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caught in a roguelike

Conversations with Dad are like a roguelike. They’re procedurally generated, so you get a different map every time, but set pieces are programmed to show up—the life insurance policy, the credit cards, the Fidelity fund managers, the fact that he was working so hard on 9/11 he didn’t know what had h...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Oct. 22, 2021

inspection: done

This condo sat on the market for 60+ days before we made an offer, so I was lowkey worried the inspection would reveal major issues that had scared off previous buyers. Thankfully, nothing too bad popped up. The garbage disposal needs fixing, and a smoke detector needs to be replaced. The seal on a ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Oct. 5, 2021

inspection: scheduled

Tomorrow’s the day of the home inspection. The conversation about the home inspection was rather weird. Initially, Dell explained that we didn’t need to be present during the home inspection, because the inspector would send us a detailed report of his findings. Okay, I thought, we won’t go. But whe...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Oct. 4, 2021

condo concerto

A big day: We set out at 8 am to meet Dell for a tour of six condos. (We had requested to see seven, but one of them got bought. The housing market is hot.)Razorback Ridge #1-3: Our first stop was a series of three condos in the same apartment complex. All were third-floor condos with skylights and ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Oct. 3, 2021

what time is it when an elephant sits on your house

Today, another update: It could be "weeks or months" before the apartment building is cleared for habitation. Also, the city has discontinued occupancy inspections for the other buildings in the apartment complex, meaning we can't transfer to any of them either. Great, just great. To get more of the...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Sept. 12, 2021

heroic mario syndrome

It’s interesting how memory changes the way I view works of fiction. For instance, Baldr Sky certainly had its high points, but when I think back on it, I mostly remember the bad stuff—the repetitive routes, the endless school flashbacks that got repeated in reminiscence mode. Conversely, there was ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Sept. 9, 2021

where is peacetime

September 1 was our latest move-in ETA. By 5 pm on August 31, we had received no update. In fact, we had nothing but radio silence from management for a full 10 days. Dad was of the opinion that this was a good sign (if it was delayed, they would’ve told us by then), while I was of the opinion that ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Sept. 1, 2021

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. 46) - 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. 46) - 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. 46) - 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. 46) - 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. 46) - Aug. 6, 2021

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