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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • My wife and I had just moved and were living in my relative’s field in a 5th wheel while we arranged to have a house built. The pandemic hit and construction immediately stopped, so we continued living in that 5th wheel for another six months. The two of us, a dog, and three cats. I shockingly didn’t get laid off but didn’t have any work to do, so I just slept and played video games.

    We bought a house in June, at the very bottom of our market. We couldn’t afford our house now, even if interest rates were still super low. We definitely couldn’t afford to build the house we could have afforded to build in early 2020, despite making nearly twice as much as when we first moved here. Fuck this economy.

    Anyhow… We moved in, then the whole west coast lit on fire. The skies were dark purple some days. It was wild. I still didn’t have much to do at work, so video games and naps it was. I found a half face respirator and a cache of P100 filter cartridges while unpacking, so I got to go around feeling invincible for the rest of the pandemic. That was nice.