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June 30th - Our House

Our home. The contract is finalizing, but we have decided on a house. For security, I won't disclose the actual location, but it is a good house. We got in contact with a close family friend's friend. The had a house on the market that is perfect for our needs. It is nice, after nearly two and a half months to finally have a place to call home. It was a fun experience, something that I might never be able to do again, but I am ready to return to some sort of normalcy.

May 17th - A Day in the Life of Rathan M.

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We have moved all our items to either a secondary storage location or our warehouse in Elberton. This experience is quite surreal. It was, and still is sort of like a dream. I get to eat out for every meal of the day. Each night we stay in a hotel of some sort. I am realizing the full effects of the pandemic now. Traffic is at a bare minimum. There are no people about, and tourism has crashed.  This change has been replicated in my virtual stock simulation. I have had to make rapid changes to not go negative. Though, with this downfall, there will soon be a rise that I can capitalize on.  Anyway, there is nothing much to days anymore. I get up, brush my teeth, and head downstairs for the brown paper bag hotel breakfast. After a bunch of TV and cereal, we vacate the hotel by 11:00. I usually tag along with my parents to the workplace. It is actually quite fun. I got the opportunity to setup the laser that was recently purchased, as well as the software that went with it. Part of the bui

May 30th - The Situation

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We are moving, or more accurately, are in the process of moving. Currently, our household is stuck in the precarious limbo between a livable home and a fully packed, barren rental. I am no stranger to the process of moving. In my twelve years, I have moved a total of seven times. The familiarity of all my belongings being segregated and packed into an army of Home Depot boxes is all too familiar. I thought that this move would be similar to my past experiences, barely out of the mundane, but boy was I wrong.  It was all going normally. From the bustling Atlanta, GA we were moving back down south to the college town of Athens, home town of the UGA Bulldogs. This town was a move back to the familiar, as I had spent just over eight years of my life in this quiet town. Other than the occasional home football game, things stayed pretty quiet. I digress.  The house we were planning to stay in had housed a group of college roommates that had recently graduated from their masters. The clothes