Revenge or Redemption

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I woke up very early, but just laid staring at Lady Miss Friday. Like ya do. I had texts from Terry around midnight, saying the cats needed to be out of his place by 7am or he'd drop them at the pound. I put that on the backburner, not quite remembering torts well enough to analyze his duty of care. I woke Julian at 7 to take care of his cats, but he said Terry threw him around at 7-Eleven last night, and his arm was bruised. I texted Terry back, noting that he assaulted Julian. He said there were no marks, I mentioned video cameras. I'm perfectly happy to let the authorities investigate this. I've got nothing to lose. Julian does, and he spoke with Taka and Terry to make nice. Them holding the cats is a stopgap. A deeply appreciated one, but stopgap for obvious reasons. I was impatient before work, looking for things I could do off the clock, but I contained myself. Since I gave myself such a nice head start yesterday, I was able to finish all of eservice and enter the remaining mail for me & Din before 8. I worked on claims and further mail that came in for both, even though he'll be back on Monday. Just didn't want him to return to a tidal wave of work. Unfortunately, I spent a lot of time educating children on them.'s Facebook. A study showed that both cis and trans children have gender identities. Cis children are just, yep, have dick/vag, am boy/girl. Trans children are just as certain of their gender, even though it doesn't match their. Almost amusing, really, to watch these fools say children can't possibly know their gender....unless they're cis. One gent in particular was kind of a dick. I'd seen him yesterday and educated him very politely, even dismissing his attempt at a straw man, and without fire! There was a thread about saving or killing Magus in Chrono Trigger. I might come back here and write a novel about it, but Magus was part of an ancient kingdom, Zeal, that discovered magic. The main villain in the game, Lavos, is an interstellar parasite. Crash-landed on earth about 65,000,000 years before the start of the game, feeds on the magma or something from the center of the Earth, and 999 years after the start of the game, couldn't eat another bite and destroys the world on their way out. The Zealans discovered Lavos, figured out a potential way to use his power to get even stronger and His mom went full-cult, his sister sacrificed herself to save everyone, Magus was raised by a literal monster, after said monster (Ozzie) couldn't kill him. Magus also became a dick, understandably, and tried to summon Lavos early to kill him. Eventually, you get the choice to recruit him or kill him. Importantly, one of the dick things he's done is kill a famous knight and turn his squire into a frog. The frog is in your party. The whole thing really comes down to redemption vs revenge, but this dick went overboard, and in an an attempt at reductio ad absurdum, suggested releasing all mass murderers and pedophiles from prison. I pointed out that pedophilia is not the same as child molestation, and for that matter, most child molesters aren't actually pedos. Naturally, with a link to some website that's a support group or something for people with pedo desires to help them search for a cure. He blocked me. I looked him up with my other account and reported him to his work for his publicly posted diatribe against "cancel culture" and the changes for Aunt Jemima, Dr. Seuss, and Mr. Potatohead. Especially given that they just posted something about diversion and inclusion, it seemed appropriate. I've actually heard that before, that the Left has created such a terrifying miasma of fear that these places are just doing this preemptively so we don't boycott and ruin them. Or they're just doing it as virtue signaling to make more money. I'm not really sure how either of these things would be ultimately bad, but wow.

I kept my camera on for most of the day in my virtual office. Lip synced for my life, even sang along. If folks want to watch, I'm always happy to put on a show. Heh. Lynelle did exactly that, as we're trying to figure out how to make a virtual "knock." I think as long as I keep Teams open in both my home-home, where the webcam actually works, and the VPN, it should be fine. I closed FB after lunch so I could focus on my work. I didn't quite get *everything* done, but I got a lot done. If I hadn't done all of my eservice for Monday and DL'd everything else, I could have finished even the last couple claims in the queue for me and Din. It's fine. I got my journal up to date, and we were going to go to Kevin's happy hour but Julian didn't really seem into it. He ultimately decided to go, but either it wasn't happening this week or we just weren't invited. I'd been thinking about a Tolerance Break from weed for a while, and accordingly hadn't yet smoked any today. I scanned for substitutes, but all anyone talked about was synthetic weed. I have research to do on research chemicals, because I don't want to go down an unreasonable facsimile to GHB. But I do still want to find the THC x Vigintillion. I was thinking of getting a bottle of wine or something to celebrate....anything. Then finally came to my senses. It's a bit much to drop everything the same week. Smoked with hemp oil enhancers. No plans for the night, so we made dinner. He asked for the Field Roast sausages we had, just basic spaghetti & sausages. Totally fine, but we needed tomato sauce. I was maybe a wee bit stoned by the time we got there, but since my meal style is snacking/grazing, I decided to get crackers. And chips. And pretzels for Tim. And since they were having various Buy X Get Y Off sales, I bought a few of each. Three's *something* I keep thinking I need when I'm home at my computer, but I could not for the life of me remember what it was. Impatient creature that I am, I Self-Checked Out the nonbooze things, then joined Julian in line to get his beer. Makes things a couple seconds faster for all involved, and this way I didn't fluster myself trying to get everything bagged and paid simultaneously. We put on Netflix while I cooked, and I was ecstatic to discover Happy Endings was now on the lineup.

We watched Happy Endings until 2am, I smoked a metric fuckton of weed, and found the show even more hilarious than previously. I hardly noticed any wildly unrealistic plot arcs. I pretty much considered it a series of loosely related sketches, and that helped. I finally crashed around 2 next to Lady Miss Friday.