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boydinners all the way down (and a bento)

True facts: I generally don’t cook for myself. When I cook for two, I will eat it and enjoy it. But I don’t bother when it’s just me. So these past few days I have been happily scarfing down trash like a literal raccoon. Lowest effort possible. For dinner last night, I had: half a hamburger bun (for...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 29, 2026

staging ground

We’ve been given the go-ahead to work remote all week due to the cold, but I came to the office anyway as a staging ground. [redacted] is roughly 50 minutes’ walk from the train station, but only 35 minutes’ walk from the office. The plan was to walk the whole way and cut out Uber fees entirely. I d...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 26, 2026

biotics gtfo / jovial hgr

HGR's not doing so good today. big rip. “Anyone feel like…” HGR said. “…total shite?” I suggested. “A crusty crustacean,” he said. “Do your work.” I pulled up my email to make sure nothing new had come in. “I don’t have any.” A few minutes later, he said: “Shit creek. We’re up it.” And he exited the...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 20, 2026

the honest candidate

Thinking about it more, it’s kinda wild how dishonest the whole job interview process is. My old boss used to be on a hiring panel. When you first get hired, you start [by sweeping the floors], which sucks. Everyone knows it sucks. But you are expected to lie in the interview and say you would be re...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 15, 2026

summer externship

Today we’re interviewing a student for a summer extern position. HGR was incredulous at the idea of me being part of an interview panel. “Is there anything they could say to make you not take them?” he said. It’s unlikely. Every extern interview I’ve been in on has gone like this: We do the intervie...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 14, 2026

octopode supremacy

When I was buying Path of Exile 2, there was a slew of negative recent reviews on Steam, due to the devs’ mishandling of the current Path of the Vaal league. I was curious, so I looked it up. The main mechanic in Path of the Vaal is that you build a temple which you can run repeatedly for loot. Appa...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 11, 2026

sleep & exile

Oh man I really was super tired. I overslept until 9:55 am. For perspective, I pretty much always wake up at 8-something. In this work-from-home era, I’m getting consistent, adequate sleep for the first time in my life. It’s so good. It means I generally don’t need to sleep in, even on weekends. Occ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 9, 2026

happy new workweek

BACK TO…THE WORKWEEK UGGHBLUGGGH My head hasn’t been properly in the game since before Christmas. On New Year’s week we only worked Monday-Tuesday, which is the perfect amount of time to try and re-orient, fail, and then go back to vacation. But now we’re back for real, so I gotta get my head back o...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 6, 2026

e for elevator

Out of curiosity, I was browsing preschool/kindergarten readiness checklists. Obviously BB is not nearly there (he’s only 2 and a half), but I was curious to see how he stacks up. He actually meets a lot of the cognitive milestones. He can count to 20 (and backwards from 10). He can count objects wi...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Jan. 4, 2026

albino cub challenge (coda)

On December 27, at long last, we completed the challenge. By now, the den is mostly back to normal. But the real question is, out of 107 moms and 156 cubs, who are we keeping? More lions, more problems; but as a casual player, it’s my prerogative to keep random neat lions for fun. We’ve winnowed it ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Dec. 31, 2025

cookie basket

Twelve hours of sleep did the trick. I got up the next morning with no more headache/fatigue, no miscellaneous aches, no heart rate spikes. I was basically normal except for a runny nose. I think I had a mild fever that broke during the night, because I woke up sometime during the middle of the nigh...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Dec. 28, 2025

christmas sickbay pt.2 (my life as a couch potato)

Things did not improve overnight. I woke up with a full-blown sore throat. Dad was coughing and hacking. BB's mom was also sick. In retrospect, I might’ve figured this out from the fact she was coughing the entire day previous and slept entirely through Christmas dinner. I chalked it up to her usual...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Dec. 26, 2025

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