I got a weak back.

Fire Near AIG Campus - YouTube

Incredible video.

'Thank you God, thank you Jesus' - yeah, it was definitely God and Jesus who saved him, not the firemen.

You don't know, "god works in mysterious ways" for all we know god started the fire himself.

But not in a direct way ofc, more like in a domino effect kinda way, like death on Final destination. :p:

I found out that a friend had had to put her dog down. I said the usual "I'm sorry", etc., but I still feel like I would have been better off just keeping my mouth shut. I really do care, but I think I came across like I didn't give a damn. I just never know what to say in those situations.

yeah, I feel the same way most of the times. It's best to just say "My condolences" and get out of the conversation as quick as possible unless they want to talk more about it.

I feel like anything else I say besides that probably comes across as disingenuous when I do really care.

My laptop is being a real d*** lately.

A few months ago, it could run 5+ applications at the same time, and now it can barely handle 1.

It has-WOW-it literally just froze while I was typing this. da ****!??

I think I'm going to forgo everything else I asked for my birthday and just ask for a new laptop in when I'm back from school in 2 months. Hopefully it will last that long.
It got me through high school and two years of college, and I'm at the point where I need it everyday for classes.

Have you checked for spyware?

Run this:
Process Explorer

Then run this:
Autoruns for Windows

^Basically following these instructions^:
How to Clean Up a Windows Spyware Infestation

Then run Malwarebytes (or similar, deleting anything found):
Malwarebytes

Then do a "Boot Time Scan" from your anti-virus program (assuming you have one).

You should be back up to speed after that.