Check out the book “man’s search for meaning”. It’s basically exactly what you are talking about written by a psychiatrist that was a prisoner in Auschwitz

Play stupid games…

I tried, the wife said no. So I wear this name in my cats honor

As soon as this happens I will immediately close my account and start making the longer trips to winco.

My wife was a college gymnast when I met her. She was ridiculously strong, I was scaroused. Gymnasts are not from this planet. That weight would be no problem for most.

Edit: on second look, her hands aren’t clasped and fingers loosely interlinked, probably fake cheese but my above comment still stands.

I tried the breakfast one. My buddy saw them at Walmart and bought me a cup cause I like to try weird things. Very anticlimactic honestly. Basically a normal cup of ramen, with a bit of dehydrated eggy bits. The only real flavor that comes through is a splash of syrup and salt. Not gross, just… boring.

Jesus Christ, that’s actually genius!

Yeah, ever see the calves of people who are super overweight and then get fit? They’re like thicker than my thighs.

Download the meetup app, find a group for one of your interests or hobbies and start attending. Might feel a bit overwhelming and you might not have lots of motivation to do it, but you gotta put yourself out there. good luck!

They should be okay as long as they don’t misplace the Allen Wrench that is used for every fastener on every piece of equipment

I think part of it was he had a really tough time dealing with California covid regulations for his business. It wasn’t something he could buy his way out of or pad someone’s pocket to make go away and they were very serious about it. In the same vein, that’s around the time his daughter came out as trans and you can see how that ended with her changing her name and completely disassociating herself from him. Combine that all with a slow (arguable) but consistent decline in the public’s admiration and opinion of him (which he craves desperately) and he began to crack.

Started running into things he couldn’t control or pay to go away and couldn’t cope I guess… I dunno

Super small, super cheap computer designed to run Linux. The board itself is about the size of a pack of cards, and cost about $80 although earlier models a few years ago before prices of everything skyrocketed was about $35. It’s a fully fledged computer and with a microssd card loaded with a Linux distribution, a keyboard, monitor and mouse (last two optional) you can have either a command line only or fully fledged gui OS up and running in minutes.

Not super powerful but it’s low energy requirements and form factor make it great for tinkerers and specific tasks/functions. Home automation, video game emulation, pi hole (network wide dns ad blocking), and home based VPN services are a few that pop into mind.

I was able to see the one back in 2017 smack dab in the middle of the path of totality and it was such a surreal otherworldly experience. No amount of trying to explain it to other people helped them really understand. Things look a weird way and there’s a very unique feel to it all.

My advice, get things set up, get your shots, start your recordings, but don’t forget to take 30seconds or so and just soak it in and be in the moment!

Enjoy! I’m super excited for you!

If those are typical sized dumplings, I think it’s just a smaller plate

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Awesome! I appreciate the suggestion. That’s actually pretty close to our Airbnb and on the way to a couple of other things we want to see so I will for sure put that on the list. Domo!

I’m currently in Tokyo and will be going out to Kyoto and Osaka in a few days. Got to visit Mount Fuji and the giant gundam on odaiba.

Probably going there today or tomorrow, I’ll grab you a Tenga

And it’s free!

They’re a godsend at Costco when I have like 5 items and the normal lines are super long.