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So far, I\u2019m having a birthday that has been leaving a lot to desire, and I\u2019m trying my best to stay positive because I don\u2019t want to get down on my birthday no matter how much I try to tell myself to treat it like any other day, but it\u2019s feeling like one of those days where I shouldn\u2019t have gotten out of bed and I should\u2019ve taken the day off from work.<\/span><\/p>\n Because it\u2019s na\u00efve of me to have thought that being a WFH day, things would be easier on the workfront and that being my birthday, I would be a little more resistant to bullshit flung in my general direction.<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, it didn\u2019t start off poorly, my kids wished me a happy birthday before they went off to school, and I got some early work accomplished.\u00a0 I felt like a million bucks when I was able to go to the DMV and successfully renew two cars\u2019 registrations in four minutes because people that typically go to the DMV are afraid of technology and the self-serve kiosk was completely available, easy to use, and I was in and out in a manner that made post a bunch of eggplant emojis to various friends\/groups.<\/span><\/p>\n I had a good run on the treadmill, and I\u2019ve already come to the conclusion that my home treadmill and the ones at work are two completely different species of treadmills, because a 6.3 speed at home is completely tolerable, but trying anything 6.0 or higher at the treadmills at the office, and I might as well be trying to race Usain Bolt.<\/span><\/p>\n And that was really the last positive thing to happen, because, and I blame myself for this one, I really shouldn\u2019t have tried to accomplish selling something on Facebook Marketplace on my birthday, because the failure rate of a sale is astronomically high, but I\u2019ve been desperate to unload this item for months now, and I got a general commitment from this one shithead.<\/span><\/p>\n Naturally, he ghosted, so at this point since I had it loaded into the car, I was determined to not return home with it because I just wanted it fucking gone, so I took it to a Goodwill drop, where they claimed it was basically a piece of furniture, and wouldn\u2019t take it, so now I\u2019m pissed, but at this point there\u2019s nothing else I can do about it, so I go get some lunch, so I can try to redeem some free birthday shit.<\/span><\/p>\n Or so I thought, despite the fact that I had an offer for some free loaded fries, the restaurant is saying I can\u2019t redeem it because they\u2019re already half off for a FRYday promotion, and that I should save it.\u00a0 I tell them that I\u2019d rather pay $0 than 50%, and I don\u2019t come here often to where I probably won\u2019t be able to save it until it\u2019s expired, and at this point I\u2019m annoyed that they\u2019re challenging me at all, that I just turn around and walk, and so I end up paying for my own lunch somewhere else nearby, very agitated.<\/span><\/p>\n So as I\u2019m driving to my next free shit, I remember that there\u2019s a pawn shop, and despite the racket those places typically are, at this point, I\u2019d take $0-10 for this piece of shit in my car.\u00a0 Surely, they\u2019d take a piece of fitness equipment right??<\/span><\/p>\n Wrong.\u00a0 Maybe if I had some jewelry, or a gun, or perhaps some spare Air Jordans laying around, I might be able to have done business, but who would\u2019ve thunk that lowly pawn shops have become so insufferably curating, to where they wouldn\u2019t take my crap, even for free?<\/span><\/p>\n Which brings me to now, where I\u2019m at Starbucks, amazingly the one place that made it free and easy to get something, where I decided to bring my laptop to where I could check my work email, cruise for the remainder of the workday, and perhaps do some casual writing.<\/span><\/p>\n I get my free drink and sit down, and lo and behold, Outlook is blowing up with many emails about new tickets, and shocker of the century, all of the tickets have less than a week turnaround.\u00a0 I stare at my screen with a \uf04b face, and ping my boss that I should\u2019ve taken the day off, and instead of doing the mountain of work that materialized out of nowhere, I opened up Word and started vomiting this colossal failure of a brog post out, because so far, this has been a real forgettable birthday that it\u2019s taking a tremendous amount of patience to not go scorched earth on.<\/span><\/p>\n I want to hope that my birthday will get better, but with the exception of myself, my entire household is sick and combating various illnesses, so it doesn\u2019t seem likely that anything but taking it easy at home is going to be on the agenda for the remainder of the day, but honestly, compared to the afternoon that I\u2019ve had so far, that doesn\u2019t really sound bad.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So far, I\u2019m having a birthday that has been leaving a lot to desire, and I\u2019m trying my best to 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