So the week began, as most weeks do (in the US, at least), on Sunday. I'd been doing my laundry, so that night I was finishing up and trying to get everything put away. Literally everything seemed to be trying to fight me, so I said fuck it, left half my clean clothes and all my towels in the

This year has definitely been something else. "Trial by fire", some might call it. (And I'm not sure I passed.) Lots of stuff still up in the air, still trying to juggle as much of it as I can / need to.

Obviously, the item that defined this year was Lynn's passing. Just trying to keep

So, a bit of news on the lizards; fact is, not a whole lot to report on them, but some stuff to report nonetheless which is going to be long-form in order to explain as much as I can.

I'd mentioned on Christmas Eve that I'd received a bunch of stuff for them, including new "lights"

Had a couple more items of note that happened last night, which happened before I made last night's post but I didn't want to spend a lot of time on writing it, since I was doing so in Firefox again. As I've said before, I have zero trust for that browser at this point.

Part of it was,

The last week-point-five has been thoroughly exhausting. Pulled three whole-ass all-nighters last week, between finals and that MS first draft / fixing Linux's being wholly bricked by both updating Linux Mint and the Firefox / Thunderbird insta-brick trifecta; while I've been able to catch up

So a couple more updates on the reptiles:

Stool sample from the iguana did return positive for hookworms as I'd suspected, so he and Colombina both came down with me to the vet yesterday afternoon for Ivermectin. Colombina's was her second dose, so in just shy of three weeks--in two