Back into the regular stuff! today’s deck is The Black Cat Tarot.
I need you understand something, I love this deck so much, so so much. I don’t even care if the backs aren’t symmetrical, I need to add it to regular rotation.
Today’s reading is bringing portents of prosperity thanks to learning from past mistakes.
GOD I hope it’s true.
I am so disoriented dude.
As someone that likes routine but sucks at schedules, I tend to ground myself with things being on certain days or certain times. One such routine by now is “post a blog entry before sleeping”, and as such, sleeping is how I tend to set mentally that a day has passed.
So if I sleep a lot in the span of 24 hours I lose track of which day I’m at anymore.
Then again, the last two entries were posted within like 12 hours of each other, so…
Basically after crashing out from returning, I woke up, relized I don’t have internet, ate outside, went to Karaoke for a bit, returned, internet came back, went back to sleep. THEN I woke up again, Karaoke again, and here I am… again. It sounds like two days, but it’s less than 24 hours.
Anyway, let’s take it from the top with the internet.
Turns out I paid at the right time because checking the mail I got, the bill had a notice of “if you don’t pay on the 14th we’ll cancel your contract” and I already have one ISP that cancelled a contract, I’d rather not run out of ISP options, thank you.
It also said “if you pay after 9PM service might not be reestablished until the next morning”, but I had no internet, so I assumed I read wrong and they meant 9AM, especially since the customer support hours start at 9AM.
Surprise! restarting the modem and router fixed that, but I didn’t realize it until I was almost asleep. Imagine getting BTFO’d by the most basic IT thing like that.
Internet, or any service being cut off is a trigger for me. The reason is that coming from Venezuela there wasn’t any guarantee that a service cut would return… at all, really.
Power might be gone for a week on half the country because there was an iguana on the power lines (legitimate excuse the president tried to push, I’m not even remotely joking), water might be gone because the town uses a singular water pump station that’s older that some grandparents, the internet might be gone because someone stole the cables for copper again.
So I have it ingrained in my very BONES that if the internet is gone it might legitimately never come back. When I left the country my parents’ house was without internet for like six months by then.
Speaking of water, I actually solved/discovered a minor thing. Lately I’ve had an error pop un my shower’s heater where it shuts off and I need to turn it back on again, forcing me to take very short showers that feel like I’m playing warioware.
Today (that is “after the second sleep ‘today’”), I actually paid half attention to it when it turned off and saw it threw a specific error, 161.
Error 161 is basically “the pipes are very cold and the heater is going into overdrive and that’s bad for the whole system”. The solution I found was to start the heater at like 35 degrees and THEN turn it up.
And it worked, in fact, I did notice that today the 39 degrees I leave the shower on was a bit colder but more stable, like it wasn’t overheating due to cold pipes and such.
In the first Karaoke run I was trying a pop filter I got for the mic, but stopped using it because it messed up its range.
In the second one I was experimenting with pitch-shifting songs to be more comfortable and I definitely wanna learn more how to do that. The main obstacle is a combination of too much muscle memory and lack of trust in myself.
Basically when I catch the difference I can adjust, but because I’m so used to the song within a specific pitch it feels “wrong” and I get distracted.
It definitely helps with all the songs with which I feel stiff though. “Stiff” in this case referring to a very specific thing where I cannot go as high as the song my require so I basically push a whole octave lower but the result is that I’m uncomfortable with the low end instead.
It’s very specific, but it’s one of those feel sorts of things I’m starting to identify.
I’ve been singing a lot more lately and I wonder how much of that is the excitement with the new mic and how much is that the recital is coming up and I wanna keep myself in shape.
Speaking of shape, definitely wanna get back into the gym. The cold weather and walking less has me… honestly not fatter, I might honestly be weighing a bit less from all the sleeping, but like… flabbier, I guess.
I’ve also run out of breath when singing, though that one’s less of the “did nothing was left panting” kind and more of the “got to excited, did too much” kind.
Monday is looming over the horizon and with it all the stuff I left aside before the trip and I’m trying not to feel too overwhelmed about it.