Gratitude journaling together

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  1. Becoming friendly (or even friends?) with my cousin. I don’t think Grandma would have predicted that being an outcome of her funeral.
  2. Bracket City is a fun browser guessing-game.
  3. My sister’s covering my afternoon inbox slot so I can work on my assignments.
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  1. This video of adult elephants reacting to an earthquake at San Diego zoo: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/us/video/san-diego-earthquake-video-zoo-elephants-digvid Honestly I have days when I think the AGIs should go ahead and zap all the humans, and instead keep the space for elephants. Maybe the whales get to keep the oceans, too.
  2. My chess is wobbly, but currently ok - I’m trying to change my PoV to “the game is to spot the opponent’s best move” rather than “the game is to come up with a clever move of my own”, because if I do the second and not the first, I fall flat on my face.
  3. Managed to get lxc up and running Windows VMs on my Linux machine, for those annoying-but-important things that still require Windows.
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  1. Dad’s probably going to run an ethernet cable to me to solve my internet problems.
  2. Dad making me lunch and texting me stupid stuff like “Your sandwich order is ready to collect.”
  3. My British Library Crime Classics subscription brings me the latest book from their series every month, and usually includes some goodies like a bookmark and a poster or pencil or something similar. This month my bookmark was bent, so I sent them a sad email telling them I collect the bookmarks and sadly mine was bent, and could I pay postage to receive a spare? “We’ll send you a new one,” they replied. This is what I received:

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  1. Lisa’s been working really hard on getting the flat tidy and ready for us to move.
  2. I discovered I have store credit left over on Bookshop.org, and ordered myself some books I’m interested in on a whim.
  3. Bookshop.org’s support is lightning-fast; I got a response to an email within seven minutes.
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  1. My parents and Lisa for doing proofreading for me, and handling me being an absolute basket case about my assignments.
  2. My new books arrived at the flat today, and me and Lisa will arrange an exchange in town later after a flat viewing.
  3. Dad ran an ethernet cable to me for more stable internet.
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  1. New books.
  2. Assignments are handed in.
  3. I have an office chair now at my desk at my parents’ house – Dad went halfsies on it with me, since he’ll keep it for his desk after I leave, and we were randomly charged £30 less than we should’ve been when buying it. Not going to argue with a random sale!
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  1. Have been working on some chess visualisation exercises, trying to solve (very simple!) puzzles in my head with no board - not as hard as I feared!
  2. Had to dig a long trench to lay an electric cable - also not as hard as I feared.
  3. We seem to have solved the slow leak in the heating - quite hard, but is at least done now.