I have a leather bracelet that is a measuring tape when I remove it. Super handy.

It has gone out of whack by about a 16th of an inch over the last 5 years, but still very helpful for measurement that don’t need a lot of accuracy.

I don’t know about that. My wife is in her late 40s and grew up in AB. Her education was deplorable. She is a very smart person, but her early school years were basically useless.

Or the existence of said election at all…

I’ve been told violence isn’t the answer

By the very same people asking the question: What are you gonna do about it?

Where ‘it’ is your oppression.

That is a basic survival worry. I tend to believe that humans faced with real survival issues are less negatively impacted than those who have material worries.

My stress about work is killing me.

My stress about not freezing to death leads me to do things like chopping wood, lighting fires, and maintaining my chimney. Which are all good things.

DATACHUM DATACHEEE

I bet his friend is never worried about stupid shit.

A roll of ‘for rectal use only’ stickers.

Yup it certainly is. It was removed to prevent water buildup on the roof that would cause leaks.

In the spring I’ll address the root cause.

You gotta keep an eye out for the fnords. Also an “I”.

true, but also – 46

It never gets old and starting the fire is one of my favorite things. And chopping wood can be meditative or therapeutic. But it certainly isn’t exciting.

And around here once the December fires are going it really doesn’t go out until March. So not a lot of meditative fire lighting sessions.

It really is. After 11 years of remote work I would never go back to an office. I also understand we can’t all work remote. I was an automotive and industrial painter for most of my pre-IT career and that would have been rather difficult to do over the internet :p

In my defense - The 3000th night doing it is rather dull

Fair. But to a sysadmin or devops engineer availability is pretty important.