Work in progress: Upping my wooden spoon game. Just finished the first round of sanding and wiped it down with some water to raise the grain.

Our favorite little spankee friend is gonna have nice surprise when she comes over next weekend.
#woodworking #spanking #kinkycrafts

I have made kitchen utensils! These are going to be a gift intended for actual kitchen use, but no denying that wooden spoons can be evocative to a spanko heart.

French walnut, both. My first time hand-carving a spoon. Which is why the spoon is so slim, because carving a spoon by hand using a spoon carver is FUCKING HARD WORK lemme tell ya.

Really pleased with the spatula, though.
#woodworking #spanko

My ongoing adventures in using Linux on the desktop landed me on Pop OS, and I must say I like it. A lot more of a "just works" vibe to the basics (as in, getting it installed with sound coming out of the speakers and whatnot), and I've been using it pretty comfortably for a few days now.

Never really stuck with using Linux for my main desktop because of one thing: The time and energy investment for trying a new thing was always just that little bit higher. And one of my #ADD traits is shying away from anything my brain thinks is too energy-consuming to get started, so that's always clashed. But that's all a lot better now, big distros have more welcoming interfaces and I know more things.

Also, the font rendering doesn't look quite as much like ass these days. Used to be a pretty big gap compared to Windows/MacOS on this one.

#linux #PopOS

Installing Ubuntu on a desktop PC for the first time in ages, because I don't want to look like a dork at my new job where they use it. And... well, let's just say having to manually add file paths to the bios boot menu just so the installer wouldn't crash filled me with an OVERWHELMING sense of familiarity.

Good to know some things just never change.

(You could argue that this is probably me doing something wrong trying to UEFI boot the thing and that's most certainly true because I've not used this shit outside of headless servers in years. You COULD also argue that it's 2023 and an installer you've successfully booted into shouldn't crash because a specific entry is missing from a list.)

Update on the neighbours' kid throwing the party that got out of hand the other night: They walked over and made the kid apologize to our faces, and insisted on paying for the (minor) damage to our fence when some drunk guests went "let's climb over".

Which is standard stuff, I guess. But it felt fucking awkward and I hate the fact that _I_ have to deal with feeling awkward when we really didn't do a god damned thing except trying to handle things reasonably.

Is there a trick to dealing with confrontation and walking away without feeling you did something wrong? Because I'm pushing 45 and I still haven't found it.