2 AM, I want food, I have no desire to cook anything.

This is a problem, as the only "insti" food I have is literally peanut butter cups.

And that's not a meal.

Also, related, in my mind I've got a wonderful animatic / storyline animation in my head for this song, but lack of talent, skill, and finances to make it happen in reality keeps it in my head.

I'm just gonna put this out here too.

During the Artemis 2 mission, I was somewhat upset that NASA didn't send this song as a wake-up alarm for the astronauts.

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Putting it mildly the last week has been a trial. And a lot of it is because I'm not young enough to go into "full rescue mode" and back anymore.

The adrenaline / activity rush wrecks me now.

Still in recovery mode today.

I woke up this morning, got up, got ready for the day, and collapsed for another 6 hours.

SO, umm, no content today 'cuz I am still ultra-fried from the last 6 days. I mean hell, it took everything I had to prepare FOOD for myself.

I think they're counting on the process being so tedious and difficult that most creators won't do it.

But they're not counting on how much I loathe AI slop, and the idea that anyone can "remix" my videos to make me say things I never would say.

6 hours to protect myself is worth it.

So I just spent about... 6 hours or so doing tedious steps on TikTok, on over 2,200 videos, to opt my content out of their "AI Remix"policy.

See, there is no "master switch", you have to go into EACH video, including drafts and private, and do several steps to opt out EACH VIDEO INDIVIDUALLY!

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I hope everybody's having a better weekend than we are.

It's been a hell of a ride for the last 4 days. And I just want to sleep now.

It's the going from "Ok, we're fine" to "No, we're not fine, all hands on deck and do whatever it takes to stop this NOW" twice in a week.

It puts a lot of wear and tear on my body, and I aint as young as I used to be.

May just get a taco taxi to bring me food, that feels ok today.

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Hookay, so we've had our FIRST visit to the local community garbage dump off, huge line there of people tossing all the waterlogged / fatally damaged things.

We've got at least a round 2 of this visit, but not today. We are all tired from 2 days of adrenaline dump "FIX THIS NOW" nights.

All that said, I had to run out to get some emergency supplies tonight, I bought an entire grocery bag of comfort food, and I haven't eaten it. I've just been too fried.

Way too many old memory.

We'll pick this up again tomorrow. I'll end the thread here. Good night y'all

Okay it's 4:00 a.m. and I'm done.

Everything seems to be as stable as it can be. But I am cooked.

We'll deal with the flooding later. Right now we've got everything running so the only thing we can do has to wait until stores open.

So, umm, that whole content being on hold thing?

It just got longer.

I'm gonna run out to a store and pick up some supplies, and hope that everything holds long enough for the morning to come.

Ok, so the last 2 hours was this.

"Tornado Watch is over, let's wind down."
"Basement is flooding."
"FUCK!"

I see WHY the basement is flooding, but we can't do anything about it right now other than damage control. The yard is a pool, the basement isn't better.

This weekend just got a LOT longer.

Ok, so apparently they've extended the watch 'till 10 PM.

And as much as I know to take it seriously, 2 hours of hiding in the basement isn't really gonna work. We're taking our chances, but we're still ready to dive back downstairs if need be.

Okay it's almost 8:00 so we're going to emerge from the basement and survey the wasteland that awaits us outside...

Meaning that the storm isn't so bad I might go for tacos or something, IDK...

Yeah the worst is past us, but it's raging to the south of us.

Stay safe everybody

We've decided to hang out down here till 8 (25 mins from now) it's safe for us but we're gonna take the safer bet and let the worst roll past us.

Ok, the watch is "over", but we're staying down here a little bit longer.

Denning behavior, yah.

We're hiding in the basement, the Internet is holding so we're still here!

Stay safe too!

To give an idea how Wisconsin we are...

We're sheltering in the basement from a tornado watch, and housemates are folding laundry right now.

We are currently sheltering in the basement. We're going to be down here for at least another half hour or so.

So yeah. How's your day going?

HERE WE GO!

#BasementFurry

Watching the storm rolling towards us, and seeing how many tornadoes are touching down on the path of it. Slated to hit us in 60-90 mins.

A little anxiety inducing, yes, but I'd rather have as much warning as possible than suddenly have my phone give me flashbacks to my broadcasting days.

MICRO POWER OUTAGE!!!!

It's gettin' real now! WOOO!!!

Yes I'm "livetweeting" a tornado expirence. So you don't have to be here for it.

Raccoon logic "Look, a dumpster is the perfect place to hide in a tornado! No glass, surrounded by metal, it's armored..."

Actual logical raccoon "And it's not nailed down or underground so it'll get sucked into the vortex."

Original raccoon "yes, sure, but WHAT A RIDE THAT'LL BE!"

There's a part of me that wants to go out to Kwik Trip and get snax for the storm upcoming.

The other part of me is like "My dear Raccoon... ITS ABOUT TO BE HAILSTORIMING AND POSSIBLE TORNADO OUTSIDE! STAY IN AND STEAL CHIPS FROM YOUR HOUSEMATES!!!"

Ok, so the weather looks like we might get the strongest of this around 7 PM.

Nothing more we can do here. All the weaknesses we had on Wed. were sealed. Everything is prepped. Now all we can do is sit, and see if it diverts, or hits.

You want to feel helpless, live in the new "Tornado Alley".

Tornados droppin' all around us in Wisconsin, but we're ok for now.

I've got a weathercaster livestreaming on one screen, just in case something shifts and the tornado storm heads our way.

As long as I don't hear the "Miss Gulch Theme" playing on the winds I think we'll be ok.