Four seasons

Wet/dry seasons

So sorry for your loss. From your posts about Mr. Softie, it was obvious that you loved him dearly and I know you gave him the best life possible. I'm glad that you shared pictures of him with us, seeing other people's pets here always makes me smile.

Fly high Mr. Softie

It's wild how people don't take care of their eyes and ears, I won't even make a miter saw cut without safety glasses and earmuffs.

I hope Balatro sweeps everything simply because it will make the capital G gamers extremely angry

Some guy is welding on an exterior staircase a couple hundred feet away from me and it's taking every ounce of power in my monkey brain not to look at the pretty light

We're supposed to get 2+ inches of rain over the next few days after 1/4 inch in the last 3+ months. This would normally be awesome, but the soil is compacted and hydrophobic from the aforementioned drought, so I bet we will see flash flooding as a result. No watches or warnings from the NWS yet, which surprises me because they are typically overly cautious about things like this.

I'm gonna say not a chance, but then again I also was adamant that Putin would never invade Ukraine, sooo...

Rule #1 of nuclear war is don't live in or near a major city, so I'm screwed.

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Maybe it's a translation issue and they meant hold as in "contain".

NJ is finally getting rain this week after like 1/4 inch in 3+ months, so that's something

You'd think that a graph of how greasy I feel at the end of the day vs how much I moved around during the day would be a straight line with a slope of 1, but in reality it's an inverse bell curve. Science cannot explain it.

It gets better, stay strong. I made a very difficult decision to end a ten year relationship about five years ago. It sucked for a long time and the first six months were easily the hardest I've ever had to endure, but it was the right thing to do when the alternative would be two people feeling unfulfilled and alone in their marriage for their remaining 60+ years of life. I initially had similar feelings that I had "wasted" those years, but when I found someone new, those thoughts started fading away.

Today I am in a much better place place than I was pre-divorce, with a partner whose personality complements mine very closely. I still occasionally have bouts of grief when thinking back on my "past life", but over time it has become less frequent and intrusive.

That is a reasonable hypothesis. Nice to read compared to the aluminum foil hat stuff you see elsewhere on social media.

My personal explanation for the Fermi paradox is that the speed of light cannot be broken or circumvented (wormholes don't exist), making detection of alien civilizations extremely difficult and time consuming. We have not been listening for messages long enough, and if we ever manage to detect something, it will take thousands or tens/hundreds of thousands of years to send something back. By the time we receive a message, that civilization may already be long dead.

When it gets that bad, can you climb the smog like cloud platforms in video games?

Next up: "Why is McDonald's charging $7 for fries?"

Bro definitely looks like the type to make a snide comment about making too much noise while you're deadlifting. "I can barely hear my podcast!"

Living in an area of the country that was supposed to be one of the "better" places that wouldn't be as strongly effected by climate change, smelling wildfire smoke every day and seeing 1/4 inch of rain over the past 3 months has certainly been a vibe.

Woodworking is a very fun rabbit hole that I wish I had the time to get really serious with. You can make some really awesome projects if you can invest the time and energy into them.

I had to have a couple of dead/dying maples removed and asked the tree guys to leave me a good sized log - got lucky and some of the wood is spalted. Hoping to turn it into a whole bunch things.