AUGUST 2024 MONTHLY UPDATE

It’s that time of month again, and I am making sure I finish writing before the self forced deadline. I wanted to write some Online and Offline updates in this post as a bit as happened in both. Last month’s update was mainly centered around Offline topics, but this time, Online topics will come first.

ONLINE TOPICS

I don’t know if you noticed last night, but I had spent a few hours updating all my social media to be consistent with each other; Most notably, the username. Throughout all my Social Medias, we had ‘gamerisboring’, ‘theboringgamer’, ‘ESPILöN’, and ‘blankcanvas_’. I decided to update them all to have the name ‘gamerisboring’. I feel better now that I have a distinct identity across the internet and not three, or four, or even five.

I gave this website an update last night. I had always wanted to go for an old look, but I never got to get that look, until today. I feel I’m as close as I can get for now with the ‘Old Web’ look I’ve been going for. I am way happier with my site now (except for the fact that Wix still plasters the top of the pages).

I’m trying to get back into speedrunning. When Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit came out, I knew I had to speedrun it. I submitted a “See ya Dad,” speedrun a few days after the leaderboards opened. I wanted to keep going but then life got in the way but I hope I can get one more in before College starts.

Another thing I’m trying to get back into is Art. I’ll admit, this one’s a huge challenge. I put myself to too high of a standard for how my art should come out when I draw, so it’s very hard for me to keep going with art for a little bit because of this. What doesn’t help is that I only know how to draw a single character, the Pokémon Meowstic. I’ve tried so hard to draw literally anything else, but it always looks so ugly to me, and it makes me super sad. Hopefully it comes back to me, ‘cause I like to draw.

OFFLINE TOPICS

I just quit my job. I’ve been working at a retail store as a cashier for just over six months. I put in my two weeks notice two weeks ago because College starts on Wednesday but over the past 3 months, everything has been hell at my job. One of the things that was always a problem was alcohol. In New York State, you have to be 18 to sell alcohol. I am 17, so I have to call a supervisor every time someone shows up with alcohol. This had become so much of a problem, I started hand-writing a sign that usually read “NO ALCOHOL - I AM NOT 18.” This sign usually worked half the time. There were usually two age groups it didn’t work on: Younger people, and old fucks. Younger people usually ignored the sign all together, and older people usually told me that they weren’t going to move because I should sell to them anyway. Usually middle-aged people were the nicest and were very apologetic if they didn’t notice the sign, and that usually that group of people that moved to a different lane when I told them or they saw the sign. Another reason I quit was because management never knew what the fuck they were doing. I had heard a story today actually from someone where they were making him basically do everything. One more tiny reason that I quit was because of transportation. I don’t have a car and license, so I have to have a parent drive me to work. I had always tried over the summer to ask my mom what times would work, and she always dodged it every time. There was one time the day before I wrote my two weeks notice that I thought we landed on something, then Mom found out my older sister has a Friday class (we commute). So that threw everything off and we couldn’t reach an agreement, so I also resigned because of that. I feel I made the right choice resigning as every time I was there, I wanted to put a gun in my head. I may start applying again if I feel I can manage College and a job at the same time.

By the way, I am attending College! I don’t think I ever mentioned it here, but starting next week I will be a College student! It starts next week and I am admittedly a bit nervous, but I think I’ll power through it! Wish me luck!

I’ve been working on my bowling game all month, and at the start of the month my main bowling ball broke. It put me out of bowling for about two weeks. I think this made me realize I need more hobbies, as it’s pretty much just bowling at this point. I have gotten back into bowling after getting a replacement ball from my Pro Shop and I’m now averaging 130!

CONCLUSION

This month has been very wacky for me and I hope that next month will be more stable for me, ‘cause I kind of need some stability in my life right now. Well I think I’ve vented all my things in this for today, thanks for reading; Same time next month?

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