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magnolia_mayhem
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I guess add "stung in the eye by a swarm of wasps" to my repitoir of insane life experiences.

Okay. No more faffing around with CSS until I get the backend working.

Feels like somewhere between 256 and 2 months

A well regulated economy, being necessary to the function of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear zaps, shall not be infringed

Tried my hand at using Hugin to create an HDR composite of a few off-exposure images.

On the negative side, the mall is completely lifeless, but that was also true in 2008

Sorry about the wild overexposure. I was playing around with the settings on my camera app.

Just got done walking around downtown Laurel, MS with my wife like we used to in highschool. It's amazing how beautiful the place is. It's barely changed since 2008; if anything, it's more beautiful now.

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I recently started the process of pulling all of my data from Google and sorting it into folders on my own hardware. This directory just fucking ruined me.

In 2015, after fostering kids for two years and watching kid after kid go straight back to horrible situations, my wife and I started the process of adopting our foster daughter. She'd been with us since she was two days old and things were finally coming to a close. The mother had been TPR'd and lost all eight of her kids. The process got far enough that we'd started calling her by her new name and I got myself pulled from an upcoming deployment.

We never adopted her. Bureaucrats decided that it would cost less to have a sketchy family adopt her and all seven of her brothers and sisters than us and the other foster families take her and them. They wouldn't even make it quick, as we had to keep taking her to these people for increasingly lengthy periods of time.

We fought with everything that we had, but even after we found that these people would be farming the siblings out to friends and pocketing the support payments, nothing could stop what had been placed in motion. Not even the original biological mother who'd lost the children somehow becoming a live-in housekeep for the adopting family put a dent in the plans.

When she finally left completely, so did we. I was placed back on the deployment and was given four days to prepare. My wife went back home to Mississippi.

Going through my old pictures from that time period is brutal. Across one row, it goes from baby pictures to deployment training. I was overseas a month that.

I recently started the process of pulling all of my data from Google and sorting it into folders on my own hardware. This directory just fucking ruined me.

In 2015, after fostering kids for two years and watching kid after kid go straight back to horrible situations, my wife and I started the process of adopting our foster daughter. She'd been with us since she was two days old and things were finally coming to a close. The mother had been TPR'd and lost all eight of her kids. The process got far enough that we'd started calling her by her new name and I got myself pulled from an upcoming deployment.

We never adopted her. Bureaucrats decided that it would cost less to have a sketchy family adopt her and all seven of her brothers and sisters than us and the other foster families take her and them. They wouldn't even make it quick, as we had to keep taking her to these people for increasingly lengthy periods of time.

We fought with everything that we had, but even after we found that these people would be farming the siblings out to friends and pocketing the support payments, nothing could stop what had been placed in motion. Not even the original biological mother who'd lost the children somehow becoming a live-in housekeep for the adopting family put a dent in the plans.

When she finally left completely, so did we. I was placed back on the deployment and was given four days to prepare. My wife went back home to Mississippi.

Going through my old pictures from that time period is brutal. Across one row, it goes from baby pictures to deployment training. I was overseas a month that.