Tom (tired of the computer)

pouring my mcdonald’s lemonade through a v60 so i can strain out the pulp like a normal person. also fuck pulp

ok here’s the thing about pulp. over the summer i went to Knoebels in pennsylvania. it was great. i got a fresh squeezed lemonade out of a stall shaped like a big lemon. roller coaster tycoon shit. it wasn’t “fresh squeezed” as a marketing term either, when i ordered it the teenager working there took a lemon out of a cooler, sliced it in half, and juiced it with a machine that might be older than my dad. no pulp. the freshest possible lemonade and it had no pulp. why the fuck do we put up with pulp.

Some people just want to chew their drinks I think..

Anyway on the walk back I saw the deer again in the fog...

Packing progress so far: I felt dead and sad because of how insurmountable a project this feels like so I stayed in bed for like most of the evening and then finally got up and spent a couple hours putting way too much stuff in one box which immediately broke when I picked it up.

No idea how the fuck I’m going to get this done by Tuesday without becoming even more of a mess and a pain to be around…

More context bc idk if I complained about my new situation here

1. Our lease should end at the end of September.
2. landlord made up some bullshit about us being on a month to month lease due to having a subletter which is nonsense because we definitely never got or signed a new lease that said that, let alone a new one every month…
3. Landlord used that ‘month to month lease’ excuse to say we need to get out by end of August instead
4. I found a place to move to, but the move-in date is August 15th
5. I bargained with the landlord to let me stay here until the 18th to give me time to move. He agreed, on the condition that renovation would be starting in other parts of the house, but said he couldn’t offer that to my housemates and not to talk to them (I did, eventually)
6. Today: Confirmed with landlord that I’m still ok to move out on the 18th because I wanted to make sure. In that conversation he casually added that he actually needs me to have all of my stuff out of my room and away from walls by Tuesday because they’re going to start redoing flooring and painting ON move-out day
   He did also say I don’t need to pay rent for August so whose to say if it’s good or bad (it’s kind of still bad, our move out date should have been September)

So where I thought I had several weeks to comfortably weed through all the junk I’ve accumulated and decide what I’m bringing and figure out how to get rid of some stuff before moving, and to pack carefully, now I have to speedrun it during the work week.

It's notable that I even got 10 installed on it and it made it more usable as a phone for a while bc of compatibility with more websites and a few better apps, but it's super slow and I basically only want to use it as a camera now...

...so factory reset might be a good idea, but also it's probably impossible to get it back to 10 later. Any mega nerd opinions here