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Mom heard yesterday that the beach had gotten flooded from that past storm, and we went out to check it out. Sure enough, said flood left a sandbar spanning miles along the shore, that we saw the seagulls walking around on, and a few broken wooden posts had been unearthed from beneath the sand near the pavillion.

I am still a member of r/MadokaMagica, because Discord servers do not let you back in once you leave unless you are specifically invited back.

Just yesterday, the server announced what it described as the first full-length spinoff since Magia Record, Puella Magi Sorana Magica: Our Fates, Our Futures, but it's actually yet another in-game storyline in the current mobile game Magia Exedra.

Where I'm getting at, though, is that the eponymous Magical Girl actually has a four-syllable surname (technically, so did Nemu Hiiragi from Magia Record). This creates an interesting situation in relation to the Cibus project, considering other issues that led me out of the fandom, how far I had read of Magical Girl Raising Project (despite not reading so much ever since I quit Walmart), and the direction the Cibus project took with an original setting, including some threads I ran just a few months ago with Google Gemini, despite the hiatus the story itself has taken for two years now. (My Earthbound project still takes priority right now.)

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Mom and I went to someone's house in Holbrook yesterday to pick up a bench to put our different pairs of shoes on, or something like that.

Two nights ago, Eddie left at exactly 7 while dishes were still coming back in, and I was not able to straighten everything up by 8. Reported him yesterday to Gerard, and before he left at 6, he spoke to both of us simultaneously, and said that we're free to leave as early as 7 from now on once the dishes are all sorted out and our respective duties from there are fulfilled.

Eddie still managed to leave at around 7:15, but told me just to sweep and mop up before I go home. Managed to stay until around 7:36.

Yesterday afternoon, our next-door neighbor Eddie and several other guys came to our frontyard with their leafblowers and riding mowers to spruce things up for us. I noticed from up in the apartment while fixing that script up, and assumed Mom was overseeing them.

Soon as I came down for dinner, she actually asked me if I was the one out mowing while she was having a nap.

Just now, we have just left a pack each of Body Armor and Gatorade at their doorstep, before Eddie and his family wake up.

Just discovered an ongoing Gemini thread to have truncated itself from up to the 9th, barely an hour before going to work.

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Arrived at The Bristal just in time to dip a few apple slices in caramel, chocolate, and butterscotch, in the aftermath of a party on the second floor, before starting my shift.

Yesterday afternoon, Mom spotted what looked at first like some bags of garbage on the neighbor's front lawn across Long Island Avenue, and asked me to take care of that at some point. She then went over, and they turned out to be sleeping farm ducks, who got up and waddled away from her.

Jonathan wound up discovering a pretty simple error in my original script by Raymond.

Perhaps I did waste an entire week, even with the silver lining of having refreshed my knowledge of 65C816, but AI-coding is still a better approach than waiting around for people liable to stop responding to me. (I haven't heard from Raymond himself after hitting him up a week ago, despite receiving month-belated thanks a month earlier for a happy 4th of July (forgot he lives in Canada), and my original request for help on Discord got buried twice.)

(I also got a couple of new ideas in my sleep, after revisiting the reason for that original change; those might have never come to mind if things worked as expected originally.)

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My buses each day had each arrived earlier than I scheduled them for.

To start with, it had been picking me up around half an hour before each shift ends, as I already mentioned for Tuesday. I get a 15-minute window to board once I receive the alert that it has arrived, but even after having waited half an hour on Wednesday after being alerted the first time that it was 15 minutes away (dunno what happened there), I still like to play things safe in general in case something crops up at the last minute, such as if I realize I have forgotten my drink or the lunchbox in the refridgerator before it arrives.

For that, I could start arranging for 8:30 the next time Mom goes on vacation somewhere.

Yesterday, though, I arrived more than half an hour early for work, without the chance to heat anything up for dinner (the app specified 19 minutes away), and went to Drago's Pizza for a meat stromboli and two garlic knots. Wasn't gonna wait the whole hour Patrick instructed me to work before helping myself to some ice cream, so I decided to grab a meringue in Fondue's Bakery, hoping to couple with some iced coffee in Bagels; turns out the latter closes at 2, so I decided instead to order a Nitro Cold Brew at Starbucks. Wasn't gonna bring both things back to work, where I would only be able to eat that meringue one bite at a time inside the kitchen (wasn't about to let it just sit around either, without a break to spend at the staff lounge).

And, I wound up clocking in at 4:09, four minutes after the on-time window.

Gonna need to plan better from now on, although it helps to know now when Bagels is and is not open.

My bus came at around 2:30 yesterday, giving me more than an hour to grab a bite for dinner before starting my shift. Went to Drago's Pizza and got a Buffalo chicken stromboli and two garlic knots, but wound up too full for the latter. Went to Fondue's Bakery to cool my mouth off with a cholado, something I've never had before.

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Quite by coincidence following Patrick's, yesterday was Peter's last day at The Bristal. He told me when I concluded my shift at around 7:20.

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The bus was already awaiting me, powered off, by the time I clocked out so early.

Mom has taken a trip to the United Kingdom yesterday. I had already arranged a bus to take me home from work.

Lately, I have been lucky just to get through one segment a day in Earthbound, with all that had been going on this past month and everything Mom has needed my help with particularly on weekends. Yesterday, I actually managed to play through two segments.

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Yesterday, The Bristal was supposed to host an end-of-summer staff party out by the swimming pool, but it rained for half the day, and was still overcast by 2:30. I wrote it off as cancelled, which someone did confirm early in my shift after I initially found the kitchen mostly empty. The person who confirmed, though, did explain that everyone was at a substitute event playing board games in the arts and crafts room upstairs.