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No luck

Well, I have finished off the Slimfast and the CLA and Fish Oil pills. I still have some raspberry ketones left and most of the persimmon leaf tea. The tea was bland and I felt hungry most of the time. The ketones were spicy and made my urine smell extra awful.

I haven’t lost any weight though I have built up quite a bit of stamina, I am much more limber now.

I won’t bother buying any more pills or Slimfast. This feels like another failed New years resolution. Exercises at this point are just to add some routine to my schedule.

Voted

The weather was nice so I went out to the poll today. They had a nice little station setup with hand sanitizer and individual pens. The pens also stood in for the little “I Voted” stickers you usually get at the end.

I put my votes in for the Libertarian candidates on the ballot, same as every election. I’ve been a libertarian since 2008 and really feel at home with the party.

Break time

I’m taking a week of vacation starting today. I’ll be lounging about the house watching K-dramas and playing DDO.

Although that is basically what I do every day, now I can do it without having to work in between.

I have a bunch of packages arriving from my orders on Amazon Prime Day.

I signed up for the free trial of Amazon Prime and bought the Tineco A10 Hero Stick Vacuum that I see all the time in Chinese and Korean shows.

I also bought two Fire 7 tablets, a 128GB flash drive, a 32GB micro SD card, a Microsoft Lifecam, and the Roku Ultra.

There are some other items I ordered, but at the moment I don’t recall what those were.

I spent around $300 on a variety of credit cards. I got discounts using both my personal and business AMEX cards and some of my Chase cards.

I did use my Amazon Business Prime AMEX for some buys after the discounts ran out, since I got 5% back with that one.

All of my image uploads are failing, so no pictures of the loot.

My new computer

I recently got the Rewards+ card from Citi and they had a nice bonus when you spend $1000. I got 20k points plus I’ll get a 10% bonus on redemption.

I decided earlier this month it was time for a new computer so when I saw the signup bonus I felt like the stars had aligned.

I ordered the CyberpowerPC Gamer Extreme GXI1280. It has a 4gb video card which a big step up from my old R7 360. I’m looking forward to playing in Sharn (DDO) with this computer.

Starbucks

Well, with the reward program changing tomorrow, I decided to cash out my rewards.

I have a bagful of sandwiches for lunch now. I asked the barista to pick out a bunch, as they didn’t have 7 of just 1 type of sandwich.

The register actually got stuck partway through and stopped printing receipts. However, I was able to see in my app that the rewards had been used.

Thankfully, there wasn’t a line, and the staff were very considerate despite my hefty request.