The word 'just' is the bane of my existence:

'100 Waifus' is not only the greatest book ever written, it's also the book with the most instances of the word 'just' ever used.  There are nearly 1,000 'justs' in this book.  It's horrible.  I'm lucky if it's only once per paragraph, once per sentence seems normal and sometimes there's even two in the same sentence.  I keep deleting them and deleting them, but somehow when I'm not watching they re-proliferate throughout the book and are back to everywhere again the next time I read through.

There are so many useful applications of the word 'just' that I can't help but use it as a convenient catch-all term for everything.

'just' is a one syllable synonym for 'exactly,' which is three syllables.  So 'just now,' or 'just then,' or 'just before' or 'just like'  -- you see how convenient and fast it is to write like this?  How can I avoid it?

But that's only the beginning of the versatility of this word.  'You're just so annoying!'  It can be used as a word of emphasis, like 'super.'

"Just do it."  Can be used as 'ignore everything else,', or 'set aside the rest,' or 'I don't care'.  The Japanese equivalents would be 'iikara' or 'tonikaku.'

'just five days left,' can be used to mean only or merely.  It's a diminutive and a sense of frustration that you don't have more.

'Why can't we just go around?'  Can be used as 'simply,' it means to simplify the issue, disregard distractions, get to the core of the issue.

"I don't think this is just."  Is the old usage that still somehow comes up a lot too.  This 'just' has to do with justice.  The worst is when the justs start combining:  "Just do what's just."  It burns us!

I have found that there's virtually no situation in life where 'just' is not the appropriate insertion!  It leaks into every line of dialogue, every line of stream of consciousness, everything.

On my 28th readthrough, I'm up to chapter 13 now, and I've deleted around 10 'justs' from the book already.  And yet for every 'just' I delete I allow ten others to survive.  It feels like a game of space invaders or something.  This is my 28th readthrough!  I've been deleting 'justs' the previous 27 times too!  And yet it's still this bad.  Arghhhh.

I've also used my new knowledge about Outbreak Company, Eromanga Sensei and Unlimited Fafnir to reclassify which of the girls had what sort of preexisting relationship with Christopher before the story began.  This is a good edit that couldn't have been done until now but needed to be done now that I could.  This is precisely the type of edit I was re-reading the book for.

I also expanded a list of the boys the girls think they're in a relationship with to include almost all of them instead of a random sample of them.  This lets people know who Christopher is posing as when interacting with each particular girl more clearly.

There's also some proofreading and phrasing changes of little importance.  But it feels like a marathon.  There are many readthroughs where I don't edit a single thing for the first third of the book, but this time I'm tripping over a new problem every page.

Hopefully this choppy writing improves over time so I can sit down and read for a while without interruption.  When I'm editing this often I totally lose immersion.  But it's too late already.  Obviously this 28th readthrough will be less about enjoyment and more about making it more enjoyable in the future for both myself and everyone else.  I'll have to enjoy the book on the 29th try.

Meanwhile, I added 'New record! 93,331 overdose fatalities in 2020!' to my 'We're Still Dying' permapost, (where it fits very appropriately.)  Not only does it lend further proof to the original post's argument, but it makes its own argument in its own down to Earth and reasonable appealing manner.  I thought it was exceptionally well written so now it's been memorialized with a permapost hyperlink.

Meanwhile, USA is only 5 golds back from China.  With some basketball, baseball, volleyball and who knows what wins, I think we'll catch up by the end.  We already have a solid lead in the total medal count, but we'll surpass them even in their strongpoint soon enough.  Everyone's so down on team USA, but they've actually performed brilliantly, picking up medals in places we're usually weak in, like fencing, canoe racing, weightlifting and cycling.  It's really impressive.  These athletes are setting world records without even a crowd to cheer them on.  That takes inner fire.