Sobriety Blog Thursday November 6, 2025

Weight: 329.0 lbs ( 149.2 kg)
BMI: 42.2
Waist: 54.5 in (138.4 cm)
WtHr: 73.6%

Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs
Lunch: Instant Pot Chili with Corn Chips
Dinner: Smithfield Pork Loins Roasted Garlic Herb
Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull

Sober Month 10 (Day 316)

Woke up kind of bummed because I realized that the streamer that usually plays on Monday night, but he had technical issues on Monday, but was going to play last night. However I had forgotten that he was streaming last night so I missed his show. Not a big deal, it's just that he's really entertaining.

I couldn't find my tape measure this morning before breakfast, but I'm going to assume that it's about the same from yesterday. It usually is.

The AI analysis timer didn't reset until 10:30 so I was kind of eagerly waiting for that to refresh so I could refine the graph that it presented as I realized that the graph presented would be if I never did any day to day spending. So the graph was presenting that I could have $16,000 by the end of 2029, but only if I never bought another soda, bag of chips, or anything else. So that would be nice, but unlikely. I did mess with it a bit before work and a little after work, but the time limit came up again. But the timer doesn't reset until 8:15 tomorrow night. I know that I should take anything from there with a grain of salt, but the projection went from $16,000 at the end of 2029 to over $100,000 by the end of 2029. That would be nice, but I don't see that happening.

Roommate sent me his half of the rent and some extra for bills and that came in this morning. I took the opportunity to buy a couple pairs of pants. It is kind of fun that both the Pay Check and Roommates Rent/Bills Contribution came in on the same day. I took the opportunity to buy some new pants from Amazon as all of my pants are ripped out in the, well the crotch area. I don't know why all of my pants rip in the exact same area in the exact same way. They should be here Sunday.

I saw some contradictory headlines today. When I woke up I saw that there was a headline saying that there was a clerical issue and people receiving SNAP were supposed to receive 50% of what they would have gotten, but due to the error they're actually going to get 65% of what they usually do. And then I saw another headline of President Trump repeating that there won't be ANY SNAP payout until the government opens back up. And then there was another headline this afternoon of a judge telling the Administration that they're required to pay out the entire amount by Friday (tomorrow) so we'll see what happens, I wouldn't hold my breath though. I don't personally have food stamps, but a lot of people who go through the store do. Around 11:45 a guy eagerly asked if the reason it was so slow in the store at the moment was because because of the “SNAP issue” well, it was 11:45 on a Thursday morning. It just wasn't a time it would be busy, but the lunch rush should start soon. The guy looked disappointed that it was just a slow moment at the time. There are a lot of people online excited that poor people are on the edge of starving. 

I picked up some cheese and corn chips to go with the chili for lunch. I finished off the corn chips, but I have plenty of cheese left over. I'm going to try to avoid buying anything else for lunch for the week.  

There was a lady who came through with a Money Order with somebody's name on it, but the name was scratched out and the name of the store was written next to the crossed out name. The lady in customer service was hesitant to pay it out because it was clearly altered. The Customer service girl came to me because the lady was causing issues. Every time that lady comes in she causes problems. I took a look at the money order and before I even looked at it closely the lady snagged it from me and said that if I didn't cash it in that instant she would call the police on us for not cashing it. I called her bluff and told her to go ahead and call the police. As soon as law enforcement is involved that's outside of my pay grade. She stormed out and never came back. So the only thing I can think is either she never called the police, or the police told her that she was an idiot and hung up on her. 

I did dishes as the Pork Loins were baking. And after I was done with the dishes I had to rinse out the sink a couple of times because when the water drained there was orangish grease around the bottom of the sink from the grease from the chili I had for lunch. I eventually boiled a pot of water to pour into the sink to get it rinsed off.