Another little victory today! Finally got the brightness
keys to work. It turns out that Wayland really doesn't
like display managers and that somehow, using one stops
the brightness keys from working even if the command is
correct (which one of them wasn't- whoops!). Works
like it should now, and we just log in on TTY and have
it autostart Sway from there. Maybe it's less "pretty,"
but I'll take functional over pretty any day (and honestly
I kind of like tty. It has a certain charm to it. Maybe it's
the terminal lover in me).

Did not wind up making the phone call with the friend today
because their parent is finally saying she'll do it, though
she has a track record of not following through and we may
still wind up having to do it. I don't mind either way. What
matters is getting them the help they need/want.

Have to say, it's a weird experience to convince a person
inside your head- not currently controlling the body but
spectating- that you exist. Dude, I'm right here. I'm
doing things. You're watching me do them and agree that you
are not doing them. Apparently that's not enough proof when
denial hits? It's a funky situation. Been trying for a bit
now and slowly getting through to them because if I don't,
that tends to cause issues when they front. Issues like
deleting important records and information or "misplacing"
things that help us function.

It's waaaay too hot here today. 100+ Farenheit, which is
38+ C for the metric folks. Ugh.

Pandemic talk ahead.

Half of our mom's workplace has COVID now. She's taking all
the precautions and both she and us are vaccinated, but it's
still very alarming. Most of those guys are chain smokers,
drug addicts, and in bad health to begin with- oh, and a large
number are anti-vaxx. So this is going to be messy at best and
collapse the business at worst. Here's to hoping no one dies.