dx �heading back to the airport to return to buenos aires. lovely time here in cordoba, so glad i managed to visit
microdosing "i can save her" by spending time with girls who aren't really broken just lonely
i didn't get around to visit oniichan or nassty and maybe i forgot other people too. turns out 5 days / 3 full days isn't a lot.
a group of people behind me in the security queue is carrying 5 liters of coca cola bottles. i wish them luck
...they might succeed, this was the most lax airport security check ever for me. whole bags, didn't unpack anything, 250ml water bottle, the electric toothbrush that AEP thought was a screwdriver
today's flight is this 5 hour nonsense, which was cheaper. i think i'll stay on the plane the whole time but it totally counts as my first time visiting chubut. i got a window seat, at least
90% of the people left at comodoro rivadavia and i'm now witnessing cabin crew quickly cleaning everything. also they are refueling and we've been told we should remain in our assigned seats *without* the seatbelt. exciting stuff
refueling took 10 mins, the guy nearby is allowed to use the bathroom, co2 went down to 700, and a few new people started boarding. that was fun to watch
listening to a midwest emo playlist while on a plane was a terrible idea, i'm wearing a mask, it's hard to blow my nose like this
we're moving again, see you later!
first part of the flight: nothing, bored
middle of it: crying really hard
last part of the flight: getting really into buddhism
middle of it: crying really hard
last part of the flight: getting really into buddhism
"dx did you" i'm just vibing
oh hell yeah europeans had the DST change so i gained a slight competitive advantage at timezones (i have one more hour of posting things and having hope that some of my eu friends see it)
the path outside the main terminal of the ezeiza airport is really cute at night
(quick phone pic, i had a bus to catch but i would have loved to stay here for a bit longer)
no plans today, other than going to my therapist and failing to talk about how i feel about my dad because, like last week, i timed my travel to be somewhere else and not interact much with him
the whole thing about inheriting personality traits from your parents is fucked up imo. esp since if you work to change those traits you'll still see them in your parents, like "didn't i get rid of that already"
this is the more mature sounding way to talk about the problem but in practice i'm sometimes just a cat hissing at my own shadow
okay i'm going to galeria jardin, which is a place full of computer shops, partly because i love that place, partly because we need a less shitty wifi router here (it bottlenecks at 13mbit/s and we have 150mbit/s (somehow))
i also said hi to a guy i know who owns a shop there but i'm bad at chit chat so after a few words i got out of there
nearly all shops stock tplink only and afaik modern tplink routers are broadcom which can't be openwrt'd.
i found a very specialized networking shop and they had other brands like "lblink" which seems to have copied the branding of tplink, lmao
also: the feeling of being understood when talking moderately advanced stuff with someone from a shop. good shit.
at some point in my life my whole social life was one friend and galeria jardin
also it's within walking distance of retiro, through the good side of it. you walk through here and at the other end of the park there's the florida street, a very active very commercial pedestrian street
i think the thing about empanadas is their availability. it's Real Food that's about half as common as candy (for something about as common as candy there's alfajores)
seems that "pay with mercadopago" can mean three things:
1. scan their qr code and pay (you either enter the amount, or it integrates with their terminal)
2. do a completely normal (free) bank transfer (bank accounts here have user friendly aliases)
3. the mercadopago debit card
1. scan their qr code and pay (you either enter the amount, or it integrates with their terminal)
2. do a completely normal (free) bank transfer (bank accounts here have user friendly aliases)
3. the mercadopago debit card
honestly amazed they managed to pull off "go to a shop to buy something worth 1 usd, pay with free bank transfer, and the ux isn't shit"
anyway i just got home and apparently the 16 port gigabit switch i bought earlier today is managed oops. no one else had 16 port switches, anyway.
doing tourism in argentina includes upgrading the home network. be warned.
my parents thought it was nice how i bought a flag of argentina. hahaha. so naive.
they started suspecting something was up when i asked if there are laws against flag desecration here (the answer is yes and the law is very vague about it)
aaaaaaaa, 5 days left here, so much to do still
i just finished a job (some small website tweaks, unpaid) for a guy whose website i've been maintaining on and off since maybe 2006 (16 years, damn, time)
fitting for the whole theme of "visit argentina to reconnect with my past"
i did it today, i told him i'd do it yesterday, the deadline was last monday, i've known about this for months.
i've done shit like this so many times, and somehow he doesn't hate me. yeah i know, fucked up dynamics. but it helped me pay for therapy.
and i look at myself, at how much i've changed, and it's just funny to see how i'm still procrastinating chopping wood and carrying water
today's event: pride! in which we express how proud we are to be from argentina 🇦🇷. yeah. totally about that.
this march is so gay i have no idea in which direction i'm supposed to walk
aaaah so many feelings. i cried a bit. what is belonging. i kissed a boy. it kinda sucked.
how do normal het women handle kissing men with facial hair? that shit is like needles
he opened the conversation by showing me a kinda broken and wrinkly piece of paper that said something like "guess my age". he looked 20something, i guessed 40, it was 33
but yeah not a huge fan of going to a pride march alone. if i ever do this again i gotta be way sluttier and hold a "free kisses" sign
the march itself was pretty good! didn't see any cops. crowded as fuck but that's positive
even though i ended up wearing a mask most of the time because there was no space to walk between people and surely there's a limit to how much being outdoors can save your ass.
having pride as one of the last things i do here before i go back home (to europe) was a really good idea, just not in ways i expected.
checking what's left of my todo list there's stuff like "go to nordelta and find capybaras" but it is Unclear if capybaras succeeded in their invasion of the bourgeois or were kicked out, so, uh, i guess i'll try my best
june 2022 news 'Residents of the Buenos Aires neighborhood claim that the animals "shit the gardens and bite our dogs."' get better dogs, yours are clearly weak
the same article points out that they go out of the water and into class war during the cold months.
but it's no longer the cold months so the last paragraph helpfully lists a few locations where i could find them. there's hope. https://www.lavoz.com.ar/sucesos/volvio-la-invasion-de-carpinchos-en-nordelta-con-el-frio-y-ponen-trampas-electricas/
TIL schuko plugs are a thing in argentina, for devices between 10 A and 20 A, because the normal sockets (a hybrid of australian + europlug) are only rated for 10 A
on that note i mostly didn't need to use adapters, the main thing i use is this usb C adapter that has europlug and it just works everywhere.
i did need to commit some crimes to use the shelly plug (a wifi schuko plug, for measuring and toggling power)
but yeah there's now a cleaned up version of this for remotely powering my former desktop pc, which had been always on for the past 4 years for not very good reasons.
i'm aaalmost done doing all the network stuff at home. this "tourism" thing is a lot of work actually huh. i should be getting paid for this. imo.
Nudibranch Parfait@dx my wife really wants to see them and I can only think of Temaikén
@StarryTiger can you pet them there tho?
@dx no you can't :(
@StarryTiger cum 2 nordelta
@dx i like carpincho but not THAT much I just wanna pet them
@StarryTiger my parents are home
@dx their daughter is home