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I'm curious

For those of you who don't know, I'm a computer sciences student and my local trade school

So of course I know things about computers, and even quite abit before the class. Though I do remember a point in my life a few years ago where I did not understand hardware at all, it was wizardry to me. I understood software to some extent but hardware was... There was nothing about it I understood at that time.

So anyway, now I'm curious what the average knowledge of computers is for a single person

So if you want, try to type everything you know about computer sciences so we can get a general idea. Just a silly experiment

So I'm reading a really weird book

Ok, so it's the future. The limits of mother nature have been utterly bitch-slapped. Anyone (with one exception) can alter their DNA in any way they choose by installing a panel in their forearm at birth and loading various applications onto it. When you first get it installed, in a few months the system will be fully implementation into your biology, fully grown. Then, you need to be wired in with an SND (Standard Nanite Drive) to feed your panel these Nanites, small microbots that can alter you DNA. Your panel come with standard nanites, but generally you'll want higher end healing tech, and sensory upgrades which require specialized nanites. There's no limits to 'genehacking'. You can give yourself non-natural hair colour, a tail, fix mental problems like Autism, physical problems like Asthma, or even make yourself immune to all types of Influenza.

Back to that exception I talked about. These Nanites are partially organic. This means that certain people have an alergic reaction to the Nanites, called hypergenesis. They need to be outfitted with specialized hypergenesis-friendly nanites. They also cant overload their panel with too many high-energy applications because generally their healing tech and other hardware are lower end, so the energy required would exaust them to death. The main character happens to have this medical problem. She can't run VR from her panel, has clunky optical implants, and overall can't use most standard tech. Tried once and passed out for several days while her dad managed to completely uninstall the app (which is hard when the nanites fed this program were all around her body. Her mother actually died like this, ironically because the doctor accidentally gave her standard healing tech.

Now, there's a virus in this book that does several things in presice order:

1. Fatigue

2. Extreme Pain

3. Melting of small areas of ghe flesh

4. Expelling of a bad-smelling gas containing a neurotoxin which incites cannibalistic response in humans, though if they do eat of the flesh at the beginning of this phase (not too early and especially never too late) they will have immunity to the virus for 1 week

5. Cellular Bloating (yes you read that right

6. Explosion. Yes, Exlode in a big pink, fleshy mushroom cloud of cytoplasmic liquid which spreads the virus in a whopping 3 mile radius

Not pleasant at all. Oh yeah and if you take the antidote too late it blows up in your insides. Fun, right?!

If you're interested in that, the title is "This Mortal Coil"

I need to get back into meditation. I haven't done it in so long. At home I... Actually I never feel motivated. To do much of anything

Except when inspiration hits me, then I'll work sometimes for hours on something like a drawing, or a computer program, or a short story. Sometimes something completely silly

This sucks for time-limited things. I can't do anything well if I'm not inspired, or in the right mood, and sometimes I have no inspiration to do literally anything and it's lowkey depressing af

But right this was about meditation. I used to clock in an average of 45 min a day, I always felt motivated to do it, I was always reading new techniques, or meditation themes others tried, seasonal themes, Sabbat themes. But then idk, I kinda took a break from my spirituality to focus on myself and my social life. Now I just can't get back into it, and the thought of possibly having to start from 5 minutes a day again so I can work my way up to average again just seems deterring.

Maybe I can rejoin that old Amino I used to be in that always gave me inspiration for meditations

Maybe I'll do that, I'd just have to redownload Amino. And turn off all notifications from the app except for featured posts in a few niche aminos because otherwise it just blows you up. That's what I always hated about Amino

So, update on ze boy 

About a month ago I asked him if he was straight. Yup, no subtlety, just "So... Are you straight?"

I didn't ask if he was gay because I thought that was too obvious 

Anyways, his answer was simply "I... I don't really care" the bell rang, and he ran off quite quickly

Needless to say I was very confruzzled by this So I told myself I would ask what he meant the next day. Then I didn't because I was nervous. It was hard enough to ask the first time. Then a week passed. Then about a month... 

But today, I asked what his answer meant.

Instead of a response, I get silence, then he squints this death stare at me and says "Why do you keep asking?" This genuinely scared me so I said "...no reason" and stopped talking as my palm immediately formed an imprint of itself on the desk.

I only asked twice  The only reason I asked again was because I didn't get a straight answer

My friends all think he's closeted (Note: I didn't tell people who he is to protect his privacy, just that he's a boy I like) which is why he would dodge the question like this, and acts as though the mere question is inconveniencing him. A straight person would say "miss me with that gay shit" and move on. Not "I don't really care" and "why do you keep asking?"

So this boy I like...

I'm pretty sure he likes me back

See, he's a closed off person. He doesn't talk much or interact with other all too much either. That's part of his charm. But he talks to me quite abit.

Today I was joking around saying "I want to become a tech support agent just so I can fuck with customers in an Indian accent, asking them if the light is lit on their printer"

My teacher said I would get fired for racism and general inconvenience for the customer, and quite quickly

Cute boy looks at me and says "No, I thibk you should do it"

I say "Nah, I probably would get fired for that"

Then, cuteness overload, "Damn Snowflakes" and looks up at me with the dorkiest smirk

I almost worked up the courage to ask him out... Then I started shaking, sweating, and lost control of my voice

I'm such a failure, can't even talk to boys

So my Foxxo in Minecraft... Ran away? Died? I don't really know. All I know is that she was tied up on my front porch, I go to work on a project, come back, and she's gone, her lead nowhere to be found

She wouldn't have despawned, she was named Senko with a nametag (It was s red fox, I had to, I even planned to find an Arctic fox and name her Shiro). She could've died because I can't find her anywhere  

I can't imagine how she would've died though 

So I'm making a mineshaft in Minecraft, and I never put so much work into making a pretty mine. For awhile, I've been making a 2x2 hole, and putting water at the bottom, ladder back up, then mine at the bottom. I mean, it works, I can get down really fast.

But lately there's been a resurgence in minecarts of all things, in the Minecraft community, and I thought, wouldn't it be so cool to take a minecart down a spiraling corridor to get into your mine?

I'm also going to put in its own storage room before the stripmine area itself, so I can keep mining without returning to the surface. Eventually this room will be entirely retrofitted with autosorters and storage silos

I have the actual spiral down dug out, I just need to decorate the whole thing and then I can get started on the storage room, then the main hallway, and then I can start mining