Friday Bitch & Brag
September 1, 2023 Edition
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Gather ‘round, kids!
Bitch: It is cricket season and ant season here, which means I do a lot of cursing about finding cricket carnage (because cats) or hormigas popping up on the kitchen table. We have Terro traps tucked in corners the cats can’t get to, and electronic cricket deterrent thingys, but they all still find their way into the house.
Brag: I finally get to go on a trip this year! In a couple weeks I’ll head to my aunt’s house and go with her and my uncle to Canada, where we will spend a few days at my cousin’s lodge way out in the bush. Grateful to Pops for covering my flight.
Bitch: Still dealing with bouts of insomnia and fatigue, and on Wednesday that was coupled with a major attitude problem. I blame the full moon.
Brag: I have started doing YouTube workouts with Fitness by PJ, a fitness instructor who creates workouts specifically for people over 40. She’s got a good sense of humor, her moves are rarely complicated, and her voice doesn’t annoy me. Plus there isn’t any distracting music on her videos, which I appreciate.
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Bitch: One last website is having SSL certificate reissue problems to the point I had to contact support—and they offered an answer that didn’t make sense to me because I didn’t recall having to do what they said with the other sites. I have reissued the certificate multiple times now, followed the site host’s convoluted instructions, and still cannot get the site to load.
Brag: One of my favorite Substacks launched a Discord yesterday and already I’m happy to have a new outlet to talk with like-minded souls about writing, astrology, books, cats…
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