CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Since our geriatric cat made the transition to wet food for kidney care, I'm still not used to the smell. I keep thinking it smells like something good's cooking for breakfast. Nope, just the cat's food. Glad she likes it, even if she forgets where it is or that she needs to eat. At least she remembers to eat when we put it under her nose, and she's getting the calories in.

Trying to wrap my mind around leisure activities, in the sense that some of them seem to be approval-farming ("look at me, I'm doing X") instead of being something I might enjoy for its own sake.

There's a part of me that wants to do more of some activities, but I'm stopped when I think do I really want to do them or do I want approval from others for doing them? I'm suspecting the latter, and I'm trying to consciously do fewer approval-seeking behaviors. Many folks seem to enjoy denying approval from others out of some weird kind of competition, and that's a bad cycle to get into.

@jerry I love that story. Wisk invented it--it was never a thing. And yet, however many years later, I still remember the name of the detergent that resolved that non-problem.

Finally went back into Torment's Rise to take a shot at Nullaeus and the Let Me Solo Him FoS on my Blood DK. Timing and no-mistakes gameplay is not my forte, but eventually I got it done. I'm feeling pretty good about it. #WorldOfWarcraft

I was shocked to discover one of my "recent" domain name acquisitions was actually eleven years old. I think of it as recent because someone else owned it for a good number of years when I had the bright idea to get it with the other names for .net, .org and .com. Eventually, they abandoned it, and I snapped it up. Apparently that was a lot longer ago than I remembered.

Ugh. I wanna argue with people on the Internet. I know better. "All I was doing was" defenses can infuriate me, but main-character syndrome is very difficult to pierce. It requires good faith on their part, but that's in short supply.

@gremlinchild for me, the only way out of that cycle was to realize that I can only do so much, and it's not my fault if I overstep. As much care as I take, I can't see the lines in so many patterns of behavior, so fine-tuning will ever be aspirational. I expect to get it wrong. It's not a failure. It's just part of the process.

You sound like someone who's being as careful as you can be, but perfection is unattainable. If you're doing the best you can, that's enough. It has to be.

If someone else thinks your best isn't enough, that's their problem--because how can we expect more than the best someone can do? Only unreasonable people expect someone to be other than what they are in good faith.

@gremlinchild I've often felt adjusting to what I now know as autism is plotting points on a graph to find the dividing line. I never see the line, but I know from overstepping approximately where it is. Your mileage may vary, but I suspect with enough time and experience that it'll get easier to guess where the line is--even if you'll never really know.

@babe as a fellow car enthusiast, I agree and wanted to express my support.