Pluses (+) and minuses (−) of this day

[PluMGMK]

+ Ran into not one, but two of my old interns today, and finally got to find out how weird things got after the company let most of us go
+ Was told I look very young for my age – diet and skincare are paying off I guess
± Got a PC to hook up to some new equipment, but of course everything doesn't just work, and it'll probably take a few days to get it properly up and running
– Fifo stole my rank (Obviously I'm kidding, shure I'm not even using it at the moment!)

– Weird pain in the back of my throat that's been there since dinner Saturday evening, and feels like it's burning when I swallow

[Steo]

+ rockin’ a Holly Luya rank
– it may get me confused with MGMK, I know he adores that rank…

– Fifo stole my rank (Obviously I'm kidding, shure I'm not even using it at the moment!)

I wore the Holly Luya rank for a few weeks at some point. It seems so out of place for me, but at the same time the contrast with the green name works so well.

– Weird pain in the back of my throat that's been there since dinner Saturday evening, and feels like it's burning when I swallow

I have had this a few times due to acid reflux / heartburn. Sometimes I'd even mistaken it for a sore throat.

[The Jonster]

+ Was told I look very young for my age – diet and skincare are paying off I guess

- Skincare is something I should be paying more attention to tbh. My skin is often pretty dry.
+ Took my medicine on time for once! I know this sounds really sad even though it’s positive.
- Woke up really late today. I think the green tea o had last night had something to do with this.
+/- Hoping to get something meaningful done today. And Wishing Steo best of luck with his brainstorming for friend’s project!

[PluMGMK]

– Weird pain in the back of my throat that's been there since dinner Saturday evening, and feels like it's burning when I swallow

I have had this a few times due to acid reflux / heartburn. Sometimes I'd even mistaken it for a sore throat.

In my case it seems to have started when I ate a few pumpkin seeds in a hurry. It feels like one of them got stuck, and left some kind of a lesion when I finally dislodged it

- Skincare is something I should be paying more attention to tbh. My skin is often pretty dry.

Yeah, it's definitely worth investing some time and thought in.

[Steo]

I have the exact same issue with dry skin, mostly on my hands and face. It's kind of annoying though, it never really seems to go away. Every time it seems better, it just comes back.

[The Jonster]

For me, it’s most dry on my knees and elbows. But yeah I get that feeling. The dryness just comes back later.

+ Got my walk in! Great job to me!
+ Gonna work on ZA in a bit as I just got home.

[Fifo]

– Cloudflare’s acting up

[PluMGMK]

I have the exact same issue with dry skin, mostly on my hands and face. It's kind of annoying though, it never really seems to go away. Every time it seems better, it just comes back.

I guess that's why they call it a skincare "routine", you have to do it regularly

More seriously, I barely pay attention to my knees or elbows, since nobody ever sees them anyway

[Reese Riverson]

More seriously, I barely pay attention to my knees or elbows, since nobody ever sees them anyway

Do you just hide away from people or do you simply just always wear long pants and long sleeve shirts?

[PluMGMK]

The latter Even when it's warm, I stick it out...

[lyndo64]

+ visited a synagogue for the first time
+ rewatching Carrie tonight

[PluMGMK]

I don't believe I've ever been to a synagogue… Was it an interesting experience?

[Steo]

I guess that's why they call it a skincare "routine", you have to do it regularly

This makes sense of course, though I feel like mine is worse than a lot of people's. My hands and face are always getting dry, with my hands usually being worse. I'm not sure why the face is like this, but the hands I was thinking maybe I'm sensitive to soaps.

[Tribelle2026]

- being harrassed by some family members for 10 years now for having long hair as a male.

[Gottagocool11]

+ The day, one of the forgotten cartoons i know got premiered 21 years ago. (If you see my signature, you get the reference)

[Steo]

+ Got up like an hour earlier today, if that somehow helps with the messed up sleeping schedule.
- Not particularly looking forward to the hospital appointment on Friday. It's only for the spine clinic but effort in going all the way up there.

[Greengoop]

+ Starting to take 20mg of focus meds in the morning. Honestly feeling really euphoric because of it.
+ Really good bass lesson, Paranoid Android is dead hard to play but I guess I’ll get bass cred once I’m finished.
+ Got a personal training session at the gym later, with a different guy than usual. Excited to see how that goes.

[PluMGMK]

- being harrassed by some family members for 10 years now for having long hair as a male.

Close family members? Or ones you don't see that often? Either way they should mind their own business

[Fifo]

– I can’t stand petty people who judge others over trivial stuff like that.
+ At least nobody gives me a hard time over my long hair

[Tribelle2026]

- being harrassed by some family members for 10 years now for having long hair as a male.

Close family members? Or ones you don't see that often? Either way they should mind their own business

It was my paternal grandmother, my maternal grandfather and my father. My paternal grandmother was obsessed with me having short hair to an extremely unhealthy degree (Harassing me to get a number 4 short back and sides haircut regularly and wanting me to comb it every single morning). Once I had a pain in my neck and she convinced herself that it was my hair causing it. While I was in college full time, I left her house and went back to my mother's house. Two years ago, my grandmother got cancer and at christmas, my father drove me up to her house so I could drop presents off for her, my father and my uncles and my father said "Your grandmother wants you getting a haircut to be her christmas present", so she was using her cancer to try guilt trip me to get a haircut. She was obsessed with this to the point it consumed her life, my maternal grandfather was obsessed with me having short hair as well and he spent the last 8 years of his life harrassing me about it whenever I ran into him accidently.

A month ago, my father started harrassing me about having long hair. He said I'll need to cut my hair to get a job and that "We all have to grow up sometime." and he said I should cut my hair so I can get a girlfriend. He also harrassed me for being a vegetarian and kept saying "I'm too thin to be a vegetarian." He stopped after I blew up at him over the phone.