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Received a nag-beg re-up enticement letter from those ass-hats at ''Progress-shit'' insurance who somehow managed to discover not only that I'd departed Florida and relocated here to SW Virginia, but had also managed to track me down via my precise Post Office Box address -- ass-eating douche bags!
Just a couple of days before the final weekend of the season close, I managed to catch an oversight on ''Amazon's'' part where they'd posted one of my most recent ''Vine'' product reviews where I had accidentally submitted a stack of several reviews of other unrelated products, due to an oversight when I was copy/cut-pasting from my in-document word processor ''template'' -- but what immediately stood out (which was what had sent me into instant panic mode, as well as having me questioning how it all still somehow managed to slip whatever controls they have in place that allowed it all to get publicized) was when the ''Review'' opened with the first line of text which shamelessly shouted: ''Eating * Pussy : It's What I'm Good At ; It's What I Love To Do !'' -- which is what I keep as a document heading on that particular text template document: it had already been posted at least a full day or two before I went to review it in its posted form and only catching it at that moment.
for a brief period of only a couple of days or so earlier in the Quarter, my computer system finally seemed as if it was on a corrective course regarding its refusal to shutdown into ''Hibernation'' mode, but as with everything in my life, it turned out to be just another in a long string of psych-outs giving me false hope.
May 30 - June 1, 2025 (Friday - Sunday)
Caught my mother leaving the garage Friday Morning (May 30) just as I was was leaving my room to ask her if she had still planned on heading back out to pay her taxes or whatever after having her intended errand run halted the previous day by a sudden downpour: I'd already planned to head out myself to ''Sam's'' for another bag of oranges, a bunch of bananas, another tray of cherry turnover pastries, and as a last-minute impulsive inclusion, a ''loss-leader'' roto-hen, to work in conjunction with my trying to get a jump on my ISP refund 'Gift Card' before it reached its stamped June 2025 ''Valid Until'' date, just to play it on the safe side so that there was absolutely no risk of losing any remaining balances (I'd attempted to use the balance to purchase a couple of ceramic coffee mugs and a set of bungee straps on ''Amazon'' the previous night, but determined that there was no method to split payments between two or more payment options, so I canceled the ''debit'' order to repurchase the items via traditional ''credit card'' and learned how to set a PIN on the refund debit so that it could be used in a physical merchant transaction).
Our first stop was at ''Kroger'' however, where it was my intention to purchase some Hydrogen Peroxide, some rice vinegar, and some malt vinegar -- the latter item I'd ended up forgetting, but I felt I'd made-up for the lack with my finding that they stocked ''tonkatsu'' sauce (as well as ''furikake,'' though not a very wide selection of it).
While I was standing in line at our next stop (Sam's) I noticed a woman standing in the next line over wearing a very faded jacket for the company I last worked for prior to my relocation to Florida, and because of the condition of her jacket I asked her if the company was still in business (since during my own online searches I could find no information about their existence), and she ensured me that they were indeed still in business and that the same people are still heading the operation, whereupon she offered to provide me with the contact number of the Head Supervisor and agreed to call them on my behalf to let them know I was back in Town and would soon be available for [re-]hire.
Sunday (Jun. 1), after finally getting the last remaining bits of floor clutter (less my bag of health care & tax records) cleared and [relatively] stored, I finally pulled out a camera set-up to record some activity images for profile considerations on the ''dating apps.''
[Latest Journal Entry]: June 30, 2025 ~ [another forcibly late after-hours posting... thanks again to attitudinal computer internet connection disruption and lockdown freeze!]
Unmentioned Highlights from Previous Quarter...
''Weekend in Review''
June 2, 2025 (Monday)
Prior to venturing out to the Post Office to retrieve my ''Vine-ordered'' bicycle headlamp, I inspected that contact letter I'd received from ''Regressive'' Insurance the last time I'd checked my P.O. Box (May 19), wondering how the hell they'd managed to track me down in all of my contact info, including my current mailing address: upon inspection, I discovered that these personal bits of information had been acquired as a result of somebody accessing ''Credit Score'' records. There was a contact number that I [supposedly] could call to ''Opt-Out,'' but the process was such that it was requiring me to submit literally every bit of my personal contact information, whereupon I'd determined that this was just another sneaky attempt to try to collect my updated/current contact information, resulting in my shutting that shit down outright.
On the way back to the house, I determined that the weather was mild and pleasant and inviting enough to encourage me to want to head back out to take the motorcycle on a short trip, additionally influenced by my desire to drain-down the remaining charge on a couple of my helmet camera batteries: my trip was limited to a ''loop'' down ''Shenandoah Ave'' and back via ''Salem Turnpike.''
After returning from the trip, I used the remaining weather to spray-wash my main runner rug and then wash & polish my motorcycle.
*Update - (23:20)
Forgotten Mention: when I'd about finished with the touch-up work on my motorcycle, I noticed that my ''Florida Registration'' had already expired by four (4) months, whereby I'd believed I had about another half-year left on it before ''really'' needing to address it... meaning I'm now in need not only of getting the thing registered ''locally,'' but requiring me to (ironically?) also begin perusing for insurance coverage -- from virtually anybody EXCEPT ''Regressive'' ...who didn't even have the decent foresight to remember that I'd never insured, or ever even tried to insure, a ''CAR'' with them! (...and they 'want me back' as a customer??? ~ go blow!)
21:30, Eastern Daylight Time
June 9, 2025 (Monday)
Startled some time after 3:00 (3:30-ish? or so?) this morning by rustling sounds from the yard areas outside the lanai door: thinking it might be a night deer I'd have to chase off I saw neither any deer nor any smaller animals... but I did keep spying what appeared to be a glowing eye of a small animal next to the neighboring house's fence reflecting back from the beam of the bicycle lamp I'd received as one of my recent Amazon ''Vine'' promotions, but I wasn't entirely certain, as I kept waiting for some movement to confirm so. Not satisfied with not knowing what, if anything, I was actually observing, I decided to walk over, whereupon I'd discovered a fawn which appeared to be stuck in between the neighbors wooden fence and the remnants of the vacant property's wire fence. Judging from its seeming struggles, I assisted it by pulling out the wire fencing with my lamp-holding hand and lifting it out from underneath with my free arm, whereupon it ran off and rejoined its mother who had been standing off near the roadside corner of the house, before they both crossed the street back into the wooded patch there.
Went to the Post Office this afternoon, where I retrieved combinations of both ''regular Amazon'' orders and ''Vine'' requests, which included the three coffee mugs I'd ordered (two by purchase; one promo freebie), the ordering of which must've foreshadowed the fact that I would [finally, after forever expectation of it,] wind-up cause the breakage of my highly treasured ''Man of Steel'' emblem mug, only for the two purchased items of this order (BOTH of them 20 oz. customs: one of ''Hello Kitty''; the other of ''Lilo and Stitch;'' both of which were bought to replace my ''Zak'' ''Justice League'' mugs because of my inability to find a decent 20 oz. ''JL'' design as a worthy replacement) to be found with defects: the ''LaS'' cup with a tiny but stable chip on the rim lip (so I decided not to view it as much of an issue); the ''HK'' mug however having been ''unfinished'' with a couple of exposed ''pit'' marks that had not been completely covered over in glazing, exposing the base ceramic underneath, which resulted in the area ''bubbling'' as I was washing it out in warm sudsy water. I informed ''Amazon'' about the ''Kitty'' cup, and they expedited a replacement. I then posted a question to ''deddit'' to inquire about the unglazed bubbling issue, to learn if there was anything about it that should've concerned me: I received one response later saying my main concern should be about potential bacterial harboring in the pits, but I expressed my concerns about something potentially leeching into an fluids the cup may be holding that might affect it negatively, especially when taking into consideration that the mug, like practically everything else, is made in China.
Later in the Evening, I paid-up my ISP connection for the next half-year.
23:10, Eastern Daylight Time
June 16 - 22, 2025 (Monday - Sunday)
Because of the depressing and unmotivating weekend I'd been experiencing, I told my mother that I decided to reschedule my ''Drive Me There'' request to have her take me to the DMV-- which I had requested/scheduled for Monday (Jun. 16) --as it had been my intention on that day to apply for my Virginia Driver License. The ''timing'' of my decision to back out seemed almost as if it had been pre-scripted by the Fates, as she would go on to experience a situation where her knee would suddenly and without forewarning whatsoever painfully give out from under her while she was at her voting station Tuesday (Jun. 17); her visit to her already scheduled Doctor appointment a couple of days later (Thu., Jun. 19) proclaimed that it was not cause for any major concern, but it was enough to limit her activity, keeping her hobbling around in pain and discomfort throughout the rest of the week. She also decided to start operating the house's central ''cooling'' unit Saturday (Jun. 21), resulting in my blocking off one of the two vents in my room which was found to be broken and incapable of being closed off.
While continuing to be mostly lethargic throughout the week, my own activities were overwhelmingly limited to me just jerking around on the Computer (whenever I wasn't simply sleeping the hours away), with much of my time being taken up with working on expanding my already significant collection of ''Pussy-Eating'' themed wallpaper/screensaver meme posters where I was using select (and usable) images produced from various prompts submitted to an online A.I. image generation program; or, also in other A.I. related online activity, I was collecting a series of A.I. generated essays in response to submitted objective and non-partisan questions challenging the accusations and counter-accusations surrounding whether the ''Make America Great Again'' (''MAGA'') movement and/or its figurehead Donald Trump were, after thorough emotionless and unbiased analyses, justified in being referred to with the labels of: ''Fascist''; ''A Destructive Cult''; ''Un-Christian''; and ''White-Supremacist/Racist'' -- (and of course the answers in response should've come as a shock to absolutely no one). Apart from watering the plants (occasionally combining that time with a few minor exercise routines using the swing set frame) and chasing deer away from around the property at various times of the day or night, I'd not been venturing outside for anything, not even to claim delivered packages from the Post Office.
''Full Week in Review''
June 27 - 29, 2025 (Friday - Sunday)
Spent much/most of the Weekend with irregular sleeping patterns (oversleeping, abnormal waking periods, etc.)
I was determined to retrieve my delivered replacement coffee mug and for-review ''Vine'' ordered [shower] curtain rod from the Post Office Saturday (Jun. 27), along with snapshots to present to Post Office staff of an email I'd received Monday regarding some [quote]''abnormal delivery notification''[unquote] on my bicycle replacement part which gave the impression that it was something that got lost in transit and was stuck at some far-off warehouse somewhere-- or was being held-up pending the payment of one of those Trump-inspired ''Duties'' (given that it kept referring to something called a ''waybill'' to be collected) --but upon checking their delivery notifications they confirmed that the package had indeed arrived (without the inclusion of any ''spokes guard''-- which had also gotten damaged --as I suspected would be the case).
This weekend also found me in embittered battle with the language-learning app, ''duolingo,'' as I'd reached the point to where I utterly refused to continue validating any of its prompt questions which keep relentlessly and unwaveringly FORCING DOWN OUR THROATS endless and unskippable barrages of ''anti-Heterosexual'' (homosexuality promoting/normalizing) relationship discussions! I had continued to tolerate the constant and agenda-pushing deliberate assaults up until I'd finally reached my breaking point of deciding to entertain them no longer when it locked my continued progress until I would acquiesce and ''acknowledge'' the prompt, to which on Wednesday (Jun. 25), I'd submitted the following comment in the 'flag report' feature (from which of course no on in their right mind would expect to have any corrective measures taken, but a vent is a vent):
It keeps showing some creepy looking man with a thick mustache bragging about having a "boyfriend" – After repeated times of deliberately responding with an (supposedly) "incorrect" answer, it should become clear that I do NOT want to entertain such questions that keep getting relentlessly shoved down our throats! If this type of "inclusion" is so drastically important to you all, then why not also start including phrases such as, "Mi hermano es el padre de mi hija," [translation: "My brother is my daughter's father"] as well? Or how about instead using "gender-ambiguous" voices & characters in such instances, which would satisfy everyone and avoid any controversies or accusations of trying to "push an agenda"?
(And most ironically ~ [perhaps not] ~ it was just as I was engaging in active preparations to incorporate that text record that my computer decided to disconnect from my modem, then lock itself down completely upon troubleshooting repair attempt, forcing a reboot. Again... why should I be surprised as such ''coincidences'' nowadays?)
I followed that up Late Sunday Night (Jun. 29) with the following submission to their ''help/feedback'' email feature:
Imagine losing a new subscriber to the ''Paid Tier'' service because of this app's utter refusal to include a feature which provides users the option to DEACTIVATE or at least BYPASS questions forcibly pushing homosexuality promoting content -- which keeps showing up not just on rare occasions, but CONSTANTLY ...as if THAT is the Norm! The fact that such content has been COMPLETELY REMOVED in order to satisfy the Laws and Customs of other locales where the program is made available for use, is the clearest indication that it would require very little effort to tweak the program to offer users a means to sidestep having to engage and interact with such content, or to provide a means of deactivating it outright. You have the ability to screen out references to things like "wine" and "beer"... so let us not pretend the same thing cannot similarly be done for subject matter such as this!
Since they had made it inflexibly impossible to continue on to the next ''lesson'' until that very specific question was answered in the way that they wanted it answered, as it was hard-set to keep showing up without exception, I decided that I was going to skip the remainder of the entire ''lesson'' segment altogether and ''jump'' to the next level, which was the only option left available to me to navigate around the forced roadblock.
''Weekend in Review''
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