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June 25th, 2025: I got up at 6:00am in the morning from the sunlight and got all dressed up in dress pants and Catholic t-shirt. I got a text from the missionary yesterday asking me if I wanted to evangelize and I said yes, he told me that I should be there by 10:30am, just before 9:30am I started to walk to the bus stop that I needed. I accidentally missed my stop so I kept walking down along the line until I got to this one stop where the bus arrived soon, when I got on I noticed that I was the only White guy on the bus, it was mostly Indians and some Black people, a few more White people got on but then I got off at my stop and walked to the back of the missionary’s house and knocked on the door, he let me in and told me that he was in this meeting with a new guy and to sweep the floor. I decided to pour some hand sanitizer on this dirty sponge because I heard they have the most germs of all household items. To get the dustpan and broom, I had to walk down a set of stairs, and then up two more sets of stairs to the second apartment that they also own. I grabbed it and started sweeping the lower kitchen. I found a lot of ants scurrying around when sweeping the floor so I started sweeping outside the kitchen and got more ants, walking over to the trashcan necessitated me tapping the dustpan to shake the ants, thus making them fall back down to not escape. Soon the new guy came out of the office room, whom I will be calling Stuart. He just arrived here from the state of Washington today and remarked about the issue with the bill forcing the breakage of the seal of confession, we then went into the chapel for the reading of the Liturgy of the Hours, we 3 did that and then got out, I was gifted a black rosary by Stuart and tried to wear it like the missionary did, whom I will be calling Cliffe, but I had trouble getting it closed up so I just wore it like a necklace. Stuart told us he used to be a Pentecostal until he recently converted to Catholicism, apparently there were 9 bedrooms in the house yet only 4 people lived there in total even if it could house 18. I grabbed a lot of pamphlets and put them in my drawstring bag before we headed out. The first person we encountered was Kermit, the guy who was on the grill. He mentioned that he got these expensive shoes from over 40 years ago that set him back $3,000 which he related to getting a disease in his right foot that the doctors thought was gout but the treatment didn’t do anything. His foot ended up swelling up to the size of a football before they had to cut off a few toes. He was wearing an “I love my daughter” hat, held a shovel in his hand, and had an injury on the top of his right hand. I said to him:
“Hey dude you’re bleeding!”
He looked at his hand:
“I don’t know how I got that.”
Stuart said. We prayed for him and then walked to the bus stop. Stuart is from Whidbey Island. We walked to the bus stop and then encountered this guy named Deon. Deon had encountered Cliffe beforehand and I heard him talking about how he was shot in the back of the head in Chicago and his brother was shot to death. We got off at our stop and then walked to the cathedral and got lunch. I saw NT my coworker sitting outside but didn’t interact with them. Julie was in line and we talked with her for a while until they let us in. While in line I saw a painting which had Buddhist themes on it, I was absolutely disappointed that they would even allow this in the cathedral. I sat with Cliffe while Stuart sat with this other table. They were serving peaches and I ate one but accidentally dropped it and it rolled on my leg to the floor. Cliffe gave me a second one. We finished up eating before heading outside, there was this old Black guy with white skin spots who was talking to himself constantly, initially neither Cliffe nor I had the courage to talk to him (Stuart was still inside) there was this old Black lady walking her cat with one of those carts, I went over to the lady and asked her:
“What’s your cat’s name?”
She pulled the black cat in.
“Get away from me.”
Cliffe finally worked up the courage to talk to him and he just rambled on about how he was at a super low point in his life and something about a White guy and a Black guy on the bus. Cliffe gave up after a while and went over to the park to do a Bible study. This other Black woman joined us named Yolanda and we went over the readings for today. Julie didn’t seem to have her unibrow anymore but she was feeding the birds. We got through the first reading (Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18) when I pondered if the number of descendants of Abraham has exceeded the number of stars in the sky based on the number of Jewish and Arabic people born throughout time. We continued studying when this car pulled up and out came an angry Black lady shouting:
“YOU NEED TO BE QUIET RIGHT NOW!”
She was yelling at her child for something because of how disrespectful they were being. We continued and I found out that Stuart was born May 2nd, 2005. Cliffe talked about the 4 temperaments and how he was sanguine, I remember taking a test before and I got melancholic. Wikipedia had this nifty old drawing of the 4 temperaments:
We then started to make our way down to Cliffe’s usual evangelism spot and encountered a bunch of different people along the way:
June 25th, 2025 (Continued):
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“Hey dude you’re bleeding!”
He looked at his hand:
“I don’t know how I got that.”
Stuart said. We prayed for him and then walked to the bus stop. Stuart is from Whidbey Island. We walked to the bus stop and then encountered this guy named Deon. Deon had encountered Cliffe beforehand and I heard him talking about how he was shot in the back of the head in Chicago and his brother was shot to death. We got off at our stop and then walked to the cathedral and got lunch. I saw NT my coworker sitting outside but didn’t interact with them. Julie was in line and we talked with her for a while until they let us in. While in line I saw a painting which had Buddhist themes on it, I was absolutely disappointed that they would even allow this in the cathedral. I sat with Cliffe while Stuart sat with this other table. They were serving peaches and I ate one but accidentally dropped it and it rolled on my leg to the floor. Cliffe gave me a second one. We finished up eating before heading outside, there was this old Black guy with white skin spots who was talking to himself constantly, initially neither Cliffe nor I had the courage to talk to him (Stuart was still inside) there was this old Black lady walking her cat with one of those carts, I went over to the lady and asked her:
“What’s your cat’s name?”
She pulled the black cat in.
“Get away from me.”
Cliffe finally worked up the courage to talk to him and he just rambled on about how he was at a super low point in his life and something about a White guy and a Black guy on the bus. Cliffe gave up after a while and went over to the park to do a Bible study. This other Black woman joined us named Yolanda and we went over the readings for today. Julie didn’t seem to have her unibrow anymore but she was feeding the birds. We got through the first reading (Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18) when I pondered if the number of descendants of Abraham has exceeded the number of stars in the sky based on the number of Jewish and Arabic people born throughout time. We continued studying when this car pulled up and out came an angry Black lady shouting:
“YOU NEED TO BE QUIET RIGHT NOW!”
She was yelling at her child for something because of how disrespectful they were being. We continued and I found out that Stuart was born May 2nd, 2005. Cliffe talked about the 4 temperaments and how he was sanguine, I remember taking a test before and I got melancholic. Wikipedia had this nifty old drawing of the 4 temperaments:
We then started to make our way down to Cliffe’s usual evangelism spot and encountered a bunch of different people along the way:
June 25th, 2025 (Continued):
[*] Brown guy wearing an untied brown durag whose mom raised him and his sister before she couldn’t anymore and was forced to be raised in this Catholic homeless shelter, describes him, he was talking about his girlfriend of 2 weeks. He asked what a rosary was and then Stuart decided to take my rosary off of me at 2:08pm and I sadly did not resist. He mentioned thinking Feminism was a mistake as Stuart talked about reading The Case for Patriarchy. He said he was practicing Islam and while we were walking, we saw a high cost bike dented and an ambulance nearby because some guy intentionally opened his car door on a biker. I gave him one of the pamphlets I had and we walked off.
[*] Black guy working as a security guard for a hotel that was renovated to be a “data hotel” Stuart asked if Palantir was one of the clients and he said that it’s possible. He talked about his life and how he grew up Baptist going to this Baptist church north-northwest of our current position. The church had this pastor there that died in 2015 which led to his grandson replacing him as pastor and running it until now. We got into a bit of a debate on how many books there should be in the Bible, with him asking why we should not use the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s 88 book canon. He was nice enough to show us into the hotel a bit, Stuart and I found the two mirrors on the side amazing before we went back out.
[*] First person at the bus stop intersection was a guy that Cliffe knew named Curtis III, his story was that he had always struggled with an alcohol addiction but now his grandmother died 2 days ago and he was really losing it, he had a son CurtIs IV. He pulled out a plastic bottle of vodka from his sweatshirt that he said was just water. Cliffe offered to pray over him when Stuart gave him a hug. I noticed that he was crying. We gave him his prayer.
[*] Mexican guy that refused to talk to us, pretty sure he’s my coworker.
[*] 50 year old Black guy from Mississippi. When Cliffe asked him if he believes in God he said he believed in Allah, when questioned further, he said that he despised that the Christianity he grew up was segregated by the color of their skin and that the preachers were former pimps and thugs using their power to escape any consequences for their past ways. Cliffe was able to get him to open up in such a way that he had to have the Holy Spirit working through him. I asked if he wanted any pamphlets but he refused them. Had to be the longest we have talked to somebody. This is when Stuart called him “A Catholic Cliffe”
[*] A middle-aged guy Stuart and I tried approaching ourselves to put what we learned from Cliffe to the test but to no avail.
[*] This fat Black lady with extremely short hair that we saw wandering around a bit that had a shirt which exposed a lot of her cleavage, she came to us begging for money but Cliffe had none
[*] Two Jehovah’s Witnesses standing at the bus stop area off to the side with their pamphlets about not despairing over climate change, there was a White man and a Black woman. The White man said he grew up Catholic until he was 11 when he converted to his current religion. We had a debate on the trinity where Cliffe brought up ‘Before Abraham was, I am’ and how God couldn’t be all loving if there wasn’t a person to be created. Another woman joined and I talked to her before they packed up to leave for a 4:30 appointment.
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4 weeks ago#47519
June 25th, 2025: (Continued): We finished up after that and went to our bus stop to debrief. Stuart brough up how Black people were much more receptive to what we said as compared to White people. We eventually got and did our mid-evening liturgy of the hours on the bus towards the back, we did the first reading for yesterday and then the one for today because the 1 Samuel readings tied into each other about the rise of David, his friendship with Jonathan, and Saul’s initial hatred of him. When I looked up I saw Krystal and said hi to her and she returned the greeting but we didn’t get her involved. She got off and then I checked my phone to find out that my sister’s friend who I will be calling Taylor had followed me on Instagram, I followed him back. I went back to writing in this diary/blog when Stuart asked me:
“What are you writing?”
I answered honestly:
“I’m writing in my diary, I write my entries for the previous day today. Don’t worry I’ll write you down.”
We then got off at our stop and entered the dinner place. I was talking when Father Malachi said:
“Gemerson, I recognize that voice!”
We introduced Stuart to Father Malachi and more people ended up coming in later. Including Palmer, the South African, and Gerrardo, I haven’t seen Gerrardo in a long time which was super interesting, we had some amazing chicken and salad as Malachi played some country music, he said he was a Morgan Wallen guy despite looking nothing like a typical listener of Morgan Wallen, He also played some Josh Garrels because he’s Christian. Cliffe and I then went out to do our Evening prayer from the liturgy of the hours and then went out to where the Eucharistic adoration was being held. I sat with Cliffe, Stuart, and Gerrardo and prayed, I tried to pray the rosary without the rosary but failed. Elizabeth, Sideburns, one girl I met on Juneteenth, Quinn, this old guy I saw at the cookout at Cliffe’s place, and a few others were there. I was feeling kind of depressed but I got over it and decided to get into line for confession, but the mass rolled around I could get to confession, mass went over as normal and I was still feeling awful and couldn’t get myself to say most of the words, but once mass was done I first talked to the Juneteenth girl, she was a food volunteer and talked about learning Latin in school that she forgot. I talked to some more people when I talked to Quinn and this woman who he was frequently seen with, I talked to her one on one and I will be calling her Quinci, they knew each other because Quinn’s cousin married Quinci’s sister sometime in August 2 years ago, she was super nice and I got her Instagram before I had to head back and take a shower before going to sleep in the much nicer temperature.
Song of the Day: At The Table - Josh Garrels (2015)
“What are you writing?”
I answered honestly:
“I’m writing in my diary, I write my entries for the previous day today. Don’t worry I’ll write you down.”
We then got off at our stop and entered the dinner place. I was talking when Father Malachi said:
“Gemerson, I recognize that voice!”
We introduced Stuart to Father Malachi and more people ended up coming in later. Including Palmer, the South African, and Gerrardo, I haven’t seen Gerrardo in a long time which was super interesting, we had some amazing chicken and salad as Malachi played some country music, he said he was a Morgan Wallen guy despite looking nothing like a typical listener of Morgan Wallen, He also played some Josh Garrels because he’s Christian. Cliffe and I then went out to do our Evening prayer from the liturgy of the hours and then went out to where the Eucharistic adoration was being held. I sat with Cliffe, Stuart, and Gerrardo and prayed, I tried to pray the rosary without the rosary but failed. Elizabeth, Sideburns, one girl I met on Juneteenth, Quinn, this old guy I saw at the cookout at Cliffe’s place, and a few others were there. I was feeling kind of depressed but I got over it and decided to get into line for confession, but the mass rolled around I could get to confession, mass went over as normal and I was still feeling awful and couldn’t get myself to say most of the words, but once mass was done I first talked to the Juneteenth girl, she was a food volunteer and talked about learning Latin in school that she forgot. I talked to some more people when I talked to Quinn and this woman who he was frequently seen with, I talked to her one on one and I will be calling her Quinci, they knew each other because Quinn’s cousin married Quinci’s sister sometime in August 2 years ago, she was super nice and I got her Instagram before I had to head back and take a shower before going to sleep in the much nicer temperature.
Song of the Day: At The Table - Josh Garrels (2015)
4 weeks ago#47521
June 26th, 2025: Back to work today, I woke up at 6:00am with the sun and spent most of my early morning working on my blog entry for the previous day due to how event filled it was. I was writing for like an hour before I had my breakfast of off brand lucky charms and milk. I eventually walked over to the bus stop at 9:45am and got on, I saw this woman I knew on the bus with her headphones on reading some normie book. I tried to say hi to her but she didn’t hear me. I got to work at 10:20am. I got into work and clocked in first thing. I checked the task list that Jesse gave me and it was mostly the normal stuff. First thing was dealing with some shipments we got, which as usual was Max reading off the list as we checked for it on the pallets. I had to take some cheese stuff, some cardboard boxes filled with beef, and a box of chicken, the cooler ended up crowded with the chicken box giving me flashbacks to my time at Kwik Trip when I would have to stock the boxes of chicken that this other guy would then fry, I always took my breaks at 10:45am when the chicken guy would clock in at 10:00am to fry chicken (although one of them was a woman) so the good food would only be out when I got back from lunch. When I got done with that, overheard Max saying:
“… With my birthday being December 26th, it would always be that it was just merged with Christmas but I was the odd one out in my family, all my brothers were born in July…”
I went to help John put the stuff in the warehouse as the dubstep guy put the stuff we already needed out. I helped John put the pasta stuff in numerical order on the shelf because it was one of my pet peeves. While I was walking back down Bill saw me while he was preparing dough balls for sale, he asked:
“Gemerson, do you want some dough?”
I said yes and ate a little bit, enjoying the flavor. I walked around to see what I could do and started on stocking the beverage aisle. Will had provided us some chicken soup for lunch.. Around this time it was 12:30pm so I decided to go for lunch. Bill gave me some more dough but Will found it disgusting and said I was going to get sick. I had my lunch and talked with Jill a bit more. She said she wanted to become a cashier while Hill tried to convince her to join our department. I went out to a different spot and wore my Sicilia hat, Tiffany said:
“Are you Italian?”
I replied:
“No I’m not, why does everybody think I’m Italian.”
She said:
“I don’t, I just saw the Sicily hat!”
“I mean it’s Italian.”
“Sicilians aren’t Italian?”
“What are you talking about Tiffany, Sicily is in Italy!"
“It’s a separate island”
“Still under the jurisdiction of Italy!”
“It wasn’t always. My great grandfather was Sicilian and he’d get mad if you’d call him Italian.”
She talked about the North-South divide in Italy with all the industries like Ferrari up in the north while the farms were in the south, plus the mob presence in Sicily driving up crime. She asked me what my Pentecost medallion was and I explained that I got it from my sponsor for confirmation Joseph. I saw on Snapchat that Skeleton had posted something funny. I ended up going back to work to clean the windows in the store. I had my first break where I wrote more and pointed at fAsherah. I saw Biker and his girlfriend again. I checked in with Anne to find out that there wouldn’t be any deliveries until Saturday so that was out. I started on my closing tasks first by cleaning the bathrooms but Biker was in one of them so I had to wait. He came out and then I cleaned that one before doing the scrubbing, when the scrubbing was done I talked to an employee making a tiny pizza.
“What’s the pizza for?”
“It’s my dinner!”
I said bye to Jab and then emptied the trashes before facing up, I had a bus to catch to an event so I left a bit early, when I got out at 6:35pm I ran over to the bus stop to the Catholic social event I saw the guy who looked like Noahmusic2009 on the way wearing a Skibidi Toilet t-shirt. I ran and got there just in time for the bus, taking the bus all the way down to this college and then walking to a former industrial area, down some stairs, and then into the brewery and bar combined. I was one of the few people there at 6:57am, but more people trickled in, when I got my ticket for the free beer I walked over and ordered a tall glass of this golden ale, I handed my ID over to the bartender and she remarked:
“You’re making me feel old, I graduated high school in the year [2003] you were born.”
It’s quite interesting how that puts time into perspective. I got my ale and went over to the socialization space. I sipped a few before I first talked to this guy who used to live in Chicago before moving here. He remarked that everything was so much less expensive here as compared to Chicago. He graduated college in 2023. The next person I talked to was this woman who seemed nervous and shy. I decided to talk to her because she was standing alone. She hadn’t redeemed her ticket yet but she was super shy. I ended up getting this small pork sandwich that cost 16 dollars for my dinner and ate it as this friend of Cliffe talked to me about who he was. I remember him saying he was 34 years old or something, during this chat I saw the shy girl walk out alone. The next person I talked to was the leader of the event, she gave me a slice of dried mango. One girl I ended up talking to was the one who I asked for her Instagram but she shot me down. She told me that her parents are from Kerala, India and she graduated recently from the same college as I attend. The girl seemed more interested in me. Eventually she went off to talk to others and at 8:30am I took the bus home. I had a girl over and we watched an episode of Family guy with the Mr. Booze song and cuddled a bit before she left. (No we didn’t have sex)
Song of the Day: La Isla Bonita - Madonna (1986)
“… With my birthday being December 26th, it would always be that it was just merged with Christmas but I was the odd one out in my family, all my brothers were born in July…”
I went to help John put the stuff in the warehouse as the dubstep guy put the stuff we already needed out. I helped John put the pasta stuff in numerical order on the shelf because it was one of my pet peeves. While I was walking back down Bill saw me while he was preparing dough balls for sale, he asked:
“Gemerson, do you want some dough?”
I said yes and ate a little bit, enjoying the flavor. I walked around to see what I could do and started on stocking the beverage aisle. Will had provided us some chicken soup for lunch.. Around this time it was 12:30pm so I decided to go for lunch. Bill gave me some more dough but Will found it disgusting and said I was going to get sick. I had my lunch and talked with Jill a bit more. She said she wanted to become a cashier while Hill tried to convince her to join our department. I went out to a different spot and wore my Sicilia hat, Tiffany said:
“Are you Italian?”
I replied:
“No I’m not, why does everybody think I’m Italian.”
She said:
“I don’t, I just saw the Sicily hat!”
“I mean it’s Italian.”
“Sicilians aren’t Italian?”
“What are you talking about Tiffany, Sicily is in Italy!"
“It’s a separate island”
“Still under the jurisdiction of Italy!”
“It wasn’t always. My great grandfather was Sicilian and he’d get mad if you’d call him Italian.”
She talked about the North-South divide in Italy with all the industries like Ferrari up in the north while the farms were in the south, plus the mob presence in Sicily driving up crime. She asked me what my Pentecost medallion was and I explained that I got it from my sponsor for confirmation Joseph. I saw on Snapchat that Skeleton had posted something funny. I ended up going back to work to clean the windows in the store. I had my first break where I wrote more and pointed at fAsherah. I saw Biker and his girlfriend again. I checked in with Anne to find out that there wouldn’t be any deliveries until Saturday so that was out. I started on my closing tasks first by cleaning the bathrooms but Biker was in one of them so I had to wait. He came out and then I cleaned that one before doing the scrubbing, when the scrubbing was done I talked to an employee making a tiny pizza.
“What’s the pizza for?”
“It’s my dinner!”
I said bye to Jab and then emptied the trashes before facing up, I had a bus to catch to an event so I left a bit early, when I got out at 6:35pm I ran over to the bus stop to the Catholic social event I saw the guy who looked like Noahmusic2009 on the way wearing a Skibidi Toilet t-shirt. I ran and got there just in time for the bus, taking the bus all the way down to this college and then walking to a former industrial area, down some stairs, and then into the brewery and bar combined. I was one of the few people there at 6:57am, but more people trickled in, when I got my ticket for the free beer I walked over and ordered a tall glass of this golden ale, I handed my ID over to the bartender and she remarked:
“You’re making me feel old, I graduated high school in the year [2003] you were born.”
It’s quite interesting how that puts time into perspective. I got my ale and went over to the socialization space. I sipped a few before I first talked to this guy who used to live in Chicago before moving here. He remarked that everything was so much less expensive here as compared to Chicago. He graduated college in 2023. The next person I talked to was this woman who seemed nervous and shy. I decided to talk to her because she was standing alone. She hadn’t redeemed her ticket yet but she was super shy. I ended up getting this small pork sandwich that cost 16 dollars for my dinner and ate it as this friend of Cliffe talked to me about who he was. I remember him saying he was 34 years old or something, during this chat I saw the shy girl walk out alone. The next person I talked to was the leader of the event, she gave me a slice of dried mango. One girl I ended up talking to was the one who I asked for her Instagram but she shot me down. She told me that her parents are from Kerala, India and she graduated recently from the same college as I attend. The girl seemed more interested in me. Eventually she went off to talk to others and at 8:30am I took the bus home. I had a girl over and we watched an episode of Family guy with the Mr. Booze song and cuddled a bit before she left. (No we didn’t have sex)
Song of the Day: La Isla Bonita - Madonna (1986)
4 weeks ago#47523
June 27th, 2025: Dance today, I made myself some cereal but I forgot I didn’t have any milk so I ran to the convenience store to get a half gallon of whole milk and ran back, I had no coffee ground so I walked over to a coffee place that I had never been to before, at 8:26am I bought this coffee that I had never had before and this Muslim woman brought it out to me, I tried the coffee, it was very bitter and hot but I had my qualms about just dumping it out. I had therapy at 9:15am today so I took the bus over to the building. I got in and waited for a bit, sipping my coffee. I finally went into the session after 9:15am because my therapist was later than me. We chatted mostly about my social life and I finally opened up to her about the incident with Asherah where Asherah blew me off because she clearly liked Logan. It was 9:45am so I had to leave to go to work. I walked to work along a path that I had never taken before and then crossed some streets. Finally I finished my coffee and there was this large amount of spices with the consistency of wet sand that I slurped down. I picked up a paper coffee cup and threw it in the trash along with my cup before getting to work. I checked my task list for what to do and I sadly had to clean shelf tags and stock the frozen aisle. When I went upstairs I saw a bunch of wiring going on, I followed it to the attic to see that the door to the outside was opened for the first time in forever, I asked the guy with the neon yellow vest what he was doing and he just said:
“Ingles?”
I got to my normal tasks first before I started on the frozen aisle, I made my normal pull list when I noticed we were severely low on meat lasagnas, I then went into the freezer to find out that we were all out. I asked Jesse if they were just misplaced but he said no. Bill ended up giving me another small piece of dough to eat. Will, Jesse, John, and I were all down in our main area when Will said:
“Hey Gemerson, I got some expired liver pate if you want that?”
I accepted it but I didn’t think I was going to like it so I clocked out for lunch and ate the smoked liver pate with hot sauce on top of it.
The hot sauce made it tolerable and fAsherah was eating lunch at the same time as me. Tiffany started working after my lunch break so I mentioned her, fAsherah complained so much about Tiffany constantly going on long bathroom breaks and being on her phone, she remarked:
“I only want to get promoted to manager so I can fire her.”
I checked Instagram and I saw this story at 12:37pm from the girl living in Green Bay:
<Nearly crashed out today. I had a kid projectile vomit all over me and the floor. Our landline work phones don’t work on our side of the building so we have to rely on a group messaging app. I’m trying to change the kid who threw up, my co is cleaning up the floor, trying to anyway. Nobody is answering
<I can’t deal with puke, the smell is horrendous, it’s also all fucking over me. 5 mins later, still nothing, I’m literally begging for someone just to step in so I can get a new shirt from the office
<My coworker comes in to help, to my surprise, the office door is shut, my bosses just in there giggling. I’m pissed. Luckily my coworker had an extra shirt. I then go back to look to see if we had a response, all there was is a “🤣” reaction to my message in the groupchat, FROM MY BOSS
<I quite literally almost lost my shit.
And then there was her other Instagram story she had:
<So last summer, we went up north to Rhinelander and I went to this body care shop, they also did like tarot stuff. Everything was either handmade or locally/naturally sourced. Anyhow. They had all of these fragrance oils to make your own perfume, which I did because I love perfume and it’s something I collect
<The last few times I’ve checked their website, they weren’t doing online orders. But this week I officially ran out, so I was desperate! I checked again today and they now do online orders! I placed my order literally THIS MORNING and it’s already been shipped!!
<I will now have a refilled bottle of my signature and one-of-a-kind perfume. Life is good. Support small businesses gang 🤎
When Tiffany entered the bathroom, I made a bet that she wouldn’t leave the bathroom until after my break was done in 4 minutes, I won the bet and got back to work. I cleaned the shelf and heard fAsherah mentioned that Krystal wants to go on a ‘goth barge’ aka a boat where they play a bunch of goth music on it. I went on my first 15 minute break when Tiffany went on her lunch break. She had an egg in a plastic bag she microwaved and some chocolate pancakes. I complimented her on wearing overalls properly (her outfit was an oversized long sleeved crop top, a “overall skirt”, and what looked like a black one piece swimsuit.) She ended up throwing away most of the pancakes and I was absolutely disappointed in her. I got to cleaning the shelf tags but it was not as bad as last time, I was up front with Anne and she said with my fancy outfit (red button-down, black dress pants, a belt, and my Sicily hat) that I was dressed up just like that one previous time, she recommended that this other cashier dress up fancy. I had extra time before I had to take my break and then close so I sat up in the office. Lebanon came in and he talked about issues with his suppliers and his baby’s birthday. I asked what it was and he said that she turned 3 at the end of August. I overheard some car playing Mother by Danzig. I then got started on all my closing tasks, while I was scrubbing the floor I saw the Daeguite at the store, I said hi to her as she asked me what I was doing after work, I told her that I was going to the dance and she said she had to catch the bus in 10 minutes so i said goodbye. I took the bus back home and changed my outfit to a white Paul Fredrick 100% cotton long sleeved button-down and a black suit over it. I brushed my teeth, applied more deodorant, shaved, and washed my face. I went out to the bus to find out it skipped when I needed it the most, it finally came at 7:48pm and it was just filled with Summerfest normies no older than 20. This group of girls filmed a TikTok of one of them twerking and I just looked the other way at the soullessness. At one stop downtown they just cleared out of the rolling sardine can, I got off of my bus at 8:10pm and walked over to get there 10 minutes later in the middle of this dance demonstration. I saw that Adam was also here and French Paul the super good dancer was leading the demonstration with this woman who I would be calling Yor, Loid’s (He was at the beer event yesterday and Cliffe’s birthday party) sister. I remember all three were at the last dance. I got in and talked to this one fat Lutheran girl that Elizabeth and I tried to convince to come to the Wednesday evening events with us, but she wouldn’t budge. I ate these cookies that were being served and someone said they were super addicting. For most of the dance I didn’t actually dance with other women, for the second practice dance, I was cycled around through the women like all the other men and I danced with this one super short girl that reminded me of a younger Thing Beta. I went around a bit more and then I went over to this table near the front entrance where I overheard this one Spanish looking girl saying:
“I hang out here just to try to get a guy to ask me to dance!”
I raised my hand to her to ask to dance. We did a standard waltz as we learned about each other (I forgot most of it.) and then bowed after that was done, I walked around a bit more and drank some of the sodas they had. I saw this one girl I fancied Margaret, she was one of those White-passing Spanish people. She and her friend asked where the bathroom was. I showed her where this alternate one was because the main one was occupied. After a while she came back to the dance floor and I finally asked her to dance, she accepted and I talked to her throughout, she lives in Racine and came from a family of 6 siblings (like my mom) all living (unlike my mom) and has a lot of cousins, but none of them have any kids, she didn’t go to college but dealt with 1 and 2 year olds for her job. I was enamored. There was this one dance consisting of 4 lines that looked fun to be in but I didn’t get a partner for that. I danced with her friend one time and then a bit later tried dancing with her again but I caught her as she was leaving. We danced some more when I saw this guy doing an Irish tap dance, I recorded it because I just had to and posted it in the groupchat. At 10:40pm when I ran over to the bus, I got on and at the Summerfest stop, a bunch of people came on including Norah and this guy who at first I thought was a creep but then I assumed he was her boyfriend because he had his arm around her, but then I thought they were siblings because of the facial shape. They got off at their stop and I got off at mine. I took a shower immediately and then posted my blog entry at 11:59pm.
Song of the Day: Mother - Danzig (1988)
“Ingles?”
I got to my normal tasks first before I started on the frozen aisle, I made my normal pull list when I noticed we were severely low on meat lasagnas, I then went into the freezer to find out that we were all out. I asked Jesse if they were just misplaced but he said no. Bill ended up giving me another small piece of dough to eat. Will, Jesse, John, and I were all down in our main area when Will said:
“Hey Gemerson, I got some expired liver pate if you want that?”
I accepted it but I didn’t think I was going to like it so I clocked out for lunch and ate the smoked liver pate with hot sauce on top of it.
The hot sauce made it tolerable and fAsherah was eating lunch at the same time as me. Tiffany started working after my lunch break so I mentioned her, fAsherah complained so much about Tiffany constantly going on long bathroom breaks and being on her phone, she remarked:
“I only want to get promoted to manager so I can fire her.”
I checked Instagram and I saw this story at 12:37pm from the girl living in Green Bay:
<Nearly crashed out today. I had a kid projectile vomit all over me and the floor. Our landline work phones don’t work on our side of the building so we have to rely on a group messaging app. I’m trying to change the kid who threw up, my co is cleaning up the floor, trying to anyway. Nobody is answering
<I can’t deal with puke, the smell is horrendous, it’s also all fucking over me. 5 mins later, still nothing, I’m literally begging for someone just to step in so I can get a new shirt from the office
<My coworker comes in to help, to my surprise, the office door is shut, my bosses just in there giggling. I’m pissed. Luckily my coworker had an extra shirt. I then go back to look to see if we had a response, all there was is a “🤣” reaction to my message in the groupchat, FROM MY BOSS
<I quite literally almost lost my shit.
And then there was her other Instagram story she had:
<So last summer, we went up north to Rhinelander and I went to this body care shop, they also did like tarot stuff. Everything was either handmade or locally/naturally sourced. Anyhow. They had all of these fragrance oils to make your own perfume, which I did because I love perfume and it’s something I collect
<The last few times I’ve checked their website, they weren’t doing online orders. But this week I officially ran out, so I was desperate! I checked again today and they now do online orders! I placed my order literally THIS MORNING and it’s already been shipped!!
<I will now have a refilled bottle of my signature and one-of-a-kind perfume. Life is good. Support small businesses gang 🤎
When Tiffany entered the bathroom, I made a bet that she wouldn’t leave the bathroom until after my break was done in 4 minutes, I won the bet and got back to work. I cleaned the shelf and heard fAsherah mentioned that Krystal wants to go on a ‘goth barge’ aka a boat where they play a bunch of goth music on it. I went on my first 15 minute break when Tiffany went on her lunch break. She had an egg in a plastic bag she microwaved and some chocolate pancakes. I complimented her on wearing overalls properly (her outfit was an oversized long sleeved crop top, a “overall skirt”, and what looked like a black one piece swimsuit.) She ended up throwing away most of the pancakes and I was absolutely disappointed in her. I got to cleaning the shelf tags but it was not as bad as last time, I was up front with Anne and she said with my fancy outfit (red button-down, black dress pants, a belt, and my Sicily hat) that I was dressed up just like that one previous time, she recommended that this other cashier dress up fancy. I had extra time before I had to take my break and then close so I sat up in the office. Lebanon came in and he talked about issues with his suppliers and his baby’s birthday. I asked what it was and he said that she turned 3 at the end of August. I overheard some car playing Mother by Danzig. I then got started on all my closing tasks, while I was scrubbing the floor I saw the Daeguite at the store, I said hi to her as she asked me what I was doing after work, I told her that I was going to the dance and she said she had to catch the bus in 10 minutes so i said goodbye. I took the bus back home and changed my outfit to a white Paul Fredrick 100% cotton long sleeved button-down and a black suit over it. I brushed my teeth, applied more deodorant, shaved, and washed my face. I went out to the bus to find out it skipped when I needed it the most, it finally came at 7:48pm and it was just filled with Summerfest normies no older than 20. This group of girls filmed a TikTok of one of them twerking and I just looked the other way at the soullessness. At one stop downtown they just cleared out of the rolling sardine can, I got off of my bus at 8:10pm and walked over to get there 10 minutes later in the middle of this dance demonstration. I saw that Adam was also here and French Paul the super good dancer was leading the demonstration with this woman who I would be calling Yor, Loid’s (He was at the beer event yesterday and Cliffe’s birthday party) sister. I remember all three were at the last dance. I got in and talked to this one fat Lutheran girl that Elizabeth and I tried to convince to come to the Wednesday evening events with us, but she wouldn’t budge. I ate these cookies that were being served and someone said they were super addicting. For most of the dance I didn’t actually dance with other women, for the second practice dance, I was cycled around through the women like all the other men and I danced with this one super short girl that reminded me of a younger Thing Beta. I went around a bit more and then I went over to this table near the front entrance where I overheard this one Spanish looking girl saying:
“I hang out here just to try to get a guy to ask me to dance!”
I raised my hand to her to ask to dance. We did a standard waltz as we learned about each other (I forgot most of it.) and then bowed after that was done, I walked around a bit more and drank some of the sodas they had. I saw this one girl I fancied Margaret, she was one of those White-passing Spanish people. She and her friend asked where the bathroom was. I showed her where this alternate one was because the main one was occupied. After a while she came back to the dance floor and I finally asked her to dance, she accepted and I talked to her throughout, she lives in Racine and came from a family of 6 siblings (like my mom) all living (unlike my mom) and has a lot of cousins, but none of them have any kids, she didn’t go to college but dealt with 1 and 2 year olds for her job. I was enamored. There was this one dance consisting of 4 lines that looked fun to be in but I didn’t get a partner for that. I danced with her friend one time and then a bit later tried dancing with her again but I caught her as she was leaving. We danced some more when I saw this guy doing an Irish tap dance, I recorded it because I just had to and posted it in the groupchat. At 10:40pm when I ran over to the bus, I got on and at the Summerfest stop, a bunch of people came on including Norah and this guy who at first I thought was a creep but then I assumed he was her boyfriend because he had his arm around her, but then I thought they were siblings because of the facial shape. They got off at their stop and I got off at mine. I took a shower immediately and then posted my blog entry at 11:59pm.
Song of the Day: Mother - Danzig (1988)
4 weeks ago#47525
June 28th, 2025: Another Saturday today. I woke up at 6:30am and made myself some off brand lucky charms with milk in them. I didn’t have any more coffee grounds left so I delayed getting coffee for myself. I wrote in my blog a bit more before heading out to work on the bus. I got in a bit later than usual for today but I clocked in at 9:23am to check my task list out. I went to the office to put a coffee cup in the Keurig and brewed my 12 ounces of hot Joe. I grabbed that a bit later after sticking half of the beverage aisle and put some french vanilla powdered creamer in it. A bit later Jesse came down to where I was working to give me my walkie-talkie and told me:
“By the way there’s gonna be a group of nude bicyclists coming by our store today, I'll tell you when to come out!”
After that I worked on sweeping outside because it was on my task list, not because of the nude bikers. I got that done and went in for my first break, I got off of that and noticed that fAsherah wasn’t here today. I was bummed out. I continued with my next task of watering the plants. While I was watering the plants, Lebanon came out to me and told me he had 1 cinnamon twist and that he wanted me to have the other half as a thanks for all I do for their department. It was a hassle to set that up and also a hassle to take the hose back down. At this time I went in and ordered this spicy muffaletta sandwich from Folsade. At this time I saw Biker and his girlfriend yet again. I also got a chinotto soda and then Anne asked me:
“What does that taste like?”
I replied:
“It’s sort of like a mix between standard cola and an orange, but not like those orange cream Coca-Cola bottle.”
I went to the breakroom for lunch and ate my sandwich while sitting opposite of Jill, we didn’t talk that much and I only ate half of my sandwich because it was way too oily and put it in the fridge to save for tomorrow. I went outside and ate the cinnamon twist and wrote in my blog as I waited for it to end. I got back to work and completed the last of my tasks assigned to me. One of which was to sweep and mop upstairs. I tried that first with the drymop and only was able to do it for one half of the upstairs before resorting to the trusty old broom and dustpan. When I went on break for the second time, Hill was cleaning the bathrooms while I overheard Biker calling for Tiffany’s order, I didn’t see her at all and then Biker asked me:
“Is Tiffany up there?”
I yelled for her but she didn’t respond, a bit later she came out of the bathroom. I didn’t have much to do after my break so I waited a bit before starting my closing tasks early, I talked to Hill and Anne about helping her with setup. So I got that done and started on facing a part of the store at 5:15pm, but at 5:17pm I was told by Hill:
“Anne is ready.”
I went back to put some stuff in the truck and we drove to the spot. It was a pozzed wedding place for two White people, we unloaded and had to put all the trays out on the table. I was in charge of filling the pans with 1 inch of hot water again. There was a photobook with a Polaroid camera that I was tempted to take a photo of myself or Anne and put it in there. When we were about to leave, the couple asked for plates and utensils because they didn’t order. Anne offered to bring them for no charge. On the drive back we finally encountered the naked bikers. It consisted mostly of naked old White men with small penises, there were some younger men, including one on a skateboard, a few naked women, and this one porn-sick tranny. Some of them waved to us so I waved back, Anne did not. We got off at 5:54pm and I finished my last closing tasks before paying for an Arizona iced tea and then clocking out. I took the alternate route because I missed my bus and took it, I got off and then walked home. When I got home I got on the computer and posted on KiwiFarms about wanting a Pink Triangle. This user named Nulltley told me:
<Post your face on here again and start talking about how much you want Zoey to go to church I'm sure that'll do the trick
I replied:
>I want a triangle not a thread.
And he informed me:
<You can have both at the same time. Just ask @Claudio Hernández Castañeda
I got YouTube set up on James’ TV and watched the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver thing on AI Slop, holy shit Boomers are cattle, they eat obviously AI generated shit up, but in typical John Oliver fashion, he does the obvious John Oliver with an over the top joke with the purple cabbage guy wood statue. I proceeded to watch the last 2 episodes of UsefulChart’s Who Was Jesus Really about him being secret identities, (My ranking for likeness is: Secret Grandson of Herod > Judas of Galilee > The Egyptian > and Emperor Titus in last place) I then went to the convenience store and bought some ice cream, on the way there one guy asked me for money. My favorite employee Spencer was outside so I said hi to him, I got inside and found the stuff I wanted, bought it, and then walked back home to be begged for money by two more Black guys. I finally took a shower and went to sleep on the couch.
Song of the Day: Pink Triangle - Weezer (1997)
“By the way there’s gonna be a group of nude bicyclists coming by our store today, I'll tell you when to come out!”
After that I worked on sweeping outside because it was on my task list, not because of the nude bikers. I got that done and went in for my first break, I got off of that and noticed that fAsherah wasn’t here today. I was bummed out. I continued with my next task of watering the plants. While I was watering the plants, Lebanon came out to me and told me he had 1 cinnamon twist and that he wanted me to have the other half as a thanks for all I do for their department. It was a hassle to set that up and also a hassle to take the hose back down. At this time I went in and ordered this spicy muffaletta sandwich from Folsade. At this time I saw Biker and his girlfriend yet again. I also got a chinotto soda and then Anne asked me:
“What does that taste like?”
I replied:
“It’s sort of like a mix between standard cola and an orange, but not like those orange cream Coca-Cola bottle.”
I went to the breakroom for lunch and ate my sandwich while sitting opposite of Jill, we didn’t talk that much and I only ate half of my sandwich because it was way too oily and put it in the fridge to save for tomorrow. I went outside and ate the cinnamon twist and wrote in my blog as I waited for it to end. I got back to work and completed the last of my tasks assigned to me. One of which was to sweep and mop upstairs. I tried that first with the drymop and only was able to do it for one half of the upstairs before resorting to the trusty old broom and dustpan. When I went on break for the second time, Hill was cleaning the bathrooms while I overheard Biker calling for Tiffany’s order, I didn’t see her at all and then Biker asked me:
“Is Tiffany up there?”
I yelled for her but she didn’t respond, a bit later she came out of the bathroom. I didn’t have much to do after my break so I waited a bit before starting my closing tasks early, I talked to Hill and Anne about helping her with setup. So I got that done and started on facing a part of the store at 5:15pm, but at 5:17pm I was told by Hill:
“Anne is ready.”
I went back to put some stuff in the truck and we drove to the spot. It was a pozzed wedding place for two White people, we unloaded and had to put all the trays out on the table. I was in charge of filling the pans with 1 inch of hot water again. There was a photobook with a Polaroid camera that I was tempted to take a photo of myself or Anne and put it in there. When we were about to leave, the couple asked for plates and utensils because they didn’t order. Anne offered to bring them for no charge. On the drive back we finally encountered the naked bikers. It consisted mostly of naked old White men with small penises, there were some younger men, including one on a skateboard, a few naked women, and this one porn-sick tranny. Some of them waved to us so I waved back, Anne did not. We got off at 5:54pm and I finished my last closing tasks before paying for an Arizona iced tea and then clocking out. I took the alternate route because I missed my bus and took it, I got off and then walked home. When I got home I got on the computer and posted on KiwiFarms about wanting a Pink Triangle. This user named Nulltley told me:
<Post your face on here again and start talking about how much you want Zoey to go to church I'm sure that'll do the trick
I replied:
>I want a triangle not a thread.
And he informed me:
<You can have both at the same time. Just ask @Claudio Hernández Castañeda
I got YouTube set up on James’ TV and watched the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver thing on AI Slop, holy shit Boomers are cattle, they eat obviously AI generated shit up, but in typical John Oliver fashion, he does the obvious John Oliver with an over the top joke with the purple cabbage guy wood statue. I proceeded to watch the last 2 episodes of UsefulChart’s Who Was Jesus Really about him being secret identities, (My ranking for likeness is: Secret Grandson of Herod > Judas of Galilee > The Egyptian > and Emperor Titus in last place) I then went to the convenience store and bought some ice cream, on the way there one guy asked me for money. My favorite employee Spencer was outside so I said hi to him, I got inside and found the stuff I wanted, bought it, and then walked back home to be begged for money by two more Black guys. I finally took a shower and went to sleep on the couch.
Song of the Day: Pink Triangle - Weezer (1997)
4 weeks ago#47526
June 29th, 2025: The feast of Saints Peter and Paul today! I woke up at 6:45am because my alarm went silent again, breakfast was cereal with milk but no milk. I sat around for a bit until I had to walk to the bus for work. I got on (still didn’t have to pay at all because I’m over my monthly cap) and sat in the back before getting off at my stop. I walked in and brewed myself some coffee before checking my task list for the day, it was actually super easy and I completed my beverage cooler task plus some outside sweeping before my first break. I went on my first break and wrote in my blog for it. I saw Anne during my first break and asked her:
“Do we have any deliveries today?”
She told me that they were just standard dropoff ones. So I wouldn’t be needed. My next task was to stock the condiments and the salad dressings. I didn’t find most of the condiments in the warehouse except for a few that we sold regardless. I took them out and had Paula say hi to me first for once, I said hi back. When I went to empty Paula’s department’s cardboard out of the dumpster. She was the one to thank me instead of her manager or Lebanon. I remembered that I had my half eaten hot sandwich for lunch, but I went down to buy a small thing of milk to drink for my break. I clocked out and went upstairs. When I went upstairs, I got on my phone and checked Instagram to find that the art history major had sent me this reel about a “Storytime” criticizing low-church (and low IQ) non-denominationals at 10:53am, I replied:
>I keep getting these ads for this slop megachurch in this city that is so low-denomination.
<omg i love going on their websites to see how weird their beliefs are and if they’re secretly baptist bc most are
>THEY’RE ALL BAPTISTS WITH UGLIER BUILDINGS.
<my mom calls them cryptobaptists
>My roommate is a Baptist but I’m not sure what his opinions on them are
<you should ask
<see how well that goes
>He’s in Fort Knox and doesn’t have phone communication.
<ah i see
Once I got off of my lunch break, I finished up my last task before asking if I could power wash in the back. Jesse gave me the green light and I brought out the gas powered power washer and put it on the lift. I turned it on and then instantly got hit with the smell. I realized that this would be a huge mistake and turned it off. Jesse came down to say exactly that and I put away the gas power washer and put in the weaker electric power washer. I hooked it up to the hose and then Tiffany came into the back to say to me wearing improperly buttoned overalls:
“Someone threw up in the woman’s bathroom and I need you to clean it.”
I gave the BPD princess sass:
“Isn’t that your job.”
She replied:
“Well why don’t we trade jobs, I’ll power wash and you clean up.”
“But you don’t know how to power wash.”
“I’ll just learn!”
“Ok, when you go on your break, come in the back and I’ll teach you how to power wash.”
I went into the bathroom with rags, disinfectant wipes, and pinesol, I sprayed it with pinesol and coughed multiple times doing it. I got it disinfected and then threw away the white cloth rags in the trash. I was kind of efficient in the back near the freezer and cooler but there were so many people getting in my way, Matt, Folsade, and Tony got in my way so I moved closer to the garage door, I only got a few stains out more towards the garage, I got a strawberry Fanta soda when I went on break. I remembered it was fAsherah’s 24th birthday so I sent her a happy birthday message. She replied back with the pointing emoji. I then got finished without teaching Tiffany about power washing. I got started on my closing tasks and then clocked out, I walked up to buy some Blood Orangecello within eyesight of Tiffany and that one Noahmusic2009 lookalike. I then went home and passed by this littered area and I was just disgusted.
I got into my apartment and relaxed a bit before receiving a text from my mom asking me to call her, I told her I would after church, I walked down there and arrived at 6:50pm, Lucas was there and so was Joseph, he came over to me and said that they missed me and said:
“There’s no point of having church if you’re not gonna come.”
I don’t know why but I just felt so guilted. I proceeded with the mass and just felt spiritually dry. I have grown out of my Boomer parish but now I’m back here. The sermon was on how the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul had different spiritual journeys (Peter had a lot more stumbling blocks, Paul was more instantaneous) compared to each other. We then did the Nicene creed and then the prayers. I ended up seeing Pete come in late and when I was doing communion. I was in the Eucharistic minister's line for this old woman who I’m pretty sure thought that having a kid at 40 was a great idea although from what I can tell, the girl turned out to be normal. I saw Isaiah go into the priest’s line which I saluted him for and then after mass I walked home. I got in and called my mom two times, the first time went to voicemail while the second time went to voicemail but she accepted in the middle of it. I talked about my life as they mentioned that they were at Jamie’s house in Portland, Oregon with his wife and his sons Jacob (21) and Eli (19), The story surrounding those two is that when I was 4, or in 2008, my dad got a job in St. Louis, Missouri which caused my family to ‘move’ to Edwardsville, Illinois for the school year. I still went back home on the weekends but I spent my entire pre-K year there, because Jacob also had a birthday party in early September. We had a merged birthday party and that’s how we became friends, his younger brother always tagged along and he joined my friend circle. Those were the only friends I ever remembered making there because I was a rowdy kid. One time I tipped a girl off of her cot (It was really low to the ground) due to her not getting up after the teacher said naptime had ended. I got in trouble for that. But I eventually remember having one last playdate with the two at the end of the school year at a train museum because they were moving to Oregon. I had the choice of going to my grandma’s house in Michigan in July or driving to Denver, Colorado in early August. I decided on grandma’s house because it would be the last time. My mom and her siblings sold it to a rich family. My mom praised me for the social events I went to but was pressing me to try antidepressants and said I was depressed My dad was also there and we ended up chatting for quite a while, I remember him saying things like:
“...six degrees of separation!”
And this thing near the end where he said:
“I am getting stickers galore, I am a sticker magnet. Anyways I need to take a shower because I didn’t smell good, I know I don’t smell good now.”
I ended the call mutually after 30 minutes and then went to take a shower. I did this while it was raining outside and enjoyed the sound of it. I finally went to bed again on the couch.
Song of the Day: Am I A Demon - Danzig (1988)
“Do we have any deliveries today?”
She told me that they were just standard dropoff ones. So I wouldn’t be needed. My next task was to stock the condiments and the salad dressings. I didn’t find most of the condiments in the warehouse except for a few that we sold regardless. I took them out and had Paula say hi to me first for once, I said hi back. When I went to empty Paula’s department’s cardboard out of the dumpster. She was the one to thank me instead of her manager or Lebanon. I remembered that I had my half eaten hot sandwich for lunch, but I went down to buy a small thing of milk to drink for my break. I clocked out and went upstairs. When I went upstairs, I got on my phone and checked Instagram to find that the art history major had sent me this reel about a “Storytime” criticizing low-church (and low IQ) non-denominationals at 10:53am, I replied:
>I keep getting these ads for this slop megachurch in this city that is so low-denomination.
<omg i love going on their websites to see how weird their beliefs are and if they’re secretly baptist bc most are
>THEY’RE ALL BAPTISTS WITH UGLIER BUILDINGS.
<my mom calls them cryptobaptists
>My roommate is a Baptist but I’m not sure what his opinions on them are
<you should ask
<see how well that goes
>He’s in Fort Knox and doesn’t have phone communication.
<ah i see
Once I got off of my lunch break, I finished up my last task before asking if I could power wash in the back. Jesse gave me the green light and I brought out the gas powered power washer and put it on the lift. I turned it on and then instantly got hit with the smell. I realized that this would be a huge mistake and turned it off. Jesse came down to say exactly that and I put away the gas power washer and put in the weaker electric power washer. I hooked it up to the hose and then Tiffany came into the back to say to me wearing improperly buttoned overalls:
“Someone threw up in the woman’s bathroom and I need you to clean it.”
I gave the BPD princess sass:
“Isn’t that your job.”
She replied:
“Well why don’t we trade jobs, I’ll power wash and you clean up.”
“But you don’t know how to power wash.”
“I’ll just learn!”
“Ok, when you go on your break, come in the back and I’ll teach you how to power wash.”
I went into the bathroom with rags, disinfectant wipes, and pinesol, I sprayed it with pinesol and coughed multiple times doing it. I got it disinfected and then threw away the white cloth rags in the trash. I was kind of efficient in the back near the freezer and cooler but there were so many people getting in my way, Matt, Folsade, and Tony got in my way so I moved closer to the garage door, I only got a few stains out more towards the garage, I got a strawberry Fanta soda when I went on break. I remembered it was fAsherah’s 24th birthday so I sent her a happy birthday message. She replied back with the pointing emoji. I then got finished without teaching Tiffany about power washing. I got started on my closing tasks and then clocked out, I walked up to buy some Blood Orangecello within eyesight of Tiffany and that one Noahmusic2009 lookalike. I then went home and passed by this littered area and I was just disgusted.
I got into my apartment and relaxed a bit before receiving a text from my mom asking me to call her, I told her I would after church, I walked down there and arrived at 6:50pm, Lucas was there and so was Joseph, he came over to me and said that they missed me and said:
“There’s no point of having church if you’re not gonna come.”
I don’t know why but I just felt so guilted. I proceeded with the mass and just felt spiritually dry. I have grown out of my Boomer parish but now I’m back here. The sermon was on how the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul had different spiritual journeys (Peter had a lot more stumbling blocks, Paul was more instantaneous) compared to each other. We then did the Nicene creed and then the prayers. I ended up seeing Pete come in late and when I was doing communion. I was in the Eucharistic minister's line for this old woman who I’m pretty sure thought that having a kid at 40 was a great idea although from what I can tell, the girl turned out to be normal. I saw Isaiah go into the priest’s line which I saluted him for and then after mass I walked home. I got in and called my mom two times, the first time went to voicemail while the second time went to voicemail but she accepted in the middle of it. I talked about my life as they mentioned that they were at Jamie’s house in Portland, Oregon with his wife and his sons Jacob (21) and Eli (19), The story surrounding those two is that when I was 4, or in 2008, my dad got a job in St. Louis, Missouri which caused my family to ‘move’ to Edwardsville, Illinois for the school year. I still went back home on the weekends but I spent my entire pre-K year there, because Jacob also had a birthday party in early September. We had a merged birthday party and that’s how we became friends, his younger brother always tagged along and he joined my friend circle. Those were the only friends I ever remembered making there because I was a rowdy kid. One time I tipped a girl off of her cot (It was really low to the ground) due to her not getting up after the teacher said naptime had ended. I got in trouble for that. But I eventually remember having one last playdate with the two at the end of the school year at a train museum because they were moving to Oregon. I had the choice of going to my grandma’s house in Michigan in July or driving to Denver, Colorado in early August. I decided on grandma’s house because it would be the last time. My mom and her siblings sold it to a rich family. My mom praised me for the social events I went to but was pressing me to try antidepressants and said I was depressed My dad was also there and we ended up chatting for quite a while, I remember him saying things like:
“...six degrees of separation!”
And this thing near the end where he said:
“I am getting stickers galore, I am a sticker magnet. Anyways I need to take a shower because I didn’t smell good, I know I don’t smell good now.”
I ended the call mutually after 30 minutes and then went to take a shower. I did this while it was raining outside and enjoyed the sound of it. I finally went to bed again on the couch.
Song of the Day: Am I A Demon - Danzig (1988)
4 weeks ago#47527
June 30th, 2025: Final day of June, I woke up at 6:30am today because my alarm yet again failed me. I got up and had more cereal for breakfast without any coffee so I just decided to get my joe fix at work. I wrote in my blog some more before I got dressed in these fancy dark grey dress pants that were almost like jeans and this plaid button-up which was colored blue, light blue, white, and tan, so I looked like a country bumpkin wearing his finest outfit for the barnyard dance rather than an urban guy dressed up for his unpaid office job. I hopped on the bus over to my volunteer work and got in super early at 8:12am. The door that usually is open but shouldn’t be cracked open so I got in there and got in. The first order of business was turning on all the lights in the office before grabbing my stuff from the other office, I went over and the childcare lady let me in, I grabbed my computer, the card printer, and some cords from Seth M’s desk and he came in to give me a key fob. I made my way to the meeting room and sat down in the corner waiting for the meeting to start at 9:00am. The CEO wasn’t there when we got started so we started without him. Seth M’s friend announced to us that he was getting married July 4th and we all burst into a round of applause. The others went through their standard announcements. Elon wasn’t wearing his glasses. I didn’t have anything planned for today so I just stated that my job for today was to help Seth M’s friend with getting laptops distributed. I was the last one to finish and just then the CEO came in, I was able to subtly record his entirety of what he said. He spoke for 10 minutes and 20 seconds as recorded by my phone:
“...regular medical appointments Mondays sometimes go a little long. I'm doing really well with those appointments. I say that I feel like I'm in my 30s again, although my knees remind me how old I am, and I watch everybody play the soccer game, which really reminded me of how old I am…”
There was an bit of laughter
“... but we had Speedy Gonzalez here, you know, over place. There was this one goal that got done, I think he had an assist with Zach A. I got the full chain from one side of the field to the other, so I'll make sure that video gets out. That was an exciting thing to watch. Lots of teamwork that was going on there. Everyone respected each other's abilities too. That was the other thing. It really shows when you do these things. So it was really cool. I really had a lot of fun. I couldn't keep up with the video. I was constantly futzeling with my phone and trying to make sure I got some good shots. So I think between the Ukrainian man and I think we might have some pretty good shots this year.”
The Ukrainian man said:
“Yeah, I have some good shots!
“Yeah, yeah. So I'm really looking forward to our next event to figure out some other ones too. Did you talk about [Acronym 1] coming last week?”
A girl said:
“Yeah!”
“So my take on that visit was that it was in stark contrast from two and a half years ago. And what do I mean by that is that before we were resetting and rebuilding, we were very observant of what their corrective actions were for us. But the biggest turn of events when I was doing some speaking there was we had to discussion about [company] going out [15 words censored] So they actually got excited about that and had been talking about that for the last six months, but last week's meeting, it really came about to some excitement with the deputy director. So I think we're in really good shape in that regard. We just got to continue to follow through. [director] mentioned that they’re doing auditing. They're doing a deep dive on us. Anytime we get a new auditor, they do really detailed looks at things, which is really good for us. We'll find any gaps and we'll be able to follow through on them immediately and also put things in place so that the next time we're around it goes through even more quickly. They're a very good firm, [Name of banking company] and I'm expecting that we'll have some really good information from them that's really solid to move forward. On the funding front, I just wanted to be transparent with everybody. depending on what comes down the pipe for [acronym] and also with [acronym] in the coming months of July, August, September, that's usually when we hear about things, and they mentioned that at the state meeting that they're eminent to give us some contract news. With the verbally. I'll be making a decision on when we take over another space and not based on our growth that we're doing. what it might entail, though, is if the funding is less than what we anticipate or there is additional reductions, especially from [acronym] we might end up replaying some of the shuffling that we did before, before we had our growth spurt, which is we might end up having some people double up a little bit. We have enough space to do that. We'll have a discussion with those affected. It'll be on a case by case basis and also department needs. We'll talk to the directors first and then include the managers, but then we'll talk to each person who is affected just to let you know what's going on. I don't want us to work on the floor again. We're not going to go that far. I really appreciate those that did do work on the floor before that was really amazing to watch the people work and having so much fun…”
[laughter]
“...I'm looking at one of our managers. They had a lot of fun, but, you know, it's not healthy, but so we won't go that far, we don't have to. I think they all look for us as good as I’m cautious, but I think I'm optimistic, uhh things going forward. I think [director] you share the same sentiment. We just have to be very cautious and. But we're not gonna be so cautious that we don't, that we don't move forward with our growth ideas. We have to do that to continue on. So we're heading in the right direction. If you have any questions about that, or if you have any concerns, make sure you talk to your supervisor about it, and we'll try to answer any questions or concerns we have individually. I think the most significant thing you can do when it comes to that regard is trying not to speculate in groups. It's okay to talk to each other, but if you're trying to speculate, make sure you talk to your supervisor uhh beforehand. It's okay to speculate and whatnot, but I find it very useful that if you have concerns as a group, instead of trying to come up with an answer, formulate your questions, and then give that to your supervisor. What's even better is if you have suggestions, too. If you have a question and I have a potential solution, that's always better, too. So our answers moving forward for the next three years are in this room already. So we just got to tap into it. And I think we'll be fine, but keep it in mind that we have to pay attention to what's going on. So far, the policies that we see in the news and whatnot, it's I would actually say more the same, so to speak. and also there's been some resolutions on things that are beneficial to us, but it takes time for resolution to be put in place. For example, [acronym] has been. They've been instructed to reinstate [acronym], but the [acronym] process has been totally dismantled, so the embassies are doing assignments, which is not the normal way…”
[Ambulance sounds in the background]
“..One of the benefits I mentioned. I think last week is that they were able to push through the population in 30 days, which is kind of unusual. So now they've got a precedent so that we once they turn a faucet back on, we should have more of a threeput and we get assignments. That's my thought. But we'll have to see, you know, how it goes. do the best you can, keep the quality up, collect your questions and then give it to your supervisor. Uhh try not to uhh focus on the negative stuff out there. When you see something negative out there, you look at it as an opportunity … A challenge. And that'll help you get through, and then focus on what you can do. And if there's nothing you can do and it's out of your control, switch your focus onto things you do out of control over as we do our part, there are people who can actually take on the things that are out of our control. So we continue [director] and myself, continue to have our contacts in [Big city]. We're headed out to [Big city]. at the end of July. We're going to be talking to [acronym], so we'll have some more news. Our efforts for [Small event] continue into the summer as well. And then for my schedule, I'm taking some of the [acronym] access to some [Big event] and going to be trying to do some networking and taking some people there and see if I can get them to donate. So I'll be doing that on a third, so the afternoon I'll be out. So if you need any things signed by me, try to get to me on Wednesday, early morning, Thursday if possible. That would be good. So if you need something signed by Thursday morning, you really need to get your supervisor into running to [director] by Wednesday morning, so they give you time to actually work on things. So there's a lot of normal things we're doing, so if there's anything special trying to do Tuesday, Wednesday. Any questions? You guys are doing great!”
I replied:
“Nope!”
He finished off with:
“Thank you.”
(POST SPLIT IN HALF DUE TO WORD COUNT)
“...regular medical appointments Mondays sometimes go a little long. I'm doing really well with those appointments. I say that I feel like I'm in my 30s again, although my knees remind me how old I am, and I watch everybody play the soccer game, which really reminded me of how old I am…”
There was an bit of laughter
“... but we had Speedy Gonzalez here, you know, over place. There was this one goal that got done, I think he had an assist with Zach A. I got the full chain from one side of the field to the other, so I'll make sure that video gets out. That was an exciting thing to watch. Lots of teamwork that was going on there. Everyone respected each other's abilities too. That was the other thing. It really shows when you do these things. So it was really cool. I really had a lot of fun. I couldn't keep up with the video. I was constantly futzeling with my phone and trying to make sure I got some good shots. So I think between the Ukrainian man and I think we might have some pretty good shots this year.”
The Ukrainian man said:
“Yeah, I have some good shots!
“Yeah, yeah. So I'm really looking forward to our next event to figure out some other ones too. Did you talk about [Acronym 1] coming last week?”
A girl said:
“Yeah!”
“So my take on that visit was that it was in stark contrast from two and a half years ago. And what do I mean by that is that before we were resetting and rebuilding, we were very observant of what their corrective actions were for us. But the biggest turn of events when I was doing some speaking there was we had to discussion about [company] going out [15 words censored] So they actually got excited about that and had been talking about that for the last six months, but last week's meeting, it really came about to some excitement with the deputy director. So I think we're in really good shape in that regard. We just got to continue to follow through. [director] mentioned that they’re doing auditing. They're doing a deep dive on us. Anytime we get a new auditor, they do really detailed looks at things, which is really good for us. We'll find any gaps and we'll be able to follow through on them immediately and also put things in place so that the next time we're around it goes through even more quickly. They're a very good firm, [Name of banking company] and I'm expecting that we'll have some really good information from them that's really solid to move forward. On the funding front, I just wanted to be transparent with everybody. depending on what comes down the pipe for [acronym] and also with [acronym] in the coming months of July, August, September, that's usually when we hear about things, and they mentioned that at the state meeting that they're eminent to give us some contract news. With the verbally. I'll be making a decision on when we take over another space and not based on our growth that we're doing. what it might entail, though, is if the funding is less than what we anticipate or there is additional reductions, especially from [acronym] we might end up replaying some of the shuffling that we did before, before we had our growth spurt, which is we might end up having some people double up a little bit. We have enough space to do that. We'll have a discussion with those affected. It'll be on a case by case basis and also department needs. We'll talk to the directors first and then include the managers, but then we'll talk to each person who is affected just to let you know what's going on. I don't want us to work on the floor again. We're not going to go that far. I really appreciate those that did do work on the floor before that was really amazing to watch the people work and having so much fun…”
[laughter]
“...I'm looking at one of our managers. They had a lot of fun, but, you know, it's not healthy, but so we won't go that far, we don't have to. I think they all look for us as good as I’m cautious, but I think I'm optimistic, uhh things going forward. I think [director] you share the same sentiment. We just have to be very cautious and. But we're not gonna be so cautious that we don't, that we don't move forward with our growth ideas. We have to do that to continue on. So we're heading in the right direction. If you have any questions about that, or if you have any concerns, make sure you talk to your supervisor about it, and we'll try to answer any questions or concerns we have individually. I think the most significant thing you can do when it comes to that regard is trying not to speculate in groups. It's okay to talk to each other, but if you're trying to speculate, make sure you talk to your supervisor uhh beforehand. It's okay to speculate and whatnot, but I find it very useful that if you have concerns as a group, instead of trying to come up with an answer, formulate your questions, and then give that to your supervisor. What's even better is if you have suggestions, too. If you have a question and I have a potential solution, that's always better, too. So our answers moving forward for the next three years are in this room already. So we just got to tap into it. And I think we'll be fine, but keep it in mind that we have to pay attention to what's going on. So far, the policies that we see in the news and whatnot, it's I would actually say more the same, so to speak. and also there's been some resolutions on things that are beneficial to us, but it takes time for resolution to be put in place. For example, [acronym] has been. They've been instructed to reinstate [acronym], but the [acronym] process has been totally dismantled, so the embassies are doing assignments, which is not the normal way…”
[Ambulance sounds in the background]
“..One of the benefits I mentioned. I think last week is that they were able to push through the population in 30 days, which is kind of unusual. So now they've got a precedent so that we once they turn a faucet back on, we should have more of a threeput and we get assignments. That's my thought. But we'll have to see, you know, how it goes. do the best you can, keep the quality up, collect your questions and then give it to your supervisor. Uhh try not to uhh focus on the negative stuff out there. When you see something negative out there, you look at it as an opportunity … A challenge. And that'll help you get through, and then focus on what you can do. And if there's nothing you can do and it's out of your control, switch your focus onto things you do out of control over as we do our part, there are people who can actually take on the things that are out of our control. So we continue [director] and myself, continue to have our contacts in [Big city]. We're headed out to [Big city]. at the end of July. We're going to be talking to [acronym], so we'll have some more news. Our efforts for [Small event] continue into the summer as well. And then for my schedule, I'm taking some of the [acronym] access to some [Big event] and going to be trying to do some networking and taking some people there and see if I can get them to donate. So I'll be doing that on a third, so the afternoon I'll be out. So if you need any things signed by me, try to get to me on Wednesday, early morning, Thursday if possible. That would be good. So if you need something signed by Thursday morning, you really need to get your supervisor into running to [director] by Wednesday morning, so they give you time to actually work on things. So there's a lot of normal things we're doing, so if there's anything special trying to do Tuesday, Wednesday. Any questions? You guys are doing great!”
I replied:
“Nope!”
He finished off with:
“Thank you.”
(POST SPLIT IN HALF DUE TO WORD COUNT)
4 weeks ago#47528
June 30th, 2025 (Continued): We then got done and I started to distribute laptops, Zarith C had an issue with hers not powering on when charging, the Ukrainian man had to change his and Tia was weirded out by the GHB button she got on hers, or what it’s usually called, a pointing stick. Ahwahn got a computer and I had to get some tape so the barcode stickers on the box would stay on the paper everybody was supposed to fill out. But this coworker of ours brought a bunch of food, which included dried dates, ginger candy, and bread. I toasted some bread and had these packets of jam I found in the other office. I had some but it was the older Ukrainian woman’s job to brew the coffee but they didn’t do it. Zach A was wearing one of his outfits today that was super fancy so I worked up the courage to ask him:
“Where do you get your outfits from?”
He replied to me:
“I brought most of these over.”
I went to the kitchen to munch on some dried dates while overhearing these two women talk about some different stuff, including complaining about falling in love with men, I kept my mouth shut in a brewing disgust at these two. I went back to my spot to find out Staples wanted me to make a new card for another person, while I was doing this, I overheard Tia complaining about how her parents wanted her to get married and pursue her master’s degree, she said she never wanted to get married (because it would interfere with growing her overinflated ego) and that she can just take a quicker path with her education. I got the card and brought it to Staples. I experienced her obvious hostility. I went up to the front where Seth M was talking with the two women about anime, Seth M brought up dubbing and one of the women said:
“Never watch anime dubbed, subbing is always better.”
I decided to throw them a curveball:
“Ok you know Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure?”
They both replied:
“Yes.”
Seth M replied:
“No.”
I continued:
“The next time I watch the series, I’m gonna watch Parts 1, 2, and 3 in English, Part 4 in Japanese, Part 5 in Italian, and Part 6 in English.”
The woman tagging along replied:
“What the fuck no that’s disgusting.”
I replied:
“What about Kingdom, I refuse to watch that because there’s no Chinese dub!”
She said:
“But what language did the people who wrote it speak?”
“Chinese! Kingdom was adapted from the Chinese epic Romance of the Three Kingdoms!”
“Just watch it in Japanese!”
I just left after that. A bit later I finally went on my lunch break and got some pizza with water before walking back to continue my break at the work office. I got an invitation from Zach A to this event in his office where I had to design a Google sheet which was designed for each manager to keep track of all the cases their underlings do and score them based on how on time the case was completed. I managed to complete it on the spot and was congratulated by Zach A. After I completed that task, I did nothing for a while until I clocked out early. I put the keyfob back in Seth M’s office and ran over to my bus stop. Where there was trash previously, I saw the river clean and ducks playing in the water, I was super happy. I hopped on the bus to see Stuart was also riding it, he told me that he was going to this event at 5:30pm at the reverent church, Stuart quipped about trying to evangelize without Cliffe but was just unsuccessful. I got off at my stop and put my backpack back at home before hopping back on the bus to get some groceries, I got off at the stop and bought 2 boxes of fettuccine (one to eat, one to boil then eat) a 12 pack of chicken ramen, and some milk. There was this spicy ramen that was just 1 giant plastic package with 4 plastic packages of ramen inside, I preferred my ramen seasoned with a normal amount of microplastics. I checked out and then took the bus home. For dinner I tried and failed to boil these frozen cheese stuffed shells, I doused them in an entire can of spaghetti sauce I needed to get rid of. I scooped them out and had to restuff some of the shells, it was ok and I watched YouTube on the television. When I got that done I went into my bedroom to catch up on my daily biblejaks, I got in 3 before trying to purchase the Amtrak tickets I needed but to no avail. I also paid my rent for the month. I took a shower and went to sleep.
Song of the Day: What Do You Do For Money Honey - AC/DC (1980)
“Where do you get your outfits from?”
He replied to me:
“I brought most of these over.”
I went to the kitchen to munch on some dried dates while overhearing these two women talk about some different stuff, including complaining about falling in love with men, I kept my mouth shut in a brewing disgust at these two. I went back to my spot to find out Staples wanted me to make a new card for another person, while I was doing this, I overheard Tia complaining about how her parents wanted her to get married and pursue her master’s degree, she said she never wanted to get married (because it would interfere with growing her overinflated ego) and that she can just take a quicker path with her education. I got the card and brought it to Staples. I experienced her obvious hostility. I went up to the front where Seth M was talking with the two women about anime, Seth M brought up dubbing and one of the women said:
“Never watch anime dubbed, subbing is always better.”
I decided to throw them a curveball:
“Ok you know Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure?”
They both replied:
“Yes.”
Seth M replied:
“No.”
I continued:
“The next time I watch the series, I’m gonna watch Parts 1, 2, and 3 in English, Part 4 in Japanese, Part 5 in Italian, and Part 6 in English.”
The woman tagging along replied:
“What the fuck no that’s disgusting.”
I replied:
“What about Kingdom, I refuse to watch that because there’s no Chinese dub!”
She said:
“But what language did the people who wrote it speak?”
“Chinese! Kingdom was adapted from the Chinese epic Romance of the Three Kingdoms!”
“Just watch it in Japanese!”
I just left after that. A bit later I finally went on my lunch break and got some pizza with water before walking back to continue my break at the work office. I got an invitation from Zach A to this event in his office where I had to design a Google sheet which was designed for each manager to keep track of all the cases their underlings do and score them based on how on time the case was completed. I managed to complete it on the spot and was congratulated by Zach A. After I completed that task, I did nothing for a while until I clocked out early. I put the keyfob back in Seth M’s office and ran over to my bus stop. Where there was trash previously, I saw the river clean and ducks playing in the water, I was super happy. I hopped on the bus to see Stuart was also riding it, he told me that he was going to this event at 5:30pm at the reverent church, Stuart quipped about trying to evangelize without Cliffe but was just unsuccessful. I got off at my stop and put my backpack back at home before hopping back on the bus to get some groceries, I got off at the stop and bought 2 boxes of fettuccine (one to eat, one to boil then eat) a 12 pack of chicken ramen, and some milk. There was this spicy ramen that was just 1 giant plastic package with 4 plastic packages of ramen inside, I preferred my ramen seasoned with a normal amount of microplastics. I checked out and then took the bus home. For dinner I tried and failed to boil these frozen cheese stuffed shells, I doused them in an entire can of spaghetti sauce I needed to get rid of. I scooped them out and had to restuff some of the shells, it was ok and I watched YouTube on the television. When I got that done I went into my bedroom to catch up on my daily biblejaks, I got in 3 before trying to purchase the Amtrak tickets I needed but to no avail. I also paid my rent for the month. I took a shower and went to sleep.
Song of the Day: What Do You Do For Money Honey - AC/DC (1980)
4 weeks ago#51842
July 1st, 2025: I woke up this morning, got myself a bowl of cereal, I didn’t have enough time to make myself some eggs and toast so I wrote some stuff in my blog before grabbing the bus over. I decided to stop at this coffee store in the park and get a thin mint mocha. It set me back $6.00 but I enjoyed the flavor. I walked over to my volunteer place and went in to get my printer and computer from Seth M. The coffee machine wasn’t brewing yet so I finally figured out how to turn it on. When I checked my email, I saw that the meeting with the Microsoft people was from 1:30am to 3:00pm. I got introduced to the new guy on the team and I instantly went to make him an ID card. He gave me this semi professional portrait of him in front of a stained glass window. I printed out the card and gave it to him. I wrote a list of things wrong with the website that I found and I gave it to him (the fact that someone is listed as being an intern since the birth of Elagabalus. I continued walking around the office a few more times with nothing much to do for now. I exited the building to get to my typical pizza place, when I got over it was absolutely jam-packed. When I finally got in line, I was served by this Black guy wearing a Donald Trump mugshot t-shirt. I got the loaded potato pizza slice because it was one of the few left. When I got back I went to my desk to open up my computer and work on my blog/diary more. I went into the break room to see Staples eating lunch by herself, she waved at me and I waved back. I was told by Seth M that I should get a pair of headphones from his friend and I did that and went into this very plain meeting room before I switched over to this library meeting room. I looked at all the books in the room when I saw this shelf of religious books which consisted mostly of different versions of the Quran with a single Book of Mormon from 1975, Here’s a sample of some of 1 Nephi 1:
<1 Nephi 1:1. I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father; and having seen many afflictions in the course of my days, nevertheless, having been highly favored of the Lord in all my days; yea, having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the mysteries of God, therefore I make a record of my proceedings in my days.
<1 Nephi 1:4. For it came to pass in the commencement of the first year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, (my father, Lehi, having dwelt at Jerusalem in all his days); and in that same year there came many prophets, prophesying unto the people that they must repent, or the great city Jerusalem must be destroyed.
<1 Nephi 1:5. Wherefore it came to pass that my father, Lehi, as he went forth prayed unto the Lord, yea, even with all his heart, in behalf of his people.
<1 Nephi 1:6. And it came to pass as he prayed unto the Lord, there came a pillar of fire and dwelt upon a rock before him; and he saw and heard much; and because of the things which he saw and heard he did quake and tremble exceedingly.
<1 Nephi 1:7. And it came to pass that he returned to his own house at Jerusalem; and he cast himself upon his bed, being overcome with the Spirit and the things which he had seen.
<1 Nephi 1:9. And it came to pass that he saw One descending out of the midst of heaven, and he beheld that his luster was above that of the sun at noon-day.
<1 Nephi 1:12. And it came to pass that as he read, he was filled with the Spirit of the Lord.
<1 Nephi 1:14. And it came to pass that when my father had read and seen many great and marvelous things, he did exclaim many things unto the Lord; such as: Great and marvelous are thy works, O Lord God Almighty! Thy throne is high in the heavens, and thy power, and goodness, and mercy are over all the inhabitants of the earth; and, because thou art merciful, thou wilt not suffer those who come unto thee that they shall perish!
<1 Nephi 1:19. And it came to pass that the Jews did mock him because of the things which he testified of them; for he truly testified of their wickedness and their abominations; and he testified that the things which he saw and heard, and also the things which he read in the book, manifested plainly of the coming of a Messiah, and also the redemption of the world.
How the fuck do you even get past the first chapter? I got onto the call with the CEO, Seth M, Seth M’s friend, Zach A, and two other people. They were recording it as we went over this sample that we used of a family of five where the database displayed all of their birthdays and I noticed that the mother had hers in 1986, the father in November 1988, and the oldest son on June 9th, 2006, it just stayed with me throughout the thing, these are real people. I had issues with the wifi throughout and then got off the call at 3:00pm. I went back to my desk to do nothing until I clocked out at 4:15pm and walked to my bus stop. I got on the packed bus to see the fat lady from last week. I sat next to her again until my bus stop. I got off and worked on transcribing the CEO’s speech when I finally got it done after a while. I went to this restaurant to buy a caramel sundae and then headed home. At home I watched Hoodwinked and absolutely loved it, for context it’s basically if the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale was expanded into a crime thriller with multiple perspectives. I really loved it even if it was very poorly animated. I completed the last of my June posts and published it. I had set a goal for myself for the month to write down at least 1,000 words a day and I more than beat that for every single day. According to Google Docs, it got to a total of 40850 words with 207858 characters, 167996 of which weren’t space characters. I didn’t have dinner sadly but I took a shower and then went to bed.
Song of the Day: July Morning - Uriah Heep (1971)
<1 Nephi 1:1. I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father; and having seen many afflictions in the course of my days, nevertheless, having been highly favored of the Lord in all my days; yea, having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the mysteries of God, therefore I make a record of my proceedings in my days.
<1 Nephi 1:4. For it came to pass in the commencement of the first year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, (my father, Lehi, having dwelt at Jerusalem in all his days); and in that same year there came many prophets, prophesying unto the people that they must repent, or the great city Jerusalem must be destroyed.
<1 Nephi 1:5. Wherefore it came to pass that my father, Lehi, as he went forth prayed unto the Lord, yea, even with all his heart, in behalf of his people.
<1 Nephi 1:6. And it came to pass as he prayed unto the Lord, there came a pillar of fire and dwelt upon a rock before him; and he saw and heard much; and because of the things which he saw and heard he did quake and tremble exceedingly.
<1 Nephi 1:7. And it came to pass that he returned to his own house at Jerusalem; and he cast himself upon his bed, being overcome with the Spirit and the things which he had seen.
<1 Nephi 1:9. And it came to pass that he saw One descending out of the midst of heaven, and he beheld that his luster was above that of the sun at noon-day.
<1 Nephi 1:12. And it came to pass that as he read, he was filled with the Spirit of the Lord.
<1 Nephi 1:14. And it came to pass that when my father had read and seen many great and marvelous things, he did exclaim many things unto the Lord; such as: Great and marvelous are thy works, O Lord God Almighty! Thy throne is high in the heavens, and thy power, and goodness, and mercy are over all the inhabitants of the earth; and, because thou art merciful, thou wilt not suffer those who come unto thee that they shall perish!
<1 Nephi 1:19. And it came to pass that the Jews did mock him because of the things which he testified of them; for he truly testified of their wickedness and their abominations; and he testified that the things which he saw and heard, and also the things which he read in the book, manifested plainly of the coming of a Messiah, and also the redemption of the world.
How the fuck do you even get past the first chapter? I got onto the call with the CEO, Seth M, Seth M’s friend, Zach A, and two other people. They were recording it as we went over this sample that we used of a family of five where the database displayed all of their birthdays and I noticed that the mother had hers in 1986, the father in November 1988, and the oldest son on June 9th, 2006, it just stayed with me throughout the thing, these are real people. I had issues with the wifi throughout and then got off the call at 3:00pm. I went back to my desk to do nothing until I clocked out at 4:15pm and walked to my bus stop. I got on the packed bus to see the fat lady from last week. I sat next to her again until my bus stop. I got off and worked on transcribing the CEO’s speech when I finally got it done after a while. I went to this restaurant to buy a caramel sundae and then headed home. At home I watched Hoodwinked and absolutely loved it, for context it’s basically if the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale was expanded into a crime thriller with multiple perspectives. I really loved it even if it was very poorly animated. I completed the last of my June posts and published it. I had set a goal for myself for the month to write down at least 1,000 words a day and I more than beat that for every single day. According to Google Docs, it got to a total of 40850 words with 207858 characters, 167996 of which weren’t space characters. I didn’t have dinner sadly but I took a shower and then went to bed.
Song of the Day: July Morning - Uriah Heep (1971)
MoistPepper
I used to have a lot to say.
4 weeks ago#51854
Hug Gemerson
4 weeks ago#51861
July 2nd, 2025: I woke up early this morning to have cereal. I got a text message from Cliffe saying:
<11
To refer to when we were supposed to meet up to evangelize. I remembered that I had to ship out this letter to my landlady concerning my early inspection. I forgot where I put my stamps, so I went to the convenience store nearby to buy some stamps, I passed this guy nearby when going in and bought the stamps along with getting this deal on Dorito’s version of takis at a 3 for $9 deal, I purchased those and then walked back home. I got asked for change by the guy outside and then walked back home. I got inside and waited for my phone to charge until I packed my 210 book apocrypha and took the bus down. I got off and then walked over to this diner to get myself breakfast. I got the 2 pancakes with eggs and bacon deal plus a cup of coffee. The diner was pretty crowded as compared to usual but the pancakes didn’t take as long to cook as last time, Maxwell made them bigger. I ate all of it and left a generous tip before walking over to Cliffe’s house. I got over at 10:28am and texted him:
>I’m here early, I will be in the back.
There was someone outside bringing in furniture for his two young files, he then shouted to me:
“Are you looking for Cliffe?”
I told him:
“Yes I am.”
He replied:
“He’s out front!”
I went up front to talk to him while he was discussing something with this guy from Rockford, Illinois. We went inside and I got the broom I needed. I was shown this empty room that was bigger than my old room with a mattress wrapped in plastic. I thought it would be nice to live here. I swept up the first floor (ground floor for those living in the United Kingdoms) a bit until I went to the second floor to meet one of the guys living here, he was debating this person online who said that the pro-life stance was nowhere in the Bible. I met this guy who was in seminary along with his brother whom I will be calling Jeremiah. Jeremiah joined us for liturgy of the hours while Stuart was doing something else, he joined up with us to go to the bus station. I messaged the art history major at 11:17am:
>Heading out to evangelize now!
We got on with this friend of Cliffe’s named Gina. The first person Cliffe tried to evangelize was this girl wearing red triangle earrings and a hat with a non-binary pin and a socialism pin with a backpack filled with buttons. He didn’t have success with her but had success with a half-Black half-Jewish pregnant girl who looked to be pregnant. Near our stop a guy came on to warn Cliffe against soliciting, he got that all cleared out in a friendly manner. He said he never had that issue before in all of his 4 years evangelizing. We got off at the cathedral and went inside for lunch. We talked with another guy and prayed over him as we met this woman whom I will be calling Clyde. I sat and ate with Clyde inside with this old Catholic woman and saw the Black guy with white splotches on his skin. We got out and we talked with this Black woman named Bobbi who I was introduced to by her constantly yelling at her kids. Turns out her mother was in the cafeteria and her father recently went to a nursing home and she had 3 kids. Jeremiah came out later and then Stuart came out. We started off Bible study by going through the readings for next Sunday, starting off with Isaiah 66 and then hopping back to Psalms before moving up to Galatians, after Galatians there was a bunch of discussion between the Black mom and Clyde, she told us that her daughter was autistic and got kicked out of Sunday school for something the other kid did. She had at least 2 baby daddies and the seizure kid’s dads drugged and raped her, seizure kid born June 11th, 2018, why the fuck am I calling the autistic girl seizure kid? Because in between that, she started having this weird annoying mixture between a cough and a sneeze, jerking her head to her right, her other daughter was off elsewhere while her son was distracted with her phone that she gave her, he came back watching the same TikTok about a Ben 10 watch saying:
“Look, watch, look!”
Stuart kept telling him:
“No brainrot here!”
Whenever he came over because we were both pissed at how the woman was raising her children. We did the gospel reading and continued with Clyde talking to Jeremiah constantly and Cliffe talking to the mom. Stuart and I agreed to walk over to our usual Evangelism spot. I showed him the way and we got there. We talked to these two Jehovah’s Witnesses, a White guy named Gavin and a Black guy named Chad, they were pretty friendly and we then branched out to check the streets for more people. We talked to this one Black guy who was raised Catholic and gave him some pamphlets. We went back and then went north to this music festival set up and befriended this Black guy who showed us his Luke 6:46 t-shirt. We went south and finally got back to the terminal. We talked to this Black woman who said she felt religious but was too exhausted for Sunday worship because she worked 12 hour days. We gave her a rosary as she got on her bus, at 3:29pm I got a text from Cliffe saying.
<We are at [street] and [street]
We walked over and swapped into 2 groups: Cliffe and I plus Jeremiah and Stuart. I did much better with the expert. We talked to a Catholic turned Pentecostal, a greying hair White guy wearing mostly grey, and a short guy named Marco who was waiting for his friend. We then all regrouped to head to the dinner place. We talked with the Catholic center priest putting some sealing on this window before going in to get taco dinner with Father Malachi. We did Liturgy of the hours with Cliffe, Jeremiah, and a deacon in a small chapel upstairs. I got down after that and then went into the main part of the church. I got into line for confession for the ICKSP church priest. I tried to concentrate on praying the rosary but the guitar music (worst part of Eucharistic adoration) was so loud I kept losing count. I got in and confessed my sins while seeing the priest leaning his head against the window. I got told to pray this prayer as my penance and did that once I got out. I read from my 210 book apocrypha book until mass started and we went through it as normal, no shaking hands for the sign of peace but I did see Elizabeth do it with Quinci. I received the Eucharist. When I went out I was the first one out and I saw this very heavyset woman waddling out, I asked her:
“I’ve never seen you around, is this your first time?”
She replied:
“First time in seven years!”
I asked:
“Why seven years?”
She told me:
“I moved so far away and I haven’t been back until now!”
I went to talk to this less heavyset woman I have never seen before, she was a friend of Elizabeth and Quinci’s who got her masters at my college and moved west of here to learn to become a teacher, she had a severe case of peach fuzz (unshaven hard to see facial hair) but she was super nice, but had a K-pop t-shirt on. I talked to Quinci to ask where Quinn was and found out he’s in Rome now. I saw Jeremiah and the K-pop fan speaking for a bit when Stuart’s friend introduced me to this book on Padre Pio. I had to leave at this time but I grabbed some cookies to eat and caught the bus home. I packed up my clothes for Fort Wayne and then took a shower and went to sleep.
Song of the Day: Qualche stupido - Andrea Bocelli, Veronica Berti (2012)
<11
To refer to when we were supposed to meet up to evangelize. I remembered that I had to ship out this letter to my landlady concerning my early inspection. I forgot where I put my stamps, so I went to the convenience store nearby to buy some stamps, I passed this guy nearby when going in and bought the stamps along with getting this deal on Dorito’s version of takis at a 3 for $9 deal, I purchased those and then walked back home. I got asked for change by the guy outside and then walked back home. I got inside and waited for my phone to charge until I packed my 210 book apocrypha and took the bus down. I got off and then walked over to this diner to get myself breakfast. I got the 2 pancakes with eggs and bacon deal plus a cup of coffee. The diner was pretty crowded as compared to usual but the pancakes didn’t take as long to cook as last time, Maxwell made them bigger. I ate all of it and left a generous tip before walking over to Cliffe’s house. I got over at 10:28am and texted him:
>I’m here early, I will be in the back.
There was someone outside bringing in furniture for his two young files, he then shouted to me:
“Are you looking for Cliffe?”
I told him:
“Yes I am.”
He replied:
“He’s out front!”
I went up front to talk to him while he was discussing something with this guy from Rockford, Illinois. We went inside and I got the broom I needed. I was shown this empty room that was bigger than my old room with a mattress wrapped in plastic. I thought it would be nice to live here. I swept up the first floor (ground floor for those living in the United Kingdoms) a bit until I went to the second floor to meet one of the guys living here, he was debating this person online who said that the pro-life stance was nowhere in the Bible. I met this guy who was in seminary along with his brother whom I will be calling Jeremiah. Jeremiah joined us for liturgy of the hours while Stuart was doing something else, he joined up with us to go to the bus station. I messaged the art history major at 11:17am:
>Heading out to evangelize now!
We got on with this friend of Cliffe’s named Gina. The first person Cliffe tried to evangelize was this girl wearing red triangle earrings and a hat with a non-binary pin and a socialism pin with a backpack filled with buttons. He didn’t have success with her but had success with a half-Black half-Jewish pregnant girl who looked to be pregnant. Near our stop a guy came on to warn Cliffe against soliciting, he got that all cleared out in a friendly manner. He said he never had that issue before in all of his 4 years evangelizing. We got off at the cathedral and went inside for lunch. We talked with another guy and prayed over him as we met this woman whom I will be calling Clyde. I sat and ate with Clyde inside with this old Catholic woman and saw the Black guy with white splotches on his skin. We got out and we talked with this Black woman named Bobbi who I was introduced to by her constantly yelling at her kids. Turns out her mother was in the cafeteria and her father recently went to a nursing home and she had 3 kids. Jeremiah came out later and then Stuart came out. We started off Bible study by going through the readings for next Sunday, starting off with Isaiah 66 and then hopping back to Psalms before moving up to Galatians, after Galatians there was a bunch of discussion between the Black mom and Clyde, she told us that her daughter was autistic and got kicked out of Sunday school for something the other kid did. She had at least 2 baby daddies and the seizure kid’s dads drugged and raped her, seizure kid born June 11th, 2018, why the fuck am I calling the autistic girl seizure kid? Because in between that, she started having this weird annoying mixture between a cough and a sneeze, jerking her head to her right, her other daughter was off elsewhere while her son was distracted with her phone that she gave her, he came back watching the same TikTok about a Ben 10 watch saying:
“Look, watch, look!”
Stuart kept telling him:
“No brainrot here!”
Whenever he came over because we were both pissed at how the woman was raising her children. We did the gospel reading and continued with Clyde talking to Jeremiah constantly and Cliffe talking to the mom. Stuart and I agreed to walk over to our usual Evangelism spot. I showed him the way and we got there. We talked to these two Jehovah’s Witnesses, a White guy named Gavin and a Black guy named Chad, they were pretty friendly and we then branched out to check the streets for more people. We talked to this one Black guy who was raised Catholic and gave him some pamphlets. We went back and then went north to this music festival set up and befriended this Black guy who showed us his Luke 6:46 t-shirt. We went south and finally got back to the terminal. We talked to this Black woman who said she felt religious but was too exhausted for Sunday worship because she worked 12 hour days. We gave her a rosary as she got on her bus, at 3:29pm I got a text from Cliffe saying.
<We are at [street] and [street]
We walked over and swapped into 2 groups: Cliffe and I plus Jeremiah and Stuart. I did much better with the expert. We talked to a Catholic turned Pentecostal, a greying hair White guy wearing mostly grey, and a short guy named Marco who was waiting for his friend. We then all regrouped to head to the dinner place. We talked with the Catholic center priest putting some sealing on this window before going in to get taco dinner with Father Malachi. We did Liturgy of the hours with Cliffe, Jeremiah, and a deacon in a small chapel upstairs. I got down after that and then went into the main part of the church. I got into line for confession for the ICKSP church priest. I tried to concentrate on praying the rosary but the guitar music (worst part of Eucharistic adoration) was so loud I kept losing count. I got in and confessed my sins while seeing the priest leaning his head against the window. I got told to pray this prayer as my penance and did that once I got out. I read from my 210 book apocrypha book until mass started and we went through it as normal, no shaking hands for the sign of peace but I did see Elizabeth do it with Quinci. I received the Eucharist. When I went out I was the first one out and I saw this very heavyset woman waddling out, I asked her:
“I’ve never seen you around, is this your first time?”
She replied:
“First time in seven years!”
I asked:
“Why seven years?”
She told me:
“I moved so far away and I haven’t been back until now!”
I went to talk to this less heavyset woman I have never seen before, she was a friend of Elizabeth and Quinci’s who got her masters at my college and moved west of here to learn to become a teacher, she had a severe case of peach fuzz (unshaven hard to see facial hair) but she was super nice, but had a K-pop t-shirt on. I talked to Quinci to ask where Quinn was and found out he’s in Rome now. I saw Jeremiah and the K-pop fan speaking for a bit when Stuart’s friend introduced me to this book on Padre Pio. I had to leave at this time but I grabbed some cookies to eat and caught the bus home. I packed up my clothes for Fort Wayne and then took a shower and went to sleep.
Song of the Day: Qualche stupido - Andrea Bocelli, Veronica Berti (2012)
4 weeks ago#51889
July 3rd, 2025: I woke up at 5:15am realizing I should have set my alarm for way earlier, so I did some last minute packing before running over to my bus stop. I got there and waited on the bus because it said it was delayed on the bus app. I ordered an Uber but one was so far away that the bus started up again and I canceled it and hopped on it. The bus ride was normal but I had to run to my Amtrak stop. I got in and got a strawberry shortcake donut and paid for it, an Indian was at the cash register but he skipped the tip part for me so I knew he was chill. I got in line eating my donut and then got on the train as it left at 6:15am. I wrote in my blog in the meantime before I got off at 7:57am. When I got in, I bought a medium coffee with a shot of butternut pecan syrup at Dunkin Donuts. I walked over to Quincy at the loop and saw some Jehovah’s Witnesses outside. I was supposed to get on another train but I accidentally took the southbound Orange line until I realized just before Roosevelt, I got off at Roosevelt and instantly hopped on the northbound Green line. I got off at Adams/Wabash and then got on the correct line. I texted grandma Jane and my aunt at 8:30am:
>Accidentally got on the Orange line
>Got off at Roosevelt and immediately hopped on the Green line.
Grandma Jane replied to me:
<OH no! I thought you had the system memorized!
I replied:
>I forgot to check what train I was on.
My aunt replied:
<🌈 All the train lines! See you at my place Gemerson
While Jane texted me:
<Gemerson-you missed the Pink line!
I took the train to its end and hopped off to enter my aunt’s house. She let me in and I cleaned up her place and got myself some coffee. Thing Alpha came in after a bit and so did grandma Jane. I got to see their cat:
I had this conversation with my roommate James with his Snapchat story:
<Once again turning to Tinder
<top 10 saddest Anime moments
I told him about the church dance and when it was hosted, he was interested. I eventually got into Jane’s car with her and my aunt, I grabbed a Diet Coke in the back and drank it. When I got in I noticed some wet spots near the sunroof and noticed it, Jane told me:
“I had a car wash that shouldn’t be leaking, holy socks! Thank you for pointing that out!”
We finally got on the road down to Indiana but got so behind because of traffic and the NASCAR race downtown. Jane talked about the Kilmer Abrego Garcia case with the tattooed Hispanic guy that got sent to an El Salvador prison and how bad it was for him. We were supposed to get there at 4:44pm Chicago time but traffic added an hour. We passed by a billboard for Tim Poole’s podcast and my aunt said:
“Tim Poole is just a 5’0” balding loser who whines about women not fucking him as he lives in his mom’s basement!”
The topic of the rapper Bob Vylan also came up, they both denounced his violence rhetoric but they didn’t specify if it was about him hating White people or the IDF. We stopped at Petey’s Gyros to potentially get lunch and go to the bathroom but they had no bathroom. The surroundings were mostly parking lots and extremely depressing. We got back on the road and passed through East Chicago, my aunt told me that Jared got their cat from here which made Jane joke:
“Jared saved him from living in East Chicago!”
This is when my bladder started feeling full, we had to pass 2 tollways which caused so much traffic until I suggested peeing into a bottle because of how bad I had to go, they both vetoed the idea so I just waited until we got off near Indiana 912 and I went in the bushes, I got back in and we drove to this Culver’s, along the way we had issues with the toll road so I payed for the $1.00 till with my own money. Lunch was at Culver’s, Jane debated getting ice cream but we didn’t, we drove a tiny distance south to a gas station to refill. I had to put air in the left tires before getting back on the road. Jane and her daughter talked about this cousin of my dad’s who has a husband they don’t really like because he’s creepy. She and her husband also had this EMT son who somehow earns less than me and a daughter that got married and divorced really quickly. On the way Jane told me the story about ChooChoo and Happy. ChooChoo was Jane’s paternal grandma, her husband was nicknamed Happy, he worked as a president for some railroad organization until he died in 1933 when he was trying to grab something on a train car when he slipped and was dragged under the train. ChooChoo took over and became a successful business woman, she told me about her other grandma who was Presbyterian. The discussion of the Big Beautiful Bill came up and they were both sad it passed, Jane brought up A bit later we stopped off at a gas station in Elkhart, Indiana and I bought some cinnamon gum from a cashier with slicked back hair named Rob, we continued on until we saw a fancy neon green car in Columbia City, Indiana:
Jane thought he was a drug dealer. We encountered it a few times more. We passed the Sweetwater music store and my aunt talked about how my grandpa would always brag about it as a Fort Wayne success story. We finally got to my grandpa’s house and entered, I found him swimming in his pool and the first thing he said to me was:
“Glad to see ya Gemerson, could you grab me another beer?”
I did that and then unpacked. I heard them tell this story about how his step-daughter had a stroke recently and she hadn’t really recovered at all, her sister also had these sons that were both married, I heard that the older one’s wife is toxic. My grandpa then asked me:
“Hey Gemerson, did you find a waitress to squeeze?”
I then asked him:
“Was [second wife] a waitress?”
He replied:
“Practically everybody was a waiter or waitress back then, I was the only one who wasn’t because I was too young to work at the restaurant, but my brother and sister did!”
I inquired more:
“Wait where did you work?”
“I worked at the IH plant starting at the age of 14, every day during lunch I would go drink beer!”
I went into his searing attic to grab a cot and set it up. I took a shower and then went to bed until Thing Alpha and her boyfriend came in. I then went back to sleep.
Song of the Day: Looking for a Leader - Neil Young (2006)
>Accidentally got on the Orange line
>Got off at Roosevelt and immediately hopped on the Green line.
Grandma Jane replied to me:
<OH no! I thought you had the system memorized!
I replied:
>I forgot to check what train I was on.
My aunt replied:
<🌈 All the train lines! See you at my place Gemerson
While Jane texted me:
<Gemerson-you missed the Pink line!
I took the train to its end and hopped off to enter my aunt’s house. She let me in and I cleaned up her place and got myself some coffee. Thing Alpha came in after a bit and so did grandma Jane. I got to see their cat:
I had this conversation with my roommate James with his Snapchat story:
<Once again turning to Tinder
<top 10 saddest Anime moments
I told him about the church dance and when it was hosted, he was interested. I eventually got into Jane’s car with her and my aunt, I grabbed a Diet Coke in the back and drank it. When I got in I noticed some wet spots near the sunroof and noticed it, Jane told me:
“I had a car wash that shouldn’t be leaking, holy socks! Thank you for pointing that out!”
We finally got on the road down to Indiana but got so behind because of traffic and the NASCAR race downtown. Jane talked about the Kilmer Abrego Garcia case with the tattooed Hispanic guy that got sent to an El Salvador prison and how bad it was for him. We were supposed to get there at 4:44pm Chicago time but traffic added an hour. We passed by a billboard for Tim Poole’s podcast and my aunt said:
“Tim Poole is just a 5’0” balding loser who whines about women not fucking him as he lives in his mom’s basement!”
The topic of the rapper Bob Vylan also came up, they both denounced his violence rhetoric but they didn’t specify if it was about him hating White people or the IDF. We stopped at Petey’s Gyros to potentially get lunch and go to the bathroom but they had no bathroom. The surroundings were mostly parking lots and extremely depressing. We got back on the road and passed through East Chicago, my aunt told me that Jared got their cat from here which made Jane joke:
“Jared saved him from living in East Chicago!”
This is when my bladder started feeling full, we had to pass 2 tollways which caused so much traffic until I suggested peeing into a bottle because of how bad I had to go, they both vetoed the idea so I just waited until we got off near Indiana 912 and I went in the bushes, I got back in and we drove to this Culver’s, along the way we had issues with the toll road so I payed for the $1.00 till with my own money. Lunch was at Culver’s, Jane debated getting ice cream but we didn’t, we drove a tiny distance south to a gas station to refill. I had to put air in the left tires before getting back on the road. Jane and her daughter talked about this cousin of my dad’s who has a husband they don’t really like because he’s creepy. She and her husband also had this EMT son who somehow earns less than me and a daughter that got married and divorced really quickly. On the way Jane told me the story about ChooChoo and Happy. ChooChoo was Jane’s paternal grandma, her husband was nicknamed Happy, he worked as a president for some railroad organization until he died in 1933 when he was trying to grab something on a train car when he slipped and was dragged under the train. ChooChoo took over and became a successful business woman, she told me about her other grandma who was Presbyterian. The discussion of the Big Beautiful Bill came up and they were both sad it passed, Jane brought up A bit later we stopped off at a gas station in Elkhart, Indiana and I bought some cinnamon gum from a cashier with slicked back hair named Rob, we continued on until we saw a fancy neon green car in Columbia City, Indiana:
Jane thought he was a drug dealer. We encountered it a few times more. We passed the Sweetwater music store and my aunt talked about how my grandpa would always brag about it as a Fort Wayne success story. We finally got to my grandpa’s house and entered, I found him swimming in his pool and the first thing he said to me was:
“Glad to see ya Gemerson, could you grab me another beer?”
I did that and then unpacked. I heard them tell this story about how his step-daughter had a stroke recently and she hadn’t really recovered at all, her sister also had these sons that were both married, I heard that the older one’s wife is toxic. My grandpa then asked me:
“Hey Gemerson, did you find a waitress to squeeze?”
I then asked him:
“Was [second wife] a waitress?”
He replied:
“Practically everybody was a waiter or waitress back then, I was the only one who wasn’t because I was too young to work at the restaurant, but my brother and sister did!”
I inquired more:
“Wait where did you work?”
“I worked at the IH plant starting at the age of 14, every day during lunch I would go drink beer!”
I went into his searing attic to grab a cot and set it up. I took a shower and then went to bed until Thing Alpha and her boyfriend came in. I then went back to sleep.
Song of the Day: Looking for a Leader - Neil Young (2006)
4 weeks ago#51916
July 4th, 2025: Woke up early today. I got up to make myself some breakfast and accidentally spilled a bit of milk. I had to mop it up and I also had to help my grandpa set up for the 4th of July party. I found some tents to set up when one of my relatives came over with them in his truck, one of my grandpa’s cousins (his dad had 6 siblings, all male) was coming over and he warned me that she loves to talk and talk. I helped her bring in her chair and she then talked to me about her 4 children, a daughter as the oldest, 2 sons, and then her youngest. We talked about the e-scooters and how they got banned in Fort Wayne, Indiana because teenagers would wreck everything. She then said to me that she blames it on the Black teenagers, which I understand. At this time, the guy that my aunt wasn’t talking highly of yesterday was wearing a shirt which said: “Bring back lawn darts” we hugged and he talked about how he used to be a compsci major like I am but switched to home remodeling because he didn’t like sitting around all day. Thing Alpha and her boyfriend came out at this time and I made sure to check where his eyes were going but he didn’t seem that stare-y. They left due to having their own pool party. My aunt got a scam email saying that someone named Cohen had left stuff to her in their will, I asked who this Cohen was because I thought it was a brother and she said:
“Oh it’s [Thing Alpha, Thing Beta, and Jared’s dad]’s mothers maiden name.”
Basically my cousins are descended from Aaron from the Bible or however the Exodus genealogies are written. Thing Beta and her boyfriend came in a bit later and I got dressed for the pool and hopped in, my grandpa had water guns and those donut tubes so Thing Alpha’s boyfriend and I got in and had a water gun fight using the tubes as cover. More people started coming in including my grandpa’s cook neighbor and his wife. They started to fry a ton of fish that my grandpa fished in Florida and I watched them. Another guy was on the grill for the hotdogs, once the hotdogs were finished, he put them in the bun and then back in the bun bag with the bun bag put into a cooler to trap the steam in and keep them fresh. Lunch was a bit later and I had 2 beers by then. I posted the grill neighbor on my Instagram story and the peach fuzz girl liked my story. A bit later, Thing Alpha, Thing Beta, and their boyfriends went into the office where they stayed and brought out a patch of edibles. I was given the last 5mg gummy and I ate it then went outside. My aunt was complaining about Yuengling beer and how it claims to be the oldest beer brewery in the United States since 1829 when we though it would be something that was established before 1776 (I looked it up and Yuengling isn’t lying, how the fuck are there no breweries from the 18th century active.) My grandpa was talking about the former mayor of Fort Wayne who he said he voted for 5 times despite being a Republican himself because of what he said:
“He and the Republican city council worked together to do a lot for Fort Wayne”
Around this time one of my second cousins came out and we greeted each other. He was my boss at my internship in 2023 here so I saw him a lot. I found out he had a girlfriend now that he started dating just after I ended my internship and moved back home. She had to be a head shorter than him. I ate some more food there and then sat in the sun. I had applied sunscreen a while ago but I was starting to get my skin burnt by the sun. This kid pushed me into the water one time and I got out after a while and had my third beer to better socialize. A bit later he tried to push me in again but I resisted and his mom told him to stop, he said:
“Bro are you drunk?”
I said yeah. I wasn’t feeling good so I sat down with my aunt, her children, and the boyfriends while I overheard Thing Alpha and her mom talk about which White Sox players were the hottest. At least it wasn’t Love Island. I just went inside to write in my blog while getting on snapchat. I had this conversation with a girl on Snapchat about her jeans that she loved before it went to how she ended up moving from Illinois to Alabama:
<i had the worst string of roommate luck the last year and got super mega fucked over financially n ending up losing my place at the end of april, around then i started talking to my dad again n he offered to let me stay down here, it was p much between him and my mom atp and i would have more independence at my dads and it felt like a good idea to get out of my hometown at the time, outside of the roommate stuff ive jst had a rlly bad n traumatic year n it was jst rlly hard to be there at that point. alabama is def not an ideal place for me or where i want to ultimately end up it was jst a decent opportunity so i took it. then i moved down here like 2 and a half weeks ago, drove down here w most of my stuff n my cats and have been staying in his house (technically my grandparents). last week he got out of jail and immediately fucked up p much, i went to the halfway house n he gave me some “gifts” which included drugs, the next day i had a rllyy bad breakdown n impulsively took some n it was wayy to high of a dosage and was a horrible experience (i used to do other stuff but i havent done anything but smoke in over 2 years) i take accountability for taking it n i know i shouldntve but i started to think abt the fact that he gave it to me n started to get uncomfortable & then tht night he asked me if i wanted to do meth w him so p obvious now he has no intention of staying clean and was trying to pull me into his shit so. i will be moving back home lmfao
>I’m so sad to hear about the drug thing.
>What are your cat’s names? I’m curious.
<it’s okay he’s kinda always been this way
>And why do you feel independent more at your dads than your moms?
<but i have sisters at my moms and also jst bc i grew up w her i jst feel like our dynamic is different yk? at my dads its jst me and him and he wont even be out of the halfway house til august
<its mostly jst in my head tbh my mom doesn’t rlly have rules like that it just is a different relationship dynamic i guess
I had to ask my grandpa where the aloe vera was and he told me, I noticed it was nearly depleted so after Thing Alpha and her boyfriend left to go to Michigan. I asked if I could walk over to Target to buy some to replace it, He let me and I walked there. I went in and bought that and one of those green apple Monster energy drinks. I walked home and consumed the energy drink while having to deal with the absolute suburban desolate road and parking lot obsessed landscape known as Fort Wayne. I got back and applied some of the old stuff on my body. My grandma left to view the fireworks at a different place. At 10:00pm we drove downtown to watch the fireworks. There was this Black family launching fireworks on uneven ground and one of them went off too low to the ground.
Also some drunk overgrown theatre majors were near us. We then drove to Culvers to get some Dove chocolate and strawberry stuff. I went to bed in pain.
Song of the Day: Bang the Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren (1983)
“Oh it’s [Thing Alpha, Thing Beta, and Jared’s dad]’s mothers maiden name.”
Basically my cousins are descended from Aaron from the Bible or however the Exodus genealogies are written. Thing Beta and her boyfriend came in a bit later and I got dressed for the pool and hopped in, my grandpa had water guns and those donut tubes so Thing Alpha’s boyfriend and I got in and had a water gun fight using the tubes as cover. More people started coming in including my grandpa’s cook neighbor and his wife. They started to fry a ton of fish that my grandpa fished in Florida and I watched them. Another guy was on the grill for the hotdogs, once the hotdogs were finished, he put them in the bun and then back in the bun bag with the bun bag put into a cooler to trap the steam in and keep them fresh. Lunch was a bit later and I had 2 beers by then. I posted the grill neighbor on my Instagram story and the peach fuzz girl liked my story. A bit later, Thing Alpha, Thing Beta, and their boyfriends went into the office where they stayed and brought out a patch of edibles. I was given the last 5mg gummy and I ate it then went outside. My aunt was complaining about Yuengling beer and how it claims to be the oldest beer brewery in the United States since 1829 when we though it would be something that was established before 1776 (I looked it up and Yuengling isn’t lying, how the fuck are there no breweries from the 18th century active.) My grandpa was talking about the former mayor of Fort Wayne who he said he voted for 5 times despite being a Republican himself because of what he said:
“He and the Republican city council worked together to do a lot for Fort Wayne”
Around this time one of my second cousins came out and we greeted each other. He was my boss at my internship in 2023 here so I saw him a lot. I found out he had a girlfriend now that he started dating just after I ended my internship and moved back home. She had to be a head shorter than him. I ate some more food there and then sat in the sun. I had applied sunscreen a while ago but I was starting to get my skin burnt by the sun. This kid pushed me into the water one time and I got out after a while and had my third beer to better socialize. A bit later he tried to push me in again but I resisted and his mom told him to stop, he said:
“Bro are you drunk?”
I said yeah. I wasn’t feeling good so I sat down with my aunt, her children, and the boyfriends while I overheard Thing Alpha and her mom talk about which White Sox players were the hottest. At least it wasn’t Love Island. I just went inside to write in my blog while getting on snapchat. I had this conversation with a girl on Snapchat about her jeans that she loved before it went to how she ended up moving from Illinois to Alabama:
<i had the worst string of roommate luck the last year and got super mega fucked over financially n ending up losing my place at the end of april, around then i started talking to my dad again n he offered to let me stay down here, it was p much between him and my mom atp and i would have more independence at my dads and it felt like a good idea to get out of my hometown at the time, outside of the roommate stuff ive jst had a rlly bad n traumatic year n it was jst rlly hard to be there at that point. alabama is def not an ideal place for me or where i want to ultimately end up it was jst a decent opportunity so i took it. then i moved down here like 2 and a half weeks ago, drove down here w most of my stuff n my cats and have been staying in his house (technically my grandparents). last week he got out of jail and immediately fucked up p much, i went to the halfway house n he gave me some “gifts” which included drugs, the next day i had a rllyy bad breakdown n impulsively took some n it was wayy to high of a dosage and was a horrible experience (i used to do other stuff but i havent done anything but smoke in over 2 years) i take accountability for taking it n i know i shouldntve but i started to think abt the fact that he gave it to me n started to get uncomfortable & then tht night he asked me if i wanted to do meth w him so p obvious now he has no intention of staying clean and was trying to pull me into his shit so. i will be moving back home lmfao
>I’m so sad to hear about the drug thing.
>What are your cat’s names? I’m curious.
<it’s okay he’s kinda always been this way
>And why do you feel independent more at your dads than your moms?
<but i have sisters at my moms and also jst bc i grew up w her i jst feel like our dynamic is different yk? at my dads its jst me and him and he wont even be out of the halfway house til august
<its mostly jst in my head tbh my mom doesn’t rlly have rules like that it just is a different relationship dynamic i guess
I had to ask my grandpa where the aloe vera was and he told me, I noticed it was nearly depleted so after Thing Alpha and her boyfriend left to go to Michigan. I asked if I could walk over to Target to buy some to replace it, He let me and I walked there. I went in and bought that and one of those green apple Monster energy drinks. I walked home and consumed the energy drink while having to deal with the absolute suburban desolate road and parking lot obsessed landscape known as Fort Wayne. I got back and applied some of the old stuff on my body. My grandma left to view the fireworks at a different place. At 10:00pm we drove downtown to watch the fireworks. There was this Black family launching fireworks on uneven ground and one of them went off too low to the ground.
Also some drunk overgrown theatre majors were near us. We then drove to Culvers to get some Dove chocolate and strawberry stuff. I went to bed in pain.
Song of the Day: Bang the Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren (1983)
4 weeks ago#51926
July 5th, 2025: I woke up on the cot and stayed in bed for a while until I got up to get coffee. The first pot was too weak for my tastes but my aunt ended up brewing another. I packed up and had some of the watermelon that Thing Beta was cutting up while her mom was making pancakes and eggs. I had to bring over some chairs and a table to the neighbor’s place before we ate. I had 2 tiny pancakes and some scrambled eggs and munched on more watermelon cubes. I saw this giant book my grandpa had about the Vietnam war that was a volume 1 or something. He then told me this story about how he was discharged from the marine reserves for bad ankles 2 days before all marines were drafted into Vietnam. He told us about a story when him, Jane, his grandpa, his instructor, and his instructor’s wife were flying into O’Hare on a busy Friday night in 1967 (sometime before Jane got pregnant with my dad) with a small engine where the controller got so mad at them for going slow that they said:
“6316, never fly here again?”
2 months later, small engine planes were not allowed to go to O’Hare. I continued eating until we got low on watermelon and my grandpa said someone had to finish it, so I did. I got packed and put some stuff in my grandma’s car while my aunt and Thing Beta debated over what to do with a half empty box of Bud Lite. My aunt was concerned that she was going to get caught by Indiana cops at county borders taking advantage of sudden shifts in speed limits and get arrested for having beer in the car. I got in my car and we drove off at 11:00am. The first topic discussed on the drive was this event yesterday that I didn’t witness where my grandpa on 2 beers got mad at one of his neighbors because he thought he was hitting on his ex-wife, Jane said that he had been looking at her so he thought the neighbor was going to hit on her but he came over and they bonded based on a mutual interest in Democratic politics, him being a former union member (he also had a wife,) with Thing Beta’s boyfriend having to tell my grandpa to chill out. On the way we first stopped at a gas station in Warsaw, Indiana because we had to go to the bathroom. It had no bathroom so I ran over to the Culver’s across a busy road to go there. I got back out and brought some firewood and then drove westward past the Family Express from 2 days ago. We got onto IN 49 in Porter to take that North. Jane and my aunt were talking about politics, they remarked about Sarah Huckabee Sanders and my aunt said:
“I’m sorry but she’s a fat ugly bitch!”
She mentioned Sanders’ weight loss through ozempic and I looked her up and now she looks like a golden brown deflated balloon. I had opened Snapchat to find out that the girl from yesterday had snapchatted me:
<you have rlly nice hair
Probably due to me swimming in salt water. I told her why it was and that she should go down to the ocean because she’s in Alabama, but she was 4 and half hours away. Because I was filling out the map for SuperLocalMaps on my phone, I decided to bide my time by playing CTGP-7 like Mikobowl would do. When we got near the Horseshoe casino in Hammond, Indiana, my aunt went into a rant about the One Big Beautiful Bill causing gamblers to lose more money because they would have to report more to the IRS while talking about how all the kids these days were addicted to gambling and their iPhone. After we crossed the state border into Illinois, we started getting into traffic at 2:15pm. I was asked if my train was at 3:15pm or 3:45pm, I said 3:45pm but I checked it to find it was 3:15pm, the traffic was going super slow and it said I was going to get there at 2:29pm on the timer but it slowly ticked up to 2:40pm. I was done with the traffic when we finally exited onto W Madison street and got off at the Union Station at 2:45pm. I hugged them goodbye and ran past all the Amish people. I bought a Monster energy drink and when I got there, they were already lining up to get on. I got in line and waited for a while until I finally got on at 3:10pm. One of the assistants looked like a typical train conductor. The Amtrak announcer said over the loudspeaker as a good conversation starter:
“Ask them what’s your favorite sportsball team.”
Which made me crack up. The train started moving and I got up later to go to the bathroom. I saw the assistant with a polar bear plush at his table. I went to the bathroom and then got back. I talked to the girl who liked my hair a bit more on Snapchat, she said that the sunburn that I had on my nose looked kind of cute. I got off at the final stop and I walked over to my bus while covering the back of my neck to make it less sunburnt. I got on the bus and took it home. I got home and took off my shirt first, and then later my pants because I was so sunburnt. I sat in my air conditioned home for a long time until I finally decided to put my clothes back on and get some aloe vera from the convenience store. The cashier was kind of careless towards me. I got back and texted the girl to ask for her Instagram, she gave it to me and I followed her and liked her 3 most recent posts, she did the same and I liked the 3 posts before those. We alternated that 5 times and I then liked the rest of hers. For dinner at 6:03pm, I decided to eat these flat anchovies but when I ate them, I found these thin plastic wire like things in it, I spit it out and washed it to reveal this:
I wasn’t sure if it was their bones or they caught an anchovy so filled with plastic that it ended up like that. Next was to cook ramen with an egg in it for dinner and didn’t encounter any plastic strings in there. I watched more YouTube on the TV until I decided to go to sleep. I took a shower and then snapchatted with the woman a bit more. At 11:11pm she snapped me the time with the message:
<make a wish !!
So I said something like my back was not hurting. Going to sleep was hard but I found a technique was to lay my chest on top of a pillow, it stretched out the skin but when I got off the pillow it contracted a bit and hurt more.
Song of the Day: Lady Madonna - The Beatles (1968)
“6316, never fly here again?”
2 months later, small engine planes were not allowed to go to O’Hare. I continued eating until we got low on watermelon and my grandpa said someone had to finish it, so I did. I got packed and put some stuff in my grandma’s car while my aunt and Thing Beta debated over what to do with a half empty box of Bud Lite. My aunt was concerned that she was going to get caught by Indiana cops at county borders taking advantage of sudden shifts in speed limits and get arrested for having beer in the car. I got in my car and we drove off at 11:00am. The first topic discussed on the drive was this event yesterday that I didn’t witness where my grandpa on 2 beers got mad at one of his neighbors because he thought he was hitting on his ex-wife, Jane said that he had been looking at her so he thought the neighbor was going to hit on her but he came over and they bonded based on a mutual interest in Democratic politics, him being a former union member (he also had a wife,) with Thing Beta’s boyfriend having to tell my grandpa to chill out. On the way we first stopped at a gas station in Warsaw, Indiana because we had to go to the bathroom. It had no bathroom so I ran over to the Culver’s across a busy road to go there. I got back out and brought some firewood and then drove westward past the Family Express from 2 days ago. We got onto IN 49 in Porter to take that North. Jane and my aunt were talking about politics, they remarked about Sarah Huckabee Sanders and my aunt said:
“I’m sorry but she’s a fat ugly bitch!”
She mentioned Sanders’ weight loss through ozempic and I looked her up and now she looks like a golden brown deflated balloon. I had opened Snapchat to find out that the girl from yesterday had snapchatted me:
<you have rlly nice hair
Probably due to me swimming in salt water. I told her why it was and that she should go down to the ocean because she’s in Alabama, but she was 4 and half hours away. Because I was filling out the map for SuperLocalMaps on my phone, I decided to bide my time by playing CTGP-7 like Mikobowl would do. When we got near the Horseshoe casino in Hammond, Indiana, my aunt went into a rant about the One Big Beautiful Bill causing gamblers to lose more money because they would have to report more to the IRS while talking about how all the kids these days were addicted to gambling and their iPhone. After we crossed the state border into Illinois, we started getting into traffic at 2:15pm. I was asked if my train was at 3:15pm or 3:45pm, I said 3:45pm but I checked it to find it was 3:15pm, the traffic was going super slow and it said I was going to get there at 2:29pm on the timer but it slowly ticked up to 2:40pm. I was done with the traffic when we finally exited onto W Madison street and got off at the Union Station at 2:45pm. I hugged them goodbye and ran past all the Amish people. I bought a Monster energy drink and when I got there, they were already lining up to get on. I got in line and waited for a while until I finally got on at 3:10pm. One of the assistants looked like a typical train conductor. The Amtrak announcer said over the loudspeaker as a good conversation starter:
“Ask them what’s your favorite sportsball team.”
Which made me crack up. The train started moving and I got up later to go to the bathroom. I saw the assistant with a polar bear plush at his table. I went to the bathroom and then got back. I talked to the girl who liked my hair a bit more on Snapchat, she said that the sunburn that I had on my nose looked kind of cute. I got off at the final stop and I walked over to my bus while covering the back of my neck to make it less sunburnt. I got on the bus and took it home. I got home and took off my shirt first, and then later my pants because I was so sunburnt. I sat in my air conditioned home for a long time until I finally decided to put my clothes back on and get some aloe vera from the convenience store. The cashier was kind of careless towards me. I got back and texted the girl to ask for her Instagram, she gave it to me and I followed her and liked her 3 most recent posts, she did the same and I liked the 3 posts before those. We alternated that 5 times and I then liked the rest of hers. For dinner at 6:03pm, I decided to eat these flat anchovies but when I ate them, I found these thin plastic wire like things in it, I spit it out and washed it to reveal this:
I wasn’t sure if it was their bones or they caught an anchovy so filled with plastic that it ended up like that. Next was to cook ramen with an egg in it for dinner and didn’t encounter any plastic strings in there. I watched more YouTube on the TV until I decided to go to sleep. I took a shower and then snapchatted with the woman a bit more. At 11:11pm she snapped me the time with the message:
<make a wish !!
So I said something like my back was not hurting. Going to sleep was hard but I found a technique was to lay my chest on top of a pillow, it stretched out the skin but when I got off the pillow it contracted a bit and hurt more.
Song of the Day: Lady Madonna - The Beatles (1968)
4 weeks ago#51936
July 6th, 2025: It’s Angeleno’s 23rd birthday today. I woke up early in the morning and watched a 4:40 long video from the girl I was snapchatting. She told me that her dad had 4 marriages before in his life and how he gave her some drug called suboxone or whatever. I went back to sleep and then woke up at 6:30am. I had the last of my cereal for breakfast and wrote in my blog some more. At 6:47am I texted Angeleno:
>Happy birthday Angeleno!
I got dressed for work despite not having my red Sicilia hat. I wore my Chicago Dogs hat instead because that was the closest. I got on the bus at 8:00am and took it to work. I entered the place and brewed some coffee for myself only to find out that my red hat was in the employee coat rack. I walked downstairs to see my task list was very short in comparison with Hill’s. I clocked in at 8:24am, walking over to the beverage cooler to get started on my first 2 tasks and then saw that there was a new woman up front with Anne, I talked to her and found out she was the one that Anne chose so Anne doesn’t work 7 days a week anymore. Sabrina hasn’t shown up in a while for work. I started to work on a pull list for a part of the store when I asked Jesse:
“Did the new scanner system get set up?”
He told me:
“No, the tech guys will let us know, but here’s a system for you!”
He handed me a clipboard and some paper. A bit later Lebanon came in and I said hi to him because he had to do something near the printer. I grabbed it and spent a long time writing my list for what I needed. I then put it in the warehouse and clocked out for my break, I got some coffee cakes, I ended up eating 3 for my first break and then clocked back in to work on putting the items on the pallet. I didn’t even find most of the items I needed. But I brought it down and had it all done by the time I had to go on my lunch break. I ordered a prosciutto sandwich for my break and a drink to go with it. I went upstairs to eat it while writing in my blog a bit more, I saw I got a message from Angeleno at 11:40am which read:
<Thank you gemerson lake and Palmer
While on lunch break. Hill was listening to TikToks on a high volume but I lacked the courage to tell him to stop. The girl from yesterday talked to me about dying her hair blue, I told her she should go red, she told me she was a natural redhead and that she wants to dye it red and then grow it out later on. I continued with my break when I saw fAsherah come into work and we started pointing at each other. I had my final task of the day which was to sweep and mop upstairs. I had to bring the drymop upstairs when I found fAsherah on her lunch break, I offered her a coffee cake and she took it, giving me a half eaten bag of. I went to the back to fill up a bucket with soapy water and brought it upstairs. I mopped a bit before fake bashing her on the head with the mop and we joked around more. I got all of the upstairs mopped up before going on a mini break before my actual break. Anne came through the place and asked me:
“Gemerson are you having a good time?”
I snarkily said:
“Yes, why do you ask?”
She replied:
“I’m asking everyone to make sure!”
I took my actual break and bought one of those fancy blood orange sodas to drink for it. I then started on my closing tasks early. The floor in the back was extra dirty so I knew I was needed. It was raining out so there was no reason for me to do one task. I waited around for the bus to come because I was going to take it to church after work. I clocked out and got on it. I walked to church and sat near the front. Father Palmer was leading the mass and that one couple that’s super affectionate was there and this one person I recognized from the Catholic center. The mass went through as normal with the prayers. I remembered the deal with Logan and how much he despises me. There’s this outdoor event that happens at the start of the school year for my college and I know that Logan’s gonna come over to me and publicly humiliate me into leaving. I hated it and I fucking hate him. Once the mass ended, there was no Saint Michael prayer so I said it in my head. There was an announcement about a bar group so I joined them. On the walk there, I heard this guy talking about being an economic ‘refugee’ (rent is too high) from Los Angeles, California so he moved here and now he might be moving to the Upper Peninsula. I got in and talked with a food pantry guy that Cliffe knew. He was there the first time I went to Cliffe’s house. I ordered a Modelo from a White woman with purple dyed hair and tipped generously. I talked more with others while they were eating popcorn and they ordered 2 pizzas for 6 people (including me). I had 2 slices of each flavor when Father Palmer stopped by for a bit to say hi. I left after finishing my Modelo with the lime in and taking the bus home. I took a shower and then went to sleep.
Song of the Day: Hello It’s Me - Todd Rundgren (1972)
>Happy birthday Angeleno!
I got dressed for work despite not having my red Sicilia hat. I wore my Chicago Dogs hat instead because that was the closest. I got on the bus at 8:00am and took it to work. I entered the place and brewed some coffee for myself only to find out that my red hat was in the employee coat rack. I walked downstairs to see my task list was very short in comparison with Hill’s. I clocked in at 8:24am, walking over to the beverage cooler to get started on my first 2 tasks and then saw that there was a new woman up front with Anne, I talked to her and found out she was the one that Anne chose so Anne doesn’t work 7 days a week anymore. Sabrina hasn’t shown up in a while for work. I started to work on a pull list for a part of the store when I asked Jesse:
“Did the new scanner system get set up?”
He told me:
“No, the tech guys will let us know, but here’s a system for you!”
He handed me a clipboard and some paper. A bit later Lebanon came in and I said hi to him because he had to do something near the printer. I grabbed it and spent a long time writing my list for what I needed. I then put it in the warehouse and clocked out for my break, I got some coffee cakes, I ended up eating 3 for my first break and then clocked back in to work on putting the items on the pallet. I didn’t even find most of the items I needed. But I brought it down and had it all done by the time I had to go on my lunch break. I ordered a prosciutto sandwich for my break and a drink to go with it. I went upstairs to eat it while writing in my blog a bit more, I saw I got a message from Angeleno at 11:40am which read:
<Thank you gemerson lake and Palmer
While on lunch break. Hill was listening to TikToks on a high volume but I lacked the courage to tell him to stop. The girl from yesterday talked to me about dying her hair blue, I told her she should go red, she told me she was a natural redhead and that she wants to dye it red and then grow it out later on. I continued with my break when I saw fAsherah come into work and we started pointing at each other. I had my final task of the day which was to sweep and mop upstairs. I had to bring the drymop upstairs when I found fAsherah on her lunch break, I offered her a coffee cake and she took it, giving me a half eaten bag of. I went to the back to fill up a bucket with soapy water and brought it upstairs. I mopped a bit before fake bashing her on the head with the mop and we joked around more. I got all of the upstairs mopped up before going on a mini break before my actual break. Anne came through the place and asked me:
“Gemerson are you having a good time?”
I snarkily said:
“Yes, why do you ask?”
She replied:
“I’m asking everyone to make sure!”
I took my actual break and bought one of those fancy blood orange sodas to drink for it. I then started on my closing tasks early. The floor in the back was extra dirty so I knew I was needed. It was raining out so there was no reason for me to do one task. I waited around for the bus to come because I was going to take it to church after work. I clocked out and got on it. I walked to church and sat near the front. Father Palmer was leading the mass and that one couple that’s super affectionate was there and this one person I recognized from the Catholic center. The mass went through as normal with the prayers. I remembered the deal with Logan and how much he despises me. There’s this outdoor event that happens at the start of the school year for my college and I know that Logan’s gonna come over to me and publicly humiliate me into leaving. I hated it and I fucking hate him. Once the mass ended, there was no Saint Michael prayer so I said it in my head. There was an announcement about a bar group so I joined them. On the walk there, I heard this guy talking about being an economic ‘refugee’ (rent is too high) from Los Angeles, California so he moved here and now he might be moving to the Upper Peninsula. I got in and talked with a food pantry guy that Cliffe knew. He was there the first time I went to Cliffe’s house. I ordered a Modelo from a White woman with purple dyed hair and tipped generously. I talked more with others while they were eating popcorn and they ordered 2 pizzas for 6 people (including me). I had 2 slices of each flavor when Father Palmer stopped by for a bit to say hi. I left after finishing my Modelo with the lime in and taking the bus home. I took a shower and then went to sleep.
Song of the Day: Hello It’s Me - Todd Rundgren (1972)
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