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laundry(?)

Did the laundry, folded and put everything away, and only at the end did I realize…I have no memory of adding detergent. In retrospect, I’m pretty sure I forgot to add any. Well…surely the water still helped, right? The lint screen was full of crud. It’s fine. (Probably. Hopefully.) I’ll use deterg...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 21, 2024

you’re mincemeat

Most of Solution Nine is impeccably cool, but the Nexus Arcade is literally just a big Verizon store. Yeah, I said it. It’s savage time! We started a week late, because half of us were away for the first weekend. Kan cleared the tier before our first session. On the plus side, we’re ahead of ggg (t...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 20, 2024

the dream shard crisis of 2024

It’s wild that dream shards may be the limiting factor for my growth in Pokemon Sleep, after a full year of them being abundant to the point of irrelevance. The issue is that shard cost rises dramatically with pokemon level. For instance, using 300 candy on my Slowpoke (level 13) would take 23k shar...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 16, 2024

illimitable dominion over all

We still don’t know what this mystery illness is. Could be covid, could be something else. My own theory was that it’s a pathogen that has been frozen in glacial ice since time immemorial and has only now been released due to global warming. Roommate’s theory was that it’s the bubonic plague. I coul...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 13, 2024

cough drop

Yesterday before roommate's weekend d&d session I gave him a cough drop, and he set it down on the table and did not eat it, and coughed all through the session. Today I learned he DOESN’T KNOW HOW COUGH DROPS WORK!! He was like “Well, you didn’t give me a drink. It’s like a pill, right?” So I ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 11, 2024

mask up or cask up

Ignoring roommate’s constant advice to “mask up or cask up,” I spent most of the Iceland trip maskless, and then fell sick upon returning home. oops!!! Sunday afternoon I had a mild sore throat. By Tuesday it had progressed to a moderate sore throat with fits of dry coughing, runny nose, mild flu-li...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 8, 2024

homecoming

Back home. Walked in the door Saturday night at around 11:45 pm and immediately started bagging trash left on the counters (so many empty pasta boxes and 7up bottles…). Gathered up three full bags of trash, not counting the already-full kitchen trash, and wiped down the kitchen countertops. Is it we...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 6, 2024

five thousand screaming seagulls

We started the day with a long walk along the volcanic cliffs in the company of 5000 screaming seagulls. Green and gold and black and white—Coigreach colors, or maybe Natron colors if you factor in the blue of the water and pretend it’s way warmer. As we paused to enjoy the view, F told us that ther...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 2, 2024

the lovely icelandic summer

There WAS horse for breakfast! (Though without the hot dog condiments.) I tried a piece. It was basically like roast beef, but a tad stringy. It was a cold, miserable, rainy day, so it's just as well it was a long travel day. The roads are so bad and the bus so bumpy that my Fitbit keeps thinking I'...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 1, 2024

dramatic place to throw all your gods

It's very buggy around here. Apparently, Lake Mivatn translates to Lake Midge. No midges in the hotel (thankfully), but plenty of flies. Last night at dinner, a pair of flies landed on the table and began copulating. "Seriously??" said F as he shooed them away. Also, I slept poorly because there wer...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - July 31, 2024

moonscapes, hellscapes

We set out bright and early for the Myvatn region. F bought an air freshener to clear the residual smell of fermented shark from the van. It's variety terrain day! Dettifoss, the most powerful waterfall in Europe, amidst a bleak landscape of volcanic rock. Astronauts go on training missions in this...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - July 30, 2024

the road to akureyri

We stayed last night in a hotel in Varmaland. Every hotel has its quirks. This one had a tiny bathroom with no shower stall, just a floor drain and curtain. Water gets everywhere. But the hotel restaurant was swank: a fourth-floor restaurant with floor-to-ceiling windows giving a view of the surroun...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - July 29, 2024

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