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Cake day: March 1st, 2024

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  • I have a bonus tomato plant that grew in my window when I repotted a monstra (?) using the compost from our place. It has taken over the window, lol and produced, so far 1 tomato the size of a small bouncy ball, and since we had a late season bee sneak into our house 3 more have budded.

    The habañeros we planted have given off buds but no fruit… pretty disappointed.




  • My son is currently in the same boat, he’s gone to check out (talk to counselors , look for housing, and jobs) and will be transferring his school in the spring for his final year, and has a job lined up at the beginning of the year (with housing) until classes start. He’s back home until then helping out in our place.

    On another note, the anxiety and stress about the existential dread of working until you die is going to be there and my only advice is my experience in breaking up my short term goals- I only have to survive X years here doing this and then go to college, then another X years there , then X year in each position until I reached a “sustainable” place/salary with a partner and kids at this point to be witnesses to my (many failures) shenanigans.

    I say X years because sometimes it was years, sometimes months. For example I signed up for 4 years in the Air Force, but that was broken down into 2 months basic, 2 months training school, 2 years overseas base, 1.5 years US base with a 8 month temporary duty overseas again…each part was shitty, but less shitty than the time before and in some interesting places.

    I guess what I’m trying to TLDR is that if you break up your early life I to smaller achievable goals it will help you get to where you can have a life.

    Now housing and pay is another story that, man…good fucking luck and know you have most (some?) of us Gen Xrs cheering you on.








  • What… exactly are you trying to lecture me on?

    I mean, you’re not wrong, but neither am I?

    I’m not so sure we’re on opposite sides here because you’re argument is that most people are actively for the war and I’m saying that if they’re not actively for the war (apathetic, stoic) then they are supporting it as well?

    Toss in an analogy here and there about the last 20+year war and Israel, and we might as well go for UAE in Yemen and Syria’s proxy war and we got a stew going!

    Plenty of people out there ready to listen to you up there on your soap box that actually are worth the time and effort.