Friday: Quite a day of ups and downs. The power went out overnight, and while I woke up early enough to schedule my doctor's appointment for next week, I didn't really have time to hit the store before Julie's arrival. I picked her up from the airport; while she liked Louisville well enough, the trip had been exhausting and stressful. We grabbed lunch at Taco Bell before stepping into Acme for chips and other supplies.
Once we got back home, we had a little time to decompress before David called. After that, Julie had a hair appointment at 5, and I probably should have cooked the meat while she was gone, but I spent most of my time struggling with the cemantle puzzle for day 795. (The closest I got was "bisection" at 97.9% semantic match.)
After she returned, we walked up to Ray's Happy Birthday Bar for Amy's birthday, though we stopped by an ice cream truck, where I got a black-and-white shake. A bunch of Julie's bocce teammates and other players were there. I was partially successful at matching the names Melody, Julianne, Mike, other Mike, Sarah, and Rachael to their corresponding faces, though any spelling errors are my own. I was having trouble hearing, so I mostly just perched on a chair in a doorway and tried to make sense of the films they kept flipping between on the big tv. (The films in question included The Spirit, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, and the director's cut of Clive Barker's Nightbreed.)
As 9 PM approached and passed, we were getting pretty hungry, so we left to find a local pizza joint, where we each grabbed a slice and a can of soda. The pizza was fine, though the uber driver behind us could not stop stirring up drama with his requests for freebies or something, so we were glad to get out of there.
We stopped into POPE to reconvene with the bocce crowd. I talked with Rachael for a while, but my voice was not keeping up, and I got pretty tired of standing up. I perched on a wobbly stool by Julie until she was ready to go, and we returned home, where after satisfying the cats' nightly treat routine, I wrote this update.
Wednesday: we've been dealing with bad air in the northeastern states for the past couple days due to wildfires in Canada, and it was particularly bad today. Julie said that they actually cancelled the baseball game today because of it, which means we were lucky to see the game on Tuesday. I started an update on the website, but I would fail to post most of these details until days later.
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I played Overboard! and considered writing a guide for it, because no real guides for it existed at this time. I didn't get very far in my plans to do so, though.
This is the last time I played Heaven's Vault before clearing it off my laptop for storage reasons. I got two different endings, didn't I? I'm pretty sure I did.
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Thursday: it seems I'd identified the three "worst days of my life" as all occurring within a 13 month span stretching from the end of my senior year of high school to the end of my first year at KU. Two of these were consequences of being emotionally out-of-my-depth and unable to maintain a relationship because I was so trapped inside my own head. The third day was an instance of food poisoning at KU. (Prior to November 25 of 2023, I couldn't have even told you that I had food poisoning while I was at KU. It left no long-term impression.) These details were recorded in an otherwise unreadable entry in my journal at 1:57 AM today.
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