Love how it’s my land and my city’s telling me where I can add an addition.. grr the initial builders moved the house over from the survey and the developer 30 years ago had an overlay so I’m getting screwed after already paying for blueprints and a deposit with a GC.

Five years down the road, I'd begun forgetting her existence.

It was not the blissful ignorance of a scorned lover that turns into a bitter regret when recognised; I'd forgotten her almost immediately once she wasn't there every day. Even when she was there, she'd been growing distant by the day, increasingly busy and worried by whatever great importance had become her responsibility. She lived on in gossip, rarely fearful, despite her rising rank; anyone who dared spread it was either close enough a friend to gossip freely, or so derisive of her haughty climb through the ranks, not to mention her every commanding word, that only resentment remained. I was somehow neither of those, and thus heard both.

I wouldn't remember the last time we met, nor the last thing she said to me, for almost a decade. I probably still don't. She faded out of my story, chasing her own, driven by her own belief in mission, purpose, and sense of both that sustains the young officer in the face of that inevitable cognitive dissonance that drives so many people away from military service. Her face never had hope of haunting me; I'd stopped wearing glasses after the recoiling ironsights had shifted them too many times, and I'd realised how distant from practicality was the resolving power that they might have allowed, if I'd ever had the time to aim, while also needing it. She never needed glasses; a cellphone was enough.

Praise would be wasted, anyways. I was first of her problems and last of her concerns, some junior too good at working alone for the work's good, who needed only to learn the cant of command and habits of its use. I couldn't have imagined, fifteen years ago, the panic of recognizing her after having realised I was dreaming, knowing that nothing anyone could say or do would make any difference after I awoke. The character in the dream was fiction, less relevant than what she'd forgotten about me.

I could care less what her rank is today, for she's the one who needs it.

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Anyone else watching the lightning++ stream?

Start it. Stop it. Delete it. Migrates us. Slower. Faster. Stronger. Better.

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@justin_shocknet a question about LV. Maybe also @k00b is interested.
Would be possible to embed /integrate a LV clip into a SN post and readers if they want to watch the video will have to pay per view (as in LV) with a simple pop-up ?

teasing @justin_shocknet with this meme 😂😂😂😂

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PortlandHODL's draft BIP from yesterday is pretty interesting. It's worth having a look at it if you are curious about a consensus change that could be a resolution to the op-return debate.

#1246613

Uptober in effect!

woo doggie 🐶

Starbucks closed the two stores that I use most often: the one closest to my home and the one closest to my work.

It makes me strangely sad. I don't even like Starbucks that much, but it was convenient to be able to order ahead and pick it up right before work, or right before getting home.

Does anyone else get abused by their family for insisting that you should get to the airport 5-6 hours before flight departure?

this post got 1777 sats and 5 zappers, why’s it still invisible?

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Happiness Journal 3/10/25

As an Armour Infantry soldier, I used to dread taking bus 975, which would transport me to my army camp, situated in a godforsaken part of Singapore.

Yet, today, I took the same bus with my children. Past my army camp because the dairy farm my son had yearned to visit was further from civilization than my army camp.

However, no feelings of dread plagued my heart. I won’t say that I was eager to visit the cow farm, but I wasn’t rejecting the idea, either. Beneath feeding the cows hay lay something more gratifying. My six-year-old boy has things he wants to do to fill his free time. May he never lose this zest for novelty.

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