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A lifetime of neighbors (part 2)
**To read part one of this story, click here** Ok, we’re back. Apartment rents are extremely high and they keep rising. Property prices are multiplying in a matter of one or two years and people are still paying over the appraisal. Inflation is eating up our salaries. Jobs are simply not paying enough. How can…
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Calling ‘Happiness’ in the coin toss of life
Things are going well. No… Scratch that. Things are going fucking great. Which makes it even more terrifying and bizarre. New apartment fully set up in barely a week and a half. Fresh side gig that basically takes care of all my financial worries. Car is going to the shop and getting bumper to bumper…
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A covert truth (pt. 2)
**To read part one of this story, click here** [cont.] — I may be a moron, but I know more than you’ll ever know in your whole life and the next. You don’t even have any idea of what you don’t know, because you don’t have a way to find out. Until now. Today, I’ll…
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Valentine’s Day Weekend
DO’s – Stay-in – Put some soft jazz in the background (Miles Davis is THE go-to) – Hide your Valentine’s Gift in the basement/closet – Cook a steak dinner for your special person – Make a night out of it – Be more affectionate than usual – Talk about your first couple of dates, how…
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A lifetime of neighbors (part 1)
Being a realist, of course I know the odds of having a ‘bad neighbor’ is higher than finding a good one. They don’t have to be inherently bad people, just inconsiderate, weird or even clumsy. Well, I’ve had my share of both the scheming and the aloof ones. The results more or less the same:…
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The dog by the river
With the new and stable daily routine barely starting, the first thing I had to add back into the fold was exercising regularly. Back then, a long time ago (around December 2021 and January 2022, lmao) I had the utmost discipline to work-out at least 3 to 4 times a week. Then came the whole…
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The new normal daily schedule (same as before, but written-down)
WEEKDAYS: Wake up,Hygiene,Shower,Protein Bar,Work,Coffee and toast,Work,Lunch,Coffee and dessert,Work,Exercise, Shower,Coffee and protein bar,*Leisure timeWork,Hygiene,Go to bed,Meme time, Sleep. WEEKENDS: Wake up,Hygiene,Shower,Breakfast,[…]Lunch,[…]Dinner,[…]Shower,Hygiene,Go to bed,Meme time, Sleep. Key: * Can extend from 30 minutes to 3 hours; depending on the ‘how much of a fuck do I give’ reading (subject to availability). […] No-holds-barred time: anything goes, from daytime drinking to…
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Stability ahead, smooth sailing awaits
Tomorrow I officially start my new side gig. I haven’t had a ‘second job’ since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. Now that I reminisce, my schedule before ‘everything changed’ was pretty packed. Between my main “9am to 5pm” job as Chief editor (still going strong), freelancing copywriter once in a while and…
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I’M BACK ONLINE!
After 10 days of first-world suffering without high-speed wireless internet, I’m FINALLY connected to the net! The guy came in at the last hour available within the scheduled appointment. Told me he’s gonna need to charge the full installation because “the line to the main connection box is not set-up on the corner of my…
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T-Minus 18 hours to access the Internet
Nine days in total. This has been the longest I’ve been without Wi-FI in an apartment ever since I moved out from my parents house on my own during college (like a decade ago). No streaming series, no online video games, no updates, no high-speed access to the digital world, no ultimate procrastinating levels… I…
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