Still getting used to this whole gopher phlog thing, but I think I'm getting the hang of it. Only issue I seem to be having at this current moment is how to keep my phlog updated on gopher.club, considering it does not automatically update once I make a new entry. If anyone knows the solution please let me know.

Anyways, today was pretty decent. Had to go into work at 7am, I work as a local diner just for some cash in my pocket. It's quite hard to find a cybersec job at my age, especially in my area, so this diner is pretty much all I have until I can afford to ditch it. I have plenty of stories from the diner, maybe they will slowly make their way into the random thoughts section of my gopherhole, some day.

Back to the story though. The day was kind of boring. I was on the line, cooking for old people too early in the morning, it was really slow compared to most mornings honestly, and yet I kept managing to get recpies messed up. Im quite new to being on the line, cooking food. Usually i'm a dishwasher but these few weeks are an exception as they needed someone to cover some shifts while another employee is out. I feel like I did an aweful job, I messed up frequently, the waitresses knew when I was messing up, but I could never tell how they actually felt about me today. It's quite obvious when they don't like someone, they like to blab about it to everyone else but you if you are on their bad list, and it's quite obvious to watch.

I didn't see any of that though, instead they were coming to me a lot, talking about some of the other waitress's poor performances, and I'll be honest. I don't want to hear any of it. There's someone who is a waitress there that while I used to be friends with, we are not anymore, and she was one of the waitresses mentioned. That's a story I may find myself telling at some point, but nowhere near today. I don't want to hear her name, I don't want to hear what she has been up to, I dont want to hear any of this, and people know my stance on this, and yet they just magically forget and keep bringing her up to me, today was no different.

Some days I just want to scream at them about this, but I hold it back for my own sanity, and to keep my job. Other than that whole fisco, everything went pretty normal. The waitresses and other cooks claim im doing a good job, but I wonder just how much of that is "make him think hes doing good" rather than me actually doing decent. I grabbed a taxi home as soon as I clocked out of work, I don't want to interact with anyone there more than I have to. As soon as I got home I hopped on gopher and wrote this up.

I enjoy gopher as a place to find new enjoyment, learn about random people's lives, random pieces of history some people claim to be true, and all the random images of random people who are way more sucessful than I will ever be. It's quite comforting honestly. Without all the bloat of Web3.0, I find myself sifting through lots of information faster. I sort of stuck to SDF because they seem to just have everything I need, hosting + a list directory to view other people's work without too much searching involved, + the other free services and features they have to offer just makes it a cozy place to hang out. I have been attempting to branch out more though, using the list of known gopher servers on floodgap's server to try and find new infromation. If I find anything super useful or interesting, I'll make sure to bookmark it here so hopefully it has some use with other people as well.

I have been writing for quite awhile now, so I should probably stop there. Thank you for reading my little rant I went into, I will probably do that quite a bit ngl. But I feel like this is a safe place to do so, Can't really rant to my friends about most things I want to talk about for many reasons, so they will get dumped here, but some people enjoy that. Hopefully my pain causes someone else joy, or something.

-punchinglikes