got sad. decided to run about it.

also nailed the 5k in under 30 minutes.

shouldn't be possible, and yet...

inflation is so bad that there's a $20 bill floating around somewhere in my house and it's literally not worth picking it up because what am I gonna buy, half a hamburger?

discord needs a "seriously mute everything i'm supposed to be fucking working" button

I'll never catch up to them, I don't think. They lived an ascetic life that is now netting them real fruits and rewards.

I wasted much of the past decade and I'm not sure I have the will or the ability to dig myself out this time.

If only I was like my old friend... putting time each day into pursuits that would grow me and get me interesting opportunities.

I'm trying, but I'm so weak and slow these days that it's really fucking difficult. I spend so much time being miserable that I barely get anything of value completed.

Writing now means almost nothing to me. I'm not the kind of writer anyone admires or seeks out. Nor is a regular writing job a viable way to pay the bills anymore.

I'm still spending hours a week using this skill, but it gets me nothing for my future.

I realize the problem I have is that I've spent the last ten years building skills, too. But the wrong ones.

I worked on my writing, and I got sharp and fast and efficient.

That skillset is... now functionally useless.

I had a friend that didn't work a whole lot in regular jobs. But they used what resources they had to pursue their interests.

Eventually this led them to develop skills which earned them money and interesting opportunities.

Not a lot, yet, but it's building for them.

oh my god, this.

i just realized why I enjoyed the Kodak Charmera so much.

I didn't have to download a fucking app to use it...

WHY DON'T THEY DO THIS

They'd be out of stock and scalped on eBay for triple the price on day 1.

Kind of a no-brainer.

Carry on is HARD if you want to take even a small laptop

did I work on music tonight?

no, i spent three hours screwing around installing plugins that won't work...

"I... felt a disturbance in the grid. Like thousands of little power points all screamed out, and at once, were silenced..."

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Looool

Have you tried dunking the raspberries in a tub of chocolate mousse?

It's really fun to lob them into the really dense kind plus it tastes good

i'm not sure i could explain what that anime was about if i tried

light isn't diffusing through my 3D printed parts very well and i'm mad about it okay

no i don't have a laser cutter

Can only sleep from 11pm to 5am. Then I spend another 2 hours wide awake before crashing until 9am.

Very inefficient.

gonna have to drag myself to two separate stores for fasteners and connectors for this project because fuck waiting two weeks for shipping but also I am not in the mood for interacting with normal world this week

I started working on a response to this outlining the bun as a sort of "flavor condom" and decided it was clearly time to log off

Ha!

I would actually go the Double Zoe route but I don't want to burn $$$ on making them think there's a clerical error

OH MY GOD I love it

Hope Australia was on that list

okay I need to pick a new middle name in the next half an hour and get this paperwork SHIPPED

worst suggestions comment below

I love writing a successful piece and watching the dupes slowly trickle out over the next month

I am almost certainly trying too hard

Not sure what I'm running from lately, but I put it about 6km behind me

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