Apparently today there was a foodfest in the city, so I’ve decided to go and check it out. There was a big line for place where you buy tickets, so I decided to buy a ticket online. After doing it, I realized I need a paper thingy to pass, so I went in line anyway… But then after standing the entire time in line, apparently I could’ve just walked in as people with online tickets pass without immediately. Amazing.

There was quite a lot of different food there, it was quite hard to decide what to buy.

I found bubble tea stand, and bought it to try for the first time ever:

Then I got this:

Everything was nice, but I didn’t like shrimp that much because I didn’t really know how to properly clean it.

I walked around some more and listened to the music. Bought corn and some meat.

Then bought and tried churros for the first time too:

And then decided to leave. I had mixed thoughts about going there, in general it was fine, but I was alone and I don’t like crowd and loud places thaaat much, so I didn’t really enjoy it. But I got to try some cool stuff for the first time, so it was definitely worth it.

Added uploading videos and audios, gallery view for photos (that you can see in this entry).

I don’t like when I have multiple things to do at once, but none of them are urgent. At first half of the day I just rotted in bed, because I couldn’t decide if I want to switch Nekoweb to new server or if to start doing the VPN. I was thinking of monitoring this server for a bit before switching Nekoweb, which is why I’m a little hesistant to do it right now.

Brother came over, so we talked and went outside to walk around. As we went through the park, we found scooter that you can rent, and my brother decided that it’d be fun to try it out for the first time ever. But for some reason scooter went really slowly, so we quickly abandoned it. As he stopped, app showed that we were apparently in «forbidden zone» and he got a fine for leaving scooter in it. It’s also why scooter was slow. That’s actually dumb as fuck. We didn’t even know we are in it, and when we stopped, we couldn’t go back to move it from there to remove the fine. No wonder everyone hates these apps.

We bought a slushie, and for the first time ever in my life I got what people call "brain freeze", which actually made me scared for a bit, but it went away quickly. For some reason my brother was not affected and never got it.

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When we went back there was police and ambulance for drunk person.

No idea what that was about.

Added maintenance mode to Nekoweb. I think I’ll start the move to new server tomorrow.

Played more Yume 2kki. We went through a pretty difficult place to reach a beautiful scenery.

By going to the left you reach Secret Society. A piano plays… It sounds a bit tragic — people in the building seem to all work on something, and it feels like the world is ending and they’re trying to save it.

I really enjoy places that actually seem to have thought and story in them, and this one really feels like it. It reminded me of OneShot in a way…

Between Secret Society and house place there’s this liminal room, which I really like.

Yume 2kki is full of worlds that just have a bunch random garbage sprayed around and you just have to walk though copypasted images until you’re lucky enough to find something (or more often just look up the map). I really dislike that. I haven’t been in that many worlds so far, but even now it’s easy to see what worlds had actually big effort and thought put into them and what weren’t.

Unfortunately vast majority are the bad kind.

Had a very long dream that I was in Yume 2kki, which was very, very cool. I always wanted to be inside such dreamy locations. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

Went outside to withdraw money for rent. Got carbonara for breakfast.

Rested in the park.

I thought that anime shop has closed forever, but nope! I was just always unlucky with timing. I bought some cool things:

Updated diary to support multiple image uploads and zoom (image viewer) on all images.

Been kinda researching how other VPNs work, seems like they just use WireGuard under the hood. Maybe I should just use that too, since it has clients for every OS.

Played Yume 2kki again at the end of the day. Drank kiwi Ramune, and it actually has quite a mild flavor. I expected it to be super saturated or something, I’m not sure if I’m disappointed or not.

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Chill day. Didn’t really do anything. Thought of attending piano classes some day. Went to buy groceries. Wrote tax documents.

"I am normal and can be trusted with grocery shopping"

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Just like yesterday, it’s extremely hot today. And weather forecast is saying that it’ll be hot literally every single day that’s available (10 days).

I think summer is my least favorite season. I really enjoy nature, but the heat and bugs are so annoying it drags down the whole experience to the bottom.

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Roommate asked me to go outside for a hour for some reason, so I went to the park. I’ve noticed that today I have really bad vision for some reason. I have myopia, and it varies a lot. Like between 2 times worse and better. It made it kind of hard to find good places to photo.

I sat on a bench and zoned out for about 30 minutes, listening to the birds playing in the trees.

After that I started walking around, searching for a place to eat.

Cozy, but I decided to not go in there.

Stopped in a more boring place, and ordered Tom Yang Kung, which I really liked last time.

Then I went home.

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Started Japanese grammar Anki deck today. I realized that I know quite a lot of words (about 1500) but I barely know grammar. It’s finally time to catch up.

Apparently today is the █████████████████, so there’s a lot of celebrations in city’s centre.

My parents called me and asked me if I wanted to come with them to city’s centre, which I agreed. █████████████████████████████, which immediately ruined the entire walk for me.

We went to park and there was some singer, but we didn’t really like their songs much so we went to walk some more around the water. After that we went to city square and I bought belgium waffle and lemonades. I didn’t like both much :( Lemonade basically tasted like normal water, and I don’t really like sweet things that much, especially hot ones, so I didn’t really enjoy the waffle.

After that we went back to park and there were new singers, which we liked much more. They were singing and letting the crowd sing with them, so it was quite fun (and I sang a bit too).

Then we talked a bit and mom kept saying that she wants to go somewhere to eat, and I would come with them and pay for it, but because ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████, so I just said that I wanna go home. Then we parted ways.

At the end of the day I finally basically finished Diary! Only nice lamp effect is left. I imported all of the entries and just continuing to write rn. Cool.

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Dad called me and told me he’ll bring me to their house today. Looked at the new roof at the house, ate with parents and touched cat.

After few hours at home got message from potential █████████████ customer, so we started preparing to go back home. Went to supermarket with parents and bought some tasty treats. Came home and fell asleep for 3 hours. Then deployed the thing and worked on Diary some more. Now lightbulb is actually physical.

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I’ve been doing nothing and then my brother called and told me that he’s coming over in a few hours. In mean time roommate came home and went into his room. Then my brother came over and visited roommate, but he wasn’t very talkative (even though they’re best friends) so we decided to go outside to a restaurant. My brother has a bike and we used it to get there.

We got to a pretty fancy restaurant and I ordered Tom Yang Kung, which I always wanted to try. I think that trying out food for the first time should always happen in best restaurants ever so you can actually taste how it should be at it’s peak. Because if you’ll have first bad experience you’ll probably say "I don’t like [food name]" for the rest of your life, even though you just got a bad version of it.

We talked about roommate a bit, apparently when he was supposed to run away, he actually went quite far (to Dnipro) but then he got into car accident and had to comeback. My brother said that he almost completely stopped talking to him and avoids him for some reason, and says that he seems to be suffering from depression. My brother has been trying to offer help and was nice to him but he seems to dismiss all of that. Because I almost never talk with my roommate, I don’t really feel anything about this situation, he’s still basically a stranger to me.

Then we talked about my current situation, and after that he told about his trip to Carpathians, in which he climbed the Hoverla, the highest mountain in Ukraine. The food was great. I ordered Tom Yang Kung and a steak while he ordered sushi.

After a long chat and eating the food we had to start going because brother had to pick someone up.

Bikes are scary and cool.

Overall this was really nice. I really, really want to go outside more. Ever since this all happened my life kinda feels like it’s on pause. I can’t go outside much, and I can’t really do anything without thinking that it’s all pointless. I bought all these electronics thinking I’d spent this entire summer building some cool things, and just after I built my first actually useful thing (thermometer) this all happened… And after that I stopped doing any electrical stuff because it feels really pointless given ███████████████████████████████…

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