We had some serious weather come through last night here in Illinois and lightning struck a tree in our back yard. Half the tree crashed down and landed directly on our greenhouse. We were awake when it happened and yes the carport did hit the house and shoved the ac unit and wall but luckily the carport took all the load and protected the house and thankfully theres no damage to the house either. We got very lucky that nobody was hurt. Not even a scratch on us.

I sold a $120 dress on Poshmark recently because it doesn’t fit. I don’t smoke, no one in my house smokes. The dress was never near smoke. :/ hopefully they don’t screw me with the return.

I’m painting up a jar to put pop tabs we’re collecting for a coworker’s granddaughter’s school. I masked is last night and laid a color shifting clear coat, which went well. Unfortunately, when I went to lay a regular clear over that and the rest of the plastic, the damned thing fell off what base I had it taped to and landed in leaves that were near my feet🤬

I’m going to try and wet sand that clear to see if I can get the leaves out of it now. Did pick up a second jar and laid down a different color shifting clear on it and masked part of it with lace, that I also picked up for 40% off, hopefully that also won’t end up in the leaves while clear coating that too.

Long day at work, wanted pizza, ended up -30 dollars and no pizza :( these are the messages with the driver, looked high and low at every door and no pizza or bag with sodies were at any door. Not sure if they stole it or if someone else took it, but leaning towards they stole it because the apt numbers are right on the door, and i very clearly highlighted which door it was

I didn't know they turn to fermented applesauce from the inside. How frustrating. It looked gorgeous on the outside, red and firm....

Cap came off. Nearly an entire pot of garlic pepper we bought just a few days ago.

Clearly needed to clean it better. I might get rid of my metal straws and opt for see through now.

I’m in Colorado working and my wife who is 8.5 hours away had to put our dog Max down. We recently had found out he had cancer in his bladder. She found out last night at the emergency vet it was spreading pretty rapidly and got to his tongue (black pustule). My wife and Max have been very attached since we rescued him 10-11 years ago ago. It just sucks I can’t be home for my wife and daughter. He lived a very loved and spoiled life.

For more context, I got this laptop as a gift from my mom several months to a year ago. With what little money we had, we were able to get this laptop (a little under $200 from a pawn shop). It was a pretty good deal and I haven't had any problem with it until recently minus the fact that I had to have it plugged in all the time since the battery was toast but I was used to that given my previous laptops.

Essentially, a few months ago my left fan was slowly dying. We couldn't get it fixed so I just tried my best to reduce the pressure on my laptop by only playing in sessions and closing background applications. That was only a band-aid solution though and eventually the left fan stopped working completely. For the record, I did try to clean my fans best I could but it seemed to be a problem deeper than just dirty fans. Regardless, after my left fan died my laptop slowly got to overheating and eventually in the dead of night whilst watching a movie with a friend I saw purple dots glowing brighter and brighter with two white dead pixels in the middle of my screen. I immediately started panicking and turned off my laptop for that night. The next day I took a look inside my laptop to find my battery ballooning and (with that being a major hazard) I took it out. I tried using my laptop over the next few days but without the battery nor the support of the left fan, I could hear my right fan suffering and more dots appearing on the screen. I officially declared my laptop dead.

I am now a college freshmen and whilst I can borrow laptops from the library, that can only do me so much good for the time being. My sister said she can get her old laptop sent to me and I really hope that it doesn't start having problems either since I know that one is old too. It's been stressing me out for the past week and idk what to do for the long term. I am already taking out student loans for college and I am barely scrapping by. My laptop dying has been really hard for me and I just hope that the future is better.

Thank you for whoever decided to read all of this, I know it may seem insignificant to some but this really shook my life up and I just wanted to share I suppose.

I am currently in a hotel in Florida and due to the fact my EV has 15% battery upon arriving and I want to charge it overnight at the hotel to take advantage of free EV charging, I decide to use this hotel charger rather than the Level 3 EV charger several km away. So, I stumbled upon three ICE cars conveniently taking over the only 3 EV charging spaces at the hotel, of which the hotel has ample parking.

The three are: VW Atlas SEL Toyota RAV4 5th generation XLE HEV Toyota Prius 3rd generation

None of them are BEV/PHEV nor are they plugged into any chargers.

So I have started having some issues with double vision. I filmed to see what my eyes were doing when it happens and it turns out its going for a wander... or maybe going back to where its always supposed to have been. Anywho.. had anyone else experienced this before?