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I was reminded of how small my area is. I met my new coworker yesterday, and she was one of the baristas who had been taking my Starbucks orders for weeks. She recognized me immediately. The whole thing made my day since she was my favorite person who worked there.
 
I just found out someone I went to primary school with has dropped out of secondary and is pregnant and married—at sixteen. I actually cannot imagine being a parent or married that young (I'm literally sixteen right now and I definitely do not feel prepared to take such a huge step in life), but if it works for her and she likes it, more power to her I suppose. I just hope she gets enough support from her family, she did have a bad home life when we were much younger
 
I remember thinking Bob Seger sang “Give me The Beach Boys” instead of “Give the beat, boys” in “Drift Away”. (R.I.P. Brian Wilson) Also, “That’s Why God Made the Radio” is an underrated bop.
 
What was Roger Clinton (Bill Clinton’s brother) doing in Pumpkinhead 2 and The Rugrats Movie? Guess he wanted to act, but that’s some ineresting filmography.
 
It feels good to finally clear some space in my storage room and get rid of stuff I don’t need. There still has to be a proper place to put my tools other than on the floor in a corner, so other than home improvement projects, that’s next on the planning agenda.
 
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Trying to keep my computer as clean as possible.
 
Another lyric I used to mishear was in “It’s Raining Men.” When the Weather Girls sang, “Rough and tough and strong and mean”, I used to think they said, “Rough and tough and strong as me.” Either one works I guess.😅
 
So I'm playing DQIX right now and we're in the Royal Library, when I spy a treasure chest. I had the foresight to cast Peep on it to check if it's a Mimic.... It was 😬

I go in anyway thinking we can take it on, but the first thing I noticed was that we can't flee the battle.

It's basically a boss battle, and it knew a really deadly combination: Drain Magic and Thwack. Thwack is a OHKO spell. We got annihilated, of course, and I lost all my progress within the dungeon.

As long as any of my party members has MP, it will steal some with Drain Magic for free, and use Thwack in the next turn. And its bite attack does insane damage, especially critical hits. I quickly realized we were doomed.

I'm playing with Draconian difficulty turned on, and I'm playing blind, so had I known Mimics were this powerful, I would have NEVER battled it. I'll be better prepared next time.

TL;DR: OHKO moves are cheap as hell 😡🤬💢
 
Whoever designed the Nightmare Mother should have been fired immediately, because no other punishment would be good enough. I mean, X6 sucks in general, and it has a lot of awful bosses like Infinity Mijinion, but the Nightmare Mother is genuinely one of the worst bosses I’ve ever seen in a video game. Not an exaggeration, it’s that poorly designed. Horrendous boss. I haven’t seen anyone even attempt to defend it. I’m so glad I’m almost done with this game, just the last two final stages are left.

Although… to be fair to X6, I played X7 for a little to check it out and immediately thought it was garbage and stopped playing, which I couldn’t say about this game. So X6 is probably actually better than X7… which would mean my suffering isn’t even close to over.
 
i know i’m rambling here but for my entire life until now i always said that i hated reading, then i realized books can actually teach me stuff. it completely went over my head that’s how people probably used to learn before the internet 😭

like a few weeks ago i bought myself a book on web development and it taught me a ton; to add onto that i might buy myself a book on learning javascript, it’s nice having everything consolidated into one source and not having to hunt all over the internet. however, i’ve heard people say you shouldn’t buy books on programming languages because they might be outdated but even if that is true, i don’t think old/outdated info is completely useless.

anyway, i know this sounds really stupid but when i was younger i only thought of books as methods of storytelling/narratives which i was completely uninterested in. like i didn’t realize people were really out there buying textbooks for fun 💀
 
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One of my dad's childhood heroes, Brian Wilson, passed away today. He loved the Beach Boys as a kid, so I imagine the news upset him a bit. For those that don't know who he was, Brian Wilson gained a bit of infamy in the late '60s for not touring with the Beach Boys for mental health reasons, and essentially wrote songs whilst isolated from the other members. It wasn't until numerous documentaries and the release of 2004's Smile album did people truly understand the personal struggles he had to endure in order to save himself from the insanity of those who told him to "go commercial" or face failure. I instantly thought of this song when I heard about his passing:


Despite this song being primarily composed by his brother Carl in 1971 and going unreleased until several decades later, it still sounds very powerful compared to the surf pop of their earlier, more popular years. These lyrics sort of reflect the emotions hidden inside everyone:

Tell me who ever said a man can't cry?
I know I can cry
And we'll live our life alone
And I know it's alright
It's alright​

Men really can cry. Heck, I teared up in my boss' office this morning when I finally started to feel remorse for the poor actions I've been performing in front of everyone at work lately. And yes, being lonely at my house can be a pain at times, but at least I'm lucky enough to have a roof over my head, eat what I want, and do some of the things I love to keep me happy.

He will be missed.
 
One of the teachers at my old middle school sat behind me at a concert. I never had her, and she didn’t recognize me, but she was the chaperone for our trip to Washington DC. Weird that a person once responsible for 80 13/14 year olds is now screaming at a concert and having been over served.
 
I saw a 2 oz mini measuring cup at work, had no idea they made them that tiny! Seems like people use them for cocktails and laundry stuff. I definitely wasn’t expecting it to cost $12 though…
 
ive said this before elsewhere but i actually really do like the idea of Mario Kart World's open world gimmick, but it sucks that the game is coming out during a time when open world games are some of the most oversaturated games in the industry right now.

also there's the issue of it being overpriced as hell but i think people have already brought that up countless times before so i don't really know what else i can add to that discussion.
 
I heard the curse of joycon drift may have reached over to the Switch 2. That's a yikes from me if that's true. Because that's something I really was hoping to become a thing of the past. I still need to give my Switch lite to someone to repair for that problem (along with the 'A' button).

Anyone with the console have any problems like that yet?
 
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One of our neighbors likes to leave out some rice in the backyard to feed the birbs in the morning. I hope it's cooked rice, not raw.

Also I'm currently watching them and a blue jay just swooped in and bullied all the little sparrows out so it can have all the rice to itself lmao but as I'm typing this, all the little birbs came back and reclaimed the rice, lol
 
Just at work and thought about how I actually made it through the worst 2 years of my life and I felt like that “please stop giving me your toughest battles” meme lol
But it is now nearly my 1 year anniversary of being back home already… crazy.
 
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