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I woke up at 8:45 AM and, as usual, looked through the window. I hoped to see something unusual or different weather conditions, but everything was the same. I saw the wet, dirty road while cars quickly drove by, splashing dirty droplets around. I noticed people walking fast along the pedestrian paths with their collars lifted. After that, I went to the kitchen and checked outside again. I saw how the cleaning service men were lifting a bag of trash into their truck. They did it automatically, without using their hands, because their truck has a special system to lift trash. Some people were just walking toward the shops.
Today is the last day of November, and in my country people celebrate Mother’s Day. This day is not like other federal holidays when everyone has a day off or when concerts and events are organized everywhere. It’s just an ordinary day, and maybe somewhere there were concerts or events, but when I went for a walk, I noticed that everything was empty, without any signs of celebration. Because of that, I forgot about this day, and my mom reminded me about it. I don’t think it’s so terrible that I forgot, because it’s just a symbolic date, nothing special. I never really pay attention to holidays like this. But my mom still decided to notify me, and she even joked, “How could you forget about this holiday?” She didn’t say it seriously — it was more like a joke. By the way, if someone forgets my birthday, I also think, “Well, okay, it’s not a problem.” For me, all these dates are mostly symbolic and nothing more.
My morning started without water in the sink. When I got up and walked to the bathroom, I was surprised. When I tried to turn on the faucet, I didn’t see even a single drop of water. Everything was dry, and I only heard a loud sound. It felt like a betrayal, because those assholes decided to turn off the water. They didn’t even notify me — they just turned it off. And it was Saturday, when everyone has a day off. So I couldn’t do my morning routine and had to live the whole day without water. It was catastrophically bad. You can’t use the toilet properly, you can’t cook, you can’t do your daily routine or anything else. In short, it was just extremely inconvenient.
This morning was a bit unusual. While I was sleeping, my siblings arrived from Kazan. It was around 7 AM, and I heard them loudly discussing a car accident they had seen while driving from Kazan to Baltasi. It happened early in the morning, about 6 km before my city. They saw two cars: the first one had the whole right side smashed, and about the second car they said that the driver had been pulled out of it. If I understood correctly, the accident happened around the same time they were passing that area. After I woke up, I didn’t ask anything else about the accident.
Today is already November 27, and after a few days December will start. I don’t even remember how the time passed so fast. Well, my day started as usual: I woke up 10 minutes before 9 AM. But before that, I first woke up around 7 AM. At that time I turned off my alarm and continued my sleep. Next, I woke up around 8 AM. Then I checked my phone and decided to sleep an extra 10–15 minutes. But instead of that, I slept approximately a whole hour. Then I was forced to do my routine quickly and without much attention. Of course, I always try to keep more time for my morning routine, but my sleep always takes over.
Today the weather was a bit rainy, cloudy, without any sun, and the temperature was around 0 or +1 degrees. It’s a bit crazy, because I clearly remember that one year ago I arrived in Kazan from Turkey, and the weather back then wasn’t so bad, because everything was frozen. The temperature was below zero, and another very important thing — there was no rain and everything was dry. However, the weather app shows that cold air will arrive only around December 6–8. Until that time, the temperature will be around +4 degrees. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but for me it’s better, because I’m still using my summer tires, and +4 is definitely better than –10.
My VPN started working. Yesterday, after I shared the post about it, I decided to check my VPN again. At first, my VPN client showed a long loading animation, and then I remembered my settings — I had changed them before, and maybe I broke something. Because of that, I restored my backed-up settings and tried to connect again. And it was a surprising moment: the VPN connected without any errors and everything started working. I couldn’t even imagine it, because I thought everything was damaged. Today I’ve already been using my VPN all day without any issues and without any doubts about privacy.
For the last few days, my VPN stopped working. Internet providers decided to ban the XRay/Vless protocols as well. I already tried to reconfigure my VPN client using Hiddify configs, hoping it would help. But everything turned out badly — none of my attempts to fix it brought any results. After that, I simply hoped that maybe after a few days it would start working again, but unfortunately nothing happened. My VPN still doesn’t work, and I’m starting to doubt it will ever work again. I also read some news channels about this, and they said that even China hasn’t banned this protocol. But in Russia they went even further and managed to block it.
My morning started with snow again. When I woke up and looked out of the window, everything was white. Honestly, all of it surprised me a little; I couldn’t even imagine snow, because last evening and night it was +3 to +5 degrees. And today the air temperature was still a bit high, and it didn’t make me happy, because drops were falling from the roofs and everything was wet. Also, the weather was not comfortable, even though the temperature was on the plus side. Everything was gray, dirty, and wet, and the sky was covered with clouds, but fortunately it wasn’t raining like yesterday.
Today I woke up a bit late, around 9:35 AM, and when I came to the window I saw rainy weather outside. Honestly, it didn’t surprise me, because I had already noticed it during the night around 1 AM. At that time, I had just finished watching a video about WW2 and wanted to go to bed. Also, yesterday I bragged about the good weather and how I saw the sun every morning. And today I saw just a rainy, cold, and gray day through my window. Well, okay, it’s not a problem for me and I don’t want to whine about it.
These last days the weather has not been so bad, even though the sun appeared only for a short time. But each day I started to see the sun in the sky during my wake-up time, and I started my day with sunny weather. Also, the weather has been dry and the temperature is around –1 to +1 degrees. Therefore today I could meet my sunny and slightly clear-sky morning again. The sky was a bit covered with clouds, but the sun still found some clear parts of the sky and brightened the earth. Even though the sun didn’t shine as brightly as on previous days, I had a good mood.
I had just a perfect day. I have several reasons for it. First and the main reason is salary day. Yeah, today was salary day. I love these days so much. I wish days like this happened more often. The next reason is the weather. Today I also saw the sun — no rain and no strange weather accidents. Even though the sun appeared only for half of the day, it was still good and improved my mood. Another reason is my work. Today I had such a cool task, and it really satisfied me. I think it’s that feeling when you work and you’re satisfied with yourself. And then after that, you also get your salary. I can't say my other workdays are bad — I just want to say that today brought me that feeling twice.