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halfway

* melts *

They say a watched pot never boils, but they forgot to mention that a watched progress bar never finishes.

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When I ascend my rightful throne as god-ruler of Earth, Venus and the Europan Wastes, English is getting banned.

"ring up"
to make a phone call

example:
"ring up Toni and see if they're coming to D&D tonight"

"ring up"
to process merchandise at a checkout

examples:
"I'm done shopping, lets ring up"
"I rang her up, but her debit card got declined."

* successfully resists urge to make a pun *
Oho! It's me, the height of discernment and respecfulnes. Ohohoho, top shelf refinement here.
World class personality; me.

polltergeist | 'pōltΙ™r,gΔ«st |
noun
a haunting that pesters you until you fill out their poll(s)

The not-joy of discovering your horrific typos days or even weeks later.

* tries to channel their inner calm *

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γ€œ all came from nothing all shall return to nothing γ€œ

Software glitches: fun if you intentionally trigger them, maddening when you don't

⭐ Favorite own status because you deserve it. ⭐

Can't get Windows 10 to install on the new PC. It keeps whinging on about "missing drivers" or some nonsense. (despite the usb, and other meaningful things *clearly* working) I tried serving up motherboard drivers on a platter, but no luck so far.

Anywhoo lots of others have the same problem, none of the proposed "solutions" work. πŸ™ƒ

Considering installing some flavor of BSD or linux at this point. πŸ™„

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steadley peaches, painted by amanda almira newton, 1913

Anxiety over an otherwise straightforward series of tasks is incredibly frustrating.

Somehow accidentally blocked a couple people?!?!

ahhghghhhghghhhh

* goes through blocklist *
O_O
how is this possible?!
* sigh *
Unblock, unblock, unblock.

skimming someone's profile
their toots say "2M ago"

~ 49 toots later ~

wow how did they crank out so many toots in 120 seconds?!

eventually realize the "M" was months, not minutes

sigh. πŸ˜…πŸ˜†

That feel when you get to interact with someone you admire.
✨ :blobmelt: ✨

I feel like I forgot something important. Oh well. I'm just gonna drink another cup of tea to feel better. :blobcat:

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