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I was really suffering last night. The last couple of days I’ve had on-and-off periods of general unwellness, and finally about evening yesterday I reached the point of deciding to go to bed early. I slept maybe an hour but sinus pain woke me up. It was one of those things where I could lay on the left side and my right sinus would drain into my left sinus, but not any other direction. If I rolled over onto my right side it would take about twenty minutes for my left sinus to drain to the right. If I laid on my back I just felt like I was being strangled. For a while I could lay *just slightly* to the left or right, alternatively, and keep the pain of a clogged sinus away, but I eventually got back up about 11:30.

Around midnight to 12:30 it finally started draining and allergy symptoms hit hard. My eyes were watering, I was coughing, choking, blowing my nose every thirty seconds; all while chugging H.E.B. brand Sprite. This took about three and half hours to calm down before I could head back to bed. Which, in turn, meant I slept in today; quite a bit. The whole time I was up I worked on file management on my computer. I had a directory of videos that needed sorted, renamed, duplicates removed, etc. It’s been sitting there since around 2021 or 2022. About 30% of it is done now. *Maybe* 50%, as a lot of renamed files are pushed below my working point instead of above. HOWEVER, the categorization topic that dominates the naming structure is still below me, too; and that will likely be were most of the files in the directory are. I suspect my interest in and attention to archiving in this way is what is commonly referred to as an “Autistic Special Interest.” I can talk for hours about how I would organize a directory of files. And yes, I can apply that to a database as well. I did it professionally for years. But here’s the weird part. Technically, if you organize the data through a database, file names are most useful as location or time markers. The organizing data belongs solely to the database. “Tags” in modern parlance, you might say. I *can* do that, but I would rather the file name and directory structure store all the most-useful information. In a good file system or file type, you can always store meta information, just as you would in a database.

Anyway, I stopped doing that to finish Episode 4 of Girls und Panzer: Captain does her best!

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Paige Francis He/him

After the successful conclusion of the practice battle, while Miho and the other Sensha-do team members are perusing the “redecorated” tanks, Student Council President Anzu suggests to Momo (monocle girl)

…to which Momo replies “I’ll go call them.”

We don’t find out until later, as I documented last time, this will be a practice match against St. Gloriana Girls’ College. St. Gloriana is a consistently strong team that has won the national championship.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Girls und Panzer: Captain does her best! Pt. 1”

Paige Francis He/him