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Really wanna cruise again

Haven't cruised since 2017-18 (over New Year's) and my parents paid for it then since we all went together. That's, well, probably not going to happen again now that I'm well past undergrad. :p But when I'm not freaking unemployed... Think about a nice Royal ship: Water slides! Pools!  Hot tubs! (I think) Bookstores! Hot weather! A park you can walk around in! And read books in.  Lifting at the gym! Going to cool islands! Especially CoCo Cay! Running with a view of the sea + trying not to fall on your face! Dying of norovirus on the toilet in excruciating agony with flooding in both the attic AND the basement -  Oh wait.  But yeah, at least while funemployed you can look up cruises you are 100% not taking, all while dying on the toilet. 

3/20.

Taste my own tears. I felt the same when you were staring at me, with no regrets.  I'm all alone, hunted and weak. But I'm stronger than you may decide.  - The Lust, Dear Diary

Theme park notes

Yesterday I did SFMM with no Fast Lane (because #FUNEMPLOYMENT, I am NOT having fun) and it was wicked. 98F but without my knowledge of how to navigate Lagoon in the heat and only the river rapids ride open for water attractions, which I didn't do.  11 rides from 10:30 (well, more like 10:50) to 6 (more like 6:15). No purchases except lunch because #FUNEMPLOYMENT (I am NOT having fun).  Cherry Hill, Splash Summit, and Cowabunga Bay have all released their summer 2026 hours. Not sure if I'm going to buy a pass to SCERA because #funemployment (I am NOT having fun). Lagoon is still slacking on the Lagoon a Beach hours specifically but we know the regular park hours and they need to hurry up and fix their Cloudflare. 

3/18/26

  I thought I found what I always wanted  I got what I wanted  I got just what I always wanted.  - Kittie In a way I did find what I always wanted at DreamWorks. Or so I thought. I thought I'd be there forever. Laid off, landed somewhere else, laid off again.  No more faith in tech. It's gone. 

14 tabs barely enough for WDW full mara!

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But we are IN. If I don't have a job by 2027 we will have a lot more serious problems than just being able to hang out with mickey for a weekend.  Pro-tip: caffeinate your Macbook once you're in the queue and have the dang thing PLUGGED. IN.  And don't predict your real time right away. You can fix that later. Instead, pretend you're gonna run it in 5 hours so you don't need POT as this is a waste of time. Remember, there is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy, and there are no cart holds in RunDisney. (Santa Claus is real though. Jussayin) iPad Pro: Safari iPhone 14: chrome  MacBook Pro: Safari, Chrome, Firefox + 1 private for each  Windows PC: Chrome, Edge, Avast Secure Browser + 1 private for each  I'm pretty sure we got in via the incognito Chrome on my windows PC but I was in the ZONE. I thrive on this stuff. It's my inner competitive streak. PWN THE N00BZ like it's 2010 again.  I had to remote into my PC using Chrome Remote Desktop because I...

dropping Dell IT cert

why?  It's crap. It's extreme crap. The whole course after the customer support module is AI slop. The quizzes are badly formatted -- short answers that want hardcoded strings -- tons of typos. No, no, no, no.  I pushed for months and eventually realized that investing time into it was counterproductive.  I have already bought a "Learn computer repair" course on Udemy which should be roughly similar to what Dell was supposed  to teach me, in addition to Tech+ and A+, which are also on my learning path.  Apple's support certificate makes way more sense because, you know. it's Apple. And therefore it's actually good. I was already going to do it. 

that was a stressful 60 seconds

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Matiks has been throwing me division sometimes, I didn't get it this time, but I fumbled the last multiplication problem and this was the result: narrow victory by 1 point 😵