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280: Lazy Sunday

El told me this morning that she "loves our lazy mornings", and I couldn't agree more. I spent a good chunk of today thinking about that concept, and how I really don't give myself enough time to relax. I don't think I&

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279: Howdy Skaters!

I'm having a hard time starting this one, and I'm really not sure why, so I'm going to do the meta-commentary thing where I talk about not talking and that kick-starts the talking. Today was great. I got up around 9:45 to change

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278: Version 24

Today's title is about the fenders for my electric longboard, because they've been a struggle. It rained this morning, which was lovely from inside (especially from not-my-house ;), but kind of annoying from the outside. In the 7 minutes or whatever it took me to ride from

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277: "I don't think enzymes like when you fart on them"

The quote here is from one of my residents; it's currently 12:45 and we've been talking for genuinely a couple hours at this point, but I don't really mind. I feel like these conversations are parts of my job, and today it'

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276: Networks are complicated

Networking is something that I kind of brute-forced learning, and you are actively looking at the fruits of that labor (this blog works because of a bunch of shit that I've built and connected). I have a few friends taking their CPE (computer engineering) Networks class right now,

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275: Just two guys going to the Girlfriend Library - Chip

Chip is one of my closest friends; I told him today that choosing to be best friends with him and seek him out is maybe the single best decision I've ever made, because it's ultimately what put me on the trajectory I'm now on,

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274: Life came and it hit me like a bus

This is a lyric from one of my favorite songs; Dream Machine by Des Rocs. It's the title track and first song on the album Dream Machine, which I've listened to almost every day recently. I was talking to Chip and El today and used the

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273: Fighting a network (and winning)

Today is a story of two halves of my life, but because I'm writing this on the blog, it's two good halves of an otherwise very good story.

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272: Custody battling

There's been a running bit between El and my residents for this past week about whether they (my residents) deserve more of my time. I have been spending a lot of time with El (oopsies), but I am also still largely available to my residents if they need

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271: Y'know what they say...

I should have used this title yesterday, because it would have been more topical, but I was dead tired last night, and it certainly isn't a better hour tonight (currently 1:26AM), but if I don't get this story / bit out of my head it'

270: On the town

I'm going to lie and say that I'm going to keep this one short, but it is my intention. It's 1:20 AM as I write this, so I'm going to only talk about the fun parts, and I'm not

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269: All of my days in one place

All but one of my classes this quarter are in the EE building, which sounds like it would be a good thing, but it's truly and seriously not. The first reason that's not a good thing is that the EE building is a hole. It was

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268: Reverse Adventure

I'm writing this one a little early, while Brian and Sabina are still in the room, and we were talking about Magic: The Gathering, which I haven't played in a while, but it's where the title comes from today. Adventure is a mechanic from

267: The Girl That I Call Home

The title of this one is a song by Tears for Fears, one of my family's favorite bands. They put out an EP / Live album in 2024 called Songs For A Nervous Planet that I adore. It came up today because we (Sabina, El, and I) were playing

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266: Humans are amazing

I’ve got quite the story from today, and it’s not even over as I’m writing this, but the biggest takeaway for me is just how fantastic and helpful other people are. I would describe myself as a social optimist; I think that humans default to kindness far

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265: The French eat Late

I’m saying I’m going to leave today’s post short, and I MEAN IT THIS TIME. It’s currently 10:52 PM on the 28th, and I have to be awake in like 5 hours. I have a flight out of Nice (the airport is right down the

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264: The Mediterranean

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263: Murphy's Law (again)

* -anything that can go wrong, will * -today kinda stunk, but also mention “we still experience the range of human emotions” because yes my life is very good * -S6 cancelled, had to take another train & bus * -Porsche museum was dope as FUCK except it didn’t have the 911 GT1

262: Five cities in five nights

Starting last night, we're moving through five different cities in five nights; Amsterdam, Stuttgart, Paris, Menton, and then Nice. It's honestly really fun to be rolling like this; we packed light, and we have lots of places to be, so we're always on the

261: Public Transit is the pinnacle of human achievement.

That might seem a little extreme, and it is a little bit of a silly position, if you had me seriously declare a single thing the most impressive or incredible human achievement it's definitely either space-faring or advanced medicine, BUT I think there's an argument to

260: One Long Day

I've slept like six hours in the last 48, and honestly I couldn't even tell you what time my body thinks it is right now. I'm writing this at ~9:30PM Amsterdam time, which is like 1PM Pacific time, but I spent genuinely 20-some

259: Premeditated Posting

I'm hitting this one crazy early (it's currently 4:02PM) because I'm going to be on a plane when this post would be normally going live. I was on the fence about whether "today" counts the weirdness that is intercontinental travel, or

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258: ...On a cloudy, moonless night...

IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE CLOUDY. I'm jumping to the end a little bit here, but I had to grab the master keys for Brian and I to do room checks around 9:45PM (they were uneventful, other than turning off like 30 different fans), and

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257: GREENSQUARE

It's 2:37 AM. Yikes. I genuinely think this last week might have been the best week of my life (*so far, but it'll be hard to beat). Today (especially as a continuation of yesterday) really rounded out that amazing week. I have this stupid problem

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256: Movie(s) night!

Today was (is?) pretty damn good. It's Thursday of Finals week, and I got to bed late (see yesterday's post), so I woke up at like 10:30 and just kinda layed in bed for a while. I got up around noon, got breakfast (quesadilla), and