Chess.

Gen X was born closer to world war 2 than to today

Damnit, I didn’t need to read that this early in the morning.

Emperor of the North

The looks you get when you tell your contractor you want plaster, not drywall.

They had to find a guy who still knew how to do plaster walls when we redid our bathroom. He was well past retirement age.

My immune system pisses me off constantly.

It let COVID through three times despite me rigorously keeping up to date with the vaccines as much as possible, and at the same time it has destroyed my thyroid gland and it has declared cherries and peaches as terrorist infiltrators.

I feel like if my immune system is so bored it needs to attack harmless things, I should never have to deal with any actually harmful thing.

It’s like a cop that beats up an unarmed teenager, but hides when someone is shooting up a school.

Also, since it wasn’t said, “Learn Powershell in a month of lunches” is available as a free pdf download.

Yeah, the immune system can be moronic. Intelligent design my ass.

However, there’s something extra special about getting poked in one eye and having your own immune system decide that an eye for an eye means your good eye has to die.

Absolutely unfun semi-related fact:

Sometimes when one eye is injured, the injured eye has to be removed or your body will decide the uninjured eye is bad and your immune system will destroy it.

Sympathetic Ophthalmia

If the injured eye has no chance of recovery, they scoop it out.

The fascists still believe we can vote or eat out of it, it they wouldn’t be working so hard to break voting.

The trouble with having the world’s tiniest violin is you can never find it when you need it.

Right in choice of target, perhaps?

That’s what I assumed they meant, but I’m not sure.

You could ask them.

How did they say he did?

Could, but we won’t.

More like half a pint, unless you’re bartender is a lunatic.

I never liked beer. It just tastes like shit to me. I’m also not a fan of dry wine, so I don’t usually go for that. I do like mixed drinks.

I very rarely drink. My wife’s older brother was killed by a drunk driver. I met her after that, but I got to see the impact it had on their lives. So, if I’m driving I won’t touch any alcohol.

When my kids were young, and I was still in the on call rotation at work, I was always either driving the kids around or I was on call, so I couldn’t drink.

Now the kids are grown, and I don’t take call anymore, but it just never occurs to me. Very rarely, my wife and I will go to a restaurant within walking distance of our house. If we go there, I’ll have a couple long island iced teas. To give you an idea of the frequency, we’ve gone there three times in the last seven years. We might also open a bottle of wine at holidays.

I never was part of the drinking culture. My wife and I started dating when we were in high school. We’ve never been the sort to go to a bar or a nightclub.

When my kids were young and in karate, we would go to parties with the other karate parents. My wife and I were shocked by the dads who would get absolutely plastered at these parties. When we asked, they said they drink like that every week.

I get “we said we don’t want our picture taken” vibes from this.

I’m not saying he is unintentionally a scumbag, I’m saying he didn’t intend to describe himself.

I work in Healthcare IT.

He’s also unintentionally describing himself.

You know, I should’ve realized that I didn’t want to know. Now I’ve added another item to the long list of things I can’t unlearn.