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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • Now I kind of want to look at mine again. Mostly their main complaint was that I didn’t do my homework. I did well enough on tests to mostly compensate for that. My grades suffered but this wasn’t really seen as a big enough problem (read: I am inattentive not outwardly hyperactive) to do anything about. It was only in my final semester of undergrad that I was diagnosed after college broke me. “Congrats you now have accomodations! Shame your degree is basically already completed anyway.”






  • You cant bike around town safely anymore because a lot of the empty land around town was developed and now has a lot more traffic. There are several crosses on the side of the road dedicated to dead cyclists.

    The trees that my friends and I used to play on at school when we were kids are fenced off.

    The lake that my grandfather and I used to fish at is now off limits because it was choked to death with algae due to fertillizer runoff pollution.

    We didn’t need to have active shooter drills, metal detectors or safe rooms in school.

    The cost of housing has more than doubled adjusted for inflation. Wages have not kept pace.

    When I was a kid, the bullying stayed mostly at school. Now bullies can torment you 24/7.

    Embarassing moments live forever because the internet never forgets.

    In the early 90’s Dan Quayle was roasted for “correcting” a child’s correct spelling of potato. Now we’ve got congress critters running around that are worried about “jewish space lasers” starting forest fires.

    LAN parties and split screen gaming died with a wimper. Singleplayer only games require a constant internet connection. Games are often a buggy mess at release because they can be patched after the fact.

    Malls are basically dead.

    Before cell phones, you weren’t expected to be reachable 24/7. Hell there used to be “its 10 pm. Do you know where your children are?” commercials because kids and teens weren’t kept on a short leash as much. Parents couldn’t just call you wherever you were.



  • How much time have you spent being single?

    Since the last “we might get married” relationship its been almost 15 years.

    If you’re currently single: is it by choice or circumstance?

    The main reasons I am single are that I dont go out and socialize enough to find someone and I haven’t really tried to find someone because I didn’t feel I was in a good place to be in a relationship.

    Do you / did you enjoy single life?

    I am ok being single but it would be nice to find my other half or at least have a stronger social network.

    What are / were the pros and cons?

    Pros: freedom, not being with someone that made me feel worse than being alone

    Cons: can be lonely, a healthy relationship is more appealing.

    Is / was partnership a goal of yours?

    Eventually I’d like to find “my other half” but I also know that there are worse things than being single and I’d rather make meeting my social needs my goal rather than not being single the goal.