It’s just fun.

I went to my dentist appointment in a Jack Sparrow costume today. The dentist was dressed as a tooth and his staff were tooth ferries.

It’s just dumb, wonderful fun.

It feels amazing.

I wake up to a quiet, clean house every day.

Stephen King’s It

Great story, but the writing was exceedingly dull, apart from the first chapter. I even tried getting through it via audiobook and still only made it halfway through. It’s just a chore.

I feel bad for these folks.

My building’s HOA kicks ass, but admittedly, the people we elected to it are very ‘live and let live’.

I get to stress about my 80 year-old parents driving for Doordash every day, in my car, and I have to trust that they’re going to keep up with the oil changes and new tires and other maintenance.

Because when that car dies there is no backup plan. No one will employ them at their age and both major parties are content to let them starve if they don’t have some other means of paying for the privilege of surviving in America.

Game: Tie between Dragon Age: Origins and the original Bioshock.

Movie: Nightmare on Elm Street

TV Show: Stranger Things

Book: Man, too many to mention, but maybe The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman.

Ah, yeah. Thanks for clarifying.

There will be, no doubt.

The thing with crypto is to just add small amounts over time, so when those spikes happen you can take advantage. It’s pointless to try and time it.

I didn’t quite get that but I am in a way better place than I expected to be thanks to those choices.

2: the 2008 housing crash happened

My dad’s 50 year-old roofing business never fully recovered either, which is partly why I hate our government and how it works for the wealthy.

He now drives for DoorDash, at age 80, using my car. The alternative is starvation.

Didn’t get “rich” per se, but I got in on dogecoin when it was at a penny, missed the peak, and ended up selling in the 30 cent range. I also picked up a ton of oil stocks in March 2020 when it bottomed out that I later sold for more than 15x their original value.

The irony is that I invested in dogecoin because Robbing Hood locked down investments into Gamestop. I didn’t realize that would be such a lucky development at the time.

Those investments paid off my student loans and got me a down payment on a condo. I still have five-figures in my investment account that I’m growing into early retirement. My current focus is gambling stocks, in large part because every election year it seems like there’s a smattering of states legalizing online sports betting. (MO and NE have it on the ballot for this year.)

Not fuck you money or ‘rich’, but life-changing.

Little Monsters

Still fun. Still relevant.

Nope, but I will.

E-books

I love having the physical thing in my hands, but love that we’ve gotten to a point where I can log on to Libby and just download one too, or back up digital versions of my favorites on my hard drive so I hopefully never lose them.

I saw Hole play a show years ago and their opener was this god-awful band called Imperial Teen.

Hands-down the worst band I’ve ever seen.

Now, if you ask about the most disappointing concert I’ve ever seen, it was the Smashing Pumpkins’ Horde Fest run. No one’s showing up to hear you mix bongos into your songs and experiment with your music live.

Magic 8-Ball

This time Wilson can kinda sorta actually talk back.

I fell on my head in a roller derby bout once. It must have looked pretty ugly because the refs stopped the jam immediately; But, in anticlimactic fashion, my S1 did a great job protecting my noggin.

I had a bit of a headache but no concussion.

It was a fun find, and I love the variety. Some of the sites are dumb fun. Some are games and puzzles. Others are just something completely different.

Here’s the first random site I got: https://alwaysjudgeabookbyitscover.com/

Silly.

I love it.

Yeah, people have believed in dumb shit like that since our species emerged from the primordial ooze.