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  66. <h1>Rainbow card</h1>
  67. <p>Day 00903: Saturday, 2017 August 26</p>
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  70. <h2>General news</h2>
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  72. My new, rainbow-design Discover card arrived in the mail.
  73. It&apos;s a lot more reflective and shiny that I imagined it&apos;d be, and it&apos;s got a purple back on it.
  74. I can&apos;t imagine me using another Discover card for quite a while, so I think I&apos;ve had my fun.
  75. I probably won&apos;t order another card next time Discover pesters me about Yst Dawson&apos;s Social Security number.
  76. Speaking of demands for personal information, they recently made a demand for more of mine.
  77. Now they wanted to know my country of citizenship and my employment status.
  78. As a show of good faith, I gave them both, as I&apos;ve been withholding Yst Dawson&apos;s Social Security number (as it doesn&apos;t exist) and I don&apos;t want them thinking I&apos;m just being obstinate.
  79. That said, Discover should already know my country of citizenship.
  80. I find it highly improbable that they wouldn&apos;t know that already.
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  83. The cute guy at work got a haircut.
  84. He&apos;s much less cute now.
  85. Previously, he practically had a <strong>*mane*</strong>; He had a thick beard, a nice moustache, and decently-long hair.
  86. Now that&apos;s all trimmed up, and I dare say he looks &quot;normal&quot;.
  87. I suppose he looks nice enough, but it&apos;s a downgrade from his previous style.
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  90. We had a mad customer rush most of the day today, and in my hurried state, I made a mistake on an order.
  91. I told the customer I&apos;d fix the order for them, but they still wanted to keep yelling at me.
  92. I explains that because of the frantic rush we were in, mistakes were bound to happen, but they didn&apos;t care.
  93. They somehow thought I could fill every order perfectly while under the increased pressure and with greater speed.
  94. Some people just think nothing about others, but only themselves.
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  97. A long time ago, before I had this journal, we used to have a cyan-skinned customer come in fairly regularly.
  98. I assume they have cyanosis or something; a symptom of a bigger health problem.
  99. Slowly, I saw their skin become greyer, and I was always concerned for them when they&apos;d stop by.
  100. They were always in such a cheerful mood when they ordered though.
  101. At some point, I left the company, so I didn&apos;t see them again.
  102. When I came back, they never seemed to come by any more.
  103. Honestly, after not seeing them for a while after coming back, I assumed they&apos;d died.
  104. Clearly, they weren&apos;t in the best of health, so it seemed likely they couldn&apos;t keep going any longer.
  105. I left the company again to go to Coos Bay, and when I returned yet again, I no longer really thought about this former customer any more.
  106. Today though, they came back.
  107. They&apos;re as grey-skinned as ever, if not greyer.
  108. They&apos;re not as cheerful as I remember them being, but it&apos;s been a while, so I might remember wrong.
  109. They still seem pretty cheerful and happy though.
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