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Unmentioned Highlights from Previous Quarter...

Because of my abject refusal to waste any extra time again doing battle against trying to access my ''Angelfire'' webshell on account of that incessant ''502 Bad Gateway'' re-direct error, I'd ceased all further online journal entry attempts since my last access shut-out which occurred February 2... POSSIBLY with a mind to abandon the online project altogether because of it?

During the last couple of weeks or so of the previous Quarter, I'd become aware of and noticing serious ''crackling audio'' coming from my ''G-Power'' phone model whenever I'm playing streaming content over the WiFi -- and this is present both when playing through the built-in speakers and even when using head/earphones....

Also during the previously mentioned time period, I'd experienced an explosive rupture of blood from my rectum which was severe enough to soil my runner rug and the first bed sheet I'd finally gotten around to fitting onto my mattress since I'd been back in The Valley, which resulted in my decision to henceforth wear tissue padding back there in order to avoid any further unpredictable breaches.

My online searches for Certification Classes for, and Companies employing in, my field of work here locally since I've been back have both been virtually impossible to find... and the ''State'' (''Commonwealth'') website was likewise no help whatsoever. Similarly, it's also been near-impossible for me to navigate my bank's website/app to figure out how to order a new/updated supply of physical personal checks.

Also, at some point, I made the conscious decision to discontinue placing my prescription drops in both eyes, as formerly instructed, in favor of focusing almost exclusively on the ''sick[er]'' eye: the justification for this action being the difficulty and uncertainty re: getting my ''Medicaid'' figured out & started.


= = = = = = = = = = = = = = March 4, 2025 (Tuesday)
XX:xx, Eastern Standard Time

Ventured out to enjoy the early-evening weather with a block-loop & double-back, mainly to drop-off my no-longer wanted media items at the  ''Little Free Library''  post in front of the house at the top of 31st Street, where I ''donated'' my  ''Works of Josephus''  and  ''The Moscow Rules''  books, along with my playable-but-wonky  ''The Devil's Advocate,'' ''The Monolith Monsters,'' ''21 Days,''  and  ''Star Wars'' original 1977 [not ''Episode IV'' bastardization] bonus disc  DVDs (all of which I'd [quote] ''illegally'' [unquote] downloaded replacements), as well as my ''FAUX NEWS Channel'' expose documentary DVD,  ''Outfoxed,''  before proceeding on to the Post Office, where I would learn first-hand that they do indeed lock their lobby at 18:00, confirming what my mother had informed me of beforehand.

After some time back inside, I decided to make a massive heap of my should-be World Famous  ''MacarTater'' salad,  salvaging what was left over of the base ingredients that I had no more room to incorporate into the finished product, then boiling some rice into what of the original liquid that was still left over, and stored these for later use for a planned chicken-&-rice soup.

March 7 - 9, 2025 (Friday - Sunday)
''Weekend in Review''

This Weekend saw the near-completion of my disc-media washings, tackling my CD-Album & ''full-size'' [standard] CD Single music discs, then my J-Pop  ''mini-disc''  CD Single music discs, just after the Midnight hours into  Friday (Mar. 7) and Saturday (Mar. 8)  respectively... hastening the processes along by bypassing any sanitizing of the jewel cases, as virtually all of them  appeared  as though they did not require such additional attention(?); I then turned my attention to washing the remainder of my  ''Urusei Yatsura''  DVD collections Pre-Midnight  Sunday (Mar. 9),  despite the fact that I'm only still just partway through the process of sanitizing their holding cases.

This weekend would see me continuing with my latest binge-watching marathon:  ''FROM'' -- and Sunday would catch me off-guard with the 'time-turnover' again....

March 13, 2025 (Thursday)
XX:xx, Eastern Daylight Time

Past Midnight I resorted once more to ''Disc-Care,'' this time concentrating on the remaining music/movie stragglers I'd placed on the back-burner, along with my ''Audio-Books'' (Richard A. Clark's  ''Against All Enemies''  and Al Franken's  ''LIES and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right'' -- both of which I'm considering ''donating'' to the 'Little Library' on the Hill).

Right afterwards, I went back to the carted items I'd reserved on ''Zazzle'' which I was less-than enthusiastically intending on purchasing -- a pair of  ''Justice League'' (the Movie)  15 oz. coffee mugs to replace my shattered  Zak ('New 52')  20 oz. JL mug. As I was not really feeling any of the available choices at all, I finally made the decision to actually test out if their  ''Submit Your Own Design''  feature was truly legit... as any coffee mug design I'd ever truly wanted (...ESPECIALLY one that hadn't been corrupted with that infuriating art-hiding ''morphing'' gimmick...) I would've wanted with displaying the ''splash ('Main Menu') screen'' of the  ''Justice League'' movie  DVD/BD! So once I'd resized the desired image to fit within their pre-measured dimensions, I added ''trademark/copyright'' text to the image (as a 'just-in-case' measure), then decided to order not one, but TWO (...also as a 'just-in-case,' should any unforeseen situation come about which would result in another unexpected & undesired case of damage).

Thoroughly pleased with the results of the completed project (and hoping it would look equally as nice & impressive in the finished product), I was inspired to scour the InterWebs to search for someone's design creation which promoted/celebrated the  ''Snyder Cut''  of the movie and its 'proper' cast of characters, i.e. ''Black-Suit Superman'' and maybe/hopefully also ''Darkseid'' -- unfortunately, for the design I ultimately decided upon, Darkseid had to be turned away from the Party.

The biggest shock came (especially considering the involvement of the creation of a ''design-your-own'' custom product) from the fact that in a world where in the neighborhood of $18+ is the typical starting point for a printed design ceramic coffee mug, ''Zazzle'' was selling theirs at $15-ish... AND they were currently running a promotion which knocked each one down to just over $12! So minus the assessed taxes, the four mugs came in at a total of just-under $50!

Of course, anything that was seemingly developing  THAT  good had to just have an impending brick wall crash tied to it: it was only a matter of a few hours later that my order was  rejected  because of some supposed ''Licensing'' issues! So they said that they would be refunding the debit card I'd received from my previous Internet Provider, which I'd decided to use as my form of payment this time around partly because of being so close to my 'Credit Card Balance Due' deadline.

March 14, 2025 (Friday)
XX:xx, Eastern Daylight Time

Since there was nothing to earn my interest in ''Zazzle's'' offerings of ''Justice League'' and other ''DC Comics'''  ''official[ly]''  licensed properties, I continued to try to search online for something more appealing and to my liking a couple hours past the dawn-light hours, with the only thing that barely rated in my eyes were products that were being offered only in India. Frustrated with what I was finding (or NOT finding), I was driven to conduct a search for other potential marketplaces that offered ''create-your-own'' custom mug design options -- and this was what led me to a tutorial video on ''Who?Tube'' which provided step-by-step instructions on how to create your own personalized/customized designed coffee mug, which definitely hijacked my attention and interest.

The warming weather gave me the opportunity to install my ''Vine-ordered'' curtain rods (after about two hours of much confusion & frustration) and curtains. After I'd completed the task, I opened my ''Tracfone'' app with the intention of snapping the latest screenshot of my account balances and was again confronted with ALL of my Network/Service credits reading straight-across ''ZEROES''... so I had to get back onto the 'pissed megaphone' to get the situation corrected, this time insisting on cutting straight to the front of the line to the so-called ''Corporate Department,'' as I'd learned by now that they are the only ones within the Customer Service entity who are capable of properly addressing & correcting the problem, which in this instance was achieved in relatively quick order, although it came with the vanishing of 1.52 GB of Data from what I'd last screen-captured. Removed all of the ''draft-blocking'' curtains & their respective rods later in the night, followed by a vacuuming of the room prior to taking a long hot shower.

March 15, 2025 (Saturday)
XX:xx, Eastern Daylight Time

Prior to last night's Midnight turn-over, as I was going through the motions of paying off my Credit Card balances (even though I'd not had any payments due for this current statement), I was once again met with an infuriating runaround on ''Chase Bank's'' web and app sites, still finding it impossible to locate any links explaining to me where and/or how to re-order personal checks: by the time any information about the process was uncovered at all (short of making me feel forced to call somebody directly), I instantly became less than enthusiastic about ordering a set, as they were charging Thirty-five ($35) dollars for a set.

After restarting the computer from its requisite inexplicable & untraceable ''Every Saturday Morning @1AM'' auto-shutdown,'' I proceeded to try to re-access ''Zazzle'' to cancel out of their sneaky recurring $20 ''Free Shipping'' upgrade trial membership... and things were behaving in such a way as to have me thinking suspiciously that their process and the difficulties I was having trying to reconnect to their site might've actually been by some insidious design to discourage me from doing so.

March 16, 2025 (Sunday)
XX:xx, Eastern Daylight Time

Got caught-up on my  ''Amazon Vine''  review submissions during the post-Midnight / pre-Dawn hours, which I'd been sitting on until things warmed enough to mount & install the latest curtains set.

Went to ''Market on Melrose'' later this morning for a few planned-ahead items I'd selected from their flier, but I mainly went to give some support to the store, during what I'd hoped would be a break from all of the projected rain, and got to enjoy a very pleasant ultra-windy day stroll.

I prepared & shared a package of snow crab I'd purchased at the pricey (but expected to be such) store, only to be disappointed with the crab's poor quality for $14.

Prior to my venturing out, I'd mentioned that a  ''Ryder''  box truck was parked out in front of our next door neighbor's house, and I was wondering if it meant she was moving out or was moving someone in with her. When I returned from my shopping, My Mother informed me that she had spoken with the neighbor's mother and inquired about it, and was told that her daughter had not been keeping up with the house payments and was being foreclosed on.

March 18, 2025 (Tuesday)
XX:xx, Eastern Daylight Time

Finally got around to placing an ''Amazon'' order for several ''incidental'' items I'd been keeping on the procrastination back-burner (replacement percolator lid knobs for both of our thus-broken coffee pots, an extension cord for my headphones/earphones to replace my old now-faulty ''Radio Shack'' branded one, and a couple of head covering cloths for use as motorcycle helmet liners): because I did not consider these items priority enough to rack-up a less-than desired charge on my credit card, I decided to make payment using my ''Spectrum'' refund debit card.

March 21 - 27, 2025 (Friday - Thursday)
''Full Week in Review'' (Weekend-start)

Friday (Mar. 21)  my daily snapshot of the remaining balances of my ''Tracfone'' account displayed yet again a complete purge of my credits. When I called to get an explanation and correction, I was greeted with a pre-recorded message acknowledging the issue, claiming that the effective period would take place between the dates of the 13th with the 21st being the completion date: all would still not be resolved by the date of this typed entry, only managing to re-access some (though still 'incorrect') data credits at around 14:00 after about a half-hour shutdown & reboot and SIM re-insertion  Thursday (Mar. 27),  tracfone, where it displayed ''unlimited'' Minutes and Texts but continued to display ''zero'' Data -- all despite the fact that full functionality (calls/sms/internet) continued without issue.

Post-Midnight  Sunday Morning (Mar. 23)  I devoted attention to washing my recorded CDs collection of my ''Radio Drama'' library; then turned to stash of blank/unrecorded DVDs & CDs while my mother was out getting her hair cut Thursday Morning.

I took an early morning hill-loop walk  Wednesday (Mar. 26)  to retrieve my packages from the Post Office, unaware that I would be arriving a full hour too early before the clerk office opened for the day, so I decided to go back to house rather than waiting around in the main lobby for an hour, dropping-off the mail items that had been addressed to my mother in the process, before heading back out to retrieve my ''Spectrum'' refund ordered package -- which was one item short, being less the transparent lid knob replacement I'd ordered for my mother's percolator coffee pot, which they informed me would be arriving 'late' as part of separate shipment. I was also expecting to retrieve my most recent  ''Amazon Vine''  order (the solar-powered led walkway lamps), but I'd received a ''Final Notice'' (remarkably, considering that it was the ONLY notice the postal workers had included) that they had shipped the package back, and ''Amazon'' erroneously 'confirming' that I had been the one to have requested its return. Because of its being categorized as ''undeliverable,'' I had to again contact Amazon to inform them of the situation and the error which led to it so that the order could be removed from my ''pending review'' list.

Later, at about 4:00 Thursday morning, I ordered a similar clock/timer device seemingly identical to the non-functioning one I'd ordered previously, save for what appears to be only a clock face slight design difference -- but since it was still not the pink color with bunny head design of the one I'd originally ordered, and this time there was no option for that variation, my planned intention was to see if I could ''scavenge/switch'' components between the pair in order to see if I can get the originally ordered one to function... assuming of course that the ''replacement'' one will actually work (I would learn from reading the ''Customer Reviews'' of the first model that ''Does Not Work'' was a very common theme with regard to this product).

March 28, 2025 (Friday)
XX:xx, Eastern Daylight Time

My assistance was requested this morning to help with the moving and re-assembling of the concrete ''pagoda'' I'd dismantled when I'd needed to make room for the moving truck so that I could more-safely extract my motorcycle from the compartment. Afterwards, I'd aided in hanging my mother's massive wind chimes which she hangs from the big tree every season. I then proceeded to plant the set of solar-powered LED pathway lights out front, especially after she'd expressed concern about the sewer line capped portion jutting conspicuously out of the ground, but even after a full day of ''charging,'' NONE of the lanterns illuminated... including the one I'd brought from Florida, which has now decided that it no longer wishes to function: because of this, I was inspired/motivated to try to re-order another set of such lights-- this time out of genuine want and with genuine intent, unlike the last time with the set that the Post Office had sent back without my input (yes, I'm still going to gripe about that, regardless) --along with a trash container strap that I'd considered ordering earlier, which I'd initially decided against due to believing they'd really serve little to no purpose until Mother mentioned & described suspected bear activity in the area.

After placing those  ''Vine''  orders, I proceeded to search the 'regular' ''Amazon'' site for a few more items to charge to the refund debit card, finally purchasing a boar-bristle hair brush after having put it off forever, and I decided to give in (after debating it with the previous 'regular' order) and purchase a new (pseudo-replacement) set of headphones, then struggled to think of anything else I could add to the ''cart'' that would reach me to the ''Free Shipping'' minimum threshold, until I decided I'd give it another try to see if I could [re-]acquire a ''Samsonite'' zippered compact Passport wallet similar to the one I'd originally had back Home in Hawaii -- and while I was [still] unable to find anything like that specifically from the ''Samsonite'' brand, I did locate an alternative which seemed that it would fit the bill reasonably enough... so I can get away from that pink sparkly strap-down gender-clashing ''girly'' wallet which I'd only purchased to serve as a diversion whenever I'd need to use any ''Public Facilities'' where I'd be deliberately avoiding entering ''Male-designated'' spaces... which the re-installation of the ''Commander-in-Cheat'' is in the process of making much more difficult to get a pass on.

March 29, 2025 (Saturday)
XX:xx, Eastern Daylight Time

My first time opening the bedroom windows & lanai door this afternoon, which was actually motivated by a yellow jacket hornet which had somehow gotten inside which I was hoping to entice back outside. As I was closing the door later in the night, I noticed that my color-shifting walkway solar LED lamp was illuminated: upon greater inspection I discovered that a couple of the cheapy ones were also now functioning, but the amount of light they were emitting was hardly worth the effort as they were barely luminous enough to be noticed.

April 1 - 3, 2025 (Tuesday - Thursday)
New Month Begin ''Week in Review''

My mother and I went out to ''Sam's Club''  Tuesday Morning (Apr. 1): I hadn't really planned on buying much outside of a couple of snacking items, but eventually ended up paying nearly $200 on snacks and various grocery items, trying to convince myself that doing some add-on food reserve preparation in advance of Trump's tariffs; afterwards, I went through ''Lowe's'' (while she went next door to ''Kroger,'' for a few items) primarily to purchase my dish detergent and disinfectant wipes, but also grabbing a small tub of painter's putty/spackling (mainly to patch all of the holes in the walls I was responsible for) and a can of black spray (since she'd mentioned the previous day that she'd been keeping the window screens inside of the garage with the intention of spray painting them black before reinstalling them).

Walked to the Post Office  Thursday Morning (Apr. 3)  to retrieve my latest  ''Vine''  package, discovering that some mail which my mother had been having forwarded to the house are being re-routed back to the P.O. Box, even despite the physical address being listed on the envelopes.

Later, in the early evening, I finally contacted ''Tracfone'' in hopes of rectifying the discrepancies with my service balances: and even when these issues were corrected and reflected more-or-less ''accurately,'' the correct[ed] totals still would not display themselves on either the ''App'' or via 'Text-request,' but only when I'd accessed my account online via PC.

Upon connecting the semi-duplicate/replacement alarm clock/timer to the charging cord, concerned that I might again be receiving another ''defective'' item, I was nonplussed to learn that I might've actually been in error regarding the earlier delivered ''pink-bunny'' unit's non-functioning status, based on the dimness of the light being emitted from behind the face-protecting film -- and sure enough, upon re-inspection discovered that the first unit, though illuminating slightly dimmer, was indeed functional, making me feel somewhat guilty for reporting it as having been faulty because of my having done my due diligence of trying to find out for certain by simply removing the film covering! (I would later proceed to perform the ''swap-out'' as I'd intended when I thought the first unit was defective -- but rather than exchanging their complete inner workings, I opted instead to switch their display faces and mounts between each other, which not only assigned the ''bunny'' with the prettier ''flower petal'' pomodoro countdown timer, in place of the ''bar-by-bar'' tick-mark timer it had originally, but also provided both units with a more visually appealing ''duo-tone'' contrast.)

Later, while charging the recently delivered solar-powered pathway lamp, I fiddled around with the ones outside to try to get a sense as to why the non-functioning pair was having issues: it would be revealed that they both shared the same manufacturer's brand of rechargeable battery which was different from that used in the other 'functional' pair.

A time later, while clearing & slightly ''rearranging'' the ''lanai-access hallway,'' I decided to try installing one of those ultra-thin, but definitely short-enough, curtain rods that I'd used in the doorways of my Florida apartment -- and while I was still not happy with this result either, it was in a few respects a 'better' setup than what was provided by that originally mounted broken piece of garbage.

April 4 - 6, 2025 (Friday - Sunday)
''Weekend in Review''

Followed through  Friday Morning (Apr. 4)  on my determination to inquire of ''Jessica,'' our soon-to-be ''ex-'' next door neighbor, about whether she knew anything about the  ''Crown Vic''  that had been left parked on the housing side of the road between our two properties since I'd first noticed it early the previous morning (which my mother would later share that she had herself observed it late the previous night)... but contact attempt was in all honesty really my trying to take opportunistic advantage of having found a 'non-creepy' way of trying to introduce myself to her, as I was already strongly convinced in my mind that the vehicle was a ''stolen'' and had simply been abandoned there half off the road.

I went out just a bit after 10:30, first to snap a few pictures of the car itself, discovering a fully open window on the driver-side door (lending more credibility to the 'abandoned stolen' presumption), then proceeded to knock on the neighbor's door, receiving no response, which similarly reaffirmed that despite the alternating presence of  two  cars (there being a car parked farther into the driveway without a license plate and seen always remaining on site) there must be only a single occupant inside the house -- i.e., likely meaning she's not having any boyfriends or siblings, et al., visiting or staying over with her (like I said: admittedly ''creepy'' behavior).

I waited until I saw her car parked in her driveway later in the evening before heading over again to try to speak with her (sometime around 17:40-ish?), where I'd inquired and expressed my concerns about the car in question, managing to keep a ''neighborly'' conversation going for an hour of so... of course making sure to sneak in as many mentions of the fact that I'm perpetually starving to Eat Pussy wherever I came across what I felt could be utilized as an accessible opening.

She was older than I'd expected (having apparently confused her with her daughter, whom I'd never seen); she was also ''blancher'' than I'd anticipated, being Black/White biracial -- even right down to her serious heavy ''Southern Drawl.''

I would try to contact her again the following afternoon  (Sat., Apr. 5)  after 12:30, this time to present her with the URL to my ''Who?Tube'' channel, since she'd been asking questions about what it was like in Florida; I was restricted to just taping the note onto her door when she did not answer... still hoping that the non-subtle sexual innuendo of my ''Channel Name'' blatantly advertising that I'm a ''Pussy Eater'' might plant a seed and provoke her deeper curiosity and inspire her interest in the available offer.

This day also brought me my first real migraine since I've been back to this area -- complete with the requisite frequent trips to the water closet to evacuate my bowels.

After having such a difficult time of trying to locate & download an English-subtitled version of the Thai movie, ''SHUTTER,''  because I was convinced that the nasty scratch on my DVD copy of the movie would interfere with playback, I finally decided to actually test it out  Sunday (Apr. 6)  and was 100% percent pleasantly surprised to see that disc playback was in no way [noticeably] affected.

April 14 - 17, 2025 (Monday - Thursday)
''Week in Review''

After relentlessly blowing-up the phone of the main office of my former employer in Tampa  Monday Afternoon (Apr. 14), utterly refusing to be subjected to leaving any unreliable and ignoreable 'recorded messages' trying to request my W2 (since I'd failed to provide the Postal Service with any forwarding address), and getting an equally endless runaround between one ''online access'' instruction list after another-- NONE of which being accessible, because of my having been taken out of their ''Employee Access'' system, along with my having purged nearly all of my personal information directly related to my former employment with them and their online access system and no longer having access to the same phone number(s) --I attempted to contact them directly again the following day  (Tue., Apr. 15),  only to keep getting smacked down with non-answered calls!

At some point I finally came across a phone number where I could speak directly with some supposed ''Tech'' department and explain about how I was unable to either get an phone called answered at the Tampa office and was likewise incapable of accessing my employment-related account information because of having no means of recalling certain information required to get any sort of ''verification'' sent: during that call I managed to confirm a (the) phone number I'd registered on their system, but it still could not be utilized for anything as it was a ''landline'' number which could not be used for ''verification text'' reception.

A couple more run-around & pass-around calls, then I was inspired to scroll through my cellphone ''Contacts'' list and found that I'd still not purged from my phone the ''DIRECT CONTACT'' number of my former ''Accounts Manager'' (the same one who thought he was being slick by deflecting all of my requests for reassignment to other available and more desirable/agreeable jobs in the Company's network). Attempts to contact him via his direct number similarly diverted me to a 'voice mailbox' -- and while my natural instinct was to again not submit to this humiliation deflection, I gave this one a bit of a pass since in this instance it  ''was''  for a change a ''direct'' line, and so I figured I'd likely have a better chance of receiving a callback. Some time later, rather than receiving a direct call, I was given instructions to ''send an email'' request to a company address set-up for W2 requests -- which I'd known (learned) about the previous day but refused to use, again because of the ''return contact distrust'' issue, especially because they too were requesting that I provide them with outdated/obsolete personal information that kept me getting swatted away. I only gave in and submitted the request THIS time because: (1) I'd felt I'd exhausted all other avenues; (2) I was pushing the tax-filing deadline; and (3) I figured that if I'd not heard anything in response to the request in any sort of a timely fashion that I'd still have the [possible] option available to connect directly to the former manager... which was what I was about to do until I'd realized that an email fulfilling my request had actually come through during that waiting period but my phone's delivery ringtone never alerted me to its arrival.

I was working between two different tax preparation services, trying to feel out what ''penalty'' I might have to face for not ''earning enough'' to meet the ''Minimum Income'' to have qualified for my ''ObamaCare'' membership for the year... but I was relieved when not only was I not 'penalized' for making such a small amount last year (only shy of $3,250), but with whatever ''earned income tax credit'' they claimed I qualified for I was able to receive just over $300 as a tax refund. The hope remains of course that this tabulation holds and does not raise any red flags for some supposed ''irregularities.''

Walked to the Post Office  Thursday Morning (Apr. 17) to retrieve my latest ''purchased order'' package (which included my new ''passport wallet'' and new set of headphones), and in right behind me was my mother who had drove in to send my sister her portion of their shared phone bill. From there, I accompanied her to ''Sam's'' and ''Kroger'' -- I went next door to ''Lowe's'' (after briefly going into Kroger only for a few jars of my ''no-additives'' peanut butter) to get duplicate keys made for my second ''non-riding'' keychain set... but I would learn when distributing the keys that I'd had one key made that hadn't been intended, which left me one duplicate key short.

April 19, 2025 (Saturday)
XX:xx, Eastern Standard/Daylight Time

Headed out this evening just past 18:00 to return on my own to ''Lowe's'' to exchange the key that I'd mistakenly had copied that went to a long-since replaced lock, but found my motorcycle battery completely drained (even as I was expecting difficulty in engine turn-over because of having set idle for so long with that ''10% ethanol'' garbage), so I ended-up pulling out my trusty ''jumper cables'' reserve power box to get things started, and fortunately it had recharged itself enough from riding that it did not require another jump after switch-off.

I swung by the Post Office on the way back, after confirming that I'd had a package that had arrived (the percolator lid knob for my mother's coffee pot that I'd ordered forever ago), but got slapped in the face with the reminder that this Post Office locks down lobby access, making it so that I wouldn't be able to retrieve the item until Monday.

Back in the driveway, around 19:05, preparing to remove my motorcycle's battery in order to recharge it out on the lanai, I ended-up chasing a family of five (5) deer that had sauntered their way onto ''dead zone'' between our occupied properties and would have likely strolled onto our section had I not been there to confront them.

April 21, 2025 (Monday)
XX:xx, Eastern Daylight Time

Walked to the Post Office to retrieve the extremely-late arrival coffee pot knob replacement, only to be side-swiped with an ''oversized package'' notice for something that had not yet been scheduled to arrive and learn that the multi-colored solar powered LED pathway lights which the P.O. staff had returned in their haste had be re-sent to my address.

After returning from that errand, my mother requested my assistance in moving/exchanging patio furniture to begin reorganizing the lanai, with me using that opportunity to reinstall my motorcycle battery and top-off my tire inflation.

Late in the night, around a half-hour shy of Midnight, inspired by a recommendation to another who raised a related question in local ''reddit'' sub-group, I would learn about some  supposedly  ''free'' online dating service (and 'app'?) called,''LoveAwake,'' which I'd set aside as a possible resource for trying to make an intimate connection with someone, for which I'd begun making preliminary steps Post-Midnight/Pre-Dawn Sunday Morning when I'd composed the entirety of the text I intend on posting/sharing on the ''pussy-eating'' meet-up sub-community on reddit, but which I'm still hesitating on posting because of the ''karma build-up'' B.S. that I'm uncertain I've accumulated enough of, since none of the arenas I try participating in which allow for interaction regardless of karma status have been generating very much positive/qualifiable feedback.

April 25 - 27, 2025 (Friday - Sunday)
''Weekend in Review''

Pre-Dawn  Friday Morning (Apr. 25)  I set about dismantling my ''timer alarm clocks,'' intent on switching the batteries between them, as the charge on the ''blue robot'' clock (which I'd posted in the kitchen) was literally lasting twice as long as the one in the ''pink bunny'' unit (which I'd set-up in the ''bedroom''). But in my attempt to disconnect it from the ''strong'' battery from its original circuit board, I'd unintentionally detached the entire connection from the board, having been so impatient as to have forgotten that the plastic tab I'd pulled off was actually the housing for the battery plug. Shortly after I'd realized what I had done, and trying to see if it could still power the unit, which could've offered a bit of reassurance that it might be possible to re-solder it back into place, the battery began burning me and producing smoke, which I responded to by tossing it outside onto the concrete driveway -- I would be informed later that the battery did not rupture after that scare, but that I'd been so unnerved by the incident that I'd accidentally left the back door open.

I got awake and active earlier than usual  Saturday Morning (Apr. 26),  and took advantage of the hot weather to set-up my most recently received pathway lights, then devoted time to trying to de-clutter and organize the remaining chaotic site of space non-designated random items still taking up room and being an eyesore in the lanai ''foot path'' portion of the room, while my mother devoted her time to scrubbing and arranging the lanai.

Later in the night, following-up on past several days of perusing the retail and online shops and comparing items and brands, I finally took the plunge and placed my order for a mountain bicycle -- deciding on an ''Amazon'' purchase a 26'' ''woman's'' ''HILAND''  ''Gamille,''  which was being offered at $240, but which I'd managed to get kicked down to just over $185 by applying my ''Cash Back'' Points from my main ''CHASE'' credit card. I followed-up the bike purchase transaction by ordering a bicycle helmet, using my ''ISP refund'' card to cover that expense. I ultimately held off on purchasing any locks/cables during the process, as the ''reviews'' failed to inspire any real confidence in me... which also further eroded my trust in ''KRYPTONITE'' products specifically, as quite a number of reviewers were reminding me of my piss-poor track record with that brand, and the reviews seem to suggest that many of those same past experience problems I'd always had with them still linger as issues of considerable concern -- in the interim, I made the decision to rely on the lock & cord I've been exclusively using for my motorcycle, for which they no longer need to be absolutely restricted now that I have the benefit of being able to park inside a secure garage.

April 28 - March 1, 2025 (Monday - Thursday)
''Week in Review''

While sorting and distributing the keys assigned to my various padlocks, and during an (earlier?) entry attempt  Monday (Apr. 28),  I discovered that I had inadvertently had a second house key copied during my first cutting that was no longer compatible to anything, having evidently been the key to the replaced lock on the driveway access screen door, rather than to the front street access screen door -- (my mother would later realize that she no longer had any spare key for that door).

I was invited to accompany my mother to the ''Lowe's'' and ''Kroger'' out at Bonsack, where she was planning on heading out to the next morning  (Tue., Apr. 29) -- which was convenient for me, as I'd already intended on going to both of those establishments at their ''Crossroads''location. At Lowe's, I got a couple of sets of screen door locking mechanisms and a few potted plants, as intended, except the plants I'd gotten were not those originally intended (settling on an eggplant and strawberry, a ''variety'' pot, and an untagged impulse buy of a tiny aloe in a faux Mother-of-Pearl ''cameo'' pot, but also managing to find a hibiscus-- albeit of a lesser-desired 'red' variety --in lieu of a fig tree); at Kroger I went exclusively for various Produce items (with the only intended exception being a couple of cans of pineapple), but jumped on a sale of  ''Barefoot''  brand Red Moscato which had been priced down to a $9 saving on each, which inspired me to purchase two. Tried again to use my ''refund'' debit card at the latter location, only to confirm that I've indeed forgotten the ''PIN'' I'd assigned to it... assuming I'd ever set one up to begin with.

Back at the House, after storing away my grocery items, I immediately devoted my attention to my garden items and arranging their set-up along with the pathway lights -- but when it came time for me to spray some moisture on them, I discovered that I'd inexplicably lost my garden hose ''spray nozzles,'' which I could locate absolutely nowhere... especially among the assortment of unsorted accessories of which I'm 100% positive they were still a part.

After I was done with the garden items, I turned my attention to the house-entrance screen door to my room, only to discover that the door was metal and that a straight ''switching out'' of the units was impossible: this left me with the equally impossible task of having to drill new holes into the door frame for which my cheap Chinese drill kit was too weak, if capable on any level at all... which caused me to give-up in frustration until a later date, whereby the new plan will be to try to install one of the units onto the lanai enclosure door, anticipating better results there, as that door gives indications that it was instead constructed of hard plastic.

Later, I had to end-up chasing another deer off from the next property: only a single one this time -- not sure if it was a ''lone hoof'' or if it had been part of the earlier pack that decided to brave the chance after the last incident.

Went to retrieve my packages from the Post Office  Wednesday Morning (Apr. 30),  obtaining only two of the three for which I'd received delivery confirmation emails (lacking the ''Walmart'' online shipping order for toiletries, roach killer spray, and lamp oil that I'd placed pre-Dawn Monday Morning) and had to request the handing-off of the ''Amazon'' box that had arrived because of no holding notice having been placed inside the mail slot.

Back at the house I opened my packages and found inside the larger one a box identifying the item inside as a generic ''RBG'' LED floor lamp (which I had not ordered), and no inclusion of the lamp shades that I did order and was supposed to be part of this shipment -- it was only when I proceeded to open the box, to see if I could gain more precise product information to help with the return and exchange, that I found that actual items I'd ordered had been packaged inside this advertised product's box instead (definitely something I'd definitely had every intent to include in my product review, even though comments about packaging is against ''Vine'' product review rules).

Got another ''early start''  Thursday Morning (May 1)  to retrieve my Walmart package and to begin [re-]work on the screen door, yielding defeat with regard to the bedroom/lanai metal door-- which the drill bits were almost effectively not even making a reassuring pock mark in --and redirecting my attention instead to the plastic yard-access door. I barely got the project established, but for a few off-measurements with positioning and port hole sizes I decided to leave things as they were until a later date (likely sometime during the weekend).

Later, after having conducted a tiny bit of research into the matter, I decided to use the ''fresh urine as fertilizer'' hack in my potted plants, and spread the reserve from the past couple of nights throughout various spots about the side and rear of the house around garden areas to see if it might in actuality serve as a relatively effective deer deterrent.

And while on the subject of things coming out of my penis, this week unleashed upon me a very nasty attack from that nice little sexually transmitted virus that typically lies dormant for months or sometimes years, which I'd acquired as the forever-lasting-forever gift that had been given to me by my ex-wife: ironically, the evil struck just as I was about to give very serious consideration to posting my ''Pussy Eating'' offer to the ''subreddit,'' now that I think I've [finally] earned enough ''net cred'' (''reddit karma'') to begin posting freely... although there are subs I'm subbed to which I now utterly refuse to participate in exactly because that infuriating hassle B.S. bogus ''reason'' (''excuse'').

After all of this time of ''waiting it out,'' I finally made the decision to check to see if I was finally able to regain access to the ''Angelfire'' website builder page without constantly running into all of the walls of ''Error'' messages, to try reposting my journal entry activities from the time I'd last attempted an open connection. Once inside however, I'd learn that not only did I still have over a full month of empty space that required filling in, but my hard disk ''work sheet'' had already been stripped of all of its HTML code for that Season Quarter -- which meant I had to manually retype it all back in from the where I'd left off, which begins after my last posted entry of  ''January 15''.

May 2 - 4, 2025 (Friday - Sunday)
''Weekend in Review''

Woke-up a bit after 16:00  Friday Afternoon (May 2)  and proceeded to correct my mounting mistake(s) re: the screen door locking mechanism... and due to not only the miscalculations I was necessarily responsible for myself but also because of the less than clear installation instructions  plus  the amount of improvisation the kit made necessary due to the non-inclusion of various extra parts that reasonably  should  have been included that would've ensured proper operation post-installation, I was unable to complete the task until nearly 22:00!!! ...with the final part of the total project involving bending & hammering the interior plate covering of the house-access screen door's latch in an manic attempt to dislodge its one-sided ''locking'' mechanism with my limited tools on-hand (since it had been ''permanently riveted'' into place) in order to prevent my mother (and perhaps even myself) from absentmindedly locking that door from the inside-- in effect, locking me outside and from gaining access through that side of the house --since I'd decided I was no longer going to be making any further attempts to install the other key-lock system on the metal door (which, in retrospect, given the frustrating difficulty in finally getting it relatively successfully attached to the plastic-covered ''particle board'' door, actually turned out to be a saving grace for me).

I left the house at  Noon Saturday (May 3)  to return to the Bonsack ''Lowe's,'' where we went Tuesday, so that I could restock the unopened extra screen door handle set and to get an extra key for the handle I did barely successfully install (only for my mother to offer up excuses as to why she was not even going to put it on her keychain when I handed it over to her later), plus to get an extra key cut for the padlock I've been using as my motorcycle cover's theft deterrent: the original duplicate of which I'd lost/misplaced at some point years ago.

Prior to actually leaving, while I was in preparations, I'd spotted my garden hose sprayer nozzles sticking out over the rim of the bucket which contained all of my motorcycle cleaning & care products which I'd forgotten I'd hung up on the wall inside the garage.

On the way back from Lowe's, I changed my mind about turning off into the ''Kroger'' lot, partially out of concern for the remaining battery life on my helmet cam, but reactively out of impatience, as I felt no desire to stand in wait for a left turn with three other vehicles in front of me -- so I continued on to pay a visit to the ''Crossroads'' store instead. I went in for some sandwich fixin's, but I'd mainly wanted to check to see if the moscato I'd purchased at Bonsack was still on sale... but because of my decision to bypass the Bonsack store, the trick now was to see if it had been a ''regional'' sale (not just a ''manager's special'' or some such), and if so, if the items were still on sale at that price. (I would discover later that evening, during an online price search, that what seemed like a great deal at ''Kroger'' was just regular price at places like ''Walmart'' and ''Targe-ét.'')

When I exited the store, what I had always hoped and wanted to happen finally occurred with someone:

An outward-facing vehicle with two female occupants was parked next to my motorcycle, so that the driver was sitting directly across from the panties on my handlebars. After first asking me about my being from Florida status (having observed my cycle's license plate), with the passenger saying she was originally from Florida, and that she was riding with her  Daughter  who was operating the vehicle with a Learner Permit -- which came as a bit of an off-guard catch, because I'd thought at the time that the pair might've been ''sisters'' or ''friends'' right around the same age (contributing to this misstep was the fact that the driver's mouth was absent her top row of front teeth and had appeared to have been the result of past history meth use).

After this bit of small chat, I was asked by the driver the question I'd always wanted to be asked in such situations: 'Why did I have Panties on my handlebar'?  And while I'd typically be somewhat hesitant to answer with what I would really want to say in the presence of a ''Mother/Daughter'' dynamic during these sorts of encounters, I decided to proclaim outright anyway that they were being shown-&-flown as an advertisement to signal to the world that I'm a 'Pussy Eater' -- which is the answer I reserve only for ''WOMEN'' who make inquiry; whereas I'll simply tell ''Men'' the (partial) truth that (one of) their purpose(s) is to serve as an additional means to help me ''stand-out'' more effectively in traffic (...the other and main reason of course simply being that I'm just enjoying doing something provocative that's throwing people off-balance). Thankfully, they both reacted as one would [hopefully] expect by such shameless bluntness: with caught-off-guard laughter and no traces of having taken any offense.

As the conversation (mostly with the mother) continued-- talking mostly about living in and changes occurring to Florida --I took note of the fact that the driver would be looking intently at my Panties display, and I read this as an indication that she was mentally dwelling on the information I'd just shared and was perhaps even playing around with the idea in her head. And so as to not let slip what might've been a possible opening that could've potentially led to my getting my lips moist for the first time since my arrival back to this Town, I took her staring as my go-ahead signal to hand her my ''Worktime-&-Playtime'' phone and encouraged her to put her number inside... which surprisingly she did, even with her mother sitting right there beside her. Through this gesture, I was able to retain her name as,  ''Cody''  (even providing me with her 'Full Name'), and she made sure that our contact informations were available on both phones... again indicating to me a level of potential seriousness/genuineness.

Toward the end of our conversations, they inquired about my helmet camera and asked all sorts of questions about its functional features and the like: as they would reveal, it would have something to do with Cody's children, of whom she was trying to reclaim custody, but what was being made difficult by an incompetent and/or non-committal  ''Legal Aid''  attorney and by the children's father's wife -- regarding the latter of whom they were wanting to document the harassments and threats they claimed they were receiving from the Daddy's new woman. They thought maybe they could check with ''Targe-ét'' to see if they carried any stock of similar items and be able to aid them in learning more about said products, with which I concurred, but I also suggested that they conduct a search on ''Amazon'' to get a sense of the wide assortments of related products that are available and in what price ranges they are being offered.

My final stop was ''Sam's Club,'' mainly for a banana bunch and maybe a cherry turnover platter, but I also had an intention to grab another case of  ''Seagram's''  beer coolers, but they were now only available in their ''canned'' variety, still no more ''glass bottles''; I also decided to grab a bag of navel oranges... less because I'd actually wanted them for myself, and more so that I could have a citrus something that I could share with the Mom Lady, since her medication does not permit her to consume grapefruit. Because I had no more room for anything inside the underseat compartment, I was resigned to strapping the oranges down with bungee cords... but this was what made me decide at the last minute not to continue on inside ''Dollar Tree'' when I pulled in there for my actually originally intended final stop (just to stock-up on a few cans of air freshener spray).

Partially motivated by my encounter with ''Cody'' and her Momz, and partially because of the timing of the scabbing over of my HSV2 outbreak bump, I finally refined and posted my ''Pussy Eating'' offer onto the dedicated ''reddit'' sub-group just as sunlight was breaking into the sky  Sunday Morning (May 5).

We've been without an operating toilet in the upstairs bathroom the entire weekend because of my mother's insistence replace the entire tank flow control mechanism against taking my suggestion to first try ''tweaking'' the thing to determine if there was a loosening/expansion problem that could be compensated for if for no other reason than but to extend its usefulness life. I did try to have a look at it Saturday morning before my pre-errands shower, but discovered that another (in addition? / newly arisen?) problem complicated the matter in that the water line control valve was now badly leaking as soon as the tap was screwed open... so I decided to take a 100% completely ''hands-off'' approach to the thing, and let her decide how she wants to address it at this stage.

May 5 - 8, 2025 (Monday - Thursday)
''Week in Review''

Finally decided to ''wake-up'' just shy 15:00  Monday Afternoon (May 5),  just as my Uncle Larrie was heading back out after ''repairing'' my mother's mistake(s) with the the upstairs toilet, so there was barely any interaction between us.

Past midnight the next morning  (Tue., May 6),  after restarting my ''Tracfone'' device and going through all of the seemingly now requisite routine motions to ensure LTE network re-connection after a dead battery shut-off situation or troubleshooting restart, and getting nowhere, I was then compelled to go onto their website to check my account balances (which I'd already fallen behind on for about a week in this latest instance, since the extra effort-- thanks to them not addressing & correcting balance reports via their phone app --had turned me lazy and unmotivated in relation to it... as well as my having dropped my guard somewhat since their major network restructuring/overhaul): sure enough, when I pulled-up my account balance information, I was yet again greeted with a new complete scrubbing of my ''Minutes'' and ''Texts'' totals -- the only difference this time around was that there was a slight increase (restoration) of my data reserves.

What infuriated me even more about this was that their ''Customer Service'' line is NOT 24/7, and I had to wait until 8:00 before I could get this latest problem addressed. This time however, amidst all of the expected griping about the service's transformation into pure trash ever since ''Verizon'' stuck their incompetent hands into the operation as part of their takeover, I declared that this incident constituted the final drip that made the tub overflow and that I've now become determined to sever my ties with ''Tracfone'' completely and cancel their service once I'm able to confirm whether or not I'd be capable of retaining the phone number assigned to this phone before I port it over.

For once, it actually took less than a full hour to get me re-connected -- but still nothing was done to fix the erroneous balances information in either their website or their app, as they both continued to show incorrect or seemingly ''inactive'' figures!

About an hour to placing the service call, I sent Cody a text with the ''Amazon'' link to the page that features my helmet camera, along with a list of suggested search terms for them to use to try to find something closer to what they might actually find more useful, i.e. a ''bodycam.'' In honest actuality though, I'd sent this text mainly as an excuse to initiate direct contact with Cody and to entice a direct response of some sort... regardless of whether it came from her or from her momz (yes, I figured even during our meeting in the grocery parking lot that I'd happily Eat her mom's Pussy too, if she'd expressed interest in it).

After my phone service was restored (even with its account balances still reading false numbers/status), I ventured down to the Post Office to retrieve my Bicycle, whose arrival I was alerted to (even though I hadn't actually expected it to be delivered until later in the evening, with me originally planning on retrieving it Wednesday Morning). I was a bit heavier than I'd anticipated, but not enough to have been a problem for me had it not been for the fact that virtually every gripping point that could be thought of were as if somebody put ''grip'' points on the box and proceeded to drop the ''G'' -- so that the only way I could devise of carrying it back to the house was to balance it on my head, while I carried the other package I was expecting, containing the bicycle helmet and a  ''Vine''-ordered  flat tire patch kit, I carried inside my backpack, to the degree that I could fit it.

Back at the house, I was just too tired and feeling too drained to even think about trying to begin work on the bicycle's assembly, so I brought inside to address the project at a later date.

Had a quick passing chat with ''Jessica'' as I was on my way to the P.O. -- she had been sitting in her car, saying she was on her way to a clinic or some-such to address what she thought might be a Flu.

While scrolling through my phone texts and emails  Thursday (May 8)  I re-stumbled across an email from ''Mimi'' where she'd informed me that she'd shot video on her phone of me Eating Her Pussy during one of her visits, so later in the Evening I sent her an email asking her for a copy of it, included with a link to a tutorial video on how to share an ''oversized'' video file (which was why she hadn't been able to send it to me much sooner), plus to give her a bit of a current update on my getting settled into my ''New Place.''

May 11, 2025 (Sunday)
23:55, Eastern Daylight Time

Started working on my bicycle assembly around 23:40-ish last night, and despite telling myself that I was only going to be doing part of it and resuming the project later after sleep (because of the sometimes less-than helpful guidance of the tutorial video I'd downloaded from ''WHO?Tube'' two weeks earlier), I continued working on it for the next two hours, finishing the job leaving only the issue of trying to understand why my rear wheel would jam-up and, if/when spinning ''freely,'' was making clicking sounds as if a foreign object was rubbing against the spokes -- which I'd managed to figure out and  mostly  correct with a little tightening & readjusting after I woke-up later in the morning... leaving the only thing for me to try to figure out being how to mount & secure the warning ''night light'' onto the rear.

May 15 - 18, 2025 (Thursday - Sunday)
''Extended Weekend in Review''

At 21:00  Thursday (May 15)  I finally took the bicycle out for a quick initial test run. As I was shifting gears after doing a U-Turn in the parking lot of the of the apartments on the star-mountain end of the road, the rear gear assembly seized-up and completely snapped off.

I accessed ''Amazon's'' online returns form the next day  (Fri, May 16)  to report the issue and to determine if I could/should return it for exchange -- but when the only option they had directly available through them was just a ''refund'' (which, if accepted, would make me ineligible to re-purchase the bike at its ''original'' price, since when I'd conducted a follow-up price check a couple of days earlier, the price had skyrocketed to over $300!) -- so instead, I went with the option to report the issue directly to the ''HILAND'' customer service via the link provided by Amazon... but as of weekend's end, I'd still not received any sort of acknowledgment from the manufacturer, even as I'd received a follow-up from Amazon  Sunday (May 18)  asking if the issue was being addressed/resolved by the bike company.

May 19, 2025 (Monday)
23:55, Eastern Daylight Time

Had [finally] received an email in response to my defective product report from ''HILAND'' at 5:00, but still insisted on being provided some ''Order Number'' of which they still would not specify what exactly they meant by this, as I sent a reply repeating that the only ''Order Number'' I could provide was that given me by ''Amazon,'' through whom I'd purchased it (the answer to which, as of this typing, I'm still waiting for a response on).

I went to the Post Office to retrieve the final  ''Vine''  packages I'd been waiting on (noticing Neighbor Jessie's house was now listed as ''Sold'' -- to whom my mother would later inform me was to a ''Hispanic'' family), then immediately headed out to do some grocery shopping.

My initial intention was to grab a few items at ''Dollar Tree'' before continuing on to ''Sam's Club'' for the bulk of my purchases -- but because I'd unexpectedly found so much to stock-up on @$Tree, I dropped those $70+ items back at the house then headed back out to Sam's. For the amount of items I'd purchased at Sam's, I was hard believing that I would not have any ability to purchase  all  of the items on my shopping list, despite having brought my backpack with me as supplemental carry storage, due in significant part to my having ''impulse'' purchase a few additional items not on my original shopping list, so this resulted in my leaving off purchasing the last two items on my list -- oranges and bananas. However, as I was leaving with my purchases, I'd found & claimed an empty box significantly large and sturdy enough that I could strap it to the rear seat of the motorcycle, which was when I'd now realized that I actually could have bought everything on my list.

May 23 - 25, 2025 (Friday - Sunday)
''Weekend in Review''

Responded to a chat request I finally noticed in ''reddit''  Friday Morning (May 23),  that was in response to the pussy-eating offer I'd posted; the woman on the other end-- who claimed to be a resident of ''Christiansburg'' --responded almost immediately, though I would not learn about it for a few more hours as I'd not been expecting any sort of rapid response. She made it seem as though we might be establishing a genuine communication to feel the opportunity out, but after a couple of exchanges she did not respond back, and in the meantime she continued posting her own ''regular receiver'' requests... but in so doing she'd indirectly given me insight into a more ''localized'' subreddit where I could repeat my request.

Then on the following day  (Sat., May 24),  I finally received email contact from''Mimi,'' who managed to share a couple of ''Google'' file share links which each contained a one-minute-length video clip of me sucking on her clit, as I'd requested earlier, both of which I was able to download onto my hard drive -- but as of the close of the weekend she did not follow-up with any information re: whether those were the only clips she still had available.

May 30 - June 1, 2025 (Friday - Sunday)
''Weekend in Review''

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.''


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