A couple billion years from our point of view.

Dude doing the programming hasn’t even left for lunch yet.

I’ll check it out. Thank you.

I found a neat little workaround that I used for a while. I’d load the video up in my browser, turn the phone on an off a couple times, press play on the lock screen, and enjoy it that way.

Edit:

Still works. Just gotta full screen the video and then power off before it kills picture in picture.

And now I’m listening in the background as I type this.

My daughter haha.

She was telling me about some creator who did something she didn’t like.

The thing she didn’t like would have been a perfectly ok amount of information to give me. I am, and will always be outside of the situation. That ain’t how she rolls though, I had to hear the years long backstory leading to the moment she got upset.

I told her that two pieces of information would have been enough. The part where the dude did a thing, and then the part where he contradicted himself and became a hypocrite.

I couldn’t even remotely retain the rest.

I do try to follow her though. Man, I try.

What exactly is happening when it’s downloading that stuff?

I haven’t really thought about it.

I have somehow avoided Amazon all these years. It’s easy for me, nothing I require is connected to Amazon.

I’m sure there are aspects of the business that I can’t avoid that I don’t even know I’m being dragged into, but I don’t spend my money with them.

Anytime I can’t find something somewhere else, I just move on and forget about it.

The only times I’ve ever been bummed about it is when I’m working on some small project and the parts are half the price on Amazon. Most recently, it was parts for an arcade machine.

If I’m being inconvenienced, I don’t even know it.

I walked away originally when they acquired cdnow.com. I last visited the site when it began redirecting to Amazon.

Yeah I’ll have to hook it up soon. :) I’m just stoked that I found it haha.

Me too. I still have it.

Edit:

HOLY SHIT!! I’ve been missing my civ II disc for 20 years. It was in my half life 2 box!!!

Well, yeah, you can call it “paused” if you want to. The cruise control definitely stays on though and resumes the set speed when you stop accelerating. It completely disengages when you brake though, so I’ve never thought of it as turning off when I accelerate, only when braking.

I’ve never had one that turns it off if I accelerate.

They’ve all shut off if I tapped the brakes though.

You gonna do what I do and buy all the wrong shit anyway, then get halfway home and remember, turn around and go back to the store, then forget again but remember something you needed last week?

Oh yeah, and then find your list right before bed.

I can’t imagine having something like this.

You know what kind of couples I have known who use it?

Yep. That kind. The constant accusation, constant fighting, constant chaos kind. The same kind who share a Facebook account and all that.

I guess my bias there would be that those would also be the kind of people who advertise it.

I was standing beside an old coworker one time when her husband called, “babe, don’t freak out when I start moving. The boss is sending me to harbor freight to pick up some things.”

I got a call from her in the middle of the night one time, “I’m sitting by the lake and I’m about to drive my car in and kill myself.”

She knew her husband didn’t like me so she thought I wouldn’t call him. Well, I called him. “That bitch is lying. Life 360 has her sitting at her mom’s house right now. She just fucking wants attention!”

Still, I called a friend and asked them to drive by and see. Yep. She was at her mom’s house.

Oh my God, I cannot imagine living with a hoarder. I have problems with collecting things, but I certainly don’t hoard things.

I could have easily developed that problem if I hadn’t met my wife.

I have a friend who is a hoarder and she has lost the use of her bathroom recently. It is so bad that she now has totes stacked up along the back of her house full of crap that she will never use. She has to shower at the gym. Every day, she drives to the gym in the morning and take a shower.

I just cannot imagine living in that world. I don’t know how you do it. I would lose my damn mind.

That’s what I’m hoping they will do. I have never had an issue with amphetamines, as a matter fact, the one time that I did abuse amphetamines, I called the poison control center because I had such a terrible time. My issue was always opioids.

Of course, I say that to my doctor and he thinks I’m bullshitting. Anything, any help I can get I would be so fucking happy.

I’m so glad you said this to me. This is exactly what I needed. The thought of that dust has me making different considerations all the way around.

If I put something in the attic, it’s going to be in a sealed bag. It’s going to be something that means a lot to me, not shit that I will never touch.

I want to make it so that I fill these two little plastic drawers with the things that I want and I want everything else to go away.

My wife is a beautiful, amazing, spectacular human being, who deserves to have space that she can be comfortable and happy in. I just need to get over myself and throw this shit away.

This is what I need to do. When I started moving I said to myself, “I need to throw things away that I don’t need. I need to give things away or sell what I have too many of.

There is no reason I should be sitting on 15 Sega Genesis consoles and 50 controllers. 10 half broken NES consoles that I have in pieces.

I’m never going to fix them. It isn’t going to happen.

The new house has an attic, and I was so excited to have space to put things out of my wife’s way. Climbed up there to discover it’s probably asbestos insulation. Now I have to get up there and get some to send off for testing. So frustrating. I can’t afford a pro. I can’t afford proper equipment. I’m getting a mask, some gloves, some goggles, and soapy water.

I worked in asbestos in my teens and 20s and I’m pretty sure I have issues because of it now. I’m going to VERY carefully collect a small sample and I really hope it isn’t the bad stuff.

If it’s clean and clear, my life will improve immensely. If it isn’t, I’ll never disturb it or go near the attic again.

I have a million screws, and I know when I throw them away I’ll find a use for one and they’ll all be gone. I finally made myself throw away old computer parts. Don’t even know why I kept some of them. Who needs an old ISA sound card that no one is interested in that probably won’t work anyway?

I know. It’s insane, and people are just carrying on like it’s no big deal.

My 16 year old daughter is on a non narcotic medicine. I’m going to bring that one up next Thursday.

I appreciate you.

Problem is, even if I do find a different provider, they’ll cut off my other meds if I can’t get them on board.

It’s a mess.

Very bold…atlas.