Daily post
During the whole week, I noticed how my coworkers were posting in the company Telegram channel about the New Year gifts. So it made me check my order too. Honestly, I didn’t even know my order number, and I had to ask the responsible person. But first, I decided to check it myself on the delivery company’s website, because I remembered how it worked last year. And yes, I was right. When I logged in, I saw my order, and it had already been delivered yesterday. The delivery man even called me, but I didn’t answer. So I missed that moment, and today, near the end of my workday, I went there and picked up my order. It felt a bit unusual, because today is only December 4, and I already received my presents. Last year I got them around December 30, and at that time it brought more New Year mood. But overall, I’m very glad about my presents, and I’m thankful for them.
As usual, my day started with my morning routine. After I woke up, I looked outside through my window and then walked to the toilet and bathroom. Everything outside looked the same as always—no changes at all. I saw the cloudy sky, the dirty road, and the wind moving the branches of the trees. It felt a bit sad to see the same picture every day. After that, in the bathroom, I washed my hands and continued with my morning routine. Honestly, I was very lucky this morning because I found a new tube of toothpaste. My previous one was empty, and I had forgotten to buy a new one. While I brushed my teeth, cleaned my tongue, and washed my face, the time quickly got closer to the start of my work.
I got up at 6 AM, and it was still dark outside. As I was getting dressed, I looked out the window and noticed the lights in my neighbors’ homes and the shadows of people hurrying around as they prepared for work. I, however, had different plans, so I headed to Kazan early in the morning. When I passed through Arsk at around 7:15 AM, it was still quite dark, and I eventually reached my final destination at 8:35 AM. Since my appointment was at 9, I had about twenty-five minutes to spare. I went to check the clinic doors because I saw one girl working on a laptop inside and another walking around the rooms, but the door was locked. That’s when I realized they were still getting ready for the workday, so I waited outside. While I was waiting, I saw a young man and a girl go in, and I assumed they were staff, so I kept waiting. But then a woman and her small daughter walked inside, and at that moment I understood everything — I simply needed to press the button on the right side to open the door.
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.