Although I haven't walked in your shoes, I can tell you that sometimes the most important thing is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Break your challenges up into the smallest pieces you can and then relentlessly work on just one bit until it's done, then work on the next. Sometimes it's not fun and doesn't feel like you're going anywhere , but you are making progress . You may not end up where you planned but you will get somewhere . My mantra is "If you're going through hell, keep going ."
Keva Lagos from The Last Emperoux by John Scalzi. Brilliant, profane, and aggressively sex positive. She steals the attention from every page she's on.
I had an issue with my urethra and was referred to the top urologist on the west coast for surgery. Of all the things that can go wrong with the urinary tract, about half his work was repairing mangled meat left over from attempted enlargement surgeries. Given the failure rate of biologically derived dongs, the fact that he spent half his time straightening out beefstick tartar was pretty incredible.
He did a great job on me, I can pee normally and fathered a rugrat, and fortunately I've always been happy with my love lizard. Except for the brief period after surgery where he pointed out that since he'd had to remove about an inch of urethra my first few erections would be "uncomfortable". That face you are making reading that sentence is precisely right.
Peak iron chef was when they had some kind of rare lobster and one chef boiled ten pounds of them to make stock for a soup. Like $10,000 of lobster for a soup. It was bananas .
A November report from the Federal Salary Council, which advises on government pay, found that federal salaries were one-fourth lower than those in the private sector.
People take government jobs because the benefits are pretty good and the job security is second to none. Take that away and the workers will leave the market and never come back. DOGE is permanently disabling the organs of the federal government in real time in ways that are not possible to repair.
My wife was getting trigger point injections for chronic pain. The LPN giving her the injections into her pelvic area was a redheaded knockout. My wife groaned in pain, the nurse leaned in for a better angle, I put my coat on my lap.
Even stuff outside disasters , like she pointed out that protracted heat waves can stress the power supplies and cooling systems of data centers and potentially break the internet. It was a terrifying presentation, and it was the keynote. She finished and the room was silent for a while.
I attended a presentation about the effects of increasing extreme weather events on infrastructure and the potential to amplify weather related disasters by a meteorologist from the Department of Homeland Security . Before the presentation I was asking myself why DHS has a meteorologist and by 5 minutes in I was in shock at the depth of the information presented and the number of national security risks presented by more frequent outlier storms and droughts. This presentation was based on existing events and did not speculate about causes of climate change . It was one of the best presentations I've ever seen and it saddens and scares me that such a vastly intelligent person and her coworkers are getting shit canned because of a narrow and poorly thought out ideology . We are magnificently fucked.
Yup, $15 for a bottle of ink that'll go for a long time. Plus you get to be smug. I got a jinhao 10 pen that's pretty useful .