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welll bad news...I was recently laid off..again...And let me be clear it's not me being bad at my job. It just...really REALLY sucks to work for small independent business in the current economy. They had to lay me off because there were too many people on payroll and sales weren't up enough to support the work force. At least that's what my latest ex boss said.


On the plus side, I should be starting another one soon, and this time it's not some shit job that i can be laid off from at the drop of a hat. NO no this is a temp to full time job on the cleaning staff of a ubs office. It's gonna be a temp trial once it starts, but if I prove myself to be a good worker, then I'll join the cleaning staff full time and even join a union, with a 401k and insurance. How do I know I'm getting the job? Cause I signed the tax forms and employment agreements and everything already. The only reason it didn't start right away was because the company had to run a full background check, and this isn't like any other wage slave jobs, where a "background check" Is at best a quick google search of your name to see if it turns up a felony you lied about. It was a full paid for by the company, background check to see if there's anything spottier than a parking ticket on your record.


The only downside is the waiting, I cleared the background check flawlessly, now all that's left is for my paperwork to get pushed through into the system and then I should get a call to let me know when I can start. But with how slow burreracry can go even for a big company like ubs...I can only hope it starts soon.


Used my last paycheck from the bar to pay all my bills off fully so they won't have to be a problem in the coming weeks. So there's that. so I guess you could say things aren't so good right now but they will hopefully pick up soon, hopefully sooner rather than later. Still gonna look for another job in the meantime, even if it another shit one like the ones I've had before.
 
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had a cold over the weekend, and finally returned to work, only to take an at-home test (at the behest of another coworker) and came back positive.
Per company guidelines, I am to stay at home for 5 days or until another, more solid test proves the home test wrong.
Until then, I am stuck in the cuck-shed. *sigh*
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I've been on a serious relationship with someone for the last couple of months and the "ideal Bubble" is starting to burst.

I don't have the same excitement or euphoria about her as I did a couple months ago.

We are in that liminal space where we are showing each other imperfections and the "bad stuff" of our personality.

Relationships when you are beyond 25 are weird.
 
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Just got a call about 10 minutes ago for an interview in the field that I'm trying to get into. It's not the first place that I wanted nor is it even for the same company, but it's a start. Pretty nervous about it, but it's some good news nonetheless.
 
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Saint Agustin said:
I've been on a serious relationship with someone for the last couple of months and the "ideal Bubble" is starting to burst.

I don't have the same excitement or euphoria about her as I did a couple months ago.

We are in that liminal space where we are showing each other imperfections and the "bad stuff" of our personality.

Relationships when you are beyond 25 are weird.
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Wouldn't know, I've barely had any meaningful relationships with a partner. Longest time I've dated a girl was 9 months.
Then again, I am ugly and autistic socially awkward, so that might be the reason.
(Not power leveling)
 
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Tsukasa Kayoda said:
Wouldn't know, I've barely had any meaningful relationships with a partner. Longest time I've dated a girl was 9 months.
Then again, I am ugly and autistic socially awkward, so that might be the reason.
(Not power leveling)
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I had several relationship over the years. Most of them were fleeting or never went into actual commitment.

Now that I'm older I see things in another light, and with different expectations about what I want for me and my life.

Is a scary thing that realization.

Hopefully you can meet someone nice.

I think the worst thing in life is end up alone... That's one of my biggest fears.
 
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Saint Agustin said:
I had several relationship over the years. Most of them were fleeting or never went into actual commitment.

Now that I'm older I see things in another light, and with different expectations about what I want for me and my life.

Is a scary thing that realization.

Hopefully you can meet someone nice.

I think the worst thing in life is end up alone... That's one of my biggest fears.
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I've often wondered what's going to happen with millennials or gen z.

Community is dead so things have no way of proceeding organically, but people are afraid of being alone so they just grab someone, anyone, since that's how it's supposed to be, right? Being a successful adult means getting married and preferably having kids, don't want to miss your chance and wind up an isolated social castoff.

Except then people make each other miserable, or they drag each other down and usually wind up alone in the end anyways, since they never really got along that well and were never very emotionally well equipped to begin with, they just had to attach themselves to somebody to check an item off the list; plus nowadays unsupervised kids from unstable households don't stand a chance, by the time the world is through with them they may as well not even be your kids. We've all seen the threads.

What are these people going to do? The clocks ticking, they don't have forever to wait and hope things pan out.
People these days have so much companionship in being isolated, it's a bizarre concept.

Lathe said:
Bottled my mango mead this last weekend and boy is it sweet. Closer to a liqueur than wine in consistency and alcohol content. I just have to decide now what I might want to replace it with in the fermenting bucket. Maybe try making more watermelon mead before the season ends.
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Fermenting mango is a good idea. In fact there's always mango on the clearance racks at grocery stores, and if you're fermenting shit I guess it doesn't really matter, you could even just buy up random almost expired clearance produce and freeze it until you're ready, let that determine what you make. It's fine if it gets a little mushy from freezing because...you know.
 
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Uberpenguin said:
I've often wondered what's going to happen with millennials or gen z.

Community is dead so things have no way of proceeding organically, but people are afraid of being alone so they just grab someone, anyone, since that's how it's supposed to be, right? Being a successful adult means getting married and preferably having kids, don't want to miss your chance and wind up an isolated social castoff.

Except then people make each other miserable, or they drag each other down and usually wind up alone in the end anyways, since they never really got along that well and were never very emotionally well equipped to begin with, they just had to attach themselves to somebody to check an item off the list; plus nowadays unsupervised kids from unstable households don't stand a chance, by the time the world is through with them they may as well not even be your kids. We've all seen the threads.

What are these people going to do? The clocks ticking, they don't have forever to wait and hope things pan out.
People these days have so much companionship in being isolated, it's a bizarre concept.
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That is a world I don't really want to live in, and we are fast approaching.

Nowadays young people prefer being influencers or having an OnlyFans than being a Doctor or a scientist. They rather find companionships over the internet because in real life settings they get anxious or depressed. They create these fantasies about oppression and misery, when they live in first world countries and they would die if they lived in places like Paraguay or Irak.

The future is bleak. Is a future I don't want to take part of. Sadly that's kinda impossible.

My only recourse is to find someone nice to settle down, work, and leave something so my kids and grandkids can have a head start in life.
 
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Everything has been good and I’m making an effort to reach out to friends because I’ve found myself isolating from everything in general. I care about them, I know they care about me. I’m thinking I’m going through a depressive phase but I also wonder if my agoraphobia contributes to it. During the pandemic, it was actually hard for me to go to the grocery store alone. I don’t think I fully desensitized that anxiety of mine.
 
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Lathe said:
Maybe try making more watermelon mead before the season ends.
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Ooooh, do you have a recipe or a method you use? Even one you bastardized, we're always down for homebrew experiments at my house.

Made a coffee "wine" in 2019 that you could probably have used as roofing tar

A rhubarb one in 2020 which needs some tweaking for flavour, but it cleared up fine.

Dandelion wine last spring; it's a pain in the arse and takes forever, but it smells like liquid sunshine.

Got a lilac wine going in a 1 gallon carboy atm.
 
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Ooooh, do you have a recipe or a method you use? Even one you bastardized, we're always down for homebrew experiments at my house.
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I keep it simple. The more complicated I get the less I like the product. I focus a lot on maxing out my yeasts if I want sweet wine or letting it go dry if I feel like it. I use 23 liter or 6 gallon buckets.

Coffee sounds interesting but hard deal with. I made elderberry blueberry that was stinky because I had to boil the dried elderberries. Excellent dry drink though. For orange I used orange blossom honey and blended a 6 oranges then put the pulp and skins in a brewing bag. You could definitely smell and taste the orange in it. I noticed my best success comes from brew bagging stuff and letting it sit a long time. I want to try dandelion but I want to use wild stuff. Maybe next year.
 
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Cheesecake Factory interview today and I can't tell if it went good or bad. Had to use the ole "can we come back to that question? " line when I couldn't think of an answer and it felt like the manager rushed through the interview to get it over with. I know there's a chance he did that cause there's more people to interview or he was just busy but I feel like I just botched it up AMD wasted time.


Oh well got another one for chipotle tommorow, friday and even then this job hunt is only temporary till that cleaner job gets back to me.
 
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