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What did you do this week?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
My grandmother had her birthday so I went over to her house. After I had lunch there I tried to mess with their guitar (this type) but how the chords' pitch works isn't very clear and all of the reasons why DAWs are good are clear when you play a physical instrument. They also apparently had a decades-old typewriter in there. These vaguely green ones. My main impressions were:
Either the thing is really durable or they haven't used it a lot. It's old enough to have a Cruzeiro (old Brazilian currency) instead of a real in the currency (meaning it's at least ~-25-30 years old) and it still works like it was recent.
The letters sink a lot when you type them.
When you get to the end of the page you can keep typing letters into the same area, which is funny.
If you type too fast or mash the keyboard a bunch of keys can get physically stuck together.
Shift and "un-shift" are separate keys
Apparently the letters are made by punching a tape and somehow that's enough to put a letter on the paper, although their tape was a bit old and the letters weak. There is no ink in sight however.
Anyway, my mom found a new job! It's far closer to downtown so she spends lot more time commuting and wakes up leaves before I wake up and she comes back after 7 PM, which means that during the week I have to do more chores like washing the dishes and feeding the cats, which apparently they could/should've put me to do a decade ago but just didn't know it. (well, the cats weren't around a decade ago.)
As for the potential loneliness, I've honestly been like this for a lot of my life so I'm kinda accustomed to it.
Went into urgent care for some abdominal pain on my right side, ct scan, blood and urine didn't find anything out of the ordinary. Doctor recommended Metamucil for two weeks, and I'm glad it's not something more serious, but I'm still uncomfortable and anxious about it.