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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.
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why are there so many pretty girls in 🇦🇷? where is that country even?
i was thinking about that during pride but it turns out >90% of people carrying 🏳️⚧️ flags were trans men, which makes sense because they are unclockable otherwise
aw shit i told my parents i want to go see capybaras and they got all helicoptery and bad vibes about it and i guess now they are coming with me?
fucked up that because i'm a really cute girl they worry more about me and i get less freedom
lmao dad said The Line "when you grow up you'll see how things are" dude i'm already a grown-ass woman and i'm trying to live my best life here and that includes not living in pointless fear of imagined threats
good morning! last full day here. still a lot left to do. there's a train strike. fun
hey i'm going to the pharmacy does anyone need anything
the pharmacist remembers me lmao
argentina: where you can buy any drugs you want*
*except anything that is scheduled, anything that affects the central nervous system, anything that stopped being available because the importer went bankrupt, anything that isn't currently available because of import limitations
the central nervous system rule is, uhm, poorly applied. like, i just bought cabergoline, a dopamine d2 receptor agonist.
tourism
okay okay gonna do some touristic activities like trying out the local food. this is candy.
i think i spent less than 10 usd on my transit cards for public transport this past month, and that includes a few (but not all) airport buses. still have about 1.4 usd in there, enough for taking the train to the main city 20 times.
i went to nordelta (or, at least, the public parts). didn't find capybaras tho :(
"31 de octubre, dia de la neurodiversidad, porque [...] existe un cerebro igual a otro"
"october 31, neurodiversity day, because [...] two brains are the same"
(the [...] is a "no")
i got prettier pics but in the camera aaaand i gotta pack my big suitcase ;_;
good morning. slept like shit because mosquitos. they got inside my bed net. those fuckers. not going to miss that part of argentina
gonna miss a bunch of other things, like most days being sunny days in spring, or talking to strangers, or empanadas being omnipresent.
hiiiii from airplane wifi. i paid 10 eur for "chat only". twitter/mastodon not included. iodine is still agressively throttled. mosh over udp works tho, so i'm using bitlbee.
whoever designed this wifi is an asshole (did an excellent job)
why are they so strict about mask policy (no valves etc) if they are gonna serve food and let everyone be maskless for 30 minutes
feeling so clever for bypassing some restrictions on the airplane wifi when actually i paid 10 bucks for the privilege of using poor quality internet, that is worse than no internet. i could be reading a book
hello europe! it's fuckimg cold
omg they have huel rtd in the whsmith of madrid airport zone C. finally, some good fucking food
being in spain is weird because i still speak primarily spanish but i can't just go to someone and say "che,"
terrible news i'm already hearing people speaking german :(
landed. i think this trip helped me be more at peace with germany, because i found a home, a wife, and friends here (more than one per city). argentina is comfy but lacking important stuff.
my spoken english feels really weird lmao. like i got twice the usual spanish accent
also lol, yesterday i get out of the arrivals part of the airport to take my mask off to kiss my wife and i get a Warm Welcome to germany with two plainclothes cops going around randomly questioning people
not much happened, they asked for my passport and made a phone call asking stuff about me and took several minutes to return it. then they seemed to follow us around? just general creepy vibes.
at least they spoke okay english, unlike the average cop. also some spanish, but not enough to handle a spanish reply. lol.
anyway! the trip is over and my three months of vacation are nearly over too, going back to work on tuesday. might still use this thread to post some pictures.
so, as planned, i left the cute thinkpad x250 i've been using for a month back in argentina, as a gift for my mom, but i didn't have enough time to remove the linux partition