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Cake day: April 18th, 2025

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  • Add Home/End buttons into your work flow to jump to the start or end of lines. Works with holding Shift as well.

    For me, one of the biggest things was removing all the visual noise from my desktop. Disable notifications, disable or hide unused taskbar elements, and on Windows, get rid of the patently awful ticker thing that lives on the taskbar. Disable window animations.

    I did the same thing on my phone, too, including disabling pop-up notifications, toasts, floating bubbles, and animations. My brain is much happier for it.











  • I got a monthly food box for my wife a number of years ago. Each month they sent snacks from a different country.

    I can’t remember which country it was from, but one month we got some round, hard candies. It was one of the most unfortunate things I have ever intentionally put into my mouth.

    I don’t even remember the flavor (licorice, maybe?), because my brain attempted to bleach it out.

    Everything else was usually tasty, though.



  • Strategy favorite: Root - it’s rules-heavy, but each faction functions completely differently, and the art is fantastic.

    Strategy blah: Axis and Allies. It’s more of a history lesson than a game, and I’ve never heard of a game taking less than four hours.

    Chance favorite: Egyptian War (goes by other names, I think). Technically it’s not pure chance, but mostly (which is probably why I like it).

    Chance blah: Left Center Right. The most mind-numbing experience.

    For the record, Bingo isn’t dull if you play it the way those older ladies do, with like 12 cards at a time. Then it’s just a rush of anxiety. Still not fun, but not dull.