Yeah that’s me. I tested and had it, back in January 2021, when my whole family had it. No symptoms for me. I always say I never get sick, but I’m fairly confident I’m just a disease vector at this point and I just never get symptomatic. My kids will bring stuff home from school, my wife will get it, and fortunately I’m able to just carry on.

Right? I’m 12 years from there, and I’ll have to work another 19 years after that to retire. May as well just call it quits now.

I think people haven’t read your three sentences, because I think everyone would agree at the start, but most disagree by the end. She’s been in for 20 years. That’s where you get your pension. She joined and served through bush Obama trump Biden and now trump again. This isn’t a leopards eating face thing, considering 20 years ago I’m not sure she was aware she’d be a she yet.

Yeah, I don’t get this. I’d rather just see the tumblr/twitter/Facebook/nextdoor/xanga post than it laid over an absolutely irrelevant picture. It’s the same as the side-by-side YouTube videos for the attentionally impaired generation.

The problem is that by the time I’m old enough to be a problem by the wheel, I’m more than likely going to be driving alone 100% of the time. I have my kids in the car sometimes now, but they’ll be out of the house and it’ll be just me being a menace to society.

Yeah, when I was younger places like this were my jam. I wasn’t there to hang out in a hotel room, and so the less accommodating the better. Clean was important, but that’s about it. Make it small, make it have no view, no TV, etc.

I am no longer young.

Do the medals mean anything? I did the military thing and have some medals and ribbons, and they each have specific meaning. Anyone can look at a picture and go to a wikipedia article and basically see when I served, what I did, etc. Are these just decoration? The US military is pretty active (unfortunately). I don’t exactly see North Korea getting out there and fighting wars in the same fashion, so as to warrant such well decorated members.

3026, when the Gateway Tunnel is done.

Neither does mozzarella but who doesn’t love dipping fried and breaded mozzarella fingers into some marinara.

Fingers are for sticking in something, including but not limited to mouth.

I love being awake and hanging out with my kids. But if they’re at school and I have a free hour, I’m taking a nap, because they definitely make me tired.

Yeah, I work a lot some days. I’m an independent contractor so it’s my work, and it ebbs and flows. Some days I work from 730-9, 10-2, then 5-11. On those days, I choose to nap from 2-3pm or so. I could do other stuff, but nothing trumps a nap.

Does your coworker know python?

I dunno, my buddy just set up cameras on his property and use Claude to write code to help them identify things (animals, his lawn mower, people), and then had Claude help him write a mobile app. I’m as anti-AI as it gets, but people absolutely use it and get value out of it.

I wonder if throat simple means from top of the shoulders to back of mouth for some people, and so it’s not inclusive of the entire esophagus? Trying to rationalize this strange choice of word in my head.

I was always in really good shape up into my late 20s, played sports, ran, swam, the whole nine. In my early 30s I let go a bit and put on about 20 pounds.

A good friend of mine was a great runner and someone I’d worked out a bunch with. He is a personal trainer at this point. I talk to him about how I’m getting old and how I get pains now when I run, and he goes “It’s because you’re fat now. You were carrying less weight, and now you’re not, and you’re feeling it.” He went on to explain that, if you’ve always been heavier, your body gets used to that (not that it’s good, just used to it), but if you add the weight later, your body has a tougher time dealing with it.

I’ve since shaved most of it off and things have returned to close to what they were. Can’t run as well as I did at 22, but I’m 39 and don’t expect to.

I was thinking spā-SĒ-men.

They sure had some nice uniforms though.

Yeah, then just their spouses will work for the oil, tech, or war companies.

I do agree with everything you said, I just also know they’ll slime their ways to paydays one way or another.

Where I live, lawyers go on to be judges, preside over landmark cases, leave the bench, and go work in that industry for the people they presided in favor of. We live in joke world.

It doesn’t have the same ring, you know? And 911 being the emergency number here in the US, it was a real double whammy for us way back then.

That’s barely enough room for spaghetti! I won’t stand for this!