silent night, weary and bright

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:09:20 GMT

I'm feeling increasingly alienated from other people. But actually, no. I already felt that way. About everyone actually. Every single one. My mom, after having had a bit too much to drink perhaps, said a couple of things which disappointed me. And I thought, even her, such words? But she, like so many others, loves her God that she believes in. So, I was already alienated from her in that regard. This was just one more thing.

I'm free. Free as a bee without a hive.

But I still get along fine with people. Everyone seems fine and sane and dandy until they speak on certain topics.

Today I downloaded this year's tax forms, and printed out the ones I'll need. This is the first year since 2014 I got that done before March. So I'm a step ahead, yay. Can't say when I'll get the forms filled in, but still. Might be tomorrow even.

I also got registered on my company's new 401k website. That was quite a hassle. 401k websites are some of the most unfriendly ones I've encountered. Both the old one and the new one. Turns out I already had an account on the new one. Apparently from about 20 years ago, when my company was dealing with them before under a different name.

me: Register as a new user
site: You've already got an account! Do you want to find out your user name, or reset your password?
me: Find out my user name.
site: Your user name doesn't adhere to our new standards. You have to change it! In order to change it, you need to tell us your password.
me: Cancel
me: Register as a new user
site: You've already got an account! Do you want to find out your user name, or reset your password?
me: Reset password
site: We've sent you a verification code to your email address
me: Oh, so I don't need to know my old user name in order to reset my password. That's a relief. Here's the code
site: Cool! You can change your password now. And by the way, you need to change your user name too.
...
me: Ok, all done. Now where's my 2019 account statement?
site: I've only got data starting from 12/31/2019 because that's when the transfer happened.
me: That makes sense. But wait, you don't even provide downloadable PDF statements? I have to save a screenshot each time? This site is no improvement over the old one.

Yesterday I went through old paper documents from work and got rid of a big stack of mostly obsolete stuff. I scanned a bunch of stuff too. Now there is space in the cabinet for new papers.

I read some articles yesterday about accidents in the last few years involving self-driving cars. I hadn't realized there were normal cars with that functionality already being used by normal drivers, as opposed to special cars still being trained and tested by special people. It's a sorta scary thought, that some of the cars I encounter on the road may not react like a human-driven car would.

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Darkoshi

silent night, weary and bright