#i just wanted to document it ig im not really trying to make a statement or whatever just think abt it whatever you want

[penny-anna]

i bought a flat this week.

was off work sick last thursday/friday with what turned out to be the beginnings of a bad cold but at the time i was just like 'oh no why am i so tired is this the return of the Mystery Fatigue'

let's backtrack for a second!! back when i had the offer accepted on my flat my solicitor suggested october 6th as a move in date and i was like sure that works (this was around the beginning of september). then i didn't hear anything from them for many days and then i started getting major dry eye problems that became all consuming so i didn't get around to chasing them.

anyway!! tuesday last week i get an email from my solicitor like 'hi are you still able to complete friday' and i did not have the headspace to deal with it so i didn't reply

Wednesday my solicitor calls like 'hi. we need to know if you want to complete friday'. i'm like 'actually i'm really not feeling well this week, could we postpone'. she calls back a few minutes later like 'they cannot postone'. at this point i'm still thinking that if i get a decent night's sleep i'll feel better so i tell her i'll deal with it in the morning.

Thursday i feel spectacularly worse. have to get up to go to an appointment with my optometrist. almost start crying in their office bcos i'm just so exhausted. (he seemed weirdly unfazed by this?? looking back i wonder if he thought my eyes were hurting or something and didn't realise that i was holding back tears gfhglj) call out sick from work.

plan is to take a nap and then look at the documents my solicitor sent over but she calls me again like 'hi. sorry to bother you i know you're sick but can we complete today' so i'm like ah shit ig we're doing this now. please walk me through exactly what you need me to do here. 'we just need you to send us the money'. yeah i can do that. i've never made a payment this big before tho.

(i'm buying w money inherited from my mother so even for a flat purchase it's an unusually large amount of money)

'oh yeah you won't be able to that online. *pause* are you well enough to go to the bank?' i am tired enough that going to the bank will suck but not so sick i cannot go to the bank.

i had gone fully back to bed. spurred on by sudden wave of adrenaline, get out of bed and dressed and get the bus into town to the bank.

my bank closes at 3pm weekdays and by the time i get that it's about 1:45. explain the situation. turns out that to make a payment this big you need a sit-down meeting with a member of staff and they are booked solid till 3. 'can you come back tomorrow at 9:30 when we open' *dying inside* yes. i can come back tomorrow at 9:30.

go home. remember that i'd told my manager that i'd call her at 9 to let her know if i'm going to be working (i will defo not be working & she knows this) which will be tricky if i have to leave at 9 to go to the bank. have a pretty interminable IM conversation via microsoft teams about this wherein i suggest i message her first thing and call a bit later and she isn't going for it. eventually agree to call at 9 just so i can end the conversation and go to sleep.

Friday morning end up calling my manager from the bus. get to bank. whole thing takes a full 30 minutes so yeah i can see why they couldn't fit me in thursday afternoon ghfdljkfhdj. i'm so so tired. they have to go over a whole fraud prevention statement with you. 'you should be aware that scammers can pretend to be your solicitor'. me, exhausted: okay what if just this one time. a scammer is pretending to be my solicitor.

make the payment. go home to sleep finally.

later in the afternoon get another call from the solicitor. 'hi we have the keys you can come get them whenever'. oh yeah i'd been so caught up in trying to get them the money i'd kinda forgotten about. actually getting the flat.

(side note at no point was i planning to move in on 'moving day', an advantage of being a first time buyer is that i don't have to & i want to redecorate the place which is easier while it's empty)

initially say i'll come in next week but then realise that ideally next week i'll be back at work (i am not but anyway) so i might as well go now. it's pushing 4pm so will need to head out ASAP.

eyes are very dry and itchy from sleeping all day but fortunately i just (on a recommendation from my optometrist) bought a thing called a facial sauna which is a very weird contraption but does work extremely quickly.

pack my eye drops and also a peanut butter sandwich to eat in my new flat (why not) and go get the keys.

arrive at the flat. on inspection realise that the envelope i've been given seems to contain the most random assortment of loose keys. eventually identify an actual set of keys.

put my key in the lock of the flat door. abruptly hear a cat meowing, somewhere very close by.

previous owner had cats (plural) (i know this bcos i saw them when i was viewing the place). have a sudden moment of panic that i've somehow wildly misunderstood the whole situation and that she and her cats are still in residence.

look down. there is a very large, very fluffy white cat standing next to me, looking up at me as if expecting to be let in.

'you can't come in. this is my house.'

make my first mistake: think that if i open the door i will be able to prevent the cat from entering.

cat goes straight on into my flat.

i'm now pursuing the cat from room to room saying 'hey! hey you can't be in here! this is my house!'. the cat doesn't give a shit for obvious reasons (it is a cat)

i might have considered just shooing the cat outside and shutting the door but have arrived at an IMO not unreasonable concern. cat seemed very determined to enter this flat in particular and is now roaming around as if looking for something. previous owner had multiple cats and moved out AFAIK today. i have heard stories about people accidentally leaving cats behind when they move.

at this point it's 4:55 on a Friday. call my solicitor and explain the situation. ask if she could pass on a message to the seller's solicitor. unfortunately they have already closed for the week so it will have to wait till Monday but she will do her best.

decide the next course of action is to see if the cat has any ID. the cat is wearing a harness & collar so might have a tag with an address. make my second mistake: pick the cat up.

the cat does not have any ID on the harness. the cat does NOT like being picked up. cat gets very squirmy and then begins scratching me. cat manages to break my skin through a hoodie.

i put the cat down. the cat hisses at me. this is very rude considering that it is in my house.

head across the landing to see if the people opposite are missing a cat or, failing that, know their neighbours well enough to recognise the cat. there's no answer.

however!! i hear a voice down in the stairwell that sounds like it could be someone calling out a cat's name. 'hi!! is someone down there looking for a cat?' no answer.

look down the stairwell. on the ground floor there is a very large fluffy brown cat wearing a harness. !!!!! that is my cat's friend!

retrieve the cat from my flat (fortunately it just follows me out) and head downstairs. am met partway up by the cat's owner.

'oh thank god is this your cat'. it is her cat. apparently she had opened her front door to let them out into the garden and it had wandered off. 'i just moved in today it came into my flat'.

she is very apologetic. cat is unrepetent.

go back inside. call my solicitor's office. 'hi was it you i spoke to just now about the cat' (I told 2 people about the cat) 'no i just answered the phone because it was ringing. what cat.' 'can you tell *solicitor's name* that i have found the cat's owner. she will know what you mean'.

problem solved!! time to eat my peanut butter sandwich. :)

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[ohboyblessed]

I guess no more Once - A - Day, I’ll just keep shared learning and knowledge to myself, for right now, until I have peers and classmates again.

But one thing that I did find funny, was that on the news, NYC took up the term “Blended Learning” something we @ UNLV had been doing and labeled it as such a mix of online and in classroom learning. ( I also looked into the types of effective learning, something for a paper or something) So as for “shared learning,” I mean unless we’re business partners or something, I can only INFORM you of a new product or innovation through advertising or word of mouth that I’m offering a new service and/or product. I just got an update, in which Bayer is a partner in this content : ugh I'm going to have to ignore this "nope," virus and move on anyways, I'm not exactly sure what it is but I don't have the time and/or resources to figure it out. Vitamins, even though its a good preventative measure, as this statement is approved : "Prevention is better than cure, and improved knowledge of our bodies is helping people stay healthier for longer." It's stated, "medicines are the most common medical intervention but making them is expensive and reassuringly difficult." Question : Then why do we need AI Elliot. Because, well we can look at how the political system in Singapore is constructed... I Mean, it was said to be a good system, but after a global pandemic, and a city emergency? I'd need to be updated in how it held up and what losses occurred if any happened, afterwards of something like COVID19, to make any opinions about the strength of the structure in how they innovated their system into a smart city metropolis. \]\ But we would need AI, in case of an emergency if we were to shutdown a government service, even temporarily? AI would need to override its system and act as a functioning human behind a computer, if for say, I call a number and it's an automated voice system, and I press "2" for DMV records, such as is whats needed to to verify residency at UNLV or any college? That it would act on behalf of a human, and mail me the records, which would mean building a conveyor belt system that grabs the envelope, prints the document, seals it, stamps it/meters... and in its system, logs that it sent me out the request, then the USPS, scans it, receivable, put in the pile for hold on when I Was in the garage, I heard a door shut, I thought it was my pops, so I just \now checked outside but it wasn't must have been the neighbor. but okay now that document is in the mail, now (we are not creating autonomous cars for this, we can't) the mailman, is ready for its delivery. that's how one year (I read this on Microsoft News just prior to my attending UNLV my first half semester there) we saved countless of lives, by sending out a piece of mail to americans via the IRS. but when I went outside, just now... it felt empty. it sometimes just feels empty, it doesn't feel like, full of vibes and aura as it did when I locked myself in my room at UNLV looked out the window and it was... idk like, happy go lucky world, even 2 girls were laying on the grass just down below, they got up, laughing. but for some things, even just that, in emergency services if something happened, we would need AI for things we cannot do and/or calculate such as repurpose existing drugs (as it does finding new flavors of beer, which is why... after I had the desire to create a new energy drink, i had this funny feeling that it created 2 new flavors : Silver can of 3D and a 1000 BCAA Rockstar) like as for the anti-depressant that could help combat lung cancer. some people are in pain, and first we need to make it so that it is tolerable, life and comfort of living.   if people need jobs? then I mean, me studying science and, the elements in how to create and make something, is needed but it seems as if we're so far into the future, it's already achieved and successed, such as the UAE, one 3d printing company found a material that in which they can make microbial surfaces, to adapt to the COVID19 epidemic, which makes it possible to create surfaces for construction that are less susceptible to germs and it's multiplying of the germ cells. "so why do you need chemistry, Elliot." are you really going to out my wanting and desire of a high-cost project someday? we'll have everybody looking into it, like... okay if you found gold. a gold mine. would you tell everybody hey guys I found a gold mine? its here . probably not. some of the elements are rarer than gold. which makes it very expensive, but if I found how to duplicate it, and then commercialize it into manufacturing by finding out how to find or build an ecosystem that is sustainable for its reproduction and growth  /   I would. that's why geography is important, but as for if you need jobs?> 3d printing is important and that's where DOW chemical comes in, you'd have to speak with them, and newly graduates, for example, as I requested 10,000 units of one item/product a few months ago? im not sure how many jobs it would create and for how long, but it would give purpose, and I found that when I lost purpose or it felt as if my efforts wouldn't be noticed? I lost it. broke down. I felt even more lonely. so I have samples of a product/item and I need to open the box still. but I have lots of faith in it, and I love the idea of it, but we need to do this as a whole, but in a free market economy, I mean... i can read the forgotton man , and explain how to overcome a monopoly, but , will you read it? and will it apply to you? probably not, but some things are common sense, as i explained to cortana when I was trying to configure her human genome : did you need to be told about Newton's law and that what goes up, must come down? or did you already know that gravity exists, before you were told of the person who came up with the theory in order for the explanation to be approved? \ adminelliot stepa1.com ohboyblessed.com adminelliot@stepa1.com ces@stepa1.com IG : adminelliot