting purchase and not whenever Amazon felt like shipping it?

So let me get this straight...the currency we get for beating the Crucible is used to buy beasts we almost certainly already have (and I have all of already). You guys really did not think this through very well. #FFXIV #finalfantasyXIV

spent most the day cutting and chipping several small trees. Super slowly opening up one corner of my property. Overgrown with junk ash and fir. I'll need someone to handle the tall ones for me, but it's getting there.

Dear tractor supply, harbor freight, home depot, lowes, etc. If you are going to cripple your website simply because I'm blocking ads and LLM then I'm not visiting your website or store.