“That cleaned up pretty nice, I think maybe I’ll keep that after all”

“tough shit, old man, you had your chance and you gave it away. $10 million and it’s yours though.”

Entirely depends on your relationship with your dad, though, but mine would just roll his eyes and say “fine I’ll just get a new one.” neither of us would in any way feel upset about it, and have a small chuckle while retelling it later.

i never said they did any thing wrong,

I wasn’t trying to imply you did. I was agreeing with you.

In those days, in those distant days, in those nights, in those remote nights, in those years, in those distant years; in days of yore…

They really wanted to drive home just how old the tale is…

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Oh hey, me too, except I would never pay for premium. I just don’t use the official front-end.

Skilled truckers

I have met truck drivers that can (and have demonstrated) back their trailer up to a cargo dock blindfolded.

I’ve met some that can navigate turning radii (radiuses? Radiens?) smaller than my old Nissan.

And then I’ve also met some that couldn’t figure out their 13ft tall trailer can’t fit under a 12ft 8 bridge…

For the most part though, in my experience truck drivers are better drivers than 97% of regular drivers.

As an American, even the ones that aren’t should stay away. Why visit a place where you might get kidnapped by government sanctioned brute squads and sent to a death camp in another country?

You know, it’s always funny when sci-fi shows have doctors that refer to current year medical practices as “barbaric” or “Savage”, but honestly looking back just 50 years? Same feeling.

200 years ago, the local “doctor” will probably tell you to take a swig of the bottle he just dumped on your wound, because he’s gotta saw it off. Hopefully they at least washed it since it’s last use.

200 years from now? Eh. Doc will wave a light over it, you’ll be fine.

“See? Totally different.”

Why invent when you can get a jump start on iterative design?

It’s a bit harder without CAD, but they made it work.

Now I want a trireme with a Corvus painted to look like a crow.

And I will definitely be referring to it as my ship’s Corvid. Any time a newcomer tries to correct me, I’ll just point to it and ask “You sure about that?”

Push workdays later into the day so a 9-5 becomes an 11-5.

FTFY

work can get fucked if they think I’m giving up my evenings. We should be pushing for shorter workdays, too. Not just push them back.

I’ve lost my sea legs, unfortunately. It’s been about a decade since I set sail and at this point I’m paranoid about any online interactions.

I wouldn’t even know where to start with VPNs.

Is this what getting old feels like? Can I go back to limewire?

I ended up finally giving it a shot last month, and I recall having seen stuff about season 2.

I finished season 1 in 2 days, and then found out season 2 hadn’t quite come out yet.

Then I did what I always do and waited for all the episodes to come out… I got halfway through season 2 before my last month I’m paying for streaming services ran out.

So now I will indefinitely be halfway through season 2.

I should have started season 2 the day the last episode was released.

I used to work demo tables at a convention every year, as the company would pay for people’s convention costs in exchange for 14 hours of volunteer work over the course of 5 days.

I decided after the first year that I would be volunteering my time overnight, instead of during the day. They ran after-hours games until 2am, and I usually stayed until 4am to run some more. We usually had about 100-150 people at 10pm, dwindling to about 20 by 4am.

By the end of the night, the temperatures inside are around 60, and nobody is sweating. It’s fantastic.

I also decided to start getting dollar store deodorants, the little travel size ones, and leaving them out with some baby wipes with a sign that says something along the lines of “NO JUDGEMENT, EVERYONE FORGETS SOME TIMES, TAKE ONE” With a little picture of “wipe pits, apply deodorant” underneath.

Every year, about half the deodorants have been claimed.

Sure it’s like $20 extra if I get things on sale, but it’s a small price to pay for not having to smell Convention Stank.

And when my job is literally to walk around a big circle of 10-30 people, most of whom have been walking around since before noon in a hot dealer hall, walking through a wall of “Cool Breeze” is so much less unpleasant than BO.

I my experience, Christians don’t know their own Bible and rarely, if ever, crack it open without someone telling them to, usually during a service.

As I said, non-fictional people tied together with a fictional story.

Deciding that I said one thing, when simply looking up and seeing I didn’t say it means you are founding your reply on feelings instead of actual information.

🎶🎵Oh the times, they are a-changin🎵🎶

harmonica solo

I mean, ultimately you’re both basically arguing over Star Wars about whether Han shot first or second. Its several non-fictional people tied together with a fictional story to push an agenda of control.

My shower spider gets a reminder of our deal.

“You know the drill. You stay up there, I stay over here, nobody has to be injured today.”

Sometimes the spider decides to come over to my side and gets flushed or squished, but they knew what was expected of them.