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2025-07-14: Just added a new Blog Archive to the page. That should let me keep this thing managable.
I may or may not have slept in far longer than I expected. I must have been running a helluva sleep deficit. Things went fine otherwise. Got my downstairs bathroom cleaned up from the water mess earlier this month, thankfully not seeing any more water leakage issues. Did a bit of reading, did a bit of gaming, watched a couple edutainment videos, altogether a chill, lazy Sunday.
Should this be an entry for the fourteenth? It's after midnight so it's technically correct.
I expect to be somewhere between zonked and zooted tomorrow after starting training with a new intern. I doubt I'll be back on here to make any changes.
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2025-07-13: My review of Girls' Last Tour went up yesterday afternoon! I had been wanting to find a good space for media reviews and essays and the like, but YouTube sounded like a waking nightmare. By comparison, a handful of paragraphs with pictures and gifs on my silly little website feels just about perfect.
I have also found myself checking for signs of engagement ever since posting it. Nearly two decades of social media habits die hard. Reddit and Tumblr don't pull that bad habit out of me nearly as much as, say, Facebook, but I am also prone to obsessing over watching numbers go up. The dopamine rush of getting positive attention is a whole thing.
Otherwise, yesterday was a pleasant day. I got groceries in the morning, wrote my little review, listened to some records, and enjoyed a quiet aftermoon. I then installed some new fixtures in my bathroom. Felt good to see those projects pan out. Now, I sit tonight in comfortable quiet, candlelight flickering, the only noise stemming from the keystrokes on my laptop. I hope tomorrow goes well too.
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2025-07-10: It's been a while!
The last week or so has been a whirlwind. The ridiculous water situation from my last post has been resolved. Turns out, a leaky toilet seal upstairs was the culprit. Plumbers got that taken care of, and now I am waiting for word fro my landlord about remediation. Thankfully we caught it early and I was able to dry it out, so it didn't become a worse issue.
I spent this weekend with family. My parents took me to their favorite Italian restaurant, and my grandma sat with me on her porch while we visited late into the night.
Work this week has involved preparation for a lot of facilities changes. I have needed to help folks get a lot of things figured out and moved, and I have been pretty drained from the whole ordeal. Hopefully we are taking steps toward a better setup.
I finished a really unusual anime a few nights ago, called Girls' Last Tour. It's a cozy slice of life set in the apocalypse(???), really mystifrying little show. I have weird, complicated feelings about it, which I plan on fleshing out in my first swing at a media review!
I have other things I want to do with this site too. I'd like to add some buttons or blinkies just to really 2004-ify it up a bit. I also want to do more media review and things like that. My media habits a a bit goofy, and I'd like to tell you all about how much I enjoy finding the media equivalent of the Arby's Gyro. More to come on that later.
But for now, I am tired. My emotions have been all over the place since this afternoon, and I think I am hitting a point of tiredness where emotional regulation is getting a bit dicey. Here's hoping for some good rest tonight, and a good day tomorrow.
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2025-07-02: Well. It's been a long evening. I spent most of it getting a bedframe put together after discovering my previous one was unable to be taken apart and moved without irreparable damage. Lo and behold, the new bed came together just fine!
Shortly after getting that done, I discovered a big bulge of paint, displaced by water, above my downstairs restroom vanity. My landlord is going to try and get someone scheduled to get it taken care of tomorrow. It is the last business day before a three-day holiday weekend, so I have no idea what that will entail.
I also have work obligations involving a meeting dealing with significant changes requiring all hands on deck, and someone who is in from a long ways away, who's been on my schedule for weeks. I had to let all parties involved know about the situation, and ask for a great deal of flexibilty. Hopefully we'll know more in the morning about what I need to do, and it can get taken care of while leaving as few people as possible in the lurch.
Outside of that, I hope to put a bit of personal reflection out on a movie I watched with friends for my birthday. Stay tuned!