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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I accidently started a trend among a certain group of being early to the meeting because I was worried about being late. So, instead of getting ten minutes to mentally prepare with a book or podcast, it became asinine small talk. Now I’ve just gotten better at being ten minutes early without signing in and setting a two minute timer on my phone to log into the chat. Now they complain I’m not chatting with them. Why can’t they understand I’d never choose to interact with them, this is work.






  • That bit about “when a game install was an experience” or whatever the actual phrasing is, hit that nostalgia.

    I remember when saved up enough from my paper route and rode to the store after school to pick up AoEII and got home and started the install on the computer I had built from spare parts. My pops got home while I was still on the first disc part of the install and sat and watched the install slides with me. When the first disc was finished and ejected, he ran to the main family pc to start the install there. I didn’t play play until his install was also finished so we could both play on the LAN (with a single copy! Kids don’t know!). We had just started the first game when my grandma hit me on AIM to say she was trying to call and to get off the internet.

    Nostalgia like a motherfucker.