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 rape 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: shitoko Minds - Elvis Prestly (1969)