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sleep & exile

Oh man I really was super tired. I overslept until 9:55 am. For perspective, I pretty much always wake up at 8-something. In this work-from-home era, I’m getting consistent, adequate sleep for the first time in my life. It’s so good. It means I generally don’t need to sleep in, even on weekends. Occ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 45) - Jan. 9, 2026

happy new workweek

BACK TO…THE WORKWEEK UGGHBLUGGGH My head hasn’t been properly in the game since before Christmas. On New Year’s week we only worked Monday-Tuesday, which is the perfect amount of time to try and re-orient, fail, and then go back to vacation. But now we’re back for real, so I gotta get my head back o...

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Achaius (Lvl. 45) - Jan. 6, 2026

e for elevator

Out of curiosity, I was browsing preschool/kindergarten readiness checklists. Obviously BB is not nearly there (he’s only 2 and a half), but I was curious to see how he stacks up. He actually meets a lot of the cognitive milestones. He can count to 20 (and backwards from 10). He can count objects wi...

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Achaius (Lvl. 45) - Jan. 4, 2026

albino cub challenge (coda)

On December 27, at long last, we completed the challenge. By now, the den is mostly back to normal. But the real question is, out of 107 moms and 156 cubs, who are we keeping? More lions, more problems; but as a casual player, it’s my prerogative to keep random neat lions for fun. We’ve winnowed it ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 45) - Dec. 31, 2025

cookie basket

Twelve hours of sleep did the trick. I got up the next morning with no more headache/fatigue, no miscellaneous aches, no heart rate spikes. I was basically normal except for a runny nose. I think I had a mild fever that broke during the night, because I woke up sometime during the middle of the nigh...

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Achaius (Lvl. 45) - Dec. 28, 2025

christmas sickbay pt.2 (my life as a couch potato)

Things did not improve overnight. I woke up with a full-blown sore throat. Dad was coughing and hacking. BB's mom was also sick. In retrospect, I might’ve figured this out from the fact she was coughing the entire day previous and slept entirely through Christmas dinner. I chalked it up to her usual...

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Achaius (Lvl. 45) - Dec. 26, 2025

christmas sickbay

As predicted, Christmas is at the old house. It's fine. This place is kinda nostalgic (including my sleeping spot on the couch). BB's language has taken off again. A month ago, he mostly spoke in two- or three-word phrases, usually noun-verb or adjective-noun. Now he's on to full-blown sentences. A ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 45) - Dec. 25, 2025

normie christmas

HGR said it’s odd for me to be away from home so often, taking into account my two-week summer vacation and all the random weekends I spend visiting family. I said I didn’t think it was odd. If anything, I leave home less frequently than most people. At our weekly meetings, Noah typically opens with...

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Achaius (Lvl. 45) - Dec. 23, 2025

albino cub challenge

Every December, there’s an albino cub challenge, in which you get a bunch of apps and decor if you breed three albino cubs. Each breeding has a tiny chance of throwing an albino; you can raise the odds by base matching. My micropack won’t get this naturally, so it’s project time. Fortunately, my lea...

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Achaius (Lvl. 45) - Dec. 23, 2025

a cup of soup, a new project

[Thursday] Successfully got out of the office holiday party this year. Originally, we were going to have our weekly meeting on the day of the party and then all go to the party together. Then Noah was like, “Actually, I’m going to be out of the office that day, no meeting. You all can have fun at t...

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Achaius (Lvl. 45) - Dec. 12, 2025

a failure of narrative

We had another winter storm this weekend, and this one stuck. I got to head out to catch the train at 7:10 am in 19-degree weather. Whenever I go to Starbucks in the morning, I habitually make a narrative in my head as to why there’s more or less people in the store. Today was simple. Few people in ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 45) - Dec. 2, 2025

mngwa mayhem

It’s Black Friday on Lioden. Big hype. I never cared much about Black Friday on WD. I’m f2p, and WD’s Black Friday mods have all been variants of piebald, a strictly inferior version of merle (no layering, no opacity adjustments). But over on LD, the users have paid their dues with years of pie mods...

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Achaius (Lvl. 45) - Nov. 30, 2025

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