Keep your eyes open for opportunities. Sure, you work in insurance, but surely they need ads and signs and such, maybe you can independently put forth a few products in the environment you work in and make a name for yourself serving the needs you find where you find them.

I work in IT now, but I used to be a musician. Some of my music has been used in training videos for companies I’ve worked for, evne though I didn’t get any credit I got paid my normal wages to make music. I learned image editing and creation in gimp and some of my images have been used in multi-million dollar court cases.

Being a jack of all trades is typically looked down on by snooty people who don’t know that the full saying is, “Jack of All Trades, Master of None, Oftentimes better than a Master of One”.

I work in IT, everyone in the workplace that doesn’t work in IT is basically a child when it comes to computers, so I can explain computers to a child.

Not casting aspersions or anything, but after the 5th time you’ve taught the same 63 year old doctor how to use a mouse you start to recognize a pattern, and I’ve been doing it long enough that I have started to successfully guess and solve the problem while people are still trying to find the words to describe the problem to me.

Best: None. Weddings are pretty boring. I had fun at mine I guess but I got chewed out afterwards because people kept coming to me and asking me to do things and apparently I was supposed to be glued to my new wifes side the whole time.

Worst: Went to a friends wedding, somehow got mistaken as the groom by the priest, which I cleared up, but then during the ceremony the priest said, “I believe that with the power of Jesus any marriage can work, even between people of different races” while looking directly at me, the only non-white (Lakota) person in the entire room.

My guess is that the question is, “How old was god when he created the universe?”

or, for a darker take, “How old was God when he died?”

Surprisingly, I’m much more okay with it if I’m lied to. If you tell me no, no, no, there are no bugs in this, and then I eat it, and I do not detect bugs in it, and it turns out after the fact that there were bugs in it, okay fine, you got me, fair game.

My work decided to close for Juneteenth, but then I had to come back on Friday, and I told everyone I was going to request that Friday off so I could have a four-day weekend for the price of one day of PTO, and I forgot to do it, so I had to work a weird bizarroland hellscape Friday where we had just had a day off so we have like a little bit more energy than usual, but then the weekend is also about to hit so everyone wanted to leave, but everyone also wanted to get all of their work done, so for me it was just a fucking nightmare.

How is it possible to regret eating blueberries? Like, I need more details.

I speak for a sizeable portion of the human race when I say I’ll never voluntarily eat bugs.

I’d rather be forced to be a vegan.

No shade on you if you choose to eat bugs, it’s just not for me.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the hammerhead shark as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the shark had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

If you have the lid closed, you’re looking at 3 to 15 watts to have a laptop running in the background doing some basic server shit.

Maybe a little more under high load, but those are going to be intermittent and not constant.

I’m just saying it’s not that much more electricity usage, and the recycling more than offsets the CO2.

It is the only song of theirs that I will not immediately change the station if it comes on.

One day, out to a cliff That overlooks the water I jumped in to save a girl It was somebody’s daughter And now the ring that’s on my hand It was given to me by her And to this day we all sit around And dream of ways to get higher

-Nickleback, Leader of Men

In the original Civil War, the Confederacy had the land advantage and a surplus of people willing to fight.

The North had just as many people willing to fight, but also money.

And because they had money, they had better weaponry, better cavalry, and healthier, happier soldiers.

Further, there were many people in the South who did not agree with the Civil War and who supported the North’s conquest of the South.

The South was in a very bad situation financially and organizationally to fight a civil war, whereas Cascadia, being Washington, California, and Oregon would have quite a bit in its favor, Especially if we did something outlandish like ask the Chinese for help in exchange for a trade agreement.

Having a new country pop up between America and the far west would be disastrous for America’s financial stability.

I am not saying that we should start a civil war or that we should actually secede from the union. I am just saying that this would not resemble the civil war at all, and barring an early blitzkrieg or a nuclear assault, they could win.

I mean, yes, or we could annex the tip of Idaho and exile everybody that voted for Trump Or that does not swear allegiance to the new Republic of Cascadia.

Part of me would rather have Washington, Oregon, and California become the new Republic of Cascadia.

The other part of me would be happy to become a Canadian.

Either way works for me. Somebody just roll out the bill and I’ll sign.

If I ever meet the asshole that invented the mouse-off function for webpages so that when you go to close a tab, a pop-up jumps up so that the website owner can scream, “wait, no, please subscribe, give us your email, send us money, something holy fucking shit, dear god ah!” at you I swear I will break their fucking fingers and punch them in the dick.

My house is a reddish brown with a green metal roof. My cars are black, red, and yellow, and I do everything I can to make sure that I am surrounded by at least some kind of light and color at all times.

If I was dating a girl and I found out that she was a sad beige mom, that would be the end of the relationship.

I mean, foster the people.

I’m hoping that’s the obvious one for everybody.

But also for me, Jamiroquai. Dropping some line about how it’s not nature’s way for a mother to be able to choose the color of her child randomly in the middle of a song about how the world is changing so quick, and nobody can keep up with it.

At the same time, though, I’m nitpicking. It’s just that one line in otherwise a cool song.

Flipside, I do not enjoy ICP, but my friends started playing the Shangri-La album, and I didn’t know it was ICP, and I was like, man, this is actually pretty good, and then they were like, yeah, it’s ICP, don’t you like it? And I was like, well shit, they got like, one kind of decent album, fuck.

Yeah, it’s definitely all ten, although I can see how I would regret that choice from time to time.

Fortunately, robot hands are pretty cool, and I’m sure that if the world were prosperous and they saw somebody with no fingers, they would all chip in to help back out. So it wouldn’t be like terrible forever, but it would definitely have its moments where it sucks.

I would actually prefer anonymous advice when I’m having issues in a relationship because typically when people gripe about their relationships they only talk about the bad things and they only talk to people that care about them.

This ends up making it so that the people you are talking to hear all the bad stuff about the other person, and that causes them to start to dislike that other person.

It’s too easy to build negative feedback loops that can destroy relationships.

If talking to the internet isn’t good and talking to your friends isn’t good, then the only thing that’s really valid and valuable left would be to talk to a relationship counselor, or a personal therapist, whose only goal is to help you achieve your goals in a way that is healthy for you.