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May 02, 2017 - 153 words
In 3rd grade one time I set my alarm for 4:44 in the morning so I could get a couple hours of Super Mario Bros 3 in before school. I was really good at this game and I figured if the bus came at 7:15, I had about 2 hours before I needed to get ready for school.
I remember dragging my blankets down into the living room and settling in comfortably in front of the old cube TV with dials and antennas and setting the volume just high enough so I could barely hear it and proceeding to BEAT THE FUCK out of that game. I don’t really know where I’m going with this except nowadays I wish I had that same drive to wake myself up at 4:44 to get two hours of reading or writing in before I have to haul off to work and write HTML+CSS for porn websites.