February 2026

02.12.26

Today was my day off an opportunity to get more hours because someone called out today. I've been kind of worried about getting enough hours recently (long story short, burnout->quit job/sabbatical->landlord says "hey, I'm gonna sell the house, wanna buy it?"->can't go back full time because they hired another tech and not enough hours to give->trying to convince bank I can afford a house.) It was still a good day. Still crazy as ever; hundreds of scripts to fill, endless phones, insurances are still awful. My coworkers always make it more bearable, though. Not many pharmacies would let their techs wear a sparkly Valentine's cowboy hat, have stuffed animals beautifully arranged on our script rack, and have workers that are just super fun to be around. I also got to make the realization that reason the plumber that was in our house a couple weeks ago looked so familiar is because I've helped him for years at my job. It's kind of amazing all the people you bump into just by nature of being in a smaller town and being at the same busy job for 10 years. I swear everywhere I go, someone asks me, "Don't you work at the pharmacy?"

After work, I ordered pizza for the first time in a while! Kind of polarizing, but pineapple on pizza has grown on me over the years and shouldn't be vilified. Not a common combo, but pineapple+bacon+jalapeño and bbq as the sauce base. You should try it. Me and Hannah watched How to Train Your Dragon. If you haven't seen it yet, we can't be friends. It's been 15 years, I won't accept any excuses for you not watching it. Also, it's doing psychological damage to me seeing that it's been out 15 years. The passage of time is an unyielding river. Anyways, I'm going to keep watching the Abridged Sailor Moon series with my roommate and working on this website.

Later Sailor Sluts!

02.10.26

I had a job interview today! It was kind of a weird feeling since this is only my third job interview I've ever done. My first job interview I think they must have been kind of desperate because they did a drug test at the end of the interview and put me on the schedule afterwards. My second job interview felt a little more like an actual interview where there were actually other candidates for the job, but the manager kind of had an idea of who I was and what I was like. I feel like the interview I had today was probably the most competitive position I've applied for because it's sort of a unique type of pharmacy that there aren't very many of

Basically, if I got the job I would get to help take in and disperse donated medications for people who are low income or are uninsured/underinsured. They showed me around and it's so different from retail pharmacy. No overhead announcements from the grocery store, no endless loop of the same 10 songs, no patients (closed door pharmacy), no ringing phones. It was just so weirdly quiet.

I've kind of been passive about really wanting the job, so I think I might've underprepared for the interview, and felt pretty nervous/awkward. I'm hoping despite having to fish for answers sometimes, hopefully I came across as genuinely caring about people. They were saying that a they would probably let me know by early next week.

I also had a dentist appointment today and was excited to find out that I have zero cavities! The last time I went was the beginning of 2024 and I guess you're supposed to go every 6 months, so I definitely had a lot of build up. Apparentally I also have the beginnings of gingivitis and need to floss deeper and angle my toothbrush more. They used some sort of waterpik on steroids to clean out under my gums, and it kind of stung. She also showed me how deep the pocket in my gums in the back was with the metal pokey thingy which bleed a lot and was gross, but it makes me want to floss better.

I'm still chipping away at the ol' website and I added a neat little weather page. Someone made a web application that looks like that one oldschool weather channel with the fun little elevator-jazz. Iframes seem kind of neat! Not really sure what else I'll get done before I go to bed on the website. I should probably finish my about page and I was thinking about adding a guestbook. Really I should go to bed. Kind of gotten a little complacent on getting to bed at a reasonable time. But also I'm off tomorrow. And I'm an adult and can go to bed whenever I feel like it.

Ta-ta for now.

02.08.26

It's always that first sentence that's the hardest. When writing a blog post to a website that hardly anyone is going to see, am I writing to an imaginary audience, or is this more for myself? There's really no pressure for this to be amusing or well written given how few people will know of it's existence.

Today I wanted to spend a little bit of time straightening up the house. All I really did was run the vacuum, which is better than nothing. This summer will actually be the 5 year anniversary of buying my first non-bagless vaccuum; a Miele Compact C2 Electro+. Nobody tells you this, but sometime around your mid twenties, you get excited about having a nicer vaccuum and you might drop major benjamins on a bagged cannister vaccuum because some vaccum repair technician on the internet did a whole thing about vaccuums and was shitting on all the bagless upright vaccuums including the Dyson you thought was kind of okay. Anyways, I totally thought that I would be vacuuming every other day to feel like I was getting my money's worth, and probably run it maybe every couple of weeks at most. I should get better about that.

Tomorrow my landlord is meeting up with a housepainter and one of the places they were going to look at is the ceiling above our stairs going to our basement. I'm sure our house isn't that bad, but I probably should have cleaned more. Sometimes I look at pictures of what's referred as a 'neckbeard nest' to feel better about how messy our rooms are. I'm not sure where I fall on the standard distribution of messiness, but I do know I've never had a piss jug if that's any measure of success. Instead of cleaning, I did spend a chunk of today playing ukulele and working on this website. I'm starting to like how this site is shaping up and am excited to keep working on it. I think the general skeleton of how I want everything laid out is falling into place. I even added a cute little Ditto Shimeji thingy.

It is getting a little late, and I work at 8 am tomorrow, so I better hit the hay, but if you're reading this, I hope the rest of your life is pretty okay.

Peace out!