alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

eventually i may do a more proper intro post, but as a placeholder for now:

hi, i’m alyssa, or lyssa, or alice. or a bunch of other names if you know me well.

i don’t know yet what i’ll about yet, but possibly my daily life, or things i read or watch, or write.

I have a sort of drop-in game that I try to offer to run on a weekly basis. It's largely a dungeon-crawling game, venturing into dangerous places, stealing treasure, meeting strange people, sometimes fighting the strange people. This week it'll be tonight at the time this link should display https://sharetime.zone/America/Buenos_Aires/2200 . It'll go for about 2 hours after that.

It's over discord voice chat. The game system is Dark Dungeons, which is kind of a take on old versions of D&D, but it's easy to pick up without prior familiarity.

If you're interested in playing tonight, lemme know on here and I'll get you the server invite. also i guess if you'd like to be informed about future occasions, let me know that too hehe

it's fun how cats drink very noisily.

'cause when vivi is drinking from her water cup, i can hear it from bed and be like "aww, she's hydrating"·

at one point my wife showed me a post that was about how people with cats are always like "come look at the cat, it's urgent, they look exactly the same as usual so you have to come look"

and.... entirely true.

i told sofi about the rule in ¡MAPACHES! where basically no prank or anything a raccoon does to another member of their band can cause them damage, and zie is coming up with hilarious and absurd hypotheticals to test the limits of this rule

my favorite is: you're all on top of a really tall building and your buddy is about to fall off, and you can't save them, but you can push them. If you push them off the edge, does they mean they aren't hurt by the fall?

vivi is watching mastermind on the tv so attentively

for example: we hung it up to dry, and then when we gave it back to her, she immediately dropped it in her water cup. then did it at least two more times in like three minutes

i think we now have convincing evidence that vivi prefers for her toy rat to be moist

in contrast, I Really Like You is basically the same song

eye of the tiger is the funniest song i've ever heard a nightcore version of for some reason

vivi tiene sus pies encima de las mías :>

vivi has figured out how to sit on the side of a purse hanging from our bag rack

some things that spanish uses the same word for:

1. the outer layer of the earth (the crust, in english)
2. the outer layer of a tree (the bark, in english)
3. the outer layer of the brain (the cerebral cortex in english, which turns out to be ~the same word)

la corteza

no me acuerdo dónde encontré este chiste pero me gustó

un juego de palabras bilingüe:

si contratás con el diablo, hacelo en inglés.

porque en inglés el diablo es débil.

"el Programa de Mejoramiento de Zonas Aqueológicas (Promeza)". Spanish speakers are good at acronyms.

in English: the program of improvement of archaeological zones (promeza, pronounced the same as "promesa" = promise)