{"id":10108,"date":"2026-09-13T23:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=10108"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:25:22","slug":"catastrophic-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/catastrophic-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Catastrophic Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We slept many hours. Summer, as usual, had many more than me. I woke up first, but we got out of bed around the same time. Power flickered overnight, so I had to start my computer up again. Shortly after I got it back up, power flickered again and I ended up losing all of my Tabs Outliner history. That extension has been critical for any projects I&#8217;ve had to research, so I spent literally the entire day trying to recover from that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer made brunch for us out of some sausage and eggs we had in the refrigerator. Eaddie left. A new shower head was delivered, so I got that installed. I spent more time trying to recovery my Tabs Outliner, but eventually gave up and rolled back to my last good backup over a month ago. By that time, I needed to take Muad&#8217;Dib out for a run. I also wanted to have a good dinner, so I took the Pint X to my parents&#8217; house and warmed up the leftover fish soup while my parents were out watering the plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afterward we rode straight back home. I never could get the Pint over 10mph, which seemed strange. I guess I never really felt pushback, but it just felt like it wasn&#8217;t accelerating any further, and I didn&#8217;t want to nosedive. It didn&#8217;t help that it wouldn&#8217;t even make it straight up the driveway without nosediving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we got back in, I happened to notice that Summer put some parts of the coffee maker into the dishwasher that weren&#8217;t dishwasher safe. I didn&#8217;t feel like I blew up at her, but I still had to dig things out of the running dishwasher and clean up the mess. Two components were plainly labeled as not dishwasher-safe. She also left a pretty obvious sticker in place, so that came off in the wash. All of that ultimately lead to a small fight, and I simply couldn&#8217;t understand how she could possibly feel like she had any kind of argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s always simple, stupid stuff, but I don&#8217;t know how much more I can stand. I feel like my life was on a steady upward climb before I met her. I was moving upward with my career, and I was cleaning up my home. I let my own home suffer when I started spending most of my time with her at her house. I saw things in her life that I felt like we could improve as a team. Then I allowed the whirlwind of storm damage to my home, my desire to expand my property, and B\u00e1c V\u00e2n&#8217;s unexpected death to push me to move into a new home with her. It&#8217;s been an absolute freefall from that point forward. I can&#8217;t get any traction on any project, I&#8217;m constantly frustrated or angry, I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m respected, and the only thing I can do to provide any happiness for myself is actively making everyone else unhappy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe I&#8217;ll figure it out tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Why am I here?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We slept many hours. Summer, as usual, had many more than me. 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