This was an excerpt about it I grabbed from elsewhere.

I don’t think we should kink shame.

I got it from my sister as a kid. I felt fine. She is six years older and was pretty bad with it.

Legos? In this economy?

Only if Sino on reddit was as well. Which I thought was when I first came across it.

When people often text me or call to make sure plans are still on, it has the weird effect of making me no longer want to go. I’m introverted, but if I make plans I will be there. So it sort of opens the door for me to cancel for some reason.

Like an abusive manipulative ex.

Ah yes the bright one that called on women from other states to rush to Iowa to vote for her husband.

I admit I fell for some of that. Thought he could be a more dangerous version. Didn’t realize when he got in front of people he has the charisma of a rock and a brain not much better.

I see ads all the time now using various famous actors voices for spamming scammer crap. If someone didn’t know better they would absolutely think these actors were shilling the stuff.

I’ve since learned it is a fairly common one. But we got a lot of laughs out of it with him. Just out of the blue when he’d come to his desk someone would break out singing it.

Not me personally, but I worked with a guy that always thought Secret Agent Man was Secret Asian Man.

Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice. Played it with headphones as many suggested. I had recently lost my uncle, who by the time he died, was in a pretty bad state mentally. Seeing and hearing things that weren’t there. Everyone out to get him. Calling to say the cops were trying to break into his home. No one was there.

He was a good guy and incredibly funny. Introduced me to the greatness of Monty Python at a young age. He was getting some better help near the end, finally. In part because he finally was accepting help.

He was a Vietnam vet, and from what everyone told me came back changed like so many did. This, in part, led to drug use that spiraled him down. Much better handled than some as he always held a job and such.

But the game made me think of what he might have been experiencing, and it was overwhelming for me. I think I stopped a third of the way through. It is very well done, but I just couldn’t deal with it.

How dare they!

She turned me into a newt!

Key word potential. I’ve seen so many of these over the years. The frustrating ones can be like these when even the earliest clinical trials haven’t been started.

Sounds cynical, I know, but I’ve lived with the disease for a long time. Something like this will get circulated in support groups without them understanding just how early this is for a potential treatment.

One night, I stumbled on a website posting the thoughts and words of Joseph Duncan, who killed a family in northern Idaho. As well as others in other states. He was on death row and wasn’t allowed internet access, but he was getting his words out there, and someone was posting for him.

He went into many details of what led to those Idaho murders. Things that were never mentioned in the press. How he came to be there and very intimate details of that night and things that happened after. It was not easy to read, but I had this weird sense of obligation to continue once I started. Like I would be doing the family a disservice if I didn’t read what they had gone through that night. Sounds weird, I know. There are certain scenes of it that I’ll never get out of my head.

When he was caught with the lone survivor, he had kidnapped (kidnapped two but killed the boy not long after), I was just down the street at a different restaurant. I had just moved to the area when the murders happened.

He also went into detail about him taking and killing a boy in southern California, which was near where I grew up.

I don’t remember the website name, and I imagine it is gone now since he died of cancer in 2020.

Which is so odd to me. I get that some are trying to play the innocent until proven guilty thing. But the thing is, we know for a fact he has essentially lied about his resume and won an election based on it. Every place I worked, you could be fired if they found out you lied on an application or resume. Why should it be any different with this? So even without a conviction on the legal side of things, they all should have wanted him out based on fabricating his whole life.

I feel like they all try to find that lightning in a bottle sort of situation. As a Kings fan, we sort of had that with Sutter when he was brought in. They had Murray develop structure with a young team, and Darryl turned out to be the right guy to take the team to another level for the next few seasons, at least.

More often than not, it doesn’t work. It does feel like NHL players tend to need a new voice even more often than other pro leagues. The Kings players sure seemed done with Darryl when he was let go. But the teams are afraid to go with someone without experience.