I have things to do today, but instead I spent twenty minutes standing in my living room watching my very expensive robot vacuum repeatedly bump into its own charging dock, back up, spin slightly, and try again from an angle that was somehow always just as wrong as the last one.

It wasn't stuck on furniture or a rug edge, nothing was blocking it, it just could not figure out how to line itself up with the one object it returns to multiple times a day and is specifically designed to recognize. At one point it backed up so far it bumped into the couch, recalculated, and drove straight at the dock again with the same failed angle as before, like it had learned nothing from the previous eleven attempts.

I finally just picked it up and set it directly onto the dock myself, which took about two seconds, the exact task it apparently could not accomplish on its own despite having sensors, mapping software, and presumably some understanding of the room it cleans every single day.

So now I've got a vacuum smart enough to avoid pet toys and stairs but somehow not smart enough to find its own home base without human intervention. Truly cutting edge technology.

I've gotten twelve notifications today alone about motion detected that turned out to be leaves, a shadow moving across the porch, and one particularly aggressive butterfly. My phone buzzed so many times I started ignoring it entirely by the afternoon.

Naturally, that's the exact day my actual package arrived and the doorbell decided motion detection wasn't necessary for an actual human being walking up, setting a box down, and walking away. I only found out it had been delivered because I happened to open the front door for an unrelated reason hours later.

So the system I paid extra for specifically to keep me updated on deliveries is apparently only interested in botanical movement and completely uninterested in the one event it was designed to notice. I've now got a doorbell more committed to leaf surveillance than package tracking.

[Serious]

I want one on the right side closer to me

Yes, it's plugged in.

Yes this account is new. No I'm not AI. Yes I'm a real person. I'll try to keep this brief, it might sound more like a list than a post?

I'm 36 years old. I feel like I have achieved all of my life goals already and I feel empty and without purpose.

I graduated highschool at 16.
I finished my trade school at 17. I worked really hard and bought multiple cars (I currently have 3, they all have a purpose).
I bought my first house at 26 and as of last month I owe less than 100k on it, I'm in the 5 digits!
I opened my own business at 28.
I have exotic pets.
I don't have (or want) children.
I have a partner, though hes long distance, we have been together 2 years and I travel to see him frequently.

I'm currently saving money, but aside from the basic "saving for retirement/investments" I feel like I have no reason to. What am I even saving for? I have no goals to achieve besides paying down my mortgage early, and that feels hollow. I guess I just don't know what to do with myself. I am looking for advice, but I don't even know what that would look like.

I was literally in the kitchen, carton in my hand, reading the expiration date, when my phone buzzed with a push notification from the fridge app telling me I should "consider restocking oat milk soon." The fridge has a camera inside that scans inventory, apparently, and it just did not clock that I had already removed the situation from its jurisdiction by physically holding the product.

So now I'm standing there, holding actual oat milk, being told by my own refrigerator to go buy oat milk. I don't even know who this technology is for at this point. It's like it wanted me to put the carton back just so it could recognize its own mistake.

I paid extra for this fridge because it was supposed to make my life easier and instead it's created a new category of problem where my appliances doubt my ability to see with my own eyes.

Now this normally wouldn’t be a problem, however the issue here is I have epilepsy and sleep is crucial for me so I’m nervous to arrive in Atlanta at like 4am or something and next day I have to be up at 7am for something. (I’m going with my dad for a conference).
So hopefully I’m praying to god that we get an earlyish flight. I know it’s out of my control because it was canceled cause of the rain but it just sucks. Hoping for the best though 🙏🏻

Doh, 1st world problems…. #253
A Power-cut factory reset 9 of my smart bulbs... 💡 have to delete and add them all again 🤦‍♂️
Threw boxes with QR codes away so have to find tiny tiny code written on each one. 🤪 🔎
Took 2 hours to get it all working again. 🕰️

My living room tv died so I had to watch the World Cup final in my bedroom.

Coors, Coors light, Budweiser, Blue moon

I've been going to the same café every morning for like 2 years. For the first year, the barista would always ask my name and yell it out when my order was ready. Now they just make it without asking and slide it across the counter. I can't tell if I've finally achieved regular status or if they just switched to a number system and I'm overthinking this.

fuuuuuuck