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[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

it is you though

Nuh uh!

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 20th, 2026: My final today. I woke up having cereal and coffee for breakfast. I took the bus to work and got to my office earlier than everyone else as usual. At 8:37am I got this text from Seth M:
<For now keep your current schedule as usual until we discuss with the Latinx lady. I will be out of the office until next week Tuesday.
to find out that there’s now a problem with scanners, as the older Ukrainian woman came over to me to tell me it’s not working, I checked my part and it also wasn’t working. For Threes, Mauer, me, and some others, the scanner stopped working, for Lillehammer and Kiana it worked fine. I managed to remember the passwords for the printers to get them working. I had my lunch delayed a little by helping another person with their printer issue, but when I went out and bought pizza instead today. There was a very fancily dressed bald guy eating pizza at the same time I was. I got back and spent so much time failing to even make a dent in Mauer’s scanner issues. Resetting the printer, looking up error codes on my laptop, and trying to invent workarounds felt like he was breathing down my neck the whole time, but the Latinx lady just found out there’s a scan app that works. I told the Ukrainian man about the fix and then took the bus to the busy building way later than usual and spent up until 3:40pm writing stuff down on a notesheet that I could use. I went in with the front side mostly filled while the back side was nothing. On the test was 2 easy questions, another one about Dijkstra’s algorithm, another one of searching a 2 dimensional array of 1s and 0s to count how many objects (groups of 1s horizontal or vertical to each other), and one searching a line of nodes for the max weight when if you select a node, you can’t select its neighbors. I was stressing the whole time but left at the 5:50pm mark. I walked home, grabbing a cup of instant ramen along the way as I saw a Black guy beg for money as a Jewish kid was getting off his bike, it made me laugh. I boiled some water with my electric kettle and had that for dinner before packing for Eucharistic adoration and taking the bus at 6:55pm. I ended up sitting up near Quinci, with Quinn being back, near me also Rose and her fiancé. Sixes and Sixes’ friend were acolyting, Alley was there. I just read through my men’s pocket (it takes up all the space, so it won’t fit in women’s pockets) for Eucharistic adoration and prayed that I may pass my test. I saw my grade plummeted from a 90% to a 74.11% and I don’t know why. Eucharistic adoration ended and I attended the mass. Father Malachi gave the homily about the newly ordained priests and Father Malachi’s birthday was recent so his parents gifted him a plot in a cemetery. I received the Eucharist and spotted Ruth and Selassie in the line. I went out for the social afterwards and talked mostly with Sixes, his friend, and Gabriel’s friend who said she liked being out of the city. I asked Gabriel’s friend about Gabriel and she said he’s doing well. I ran to the bus stop at 9:14pm. At 9:23pm when I got on the bus, I saw a Black man — probably homeless — holding a plush polar bear. It just moved me a lot. I got home and noticed the apartment directly under us having some Korean guy and his mom help move out, I saw into their apartment and the closet is just in front of the doorway and their oven is much newer with a vent. I took a shower and went to sleep. Overall I feel relieved that my life as a college student is over, I’m finished, it’s time for the summer to begin.

Song of the Day: Murder Of A Teenage Life - Mos Def (2006)

 

[⸻⸻⸻]

May 20th, 2026: My final today. I woke up having cereal and coffee for breakfast. I took the bus to work and got to my office earlier than everyone else as usual. At 8:37am I got this text from Seth M:
<For now keep your current schedule as usual until we discuss with the Latinx lady. I will be out of the office until next week Tuesday.
to find out that there’s now a problem with scanners, as the older Ukrainian woman came over to me to tell me it’s not working, I checked my part and it also wasn’t working. For Threes, Mauer, me, and some others, the scanner stopped working, for Lillehammer and Kiana it worked fine. I managed to remember the passwords for the printers to get them working. I had my lunch delayed a little by helping another person with their printer issue, but when I went out and bought pizza instead today. There was a very fancily dressed bald guy eating pizza at the same time I was. I got back and spent so much time failing to even make a dent in Mauer’s scanner issues. Resetting the printer, looking up error codes on my laptop, and trying to invent workarounds felt like he was breathing down my neck the whole time, but the Latinx lady just found out there’s a scan app that works. I told the Ukrainian man about the fix and then took the bus to the busy building way later than usual and spent up until 3:40pm writing stuff down on a notesheet that I could use. I went in with the front side mostly filled while the back side was nothing. On the test was 2 easy questions, another one about Dijkstra’s algorithm, another one of searching a 2 dimensional array of 1s and 0s to count how many objects (groups of 1s horizontal or vertical to each other), and one searching a line of nodes for the max weight when if you select a node, you can’t select its neighbors. I was stressing the whole time but left at the 5:50pm mark. I walked home, grabbing a cup of instant ramen along the way as I saw a Black guy beg for money as a Jewish kid was getting off his bike, it made me laugh. I boiled some water with my electric kettle and had that for dinner before packing for Eucharistic adoration and taking the bus at 6:55pm. I ended up sitting up near Quinci, with Quinn being back, near me also Rose and her fiancé. Sixes and Sixes’ friend were acolyting, Alley was there. I just read through my men’s pocket (it takes up all the space, so it won’t fit in women’s pockets) for Eucharistic adoration and prayed that I may pass my test. I saw my grade plummeted from a 90% to a 74.11% and I don’t know why. Eucharistic adoration ended and I attended the mass. Father Malachi gave the homily about the newly ordained priests and Father Malachi’s birthday was recent so his parents gifted him a plot in a cemetery. I received the Eucharist and spotted Ruth and Selassie in the line. I went out for the social afterwards and talked mostly with Sixes, his friend, and Gabriel’s friend who said she liked being out of the city. I asked Gabriel’s friend about Gabriel and she said he’s doing well. I ran to the bus stop at 9:14pm. At 9:23pm when I got on the bus, I saw a Black man — probably homeless — holding a plush polar bear. It just moved me a lot. I got home and noticed the apartment directly under us having some Korean guy and his mom help move out, I saw into their apartment and the closet is just in front of the doorway and their oven is much newer with a vent. I took a shower and went to sleep. Overall I feel relieved that my life as a college student is over, I’m finished, it’s time for the summer to begin.

Song of the Day: Murder Of A Teenage Life - Mos Def (2006)

the black guy begging for money while the jewkid got on his bike part made me geg

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

the black guy begging for money while the jewkid got on his bike part made me geg

Yeah, this was an Orthodox kid with the payot and a kippah, that Black guy was gonna get NOTHING.

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 21st, 2026: Regular 8:30am to 1:30pm shift today. I woke up at 6:41am and got out of bed to make cereal for breakfast with coffee. I took the bus at 8:02am, arriving to work just on time. I was wearing black dress pants, my belt, and the grey button-up with our company logo embroidered in. Which was sadly an almost-identitical outfit to Nailisi’s. I was disgusted and wanted to take it off. Multiple people had printer issues today, which I usually solved by changing the port to be the correct IP for the printer. The website guy’s issue with his printer was trying to print posters for the event in July on a different type of paper than usual. Printing with the thicker stock had some issues leaving streaks on the paper that the regular material didn’t. While seeing the big printer near my office having an error as Nailisi went to scan something, she said the first words, to me in forever:
“Are you gonna use that?”
She got ignored, maybe don’t fucking report me because you’re too dummyed to take a joke. I got smoked hickory sticks and crackers for lunch with crackers for only $2.50 ish. I ate all the hickory sticks in the side breakroom at my building because it’s cold outside. I offered some crackers to Kiana and she liked them. The last thing I needed to do today was help Khadjia’s brother’s wife get her print to work, which was kinda easy. I then took the bus home at 1:35pm after clocking out and I spend most of it writing or trying to get my desktop back up and running. I watched the final episode of The Boys today and it was an absolute letdown. No V1 powered up massacre of civilians by Homelander, no army of flying supes at the White House, Ryan gets depowered, but Homelander being humiliated by Butcher was hilarious. Also there was an Elon Musk substitute where they killed him and seethed because Elon Musk —despite being a dummy— understands that the White birthrate plummeting is an incoming disaster for the United States, or how the SSRI poisoned writers interpret it, you’ll have to cut your number of lifetime abortions by 3. I went to a sandwich shop for dinner while charging my phone at home. I got out and packed for the talk today, including my men’s pocket Bible, charger, and other stuff. Doors opened at 5:45pm so I got on the bus early and got there at 5:20pm. I did a walk around of the neighborhood, a predominantly Black one, but there were children playing outside so it’s safe. 2 kids mentioned my suit and I got back at 5:42pm to see Nikki’s roommate pull up. I got in and noticed all the snack, but the drinks were only wine and kombucha, no water present. I got sat down with Nikki and her boyfriend, 2 others, and an old guy named Joe. Boomer Joe said he started attending his current parrish at All Saints starting in 1979 while his daughter was born in 1974. We had the discussion start and I went into the kitchen in the back to fill up on water. I saw Punk’s friend and got disgusted. I continued listening to the talk about worker’s alienation, Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical on worker’s rights, and Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming encyclical on AI set to be released on Monday. Every pope except Pope John Paul I (he lived 33 days) had released an encyclical since Pope Leo XII. Another speaker was the only guy dressed fresher and fancier than me, he’s Black. He told us the story of how he had a heart attack while giving a presentation at a hospital, it was quite funny and it wasn’t those sudden heart attacks, it was a long one where you feel a weird pain. We discussed in groups and I spent my turn mentioning a story that I forgot. Boomer Joe told us he as a worker at a steel mill when he was 19, was super efficient during his job that all the other workers would get mad that he raised the standard for them all. Nikki’s boyfriend mentioned a story about a slightly autistic engineer he used to work with that would do the wildest shit, sometimes leaving work early before he got a “we hired you to perform at a level you’re not performing at!” message which is an early sign he’s getting fired. Thankfully the autistic engineer has kids and the engineer found a new job. I noticed the cafeteria we were in had some walls that were the outer portion of the original church, like the stained glass was there inside. I left near the end and took the bus home at 7:57pm. I got back and took a shower before going to sleep.

Song of the Day: Rapture - Blondie (1981)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 22nd, 2026: A meh day today. I woke up early for finishing off my cereal and then took the bus to work. I had coffee there and for most of the time, I had little to do except for when the Indian lady requested that I reset passwords for a bunch of old intern accounts and created 5 new ones. The Afghani lady had an issue with her WhatsApp on her work iPhone refusing to open because it needs to update, she couldn’t update it from the app store so Threes told her that there was a different app to update it. I got back and got the page working but with errors, like it wouldn’t submit employers at all, just encounter a generic error. Fuck. I was bored and continued failing to program, occasionally checking my phone to see if my final was graded, nope. I ended up going over to get pizza at 12:30pm and bought a slice of buffalo chicken with water to go, the lady at the cash register mistakenly charged me for a to go box so I ended up paying extra for something I wanted to eat here. I went and ate in the breakroom with the Afghani lady back. I continued to do practically nothing, looking at my phone. I had a bloody nose and then went back. I clocked out at 3:45pm and took the bus home, I’m going on a baseball date with the woman whom I will be calling Alyce. She said she wanted to stay over and asked me if I could put my sheets in the laundry. I went over to the laundromat, realizing I lacked the big suitcase so I had to shove some of my laundry into the smaller 4-wheeled suitcase. I got to the laundromat and noticed in the vending machine was dispensable narcan:

Here’s a photo to prove that I’m not a fucking liar from FOX news trying to stir up anger about leftists. Real life is genuinely comedic. The laundromat was playing Unknown Mortal Orchestra instead of 1970s Black people music. I got back home and unpacked my laundry plus changed my sheets, preparing for her to pick me up at 6:00pm. I went to buy beer at a liquor store then heading back with my Pabst, I talked to her and she said she was going to be there at 6:23pm. At 6:11pm, Alyce texted me:
<i M super shy in person pls be nice
I replied a minute later with:
>Ok!
She finally got here and we kissed when she picked me up. She was big and tall, being 5’11” and like 280lbs. She told me she packed her stuff for the weekend and we drove to the end of the parking lot, it was a hassle to park and the walk was long to the security scan, when I got near the entrance, I realized I had my Swiss army knife in my pocket and Alyce gave me the keys to her car, I ran all the way to the end of the parking lot and put them in and then ran back. We got scanned in and we walked past the sausages on the way to our seat:


We got up to our seats and Alyce was immediately cold and unaffectionate, going on her phone an extreme amount, usually to check the app for whatever there was for. She told me that Sal Frelick –or number #10– was her favorite, I didn’t know him but it was a game versus the Los Angeles Dodgers. I bought her a hotdog when I asked about food and popcorn plus a soda for me. I saw on her phone that a friend named Chase on Snapchat suspected his girlfriend was cheating on him, she snapchatted a groupchat acting way too cheerful for the event that happened to a friend. At 7:30pm I got a text while I was in the bathroom throwing paper towels on the ground into the trash:
<thank you sorry that i’m being so awkward i just don’t feel good
Yeah totally. Later on a bunch of guys started doing the tarps off trend where they’d take off their jerseys and swing them around, the crowd started small but then grew:


We had agreed to leave by the end of the 7th inning but I went to the bathroom afterwards and Alyce got a message on Snapchat from her sister about her grandpa who she mentioned previously. He has heart problems apparently and now it acted up again, she cried a little bit and we left. Alyce drove me home and I didn’t touch her as she was clearly upset, I thought it might be a lie to get away from me. She dropped me off and I got home. We kissed a bit more and she was finally back to passionate. I went inside and with my roommate gone, I yelled:
“FUCK!”
But I had to calm myself down:
“Remember Gemerson, you prayed to be protected from lust.”
I took a shower and went to sleep.

Song of the Day: Everyone Acts Crazy Nowadays - Unknown Mortal Orchestra (2018)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 23rd, 2026: Lazy Saturday today. I woke up and fried myself 4 eggs. I had the last of my milk and went over to buy some coffee creamer to make my coffee more tolerable. I checked my phone and found out Alyce texted me at 12:12am in the morning:
<thank you again for going to the game with me! at the er still waiting with my grandpa! i hope you had a good night!
I’m still not going on a second date with her. I ran some commands to get my computer working and I got up. I went out to my living room to watch YouTube on the television and saw a video on OpenFronts.io, I ended up learning that and trying it out. It’s quite fun although I’m still an amateur. Dio Brando cosplayer posted about a college graduation ceremony she was at for her brother, I made sure to congratulate her on it. At 1:13pm while doing research adding the names of the old church ladies I found in the church, I discovered that Sandy died in February 2025 of Alzheimer’s while her husband died before her. I tried looking both of them up on FamilySearch because I needed to see how I was related to her but nothing had appeared, like her name. I had to do laundry today, or rather the rest of it. So I grabbed my 4 wheel suitcase and took it to the same laundromat as yesterday. I put my laundry in and walked to the grocery store to buy some food, including that Korean shitoko ramen which had a Halal food warning. Thanks for reminding me of the invasion of the United States through “resettlement from troubled countries.” I also bought bread, celery, off-brand cocoa pebbles, and milk. I was in line behind an Indian father and his slightly lighter son. I walked back to my apartment to drop it off and then put the laundromat clothes in the drier. I got them back and then folded none of it. I played more Fire Emblem Awakening and made some progress. I’d like to start working on programming a Fire Emblem like game someday, but my current self lacks all motivation to do it, no true friends to try to impress. Well I made the shitoko ramen with the chicken breathing fire, I remember distinctly this message for the cooking directions:
<2. Remain ½ cups (4 OZ) of water and drain the rest. Add the sauce and stir-fry for 30 seconds.
Like nobody knew good enough English to understand that ‘keep’ is a better word to use than ‘remain’ AND THEN when the ramen was being sold in English speaking countries like the United States of America, NOBODY SAID ANYTHING LIKE:
“Hey, don’t you think we should say keep instead of remain?”
Anyways I had it with the last of the ground beef and cut up celery and went back to gaming. I soon took a shower and went to sleep at 11:41pm.

Song of the Day: Song Groove (a.k.a. Abortion Papers) - Michael Jackson (2012)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 24th, 2026: Pentecost. I woke up at 8:00am and had cereal for breakfast plus brewed myself some coffee to go with. I played more OpenFronts.io and only won 1 game. I got dressed in my yellow and white button-up with my red trumpet tie, my red velvet jacket, and black dress pants. I walked over to get there at roughly 10:03am, I tried entering through the normal door but that was locked, the upper door was open thankfully. Nobody else was here but when I went downstairs, Father Aquinas was there to open the door, and nobody else. I prayed for a while and went up to the lectern to see what the readings were, a few more people came in like the Honduran’s mother, sister, and father, Markus’ brother, Mahdi, a family of 3 with a daughter I’d estimate to be 20, A family of 4 with two young boys, and 2 other guys. I got Mahdi to do the second reading and then did the lighting of the candles: the two on the tabernacle, the four on the altar, the one next to the ambo/lectern, the 5 around the statue of St. Mary, and the 1 in front of the statue of St. Joseph. We did the introduction to the mass and when we first went up, I began to read Acts 2:1-11:
☛1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.
☛2 And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
☛3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them.
☛4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
☛5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
☛6 And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
☛7 And they were amazed and wondered, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
☛8 And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
☛9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
☛10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
☛11 Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”
And the spoken psalm, Psalms 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34:
>Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
☛1 Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, thou art very great! Thou art clothed with honor and majesty,
☛24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy creatures.
>Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
☛29 When thou hidest thy face, they are dismayed; when thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
☛30 When thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the ground.
>Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
☛31 May the glory of the LORD endure for ever, may the LORD rejoice in his works, ☛34 May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the LORD.
Then Mahdi went up to do the second reading, then there was the homily which I found quite normal. There was no collection of the gifts but we went up to receive the Eucharist. I went out and talked with Markus’ brother, Mahdi, and The Honduran. Apparently the Honduran’s sister was moving some stuff and her parents were there to help. I walked back home and on the way this old lady and her husband pulled by and said:
“By the way we just wanted to compliment your outfit, it’s super good!”
I thanked them then got home. I had more of the black packaging ramen with an egg and cut up celery while I continued to play OpenFronts.io. I watched part of season 1 episode 2 of Gen V but thought I might get walked in on by my roommate during a disgusting scene but no it was the person across the hall. I eventually got tired of staying inside in the same room all the time so I went out and went on a walk in the nearby part. At 6:22pm, I encountered Luigi on my walk and talked for like a minute before continuing. I did my laps before getting back and then not having dinner, taking a shower, and going to sleep late.

Song of the Day: Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar (1980)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 25th, 2026: A free day today, I woke up and had breakfast before I played some more OpenFront.io on my computer, I got bored of it and bored of being here, so I left my house and went on a walk, all the way over to this coffee shop that Markus usually takes women on first (and final) dates. It was a long walk, being roughly 40 minutes of walking to get there. There were quite a lot of people there and I didn’t recognize a single person present, I got in and the baristas didn’t look like gender-specials, only one goth woman, another woman, and two guys who looked like guys. I ordered a latte and this is what I got:


I mean I ordered it for here, the barista said I could take it outside where most people were. I saw some families, a dog, and two middle-aged guys playing scrabble on a table. I drank my coffee then got back in line to hand my dishes back. I then walked down to the veterans’ memorial, past a Black mother who parked her car on a busy street when her two kids were in it. I walked past an old Black guy playing some Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes at 9:26am. I walked more and it was a lovely day to be outside, the grass is green, the sun’s shining, the temperature is warm, the lake’s shining blue, and you don’t see as many Indians as you do on the bus! I then got to the flag display, one planted in the ground for each person that died in a war. For each war we had people fought in listed in order from highest to lowest was:
Civil War (1861 - 1865): 12301, World War 2 (1941 - 1945): 8390, World War 1 (1917-1918): 3976, Vietnam War (1962 - 1975): 1161, Korean War (1950 - 1953): 801, Peacetime: 623, Gulf War (1990 - 1991) + Global War On Terror (2001 - 2021): 64.

And here’s a bunch of flags above. I found one flag that had fallen over near the walkway and stuck it back in the ground. I eventually walked downtown a bit more and got on the bus back home. I continued playing OpenFront.io but also managed to get in a game of Holdfast during the time. On Snapchat, I spotted Alyce went to another baseball game as she posted it. I actually posted my blogpost very early in the day, at 7:09pm instead of like 10:00pm or 11:00pm. As for dinner, I walked all the way down to this ramen store and bought some stuff, seeing this woman playing on her Nintendo Switch with Smash Bros Ultimate. I got done and decided to walk east a bit until I saw a bunch of police in the distance and lots of Black teenagers, far enough for me to not get involved, I’d estimate them to be roughly 650 feet away so no biggie. While walking back home, a Black teenager complimented me on my vinyl jacket and I thanked him. When I got home, I started reading the new encyclical Pope Leo XIV released, Magnifica Humanitas with it’s mentions of the story about the Tower of Babel and the entire book of Nehemiah. Well I took a shower and my roommate came back before I went to sleep.

For Garzon:
Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas reading progress: Paragraphs 1 - 28

Song of the Day: Bad Luck - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes (1975)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 26th, 2026: Back to work today. I woke up in my hotter than the rest of the apartment room and had cereal with milk for breakfast then coffee. I got dressed up for work today and I then took the bus there. I got off and into the office, clocking in a bit earlier than 8:30am and got to work. While there, I thought there might be a meeting so I told the Ukrainian man and the older Ukrainian woman that there would be one but when I went to the meeting room, there was nobody there. I asked the receptionist:
“Hey, is there supposed to be a meeting today?”
She replied to me:
“Oh no!”
So I went back to working on the program. I got some progress done when the Indian lady came over to tell me that we got in a new intern who’d be working under Elon. I made his ID quickly and handed it to the Indian lady, she also requested I change the name of the last intern email I created. I saw Seth M and the Ukrainian man go out together for something so I checked his email and it said he’d be boarding a flight to Atlanta from O’Hare Airport in an hour. Well I needed to figure out the scan folder issue and that’s gone. I texted Seth M at 10:07am to ask him:
>Did you leave for your Atlanta trip already?
He replied a bit later
<I am not going anywhere
As it turns out the whole deal was that he’s subscribed to Lillehammer’s calendar and her department is going to Atlanta for some conference, except one person. I left for lunch to get slices of ham and saw they stopped giving the crackers out for free with each purchase. I sat in the smaller break room and ate lunch when Staples came in. While eating lunch with Staples, she told me that her parent’s marriage anniversary is tomorrow. When I asked her how long they’ve been married, Staples said about 31 years but she’s not sure on the exact number. She never asked me questions or looked me in the eyes at all. I think she might be Autistic but knowing women, she just finds me disgusting, yeah I got back home and continued to game. Mostly OpenFront.io with no Holdfast today, a bit of Fire Emblem Awakening to add in. I was feeling hot in my room as I had the door closed (due to the layout being that for me, people (read: James the Greater) could look into my room and see my computer, but I kept it open a bit so I had my stuff I wanted to hide more (like the tab for the Google Doc I write this on) on my right monitor. I reposted the article from The Atlantic: Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake by Robert F. Worth and all the replies I got were clowning on Rod Dreher. I decided against paying a lot for dinner so I ended up cooking more rice, which I’m now running low on, and also frozen green beans. I then took a shower after dinner and went to sleep.

Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas reading progress: Paragraphs 29 - 45

Song of the Day: Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)

 

[Idkchud]

May 26th, 2026: Back to work today. I woke up in my hotter than the rest of the apartment room and had cereal with milk for breakfast then coffee. I got dressed up for work today and I then took the bus there. I got off and into the office, clocking in a bit earlier than 8:30am and got to work. While there, I thought there might be a meeting so I told the Ukrainian man and the older Ukrainian woman that there would be one but when I went to the meeting room, there was nobody there. I asked the receptionist:
“Hey, is there supposed to be a meeting today?”
She replied to me:
“Oh no!”
So I went back to working on the program. I got some progress done when the Indian lady came over to tell me that we got in a new intern who’d be working under Elon. I made his ID quickly and handed it to the Indian lady, she also requested I change the name of the last intern email I created. I saw Seth M and the Ukrainian man go out together for something so I checked his email and it said he’d be boarding a flight to Atlanta from O’Hare Airport in an hour. Well I needed to figure out the scan folder issue and that’s gone. I texted Seth M at 10:07am to ask him:
>Did you leave for your Atlanta trip already?
He replied a bit later
<I am not going anywhere
As it turns out the whole deal was that he’s subscribed to Lillehammer’s calendar and her department is going to Atlanta for some conference, except one person. I left for lunch to get slices of ham and saw they stopped giving the crackers out for free with each purchase. I sat in the smaller break room and ate lunch when Staples came in. While eating lunch with Staples, she told me that her parent’s marriage anniversary is tomorrow. When I asked her how long they’ve been married, Staples said about 31 years but she’s not sure on the exact number. She never asked me questions or looked me in the eyes at all. I think she might be Autistic but knowing women, she just finds me disgusting, yeah I got back home and continued to game. Mostly OpenFront.io with no Holdfast today, a bit of Fire Emblem Awakening to add in. I was feeling hot in my room as I had the door closed (due to the layout being that for me, people (read: James the Greater) could look into my room and see my computer, but I kept it open a bit so I had my stuff I wanted to hide more (like the tab for the Google Doc I write this on) on my right monitor. I reposted the article from The Atlantic: Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake by Robert F. Worth and all the replies I got were clowning on Rod Dreher. I decided against paying a lot for dinner so I ended up cooking more rice, which I’m now running low on, and also frozen green beans. I then took a shower after dinner and went to sleep.

Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas reading progress: Paragraphs 29 - 45

Song of the Day: Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)

have you ever thought of putting all your blog posts in Grok or some AI and asking it questions.

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

have you ever thought of putting all your blog posts in Grok or some AI and asking it questions.

Yes but I need to transcribe the rest, but there’s Google docs that others can download and try it out with Grok.

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

New BWC obsessed schizo found on Instagram.

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 27th, 2026: Summer kickoff today, I woke up at 6:30am and had cereal for breakfast and also got coffee. My outfit for work was my olive colored button-up, black dress pants, and most of the other regular stuff. I got on the bus and into work to do a bit more polishing of my code with Claude.ai. On the schedule I noticed that the Ukrainian man wasn’t here today. Edgar was over at Staples’ office room talking about the nearest to us breakroom finally having its sink working. Edgar joked that we should pretend that the sink isn’t working whenever he tries to go over as the Ukrainian man is the one most enthusiastic about the sink being back up and running. Later Zach A had me help him with the printer, I tried getting the preferences to work and found out in the Windows settings. I tried printing out the Wikipedia page for Sonny Rollins as he died recently and it’s in the recent news (September 7th, 1930 – May 25th, 2026) with the weird flip on the short side setting. Next was the Wikipedia page for the 1956 album Saxophone Colossus. I went to lunch a bit late and bought a $2.00 sausage with an $8.00 ham for later lunch meat that the employee recommended:



I went back and cut up the sausage to eat. I got the notification for when Seth M, the Latinx lady, and I would meet at, that being 2:00pm on Friday. I took the bus home at 1:37pm and dropped off the meat, I went back out to the bus stop and went back out. At 2:02pm, this White guy asked me for a quarter but I told him I didn’t have anything, he also asked me for the bus time and I said it would come in 3 minutes (it came at 2:09pm) and he told me he lived across the river for his entire life, there used to be a shoe warehouse here which was transformed into a 5 Guys then it’s current iteration, the Walgreens moved up the street, the Cousin’s Subs moved up also. And there is this bar next to a liquor store where the bar owner is there usually around 9:00pm, he gets ice from his brother who owns the liquor store beforehand as one of them inherited multiple properties on the block, I think their father. He asked the score for the Brewers playing against the Saint Louis Cardinals. Yesterday the Brewers beat the Cardinals by 6 to 0. I got on the bus and then off at my stop and bought a bunch of stuff: milk, cereal, bananas, strawberry ice cream sauce, a bag of rice and 2 bags of vegetables. I got back home and went out to tear off vines from my building and throwed them into the trash, sadly I got a splinter in my left hand:



I made myself some leftovers for dinner plus 2 softboiled eggs. I got dressed up fancier in my green tweed blazer. I got on the bus and then off and went into Eucharistic adoration. I got in line for confession and wrote down my sins, it was the open air confession with Sixes’ friend’s cousin hearing confessions. When Eucharistic adoration started officially, I was second in line to have my confession heard, I listed off all my sins and when he asked me:
“What do you think is your most grave sin out of all of these on the list?”
I answered:
“Me holding anger in a moment in which God was for sure protecting me from sin.”
He made me pray 3 Hail Marys to Our Lady of Patience for a penance. I went up to the front to pray and read my Bible, noticing all the people here, Sideburns, his cousin, his sister, Ava wearing a veil now, Jacky, Alley with a friend I recognized from the time I visited the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Quinn wearing a red and white plaid button-up, Quinci, Elizabeth, fLeJean, Nikki’s boyfriend, Gerrardo, Sixes, Sixes’ friend, Pethuel, Martha’s coworker, Casta plus her husband, and lots of others. Eucharistic adoration ended at 6:45pm, I noticed that Casta and her husband left and then mass started with Father Malachi not being the presiding priest but one of the newly ordained priests. While the mass went as normal, I sat in the front and when going back to the bathroom I spotted Ava, I waved to her and she waved back. My suit and tie was killing me with how tight and hot it was, I took my Ignatius Bible out of my pocket and that helped plus loosening my green tie a little bit. I was the first to receive the Eucharist as I was in the first row, getting it from Father Malachi. I prayed a bit before heading out, saying hi to Sideburns, his sister, and his cousin plus her fiancé. Outside there was a massive crowd and some of the missionaries there were serving tamales, I was one of the few to get in line early and got a green salsa chicken tamale served to me by Gabriel, he’s back for a bit. I said hi to Martha’s coworker. I met this new woman whom I will be calling Iorn after being introduced by another person, fLeJean. Iorn told me she is from Slinger, Wisconsin while fLeJean said he’s from Milwaukee, Iron went around to get priestly blessings from the new priests there, which was like 4. One guy was someone from Uganda that exchanged numbers with Quinn on Whatsapp, I got his blessing, the second was a bigger dude who when I asked him for a priestly blessing, he asked me:
“Do you want it in English or Latin?”
I said Latin and got it. I went to Luigi’s older brother and told him I knew his brother and got a blessing from him, I spoke with Jacky a short bit. I saw Sixes, his friend, and Luigi all talking to each other, among other pairs our groups I noticed were Gerardo and Pethuel, Quinn and Reuben, Ava and Sideburns’ cousin, Jacky and Nikki’s boyfriend hugging at one point. I talked to Cliffe and then later the Hispanic salsa teacher whom I will be calling Donatello, he told me he lives in the men’s Catholic house with Cliffe and Pethuel. I later left to take the bus home at 9:50pm when I spotted Donatello riding up on his bicycle, we chatted a bit and I found out he used to live in Kenosha, Wisconsin but is from Waukegan, Illinois, he got his electric bike for his birthday last September 23rd. I took the bus home and noticed Donatello playing TikToks on the bus at half volume. I uploaded the blog post, took a shower, then went to sleep.

Song of the Day: St. Thomas - Sonny Rollins (1956)

 

[Micronesia]

pakstan bestest nation

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

pakstan bestest nation

Not really.

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 28th, 2026: Another five eighths day of work today. I woke up at 6:30am and got myself some cereal but didn’t make coffee. I got on KiwiFarms and in the Articles & News subforum, I found this interview of Gregory Bovino (an American patriot) talking about the number of illegal immigrants that our actually in our country:
<I began looking at numbers in earnest in 2008 when I authored a research paper entitled “Illegal Aliens and Destruction of Natural Resources”; a paper dedicated to shedding light on destruction of our nation’s treasured natural resources by a large influx of illegal aliens. For illegal aliens to have a devastating effect on natural resources, nationwide, I knew the number of illegal aliens had to be huge. Many times that of a PEW “research” report. I looked particularly at Bear Starnes’ research which said, in approximately 2006, the number of illegal aliens stood above 20 million. I thought that number low, however it was the first research of its kind by an organization devoid of political interest that genuinely sought the number of illegal aliens living in the United States. Bear Starnes was a banking institution intent on gaining the “edge” on other financial institutions by predicting the effect of illegal aliens on a host of fiduciary issues (construction, remittances, etc). With fiduciary interests in mind, not political pandering, I felt this to be a landmark study.
I archived and posted a dogshit Guardian article to the board called: ‘Hello ladies and sons of ladies’: women are using ‘microfeminisms’ to flip the gender script. It generated a lot of “come laugh at this cacaot” comments supporting me in how dogshit it was. I took the bus to work and got clocked in. I did a bit of finalizing the programming and finally got the database up and running so now I can add employers. I first tried a sample one named Pastoral Greenery and Outdoor Services (from Stephen King’s 1975 short story, The Lawnmower Man) I continued to do next to nothing until at 10:23am, Portia sent out an email about an event on June 23rd where 22 people from across the world would be coming, said 22 people came from 19 different countries (2 people from South Africa, 2 people from Egypt, and the person representing Sudan is from Nairobi, Kenya.) Most people there were from the capital of their country except for the Australian visitor from Wilson, West Australia, the Brazil visitor from Cariacica, Espírito Santo (the Brazilian state with the real woman colors in its flag), and the second South African from Durban. Of note was the Solomon Islands representative, who is an ordained 7th Day Adventist pastor being relatively higher up in terms of control over the mission there. I wonder what my 7th Day Adventist cousin would think of him. I then went to get pizza for lunch. I got back and then headed back home to game, I spent some time gaming, I managed to get in 2 matches of Holdfast while playing Josiah tape #5 over the mic. On Instagram, Oriang posted a birthday celebration for her father being today. I had my last beer while James the Greater was gone for a while. For dinner I had rice with eggs on top plus ham to go with. I finished off the last of the ice cream for dessert and then took a shower and went to sleep.

Song of the Day: Spill the Wine - Eric Burdon, War (1970)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 29th, 2026: Horrible day. I woke up and went to work after getting coffee and cereal, I turned on all the lights as I usually do, as I took the 7:55am instead of the 8:05am. I had my meeting with the Latinx lady and Seth M scheduled to be at 2:00pm, I got in and the older Ukrainian woman commented:
“Well there is no hot water today, I can’t have my tea without it.”
I sampled some from the coffee machine and it was slightly warmer than the faucet. I went back and updated my branch from main, it stopped working… My sister in the family groupchat posted about being paid to ride the busses in Casper, Wyoming for her job, she told me she only rode for 3 hours in total and saw less than 12 people on the bus. I saw Shima C and the younger Ukrainian woman talking to each other about generic work stuff. I was called up to the front by the Indian lady to help with making a bunch of fields on a pdf fillable. At 11:12am I texted Seth M because Adobe Acrobat wasn’t activated for the Indian lady’s account:
>Do you know how to get an account on the Adobe Acrobat plan?
He never replied but I figured out how to do it online, I got it added but the Indian lady wasn’t satisfied as the text boxes weren’t required and all except the signature boxes were required, there was a bunch of South African immigrants attending a meeting on banking and stuff, like the basics for thriving in the United States of America. The Indian lady needed her computer back so I asked her to send me the PDF over Gmail. I didn’t receive it. I went out to lunch to buy a 4 pack of coarse ground sausages then got back, I saw that Mauer had substituted for and ate them all with a fork and a knife. I sent an email to the Indian lady to ask for the PDF. She sent to me the version I already had edited and requested that she send me the correct version, but I never got it. I went over to Seth M’s branch at 1:57pm and Seth M told me that she was still in a meeting with Zach A and the CEO about some stuff relating to phone issues. It took them until 3:30pm for her to be available to meet me, remember when I said that today was a horrible day today. While at the meeting, the Latinx lady talked about the database being done and lots of programming progress being made. They made the decision to cut back on numbers at the end of the month, choosing to keep the Ukrainian man being in the IT department part time and being in another department, They’ve decided to lay me off effective immediately. With the June budget coming up they had some budget issues and “couldn’t justify keeping 3 IT people on. Printing out this note to me:
<May 29, 2026
<[address stuff]
<Dear Gemerson-Lake,
<This letter serves as official notice that your employment with the [company] as a Part-Time IT Assistant, Limited Term Employee, will conclude effective May 29, 2026, in accordance with the temporary and limited-term nature of your position.
<Your final paycheck will be processed via ACH deposit in accordance with the organization’s payroll schedule.
<We sincerely appreciate your professionalism, dedication, and the contributions you made during your time with the institute. Your support and efforts have positively contributed to the team and mission.
<We thank you for your service and wish you continued success in your future endeavors.
<Sincerely,
<The Latinx lady
<[Latinx lady’s position]
I acted extremely normal yet deep down I was enraged, I knew I’d be getting the boot but didn’t expect it so suddenly. I didn’t have time to download company secrets and use them for revenge. I was taken over to my desk and told to take whatever personal stuff I had there, basically nothing, I gave over even my old badges and I was devastated. Going to Edgar’s desk to say goodbye when he wasn’t even there. I had some shady shit on them but I felt depowered and I’d need to get a new job. I got out then narrowly missed the bus, at 4:12pm I texted fAsherah:
<I got laid off today, does [your work] have any open positions?
I got home and then tidied up my room a bit, she texted me this at 4:16pm:
<Shit really !!! Yeah i think theyre hiring for cashiers & merch, u can def use your [shared company] experience to apply for merch and after u submit an application i can put in a good word
I replied:
>Yeah, I was totally upset, it was supposed to be a meeting about discussing my hours while going full time but they hit me with this shit.
She continued:
<Yeah what the fuck
I needed to go down to the discipleship event. I went over to the bus and thought I might miss it, but I got there. Anyway here’s the termination letter:



[POST SPLIT IN HALF DUE TO CHARACTER LIMIT]

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 29th, 2026 (Continued): I then went outside. At 4:49pm, I saw a bunch of caca stickers on the pole in between the glass, I tried scraping off this pride flag heart with the Planned Parenthood logo on it, I started scraping it off with my Swiss army knife when this woman with a medieval squire haircut and jean shorts looked at me with a disgusted look, I initially stopped but then I thought this:
What’s she gonna do? Call my job and get me fired?
I continued and got it almost all off. I got on the bus at the same time as her and was glad to ruin a liberal’s day. It made the bus ride over much better. I got off and then I walked back to the house I cleaned up a few times. I was greeted by a guy whom I will be calling Pete. He seemed quite respectable and I asked if he needed any help and he told me to come with him upstairs to help move food over. I did and was made to grab a bowl of mashed potatoes, I got it and brought it when Cliffe gave us a new tour of the liturgy of the hours space, having a tabernacle received from a shut down church. Priest chasubles were also present and a priest said mass here once. I saw Donatello on the way over. We then went over to the big building for the dinner and I talked with the others about stuff, mentioning my recent job loss. Cliffe talked about trying to switch everybody over to flip phones and I asked if he had one I could use, he said yes but I didn’t do it. The people there included Cliffe, Collum, Pete, and a guy whom I will be calling Sobieski. We went to do the liturgy of the hours in the pews next to where we ate. At this point the sadness from the sudden layoff was starting to wear on me. I asked for intercession for my job search during the intercessions part. The person that joined us for the talk tonight was Pete’s father. He told us he originally wanted to have 7 children but God made him have 8. The talk was mostly us asking him questions, like he worked as a “corporate consultant” and his oldest child is dead, growing up he didn’t have to work for as long as possible because Pete’s paternal grandfather (now dead but Pete’s paternal grandmother’s still alive) grew up poor and his father had them living in a warehouse where they screwed tin cans to the wall to patch up holes, he almost got divorced, I recorded the entire hour of it but here’s the part where I asked my only question:
“Do you got any advice for, like, people who want to be married, but if he was, like they, like, search for a wife is, like, fruitless?” - Me
“Yes. Advice for someone who thinks they might want to get married, but they think the fruitless. And I'll tell you what, the market is different now than it was. It's really hard to find her. And what advice would I give today? I would name her. Right? You've written in any name, Sarah, right? Call her Sarah. And I would put Sarah in your prayers. Because she's out there somewhere. and then I would think about- I would pray about Sarah during prayers, right? I've got a formula I'll give you. where Sarah would fit in that, but as you think about, pray about Sarah, you begin to get a picture of who she is, right? Yeah what she likes, what was her- what was her childhood like? Where did she live? What did she do? Why does she want to get married? Right? What's funny about her? Right? And you begin to get this picture of your future wife, and in that contemplation in the prayer, the thinking about over weeks, months, you also begin to understand where she might hang out. Right? But her interests. Why would she want to get married? Would she want to have kids? Probably. Probably a good idea. So you get this picture in your mind, kind of like a job description, like different, right? Because in growing, what that what that gives you is let' say you meet a girl. You know about Sarah, you're gonna kind of. I had a list for [wife’s name]. Yeah. But then I realized that it was more important to find somebody who wanted to get married and wanted the same kind of marriage and family I had than to check everything off my list. So when I started making the list, I thought, okay. Placing an order, right? But it was just a guide, not a, you know. And then I realized that throughout my life, I'll probably need 100 women, girls, who I could marry. So timing is important, too. So if you're compatible with Sarah, you're compatible with Patricia, you know, but it's also a win when you get married. And for her, the earlier, the better. You could be older. You got time. No rush. Right? She does it so much. I'm a big fan of marrying younger girls. I didn't marry a younger girl, but that would be icing on the cake. My son married a younger woman. Seven years younger, right? Yeah, yeah, seven. My mom, seven years younger than my late father. So I think it works out.” - Pete's father
I would have also asked about failing in your role as a provider. I left and Sobieski introduced himself to me. I took the bus home when there were a ton of Black people on it. I walked into my home and saw James there. I took a shower and went to sleep.

Song of the Day: When It’s Over - Loverboy (1981)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

May 30th, 2026: Saturday today. I woke up at 6:00am and then got on my computer to game a bit. I had cereal with milk then coffee to go with. I watched the 3rd episode of the Richard Sharpe series on YouTube: Sharpe’s Company. I quite liked watching it. Especially with all the scenes of Sgt Obadiah Hakeswill constantly calling Patrick Harper a “paddy” which reminds me of @worldatwawa constantly seething at me. I completed that and took my blanket cover to use as a holder for my laundry, I took it over and was wearing my vinyl jacket. I got in and encountered this trashy White woman folding her clothes on a table and playing Drake really loud, I was fed up with her but I put my laundry in 2 different machines. I turned both washers on, set the timer for 29 minutes, and when walking out, I told her loud enough for her to hear:
“Use your fucking headphones!”
She didn’t react. I got home and worked on cooking some of the Korean ramen when I finished it as the timer went off. I left to cool as I went over to put it in the dryer for 20 minutes. I feared that the trashy woman might have brought her Black boyfriend to beat me because I didn’t want to be subject to goytunes. I was lucky and she left along with her slopsounds. I went home to eat my ramen then collect my laundry and fold half of it. I left my good charger in the work place so I had to use my bad charger while waiting until 2:15pm. I got most of my clothes folded when I decided to depart for Rosen’s graduation party. I was walking to the bridge when I heard someone shout my name:
“Gemerson!”
I turned around to see fAsherah and her boyfriend, with hair noticeably thinning, she told me she was going to talk to her boss about getting me on. Walking past the par, I saw a Black cookout and heard them playing James Brown and a Black man dancing to the music. I then got to the bus stop and waited with a woman and a punk guy with a KMFDM t-shirt under a jean battle jacket. Texting Dollar Store Asuka, I told her about my job loss and she said she could get me a job at the place she works at but its pay is $14.00 an hour versus $18.00 an hour which I was making. I got on at 2:40pm and took the bus ride down, but as I hit downtown, another person got on: Supersenior. He and I talked a lot on the hour ride down to where Rosen’s grandparents lived. Like we talked about politics and the seminary we passed and how one school nearby used to be for men only. Superseniors parents got divorced and he was in Boy Scouts like me, he reminds me a lot of Joseph. We finally got to where we wanted to be and I walked over, talking about priests and this one priest that got defrocked for a molestation case. I found out Supersenior didn’t live in the senior apartments to my surprise. I guided us there and then said hi first to Rosen’s younger cousin and finally Rosen himself. Rosen’s going into the airforce soon and I quickly wrote him a paper to slip to him. Here’s what I put down:
>To Rosen.
>While I was not present for much of the year of [organization. You made a great leader during the time I attended the meetings. I wish I went earlier, you contributed a lot to political discussion with Nichol, Supersenior, Markus’ brother, and others. I hope you become a prominent, sreal womang politician to defend American values. But off to the US Airforce academy first.
>Gemerson-Lake Palmer
>5/30/2026
I put it in the mail and then asked for where to go to the bathroom, meeting Rosen’s grandmother and grandfather when looking for the bathroom. I was exposed to this AI slop in the downstairs bathroom:


The painting above was slightly better:


Also there was Emerald tie. I talked with him while eating ribs and noticed skin tags around his neck. I told Emerald Tie about getting laid off and he informed me of a job opportunity in the county south of me, also Nvidia opportunities. I complained about what my old work did with helping facilitate immigration and to my surprise, Emerald Tie was more defensive of immigration than I was. Emerald Tie told us that he might be on Tucker Carlson soon but refused to specify why. Rosen told us he had a brother and Emerald Tie told me about his Bisexual brother nearly getting groomed by one of his high school teachers. There was also a guy there who completed his freshman year of college with shoulder-length ginger-brown hair that I never saw but was friends with Rosen. Emerald Tie one again bragged about having Nick Fuentes as a contact after meeting at an event and wanting to meet up later so Nick just gave him his phone number, and after playing some frisbee with him we exchanged numbers. I ate a lot of watermelon while the others talked. I had to depart a bit early to catch the bus that I almost missed. I found this message from Lizzo at
6:20pm and continued it:
<I'm sorry to hear that
<Where did you work?
<Can they just lay you off like that???
>I’m not sure.
>[dismissal letter]
>I need to find a job all of the sudden.
<Weird???
>I applied to [store] because a former coworker of mine works there and she could refer me.
<Well good luck to you
I had a quick layover from my first bus to my second bus. I texted my mom admitting I lost my job and she wasn’t mad but tried to call me on the bus and I told her I couldn’t. I spent the rest of the time at home gaming before I took a shower and went to sleep.

Song of the Day: Get Up Offa That Thing - James Brown (1976)