Years ago, I installed a 2 meter radio in my truck, I stuck it where the ash tray goes. Well, this meant that to plug in an antenna you had to take the dashboard apart, so I ripped the radio out.

I just don't like being alive enough to deal with that shit anymore.

So the stock ash tray is back installed. The cigarette lighter works so I got back my second power socket, the bulb in there is burned out but who gives a fuck, and I just AIPed the radio's power line under the carpet.

Now I can't find the connectors.

I went to microwave a microwavable burger, and it tells you to nuke it for awhile, leave it still for a little while, then nuke it for a little while longer. While I was leaving it for the little while, the sumbish beeped at me like "Hey trouser simian, don't forget your processed bullshit."

It smells.

It’s crowded.

It’s expensive.

It’s cramped.

The best part about it is that I get to leave in three days.

My hotel room is barely big enough for the bed. And still $300 a night with a group rate.

I wanted to be my departments manager, so I walked into my manager's office with a full script in my head ready for a fight, we've butted heads a lot the last 8 months, like pretty much every day I'm in, so I figured he would be really resistant to me taking the rold, but, the complete opposite happened, he jumped up excited and told me I've made his day... Wtf! Now I have this fighting energy in me and I don't know what to do, but now I'm the Produce department manager and I can finally start fixing all the shit that's been bothering me.

Thank you for your time. I gotta go find someone to get into a disagreement with to get rid of this energy.

I'm not used to getting my way.

I found a very old small transistor radio when cleaning out my garage today. I put in some new batteries, turned it on, and put on shelf while I kept cleaning garage.

It was fun not having to worry about streaming or internet connection or anything. I just keep the damn thing on 24 hours a day now while turned to a low volume. Gives some good "old-time gas station in middle of nowhere" vibes.

I assumed allergies since that’s the usual culprit, then dehydration, then eye strain, and tried to deal with each of them in turn without success. And then while I’m feeling frustrated with my temple feeling like it’s getting squeezed in a vice, I glanced at the weather and noticed the humidity was below 30% outside. That’ll do it!

So I rigged up my electricity free humidifier (a wet towel on a drying rack), and the inside of my sinuses basically immediately calmed the fuck down. Never have I felt like I had so much in common with a pet lizard that needs its terrarium kept at specific temp/humidity/etc requirements.

Deleted many irrelevant tabs saved a year ago that are now irrelevant to me, read the ones that are still relevant. I hope to pare it down to under 10! My computer tabs are nowhere near this much, always under 10.

I replaced my downpipe with a fancy performance one and took the old one to the scrapyard. Turns out the two catalytic converters on my old one were worth $180. So I bought an expensive bottle of whiskey.

I tell a lie, I actually bought some scotch. Ten year old Laphroaig.

Today, I just noticed that I've been listening to whole albums start to end instead of either my playlists, or generated by Spotify.

Edit: and just in time, one of my favorite youtuber dropped this video about listening to whole albums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cJmPkL9a0

Now I get to sit out here for the next few nights enjoying the dullness of it

After some 3000 km, this mid-drive motor is grossly overdue for some maintenance. I can see the specks of eroded metal mixed in the dark, gunky remains of whatever factory grease they used in here.

I don't know where locally to get the Mobilegrease 28 that everyone recommends, but I did find some high-temp white lithium from the auto store. But just removing the old grease has already consumed half a roll of paper towel. And I can't exactly dunk a motor into gasoline as degreaser.

I'll carry on wiping.

This was long overdue. It had gotten quite thick from various business cards and other cards that had long expired or lost relevance. Now it's down to just the essentials.

Overall wallet thickness is half of what it was before. Nice and slim. I've had this wallet nearly 20 years and it's still going strong.

I've got a TV cabinet I almost like, for flat pack particle board it's not too bad, it's got several metal components which is interesting. It has a pillar that the TV mounts to instead of setting it on the little hummingbird feet flat panels come with now.

I have my old computer in there. What was my desktop PC for several years, a little ITX build in a Fractal Node 202 case. It looks like a TiVo. It's all been kind of janked together, I thought I would get everything set up the way I like it.

Aaaand the computer doesn't fit in the slot I wanted to put it in because the back is set forward for what I have to guess is cable management space. Except there's absolutely no provisions for cable management except a big hole into the area I guess they think you're going to put game consoles and DVD players in?

So the computer does actually have to sit on the tabletop like a big charcoal grey tumor.

I did get the UPS hooked up though.

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I just had my first shower in 4 days

Discovered that the attic access hatch isn’t insulated, which honestly isn’t surprising given when it was built. No ladder system. I’m working on cutting up some foam boards to glue to the backside. Hopefully it will reduce how much is radiated through this barrier.