Same. It's funny. My first 25 years felt like a long time. My second 25 years passed in a flash.
What happened today that you liked?
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GODDAMIT.
We've an employee who was so good - and our need so dire - that we've been authorized to create a new FT position to accommodate stepping her up. Good for everybody; she's earned it, wants it and we need another FTer getting enough hours to actually gain the experience to achieve full competence in the most complex retail scheme I've been a part of.
She showed her grandchild off to me the other day. Like any other infant, she was impossibly cute. She (my cow-orker, the grandmother) is young enough by any standard to be my child.
That gave me a moment, to say the least. When I explained that moment to her and why I had it, the look on her face when I mentioned my age was priceless. Made my day.
++. At this rate I'm gonna go to sleep one day when I'm 58, then I'm gonna wake up and be at the age of 90 going "Wait, what--?" and then I'll be dead.
Yeah, but on the other hand I'd be pretty happy just to have 8 hours continuous sleep without being wide awake from 1 to 3am.
Wait, isn't this supposed to be the thread about things we like?
I really like the cute video of my grandkids my daughter sent over today.
Awake at night sucks.
My 5 mo kid finally just only woke up twice to scream for food tonight. Like it waaaaaaay better than the night a week ago he was hungry and/or itchy at 11 pm and 1 3 5 7 9 am. That was a fml moment, but he usually averages 3 to 4 breaks and we are a bit
right now.
Dude, you were born in the 1900s.
You're not wrong...
If you stretch a little, you could even say the middle 1900's. But that would be a stretch.
Holy sweet shit i played that sentence over my head a few times and it blew my mind. Sounds so foreign, almost alien to think that's me.
Got my yearly performance assessment yesterday. Put me in the top 1% of the company. Top 20% of pay grade.
Saw Dune part2 last night in the theater. Solid movie and worth watching (someone should start a thread on it that is more familiar with the source material than I am).
8lbs of Korean short ribs currently in the slow cooker. 5 hours left on the timer, in an hour or so the whole house will smell delicious.
One of my favorite ways of making my wife angry is when we're at the ballpark and they have the name and birthday of a new player on the scoreboard. I will say things like "Oh he was born after our wedding, he could be our son" or "Hey look he was born after we even bought the house!"
Either she gives me the elbow or stands up to wave in the nearest Beer Guy.
Which you can't do because your body quit being stretchy a decade or two ago.
Update: the house smells delicious. Like cooked pears and ginger and garlic and beef kind of delicious.
While I do need to get more flexible, I have not completely lost my stretchiness. I think a combination yoga/qigong regimen is on the horizon.
Bah, babies. I’m three years ahead of you. Means I’m winning.
Bother….
ETA, Ninja’d by Bardon, I’m only coming second.
I rewatched The Taking of Pelham 123. Pretty good movie. So 70s. "I don't know what a single cop can do. Especially a dame." And "I thought you'd be.....shorter" when he see's the big boss is black.
Wife and I decided to go check out a new puppy from the same breeder we got our last Beagle from. Heading down there next Friday (about 2 hour drive). Still will be a couple more weeks before she's ready to be adopted, but we're both getting excited.
Toddlers. My parents weren't very creative, so they named me after the sitting president when I was born. Hence the second half of my username. Also, I've never been to Texas so it wasn't me either.
I like being alive, even when thinking about how old I am. Or that I have kids who are 36, 33, and 28. Like, how the hell did that happen.
I do like yelling at people to get off my lawn, though.
Walked to the corner grocery store to get some milk for tomorrow's coffee, and arrived just as they were pulling out fresh baguettes
Day one of the four day weekend:
I went for a walk and strategically deployed magnetic water fowl around a trio of unsuspecting churches. 
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On that note, I have very few left. But it has taken well over a year to deploy them all. I usually do 2 to 4 at a time, once every few weeks during walks.
I picked up some stuff from Lowes and O’Reilly‘s right as they opened. Did it at the tail end of that walk.
I listened to a fun podcast about Belle Star, which was fascinating. Both the legend and the reality.
I redid the caulking in my shower. It was time. It looks much better now.
I played some vidja games.
I had a chai tea at my favorite cafe and had a fun conversation with a person and their teenager about pixel art, since I was working on some at the time.
Also, worked on pixel art stuff today. For a bit in the F1 thread. It’s going well. The pixel art, not the bit - that’s almost as bad as Logan Sargeant.
I read a couple of chapters in my book - the excellent Storm Before The Storm by Mike Duncan.
I ate some extraordinarily interesting chocolate.
I wrote some, with a new to me ink.
I listened to the majority of the new Walter Trout album, which is very good.
The Kings won. Go Kings Go!
It wasn’t raining, so the little bit of driving I did today was with the top down.
I don’t have to go to work tomorrow. This is unbelievably good for many, many reasons.
Not bad for a spur-of-the-moment decision to turn this into a miniature staycation.
I went for a walk and strategically deployed magnetic water fowl around a trio of unsuspecting churches.
.On that note, I have very few left. But it has taken well over a year to deploy them all. I usually do 2 to 4 at a time, once every few weeks during walks.
I picked up some stuff from Lowes and O’Reilly‘s right as they opened. Did it at the tail end of that walk.
I listened to a fun podcast about Belle Star, which was fascinating. Both the legend and the reality.
I redid the caulking in my shower. It was time. It looks much better now.
I played some vidja games.
I had a chai tea at my favorite cafe and had a fun conversation with a person and their teenager about pixel art, since I was working on some at the time.
Also, worked on pixel art stuff today. For a bit in the F1 thread. It’s going well. The pixel art, not the bit - that’s almost as bad as Logan Sargeant.
I read a couple of chapters in my book - the excellent Storm Before The Storm by Mike Duncan.
I ate some extraordinarily interesting chocolate.
I wrote some, with a new to me ink.
I listened to the majority of the new Walter Trout album, which is very good.
The Kings won. Go Kings Go!
It wasn’t raining, so the little bit of driving I did today was with the top down.
I don’t have to go to work tomorrow. This is unbelievably good for many, many reasons.
Not bad for a spur-of-the-moment decision to turn this into a miniature staycation.
I hate to pee in your Cheerios, but it seems that you're having too much fun. Not allowed.Day one of the four day weekend:
I went for a walk and strategically deployed magnetic water fowl around a trio of unsuspecting churches.
On that note, I have very few left. But it has taken well over a year to deploy them all. I usually do 2 to 4 at a time, once every few weeks during walks.
I picked up some stuff from Lowes and O’Reilly‘s right as they opened. Did it at the tail end of that walk.
I listened to a fun podcast about Belle Star, which was fascinating. Both the legend and the reality.
I redid the caulking in my shower. It was time. It looks much better now.
I played some vidja games.
I had a chai tea at my favorite cafe and had a fun conversation with a person and their teenager about pixel art, since I was working on some at the time.
Also, worked on pixel art stuff today. For a bit in the F1 thread. It’s going well. The pixel art, not the bit - that’s almost as bad as Logan Sargeant.
I read a couple of chapters in my book - the excellent Storm Before The Storm by Mike Duncan.
I ate some extraordinarily interesting chocolate.
I wrote some, with a new to me ink.
I listened to the majority of the new Walter Trout album, which is very good.
The Kings won. Go Kings Go!
It wasn’t raining, so the little bit of driving I did today was with the top down.
I don’t have to go to work tomorrow. This is unbelievably good for many, many reasons.
Not bad for a spur-of-the-moment decision to turn this into a miniature staycation.
You've earned the right to do you.
I might actually. have fixed the heater in my car. If so, that's one more thing off the punch list. Only 28 to go!
Pistol Pete Maravich’s long standing NCAA college basketball points record, that had been a thing for more than a half century? Fell today.
At the hands of a young woman by the name of Caitlin Clark, of Iowa State.
I like that. I like that a lot. The woman is a machine.
At the hands of a young woman by the name of Caitlin Clark, of Iowa State.
I like that. I like that a lot. The woman is a machine.
Well there's items and then there's items. The nonfunctional antenna is one thing. The nonfunctional speedometer is a bit higher priority. And then there's the Frankendistributor which could jump to the top of the list at any given moment.
But for now, a heater that's not permanently stuck on is a victory I'll take.