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Lifelong employment, the advertisement read. Administrative assistant to long-lived nobility. Room and board included. Living wages, transport provided. I didn't believe it, of course. Something this good had to be a catch. I scrolled down into the Further Information section and saw what the catch was.

Reply by post to the following address. Unsolicited visitors unwelcome.

I sighed and got out my Letter Writing Assistant and dialled up formal letter for the elderly for the guide on hints and tips. If they were something along the lines of an eighty-year-old fossil, then Copperplate Cursive was the font to go with. Fossils loved it when someone had "an elegant hand". The resumé was a professional, finely-polished work of art that co-incidentally obfuscated my gender and ethnic origin. It also obfuscated how often I supported myself with Etsy, Patreon, and Ko-fi. Fossils didn't like it when young people had too much time.

Eng2: I’ll take a look... It’s working perfectly. Are you by any chance not using https? You’ll get nothing at all from http.

y’know, i’m getting to the point where i almost wouldn’t even care if i uploaded something twice. i’ve done it a few times before, and for the same reasons; i completely forgot i had done so.

My wife plugged it in and it worked fine

Turns out it was charged just enough so that it wouldn't say low battery, but it would shut off at the same part in the load process every time. I had it plugged into a charger all night, but it wasn't all the way in the outlet