...this is the beyond ;)

Music rec from tumblr (tumbl I can't relocate saying this was a classic Murderbot song):

Change My Life, Ben Thornewill

So stand as tall as you can
And if you’re scared
That’s okay, it just means that you care
It just means that you care

send your signal home (bring me back to you), by Crowned_Ladybug

SecUnit doesn’t dignify me with an answer, which I suppose is still better than it sulking. This includes its regular form of sulking such as not listening to me or initiating a shutdown cycle, and the new kind it seems to have recently invented which includes shutting itself in a bathroom and acting like I exist exclusively in the ceiling for the sake of more conveniently arguing with me.

*system is supposed to automatically update the status of change requests
*system is not doing that

*there is no way to manually update the status
(*probably I am not supposed to manually update it even if there was a way?)

*I notified someone of this issue last Thursday
*uh, I may have mentioned it wasn't a crisis?

*I'm not actually sure if it's a crisis or not
*I sort of hoped the problem would resolve itself

*it has not
*also no one has gotten back to me about the issue

*currently using the 'pretending the status has updated' strategy and proceeding as if it has
*this will teach me not to use the phrase 'no rush' in my emails, lol

Looking back at yesterday's thrilling saga post, it occurred to me that it had not exactly been clear.

My intent was to say 'wow, I heard that song and it made me realize how much I missed hearing songs I knew, which motivated me to do a thing I've been meaning to do for ten days and which has already improved my daily joy; thanks, song!'

What I actually said was 'I heard a song I knew on a radio station, and that motivated me to move the radio so I could listen to a different station'

(not EXACTLY the same vibe, I now realize)

TO CLARIFY: WHAT A GREAT SONG!

1. nostalgia factor, heck yeah

2. when I get a song stuck in my head, it's usually about three lines of the song -- that song only has three lines, so I've got the WHOLE THING, which is great

3. I am listening to the radio right now!

Ah, the joy writing about magical kittens taking naps on a caturday! BEST DAY.

I've been trying out ellipsus for writing during this Battleship season, and I like it! I'm sure I can come up with some more specific thoughts...

*you can change the background color scheme to be a soft rainbow, so that's definitely a plus (there are other options too, I just like the rainbow a lot)

*there's a timer! I've only used it once, and immediately forgot about it until a little pop-up window congratulated me for writing 114 words, and I was like 'what? OH right, the timer!' which is great for me, because a lot of times I get distracted by timer countdowns and they turn out to be more stressful than helpful

*there's a focus mode! I've never used it, because I prefer being distracted

*I genuinely like that my writing only goes in about half the width of the screen -- it really reduces the 'scary blank page' effect for me, and makes me less worried about what my words are doing (similar to the benefits of writing on a phone for me, just way easier since it's on my computer and I have a full keyboard and it's easy to move blocks of text around)

*can't speak to its ability to handle really long files (internet says it's not great, similar to the issues gdocs has with anything over 10,000 words), but it does very well with the low thousands

*it's not full of a bunch of random other docs and work stuff like my gdrive, so that's a big plus for me!

*yes, I'm absolutely going to see how work-appropriate I can make it look to see if I can get away with using it once they drag us back to the office, though I've previously had better luck using popped-out email windows or writer for that (writer has the benefit of typewriter sound effects!)