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Cake day: October 12th, 2023

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  • I felt pressured into it.

    I was 19, and struggling.

    No branch would take me, despite having a nearly perfect ASVAB score. Missed one question, and its because I never had access to fucking diesel engines growing up.

    I’m epileptic.

    So, after multiple attempts, I don’t qualify as “disabled” enough to receive benefits, but I can’t even sign my flesh away for an hourly rate like the dregs of society to die in some foreign shit-hole.

    I’ll just die in my local shit-hole, thanks.












  • I worked at an elementary school (public) in a very red state.

    I had been overhauling the library computers (I was IT) all day and had been chatting with the librarian. Cool chick, probably 10 years older than me, so late 30s. I was dating my wife at the time, so I wasn’t looking to date, but got invited out for drinks with other librarians from the district.

    After a few rounds, the topic turned to censorship, book bans, etc.

    Every single one of them, from the churchy prim and proper lady, to the more alternative types, we against banning books and discussed how to get the kids access and and encourage them to read them, without losing their jobs.

    I had to shutdown their plan to distribute cheap flash drives with banned material on them a la guerilla distribution - ie, leave it where kids would find them.

    And that is why next week Mr. Case’s cyber security BS thing was about how we don’t plug random shit we find in to computers.





  • I’m kind of the opposite, lol.

    I miss my overnight shift.

    I’d wake up, the world was quiet, there were no harsh lights to contend with, very few coworkers to deal with, even less management…

    Just go in, put in my earbuds between calls, and do my shit. Then, when everyone is grumpy and trying to get coffee, I’m going home.

    That being said, when the time changed it could be a blessing and a curse.

    On one hand, sweet, short(ish) day… well, 11 hours. Then it swings the other way, and 13 hour shifts suck even more than 12 hours.

    Watching the time roll back an hour feels very unfair when you’re on the clock and just want to go home, lol.


  • Grew up in Texas. Moved recently, to another state.

    The bible, or lack thereof, isn’t the issue in Texas schooling. Nor the countrywide issue of gun violence.

    This is clear governmental overreach and defies separation of church and state.

    Fuck these clowns. Sideways, with a two foot dildo covered in shark skin. Twice, so they don’t forget the lesson.

    PS: As an anecdote, up to fourth grade I was enrolled at a christian private school. Parents had money at the time, and they were touted to have the best education. I learned more about the dark, nasty, terrible side of life there than I did any other time in school - and I watched a kid get dragged down the hall by his ear by a former marine for smoking crack in the bathroom when I was in public school. I also would have never learned how to play poker or blackjack in a public school, lol.