One year, we decided to pass the new year eve in an uncleā€™s house at some god forsaken hole with our dog. After a neverending trip during wich our dog farted in the car, we finally arrive. The said uncle was a radical ecologist, wich is not a problem per se, except when his only conversation subject is about the ecological collapse, not the ideal subject for a good atmosphere, with in addition to that my sisterā€™s BF, who was with us, doing his Mr. know-it-all show. Then we went to sleep, and i realize that i forgot my earplugs. No luck, everyone in my family was snoring very loudly, including the dog. Result: i didnā€™t sleep at all and looked pretty much like a zombie the next morning.

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I always hate Christmas, so kind of all of them. My mom is a hoarder so it always starts with finding just enough space for that stupid tree. Iā€™d just prefer to be alone in silence.

Maybe when I was a kid and got a new phone. I kind of canā€™t act happy spontaneously, so I just had this ā€œlooking happy and surprisedā€ shit prepared. And it worked, rather too well. My dad insisted on recording me and then putting it on Facebook, and got mad at me because I disagreed with that. I think I just had to put up with it anyway.

2023 - He bought me some HP inkjet printer. I thanked him and explained I donā€™t need it, so that we could return it. Again, his usual speech about how useless he is, that he shouldnā€™t have been born, that he always wanted a happy family and never got that, ā€œOther men beat their wives and kids and they still love them. I donā€™t, perhaps thatā€™s where I made a mistake.ā€ and he canā€™t be talked to at least until the next day.
Same goes with any disagreement, even stuff like when I donā€™t want to watch a movie with him.
My momā€™s words of encouragement are that I am a heartless egoist like my father, that I should never get married, and how much I owe them because they gave me the gift of life. Former is likely true, I am a piece of shit indeed, but I didnā€™t decide to be born, they did that.

2022 - Just disappointing because I had better expectations.
It was Christmas Eve night already. I said Iā€™ll take the trash out, but also secretly took my phone, OTG cable, USB extension cord, RTL-SDR and the extendable dipole antenna. I expected OK-ish pass of NOAA-15 and a great high elevation pass of Meteor M2. I thought I could have some fun on Christmas maybe.
Well, I got the APT and DSB from NOAA-15, but I couldnā€™t detect any signal from the Meteor. Iā€™ve still seen what I think were Orbcomm sats, so it wasnā€™t fault in my setup.
Well, well, well. My luck - Meteor M2 has died earlier that day.
Bruhā€¦ What are the oddsā€¦

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