For me it’s a toss up between Night Watch and Reaper Man. Probably NW by a Librarian’s hair

How they do rise up

What is this goddamn UP Michigander bullshit? You count to ten with a six and a four, like any civilized human

More like the Vimes Unified Theory of Adulthood

Another gem from that theory:

“That was always the dream, wasn’t it? ‘I wish I’d known then what I know now’? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn’t YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp”

High school was only a few hundred million seconds ago

Reminds me of Sam Vimes seeing his younger self and thinking “Thirty damn years of being hammered on the anvil of life, you poor bastard. You’ve got it all to come”

Hexcuse me, I do not steal memes, thank you very much!

I procure image macros

Otterly adorable

I’ll^seemyself^out

{{{{hugggs}}}}

to accomplish a goal everyone needs two things, the desire, and the circumstances. Desire is internal, but circumstances are usually out of our control. It sounds like your circumstances are challenging. You might not be able to do what you wish you could, but you’re still beautiful. I didn’t know you, but I bet your tastes are killer

Man I really feel this

I like this quote from Ira Glass, which sometimes helps:

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer

There’s more, but this is the core bit. It helps me because when I’m spiraling I can at least remember, yeah, my tastes are killer. My tastes kick ass

This is the type of pedantry that annoys me and yet I admire. Bravo, good fellow, I salute you

Companies I boycott:

Bank of America
5/3 Bank
Wells Fargo
McDonald’s
Walmart
That corner gas station that never paid their invoice Planet Fitness
John Deere
Verizon
AT&T

Number of store employees I’ve told that I’m never coming back:

0

I can’t remember if the show did it, but in The Expanse books poly relationships were part of Belter life, especially on smaller ships

I understand hating on Ohio. It’s mostly flat and pretty much flyover country.

On the other hand, Ohio is a perfectly cromulent place to live. It’s an even better place to be from

Tuck in undershirt, button, buckle belt. Do things for a couple hours. Wife tells me my pants are unzipped again

Aaah you’re right. I’m being a pissy shit today. I’ll apologize to OP next time I’m in the portajohn

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I think i would handle that with a shop vac. Suck em up, take the vac outside near the bird feeder, maybe even prime the birds with a little scattered seeds, then open the shop vac and walk briskly away