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Title: Things
Date: April 29, 2023
Listening To: "A Sacred Place" by Tremendouz (from OCRemix.org)

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  Tonight, I'm sitting back on my futon with my feet propped up, typing on my
MacBook while listening to some music. I'm still having problems with relaxing
at all, but I'm making progress at least. And one piece of progress was getting
my partner to finally deal with something I'd been bugging them about for about
a month: upgrading the router.

  The network stack is in his room due to it being where the main cable tap is,
and we had a Linksys WRT54GL set up for the main router. I myself have an Apple
Time Capsule in my room for my personal network, but it was the WRT54GL that
was a bottleneck. I'd set up a newer Linksys router to replace it, but *he* had
to be the one to swap them out since it was in his room. Well, he finally did,
and our download speeds more than doubled, among other perks.

  Things haven't been great for my writing or studies, either. Between constant
interruptions from both family and environment, as well as stress over money
and the economy, I've been struggling to even get started on a project as of
late. It also doesn't help that my partner has been wanting to start doing
DoorDash deliveries as a job, but wants me along as a navigator, meaning even
less time to work on my own things. But, that's life, I guess.

  We'll see how the next month goes. Hopefully, something breaks through in a
good way.

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