More muttering about Tumblr

One thing I find immensely helpful about Tumblr is, in the dashboard and uhhh I think one blog theme the one that every new account has by default lately, you can press J or K to go down a post or up a post respectively. This is so useful, whether to skip a long post I'm not interested in (or have seen already) or to quickly skim a bunch of posts when I'm looking for Something but I can't remember enough to tell what if any tags it had, that I wish other sites had it. Pretty please! Tumblr dot hell is a trashfire but these keyboard shortcuts are so useful ok

Because I care entirely too much about things like this: I installed the XKit extension "Alternative Timestamps", which causes dashboard posts to have timestamps both absolute ("YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm") and relative ("X [minutes/hours/days/etc] ago"), and then went allllllll the way back to the first post with a timestamp on December 17th. Subtracting the 5 pages of December 18th posts so far, there were 21 pages (210 posts) of posts for the entirety of December 17th in my timezone (EST); this is more what I expect of not checking Tumblr for 8 hours on a typical day, and even then it's on the low end.

I have no idea if my Tumblr circle was disproportionately likely to boycott the blue hellsite, but it's plausible; I'm in a very fandom-heavy circle, and I have heard tell that there are rather a lot of people who use Tumblr for like, not fandom. Well, the nature fandom, I guess, but not, like, media fandom. The parts of Tumblr I do not intersect with are alien to me. But I would be deeply interested in how much of a dip Tumblr's traffic took yesterday.

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Also I really fucking need to go to bed because I have a 10 AM doctor's appointment to deal with all this fucking earwax and I would find it incredibly annoying to sleep through it.

And no, brain, it's 6.5 hours away, I am not pulling an all-nighter with the help of caffeine. No. If I have to choose between making the appointment and having any time at all to do things like shop for something to replace my old desk chair I will miss the easily-rescheduled honestly low-priority appointment.

Bleh.

Despite the title today hasn't been too bad; it's just that I'm currently a little cranky.

1. I missed that doctor's appointment, and when I finally got around to scheduling a new one the earliest afternoon spot was on the 28th. Eh, I won't die of earwax-clog, it'll just be annoying.

2. I got a new desk chair with working wheels! Woooooo! The ruts I accidentally dug into my hardwood floor won't get any worse!

3. ... but in the few days between when I got the chairmat and this new chair, the old chair warped the chairmat into the ruts in the floor. Ugh. UGH.

4. So mom and I went to Home Depot and got wood putty for me to fill the floor with, because clearly this has to happen, like, ideally several months ago but since that would cause a time paradox second best is today.

4b. We went to Michaels first, though, and I came across a candy mold shaped like pixelated hearts and I had to get it. Mmmmm, souls. Tasty and wriggly. I'm gonna look up a recipe for gummy candy and get food coloring and make Delicious Human Souls. Alas I think making a clear thing white is less feasible, so no monster souls.

5. And now I'm waiting for the first layer of wood putty to dry, and since it's in the floor in front of my desk I can't even play Runecape. Ugh. Uuuuuuugh. There was no good time for me to do this, though, so the least bad time is Right The Fuck Now.

6. I've got an alarm set to poke me in a bit over an hour, and if it seems dry enough I'll add another layer. Hopefully I'm not royally fucking this up, but if I am that's not the end of the world.

7. I am coming to you from my phone, where Dreamwidth doesn't have a mobile site but the way the desktop site appears on mobile is, like, functional. The text in this text box is an acceptable size. I can zoom in to poke links. Certainly not  much worse than the Glowfic Constellation, whose links are actually easier to tap without zooming in.

EDIT: 8. Correction to point 4b: turns out you totally can make white gummy candy. First recipe I've looked at calls for sweetened condensed milk.