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[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

Nevermind soyjakblog.com is back

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 24th, 2025: Once again, my alarm on my phone has failed me. I woke up at 6:30am because of the sunlight and got myself milk with cereal for breakfast and coffee with the last of my hazelnut creamer. I just browsed Twitter for a bit until it was nearly time to head out for my volunteering. The bus ride was nice and while I was taking it. I saw the aluminum can collector outside one of the bus stops reaching into the garbage can to fish out cans. I finally got to my stop and walked over in the heat, realizing that I didn’t bring my LED clock fan. It wasn’t as bad as yesterday. But I got in early through the door that had issues shutting. I put my stuff down and went up to the front to realize that nobody was available to be the receptionist so I just played that role. It was as simple as pressing this button on the desk whenever I saw someone outside the office. It was simple for a while when I had another employee ask me:
“Are you going to be at the front desk all day?”
I replied:
“No, I’m just filling in until someone comes who can do it.”
I waited there for a bit longer until someone came to replace me. I went to my spot and then went to Seth M’s office to grab the C50 card printer, my new laptop and the cords, which included the USB-C multi port, the USB to the printer, and the power cord to the printer. I got it all set up when I gave this one girl whom I will be calling Tia her card, on her old card she had a heavily filtered image of herself on it but I replaced it with a professional image of her. I gave it to her when Shima C was in her office with her and she wasn’t happy:
“Umm can you reprint this?”
I hesitated but obliged. I printed one with slightly less flaws but then decided to print a third one in case she gets mad at the second one but put the printed side down and got it jammed. I had to rip it out and bring it to Seth M in shame that I ripped up the roll of ink. He got it wound up and then I continued printing. I had to reprint two of them, the one for the Ukrainian guy (Zach A gave me a misspelled name) and for this other guy that I got the photo mixed up (they were all nondescriptly named and a lot of people don’t have their name displayed at their spot) I printed them out and got it to them. The Daeguite was there today but I didn’t talk to her as much. Staples was being kind of an asshole all day. At 12:03pm The Daeguite clocked out for the day but we didn’t talk as much as last time eventually made my way out to lunch in the rain, I got some pizza from the pizza place nearby and sat alone in a big booth while watching the others, including some neon green t-shirt wearing construction workers, eat with each other. It made me jealous. I went back into my volunteering place and got back in to do work, which was printing out some more cards. at 1:54pm I texted Mercurius:
>I’ll be there sometime after 4:30pm tonight
He replied at 2:02pm:
<I’m only free until 5 today
<Do you think that will work
>No.
<Yeah I was originally going to head over there at 3
I finally got done with that and had nothing to do for the rest of the day. I overheard Tia saying that she was on a diet even though she wasn’t even fat, just vain and obsessed with looks. A while later in the kitchen, I was refilling my cup of water when Tia and this other woman from work was there, because Tia and I had the same color palette for our shirts (blue, light blue, red, and mostly white) despite wildly different designs, she said:
“Oh my God you two are twinning!”
I didn’t respond because I was pissed off at her, I kept drinking water. It was getting pretty late and I just kept browsing Wikipedia until I got a text at 3:54pm from Joseph saying:
<Hello how r u hope things r going well missf u sunday
I did not answer until later, I decided to pack up and leave a few minutes early so I could catch the bus. While I was walking over a bridge, I noticed that there was a lot of trash in the water:

I am disappointed in myself for not picking it up. I walked over there and got on after some time and I texted him:
>I went to [more reverent parish] on Sunday.
I entered my home and didn’t have much to do for the day. I didn’t have the energy to get on my big computer to play games but I did watch Redeemed Zoomer’s new video on Christians and their views on Israel, it explained dispensationalism, the Scofield Reference Bible, and the phenomenon of boomers worshiping Israel which permanently ruined American politics. After a while I emptied the last of my pasta into my red bowl and heated that up in the microwave. I got that out and stirred it before putting it back in for a while to heat up. I got that out and ate it while drinking milk. It was getting late so I decided to sleep in my bed for once with the box fan on. I tried to drink some of the sake I still had but I didn’t like the flavor of it because it was cold. I took a shower and went to sleep.

Song of the Day: tv off - Kendrick Lamar, Lefty Gunplay (2024)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 25th, 2025: I got up at 6:00am in the morning from the sunlight and got all dressed up in dress pants and Catholic t-shirt. I got a text from the missionary yesterday asking me if I wanted to evangelize and I said yes, he told me that I should be there by 10:30am, just before 9:30am I started to walk to the bus stop that I needed. I accidentally missed my stop so I kept walking down along the line until I got to this one stop where the bus arrived soon, when I got on I noticed that I was the only White guy on the bus, it was mostly Indians and some Black people, a few more White people got on but then I got off at my stop and walked to the back of the missionary’s house and knocked on the door, he let me in and told me that he was in this meeting with a new guy and to sweep the floor. I decided to pour some hand sanitizer on this dirty sponge because I heard they have the most germs of all household items. To get the dustpan and broom, I had to walk down a set of stairs, and then up two more sets of stairs to the second apartment that they also own. I grabbed it and started sweeping the lower kitchen. I found a lot of ants scurrying around when sweeping the floor so I started sweeping outside the kitchen and got more ants, walking over to the trashcan necessitated me tapping the dustpan to shake the ants, thus making them fall back down to not escape. Soon the new guy came out of the office room, whom I will be calling Stuart. He just arrived here from the state of Washington today and remarked about the issue with the bill forcing the breakage of the seal of confession, we then went into the chapel for the reading of the Liturgy of the Hours, we 3 did that and then got out, I was gifted a black rosary by Stuart and tried to wear it like the missionary did, whom I will be calling Cliffe, but I had trouble getting it closed up so I just wore it like a necklace. Stuart told us he used to be a Pentecostal until he recently converted to Catholicism, apparently there were 9 bedrooms in the house yet only 4 people lived there in total even if it could house 18. I grabbed a lot of pamphlets and put them in my drawstring bag before we headed out. The first person we encountered was Kermit, the guy who was on the grill. He mentioned that he got these expensive shoes from over 40 years ago that set him back $3,000 which he related to getting a disease in his right foot that the doctors thought was gout but the treatment didn’t do anything. His foot ended up swelling up to the size of a football before they had to cut off a few toes. He was wearing an “I love my daughter” hat, held a shovel in his hand, and had an injury on the top of his right hand. I said to him:
“Hey dude you’re bleeding!”
He looked at his hand:
“I don’t know how I got that.”
Stuart said. We prayed for him and then walked to the bus stop. Stuart is from Whidbey Island. We walked to the bus stop and then encountered this guy named Deon. Deon had encountered Cliffe beforehand and I heard him talking about how he was shot in the back of the head in Chicago and his brother was shot to death. We got off at our stop and then walked to the cathedral and got lunch. I saw NT my coworker sitting outside but didn’t interact with them. Julie was in line and we talked with her for a while until they let us in. While in line I saw a painting which had Buddhist themes on it, I was absolutely disappointed that they would even allow this in the cathedral. I sat with Cliffe while Stuart sat with this other table. They were serving peaches and I ate one but accidentally dropped it and it rolled on my leg to the floor. Cliffe gave me a second one. We finished up eating before heading outside, there was this old Black guy with white skin spots who was talking to himself constantly, initially neither Cliffe nor I had the courage to talk to him (Stuart was still inside) there was this old Black lady walking her cat with one of those carts, I went over to the lady and asked her:
“What’s your cat’s name?”
She pulled the black cat in.
“Get away from me.”
Cliffe finally worked up the courage to talk to him and he just rambled on about how he was at a super low point in his life and something about a White guy and a Black guy on the bus. Cliffe gave up after a while and went over to the park to do a Bible study. This other Black woman joined us named Yolanda and we went over the readings for today. Julie didn’t seem to have her unibrow anymore but she was feeding the birds. We got through the first reading (Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18) when I pondered if the number of descendants of Abraham has exceeded the number of stars in the sky based on the number of Jewish and Arabic people born throughout time. We continued studying when this car pulled up and out came an angry Black lady shouting:
“YOU NEED TO BE QUIET RIGHT NOW!”
She was yelling at her child for something because of how disrespectful they were being. We continued and I found out that Stuart was born May 2nd, 2005. Cliffe talked about the 4 temperaments and how he was sanguine, I remember taking a test before and I got melancholic. Wikipedia had this nifty old drawing of the 4 temperaments:

We then started to make our way down to Cliffe’s usual evangelism spot and encountered a bunch of different people along the way:

1. Brown guy wearing an untied brown durag whose mom raised him and his sister before she couldn’t anymore and was forced to be raised in this Catholic homeless shelter, describes him, he was talking about his girlfriend of 2 weeks. He asked what a rosary was and then Stuart decided to take my rosary off of me at 2:08pm and I sadly did not resist. He mentioned thinking Feminism was a mistake as Stuart talked about reading The Case for Patriarchy. He said he was practicing Islam and while we were walking, we saw a high cost bike dented and an ambulance nearby because some guy intentionally opened his car door on a biker. I gave him one of the pamphlets I had and we walked off.
2. Black guy working as a security guard for a hotel that was renovated to be a “data hotel” Stuart asked if Palantir was one of the clients and he said that it’s possible. He talked about his life and how he grew up Baptist going to this Baptist church north-northwest of our current position. The church had this pastor there that died in 2015 which led to his grandson replacing him as pastor and running it until now. We got into a bit of a debate on how many books there should be in the Bible, with him asking why we should not use the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s 88 book canon. He was nice enough to show us into the hotel a bit, Stuart and I found the two mirrors on the side amazing before we went back out.
3. First person at the bus stop intersection was a guy that Cliffe knew named Curtis III, his story was that he had always struggled with an alcohol addiction but now his grandmother died 2 days ago and he was really losing it, he had a son CurtIs IV. He pulled out a plastic bottle of vodka from his sweatshirt that he said was just water. Cliffe offered to pray over him when Stuart gave him a hug. I noticed that he was crying. We gave him his prayer.
4. Mexican guy that refused to talk to us, pretty sure he’s my coworker.
5. 50 year old Black guy from Mississippi. When Cliffe asked him if he believes in God he said he believed in Allah, when questioned further, he said that he despised that the Christianity he grew up was segregated by the color of their skin and that the preachers were former pimps and thugs using their power to escape any consequences for their past ways. Cliffe was able to get him to open up in such a way that he had to have the Holy Spirit working through him. I asked if he wanted any pamphlets but he refused them. Had to be the longest we have talked to somebody. This is when Stuart called him “A Catholic Cliffe”
6. A middle-aged guy Stuart and I tried approaching ourselves to put what we learned from Cliffe to the test but to no avail.
7. This fat Black lady with extremely short hair that we saw wandering around a bit that had a shirt which exposed a lot of her cleavage, she came to us begging for money but Cliffe had none
8. Two Jehovah’s Witnesses standing at the bus stop area off to the side with their pamphlets about not despairing over climate change, there was a White man and a Black woman. The White man said he grew up Catholic until he was 11 when he converted to his current religion. We had a debate on the trinity where Cliffe brought up ‘Before Abraham was, I am’ and how God couldn’t be all loving if there wasn’t a person to be created. Another woman joined and I talked to her before they packed up to leave for a 4:30 appointment.

[MESSAGE CUT IN HALF DUE TO CHARACTER LIMIT]

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 25th, 2025: (Continued): We finished up after that and went to our bus stop to debrief. Stuart brough up how Black people were much more receptive to what we said as compared to White people. We eventually got and did our mid-evening liturgy of the hours on the bus towards the back, we did the first reading for yesterday and then the one for today because the 1 Samuel readings tied into each other about the rise of David, his friendship with Jonathan, and Saul’s initial hatred of him. When I looked up I saw Krystal and said hi to her and she returned the greeting but we didn’t get her involved. She got off and then I checked my phone to find out that my sister’s friend who I will be calling Taylor had followed me on Instagram, I followed him back. I went back to writing in this diary/blog when Stuart asked me:
“What are you writing?”
I answered honestly:
“I’m writing in my diary, I write my entries for the previous day today. Don’t worry I’ll write you down.”
We then got off at our stop and entered the dinner place. I was talking when Father Malachi said:
“Gemerson, I recognize that voice!”
We introduced Stuart to Father Malachi and more people ended up coming in later. Including Palmer, the South African, and Gerrardo, I haven’t seen Gerrardo in a long time which was super interesting, we had some amazing chicken and salad as Malachi played some country music, he said he was a Morgan Wallen guy despite looking nothing like a typical listener of Morgan Wallen, He also played some Josh Garrels because he’s Christian. Cliffe and I then went out to do our Evening prayer from the liturgy of the hours and then went out to where the Eucharistic adoration was being held. I sat with Cliffe, Stuart, and Gerrardo and prayed, I tried to pray the rosary without the rosary but failed. Elizabeth, Sideburns, one girl I met on Juneteenth, Quinn, this old guy I saw at the cookout at Cliffe’s place, and a few others were there. I was feeling kind of depressed but I got over it and decided to get into line for confession, but the mass rolled around I could get to confession, mass went over as normal and I was still feeling awful and couldn’t get myself to say most of the words, but once mass was done I first talked to the Juneteenth girl, she was a food volunteer and talked about learning Latin in school that she forgot. I talked to some more people when I talked to Quinn and this woman who he was frequently seen with, I talked to her one on one and I will be calling her Quinci, they knew each other because Quinn’s cousin married Quinci’s sister sometime in August 2 years ago, she was super nice and I got her Instagram before I had to head back and take a shower before going to sleep in the much nicer temperature.

Song of the Day: At The Table - Josh Garrels (2015)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 26th, 2025: Back to work today, I woke up at 6:00am with the sun and spent most of my early morning working on my blog entry for the previous day due to how event filled it was. I was writing for like an hour before I had my breakfast of off brand lucky charms and milk. I eventually walked over to the bus stop at 9:45am and got on, I saw this woman I knew on the bus with her headphones on reading some normie book. I tried to say hi to her but she didn’t hear me. I got to work at 10:20am. I got into work and clocked in first thing. I checked the task list that Jesse gave me and it was mostly the normal stuff. First thing was dealing with some shipments we got, which as usual was Max reading off the list as we checked for it on the pallets. I had to take some cheese stuff, some cardboard boxes filled with beef, and a box of chicken, the cooler ended up crowded with the chicken box giving me flashbacks to my time at Kwik Trip when I would have to stock the boxes of chicken that this other guy would then fry, I always took my breaks at 10:45am when the chicken guy would clock in at 10:00am to fry chicken (although one of them was a woman) so the good food would only be out when I got back from lunch. When I got done with that, overheard Max saying:
“… With my birthday being December 26th, it would always be that it was just merged with Christmas but I was the odd one out in my family, all my brothers were born in July…”
I went to help John put the stuff in the warehouse as the dubstep guy put the stuff we already needed out. I helped John put the pasta stuff in numerical order on the shelf because it was one of my pet peeves. While I was walking back down Bill saw me while he was preparing dough balls for sale, he asked:
“Gemerson, do you want some dough?”
I said yes and ate a little bit, enjoying the flavor. I walked around to see what I could do and started on stocking the beverage aisle. Will had provided us some chicken soup for lunch.. Around this time it was 12:30pm so I decided to go for lunch. Bill gave me some more dough but Will found it disgusting and said I was going to get sick. I had my lunch and talked with Jill a bit more. She said she wanted to become a cashier while Hill tried to convince her to join our department. I went out to a different spot and wore my Sicilia hat, Tiffany said:
“Are you Italian?”
I replied:
“No I’m not, why does everybody think I’m Italian.”
She said:
“I don’t, I just saw the Sicily hat!”
“I mean it’s Italian.”
“Sicilians aren’t Italian?”
“What are you talking about Tiffany, Sicily is in Italy!"
“It’s a separate island”
“Still under the jurisdiction of Italy!”
“It wasn’t always. My great grandfather was Sicilian and he’d get mad if you’d call him Italian.”
She talked about the North-South divide in Italy with all the industries like Ferrari up in the north while the farms were in the south, plus the mob presence in Sicily driving up crime. She asked me what my Pentecost medallion was and I explained that I got it from my sponsor for confirmation Joseph. I saw on Snapchat that Skeleton had posted something funny. I ended up going back to work to clean the windows in the store. I had my first break where I wrote more and pointed at fAsherah. I saw Biker and his girlfriend again. I checked in with Anne to find out that there wouldn’t be any deliveries until Saturday so that was out. I started on my closing tasks first by cleaning the bathrooms but Biker was in one of them so I had to wait. He came out and then I cleaned that one before doing the scrubbing, when the scrubbing was done I talked to an employee making a tiny pizza.
“What’s the pizza for?”
“It’s my dinner!”
I said bye to Jab and then emptied the trashes before facing up, I had a bus to catch to an event so I left a bit early, when I got out at 6:35pm I ran over to the bus stop to the Catholic social event I saw the guy who looked like Noahmusic2009 on the way wearing a Skibidi Toilet t-shirt. I ran and got there just in time for the bus, taking the bus all the way down to this college and then walking to a former industrial area, down some stairs, and then into the brewery and bar combined. I was one of the few people there at 6:57am, but more people trickled in, when I got my ticket for the free beer I walked over and ordered a tall glass of this golden ale, I handed my ID over to the bartender and she remarked:
“You’re making me feel old, I graduated high school in the year [2003] you were born.”
It’s quite interesting how that puts time into perspective. I got my ale and went over to the socialization space. I sipped a few before I first talked to this guy who used to live in Chicago before moving here. He remarked that everything was so much less expensive here as compared to Chicago. He graduated college in 2023. The next person I talked to was this woman who seemed nervous and shy. I decided to talk to her because she was standing alone. She hadn’t redeemed her ticket yet but she was super shy. I ended up getting this small pork sandwich that cost 16 dollars for my dinner and ate it as this friend of Cliffe talked to me about who he was. I remember him saying he was 34 years old or something, during this chat I saw the shy girl walk out alone. The next person I talked to was the leader of the event, she gave me a slice of dried mango. One girl I ended up talking to was the one who I asked for her Instagram but she shot me down. She told me that her parents are from Kerala, India and she graduated recently from the same college as I attend. The girl seemed more interested in me. Eventually she went off to talk to others and at 8:30am I took the bus home. I had a girl over and we watched an episode of Family guy with the Mr. Booze song and cuddled a bit before she left. (No we didn’t have sex)

Song of the Day: La Isla Bonita - Madonna (1986)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 27th, 2025: Dance today, I made myself some cereal but I forgot I didn’t have any milk so I ran to the convenience store to get a half gallon of whole milk and ran back, I had no coffee ground so I walked over to a coffee place that I had never been to before, at 8:26am I bought this coffee that I had never had before and this Muslim woman brought it out to me, I tried the coffee, it was very bitter and hot but I had my qualms about just dumping it out. I had therapy at 9:15am today so I took the bus over to the building. I got in and waited for a bit, sipping my coffee. I finally went into the session after 9:15am because my therapist was later than me. We chatted mostly about my social life and I finally opened up to her about the incident with Asherah where Asherah blew me off because she clearly liked Logan. It was 9:45am so I had to leave to go to work. I walked to work along a path that I had never taken before and then crossed some streets. Finally I finished my coffee and there was this large amount of shitoko with the consistency of wet sand that I slurped down. I picked up a paper coffee cup and threw it in the trash along with my cup before getting to work. I checked my task list for what to do and I sadly had to clean shelf tags and stock the frozen aisle. When I went upstairs I saw a bunch of wiring going on, I followed it to the attic to see that the door to the outside was opened for the first time in forever, I asked the guy with the neon yellow vest what he was doing and he just said:
“Ingles?”
I got to my normal tasks first before I started on the frozen aisle, I made my normal pull list when I noticed we were severely low on meat lasagnas, I then went into the freezer to find out that we were all out. I asked Jesse if they were just misplaced but he said no. Bill ended up giving me another small piece of dough to eat. Will, Jesse, John, and I were all down in our main area when Will said:
“Hey Gemerson, I got some expired liver pate if you want that?”
I accepted it but I didn’t think I was going to like it so I clocked out for lunch and ate the smoked liver pate with hot sauce on top of it.

The hot sauce made it tolerable and fAsherah was eating lunch at the same time as me. Tiffany started working after my lunch break so I mentioned her, fAsherah complained so much about Tiffany constantly going on long bathroom breaks and being on her phone, she remarked:
“I only want to get promoted to manager so I can fire her.”
I checked Instagram and I saw this story at 12:37pm from the girl living in Green Bay:
<Nearly crashed out today. I had a kid projectile vomit all over me and the floor. Our landline work phones don’t work on our side of the building so we have to rely on a group messaging app. I’m trying to change the kid who threw up, my co is cleaning up the floor, trying to anyway. Nobody is answering
<I can’t deal with puke, the smell is horrendous, it’s also all fucking over me. 5 mins later, still nothing, I’m literally begging for someone just to step in so I can get a new shirt from the office
<My coworker comes in to help, to my surprise, the office door is shut, my bosses just in there giggling. I’m pissed. Luckily my coworker had an extra shirt. I then go back to look to see if we had a response, all there was is a “” reaction to my message in the groupchat, FROM MY BOSS
<I quite literally almost lost my shit.
And then there was her other Instagram story she had:
<So last summer, we went up north to Rhinelander and I went to this body care shop, they also did like tarot stuff. Everything was either handmade or locally/naturally sourced. Anyhow. They had all of these fragrance oils to make your own perfume, which I did because I love perfume and it’s something I collect
<The last few times I’ve checked their website, they weren’t doing online orders. But this week I officially ran out, so I was desperate! I checked again today and they now do online orders! I placed my order literally THIS MORNING and it’s already been shipped!!
<I will now have a refilled bottle of my signature and one-of-a-kind perfume. Life is good. Support small businesses gang
When Tiffany entered the bathroom, I made a bet that she wouldn’t leave the bathroom until after my break was done in 4 minutes, I won the bet and got back to work. I cleaned the shelf and heard fAsherah mentioned that Krystal wants to go on a ‘goth barge’ aka a boat where they play a bunch of goth music on it. I went on my first 15 minute break when Tiffany went on her lunch break. She had an egg in a plastic bag she microwaved and some chocolate pancakes. I complimented her on wearing overalls properly (her outfit was an oversized long sleeved crop top, a “overall skirt”, and what looked like a black one piece swimsuit.) She ended up throwing away most of the pancakes and I was absolutely disappointed in her. I got to cleaning the shelf tags but it was not as bad as last time, I was up front with Anne and she said with my fancy outfit (red button-down, black dress pants, a belt, and my Sicily hat) that I was dressed up just like that one previous time, she recommended that this other cashier dress up fancy. I had extra time before I had to take my break and then close so I sat up in the office. Lebanon came in and he talked about issues with his suppliers and his baby’s birthday. I asked what it was and he said that she turned 3 at the end of August. I overheard some car playing Mother by Danzig. I then got started on all my closing tasks, while I was scrubbing the floor I saw the Daeguite at the store, I said hi to her as she asked me what I was doing after work, I told her that I was going to the dance and she said she had to catch the bus in 10 minutes so i said goodbye. I took the bus back home and changed my outfit to a white Paul Fredrick 100% cotton long sleeved button-down and a black suit over it. I brushed my teeth, applied more deodorant, shaved, and washed my face. I went out to the bus to find out it skipped when I needed it the most, it finally came at 7:48pm and it was just filled with Summerfest normies no older than 20. This group of girls filmed a TikTok of one of them twerking and I just looked the other way at the soullessness. At one stop downtown they just cleared out of the rolling sardine can, I got off of my bus at 8:10pm and walked over to get there 10 minutes later in the middle of this dance demonstration. I saw that Adam was also here and French Paul the super good dancer was leading the demonstration with this woman who I would be calling Yor, Loid’s (He was at the beer event yesterday and Cliffe’s birthday party) sister. I remember all three were at the last dance. I got in and talked to this one fat Lutheran girl that Elizabeth and I tried to convince to come to the Wednesday evening events with us, but she wouldn’t budge. I ate these cookies that were being served and someone said they were super addicting. For most of the dance I didn’t actually dance with other women, for the second practice dance, I was cycled around through the women like all the other men and I danced with this one super short girl that reminded me of a younger Thing Beta. I went around a bit more and then I went over to this table near the front entrance where I overheard this one Spanish looking girl saying:
“I hang out here just to try to get a guy to ask me to dance!”
I raised my hand to her to ask to dance. We did a standard waltz as we learned about each other (I forgot most of it.) and then bowed after that was done, I walked around a bit more and drank some of the sodas they had. I saw this one girl I fancied whom I will be calling Margaret, she was one of those White-passing Spanish people. She and her friend asked where the bathroom was. I showed her where this alternate one was because the main one was occupied. After a while she came back to the dance floor and I finally asked her to dance, she accepted and I talked to her throughout, she lives in Racine and came from a family of 6 siblings (like my mom) all living (unlike my mom) and has a lot of cousins, but none of them have any kids, she didn’t go to college but dealt with 1 and 2 year olds for her job. I was enamored. There was this one dance consisting of 4 lines that looked fun to be in but I didn’t get a partner for that. I danced with her friend one time and then a bit later tried dancing with her again but I caught her as she was leaving. We danced some more when I saw this guy doing an Irish tap dance, I recorded it because I just had to and posted it in the groupchat. At 10:40pm when I ran over to the bus, I got on and at the Summerfest stop, a bunch of people came on including Norah and this guy who at first I thought was a creep but then I assumed he was her boyfriend because he had his arm around her, but then I thought they were siblings because of the facial shape. They got off at their stop and I got off at mine. I took a shower immediately and then posted my blog entry at 11:59pm.

Song of the Day: Mother - Danzig (1988)

 

[SunAndSky]

Mother - Danzig (1988)

Misfits or Danzig?

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

Misfits or Danzig?

I don't know much about either.

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 28th, 2025: Another Saturday today. I woke up at 6:30am and made myself some off brand lucky charms with milk in them. I didn’t have any more coffee grounds left so I delayed getting coffee for myself. I wrote in my blog a bit more before heading out to work on the bus. I got in a bit later than usual for today but I clocked in at 9:23am to check my task list out. I went to the office to put a coffee cup in the Keurig and brewed my 12 ounces of hot Joe. I grabbed that a bit later after sticking half of the beverage aisle and put some french vanilla powdered creamer in it. A bit later Jesse came down to where I was working to give me my walkie-talkie and told me:
“By the way there’s gonna be a group of nude bicyclists coming by our store today, I'll tell you when to come out!”
After that I worked on sweeping outside because it was on my task list, not because of the nude bikers. I got that done and went in for my first break, I got off of that and noticed that fAsherah wasn’t here today. I was bummed out. I continued with my next task of watering the plants. While I was watering the plants, Lebanon came out to me and told me he had 1 cinnamon twist and that he wanted me to have the other half as a thanks for all I do for their department. It was a hassle to set that up and also a hassle to take the hose back down. At this time I went in and ordered this shitoko muffaletta sandwich from Folsade. At this time I saw Biker and his girlfriend yet again. I also got a chinotto soda and then Anne asked me:
“What does that taste like?”
I replied:
“It’s sort of like a mix between standard cola and an orange, but not like those orange cream Coca-Cola bottle.”
I went to the breakroom for lunch and ate my sandwich while sitting opposite of Jill, we didn’t talk that much and I only ate half of my sandwich because it was way too oily and put it in the fridge to save for tomorrow. I went outside and ate the cinnamon twist and wrote in my blog as I waited for it to end. I got back to work and completed the last of my tasks assigned to me. One of which was to sweep and mop upstairs. I tried that first with the drymop and only was able to do it for one half of the upstairs before resorting to the trusty old broom and dustpan. When I went on break for the second time, Hill was cleaning the bathrooms while I overheard Biker calling for Tiffany’s order, I didn’t see her at all and then Biker asked me:
“Is Tiffany up there?”
I yelled for her but she didn’t respond, a bit later she came out of the bathroom. I didn’t have much to do after my break so I waited a bit before starting my closing tasks early, I talked to Hill and Anne about helping her with setup. So I got that done and started on facing a part of the store at 5:15pm, but at 5:17pm I was told by Hill:
“Anne is ready.”
I went back to put some stuff in the truck and we drove to the spot. It was a pozzed wedding place for two White people, we unloaded and had to put all the trays out on the table. I was in charge of filling the pans with 1 inch of hot water again. There was a photobook with a Polaroid camera that I was tempted to take a photo of myself or Anne and put it in there. When we were about to leave, the couple asked for plates and utensils because they didn’t order. Anne offered to bring them for no charge. On the drive back we finally encountered the naked bikers. It consisted mostly of naked old White men with small penises, there were some younger men, including one on a skateboard, a few naked women, and this one porn-sick real woman. Some of them waved to us so I waved back, Anne did not. We got off at 5:54pm and I finished my last closing tasks before paying for an Arizona iced tea and then clocking out. I took the alternate route because I missed my bus and took it, I got off and then walked home. When I got home I got on the computer and posted on KiwiFarms about wanting a Pink Triangle. This user named Nulltley told me:
<Post your face on here again and start talking about how much you want Zoey to go to church I'm sure that'll do the trick
I replied:
>I want a triangle not a thread.
And he informed me:
<You can have both at the same time. Just ask @Claudio Hernández Castañeda
I got YouTube set up on James’ TV and watched the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver thing on AI Slop, holy shit Boomers are cattle, they eat obviously AI generated shit up, but in typical John Oliver fashion, he does the obvious John Oliver with an over the top joke with the purple cabbage guy wood statue. I proceeded to watch the last 2 episodes of UsefulChart’s Who Was Jesus Really about him being secret identities, (My ranking for likeness is: Secret Grandson of Herod > Judas of Galilee > The Egyptian > and Emperor Titus in last place) I then went to the convenience store and bought some ice cream, on the way there one guy asked me for money. My favorite employee Spencer was outside so I said hi to him, I got inside and found the stuff I wanted, bought it, and then walked back home to be begged for money by two more Black guys. I finally took a shower and went to sleep on the couch.

Song of the Day: Pink Triangle - Weezer (1997)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 29th, 2025: The feast of Saints Peter and Paul today! I woke up at 6:45am because my alarm went silent again, breakfast was cereal with milk but no milk. I sat around for a bit until I had to walk to the bus for work. I got on (still didn’t have to pay at all because I’m over my monthly cap) and sat in the back before getting off at my stop. I walked in and brewed myself some coffee before checking my task list for the day, it was actually super easy and I completed my beverage cooler task plus some outside sweeping before my first break. I went on my first break and wrote in my blog for it. I saw Anne during my first break and asked her:
“Do we have any deliveries today?”
She told me that they were just standard dropoff ones. So I wouldn’t be needed. My next task was to stock the condiments and the salad dressings. I didn’t find most of the condiments in the warehouse except for a few that we sold regardless. I took them out and had Paula say hi to me first for once, I said hi back. When I went to empty Paula’s department’s cardboard out of the dumpster. She was the one to thank me instead of her manager or Lebanon. I remembered that I had my half eaten hot sandwich for lunch, but I went down to buy a small thing of milk to drink for my break. I clocked out and went upstairs. When I went upstairs, I got on my phone and checked Instagram to find that the art history major had sent me this reel about a “Storytime” criticizing low-church (and low IQ) non-denominationals at 10:53am, I replied:
>I keep getting these ads for this slop megachurch in this city that is so low-denomination.
<omg i love going on their websites to see how weird their beliefs are and if they’re secretly baptist bc most are
>THEY’RE ALL BAPTISTS WITH UGLIER BUILDINGS.
<my mom calls them cryptobaptists
>My roommate is a Baptist but I’m not sure what his opinions on them are
<you should ask
<see how well that goes
>He’s in Fort Knox and doesn’t have phone communication.
<ah i see
Once I got off of my lunch break, I finished up my last task before asking if I could power wash in the back. Jesse gave me the green light and I brought out the gas powered power washer and put it on the lift. I turned it on and then instantly got hit with the smell. I realized that this would be a huge mistake and turned it off. Jesse came down to say exactly that and I put away the gas power washer and put in the weaker electric power washer. I hooked it up to the hose and then Tiffany came into the back to say to me wearing improperly buttoned overalls:
“Someone threw up in the woman’s bathroom and I need you to clean it.”
I gave the BPD princess sass:
“Isn’t that your job.”
She replied:
“Well why don’t we trade jobs, I’ll power wash and you clean up.”
“But you don’t know how to power wash.”
“I’ll just learn!”
“Ok, when you go on your break, come in the back and I’ll teach you how to power wash.”
I went into the bathroom with rags, disinfectant wipes, and pinesol, I sprayed it with pinesol and coughed multiple times doing it. I got it disinfected and then threw away the white cloth rags in the trash. I was kind of efficient in the back near the freezer and cooler but there were so many people getting in my way, Matt, Folsade, and Tony got in my way so I moved closer to the garage door, I only got a few stains out more towards the garage, I got a strawberry Fanta soda when I went on break. I remembered it was fAsherah’s 24th birthday so I sent her a happy birthday message. She replied back with the pointing emoji. I then got finished without teaching Tiffany about power washing. I got started on my closing tasks and then clocked out, I walked up to buy some Blood Orangecello within eyesight of Tiffany and that one Noahmusic2009 lookalike. I then went home and passed by this littered area and I was just disgusted.

I got into my apartment and relaxed a bit before receiving a text from my mom asking me to call her, I told her I would after church, I walked down there and arrived at 6:50pm, Lucas was there and so was Joseph, he came over to me and said that they missed me and said:
“There’s no point of having church if you’re not gonna come.”
I don’t know why but I just felt so guilted. I proceeded with the mass and just felt spiritually dry. I have grown out of my Boomer parish but now I’m back here. The sermon was on how the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul had different spiritual journeys (Peter had a lot more stumbling blocks, Paul was more instantaneous) compared to each other. We then did the Nicene creed and then the prayers. I ended up seeing Pete come in late and when I was doing communion. I was in the Eucharistic minister's line for this old woman who I’m pretty sure thought that having a kid at 40 was a great idea although from what I can tell, the girl turned out to be normal. I saw Isaiah go into the priest’s line which I saluted him for and then after mass I walked home. I got in and called my mom two times, the first time went to voicemail while the second time went to voicemail but she accepted in the middle of it. I talked about my life as they mentioned that they were at Jamie’s house in Portland, Oregon with his wife and his sons Jacob (21) and Eli (19), The story surrounding those two is that when I was 4, or in 2008, my dad got a job in St. Louis, Missouri which caused my family to ‘move’ to Edwardsville, Illinois for the school year. I still went back home on the weekends but I spent my entire pre-K year there, because Jacob also had a birthday party in early September. We had a merged birthday party and that’s how we became friends, his younger brother always tagged along and he joined my friend circle. Those were the only friends I ever remembered making there because I was a rowdy kid. One time I tipped a girl off of her cot (It was really low to the ground) due to her not getting up after the teacher said naptime had ended. I got in trouble for that. But I eventually remember having one last playdate with the two at the end of the school year at a train museum because they were moving to Oregon. I had the choice of going to my grandma’s house in Michigan in July or driving to Denver, Colorado in early August. I decided on grandma’s house because it would be the last time. My mom and her siblings sold it to a rich family. My mom praised me for the social events I went to but was pressing me to try antidepressants and said I was depressed My dad was also there and we ended up chatting for quite a while, I remember him saying things like:
“...six degrees of separation!”
And this thing near the end where he said:
“I am getting stickers galore, I am a sticker magnet. Anyways I need to take a shower because I didn’t smell good, I know I don’t smell good now.”
I ended the call mutually after 30 minutes and then went to take a shower. I did this while it was raining outside and enjoyed the sound of it. I finally went to bed again on the couch.

Song of the Day: Am I A Demon - Danzig (1988)

 

[worldatwar]

HUĪTZILŌPŌCHTLI WON

 

[SNCAposter]

Certified gemerald and the best blog

 

[SNCAposter]

HUĪTZILŌPŌCHTLI WON
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He literally lost

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

HUĪTZILŌPŌCHTLI WON
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Pagan bait so bad.

 

[worldatwar]

Pagan bait so bad.

^bvck broken Christclitty above

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

^bvck broken Christclitty above

Wrong as always Latinx.

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 30th, 2025: Final day of June, I woke up at 6:30am today because my alarm yet again failed me. I got up and had more cereal for breakfast without any coffee so I just decided to get my joe fix at work. I wrote in my blog some more before I got dressed in these fancy dark grey dress pants that were almost like jeans and this plaid button-up which was colored blue, light blue, white, and tan, so I looked like a country bumpkin wearing his finest outfit for the barnyard dance rather than an urban guy dressed up for his unpaid office job. I hopped on the bus over to my volunteer work and got in super early at 8:12am. The door that usually is open but shouldn’t be cracked open so I got in there and got in. The first order of business was turning on all the lights in the office before grabbing my stuff from the other office, I went over and the childcare lady let me in, I grabbed my computer, the card printer, and some cords from Seth M’s desk and he came in to give me a key fob. I made my way to the meeting room and sat down in the corner waiting for the meeting to start at 9:00am. The CEO wasn’t there when we got started so we started without him. Seth M’s friend announced to us that he was getting married July 4th and we all burst into a round of applause. The others went through their standard announcements. Elon wasn’t wearing his glasses. I didn’t have anything planned for today so I just stated that my job for today was to help Seth M’s friend with getting laptops distributed. I was the last one to finish and just then the CEO came in, I was able to subtly record his entirety of what he said. He spoke for 10 minutes and 20 seconds as recorded by my phone:
“...regular medical appointments Mondays sometimes go a little long. I'm doing really well with those appointments. I say that I feel like I'm in my 30s again, although my knees remind me how old I am, and I watch everybody play the soccer game, which really reminded me of how old I am…”
There was an bit of laughter
“... but we had Speedy Gonzalez here, you know, over place. There was this one goal that got done, I think he had an assist with Zach A. I got the full chain from one side of the field to the other, so I'll make sure that video gets out. That was an exciting thing to watch. Lots of teamwork that was going on there. Everyone respected each other's abilities too. That was the other thing. It really shows when you do these things. So it was really cool. I really had a lot of fun. I couldn't keep up with the video. I was constantly futzeling with my phone and trying to make sure I got some good shots. So I think between the Ukrainian man and I think we might have some pretty good shots this year.”
The Ukrainian man said:
“Yeah, I have some good shots!
“Yeah, yeah. So I'm really looking forward to our next event to figure out some other ones too. Did you talk about [Acronym 1] coming last week?”
A girl said:
“Yeah!”
“So my take on that visit was that it was in stark contrast from two and a half years ago. And what do I mean by that is that before we were resetting and rebuilding, we were very observant of what their corrective actions were for us. But the biggest turn of events when I was doing some speaking there was we had to discussion about [company] going out [15 words censored] So they actually got excited about that and had been talking about that for the last six months, but last week's meeting, it really came about to some excitement with the deputy director. So I think we're in really good shape in that regard. We just got to continue to follow through. [Director] mentioned that they’re doing auditing. They're doing a deep dive on us. Anytime we get a new auditor, they do really detailed looks at things, which is really good for us. We'll find any gaps and we'll be able to follow through on them immediately and also put things in place so that the next time we're around it goes through even more quickly. They're a very good firm, [Name of banking company] and I'm expecting that we'll have some really good information from them that's really solid to move forward. On the funding front, I just wanted to be transparent with everybody. depending on what comes down the pipe for [Acronym] and also with [Acronym] in the coming months of July, August, September, that's usually when we hear about things, and they mentioned that at the state meeting that they're eminent to give us some contract news. With the verbally. I'll be making a decision on when we take over another space and not based on our growth that we're doing. what it might entail, though, is if the funding is less than what we anticipate or there is additional reductions, especially from [Acronym] we might end up replaying some of the shuffling that we did before, before we had our growth spurt, which is we might end up having some people double up a little bit. We have enough space to do that. We'll have a discussion with those affected. It'll be on a case by case basis and also department needs. We'll talk to the directors first and then include the managers, but then we'll talk to each person who is affected just to let you know what's going on. I don't want us to work on the floor again. We're not going to go that far. I really appreciate those that did do work on the floor before that was really amazing to watch the people work and having so much fun…”
[Laughter]
“...I'm looking at one of our managers. They had a lot of fun, but, you know, it's not healthy, but so we won't go that far, we don't have to. I think they all look for us as good as I’m cautious, but I think I'm optimistic, uhh things going forward. I think [Director] you share the same sentiment. We just have to be very cautious and. But we're not gonna be so cautious that we don't, that we don't move forward with our growth ideas. We have to do that to continue on. So we're heading in the right direction. If you have any questions about that, or if you have any concerns, make sure you talk to your supervisor about it, and we'll try to answer any questions or concerns we have individually. I think the most significant thing you can do when it comes to that regard is trying not to speculate in groups. It's okay to talk to each other, but if you're trying to speculate, make sure you talk to your supervisor uhh beforehand. It's okay to speculate and whatnot, but I find it very useful that if you have concerns as a group, instead of trying to come up with an answer, formulate your questions, and then give that to your supervisor. What's even better is if you have suggestions, too. If you have a question and I have a potential solution, that's always better, too. So our answers moving forward for the next three years are in this room already. So we just got to tap into it. And I think we'll be fine, but keep it in mind that we have to pay attention to what's going on. So far, the policies that we see in the news and whatnot, it's I would actually say more the same, so to speak. and also there's been some resolutions on things that are beneficial to us, but it takes time for resolution to be put in place. For example, [Acronym] has been. They've been instructed to reinstate [Acronym], but the [Acronym] process has been totally dismantled, so the embassies are doing assignments, which is not the normal way…”
[Ambulance sounds in the background]
“..One of the benefits I mentioned. I think last week is that they were able to push through the population in 30 days, which is kind of unusual. So now they've got a precedent so that we once they turn a faucet back on, we should have more of a threeput and we get assignments. That's my thought. But we'll have to see, you know, how it goes. do the best you can, keep the quality up, collect your questions and then give it to your supervisor. Uhh try not to uhh focus on the negative stuff out there. When you see something negative out there, you look at it as an opportunity … A challenge. And that'll help you get through, and then focus on what you can do. And if there's nothing you can do and it's out of your control, switch your focus onto things you do out of control over as we do our part, there are people who can actually take on the things that are out of our control. So we continue [Director] and myself, continue to have our contacts in [Big city]. We're headed out to [Big city]. at the end of July. We're going to be talking to [Acronym], so we'll have some more news. Our efforts for [Small event] continue into the summer as well. And then for my schedule, I'm taking some of the [Acronym] access to some [Big event] and going to be trying to do some networking and taking some people there and see if I can get them to donate. So I'll be doing that on a third, so the afternoon I'll be out. So if you need any things signed by me, try to get to me on Wednesday, early morning, Thursday if possible. That would be good. So if you need something signed by Thursday morning, you really need to get your supervisor into running to [Director] by Wednesday morning, so they give you time to actually work on things. So there's a lot of normal things we're doing, so if there's anything special trying to do Tuesday, Wednesday. Any questions? You guys are doing great!”
I replied:
“Nope!”
He finished off with:
“Thank you.”
[MESSAGE CUT IN HALF DUE TO CHARACTER LIMIT]

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 30th, 2025: [Continued] We then got done and I started to distribute laptops, Zarith C had an issue with hers not powering on when charging, the Ukrainian man had to change his and Tia was weirded out by the GHB button she got on hers, or what it’s usually called, a pointing stick. Ahwahn got a computer and I had to get some tape so the barcode stickers on the box would stay on the paper everybody was supposed to fill out. But this coworker of ours brought a bunch of food, which included dried dates, ginger candy, and bread. I toasted some bread and had these packets of jam I found in the other office. I had some but it was the older Ukrainian woman’s job to brew the coffee but they didn’t do it. Zach A was wearing one of his outfits today that was super fancy so I worked up the courage to ask him:
“Where do you get your outfits from?”
He replied to me:
“I brought most of these over.”
I went to the kitchen to munch on some dried dates while overhearing these two women talk about some different stuff, including complaining about falling in love with men, I kept my mouth shut in a brewing disgust at these two. I went back to my spot to find out Staples wanted me to make a new card for another person, while I was doing this, I overheard Tia complaining about how her parents wanted her to get married and pursue her master’s degree, she said she never wanted to get married (because it would interfere with growing her overinflated ego) and that she can just take a quicker path with her education. I got the card and brought it to Staples. I experienced her obvious hostility. I went up to the front where Seth M was talking with the two women about anime, Seth M brought up dubbing and one of the women said:
“Never watch anime dubbed, subbing is always better.”
I decided to throw them a curveball:
“Ok you know Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure?”
They both replied:
“Yes.”
Seth M replied:
“No.”
I continued:
“The next time I watch the series, I’m gonna watch Parts 1, 2, and 3 in English, Part 4 in Japanese, Part 5 in Italian, and Part 6 in English.”
The woman tagging along replied:
“What the fuck no that’s disgusting.”
I replied:
“What about Kingdom, I refuse to watch that because there’s no Chinese dub!”
She said:
“But what language did the people who wrote it speak?”
“Chinese! Kingdom was adapted from the Chinese epic Romance of the Three Kingdoms!”
“Just watch it in Japanese!”
I just left after that. A bit later I finally went on my lunch break and got some pizza with water before walking back to continue my break at the work office. I got an invitation from Zach A to this event in his office where I had to design a Google sheet which was designed for each manager to keep track of all the cases their underlings do and score them based on how on time the case was completed. I managed to complete it on the spot and was congratulated by Zach A. After I completed that task, I did nothing for a while until I clocked out early. I put the keyfob back in Seth M’s office and ran over to my bus stop. Where there was trash previously, I saw the river clean and ducks playing in the water, I was super happy. I hopped on the bus to see Stuart was also riding it, he told me that he was going to this event at 5:30pm at the reverent church, Stuart quipped about trying to evangelize without Cliffe but was just unsuccessful. I got off at my stop and put my backpack back at home before hopping back on the bus to get some groceries, I got off at the stop and bought 2 boxes of fettuccine (one to eat, one to boil then eat) a 12 pack of chicken ramen, and some milk. There was this shitoko ramen that was just 1 giant plastic package with 4 plastic packages of ramen inside, I preferred my ramen seasoned with a normal amount of microplastics. I checked out and then took the bus home. For dinner I tried and failed to boil these frozen cheese stuffed shells, I doused them in an entire can of spaghetti sauce I needed to get rid of. I scooped them out and had to restuff some of the shells, it was ok and I watched YouTube on the television. When I got that done I went into my bedroom to catch up on my daily biblejaks, I got in 3 before trying to purchase the Amtrak tickets I needed but to no avail. I also paid my rent for the month. I took a shower and went to sleep.

Song of the Day: What Do You Do For Money Honey - AC/DC (1980)

 

[worldatwar]

Wrong as always Latinx.

seethe more, paddy.

 

[SNCAposter]

seethe more, paddy.

Woah now we are seething at Gemerson? This is going too far