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Oct. 17th, 2022 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaOn Friday I got the bivalent covid booster. It was the third mRNA brand, which I hadn't had before. I wasn't sure if I would get it, but my recent cold showed me that my immune system is also a delicate flower lol. My discord group reported regular side effects starting 6-8 hours after the dose, and needing the next day to recover, so I planned for the weekend, just in case.
Y'all. I was fine. The lymph node in my left armpit was a little angry yesterday, but other than that, nothin'.
So on Saturday, since I wasn't dead, we went to the corn maze. We got properly lost in one section, doing it twice, and that was really fun. Then yesterday I watched the Expanse with my discord, followed by Midsomer Murders, and wrapped the day up with Scream 2. And I finished a knitting project, sans blocking.
I get to do self-guided training for work, which we have access to LinkedIn's library, and there are TONS of topics. I did a whole bunch of videos on photography and video editing, Word and Excel, and this year I've added some WordPress-based videos to my queue. I've more or less abandoned my blogger site, being at least three years since I've posted anything, but a part of me DOES still want to keep a blog active. Because...
I keep getting stuck on the notion that while we absolutely should pay people what they're worth, for their knowledge and experience, putting everything behind a paywall is ultimately harming the community at large. (I also tried to think of this in terms of, say, the kind of academic science-y type paywalls that are so common and this applies there too). Like I saw an Instagram post about the creation of a menswear suit from period patterns, and yes I am absolutely interested in learning about it, but not enough to sign up for a subscription service, and certainly not when that service is headed by someone I absolutely do not want to give any of my limited budget to. So sorry but no. There's so much to say here regarding classism and racism and a big enormous pool of discrimination and exclusion, and I just can't with that today. Let's just say it's all shitty, and it's all aimed at keeping "less-than" out. And as someone on an axis of less-than, I'd like to give those attitudes a big double bird flip.
I want to keep up a blog to share the things I've learned, things that I AM learning, and I want to do it in a format for people who hate watching videos (like me). But there's still so much WORK that goes into these projects and documenting them, and it's all very intimidating. Not intimidating, overwhelming. So much WORK. And I'd really like to avoid doing any ad-allowing, because that's also annoying as fuck.
Ugh my thoughts got away on me, that's what I get for writing at work.
Y'all. I was fine. The lymph node in my left armpit was a little angry yesterday, but other than that, nothin'.
So on Saturday, since I wasn't dead, we went to the corn maze. We got properly lost in one section, doing it twice, and that was really fun. Then yesterday I watched the Expanse with my discord, followed by Midsomer Murders, and wrapped the day up with Scream 2. And I finished a knitting project, sans blocking.
I get to do self-guided training for work, which we have access to LinkedIn's library, and there are TONS of topics. I did a whole bunch of videos on photography and video editing, Word and Excel, and this year I've added some WordPress-based videos to my queue. I've more or less abandoned my blogger site, being at least three years since I've posted anything, but a part of me DOES still want to keep a blog active. Because...
I keep getting stuck on the notion that while we absolutely should pay people what they're worth, for their knowledge and experience, putting everything behind a paywall is ultimately harming the community at large. (I also tried to think of this in terms of, say, the kind of academic science-y type paywalls that are so common and this applies there too). Like I saw an Instagram post about the creation of a menswear suit from period patterns, and yes I am absolutely interested in learning about it, but not enough to sign up for a subscription service, and certainly not when that service is headed by someone I absolutely do not want to give any of my limited budget to. So sorry but no. There's so much to say here regarding classism and racism and a big enormous pool of discrimination and exclusion, and I just can't with that today. Let's just say it's all shitty, and it's all aimed at keeping "less-than" out. And as someone on an axis of less-than, I'd like to give those attitudes a big double bird flip.
I want to keep up a blog to share the things I've learned, things that I AM learning, and I want to do it in a format for people who hate watching videos (like me). But there's still so much WORK that goes into these projects and documenting them, and it's all very intimidating. Not intimidating, overwhelming. So much WORK. And I'd really like to avoid doing any ad-allowing, because that's also annoying as fuck.
Ugh my thoughts got away on me, that's what I get for writing at work.
