Reviewing an interview transcript we did participating in
a research study about plurality (which seems pretty
promising!) and realizing that we say "you know" a LOT.
Sometimes several times a sentence. Guess that's our filler
phrase instead of "like" or "um!" Interesting to see our own
speech quirks. There's a lot of rephrasing, and incomplete
sentences are everywhere. It's not that different from how
we write now that I think about it. Kind of funny how that
happens!
We did pretty alright on the interview though, transcript
is accurate (though clearly generated electronically instead
of typed out- typos, anyone?). We were worried that adrenaline
threw off replies, but they're surprisingly coherent and do
the job. Was also expecting it to be more stressful to read
than it was- entirely forgot how nice the interviewer was.

Still trying to get brightness keys working on Sway. Both
brightnessctl and xbrightness are refusing to respond to the
hardware keys, and the keypresses are being registered so that's
not it. It's a weird issue and we're going to go log digging to
see if there's anything there. If not, time to trial and error
for a bit before trying yet another utility to see if that works.
Everything else is now up and running perfectly! Pretty happy
with it. Just those brightness keys... ugh. Wish us luck.

Made the mistake last night of listening to Achilles Come Down for
the first time- ouch. Luckily we're not suicidal anymore, but we
used to be and it hit hard. Adding that to the list of songs that
make us cry (which is a useful list for when we need to get things
out). It's a lovely song though, just very emotional to listen to
when you've been in that position on both sides. We had to talk a
friend down multiple times as well. It's hard because we care so
much and it's full investment. Sucks because we had to do it when we
were 15 or so and had no idea what we were doing, but that friend is
still alive and that's what counts.