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Hez<p>I COULD NOT HAVE PLANNED THIS: one of the people who answered the call to join my new Regency/ <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/DnD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DnD</span></a> hybrid side campaign is a longtime online acquaintance who it turns out happens to be an executive editor one of the Big 5 publishing houses, and her imprint publishes commercial non-fiction. I'm gobsmacked at this knowledge. My mother would be vibrating ten feet off the floor if she were still with us. Suddenly, I have a friend in the exact place I need one. 🥰What a discovery! <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/WorkJournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkJournal</span></a></p>
Hez<p>And lo, those I love &amp; respect shall know the authenticity &amp; heartfelt nature of my emails by my use of the phrase "Brava, my good bitch." <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/WorkJournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkJournal</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/YesISentThat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YesISentThat</span></a></p>
Hez<p><a href="https://ieji.de/tags/WorkJournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkJournal</span></a> -Turns out those dang kids upstairs don't go back to school until MONDAY, so I'm currently listening to a 3 hour sound bath on YT so I don't have to listen to them. It might be housekeeping chores instead of writing chores today. And I probably have some printing I could go do at the library. Tomorrow's plan is a neighbourhood walk followed by hot beverages and a brainstorming sesh with another writer pal. <a href="https://youtu.be/Md2CBLGdxeo?si=7uFP9SMwnbEn1htD" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/Md2CBLGdxeo?si=7uFP9S</span><span class="invisible">MwnbEn1htD</span></a></p>
Hez<p>So I guess my book doesn't get an epilogue then. Fuck all that work I did, right? It may have only been 3 pages, but they were particularly heartfelt pages and their loss feels somehow personal. How do other <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a> come back from this kind of disappointment? I'm fighting back tears. My manuscript was supposed to be clearing its last hurdles right now, and instead I got <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/kneecapped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kneecapped</span></a> like Nancy Kerrigan. My mojo's in the 🚽 <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/WritingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingLife</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/WorkJournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkJournal</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/NonFictionWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonFictionWriting</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/DataLoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataLoss</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/AssholeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AssholeSoftware</span></a></p>
Hez<p>Well fuck. <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibreOffice</span></a> seems to have eaten the Epilogue I wrote, which I know for a fact I manually saved multiple times, not to mention the autosave. On Sept 20th I had 3 pgs of an Epilogue written and now it is GONE. I am so full of annoyance right now. I've looked everywhere and I don't know how to get all that work back. Apparently I have no luck with anything that isn't <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> anymore. What a load of utter bullshit.🤬 I need to learn my lesson &amp; scrap LibreOffice entirely. <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/WorkJournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkJournal</span></a></p>
Hez<p>Recently discovered the incredible resource that is the <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/OpenScienceFramework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScienceFramework</span></a>, &amp; when I emailed support to ask if it was only open to credentialed folks or if <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/CitizenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CitizenScience</span></a> could find a home there too, I got an immediate, welcoming "Yes" that filled me with nerdy glee. Whether or not I get a big juicy publishing deal for my <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/NonFictionBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonFictionBook</span></a> on <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/MicrodoseStrainSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicrodoseStrainSelection</span></a>, at least I know my work might inspire others if I share it via the <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/OSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSF</span></a>. <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/WomenInPsychedelicResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInPsychedelicResearch</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/WorkJournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkJournal</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/YayScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YayScience</span></a></p>
Hez<p>Been struggling through some low moments of generalized impostor syndrome and not feeling understood by certain people in my life. I hate thinking I may have misplaced my trust or wasted my time. Grateful for the touchstone of my meditation practice in times like these, but sometimes a person just needs to vent. Or cry. Gonna have a bath &amp; cook something nice while I write. Maybe later I'll sing at the top of my lungs &amp; dance around the kitchen. Gotta chase these blues away somehow. <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/WorkJournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkJournal</span></a></p>
Hez<p>Starting to understand how unwise it is having friends as one's test subjects. I love these people, but boy are a lot of them unreliable (and unaware of how much I have invested in this project and in them giving their feedback in a timely fashion). I took a break for birthday week stuff and came back to start rounding up their data, but instead I'm on a huge struggle bus full of impostor syndrome and the fear that almost nobody actually gives a shit about what I'm doing except me. <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/WorkJournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkJournal</span></a></p>
Hez<p>I've been wondering about the psilocybin content of some of my older samples and I read about a German <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/psilocybin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psilocybin</span></a> home testing kit that sounds perfect for the job AND wouldn't you know it, I have a friend in Berlin right now. How rad it would be if I can somehow procure one of these <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Miraculix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Miraculix</span></a> kits for my <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/PsychedelicResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PsychedelicResearch</span></a>! <a href="https://shop.miraculix-lab.de/mir_de/psilo-qtest-multiple-applications.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shop.miraculix-lab.de/mir_de/p</span><span class="invisible">silo-qtest-multiple-applications.html</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/WorkJournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkJournal</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/MagicMushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MagicMushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/PsychedelicWellnessToolkit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PsychedelicWellnessToolkit</span></a></p>

Extremely buoyed by the positive feedback received from the first friend to read a short sample of my book. Tomorrow I'm showing my site to another friend and am hoping for the same. This feels like actual, real world progress and I feel awesome about it. #WorkJournal

Reader, she has no more 404s on her site! It's still not *beautiful* but it is nimble and has places for all the stuff I want to put there and all the links sitewide go where they are supposed to go. A few things still to complete in my punch list, but #ShroomChooser dot com is inching ever closer to being live! #N00bWebmasterProblems definitely demand #N00bWebmasterSolutions, like "when in doubt, just take a flamethrower to irksome #WordPress plugins." #WorkJournal

Back in February #Yoast recognized that "Since El0n Mu5k’s takeover of Twitter, many people have moved to the popular open-source alternative, #Mastodon," yet if we want Mastodon integration on our #WordPress sites, we still have to pay for #YoastPremium. How I love being expected to pay what is essentially an anti-N*zi fee just to get the profile I actually use integrated on my site. Gross, Yoast. Get your minds right. 💩 yoast.com/yoast-seo-february-7 #N00bWebmasterProblems #WorkJournal #birdsite #BS

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As we know, insanity is trying the same thing and expecting a different result, so yes I AM trying the updates yet again, and yes I CAN stretch the sleeves of this cardigan into a straitjacket. #WorkJournal

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I have no idea why the #WordPress updates keep failing. I'm working from a previous version of my site but it's still grinding to a halt every time I try to do the basic maintenance. No idea why shit keeps getting borked every time I try to update. No information is being given to me. Now flailing around in the dark trying to understand even the most basic first step to fix something I spent months setting up. How did this get so messed up? I'm getting demoralized & dejected. Ugh. #WorkJournal

A fairly common #ADHDProblem is that because of our #ExecutiveFunction issues, folks with #ADHD often don't know what "done" is supposed to look like on a given project or task, rendering most things an amorphous blob with no obvious avenues of attack. Book structure however, can just be googled, so I checked how many pages should typically be in a #NonFiction preface, introduction and chapter & I'm thrilled to find that I'm well over halfway through #writing each of those things! 🥳 #WorkJournal

FYI, you don’t have to be a participant in my #psilocybin #microdose #PsychedelicResearch study to share stories that will be helpful to the book I'm #writing! Tell me about a time when you *thought* you were taking a mild #MagicMushroom dose, but you definitely WEREN'T. How did things turn out??

(You can always DM if you'd prefer not to comment publicly, and your private info will of course be kept confidential if used in the final manuscript.) #PsychedelicWellness #ShroomChooser #WorkJournal

When you're feeling good about the number of #MagicMushroom strains you've been able to test for your book, and then you see one online [Canadian] dispensary that has a jaw-dropping *91* strains on offer. Good lordt. I thought I was making progress, but we might be here a while. Time to aggressively remind myself what my goals are and what my framework is with this #PsychedelicResearch before I get overwhelmed by what I logistically can't address yet. #PsychedelicWellness #WorkJournal #writing