I’ve been in that exactly that same spot. Poor, but not poor enough. Getting by is a struggle, but it is possible, so you keep going, but there’s never anything left over, so you’re never really getting anywhere. It really can feel like you are treading water in the ocean.
Best of luck to you. I hope things go your way soon. Don’t give up!
Obviously Bernie. That’s my dude, but I’ll admit to another that turned sour.
Mother fucking Fetterman.
He’s local to me, and hearing about everything he did as mayor just made him sound like an awesome guy. Living in a foreclosed car dealership, seriously improved living conditions for the poor, hoodie and jeans, tattoos honoring people he never met, he just sounded like somebody I could relate with.
Well, then he had a stroke, joined the Senate and has been embarrassing himself and me ever since. 🤦🏻♂️
I only know what I saw from him on the campaign trail, including attending one of his rallies. I got such good vibes from him. He gives off the vibes of a great family sitcom dad.
I had a list of things to do, and I got them all done.
In high school, my friend ran Linux. I was over at his house and he had to go take a shit or something, and I was trying to see what games he had on his computer. When he got back he asked what the hell I did because he now has to reboot, and we’re going to have to watch it do that for the next half hour. And penguins and hats.
That’s pretty much everything I ever needed to know about Linux.
When my son first starting getting out of kids movies, he liked Indiana Jones and back to the future a lot. Ghostbusters went over well.
Also, Phineas and Ferb is great for every age. Old Simpsons are good too!
In the 90s, my dad and a lot of other guys in my area lost their machining jobs because the work was being done in China. My perception of China (only what I learned from people around me talking about it) was that it was a dirty place where everyone lived in squalor and worked in sweat shops for pennies a day.
Like the other commenter, you had me up until the last paragraph. They admitted they had a diagnosis which often comes with an inability to empathize. It gives me flashbacks of back when I was a kid and everybody convinced me I was a smart kid who was just lazy, when in reality, I was developing ADHD, and had no idea how to control my executive functions.
Take out the judgement at the end, and you’ve got yourself a solid, helpful response.
Thanks for sharing, but not the place for that.
Undiagnosed adults club!
So, “Living” card games doesn’t mean anything to me, but you did trigger card games in general, which could take me a while. I’ve probably spent a majority of my waking life playing Magic, Poker, Hearthstone, Silver, Smash up, and various other card games. Most recently, I’m obsessed with Balatro.
That being said…
Are you about to open a Pandoras box by making me look up Living Card Games?
You ADHD? I was almost 40 before I learned about inattentive type ADHD. As far as I knew, ADHD was spastic kids that couldn’t sit still. Since I was more of the daydream and fall asleep type, I never would have thought I was part of that crowd.
I teach you some words, and then you teach some words to your friends, and they teach some words to their friends…
I might be. Give me a topic and I’ll spew out all sorts of obscure trivia, but until you mention it, I don’t know that any of it exists.
The #1 sign of adulting has to be paying for your own stuff.
Being unable to think of something without a prompt.
I guess most people can just remember things without sticky notes and calendars.
I used to get down with some Collective Soul.
I always respected that they refused to identify as a Christian rock band. From what I recall their response was something like “We’re a rock band, that happens to be Christian.”
From what I hear, reading The Bible is a lot of people’s first steps towards atheism.
I’m Sweet Potato.
We hadn’t really decided on any pet names yet, and while intending to say sweet pea, she accidentally said sweet potato and it stuck.
All the weed.