Jeez you made me think about how much fucked up shit I’ve been through.
Publicized school shootings on TV 90s
Watching the second plane crash on live TV on 9/11
Medical trauma 1: had testicular torsion ,went in 12 hours after it started, they tried to untwist it by hand while I was conscious, morphine ain’t shit
Medical trauma 2: spontaneous pneumothorax, the ketamine they dosed me with didn’t work so that chest tube insertion fucked me up
PMTSD related anxiety and depression
2 more pneumothorax
2008 financial crisis
college went well, but first job out of college after I got my computer engineering degree payed a fucking grand total of $51k.
2016 election
Hit 250lbs
2019 my highschool sweetheart wife cheated on me
COVID-19
Hit 280 lbs
Jan 6 insurrection
Stagflation
Lost 70lbs because of cutting back on food spending and weightloss medication
discovered my wife sexting the guy she cheated on me with after being in marriage therapy for 4 years
hit 250lbs again
Jesus christ, is this resilience, or are we all so burnt out that we just accept everything getting worse always.
Like I get the joke in Russia is “and then it got worse.” But Jesus christ, it can’t get worse if it’s always bad can it?
I can say, without a doubt, being fat definitely makes the air feel warmer. I don’t even think it makes sense, since your skin senses it. But hot damn if my house goes above 72F I have to keep towels around when I’m heavy
I’ve sunk like 150 hours into the game, and my main character is in act 3, but act 3 is so fucking enormous I have no idea what I’m doing more than the first two acts lol.
Wish I could go back to those other places and see whats up with how the world changes
But wouldn’t a plastic surgeon be one of the better surgeons if you were bleeding out? They have to know where every nerve, gland and vessel etc is in order to make a wound disappear at all.
Everyone argues with me over it, but The Incredible Hulk (Edward norton) and Iron Man/Iron Man 2 were pretty much it for me.
I did enjoy No Way Home, and Thor Love and Thunder, but the rest were so watered down. Captain America & Bucky VS iron man was the death warrant. He can take a tank round, but not a punch from Cap?
Hulk pissing himself in Infinity War against Thanos with just the power stone? No. Hulk should have smashed him to a pulp.
for real tho, this is advice I wish I had about one week into having a newborn.
Absolutely terrified during his first blowout. “Put it allin the washing machine with baby-sensitive detergent” It was about an hour of fear that I just got liquid poo mixed in everything.
Goddamn, did that ever make me respect the washing machine. Detergent, water, and spinning. Cat barfs on blanket? Washing machine. Kid barfs on everyone’s clothes during his first real illness? Washing machine. Unknown Substance #1143 that smells worse than it looks? Washing machine.
Don’t even need to use anything other than cold water. No colors or shrinking to worry about that way.
One thing I can say about Minnesotans is that we’re culturally odd.
We’ll take care of eachother, but don’t expect pleasant hellos and conversations with anyone. There are a lot of people that hunt, not a lot of people that hunt well or frequently. The Mall of America isn’t as awesome as when you were a kid. The death of Prince was a State Tragedy. To outsiders, no, Minnesota does not consist of Duluth, the Twin Cities, and snow filled cornfields. Yes it’s too damn cold. Yes it’s too damn warm for this time of the year. No we won’t quit complaining either way. Say yes to lefsa. Always safe with a caserol at a dinner party.
Never state something in a way that conveys your opinion or feelings too strong. That’s rude. Never stand too close to or facing straight towards people in a conversation. That’s rude. Don’t get too involved. That’s rude.
Do smile and raise a hand when you see someone you might know, or someone who does it to you regardless if you can identify them or not.
Skol!
Edit: So I asked my brother, and while he too was aware of hotdish being the correct entrée for a combination of ingredients baked in a pan, he also defaults to caserol. I think it’s because our parents and extended family do not live here. For those confused, tater tot hotdish != tater tot caserol
He also had a history of being screwed by people. The guy did a lot of good work, and arguably his attempt at patenting it was instrumental in preventing it from being patented. I don’t think that was his intention, but good came from it.