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 * file: karbytes_10_january_2024.txt
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 * date: 11_JANUARY_2024
 * author: karbytes
 * license: PUBLIC_DOMAIN
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The situation I have been in for almost the entire period I have been either employed or else unemployed during the past five years is almost never having sufficient funds in my bank accounts or in my PayPal balances to afford being able to immediately replace my Android smartphone in case my current Android smartphone gets lost, stolen, or too damaged for me to use.

(I have been using my Android phone to establish a mobile Internet connection to (a) publish digital content like this journal entry on the public World Wide Web, (b) to send and receive phone calls and text messages between my phone number and other phone numbers, (c) to select Amazon FLEX shifts from the Amazon A to Z application or website, (d) to do the majority of my media consumption (through social media platforms, news websites, and blogs), and (e) to set a loud alarm to help wake me up early in the morning or to signal to myself that I am running out of time at whatever "task" I am "residing" in so that I can smoothly transition to the next "task" without feeling that I am "falling behind schedule" (and, if I seem a bit "regimented" in this journal entry, I am merely attempting to make fun of the fact that, according to some people (real or imagined), I am "overly regimented" and hence "should" be forced to under go more "no ops" and not to be so "productivity oriented" and, instead, "just be chill" and "hang out" on the "sidelines" more like "regular people" (especially "their" wimmin) are "supposed to" do almost exclusively).

(I admit that the end part of the previous paragraph of this journal entry is a bit biased, myopic, and denigrating. I decided to include that part anyway because I think it relates to some of the themes which seem to persist throughout my journey towards ever greater autonomy, well-being, and knowledge (because, as I have established for myself is a "life purpose" of believing in the potential for me and other persons to attain immortality (or at least to approach immortality) through technological and metaphysical "workarounds" to what used to seem like more of an insurmountable obstacle to increased longevity and potency (and I find if useful for me to imagine that I am an "undercover" inter-universal being which has temporarily forgotten some of what it normally has access to knowing in order to complete some mission as the humanoid avatar I happen to be "playing" as I write this note)).

(What has been bothering me for the past three days was having my bicycle tire go flat and not being able to ride it while it was cold, windy, and rainy (and my commute time has been lengthened by three to six hours per day given that I default to walking when my bicycle is out of commission). What I "fear" is happening is that "some people" want me to resume driving a car or else being driven by a car so that I do not take up so much of "the" attention and "breathing room" in public spaces which seem to be implicitly reserved exclusively for just "some people" (and men on bikes with no helmets in particular). I suppose also that "those people" (especially their wimmin) prefer that I be forced to look, act, and sound more like a prostitute who is helplessly dependent on men and patriarchal socioeconomic "pressure" to be a good little cuck to the patriarchy and hardly doing anything effortful unless it is to serve "the patriarchy" at the expense of her autonomy, mobility, athleticism, intellectual pursuits, and daresay health and sanity. After all, a woman's brain is shown to shrink substantially in the prefrontal cortex (especially for parts of the brain pertaining to worldly participation and spatial awareness) so that she is better suited for being confined to some cave where she will nurse Baby while the men provide for her and her cub food and protection from intruders (and from her escaping)).

Anyway, I took my battered bicycle to the Trek bicycle shop in Castro Valley to see if I could get the many broken bike parts replaced and was told by a specialist working for that store that the cost of replacing all of those parts would be roughly equal to having to buy a new bike (which means that I would save the mose money and labor costs simply ordering a new bike (which it is damned well time for considering that my current bicycle was slightly too small for me and was made out of cheap Chinese-manufactured parts and sold by Walmart)).

Right now I appear to barely have enough money to order a new (adult) mountain bicycle from Amazon dot Com and to have it delivered (preassumbled presumqbly) to my legal residence address. Within the next three days I expect to get a few hundred more dollars from my paycheck getting directly deposited into my bank account and my mom sending me $100 on Friday. If I wait until then, I might have enough money left over to replace my Android phone right away. Otherwise, I will just have to force myself to stay up all night until I get a new alarm clock device.

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The image whose Uniform Resource Locator is displayed as the following paragraph pertains to karbytes using "Voluntary Time Off" which Amazon (i.e. karbytes' current employer) offered karbytes and which karbytes used to deal with karbytes' going out of commission during the past three days:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_5/main/karbytes_takes_amazon_voluntary_time_off_09jan2024.jpg

The image whose Uniform Resource Locator is displayed as the following paragraph pertains to karbytes ordering a new bicycle from Amazon dot Com on 10_JANUARY_2024 for a grand total (including sales tax and shipping fees) of $242.53 (and the bicycle is expected to be delivered pre-assembled to karbytes' home address within the next two weeks):

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_5/main/karbytes_orders_new_mountain_bicycle_from_amazon_dot_com_10_january_2024.png

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I forgot to mention earlier while initially writing this plain-text note file into existence that I also need a smartphone to log into my GitHub user account (because, for whatever reason, the GitHub user named @karlinarayberinger requires two-factor authentication to log in to its GitHub account (and I use the Authenticator app which is installed on my Android smartphone to access the six-digit code which is sent to that particular Android hardwarw device (which is uniquely tethered to my particular phone number (which is 1-510-631-9783)))). Without a phone, I am unable to log into my GitHub account as @karlinarayberinger (and if I do somehow lose access to that GitHub account seemingly permanently, my tentative next move is to create a new GitHub account and copy relevant public GitHub repository content from my old and personally inaccessible GitHub account to my new accessible GitHub account).

Also, while saving public karbytes-created "micro directory" web pages ((with the "save outlinks" option selected) which are listed on the public karbytes-created web page named RAW_GITHUB_FILES_MACRO_DIRECTORY on the public karbytes-created website named Karbytes For Life Blog dot WordPress dot Com) to the WayBack Machine at Archive dot Org, I noticed that some of the hyperlinks to HTML web page source code files listed on the public karbytes-created web page named raw_github_files_directory_MINDS_2020_SCREENSHOTS on the public karbytes-created website named Karbytes For Life Blog dot WordPress dot Com were broken (i.e. pointing to non-existent web hosted files). I fixed those broken links approximately two hours ago and updated my GitHub repositories, WordPress dot Com websites, and flash drive accordingly (and I saved all the files which are hosted on either WordPress dot Com and GitHub dot Com which I edited approximately two hours ago to the WayBack Machine).

Finally, I found an abandoned shopping cart in downtown Castro Valley and decided to put it in my room at my legal address (along with my tattered old Walmart kid's bicycle and functional U-lock) so that I can use the cart to take the box containing my pre-assembled new adult bicycle which I ordered today from Amazon dot Com down to the local bike shop to have my new bike professionally assembled.

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Approximately five minutes after I arrived home and put the Safeway shopping cart, broken bicycle, and a few extraneous things which were taking up "too much" space in my backpack away in my room (which I expect will remain undisturbed until either I return to manipulate such objects or else some other person in place of me manipulates such onjects (presumably only if I die or am institutionalized long term)), I used the self timer feature of my smartphone's camera function to take the following digital photograph:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_5/main/karbytes_displaces_cart_&_broken_bike_10jan2024.jpg

Also, as I was walking out of my house and back down the hill to the Castro Valley BART station, I accidentally dropped my cannabis vaporizer pen on the cement such that the glass cartridge shattered. I fixed the vape pen cartridge such that it is now fully useful again using a technique I invented and also successfully deployed in the past when I accidentally dropped and broke vape pen cartridges: I used part of a plastic garbage bag (which I always keep an unused stash of in my backpack in case I need to replace the bags which I am currently using to keep my packed clothing, sleeping bag, and electronic components dry and compactly stowed) as an adhesive and sealant to bind the broken glass pieces of the cartridge back together.