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I don't know what to make of the lippy broad who asked me for chicken nuggets. She has a goody two shoes persona, yet she sits there making snarky comments about passersby.
The nuggets weren't all that. Less than four bucks for a bag of thirty. They were chicken breast with rib meat, which, as I suspected, proved to be finely minced, and therefore weren't al dente like restaurant nuggets. The meager breading was soggy too. Again, no surprise.
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I've run almost out of pop. I know what flavors sell the most for when I resupply today. I had some lemon lime pops that I thought I'd never unload. I'm gonna look for cola, cherry cola, red cream, and strawberry kiwi today.
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The stretch of freeway adjacent to the park replaced part of a four-lane divided boulevard that encircled the city. The neighborhood on the other side of the freeway used to be part of the neighborhood the park is in. This tiny neighborhood is in turn separated from the neighborhood on the other side of the park because of dead end streets and whatnot. It's interesting, and a little sad, to see how freeways break up neighborhoods.
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On the circular concrete slab that the picnic area sits upon is a little blob of gum or something that has been mashed into the concrete and hardened over the years. It has three little marks etched into it in the shape of a smiley face. :)
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Some of these people think that walking up to you and saying hello entitles them to lean on your car, car door, or car window if it's rolled down. One n00b even took to sitting on the hood of my car.
This particular fellow, the one who bought me cigarettes in exchange for a ride to the store, acted like we were running buddies, and that I should naturally give him free rides and handouts. Thankfully he didn't stay very long.
I fucking hate it when leeches stand over me when I'm sitting in the car, staring at me and waiting for a handout, especially after I've already told them no.
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I don't take on running buddies. I'll let Scott ride with me if I'm going somewhere we both need to go, but that's it. I'm a loner. With very few exceptions, I don't throw in with anyone on resources or long term goals. Given my previous circumstances, I'm inclined to suspect that anyone who seeks such an arrangement with me may be a narcissistic abuser or some similar type who wants to ride me.
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Once, when the stepmother commented on my apparent lack of sociability, I tried to explain to her that I'm an introvert and all that implies. Her response was that I could be an introvert on my own time, when I'm alone in my room. I'd have to be what she wanted me to be the majority of the time. As if I could pick and choose when to be what I am.
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I suspect that introverts in general are easy prey for the narcissist, as we're naturally easily drained by interacting with others in the first place. Especially if the others are hectic or tedious people.
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I do know that extroverts generally don't understand introverts and believe we can be converted.
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This is an open message to S***n S*****n-I****s and B*****a B****e. If you're reading this, you can easily fill in the blanks and recognize your names, unless you're as dull as I think you I.
Do not attempt to locate me.
Do not attempt to contact me.
Do not attempt to contact anyone whom you believe or discover to be an associate of mine.
Do not attempt to spread negative information about me, whether said information is true or not.
Do not attempt to interfere in my personal life or business in any way.
Do not influence others to do any of these things on your behalf.
Doing any of these things will have severe and permanent repercussions for you.
Here's some advice that you will immediately reject simply because I'm the one who gave it to you, even though it might help you better control your next victim.
Next time you threaten someone with eviction, abandonment, or any other means of being discarded, it would be a good idea to make damned sure the thing you threaten them with isn't better than dealing with your sorry asses.
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You tell'em Dev!!!
It's all energetic, so what matters is that you express that energy and spiritually let 'em know you're not gonna be used anymore.
It really hurts to come out of the other side and realize how abused/manipulated and shat upon you really were.
You gotta grieve that shit, and stand up for yourself within your own sphere.
And on a more woo woo level... we do live in a simulation.
If we've properly learned our lessons, we can let go of the past and have no attachment to it. It essentially doesn't exist anymore.
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I had thought I could forgo the grieving period, but I see it has thrust itself upon me these past few days. Oh well, it is what it is.
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I'm having a late lunch / early dinner. A pound of macaroni salad from the Walmart deli with two cans of smoked salmon mixed into it.
Besides the burritos this morning, the trucks handed out the usual shitload of hotdogs. I can't eat anymore hotdogs. Especially not hotdogs that are just weenie and bun with no condiments. Especially not hotdogs that have been charred over an open flame.
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Some of the hotdog trucks have several people going around passing them out, so you have to decline multiple times. It starts to feel like they're trying to force the hotdogs on you.
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Was there a software update? The quick reply box at the bottom of the page disappeared earlier today. I may have pocket dialed a setting that caused it. Can I get it back?
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Oh, never mind. I found the switch. It's tiny on mobile.
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Android autocomplete training vs. iPhone.
iPhone knows about common idioms, and offers reasonable suggestions for the next word.
Android assumes the next word will be the same word you typed after the current word last time. If no next word has been trained, it offers words that would be grammatically incorrect.
Example: it assumes "the" will be followed by "stepmother."
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Android has its rare moments and surprises me sometimes. But given its typical behavior, those instances seem to be down to chance rather than training or innate understanding.
I've found that it's easiest to select the most complete match, then backspace and tack on the missing letters.
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The Android takes a few months to predict your wording accurately. Mine knows words that I made up.
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The stepmother had that iPhone for a few years before she gave it to me, so maybe it was well trained by the time I got it.
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