I checked my feed on Mastodon, of all places, and found that my beloved Romhacking.net is closing. Ars Technica has a nice writeup on it as well. It is a real bummer, a real shame. I consulted the site multiple times a week, sometimes multiple times a day, looking for new translations of retro games (mostly NES/SNES, but some PSX as well). And going forward it will stay up, for a while, but eventually become read-only, per the post. This is the end of an era.

CWs: food, alcohol, errands

We usually do errands on Saturday, but thankfully didn’t need to get up for anything. We were going to see Inside Out 2 today, but ended up pushing it back to tomorrow, since the timing didn’t entirely work out with the other stuff we needed to do. We actually didn’t need to do that much today, compared with normal Saturdays. I did a couple of hours of Latin this morning before we got going, which was good, since I have a total of 7 to get done this weekend, and 5 left for tomorrow (Sunday).

CWs: food, alcohol

I’ve kept saying this phrase lately, that we’re “making lemonade from lemons,” so let’s go with it. We have overall had a nice weekend, but it was not without its ups and downs. We have been planning for months now to have my parents visit and see us for a few days. We basically booked tickets to the Colorado Rockies (baseball team) “Star Wars Night” game for ourselves and my parents, and built a trip around that to have them come see us. They were very excited to see us, and likewise for us. We have made sort of a tradition of going to the Star Wars Night games each year since about 2018, with few exceptions, and my parents went with us last time back in 2022, so why not again? I had a busy week leading up to it, and was very grateful to have Friday and Monday off.

CWs: sickness, covid, food

αὐτονοσοκομία, “self-care for the sick” (why not; I mashed up αὐτο- auto- “self” + νοσοκομία nosokomia, “care for the sick”)

So. After almost 4.5 years of avoiding it, my spouse and I contracted COVID, each for the first time. They started feeling ill last Sunday (not almost a week ago, but the Sunday before that), and were likely contagious as of around last Tuesday. My spouse went to urgent care since they were not feeling well at all, and was told “oh, it’s allergies” and prescribed an allergy medication and sent home. No COVID test or anything (really?!?!). Last Wednesday they were also feeling awful, and same with Thursday. I started feeling not great last Wednesday, had a rough night that night, and woke up Thursday to go to work (our office day, once per week). Got to the office, started setting up my laptop and such, and got a text from my spouse: “I think you should come home.” Uh oh. My mind immediately went to, “oh, they tested positive for COVID.” And sure enough, they responded that they took a test not long after I left, and it was positive. So, since I spend most of my time with my spouse, there was a super nonzero chance that I would test positive as well, and I didn’t have a test on hand in the office.

Last updated 28 Nov 2024

I’ve been collecting links on Classics topics for years. Lexica, texts, language learning resources, &c. &c. And I would love to share it with y’all. I have a lot of links in my bookmarks, many of which are probably dead, but for this post I’m going through and curating a list of the best links I have found. I’ll try to split it up by category as well as I can.

I’ve been wanting to write a post on this for awhile, inspired both by my friend Gersande’s post on the subject, as well as one that inspired them. So here’s my attempt, of whatsoever quality it may be (qualiscumque sit). I’ll probably add to this over time!

I need to do more with this, but I’m mostly just making an update so the “read more” function works a little better.

It apparently pulls the first 3 paragraphs, and it’s pulling the whole entry somehow. Hopefully this fixes it.

CWs: food

We had Juneteenth, 19 June 2024, off of work for a holiday. So it made for an interesting week, broken up into two halves of two days of work each. It was nice having the day off; we mostly did errands and such around the house, and had a lazy morning. Then two more days of work, which mostly went OK. I’m happy it’s Friday when I’m writing this. I’m listening to good music and relaxing. Hung out with my spouse for the evening, and we hung out with the kitties too. Lyra was kind of a fireball for a long time, but she’s calmed down mostly.

“20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE…”

I have never watched Max Headroom before. It’s always been something on the periphery of my awareness, and of course I’m fairly familiar with the infamous Max Headroom TV signal hack. But I never saw the real thing until very recently. I just finished 1x05, “War.” I’ve watched it very slowly and hadn’t resumed it until yesterday, as I’d been busy with Millennium and other stuff.

CWs: horror, fictional violence, sexual assault

No, this is not a Chrono Trigger post. I just finished watching through the series Millennium. I remember coming across it as a kid when it came out (~1996), and enjoying the idea, since it was a nice companion piece to The X-Files and by the same creator, Chris Carter. But the show had a darker agenda, going to sometimes much stranger places than the latter show. I remember Lance Henriksen starred in it as the protagonist, Frank Black (what a name!), and I didn’t remember much else about it. I dimly remembered that Terry O’Quinn, later of Lost fame, was in it as well, but I didn’t remember what role he played or anything. I hadn’t thought about it for years.

in transcursu, “by the way, cursorily” (lit. “in the running through, in a cursory mention,” from transcursus, -us, m., ultimately from the verb transcurro, -ere, “to run through”)

I really like that phrase. In reading Latin letters recently, I came across it for the first time; it is a fun synonym for the older, one-word expression obiter, “by the way, in passing” (often seen in the phrase obiter dicta, “things said in passing/on the way”). And I wanted to write something quick, basically, raptim (“in haste”), for y’all.