Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 893 , Wednesday 08/04/2026

Wednesday has been a very mixed day.

Up just after 5am after a really rubbish night where I could not get warm or find a spot that was vaguely comfortable!

I lay in bed until Mrs S got up at around 6am, then made us breakfast.

I did what chores I could that didn’t involve too much stretching or bending.

The biggest news of the day is that I have joined a gym - our local leisure centre was doing a ‘Get healthy’ promotion which one could get by going on a guided tour - it’s a really good deal, at just over £3 a week. The facilities aren’t the best you have ever seen but they are not the worst either & to be honest I don’t need all the fancy kit - all I need is a treadmill, bike & eventually the use of the onsite swimming pools.

The guy who showed us around was really friendly & he was super supportive of me needing one on one sessions - at least for the first few.

So just waiting on a date for my induction session.

Spent the afternoon de-stressing & messing with the configuration of my linux MBP - which I have christened ‘Janus’.

Final Thoughts.

I’m quite pleased with myself for facing my various demons & getting the gym membership sorted, now all I have to do is attend!

My leg is feeling much better tonight, hopefully I’ll be back to normal by the w/e!

I discovered that my favourite Mastodon Tooting platfor is Mona on my ipad - it allows me to do everything I want to with the minimum of fuss & configuration.
That said I have now got a Mastodon client on my Linux box, but none of my text shortcuts are setup there so it will be a while before I use it for more than browsing.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
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Good evening Squirrel Fans.

I has to be said that as I made my way to the local gym that I joined today thoughts not dissimilar to tonight’s quote wandered thru my mind :-

“He’d learned in recent days, though, that rather than drown in uncertainty it was best to surf right over the top of it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

Right off to bed - I know that I have a load of toots to catch up on but I am utterly bushed!

I’ll catch you fab folk on the other side!

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you’re well & safe! 😊🫶🖖

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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 892 , Tuesday 07/04/2026

Tuesday started at around 07:30.

Mrs S was off to the office so it was a nice quiet day!

It’s been a really sunny day & after Iunch I decided to fight the door demons & get some gardening done!

As I was digging up a rather chunky weed I turned to leaver it out of the ground & felt something go ‘twang’ in my leg - then the pain hit - a severe ouchy moment!

I hobbled around putting stuff away & by the time I got back inside I could limp reasonably well so I don’t think I’ve done any serious damage. It is however painful!

Having failed miserably at the gardening I decided to do a little more with my newly linuxed MacBook & discovered Kubuntu! The answer to all the wifi problems as the installer allows one to use an Ethernet cabled connection for the install! Also it has a lot more bright & shiny toys & gizmos! So once more I wiped & rebuilt the MacBook!

Final Thoughts.

Well today was a mixed bag!

I’m supposed to go for a tour of the local swimming baths - to qualify for reduced membership - tomorrow but I might have to defer it if my leg is still gammy!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

Good evening Squirrel Fans.

Tonight's quote just tickled my fancy :-

“*The disc's greatest lovers were undoubtedly Mellius and Gretelina, whose pure, passionate and soul-searing affair would have scorched the pages of History if they had not, because of some unexplained quirk of fate, been born two hundred years apart on different continents. However, the gods took pity on them and turned him into an ironing board** and her into a small brass bollard.

**When you're a god, you don't have to have reasons.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

Right off to bed, it's been a long and painful day!

I’ll catch you fab folk tomorrow!

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you’re well & safe! 😊🫶🖖

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Oh Nuggan’s holey nuts!

In a fit of sun driven motivation I went out into the back garden to start bringing it back into something like tidiness & I’ve just had something go ‘twang’ in my thigh! Much pain initially but it’s easing off somewhat now, I think I might just have sprained a muscle or something.

Needless to say back in my chair sittin & sippin my afternoon coffee now. Hopefully whatever the twang was it will be sorted by morning.

And people wonder why I have door demons! 😬

#TheMammutMoves

#MorningAll & #TZAG G’day Squirrel Fans, hope I find you bright eyed & bushy tailed!

Well the sun has obviously had a good Easter break - a bright start to the day with the high forecast to be 17º C!

Mrs S is back in the office today so a quiet start to a short ‘working’ week.

I plan to have a peaceful day & catch up with myself after all the peopling of the last couple of weeks.

Cashew later Peeps, have a fabulously nutty day #Today ! 😊🫶🖖

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Good evening Squirrel Fans.

This quote came to mind as I struggled manfully with trying to persuade an Apple T2 MacBook Pro to run Ubuntu as it’s sole OS :-

“You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen.”
Douglas Adams — Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Right off to bed, it’s been a busy day & I am, for want of a better description, utterly shagged!

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you’re well & safe! 😊🫶🖖

#WeirdFolks #SquirrelsOfMastodon #TheMammutMoves

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