Who? /S

“loving family”

Oh honey…

I was working at this small tech company in the mid 00’s, and the office clown was lightly hazing the new guy by reading sexually explicit facts out loud:

C: Hey, did you know that the first DVDA was attempted in City Name, State on Month Day, Year!?

Me, as Morbo the news monster from Futurama: There were no survivors…

Edit: It was the word “attempted” that did me in. If it had said “performed” or “achieved”, my mind wouldn’t have gone there ;)

I remember sitting there thinking “holy crap! I’m going to see a Star Wars in the theatre”!¡!

Third oldest Cousin from my second oldest aunt: Sexual assault of a minor

Technically rape, as she was too young to consent, and he was way to old to not know better.

I used to joke that if you named a crime, I could name a family member.

They’d probably start recommending criminal defense attorneys.

I made a Handbrake profile with the settings i wanted, and used the “bulk add” function to add entire shows to the queue.

The media lives on the network, my desktop does the heavy lifting, and saves the resulting video to the hard drive. Then I copy everything back to the network.

It’s not terribly efficient, but I couldn’t get tdarr to work, so this works for me. Going forward, i just have to make sure my sonarr settings are on point

It’s a game you I never win, I just do a little better each time…

Over two thousand hours in ONI, so I feel ya…

I can, until i realize that I’m doing it, then it just all goes to shit and i have to switch back to hunt and peck.

I can ten-key like a mother fucker though, used to work at a bank doing data entry…

Moooulllttteeee Paaassss_ssss

The Fifth Element

My sister in law is a self described crazy cat lady. She says she avoids pretty litter because she doesn’t need to add to the list of anxieties involving the cats.

Food.

My dog of 14 years passed away in April, and i haven’t really mourned him like i should. I keep having a recurring dream where he’s alive, and I’m mad at everyone who said he was dead. I wasn’t there in the end, life circumstances made me send him to my “parents” house, where he passed peacefully of natural causes.

I also have nightmares that feature my sperm-donor more often than I’d like.

Edit: I believe dreams are a window into the subconscious, but they aren’t exactly reliable or “meaningful”, other than a “huh, that was weird…”.

Yes! I had the candy bar version, the Slvr.

It scratched that cyberpunk itch.

I graduated high school in 03, a few months/years into the “no child left behind” bullshit. The last week of school, meathead asks, out loud, “why do people read”.

Almost ten years later and that dude has never had a job longer than three months. This. This is why people read…

Edit: i had a friend in highschool who passed away a few years ago, so I only know his employment status from highschool, up to the funeral. Deleted Facebook soon after

In Texas, we spent a semester (half the school year) learning Texas history, and the other half the year learning World History. This was during the start of “No Child Left Behind”, so it was basically “memorize the answers to the test”, instead of “actually learn the material”…

Last time there was a tornader in Garland, lightning flashed and lit up the jade-green sky. My mother and brother stopped talking instantly, and we gathered the dogs in the Harry Potter room under the stairs.

'Nader didn’t hit us, but it was still a shock to see the sky a color I’ve only seen in jewelry, or the random Pantone®© sample.

Macaroni and tuna, but you have to use the liquid cheese kind, not the powdered abortion.

Cool ranch Doritos and sour cream, saw this mentioned before and had to try it. Worth every penny.

I go by the shortened version of my name, because my full name was screamed at me so often, I can barely handle it when it’s used… That second syllable is like a gun shot, so one syllable it is.