I mentioned not that long ago that I had just recently returned to Illinois … but I left again already? As you might already know, my signature phrase is “surprise, I’m going to…” but there are no huge events coming up. So where am I going? I’ll reveal that soon, but until then, enjoy these photos from the sky.

I didn’t actually heed the warning, and just went “that way” anyway. Luckily, I guess I’m alive to tell the tale. … Saying I’m “alive to tell the tale” makes me feel like I’m making this way too suspenseful. I don’t think I was ever actually in danger.

Earlier tonight, I went to Chipotle to get some food. The nearest Chipotle to the team house was inside a pretty big shopping plaza. Chipotle specifically is deeper into the plaza, where you can only access it by walking there, rather than driving right up to the front door, parking, and entering. So, I had to find a parking spot a little off to the side, then walk to get my food.

After snaking around the busy California plaza, I finally managed to find a spot. I parked and started making my way to the restaurant when a random guy yelled out, “Don’t go that way! You’ll get messed up.” Confused, I assumed, possibly unwisely, that the warning wasn’t entirely justified, and that I wasn’t actually really in that much danger.

As I walked closer to Chipotle, I started hearing people yelling at each other. I still didn’t really feel tense or in danger, and I just wanted to get my food and go back to the team house, so I kept going. I proceeded to walk close enough to see what the thing that would “mess me up” was – two random people were fighting in the middle of the walkway in front of Chipotle, Panera Bread, and a bunch of other restaurants.

I quickly determined that it was an actual one-on-one fight. Meaning, it wasn’t one randomly guy being destructive to the public, and a hero fighting him. Had it been like that, it would’ve been in my best interest to probably leave, or else I might have actually gotten messed up. But, rather, they both looked intent on attacking each other. Thus, I just strolled right past them and entered Chipotle to put in my order.

After several minutes, I finished placing my order and got my food (which took some time because I was ordering food for other people too). On the way out, I realized that the fight had subsided. It seemed like a victor had emerged, fled, and left the victim behind. It seemed like someone had also already called an ambulance, because there was one in the parking lot.

The team’s gaming house is in a pretty wealthy area of California, so I determined that seeing something like this would be very rare, as higher-income areas tend to have lower crime rates. So, before I drove off, I turned around, looked through the back window of the car I was driving, and snapped this photo of the ambulance (I didn’t want to whip out my phone and take a photo of the actual fight, because I would rather not draw attention to myself, especially from those already engaged in a fight).

I think Trump is a great entertainer, but I don’t think he will make the best president. I realize that it’s appealing to bring in something new, fresh, and exciting, and it’s satisfying to “punish” someone for their wrongdoings – namely, ensuring Hillary Clinton doesn’t win the presidency because she did some bad things in the past and wasn’t properly punished. But, in my opinion, the election to determine the next president of the United States doesn’t really seem like the best context in which we can explore and try out these kinds of things.

I took this photo because I wanted to document the moment when I found out that Trump was officially declared to be the next president. I was at eSports Arena in Santa Ana, CA with some of Tempo Storm’s professional gamers. I was there to pick them up, as they were using some of the computers while I was busy preparing everything and setting up our own team computers in our new team house. On the way out, I saw that the staff at the eSports Arena front desk had this playing on YouTube. I know for sure that this presidency will be very different, and I like taking little snapshots of iconic moments that happen during my life.

I’m not exactly sure how “re-elections” or recounts work, but at this point, I think the only thing I can hope for is that all the Trump critics are wrong and he will make a great president, or that he will be a very mediocre president and the “Trumpocalypse” won’t actually be a thing.

I was never actually interested in politics whatsoever before I figured out that Donald Trump was actually making progress in the election. Simply because of how strange this whole scenario was, I got a little bit more interested in politics during this election. Chances are, now that it’s over, my interest in politics will wane again, and there won’t really be any noticeable changes in my life – and it will be just like that for most other Americans, too.

I guess we’ll find out. I’m curious.

Because of my very lean body style, I’m not able to purchase clothing in a majority of regular stores. Instead, I get a majority of my shirts online on Amazon, where I browse from Korean retailers and pick out shirts that are specifically designed for Asian-style bodies. As a matter of fact, every single shirt that I bought for myself (that is, every single shirt that I did not receive as a gift) happens to be purchased on Amazon from an Asian retailer.

A strange thing happened very recently. I bought six slim-fit button-down dress shirts at $24.50 each, which is already a pretty good price, considering the quality of the shirts (I had bought the same brand of shirt in the past). But, for some otherworldly reason, just a few days after my purchase, the price of each shirt fell to $14.50 each – a discount of $10.00 per shirt, for a total savings of US$60.00.

Seeing as, not only does Amazon have free returns on clothing, but also because I’m an Amazon Prime member, I figured they would just credit my account with the $60, and to avoid having an excessively long conversation with Amazon’s support team, I explained the situation and just asked for the $60.

I ended up going through three people – Jerryl, someone outside of Amazon’s Pricing team, even though I had specifically requested that department; Mohammed, someone who only knew how to answer my questions with canned responses; and Raghu, a manager who answered my questions like a politician (as in, he refused to actually answer with any statements of value).

Nobody granted me a price adjustment.

Apparently, Amazon has a policy that only televisions can be price matched. All other products are not eligible for price matching or purchase protection because Amazon “already thrives to have best pricing,” so they don’t grant partial refunds for price differences. What “thriving to have the best pricing” has to do with Amazon dropping the cost of their own item by 41% and screwing over people who already purchased it in the past, I have no idea.

Am I just going to accept the loss of $60? Absolutely not.

Apparently Amazon thinks it is worth it to have me return the six shirts and repurchase them all at the lower price. The silly thing is that this clothing has free returns, and I have Amazon Prime so I have free shipping, so they are literally just wasting money on shipping on six items in two directions.

You would think that, maybe, the customer service representatives would be intelligent and intuitive enough to realize that this would happen, save Amazon some money on shipping, not make one of their several-year Prime customers go through this hassle, and make a case-by-case exception?

At least I got a story out of it.

Some of my relatives from California are over in Illinois to visit, and while we showed them around our area, we stopped by a Korean supermarket after lunch. Upon entering, I saw a security guard protecting the entrance and keeping an eye out on the people entering … then I looked at his hand and found out that his weapon of choice was a fly swatter.

Obviously, these security guards aren’t sworn police officers, so they’re not allowed to open carry firearms in Illinois. Also, this guy was obviously just after a pest that might’ve found its way into the store (rather than regularly wielding the fly swatter during his watch). But, I can’t help but visualize the funny scenario in which a security guard combats shoplifters and troublemakers by chasing them down and battering them with a fly swatter.

After the shopping trip, we stopped by a bakery. My parents and relatives spent a lot of time browsing through pastries, so I took that opportunity to photograph some of the items that I thought were best designed.

If you’re one of my long-time followers, you probably know how unhappy I am with Dell (seeing as if I feel like I’m getting ripped off or trolled, I will generally complain about it and take some action against it). Even if you just do a quick search for the word “Dell” on my website, you’ll see endless blog posts about how they tried to milk more money out of me for repairs and straight-up lied to me.

I have some brilliant news today.

For literally the third time in a row in the last six years, my Dell laptop has died one month after the two-year warranty.

At the rate that things are going right now, there’s literally no reason for me to ever lay my hands on a Dell product ever again in the future.

I’ve been working in the online entertainment industry for a while now, and as demands are increasing, the resources provided by a laptop are lacking. I’ve decided to take this opportunity to upgrade myself from a laptop to a desktop computer.

Of course, this heavily inhibits my mobility, but I’m pretty sure that with the savings from how cheap high-end desktops are compared to high-end laptops, I can probably just get myself a Chromebook or something if I ever need to work on the go.

Point is…

Never buy a Dell laptop.