things to think about during FR maintenance

I. 

Drama on art twitter: There was an artist who recorded a video of herself allegedly drawing Snoopy from memory. If you looked closely, you could see that she was actually tracing a faint outline under the paper. So of course she got called out for tracing. She then explained that she was tracing her own previously drawn art, and she was livid about being accused of “plagiarizing” her own work.

• Come on, though. If you post a video showing yourself tracing with no explanation, of course art twitter is going to go ballistic. Are you new at this internet thing? Or did you really think people wouldn’t notice?
• Even though it’s her own art, it’s a bit disingenuous to act like she did perfect inked lineart out of nowhere, when actually there was a whole process of drawing, erasing, correcting, etc. (Also, the inking was not “from memory.” She was tracing. However, she explained that the sketches that she was tracing were done from memory.) I get it though. She just wanted to do a cool little video for social media without having an entire symposium on her process.

II.

Fitbit is mysteriously docking around 500-1000 from every day’s step total for no reason, and it’s driving me up the wall. For instance, yesterday I got 22,223 steps, but it’s intermittently displaying as 21,555. I have no idea why. Sometimes it shows the correct total, but then it flips back. My step scores over the past year are consistently being docked, dropping three of my monthly averages below the 20K benchmark.

I’m hoping this is just a glitch on their end that gets fixed quickly. I know it doesn’t matter (I walked the amount I walked, regardless of what Fitbit says) but I liked my totals.

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I didn’t have as many thoughts during maint as I expected. That’s okay. Look, grubs!

edit (3 pm): I had a glass of water at lunch and then a medium Dunkin coffee and now when I walk I’m sloshing like a grub. Why don’t these guys have capsule?