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I had a relatively normal weekend, going to the cinema and discussing Batman-related stuff with my SO.

We had been actively apartment hunting for all the weekends before, where we treated every house visitation as a date night of sorts. We found the perfect apartment, had our hearts set on it, decided to sleep on it one night, and were scooped the next morning by another couple. Heartbroken. Putting the search of pause for now, and deciding to just enjoy our time together.

Bittersweet afterthought: Do you ever just look at the world sometimes and think, "it does not need to be like this." ?

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

> We found the perfect apartment, had our hearts
> set on it, decided to sleep on it one night,
> and were scooped the next morning by another
> couple. Heartbroken.

Aw, dang.

> Bittersweet afterthought: Do you ever just
> look at the world sometimes and think,
> "it does not need to be like this." ?

Perpetually. :-)

My wife has had to heard me say "Why can't this world just fucking *work*?!?!!!?" countless times. And I'm not talking about overt evil, but rather Murphy's tendency to require something that takes a couple minutes to accomplish to be preceded by a prerequisite that one would never have thought of as being a prerequisite, e.g.:

- Finding an attachment/battery/key/combination.

- Learning the damned thing somehow doesn't work for the first time ever, therein taking gobs of tedious time to debug.

- After 30 minutes of dishes, with a just a few minutes to spare before something one was really looking forward to commences, there's just one dish left, but reaching for it leads to spilling something that takes another 20 minutes to clean up.

(It occurs to me that this world could be pretty damned amazing sans "Murphy's Law" and "The Eternal September"....)