Hero

Be reasonable

Some songs are best loud, but slide them slightly off your ears when you get to those

Have fun

I remember stories from my dad about a guy he knew where the bar maid would have to help him with the first drink in the morning because his hands would shake so much.

The romantic history of the happy drunk is almost entirely fictional. I say almost because I know a few people who are able to take it or leave it, but for the most part the people I know/knew who were drinking either in bunches or daily end up complete and unabridged alcoholics, whether they are active and in serious trouble or have sought help and straightened up, but cannot touch it.

I’m planning to burn a vacation day someday and reserve one night at a hotel attached to a Nordic Spa. Show up at the spa when it opens, stay there all day, switching between hot and cold, napping, reading, meditating, and then at closing crawl into the hotel room and go to bed.

I bet that is like having two nights’ sleep in one.

No it doesn’t.

Count your breaths

When you find that your mind has wandered, start the count over

Don’t keep track of anything

You need to drink more coffee

I just passed a LARP group in a park near my place. Three had to be forty people gathered in a picnic area comparing their costumes

Bought a coke at a little corner store in Beijing. Asked for a straw. They brought a watermelon.

You should meet my friend, Sue…

Just make sure a HR rep is there too

Is that what that makeup represents

Well what the hell am I supposed to do with this vomit infuser?

They’ll accompany them with vomit infused napkins

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That’s a typo, the cat is named “Muff In”

Damnit Jim I’m a doctor, not an actor

Right, except processing reality has become a challenge within the broadening artificial world.

I’m firmly in the “touch grass” camp, but as time goes on the prediction that life would slowly transition towards online life being more “real” than analog reality is coming true.

The pandemic really hit the afterburners on that prediction, and for many people, broke that fragile part of them that could cope with “reality” in the traditional sense.

So now, the distance between finding someone, holding their interest, getting to know them, attracting them and maintaining a romantic relationship with them that can turn into love is measured in light years, whereas the peck-pellet ease of conversation with a bot is right there.

It’s a bit like having to rely on planting and harvesting crops for food while you have an Oreo cookie dispenser next to your bed.

The hard path is really the only path, but try to tell that to someone with a mouth full of delicious Oreos

Start a tab, tip at the end

I thought the same thing, so I took the test and yes ADD for me (though I was never hyperactive)