Lots of driving today (September 10th 2023). Morning, talked about my religious aunt and her terrific habit of bringing everything back to Christianity. Terrific up to the point it actually detracted from my younger brother’s attempt to talk about his school, which as you know family loves hearing about school. Younger brother got quite frustrated yesterday. Mom and I gave him tips to change the subject, hook into another topic. Around 3pm I had to take my grandma to her friend’s house party in San Jose, but I got confused and took the exit before the exit I was meant to take. Went into a parking lot to catch my breath, left turn, left turn, another parking lot, oops. Lots of confusion, lots of lane changes that I missed, and a U-turn on top. Ay yai yai. Arrived at 3:45, rather than 3:30, but she planned on arriving around 4 so it was okay anyway. The drive back was just as stressful – couldn’t find a place to catch my breath so I circled a different block once to get into their parking lot. No parking there, crawled into a little outlet, reversed out of it and paused in front of a row of cars, charted out the path home, missed a crucial right turn and added 10 extra minutes total travel time. Also didn’t use the freeway so I arrived to pick up my brother from work at 4:09 or so. Went back home at his request bc he wanted to change, I was wasted from driving. Driving to Paris Baguette to get birthday cake for my younger brother; got some milk tea, ate some delicious Korean tofu soup. Bubbling hot when it arrived, like in a cauldron! It was intimidating for the first 7 of so minutes. But we dug in. His friend came over to finish his order of tofu soup. Mild, comforting taste and not too salty. Grabbed the birthday cake, fastest – Okay I have to interrupt myself here because I just heard a loud bang from the kitchen and it turned out a champagne cork flew up and hit the ceiling with a good thwack. Okay back to the day. The cake was the fastest part of the entire trip. Drove back home, lamped out, aggressive research into two half-frame cameras: Canon Demi EE17 and Autoboy Tele 6 (the American release had a real mouthful of a name I can’t remember right now). Though said research mostly disorganized, which in brief retrospect was a horrible mistake, because boy am I bad at making quick buying decisions. Angsted about my Agat 18K, continued on the research. Canni asked me about Obsidian and Logseq!! We’ve always hit it off well in high school, and still do today. Can’t wait to go digging back through my PKM notes!
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391