@vicorva ahaha, I got a call back that they do need some more info. Info that the agency has, but for data protection reasons cannot hand from one department to the other XD
It was nice of the lady to call me back so I can get the stuff ready now and don't have to wait for the request to arrive via mail, at least XD

aaaaah!
Made a call to the unemployment office to figure out the state of an application, or if I sent it at all.
Yes, everything's filled out, just not decided yet.
...that does not actually make me feel better? *considers*
OK, at least I know I don't have to send them anything any more right now, so, a bit better maybe.

Thing that made me happy today: Seeing a burly person sporting a full beard wearing a swishy skirt.

@zens You're welcome!
I'd like to add that I wouldn't argue this is the "proper" way to do it, I just looked at how I think about these things and described that. :)

@zens No, you move forwards through time, all the time, unless you have a time machine.

@zens Yeah.

@zens Different frames of reference.

Like thinking of the Earth as fixed with the moon rotating around it VS the Sun as fixed with the Earth rotating around it.

@zens No. The "forward" of moving through time and the "forward" in "moving an event forward" are not the same.

@zens It is a frame of reference thing.

When I talk about moving an event, I imagine myself standing still and moving the event relative to myself. Forward is toward myself, backward is away from myself.

When I talk about time passing, or myself moving through time, I imagine time and events standing still, and myself moving from past towards future, which is forward.

@zens I guess it could be, but I just think of the frame of reference in the second case as "the timeline" or maybe "the calendar".

@zens The future is in front of you.

If you move an appointment in the future to a later time, you move it backward, because you are moving it further away from yourself/the present.

At least that's how I think of it.

In the US, extremist Christians calling themselves "pro-life" are making it so that pregnant people must consider if they seek medical help if they need it or not, because they could be charged for attempted murder if someone thinks they injured or poisoned themselves trying to end the pregnancy.

I wish this were fiction. It certainly is dystopian.

Are pedestrian areas (streets lined with shops where cars are only allowed in the mornings to make deliveries) a thing where you live?

@alexandria I'm sorry, but you mixed up the meaning of "lightfast". Pigments that are not lightfast fade quickly, and pigments that are lightfast last a long time. (It's the older meaning of "fast" you also find in "hold fast".)

I had no bread, so I made myselk a chocolate mug cake for breakfast (because I have an early appointment and didn't have time to go buy bread AND catch the bus on time)