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[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 6th, 2025: I lost my keys today! I woke up at 6:00am and spent so much time looking for them but I had no success. I was supposed to go to this mass at 8:00am but ended up missing that, I texted both Quoc and the landlady about this but got the same tone in their messages, Quoc messaged me:
<Well I would find it before you leave. If you want to go out and back, either let someone know if there are there to let you in, or find it.
While the landlady messaged me:
<You’re going to have to find them. If this tends to be an issue with you keeping track of them- you should probably put an AirTag on them.
I still didn’t feel helped so I ended up praying to Saint Anthony of Padua on 3 separate times. I just left this one door to my floor unlocked and left my door for that unlocked also. I worked on my beverage aisle tasks only to realize that John had completed one of them for me so I started on my second one and stocked some of the new items we got in. My next task was to sweep all the stairwells in the building and I was in an absolutely shit mood. I kept thinking of Logan mocking me and turning people against me. I got so mad I bashed the broom against the stairs but nothing was damaged thankfully. When I got to the one for the cashiers, the Italian lady made a joke that set me off so I just quietly left to work on the other stairwell and a bit later she came over to me saying:
“I’m sorry, we were just joking!”
I replied:
“Ok, I accept!”
I then finished up that task and around that time it was time for lunch, I was hungry so I ordered an entire 12 inch cheese pizza, and ate it all, yes, I ate an entire pizza. I posted an image of my cousin’s cat on my snapchat story with the caption:
>Biggest primordial pouch award
Which made Jared ask for the original image. I then went off break and kept working on my tasks that I had for my job. I got into a pointing contest multiple times with fAsherah. When I got done with all the tasks on my task list except for my closing tasks, I started working on vacuuming upstairs until I got that finished. At 4:13pm I got a text from my mom and had this conversation:
<Hey, I should be at your place around 8:00 to 8:30. Are we all good?
>I have been having issues finding the keys, I left some doors unlocked and if nobody locks one of them then you are in the clear.
<Are you not going to be there?
>I will be there hopefully.
<Are you working? Or are you out and about socializing?
>Working, it depends on if this door was not locked while I am at work.
<Do you want me to pick you up at work then?
>No, I am going home straight after work
<Okay, I should be there about 10 after 8:10.
>Ok.
I was told by Ingacio that I should clean off this old mechanized coffee grinder that we had up in the attic, I got a bunch of those sanitizing wipes and started cleaning, I made some progress and even had to grab the hand vacuum from the back to clean out the ground spice that was still in the machine. Lebanon said that I was getting dust everywhere. I found out from fAsherah that her manager was in the manager’s office watching The Simpsons so I conveniently decided to finish sweeping the stairs to that place and then saw her while she was watching it on her iPhone.
“What are you doing?”
I jokingly remarked.
“I am doing my work here!”
She replied, I saw her stack of paperwork and then she asked me to vacuum up the office because she got some hair on it, I vacuumed the rug and under her desk and then I said hi to Biker before getting on my closing tasks, I got out just before the bus came and I was going to go to the missionary's dinner event. I took the bus home and there was this one woman that had really bad body odor and got off at the same stop as me. I then walked to the back entrance to my place and easily got over the gate. I went in through the door and got inside. I heated up the remaining half bag of peas and cut carrots. I put one of the packets of ground black pepper in the bowl and it was way too much, plus the ground pepper tasted bad because it wasn’t freshly ground. I then washed my dinner in the sink to get the pepper off and got it to normal levels. My mom finally arrived and I let her in through the gate. I brought the bin of laundry in and we went to my apartment. When we got in my mom said that she had found my keys, guess where.
In the lock to my door.
I was so happy that she found it so I gave her a hug, we unpacked the stuff that we had and she took some more stuff home and I attached an AirTag to my keychain but couldn’t get it to connect to my iPhone at all. She then left after that and I had an ice cream sandwich before taking a shower in the dark. At 10:08pm I had this conversation with Nintendo girl:
>Did you get the Nintendo Switch 2?
<Yeah, barely made it in the Walmart line yesterday
<Did you?
>Nope, I need to pay rent.
<Darn, but that’s definitely more important!
>You live at home though.
My best experience for today was when Mercurius sent me this message on Instagram at 10:21pm:
<Do you stay in [city] over the summer
>Yes I do!
<Want to hang out next week
>Absolutely!
<Cool, what days are you free
>I am free on Monday and Tuesday after 4:30pm and Wednesday after 12:00pm.
I hadn’t had someone invite me to hang out in such a long time!

Song of the Day: I Like to Rock - April Wine (1980)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 7th, 2025: Have you ever watched one of those videos of people walking through predominantly Hasidic neighborhoods (Crown Heights in NYC) or even entire cities (Kiryas Joel) and you notice all the kids they have and the curls that the boys got but not a single pet can be seen in the entirety of the video. Well I woke up as one normally does at 6:06am and made my coffee and cereal for my breakfast. I posted my Biblejak for the day. At 8:08am I got this message from Mercurius:
<Where do you usually hang out?
I told him where I was and he said that we should go to this bookstore. I then hopped on the bus. When I got on there was this Latino guy in the back playing music through his loudspeaker. I noticed this woman one seat away that was super uncomfortable, he tried to act friendly with me so I just moved up to the front of the bus. He got off at this stop and I told him just as he got off the bus:
“Use your headphones next time!”
He didn’t respond but I hope he learns his lesson. I got off at my stop then clocked in to find out that they were replacing a bunch of tech because of the new management or something. I got to work on the sauce aisle and then after that I had to deal with the frozen aisle unfortunately. There were some things I found needed to be there but were missing as usual. Will gave me some more instructions and then I focused on my other tasks for the day including a task that I had done yesterday, which included sweeping all the stairwells and vacuuming the offices. I was told by Ingacio to vacuum his office a bit later and I then went to work on stocking the shelves in the more tolerable part of the store. I saw Norah while doing that and said hi to her and she said hi back but she never responded to my text, I have heard from other people men and women alike that things you say on text come off as creepy as things you say in person, even when accounting for what you even said, but I hardly interact with any of my ‘friends’ in person so basically they think I’m a freak for texting them, causing them to avoid me more in person leading to a cycle where I communicate with them more through the ‘bad’ method, to make things worse, the recommended advice to counteract this is to invite them to hang out in person but that is what is super creepy. In conclusion the only way to get people to care about your mental health is with money or a gun to the face. I had this one lady come up to me and ask:
“Do you have any of this flavor of chips?”
I said no because I have never seen them before in all my time working here. She said she had them the last time she was here and that was a while ago. Turns out that a while ago was well over a year back in time. I then went on my lunch break and there were these free bags of expired salad mix that I had. I went to the attic to get a 48oz black plastic bowl and brought it down. I poured the Southwestern salad mix into it along with the dressing and ate it for my lunch break. I actually didn’t think it tasted bad and I didn’t vomit blood. I ate it all and then got back to work. I continued my conversation with Mercurius, he sent me these two images:

>Is that the place?
<No it’s the monastery I am at right now
<I decorated the chapel with leaves with the monks today
>Which monastery
<Holy resurrection monastery
<Byzantine Catholic
>Up in St. Nazianz, Wisconsin?
<Yes
>Wait are you from there?
<No I just decided to stay at the monastery for a week
>Wait they just let you stay there?
<Yeah I contacted them a while ago asking if I could spend a week at the monastery and they said yes
>Nice
I got into more pointing contests with fAsherah and then dusted up some stuff for Lebanon. On my second break, I put my head out a window to say hi to Biker and Jab and Biker said that he wasn’t having a good day or something. I vacuumed Ignacio’s office for my final task and found some images of him when he wasn’t a manager and a plaque of him graduating a Venezuelan high school with his full name on it. I then started on my closing tasks and got them done just before the bus came. I took the bus to this fair that was happening and I tried to find someone I would know, I exchanged $20 for 20 tickets and spent 7 tickets on some pasta dinner, apparently because I was still wearing my work shirt, the people there said that ‘suddenly’ it turns out the meat surcharge wasn’t there anymore, I didn’t recognize anybody at that booth from work in any aspect, that was 7 tickets down. Wandering around for a bit eventually made me encounter my own landlady running this antique sale. I said hi to her and then told her that I found my keys in my outside lock and she laughed a bit. I walked over to the cotton candy place and talked to the kid there.
“What flavor would you like?”
“Can I have the Piña Colada flavor?”
“Sure thing, 3 tickets!”
I gave the kid 3 tickets.
“Have you ever had a Piña Colada?”
“No, have you?”
“No, because I’m only 7.”
“Well I’m 21”
I got the thing and scarfed it down very fast, I thanked the kid working the machine and then walked around a bit more. I ended up getting 2 rootbeers for 3 tickets each and then bought a pretzel for 1 ticket and a bag of cookies for 3 tickets. I finally decided to head home. I walked over to the bus stop and got on to this guy playing Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out before quickly stopping what he was doing. I got off at my stop and got home. I got in and wrote my blog entry for the day. The woman who came over to my place last year said she wanted to get a room tour of my place and I told her that we can do it on Thursday, same person who flaked out on Eucharistic adoration. While I was taking a shower I saw 3 rats playing in the alley and got jealous of them. I finally went to sleep dreading waking up tomorrow.

Song of the Day: Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out - Bruce Springsteen (1985)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 8th, 2025: Pentecost today, I woke up at 6:02am and made myself a bowl of cereal and coffee with hazelnut creamer and got dressed for work. I checked the live bus map for my route to work only to find that it said no buses were currently running, what! It was 8:39am so I decided to walk all the way to work while drinking the last thing of Muscle Milk that James had left (I'll just buy more in August when he comes back. I walked onto the trail and I encountered this White women in her late 30s jogging along the trail behind me, she said:
"Good morning!"
To me and then went past me. I ended up encountering this stretch of the trail where to the east there were these old birdhouses in the distance that were pretty far apart. I ran past all of those because I was kind of concerned that I would not make it in time. I also encountered this Millennial guy walking his dog that also greeted me, I returned the greetings like a civilized person and then walked a bit more until I crossed the bridge and finally got to my workplace with time to spare. I clocked in at exactly 8:20am exactly and then went to view my worklist, I had a typical task list for the day which included doing the beverage cooler and when I got to it, I couldn't find the list anywhere. I asked the new employee where he had left it and he said he had no idea, but helped me look for it. The cooler itself was checked along with the upstairs and downstairs but we couldn't find it anywhere. I just had a paper one printed out, put it on a clipboard, and then used it with this blue pen that I had gotten the front side of the paper written down when the new employee had came over to the beverage cooler and told me:
"Hey, just to let you know, I found this upstairs next to the conveyor belt!"
I took it and then filled it out for the other half of the thing and then went to stock that part of the store. My first break was pretty ok and I talked to Mercurius a bit more:
>Thank you, wait are you planning on becoming a Byzantine Catholic priest?
<Possibly, that would be dope
>What’s your current plan?
<Finish university and then either get a masters in counseling psychology or go to seminary
I kind of felt sad for his girlfriend if that happened to decide on becoming a Roman Catholic priest compared to a Byzantine Catholic priest. But I talked with fAsherah a bit more. I got back to work, brewed myself some coffee in the Keurig machine, and cleaned upstairs and Sabrina looked at me weirdly at one point, I never understood why. For my lunch, I heated up some of the cooled stuff that I noticed had gotten more expensive recently, but fAsherah told me that Sabrina told her how to implement the employee discount in a different way that her manager had told her about. I got that and ate it. I continued with my tasks until I got them all done even before my second break, so I decided to go on my second break, but not before buying an entire bag of faccine cookies. While on it, I heard Tony and Folsade discussing this one guy that kept applying for a job here 8 times. I got a bunch of drama from fAsherah and here were some of the things I found out: This one guy in my department who is constantly absent yet never gets fired was jealous of fAsherah getting to work at the place that he wanted to work, another one was about the coworker with Sickle Cell Anemia, it turns out that she had two kids who are now in elementary school with her abusive ex-boyfriend back in her home city of Orlando, Florida, one night he tried to strangle her in the kitchen and she grabbed a knife and stabbed him and called the cops, the kids lived with her grandparents for the time being before she moved up north to live here, while her kids were living with her grandparents, her younger brother who she practically raised, gave her ex her phone number all for a new pair of shoes (they’re Black.) Now I heard that her two kids live with her and she works at a Pick N Save and has her kids now. Another joke was about how all the people in a certain department were obviously Tumblr users. A different thing was also the fact that the Original Owner flirted with her whenever she was cleaning on Sundays. She also talked about this one lady who worked up front getting fired for making fun of the guy who looks like Noahmusic2009, we said that while he was walking by and he smiled. I got to my closing tasks and then I clocked out almost at the time when the bus was going to come, I waited at the bus until it stopped at my stop but it did not open up the door. Someone went out but the bus driver said to me:
“Just wait until the next bus!”
I told her it was fine and I got on the absolutely crowded bus because of Pride Fest ending today. There was hardly any room to stand anymore but I saw Ginger girl sitting down wearing an unironed bisexual pride flag around and had purple and blue sparkly eyeshadow applied. I said hi to her and she seemed happy to see me, she told her 4 friends that I was in art class with her, I had some faccine cookies left that I decided to take home so I asked Ginger girl if she wanted any, she replied:
“Thank you so much Gemerson!”
There was this older lady that said her friend used to work at this place called Bunzel’s Meat Market and Catering. Ginger girl told me that she was from the south side of the city. I then got off and then walked to my place, I got changed into some dress pants and a red button-up shirt. Checking my emails made me realize that I was substituted in to be an usher by Lucas so I rushed to church, I got to church and realized there were already two ushers there. I sat near the front and I found out I was one of the few people there to be wearing red. Holly was there and she brought up the water and wine along with this guy I saw her with a few times before. The priest was a Jesuit sadly and was very loose with the words, even forgetting them at one point. Joseph mispronounced my name as starting with a c. When the mass was done I walked home and took a shower. I finally went to sleep. ZZZ

Song of the Day: Y.M.C.A. - Village People (1978)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 9th, 2025: I woke up at 5:11am today yet didn’t get out of bed until an hour later because I was on my iPhone looking at Twitter, I heard some news about these protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles, California, they were burning down buildings and some famous Twitter users like YIMBYland and Dieworkwear were getting flamed for condemning the violence that the protesters used and also that they should care more about optics and wave American flags instead of Mexican ones. Dieworkwear accidentally admitted he was an illegal immigrant and J D Vance made a joke about deporting him back to Canada. Some leftists said that his parents should have been shot by the Viet Cong. I had some cereal and coffee for breakfast before hopping on the bus for my volunteer work and got in quite early. I was supposed to start at 8:30am but Seth M was a bit late. I talked with Zarith C while she was making the pot of coffee, I tried to scrub the countertop under the pot to no avail. Seth M arrived in time for the Monday meeting and I sat next to him. Because the boss wasn’t here it went faster than usual and there was this thing about a white tablecloth that appeared for an event and disappeared after it. When I got out of that I noticed that the two other interns weren’t here but I got to my emails from Staples about all the people she needed ID cards for, I remember there being this one photo I got for a Lao or Thai woman that was had a heavy face filter on it and it looked so horrifying and comedic at the same time. I got the designs down and issued them for everyone except this one woman whose photo provided was too pixelated for me to work with. I was in Seth M’s office for a while when this Jewish looking girl who I will be calling Ahwahn and this other girl who wore an engagement ring stopped by Seth M’s office to talk about some stuff while I tried to find a charger. I wrote back to Staples at 10:23am:
>Do you think you can get a less pixelated version of [employee name]’s photo
She then wrote back at 10:23am:
<I’ll try—hopefully she’ll be able to give me one, I’ll see what I can do.
I checked the calendar to see what Zach A wanted me to do and he had me summoned at 3:00pm to 4:30pm. I printed out all of the 11 cards and got them handed over to Staples, I was working on the last one of the 12 and got the design down with Staples’s new photo but the color for the card printer was not working. I overheard Zarith C talking about her father and her brother at one point but I wasn’t able to pick up the context for them. I saw the two employees from Ukraine talking to each other in their native language about something. I tried to do that until Harmony C came to my desk to announce something super important:
“There’s been a gas leak, we need to evacuate the building!”
I grabbed my backpack with all my stuff in it and took the elevator down along with 5 others. When we got outside a bunch of us were standing far away from the building, I talked with Zarith C and Shima C about the gas leak and then I went over to Zach A and he told me:
“Ask Seth M if you can go for the day, I am not sure how long it will be until we get an all clear!”
I nearly got tripped by this hijab wearing toddler who her mother was always in the daycare with. I went over to Seth M and he gave me the approval to head out for the day. I checked my phone to find out I got a message from Mercurius:
<Hey I had to pick up a last minute cleaning job today so could we hang either tmrw or Wednesday
I replied:
>Tomorrow works for me!
Mercurius then asked me if I was going to the mass on Wednesday and I said yes. I got on this bus route that I had never ridden before intending to ride it all the way to its end and I noticed it smelled of beer, this back seat had a visible stain and there was a package of Old English ale under the seat, I got on and reread the 1st book of Maccabees from my Bible. This guy wearing a neon orange construction vest decided to use some of the seats to sleep in. Some other guy got on with a bike attached to the front of the bus and was super talkative with me and this other guy. He got off and then the other guy talked about how the construction worker wasn’t being that disruptive despite sleeping on a bus and taking up multiple seats, he might have been homeless. I eventually got off at the last stop and tried walking a long distance to this bar to eat but I found a sign on the door that had the following writing:
<Opening later this afternoon
I decided to run/walk to this nearby Kwik Trip to get some food to eat and a charger because I was at 28%. I saw a sign which said no backpacks so I tried to find a place to hide my backpack, I put it in between two small coniferous trees and then ran inside. I bought a charger for $25.99 and a burger with cheese and a pretzel bun for $3.99. I got in line for the cashier but I was behind one Black lady buying scratch off tickets and a White single mom buying cigarettes. I eventually had this guy from the Dungeons and Dragons 3.5th edition game I played as the cashier. I said hi to him and then went outside to grab my backpack (it was still there) I walked over to the bus stop and hopped on only to realize that I got a USB-C charger instead of the new one for iPhones. I managed to make my battery last until I got to the end of the line and transferred over to my line. The bus ride home had this woman sitting in front of me who was super fidgety but I wasn’t really sure why. I got home and the first thing I did was put my phone on my good charger and I just sat around in my bed for quite a while. I read the news about Trump’s travel ban being implemented on June 4th, I’m so excited about Somalia being cut off. I went to the convenience store and got a gallon each of Arizona Sweet Tea and Arizona Green Tea. I brought them back home and I cooked some risotto for dinner and set up my laptop to be hooked up to the television in the living room. I joined this Discord call on this Christian discord server, I had my camera on so everybody could see me put up my poster that I got:

There was this Episcopalian guy talking about theologically liberal his church was and it annoyed him, I spoke and this Eastern Orthodox guy told me I had it extremely loud (pro tip, don’t put your audio recording device less than a foot away from your television) I just listened for a bit more of them talk before I got off for the day. I decided to take my shower and then post my biblejak for the day before going to sleep.

Song of the Day: A Million - VNV Nation (2018)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 10th, 2025: Tuesday today. I woke up at 6:00am and got my breakfast before chilling a bit until I had to take the bus down to work. The ride there was pretty ok and I did my walk to my building to volunteer. I went inside roughly at the same time as one of Seth M’s friends, who I will be calling Mauer, he went into the place with me and also let me into Harmony C’s room to see what I can do today. She told me that there was this new intern starting today and that I should work on his portrait. She had me write in my hours on the calendar and I ended up seeing the new intern, he had particular ears which curved in. I took his portrait after that and then designed his card. I had an issue with the card printer not working so I just gave up on that for the time being. I told Staples about the issue with the printer and she said that it was ok because most of the people she needed ID cards for had not submitted any pictures yet. My next task from Seth M was to change all of these usernames and passwords for all the printer accounts to be the exact same thing. At 9:49am I checked my phone to find a text from the missionary:
<Hey gemerson, I just wanted to check in about evangelizing tomorrow morning. Does that still work? If so what time?
I replied at 10:20am:
>Yes, I would say 9:30am, but what location?
He hadn’t responded to that all day. The Daeguite came in a short time later, I got to talk to her a bit later and told her about the gas leak, I found out it was just sewer smell and they went back in 10 minutes after the thing. I remember finding this rose colored lipstick in my desk area so I handed it over to her as a gift. She accepted it thankfully. Around 12:00pm, I decided to head out to lunch to get something to eat at the pizza place. I got my order of a slice of pizza and Monster Energy ultra red flavor. The moment I sat down to eat, Seth M, Ahwahn, and the woman who was engaged, I said hi and engaged in conversation with them until they got their pizzas and left elsewhere, it pissed me off that I had made no true friends so far at this place. I found out it is Cara’s 20th birthday today so I sent her a happy birthday message on Snapchat:
>Happy birthday Cara!!!!!
She replied:
<Thank you Gemerson! And yes the food at your work was good lol
I then got in and lounged around at work for a bit more, I went into Zach A’s office a bit later as he had me do some stuff for the spreadsheet I was working on, mainly more options and sub-options, I ended up seeing this spreadsheet on his desk that had the birthdays of a ton of employees, it listed the CEO’s as: September 11th, 1967 while Zach A’s was: November 27th, 1996. I then went back to my place and worked on the thing and completed it. At 1:33pm I got a message from Mercurius which read:
<I got another late shift today, usually I don’t work so late but the last tenants didn’t clean once so I unfortunately got another 10 hour today
<I’ll be at the church tmrw tho
I replied with:
>Ok thank you
Even though I was furious, I knew he fucking lied about wanting to hang out with me just to get my hopes up, I knew he was coordinating with the others to make me suffer. I continued on trying with getting the printer to work and at one point I encountered Zarith C, she told me that she doesn’t get anything from the pizza place but the cheese pizza because she’s not really into meat unless she cooks it herself, I asked her if she had food poisoning from it once and she said no. I continued to do nothing for the rest of the day until it was time to leave, I walked over to my bus stop and hopped on until I ended up where I wanted to be. I went home. My first thing was to get some more denomination icons made from this pack of .png icons I found and make them better, I made the Western rite Orthodox one have the white and gold of the Vatican flag. I then got some .svg files from this Lutheran guy online. I was looking for a box fan so I went into my roommate’s room and found one and took it, but my curiosity got the better of me and I read his journal. I saw this written in an entry dated for September 3rd, 2024:
<Psalm 33:12
<How to make America great again!
<South America settled by people looking for gold, North America settled by people looking for God
<America needs to wake up before it is too late - God is not in many “churches today
<Need God back in our: churches, schools, (mode) (I Corinth 11:19?) homes lives James 4:8, II Chronicles 9:13 7:14
I saw his other writings and they were the writings of a person much holier than me so I just stopped because I felt so guilty. I made ramen with an egg and the carrot and peas mix for dinner but I ended up leaving the stuff in for too long because I got distracted by gaming on my desktop computer (note to self: get the second monitor set up and plugged in.) I ate my dinner and then had the last ice cream sandwich in the freezer as my dessert. I took my shower in the dark because I needed to get prepared for sleep and then I got out and went to sleep to the sound of the box fan.

Song of the Day: Paranoid - Black Sabbath (1970)

 

[Neutralplier]

June 2nd, 2025: Off to another city today, I woke up at 5:34am despite my alarm being set for 6:00am so I just made up the difference by packing early, I had my biggest suitcase with me so it ended up being super empty except for 2 pairs of clothes, I got my towel and wrapped up Angeleno’s gift in said blue towel and put it at the bottom of the thing. No milk for my cereal so I brewed a pot of coffee. At 6:45am I hopped on the bus down to the station and walked over to the station. I got a boston creme donut as my breakfast and the lady working at the cash register completed the transaction before I could even press any of the tip options, guess she knew it was bullshit. I got in line for the Amtrak and then boarded at 7:55am, the train left at 8:05am and at our first stop, this late 30s lady with blonde hair sat next to me while talking about her work, we got there at 9:45am and I got over to the loop when I entered one of the stations, I collected the train maps they had there and the lady working there told me:
“Come here, I got one of the big maps.”
I took it and then paid with just my debit card and took the hour long train ride out. At one point it stopped and I posted about on Instagram, this Black guy was walking in between trains and stood near me when I got off at my stop, he didn’t follow me to my aunt’s place but I was let in and put my stuff down, I chilled for a bit until Angeleno and I agreed to meet at this sushi place at 12:45pm. I left at 12:25pm and walked straight there, when we got inside I finally met Angeleno for the second time. We had a bunch of sushi and he paid for it all thankfully as we talked about boats across Lake Michigan. We then walked back to my aunt’s place and we were locked out. I called her to let us in and we saw Thing Beta painting the sign for Jared’s graduation party, Angeleno and her talked a bit before he met the cat and then we decided we should walk over to this place called Miko’s, after @mikobowl. On the walk over, Angeleno had revealed to me Froot’s real name, the fact that the Sharty IRC was shut down due to a potential court case, which would mean that Quote would have his real name released.

I paid for the Italian ice where I got lime flavor while Angeleno got watermelon and lemon in his. My aunt then came over to drop off the keys for me, we then walked back and talked some more. When I went inside I found that my aunt had 4 Elvis Prestly plates that she got from Jane’s sister. I finally gave Angeleno his birthday gift, which I thought was on June 6th but was actually on July 6th.

We played some Tetris on the Macintosh, we didn’t get anywhere near as good of a score as the old owner (Dave) and I thought he was one of my father’s step-brothers, so I texted him:

>Who’s this Dave gamer guy?
<do you realize you're talking to your father?
>Yes!
<I have no idea what you are talking about
>Oh I thought that might have been your step brother.
<Still no clue
>Oh nevermind.
We played more Tetris and never managed to crack the top 10 scores. After a bit we then browsed KiwiFarms a bit.

My grandma came over and said she was so glad to see Lorenzo again. I got started on the salad for my aunt and we put 5 potatoes in tinfoil in the oven. My dad arrived at 6:40pm and we ate while talking about a lot of different stuff. My dad mentioned the budget cuts to the CTA and everybody but me got so upset about it. Dad says:
“If the CTA does their cuts, the city’s going to face an exodus of people!”
The topic later shift’s to Jared’s dad’s adoptive father, he was described as “looking like a stereotypical cop but with the Star of David” and how he would leave a loaded pistol in the top shelf of a cabinet and deter his kids from playing with it by telling them how dangerous it is, my aunt found that dumb as hell. Jane told me a story about how she had gotten confirmed in the Lutheran church and then started going to a Presbyterian church with her grandma after that, safe to say she doesn’t go to church nowadays. I got lectured by my dad for being vague in my texts to him about the computer. At 7:30pm. Angeleno left and we said our goodbyes as I finalized my blog entry for the day. It was getting time for bed so I got on the couch. I found out that Jared’s dad and his stepmom broke up, this was when I was asking if his step-sister was supposed to be the 6th person he could invite to his graduation, but she wanted her mom to be invited. Thing Beta came back later and then had a disagreement with her mom about using the car and her boyfriend, I overheard it while downstairs and her mom was mad at her for being disrespectful for her and she even shouted:
“STOP FUCKING YELLING AT ME RIGHT NOW!”
Although she wasn’t actually yelling at her mom. I was crouched down in the corner for this event and I decided to pop out.
“So sorry to hear that!”
I told her.
“Yeah, she’s just angry!”
I asked her:
“Where’s the cat?”
“Oh he’s upstairs but I would just wait for her to calm down. I got the bedsheets and then took a shower before going to bed.

Song of the Day: Suspicious Minds - Elvis Prestly (1969)

oh shit thats dope i didnt know u knew angeleno

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

oh shit thats dope i didnt know u knew angeleno

Yeah, we got into contact through another person on the website and we agreed to meet up. My grandma thinks he's super nice.

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 11th, 2025: I woke up at 7:44am today and had some more Reeses Puffs and coffee for breakfast. I fired up my computer to play some heavily modded Minecraft, more specifically All The Mods 9 To The Sky. At 8:50am I gave the missionary a call to ask him where we should meet up and he told me that I should just head over to his house. I took the bus down to where I wanted to go and I got off and walked a bit over. When I got to his house, I told him I was at the back but he never got in, so my next thing was to go to the front at 9:44am and call him to let me in, he picked up and then let me in. The missionary showed me inside while doing the dishes and gave me a brief overview of what we were going to do today. There were a lot of pamphlets at the front entrance from this society called the Society of Saint Paul. I grabbed a good amount but most of them ended up being related to anti-Protestant apologetics. Although the missionary said he had a car, we would be walking downtown and evangelizing along the way. We han multiple encounters with people:

1. Black old guy waiting at the bus stop who told us he was religious but he never goes to Church because there are too many crying babies or they’re too obsessed with modern politics. I wish that I interjected more about how the Church should influence broader society instead of being influenced by it.
2. Italian-American guy living in a homeless shelter who claimed to have been set up with a life where he would marry a girl with the same condition as him and get $3 million dollars from a guy to marry but his friend hacked into his phone, married the girl instead, and planted drugs in his car, he was going to a hearing to get his charge dropped as he took the bus from his homeless shelter, I saw a paper on the bottom of his plastic bag that it had a 608 number on it with something about it being for appeals, it made his story legit but we aren’t in the 608 area code.
3. Old homeless White guy standing outside the library named Daniel, he had some torn clothes and an almost grey beard and a black beanie. When we talked to him he acted uninterested and when asked about his goals in life, he said he didn’t have any and just didn’t feel like doing it. We prayed for him but I don’t even think he is capable of having any sort of ambition in life.
4. This was immediately after Daniel and it was this Black guy who said he had a son in his life and he kept talking about the Trinity but kept denying that Jesus was the Son, instead he talked about humanity being the Son as referenced in the Bible. We handed him a pamphlet about the Trinity and he loved it so much because the artwork impressed him a lot.
5. We walked east a bit more until we got to this Black guy with microcephaly and we talked about God to him, he didn’t really respond that much and was heading to the library for a career fair. It turns out the first guy was his friend and then they left shortly after that. He didn’t mention his name so he was just trying to rescue him from us forcibly making him think about something in depth.
6. There was this White normie couple from Atlanta, Georgia who said they were Non-Denomination and they came here for some sports. The guy said that it was because: “He didn’t trust any authority outside of the Bible.” Or however Matthew 16:18 is ignored. They then had their Uber pick them up and we said goodbye to the two. My pamphlets finally would have come in handy.
7. This was the longest conversation we had with 4 people, 3 middle aged woman and 1 middle aged man, they were camped out for Friday because they wanted to buy tickets for this extremely popular band called Widespread Panic, I have never heard of them before in my entire life but they sell out stadiums. I saw the man take a huff of galaxy gas at one point. One of the women was from North Carolina, the other was from Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, and the third was from Shorewood, Wisconsin. The woman from Shorewood mentioned that she knew Pops, which I found to be super interesting. The missionary mentioned during the conversation that he was 27 years old. The woman from North Carolina said she grew up Catholic but became more Baptist as she grew up because she felt like they weren’t as reverent as Baptists. I told her about the Traditional Latin Mass church that I attended once and she got interested in that.

We then left to head to the lunch event at exactly 12:00pm, we got there and waited in line while this person behind us kept playing TikToks on their phone at max volume without headphones which pissed me off so much. We got in and had some lunch which was just like it was from a low income school cafeteria. The missionary and I sat next to this bearded guy who looks like he lives in some random town like La Grande, Iowa. He is a Lutheran who had a bunch of furniture to donate so the missionary asked him for some bunk bed frames. There was this one old Black guy who I will be calling Ephesian for his shirt having a quote from Ephesians on it in the other table who recognized the missionary, they exchanged greetings and he talked about setting up a quick Bible study at the park outside after Ephesian got his bagels. The missionary and I walked to the park and did the Liturgy of the Hours, near the end of the Liturgy of the Hours. Ephesians then joined us and was super excited, he was wearing a feather in his hat and also a lighter tucked into it, his teeth were partially absent and there was a lot of plaque on them, it made me want to drug him and then perform amateur dental work on his biters. He was super enthusiastic and I performed the second reading from the missionary’s book from Psalm 116, I said the Alleujah part and he got all excited:
“HALLEUJAH HALLEUJAH!”
He talked about how Baptists had the H at the beginning while Catholics didn’t, but they seemed more into the Bible study than I did. He grabbed some of the bagels he got from the pantry and tore them up to feed to the park birds who he referred to as ‘my children’, a bit later he told us about his life story through some details, he used to be dating this woman but she didn’t want to commit to marriage, he was homeless for a while until he got into a shelter with his own kitchen on the South Side, and that recently he was withdrawing $400 from an ATM while this guy who he knew was a drug addict was watching and it caused him to attack him and take $300 of his cash along with his phone. We then decided to move over to this bench in the sun because Ephesian said:
“I’d like to work on my tan.”
We studied a bit more and told him about the Wednesday Eucharistic adoration event, its time and its location. The missionary invited over this other Black lady named Julie. Julie had a few missing upper teeth, but it might have been them getting knocked out, she had a unibrow and had been living in this nearby shelter ever since January 31st of this year and she was super upset due to not being able to hold down a job because she would always talk to herself and she said she didn’t even have an internal monologue. A bit later Ephesian added on to what Julie said about something and Julie got really mad at him.
“I am trying to speak, please do not interrupt me!”
Ephesian got pretty mad so he just left. We studied a bit more until this seagull shat on Julie, the missionary, and I. I decided it was time for me to leave at 2:15pm and I went over to this grocery store to wash my hands.

[MESSAGE CUT IN HALF DUE TO CHARACTER LIMIT]

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

Diane posted about being at the Grand Canyon today on her Snapchat story. I took the bus home and then walked back to my place to play some more Modded Minecraft until it was time for me to head over to dinner, took the bus there and then walked in to find Father Malachi had forgotten to let these lasagnas thaw in time so he got a bunch of Jack’s frozen pizzas to compensate, so he said:
“The Lord provides Jacks, so that’s a good thing!”
There were some slices of frozen pizza and Father Malachi offered me one so I took it. The South African guy discerning (deciding not to join seminary to become a priest) is something I sadly found out. 3 Benedictine monks from this monastery 1 hour north of Kansas City were here and one of them said to me that he was also a Computer Science major, wow. I went into the place for Eucharistic adoration and got in line for confession, mine was super short and sadly spiritually unfulfilling, I ended up deciding to sit next to Naomi and her friend, Naomi told me:
“By the way I’m probably going to get in line for confession so you might have to move to let me out!”
I saw Mercurius, Sideburns and his cousin, Elizabeth and a few others at the event. Ephesian finally came in and sat next to me. I showed him this card with all the responses for adoration but he said he still didn't have his reading glasses. Naomi went to confession and I noticed she was in it for a long time and when she came back she was just crying and I knew that was my cue to move away from her so she doesn’t get scared of me. There was a part of me saying that my presence was so creepy she broke down in tears. The mass started and she was sitting in the back silently crying. When it came time to receive the Eucharist, Naomi’s friend came over to me and whispered:
“Tell your friend that he needs to go up with his arms crossed.”
I told Ephesian and he did exactly that. The bread tasted a bit more cardboard flavored than usual. When I went out to the social I saw the priest talking to Naomi to make sure everything’s ok. I asked this friend of Ava's for her Insta and she told me she doesn’t have it, I found out my confirmation priest leaves Monday so I said goodbye to him. I walked home and a soylennial guy walking his dog crossed the street because of me.
I got home at 9:30pm and sent Macie this message:
>I think I saw Avery today
I saw a guy that looked like Avery, but I just wanted to mess with her.
<EW
<Id like to forget about that please
>Healthy memory = good
>I’m just joking
I took a shower, and went to sleep.

Song of the Day: Up All Night - Widespread Panic (2008)

 

[Neutralplier]

Yeah, we got into contact through another person on the website and we agreed to meet up. My grandma thinks he's super nice.

yeah hes a cool dude
i got to hang out and everything one time it was dope

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

yeah hes a cool dude
i got to hang out and everything one time it was dope

One degree of connection between me and you bro!

 

[Mr. Thrembo 88]

kys

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

kys

Meanie!

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 12th, 2025: Back to work, I woke up at 6:00am and played some more modded Minecraft. I decided at one point to buy this Bible which has a bunch of books of Apocrypha in it because I really wanted to start reading all of them. I bought this 210 book edition for roughly $50 dollars. I ended up getting a call from my therapist asking if I was coming in at 9:19am and I told her no but I could do it next week at the same time and that it would incur a $50 late charge. I drank my coffee with my hazelnut creamer and then walked to my bus stop. I hopped on the bus and took it down to work before clocking in. Tiffany was there in the front and I helped Jesse, John, and Max with this load from up front. Ignacio was super friendly to me multiple times today but he never noticed my missing nametag thankfully. Bill said to me when I passed him:
“Hey there Gemerson! What’s going on!”
I greeted him. Max eventually sent stuff up the conveyor belt for me to bring to the warehouse but he was leaning on it so I had to make sure he didn’t get caught. I had to unload all the palettes by myself in the warehouse and I got done with that at 12:20pm, just in time for me to go on my lunch break. I ate my food upstairs as I noticed Tiffany applying deodorant in the middle of the hallway under her sweatshirt. I wrote in my blog entry a bit more until I had to go back to work. I found out that this girl in the grade above me from high school that I was in some plays and musicals with. Mamma Mia was one of them and Rumors was another. I continued stocking the shelves for my tasks and cleaning for some of my tasks. I had to sweep outside sadly. When fAsherah came in, the pointing contests started and she was accompanied by her fiancée buying food. I bought some macrons for my first break and I actually really liked the flavor I got. I saw Mr. Blundstone and Jab wave to me on my first break. I then went out to sweep the place and coughed a bit because of all the dust. During my second 15 minute break I wrote my blog entry down for yesterday until I got done and started on my closing tasks. For brushing the floors, it was hectic as the floor squeegees were all bent or the new one we had was super tough to work with. I then cleaned all the bathrooms but I rushed it a bit so the mirrors in all of them were not touched, when I got out of that I saw Old Ozzy Osborne eating in the store so I talked to fAsherah and said:
“Looks like your favorite customer is here?”
She replied:
“Oh my God not Osborne!”
I giggled a bit and then asked her:
“Who is your actual favorite customer then?”
She then replied:
“There’s this one French lady that always comes in!”
I then realized that I really don’t have a favorite customer. I emptied the garbage and while I was walking out back to put them in the dumpster, I saw this black cat behind a window screen that meowed at me, I meowed back and we had a cat conversation, I was so devastated I couldn’t pet it. I then redid the mirrors in all of the bathrooms before clocking out early so I could catch the bus to the missionary’s home for his birthday party. The bus I needed took a bit longer to get to the stop which I got on. I got on and I passed the place where we saw the 4 people camping out for Widespread Panic and saw 9 people camping out now. Then I got off at the stop I wanted at 7:14pm. From what I heard, the surprise was at 7:00pm but I arrived at the exact same time as the missionary which triggered the surprise, Elizabeth was there along with the guy I knew from 2 Wednesday socials ago. I got a beer to drink and then we brought out the cakes. One was german chocolate cake with a 2 candle and an 8 candle for the missionary because it was his favorite and the other was a standard large cake you would usually get. There were also some olives, cheeses, salami, and these many colored candies that looked like orange wedges (despite most of them not being orange) and I ate a few of those. The guy who dropped the meat into the grill from the last time there was a party at the house was there but he only briefly showed up, another two people that were there were this married couple, a White guy and his Asian wife and their kid. The husband was holding his kid in his arms so I decided to jokingly wave one of the slice candies in front of the kid and said:
“Ooh, look at the colorful red candy.”
The husband was pissed off:
“That is too big for the kid to eat, he might choke.”
I just kept quiet for a bit until the husband asked me my name so I kept quiet and walked around a bit more. I talked to some other people before I decided to walk inside to empty something into the trash. I noticed that the couple came in and sort of cornered me.
“Hey we just wanted to apologize for potentially offending you, it’s just that our neighbor’s 6 year old daughter choked to death on some food.”
I accepted the husband’s apology and they introduced themselves to me so I will be calling them Priscila and Aquila. I then went outside and talked with the others more and even saw that one of the missionary’s gifts was the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible Second edition. I then got the bus just when I went to the stop and went home. I took a shower and then I opened a text from my sister from 1:54pm which said:
<Did you ever work on plays with [Brittany’s real name]?
I replied at 8:40pm:
>Yes I did
I remembered this one time in 2019 when we were hosting a party after the musical Brittany and I were in and she had a bunch of gum packets and I took a few. Monique caught me and got mad at me for it. I checked Snapchat and I saw this message she sent me on May 1st, 2020:
<Gemerson will you vote for me for Model UN president
I replied a day later with a picture of the Seinfeld couch, she replied:
<
<Does that mean we’re not friends?
I sent her a congratulatory text and then went to sleep.

Song of the Day: Ain’t Life Grand - Widespread Panic (1994)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 13th, 2025: I woke up early today despite me not needing to do so in the first place. I checked my text messages to find that Brittany had texted me at 1:04am in the morning with the message:
<Aww thank you so much friend!!!
<I hope you’re well :)))
I found it funny that she was texting me so late at night. There was also a text from my sister at 5:53am in the family groupchat that said:
<Made it to Vienna
I then played a lot more modded Minecraft after having my breakfast. I got dressed for work and then hopped on the bus to where I worked. I got in and talked to Jesse and Max about what I had to do. I worked on the beverage aisle and found out that Israel had decided to strike nuclear associated sites in Iran for no fucking reason other than Benjamin Netanyahu’s addiction to being a plague on society, none of the other leaders of countries liked him yet somehow they all gave in to Israel’s demands, Barack Obama hated him, Nicolas Sarkozy hated him, look at this text from Wikipedia:
^During the 2011 G-20 Cannes summit, then-French president Nicolas Sarkozy was overheard saying to then-U.S. president Barack Obama, "I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar", and Obama reportedly responded, "You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day."
And even Donald John Trump got frustrated with him:
^However, Trump aide Jared Kushner has claimed that in January 2020, Trump became frustrated with Netanyahu's rhetoric regarding annexation of the Jordan Valley, and considered endorsing his political opponent, Benny Gantz.
Seriously. I got that task done before getting into more pointing contests with fAsherah. I said hi to Paula a few times during the day and she was getting more friendly so I might get in on the drama more. My lunch break was first and I had some asiago pasta salad plus some milk. I then continued with my cleaning tasks and even cleaning all of the tag holders in one half of the store. Around the time of my first break, I texted Brittany back with:
>I am doing well, and please get to bed before 1:04am in the morning.
She replied 10 minutes later:
<Hahaha I’m PT it was 11:04 which is a little better!
I also texted Vannie about getting Cara a birthday gift but she said she was back home in Madison for Father’s Day coming up. I finally went on my second break around the time that I usually take it for Friday work days and Sabrina sat down across from me, she talked about how the new changes to the register system are stressing her out and that those bottles of flavor syrup last forever, I commented on the lavender syrup she had at her apartment and she said that she likes fruity flavored coffee, which I just could not wrap my head around. I heard that there was going to be a protest tomorrow called the No Kings protest against Trump’s deportations, I’m not going because I have a job. I had completed all of my tasks by the time my second break was done so I talked with fAsherah to ask her for more drama. She told me that the former employee that drove me home once told her that the chronically absent employee said to her one time:
“Hey my wife asked me who you are because she caught me looking at your Facebook page.”
Which was weird because he mentioned having a girlfriend a few times. Another point was that fAsherah’s fiancée applied to work at this store. A third thing that she mentioned was that this guy in the NBA named Tyrese used to date her sister, she said that she didn’t know his last name and that Mr. Blundstone knew, I talked to him about it and he knew that his team was playing tonight. The coworker who doesn’t speak English offered me half of her cheeseburger and some fries, she asked me to get her a knife to cut the burger in half. I then got started on my closing tasks before getting this message from my mom:
<Hey, are you around this evening? I have an air conditioner from Grandma's that I could donate to your cause. Let me know
I texted her:
>I am going to be home at 7:10ish
>I need you to take my fake leather jacket and sew up some patches.
I completed all my tasks but then had to go to the other bus route because it showed a skip for when my bus should come. I saw a cake on the bench at the bus stop.

What has gotten into this city, there was a group of teenagers that were arguing that they should have gotten on the bus route that they were on until one of them had a moment of actual intelligence. I got off too late for my alternate bus stop so I took the route which went past my old apartment and I noticed they finally repaired the window. I got near my house and saw a bus for the bus line I preferred pass by. I got home and cooked some risotto for dinner, I packaged most of it into a container for tomorrow’s lunch. At 7:28pm I texted the Guatemalan:
>Are y’all in the city for the Summer?
I got some more texts from my mom saying that her time of arrival is changing until I got a text at 9:32pm saying:
<I’m here.
I went outside to let my mom in but I tucked my Pentecost necklace under my shirt so my mom wouldn’t give me another lecture. She had this large air conditioner that looked like a vacuum and brought it up. When we tried to put it in, I noticed that the thing to put in the window opening was too long. I told my mom that we should cut off the short end because there was an extender on the long end that could get messed up but she didn’t listen to me. I finally got the lecture I was expecting about the toilet rocking around and that I should contact the landlord about it or else water is going to leak all over my place. She is glad that my room is still neat but never mentioned my Samsael art poster sadly. She left shortly afterwards and I then finally took a shower before drifting off into sleep.

Song of the Day: Mudshuvel - Staind (1996)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 14th, 2025: Saturday today, I woke up and played more Minecraft skyblock before heading to the convenience store to buy some milk, coffee creamer, and cereal. I got back and gamed some more before I had to finally head out to work at 8:40am. Cookie was at the bus stop and she kept yelling at me for some stupid shit so I just decided to walk to work. It was super nice out and at 9:17am I heard:
“Gemerson spotted!”
From fAsherah near the store, she showed me this Sphynx cat she found in the window of somebody’s apartment and I stared at the bald cat. I then showed her the place where I encountered the Black cat that meows at me sometimes and I am pretty sure I saw the cat near the window but sleeping. She clocked in because she was already late and I clocked in a bit later. I started on the beverage cooler and learned more about the No Kings protest, in the Signal groupchat someone said:
<It’s a very old demographic as well
When talking about it in comparison to the DNC protest. I found out that my mom and her friend Addison were at one protest in my home city as also my cousins 6ie and Margarethe were at one in Denver, Colorado. My sister is in Austria as she said in this message:
<Klagenfurt au Wörthersee is the start/finish but we are staying on the other side of the lake in Velden au Wörthersee
Something for an iron man run or whatever. There was this guy from a brewery in the city sampling liqueur and talking to Lebanon a good amount. I had to sweep all of the stairs in the entire building again but I wasn’t stressing over it. I was about to go on my first break when it turns out that the new guy in my department was about to go at the same time as I was. I browsed Xitter for my first break mostly and then got back to work. To my surprise Tiffany was working today and was having issues with the new system. I went upstairs and used the Keurig machine for free coffee, when I got finished with that I started on sweeping and mopping all of the upstairs, I finished the sweeping part when Ignacio said to me:
“What’s happening brother? Are you busy now?”
I told him:
“No.”
He then asked me:
“Could you help me with this?”
This ‘this’ meant hauling up some signs we never even used to the attic, followed by taking a bunch of the old blueish grey corded phones we had and storing them on the top shelf in the warehouse, and finally taking some cardboard boxes full of paper and bringing them down to the dumpster. I got that done and then went on my lunch break. There were a bunch of bags of expired salad mix that were free for the employees so I grabbed one of the guacamole ranch ones and ate it. Sabrina came in at roughly that time and I told her that she should try one for lunch but she refused because they were in the open unrefrigerated. I got off my break and had to carry out the cardboard a few times and got thanked by the manager of the infinite cardboard supply department. I went up to where fAsherah and Sabrina were working and talked about the liqueur sampling. Sabrina said she wished she could have some yet she was only 20 while fAsherah said she might do it. Sabrina complained about having to close the store with Tiffany because she never did anything to help out. Ignacio was within viewing distance of the sampling cart and I asked Jordan what flavor I should get.
“Oh man, I really liked the coffee flavor!”
He said, I took his advice and went over to ask the sampling guy for a shot of the coffee liqueur. I drank it and it tasted bad, I absolutely should have gone with one of the other flavors. A bit later Lebanon offered to share half of a cinnamon roll with me and gave me the half he cut off. I ate it before my second break started. I then clocked in for my second break. This was around the time Paula was also on break so I decided to sit opposite of her and talk to her. The main piece of information I found out was that she loved to paint with oil paint and did some portraits. I asked her if she had ever followed along with a Bob Ross painting tutorial but she told me:
“No, he makes it look easier than it actually is.”
I told her I have only watched some of season 1 of The Joy of Painting. I continue writing my blog entry for a bit until after ending my work break, this manager joked near Ignacio:
“Gemerson wants to work up front!”
And I kept laughing because they’re kinda short staffed. I had to do my closing tasks for the day, which finally didn’t include scrubbing the backroom floor, just cleaning bathrooms, the breakroom, and emptying the garbages, I talked with this employee who said he graduated high school in 2005 and told me that he lived in Stoughton, Wisconsin for a good portion of his childhood. I got those all done and I remembered that this festival on the festival grounds was happening so I took a different bus route I almost never took before. There was this Black woman on the bus with horribly done makeup and a bunch of bags. I then got off and went into the festival after dealing with these ticket scammers selling ‘tickets’ for a lower price. I saw 4 Capuchin monks and went around to different places, like getting a smoked sausage sandwich with sauerkraut in it. Cherry limeade drink where I ate the lime in it because I was still kind of hungry, and this cover metal band playing a bunch of great songs like One Last Breath. I walked around a bit more but didn’t see anybody I knew. I saw some of the traditional dancers and posted about them on Instagram and in the family groupchat, my mom replied to me:
<Man your one for the ethnic festival's. You will have to rank the food.
There was this one tent where they were selling a bunch of Polish related crafts. I overheard this guy with a Polish accent talking about him being a wood carver for over 30 years. There was a table with a bunch of books on it for sale and I found a copy of the Catholic Bible and the Cathecisms of the Catholic Church on it in Polish, or Katechizm Kościoła katolickiego.

I ended up leaving at roughly 7:38am and hopped on the bus that I didn’t actually want but I thought was the correct bus but it diverges after a bit so I only realized it after a while, I got off at where they last intersected before diverging and then got on my desired bus. I got home and took a shower before publishing my Biblejak and blog entry before going to sleep.

Song of the Day: One Last Breath - Creed (2002)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 15th, 2025: Father’s day today. I woke up at 6:30am and browsed stuff on my phone until I decided to call my dad at 6:47am, he picked up immediately and thanked me for calling him, but he said:
“Could you call me back later, you just woke mom and I up?”
So we said goodbye and I looked at the news more. I heard about the Minnesota state representative named Melissa Hortman that got assassinated on June 14th after voting no on giving illegal immigrants more money for healthcare, and the motive from the shooter Vance Luther Boelter was “anti-abortion”, I had my cereal and coffee before I took the bus to work. When I got in I found out that there were no more free bags of salad. I finally clocked in and then got to stocking the beverage cooler. I had to stock a lot of the water stuff compared to the usual amount. fAsherah was working an early shift so the pointing contests started up and didn’t stop, I think I won most of them. I got a text from the Walmart tracker which said:
<Walmart: Your The 210-Book Holy Bibl... should arrive today. Track: [link] Reply HELP for info; STOP to opt out
I was anxious to see it when I got home. I will be publishing a review of all the extra apocryphal books I find in this diary/blog. I had to stock the chip aisle when I found out that the old scanner wasn’t working as informed by the office lady, she just told me to grab a pen and some yellow paper and jot down all the stuff I needed. I did that and then went with the pull sheet and a pallet jack to bring stuff down after I went on my first break. I got most of the chips that I needed and said hi to Matt when I was sending them down to be stocked. I got them stocked and then had to stock some of the salad dressings we sold while this one lady kept getting in my way. I stocked the backstock nearby and then went to order my lunch and some of the cheap bags of cookies. I ate the sandwich but I decided that I should take my time eating it instead of just shoveling it into my mouth. I checked Instagram and saw that Jared and Thing Beta posted about their dad for father’s day. I posted about mine. fAsherah was upstairs and I told her I was giving out cookies for everybody. I continued my work until I got done with all of my tasks. I asked Jesse if I should powerwash outside and he said:
“If you’re looking to keep yourself busy then sure!”
So I did exactly that, I filled up the gas powered power washer and struggled a bit to get it out because this forklift was in the way, I got it started and tried to use it on the area where the dirty cooking oil was stored with little success, I then tried under some dumpsters and had far more success with making a visible impact. At roughly 3:00pm I clocked out for my final break of the day before continuing with power washing only to get a text at 3:18pm reading:
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I got excited and finished up. I went inside to start on my closing tasks, which included scrubbing in the back and cleaning up front. When I got done with that Sabrina came to me and asked me to help her with marking 16 boxes of this apricot flavored stuff and 4 containers of dried mangos as expired, I put them all in the back and we divided up the mangos, I got one container, Sabrina got two, this other guy in Sabrina’s department got the final one because fAsherah didn’t want it. I then clocked out and went to the other bus line because my usual one was acting horribly. I forgot to put away my walkie talkie so I ran back to put it away and then ran back to the bus stop (the cake was still there.) I finally got on the bus and then walked home, encountering Cookie along the way but she did not talk to me. I got to my place and saw the package outside, I took it in and opened it up, I told the art history major about it on Instagram.

I then got dressed up to usher at mass and walked over to the church to be greeted by Joseph outside wearing his white acolyte outfit, I could hear Lang practicing music upstairs and I passed the guides for mass out to people. One girl who I thought was one of the people that Joseph sponsored came in with what looked to be her grandfather and he asked me this question:
“How many fruits of the Holy Spirit are there?”
I replied because I think I remembered it from Bible study last year:
“Eleven.”
I was then told:
“You wanna know my answer, if you’ve chopped up the fruits, then you’ve got it wrong.”
The cane tapper was there and also the guy that got mad at him on that one Sunday. The priest was wearing this one South American inspired stole and he was the guy who served in Germany for a while. The mass went through as normal and the homily was about this priest who got put on a kill list in the mid 1980s in Guatemala for being concerned about his parishioners disappearing and was forced to flee back to the United States but eventually returned to Guatemala and got executed. The next part of his homily was about the priests experience as a young man driving his dad’s truck to see the fireworks but getting his easy exit from the parking lot blocked by a semi truck, his friend helped him back out but then the truck got dented, he drove home and told his dad about it but his dad didn’t really punish him that much and was glad nobody got harmed. After the money collection I went into the back to deposit it into the safe with Lucas and I noticed there was an envelope for $125.00 donated in my basket.
“We got some really generous benefactors!”
Lucas remarked, I thought it was nice, I put it in the bag that we both initialed and then dropped it down into the safe. Lucas went up to bring the Eucharist to the choir and musicians. There was a special blessing for the fathers there and I noticed that the cane tapper and the guy who hated him stood up. Lucas was already standing but he had a wedding ring on him so I don’t know if he was a father or not. I then handed out the bulletins and cleaned up until I decided to go and get something at the convenience store, I then walked home and got inside to call my dad for Father’s day. We had a chat and he told me that my sister beat me at 2:00am in the morning and complained that I woke him up at 6:30am, I corrected him that it was 6:47am. He further told me that was going to send me the piece for my air conditioner by mail, the giant lawnmower broke, and that I should give my grandpa a call. I called my grandpa and we mostly discussed plans on getting down to his place for his 4th of July party. We ended the call and then I got into the shower and finally went to sleep.

Song of the Day: St. James Infirmary - Cab Calloway (1933)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 16th, 2025: Back to volunteering today. I woke up at 6:30am and had my breakfast and coffee with creamer and read a bit more of my Apocrypha book. The laundry is piling up so I should really get it done soon. I got on the bus to do my volunteering and walked over in the heat. I got into the building a bit early and hung around for a bit until someone let me into the office. Seth M gave me the keyfob for getting in and out of the offices. I decided to start off my work day by getting some coffee. Seth M’s friend was on coffee duty but by the time 9:00am rolled around, there was the Monday meeting, so many people were gone for an event except for Staples, she was just gone because she was sick. I sat at the main table today and we started off the meeting. I thought it was going to be a shorter meeting than usual but after the second person finished speaking, the CEO of our company came into the meeting and then spoke for like 15 minutes, he went on and on about stuff like how he’s going to celebrate 41st anniversary of meeting his wife on Friday, June 20th and that they got engaged after a month of dating and then got married after 3 years of being engaged. He talked about simulating walking around Washington DC with this treadmill and immediately got cramps. Harmony C was right about him. I then finished that meeting up after an hour and had next to nothing to do for the entire day. I saw this one fellow coworker who I will be calling Elon show off his fancy glasses from Meta to me and this coworker who had broken his arm recently. It had cameras built in and the ability to translate what someone else said in a different language in real time. He asked the other coworker to say something in Spanish and he got a translation on his glasses. I found it super cool. The ink cartridge for the printer still had not arrived yet so I practically had nothing to do today. I overheard the older Ukrainian woman and the younger Ukrainian woman getting into a verbal dispute over something. I then decided to head over to the pizza place for lunch. It was pretty good despite being a bit pricey. I went back into work after deciding against a walk and joined Elon for a bit as he helped with giving this family some items they needed, including a Denver Broncos blanket. He then told me this thing:
“You know, I like working with Landlords because I want to be a landlord myself, owning a lot of properties. I have someone I can learn from because I get so much knowledge. When I work with clients, I’m the teacher and learning nothing!”
I chuckled a bit.
“Ahh I understand what you’re saying.”
I didn’t really, I found it a bit weird and I feel like he’s going to end up saying something worse. But I kept my tongue. I had absolutely nothing to do for most of the day so I just kept making my rounds. I saw the girl who was engaged, who I will be calling Portia, without her friend Ahwahn, didn’t say hi to her. Eventually I just got fed up with doing nothing so I went on a walk to this nearby food place and bought a cookie to eat. I got my hands kind of messy with the double chocolate cookie which resulted in me trying to sneak my way back to the bathroom to wash my hands. I finally asked Seth M at 4:00pm if I should just leave early. He gave me approval so I returned my company issued laptop and the C50 card printer to his office and then exited the building. The heat was less bearable than it usually was so I walked to the bus and got on it. I remembered there being this one unshaven White tranny on the bus that was in this call talking to another person while I was on the bus. I got fed up and then got off only to encounter none other than Cookie herself. I crossed the road to get out of her way and then went home. I worked on my new flagspam batch to upload until I remembered that I had to return my old Spectrum router to the store. So I grabbed it and decided on taking 2 bus lines to it or just walk all the way there, I decided on the latter. I walked all the way there for 45 minutes and got asked for money by a homeless guy. I got there and then talked to one of the women:
“Hi I’d like to return my router.”
She replied:
“Sure thing!”
I just handed it to her and she didn’t ask anything else, she just started looking at the text on the backside and so I left. I got over to the bus stop after waiting forever to get a walk signal. I hopped on the bus home and then got off at my stop, I then walked down to a liquor store and bought some Sake, I made my purchase and then was told by security that there was a no backpack policy, as I was wearing an empty drawstring bag, I emptied it out in front of him to show him there was nothing.
“I know that you’re not stealing, but keep that rule in mind next time!”
I walked out with the alcohol paid for. I got home and had to blow the heat out of my room with the box fan. I then noticed that I got some texts from Brittany at 6:35pm saying:
<Yes! Hahah
<Wait just clarifying this Gemerson Greenwood right?
I’m not going to give out my name but I can tell you my last name isn’t Greenwood.

Song of the Day: Ghostdance - Bill Miller (2006)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 17th, 2025: Second day of volunteering. I woke up at 6:00am but I was so tired that I ended up heading back to sleep for a bit until I woke up at 6:45am. I quickly got dressed in my work outfit with a blue and white plaid button up. I had my breakfast and made my coffee before catching the bus to where I volunteer. On the bus I saw this old Black guy who had to be in his 60s who is super noticeable because he frequently drags around a gigantic plastic bag filled with aluminum cans he fishes out of the garbage. He should just move to Michigan, he’d get better payouts there. I got off and walked over in the heat, I could hardly take it and finally got inside a bit later than usual, but not before 8:30am. I got into Seth M’s office and got my computer stuff along with the key fob. I asked Seth M’s friend about if the ink cartridge had come in yet and he said no. So I had next to nothing to do. I just browsed Wikipedia more, and I decided to read a few pages of Samuel Pepys' diary. I also looked up the ICKSP more on Wikipedia because I was still bored. I got on Xitter and saw this one tweet I found interesting from Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) responding to a music video for Will Smith’s new song:
<Incredible.
<This becomes a really good song if you speed it up to 1.25x.
<What other songs are like this?
Another Xitter user called Ryan Gasoline (@Ryan_Gasoline) wrote:
<Play it back at .75 and it sounds like a serial killer manifesto
I laughed so hard. I made my rounds a bit to see if anybody needed me and up front. I saw 4 boxes with posters and helped set up the stands for them and looked around for a place to display them. I helped Elon with setting them up and then I went back to my spot to do nothing. It was at this time I saw The Daeguite at her workstation. I said hi to her and she returned the greeting. I went over to Staples cubicle and said to her:
“I’m glad that you’re not sick now! And did you get any new images from the employees?”
She replied:
“Thank you, I haven’t gotten anything back from them. Did you get the card for [employee] printed?”
I clarified:
“No I have not, I am still waiting on the ink cartridge for the printer.”
I browsed my phone a bit more until I went to help this one woman with the printer along with Seth M, turns out she just needed to switch her computer wifi over to the one we had at work. I talked to the Daeguite more just before 12:00pm and I asked her about her ‘job’. She couldn’t really describe it, I talked to her more about herself, she told me that she was graduating in December of this year, she’s also Catholic with her patron Saint being Saint Serena (even though she’s a folk Saint) and goes to the more reverent parish at the same time as me whenever I go but I never saw her there, she said it is because she sits in the back. She used to go to the Catholic center last year but stopped because she didn’t have any friends that went anymore. I then decided to get more confident and asked her:
“Hey, want to go over to the pizza place when you’re done with work?”
She then rejected me with this white lie:
“Sorry, I have to work after this!”
We talked a good amount more until she clocked out. I then went over to the pizza place at 12:03pm because I had nothing to do. I went out at the same time as Portia and I accidentally walked past the pizza place and then went in. She was wearing a lovely pastel blue floral suit and we both got pizza there. I got the meat lovers with an orange cream Coca-Cola. Elon and the younger Ukrainian woman came in behind me and got some pizza. I didn’t really talk to any of them but I quickly took a walk around, I went along the river front for a bit and then got back into the place. I had nothing to do for the rest of the day when I got back. I wanted my lunch break to be an hour because nobody would notice if I didn’t show up for an hour but it was useless. I got in and just did nothing for a while. A bit later, I saw this Muslim coworker, Staples, and the printer girl in the break room while the Muslim coworker was eating. I found out that Staples was a Roman Catholic like I was and that she also went to the same church that the Daeguite and I went to. She said that she went early in the morning which is why I never saw her. Staples and the printer girl talked more about how there were so many young people at the church I’d like to go to more and that a lot of its appeal was due to it being in a good place for them to socialize. I told her about the events that happen every Wednesday night and that she should join the next one. She mentioned this bar that had an incident where a drunk driver ran into the building and hit the fryer while it was on and the owner was standing nearby. I looked it up (O'Donoghues) and Staples said that she grew up in Wauwatosa. I then left and continued to do nothing until 2:20pm I had Seth M come over to my desk and tell me:
“I don’t think we’re going to get the ink cartridge today. You can leave if you just want to.”
I took this opportunity and left early. I walked over to the bus stop in the heat and took it home. I got home and then just did nothing for a long time. At 4:14pm I got a message from the art history major on Instagram:
<i’m waiting to hear back about a library job rn! i should be hearing back this week
I replied:
>What library?
<the public library in my county!
I then noticed that I got a friend request on Snapchat from this girl named Linnea from Colorado:
<Found this on Bug Red lmao
Attached was a picture of a piece of paper that I had written my snapchat and Instagram on.
>I forgot about this.
<I figured
<When did you go??
>2021
I thought it was super interesting. I finally decided that I needed to do the laundry so I grabbed most of my laundry and stuffed it in my large suitcase to roll over to the laundromat. I brought my computer to write in my blog more but they didn’t have public wifi. I started a load for $3.00 after installing an app and then went over to this convenience store to buy a Jarritos soda and drank it while I waited at the laundromat. I saw this bracelet from someone that was clearly left by the person that made it.

I cleaned out the gunk behind the sink faucet because I was bored until my laundry finished. I then put it all in the dryer and found my name tag for my job and the cup for the laundry detergent. I started it up for $1.00 in 20 minutes, I was surprised and how long it wouldn’t take so I just walked back home, deposited some stuff, and walked back. I made some ramen with an egg in it for dinner and worked on my Biblejak and my blog entry. I had another girl add me on Snapchat and Instagram by the name of Lauren and we had this conversation:
<Did u go to philmont
>Yes
<Lmao big red ?
>Yep
<That’s cool
<Philmont great
>Yeah I took a journal and wrote in it every day.
<Same !!
<I’m trynna finish it up rn actually
>I didn’t complete a few days but I’m gonna go back and use the shared photo drive to recreate it from memory.
<Yess , I’ve been to philmont 2 times , I wish I had journaled about the first time
>When was the first?
<2023
>Ohhhhhh
<Yeah !
<When did you go ?
<I went 2023 and 2025
>2021
<Oo cool cool !
>Did you encounter any others with their social media on it.
<A couple but your the only one who I could actually find lmaoo
>What do you mean?
<Like a couple pieces of paper had snaps on it but when I searched it up nothing came up
<Like the account doesn’t exist
>Ooh.
>Must have changed it.
<Yeah
< I’m honestly surprised anyone responded
>None of the other people on the sheet?
<Nope
<So far just you
>Ok
<Yeah haha!
>Wait you wrote down yours right?
<Yes
<My snap and insta and my crew wrote some silly stuff down as well
>Ohhh
<Yeah haha I doubt anyone will read it but it’s still fun yk
I finally took my shower and went to sleep, I shall post my Philmont diary soon.

Song of the Day: Pretty Girls - Will Smith (2025)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

June 18th, 2025: Only day off of anything. I woke up at 6:00pm to find out that my fan that I had used for white noise to sleep had gone out. I just decided it was something with the outlet but that was wrong, the fridge was off and so were the lights, at 6:34am I texted James and Quoc:
>Wait was there a new billing thing set up for energy because the power's out.
James replied with:
<Uh
I decided to go outside into the stairway and found out that all of the lights were off. I went to the basement and tried turning on the lights and it didn’t work. I just went back into bed and slept until the power went back on. I had cereal with milk and finished off the bag of coffee grounds for brewing my coffee. I went outside in the rain to empty some cardboard into the recycling, I just put it on top of my head and dumped it in before walking back in the rain. I got inside and realized that I should start working on folding all my laundry that I dumped on the carpet in the living room. I grabbed all the non-dress pants first and started folding them, next was the underwear and then I grabbed a white t-shirt and some black pants for my TLM outfit. I got dressed in a suit with no tie and made myself some of the rice and shrimp mix heated up in the microwave, I took it out and put the plastic pouch on the bag, I poured some soy sauce on it and ate. After that I then started to read the first Apocryphal book in my expanded Bible, 1 Esdras, It is basically just a copy of the original book of Ezra with some changed stuff, I read 5 chapters and went crazy because saw the phrase: “127 Provinces spanning from India to Ethiopia” once again. I got through 5 chapters of it before I wrote in my blog some more and then took the bus down to the TLM spot. It was still raining then so I just walked over while brushing the moisture off of my suit constantly. When I got in I surprisingly heard English being spoken instead of Latin, I waited for a bit before heading in, turns out it was this old guy leading a praying of the rosary with him saying:
“Hail MARY full of GRACE the Lord is with thee, BLESSED is the fruit of THY womb Jesus.”
I did the rosary with them despite not bringing my own and I then got into the mass. I'm pretty sure it was the tall French priest but he didn’t have that noticeable French accent. I sat more in the front when the mass ended at 12:36pm, I noticed that this professor from one of the colleges in my city was serving as an acolyte. I went out and was talked to by this guy named Evan O who told me about this procession that was happening tomorrow. He gave me his phone number and then I walked to the bus in the rain. I also found out that my sister got to Pula, Croatia on Tuesday from the family groupchat. I took the bus up to the grocery store but then realized I had my zip string bag on so I just took the bus back home instead. This African couple was waiting with me. I got on the bus to the bus stop and my home and then got off. I chilled out when at 3:44pm I finally replied to Lauren:
>I got a few adds before.
<That’s cool !
>Yeah but those were in 2021
<Yeah
>Do you think you’d go again?
<Hell Yeah!
>What year?
<I’m thinking of staffing next summer
<Or honestly maybe when I turn 18 in 2 weeks
>Ohhhhhhh
<Yeah haha
>Wait it doesn’t display your birthday on your profile.
<Oh July 2
<I just changed it to public ha
>You can change it to be public or private?
<Yeah
<If you go to settings
>I’ll just keep mine public
<Haha ok !
I ate some stuff because I was hungry when I decided to have some of this fiber mix stuff that James the Greater had left in the apartment. I tried it and it was ok but it didn’t suppress my appetite that much. My next idea was to have just a scoop of his Chainsaw Man themed G-Fuel:

I mixed it up and it turned a neon green, I drank it while wet chunks which were the consistency of phlegm. I don’t think it was my mouth mucus. I found out that the Art Major got accepted for her job at the library in the state of Georgia, not the country. Seriously, why do we call the state North of Florida and South of South Carolina the same as the country next to Armenia and Russia. Georgia the country doesn’t even call itself Georgia, it goes by the name of Sakartvelo or ‘საქართველო’ in their ‘not like the other writing systems’ writing system. I had to take the bus to the Wednesday night meal, I walked to my bus stop and passed Cookie. Cookie spit at me so I flipped her off, she then yelled:
“Shut up!”
and
“Call the police!”
One by one as if she was an NPC in a video game who got spammed with the interact button. I didn’t even say anything to her but I missed the bus that I needed to get there so I just walked a long way. When I got there, I was the first one in and Father Malachi was doing evening prayers. He said that I was always dependable to show up on time. I noticed that the cd player was gone so I asked Father Malachi about that, he said that the South African took it when he left. The missionary came in a bit later and we chatted for a bit, he said he did the area where there’s a bunch of different bus stops. I talked with the Indian guy who would acolyte for the fall semester. I found out that he’s from Kerala. The priest from the Catholic center was there and asked me to bring in some boxes of popcorn. He was also joking about something and asked the Keralan for permission to make an Indian accent and he approved. After eating some lasagna and a lot of watermelon, we eventually made our way over to the chapel for the Eucharistic adoration. I said to myself when I went in:
“That’s a lot of fans.”
Because they were positioned all over. I sat near the front and saw Elizabeth, Sideburns, and his friend that looks like Dr Han from the Good Doctor across the aisle and I read from the mini handbook I got. I wasn’t feeling good that I didn’t have anybody voluntarily sitting next to me so I just went for a walk outside. I looped around and then went back in to find out that the missionary that I danced with at the dance was sitting next to where I left my stuff. I went back in and sat next to her and prayed. She stayed there until the transition from the adoration to the mass. She left for a while until she came back to sit in the far more crowded row in front of me, I was devastated, people who don’t know me find me weird, people who hardly know me find me annoying, people who know me find me evil, and people who have been around for a lifetime just tolerate me . There was just this young Black skinny guy with dreads in my row. I got up and did another short walk to go all the way to the back. Father Malachi gave his homily on the Lasagna disaster from last week. I noticed that there was one other guy with me all the way in the back row and the row in front of me was empty, I moved up one because I was just offset by the empty rows. They didn’t do the shaking of hands for the sign of peace. There was this one guy who looked like the younger of Xebec’s 2 older brothers. I asked him if he was him and he said no. I walked to the social and had some popcorn. I talked with the guy that looked like Macie’s ex a bit more. I also talked to Elizabeth and the girl missionary. I found the girl missionary’s replacement and her friend who had an obvious unibrow. The guy who would acolyte at mass with Mercurius and I was there wearing his work outfit that looked like an electrician’s outfit. I had to wash my hands a couple times because of the popcorn bags. I eventually left and took the bus home. I took my shower and went to sleep.

Song of the Day: Girls Ain't Nothing but Trouble - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (1987)