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more like reasonable gout

Wrongful convictions are my biggest concern about the judicial system. People make a big deal about the reasonable doubt standard, but in actual fact, juries are willing to convict on shockingly thin evidence. (I realize I have a skewed perspective because the media tends to focus on guilty verdicts...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 30, 2021

the day of reckoning*

*translator’s note: reckoning means cleaning   It’s been exactly a month since the fire. Today, Mom and I went on a reconnaissance mission upstate to check out the condition of the apartment. We weren’t sure what to expect. Rotting corpse juices soaking the carpet? A mess of machinery left by...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 22, 2021

gratitude journal: cyprus edition

I miss home. But in the spirit of gratitude, here’s a list of things that are great about my parents’ house. My bedroom has air conditioning. (At home, my bedroom air conditioning broke in late summer 2020, but I didn’t want to call maintenance because of the pandemic. I finally got around to makin...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 14, 2021

the battle of h.i. gelvin bell tower

It’s hard to imagine the many months of quarantine where pacing on my balcony for half an hour was often the highlight of my day. Now I live a life of luxury, going outside whenever I want. In the afternoon I take a leisurely ten-minute walk down to the nearby church to get my pokestop of the day. G...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 6, 2021

july gratitude

oh hey, I thought I left behind a bunch of gratitude journal entries when I evacuated the apartment, but I had them with me all along. woo artfight time! artfight kinda snuck up on me this year but I managed to get Taro and Raubritter's character pages uploaded before the inevitable site crash upda...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 6, 2021

peach pit

The hazy days of summer non-vacation continue. We still don’t have a firm date as to when our apartment will be habitable again, although management issued a rough timetable that has our floor potentially moving back in early next week. This weekend I was helping do yardwork. There’s a big peach tr...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 4, 2021

artfight 2021 in review

Artfight’s over! (Artfight ending on August 1, what even is this) This year, I had notably less output than normal: 11 attacks, plus a pic for Blix’s art telephone game (unrelated to Artfight but still part of my art haul for the month). It’s tempting to attribute this to circumstances. First, this...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 1, 2021

airbnb

Fortuitously, my parents are leaving on vacation from Saturday to Thursday. So we got the house to ourselves. It’s the best. I love my parents, we get along great, but it’s a big relief not to deal with a host of small houseguest and/or child issues, such as: being called for family meals at fixed t...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - July 29, 2021

red-tagged

It occurs to me that we haven’t had a false fire alarm for a few months before this incident, which is…unusual. Here’s my theory: Management got sick of randos pulling the fire alarm every couple weeks and disabled the alarms. On Wednesday afternoon I observed that the second-floor fire alarm had be...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - July 23, 2021

FIRE IN THE HOLE

Yesterday’s plans got derailed because of A FIRE IN THE BUILDING. oop. Incredibly, there was no fire alarm. This is mindblowing. My roommate and I have spent the past year being super-diligent and coming outside at 2 am in our pajamas every time some jackass decides to pull the fire alarm for kicks....

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - July 21, 2021

prelude to ruin: the best-laid plans

Every day I feel like I'm not doing enough. I have all these things I want to do and I wind up doing none of them. I guess that's better than not wanting to do anything at all, but it's still not great. Where does all the time go? HGR suggested I make a list of things to do so I have concrete goals ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - July 20, 2021

the oppressor

numbers organized a second static that meets on Friday evenings. It's mostly the regular group, minus Kan and Silver, plus Tiro and KJH. KJH is new to FFXIV, but he's very enthusiastic about it. He's already midway through Stormblood; he's leveling a bunch of classes of different roles and is also w...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - July 20, 2021

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