Dylan You Softly Thomas

@DylanTheThomas@swingset.social
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Admin of the Swingset.Social instance!

* Host of Life on the Swingset, The Podcast

* IT Project Management & Desktop Systems Engineer
* was a BBS sysop in the 90's take my ascii smileys from my cold dead fingers

I follow instance admins, and instance admins are welcome to follow me! Sympathetic hugs available on request.

Pronounspronoun.is/he/him
Podcast?www.lifeontheswingset.com
Sexuality?Polysexual, Queer
Relationships?Open, honest, and with time and patience perhaps once again... plentiful.
🫵YOU are gay
Less "ew why do you use windows" more offering to help with the transition to Linux when the person mentions switching (and not bugging them)

I've been a denized of our fair internets (not just the web) since just before the 90s and since I started aging out of "the kids lingo" I prided myself on keeping current / keeping up with trends, meme culture, and lingo, and every so often I lose the thread (skibidi honestly caught me by surprise) but I catch up quickly, and I don't make it cringe.

However, I may have hit another moment and need to be humble and wonder... maybe I just lean in to ye olde internet speak instead of keeping up.

So raise your hands (hands),
if you're a sinner like (sinner like) me,
raise your hands (hands),
if you're a sinner like (sinner like) me,
me
me
me
me
me
sinner like (sinner like) me
me
me
me
me
me
sinner like (sinner like)...
she's literally me

So like... I was desperately trying real hard to estimate times, but without knowing speeds that was impossible, and because of the -45minute arrival estimate, plus the timezone glitchiness, it resulted in Tonia arriving an hour early because I arrived within the original arrival window, assuming the destination time was in central timezone...

but I was figuring this out WHILE IN INDIANA IN EASTERN TIMEZONE, WHILE TRAVELLING THROUGH AND FLIPPING TO CENTRAL TIMEZONE WITHOUT KNOWING IT WTF

(3/3)

Strike 2:
Amtrak's app and tracking site seemed to have changed my departure and arrival times for my return trip changed while I was on the way TO my travel destination (hello Massachusetts!) AND... the arrivaltime on the return trip changed by -45 minutes when I was already on the train for my return trip

Strike 3: While entering Indiana I had an existential temporal crisis when attempting to let Tonia know when I was arriving because I don't Amtrak often.

HOW LONG ELKHART 2 CHICAGO ON TREN?

Ok so the thing that I was babbling about here...
https://swingset.social/@DylanTheThomas/115684351758115919
... was yes, regarding timezones in Indiana, but it's also about travelling on Amtrak, and having someone around who is willing to pick up from a destination station, but from the perspective of someone who is at tempting to let that person know (hi @ToniaThomas!) what time to be there around.

Strike 1:
Amtrak's app AND site don't list timezones in departure or arrival times

(1/3)

there are many reasons to have feelings about indiana.

I HAVE FEELINGS ABOUT INDIANA RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I DONT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK TIMEZONE I AM IN BECAUSE IT CHANGES LIKE COUNTY TO COUNTY UNLESS THE GROUNDHOG SEES ITS SHADOW OR GETS PARDONED THEN IT GOES BY ZIP CODE OR SOME SHIT I DONT KNOW I HAVE BEEN INDIANA ADJACENT MY WHOLE LIFE BUT HAVE NEVER FIGURED IT OUT IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE EASTERN EXCEPT SOMETIMES IT ISNT OR SONETIMES IT IS FOR A WHILE THEN ISNT HOW DO I KNOW WHEN I ARRIVE HOME AAAAAAA

I f'n love brats.