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Making Krillion Less Stressful

Krillion has quickly become my favorite daily game, my favorite of the dles, if you will. Seven prompts, rarer answers score higher. But there’s the clock. Ticking, ever-present, imposing. Stressful. For each prompt you are allotted 25 seconds, and personally, this makes the game a tad less fun. Don’t get me wrong, I fully understand that this is part of the difficulty, and likely the appeal of this game to others, but my autism disagrees with it.

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The BSDBook: My Journey with OpenBSD on My 2015 MacBook Air

I’ve never been a big macOS girl. I’ve always loved Linux and the older versions of Windows will always be special to me, but I wanted to try out the Mac ecosystem sometime around 2017. I had an iPhone, and I had started taking classes at tech school, so it felt like a good investment at the time.

I had a lot of fun with my MacBook for a few years. It served its purpose as a school machine, let me connect with my phone easily, and had great support for the stuff I cared about using at the time. But sometime around 2020 the battery started to give and I never really cared enough to replace it. I had dropped out, I wasn’t reliant on it, and it was already showing its age.

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Goodbye, ArieForce One

I’m a bit late to writing this one, but I’m here nevertheless. The last night that I got to ride ArieForce One was on July 31, 2026, and what a night it was. Over the past three years I have never seen Fun Spot Atlanta as packed as it was that night. Luckily, I had got up there earlier in the week to get some laps in, because on this evening, I was only able to ride once. Even though I only got one ride, it was one of the most worthwhile trips to a park I’ve ever had.

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Dollywood Park Review

For reasons unbeknownst to me, Hilton Grand Vacations keeps offering me 3-day, 4-night hotel packages at an extremely discounted rate — even free, sometimes. Despite my repeated honesty regarding my (poor) financial situation, I was offered another trip sometime last year, and one of the options was Gatlinburg, TN. Considering my coaster enthusiast proclivities and the fact that one of the hotels offered to me was extraordinarily close to Dollywood, I naturally chose this option. This review will cover my 2-day visit that took place in March of this year.

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