My Livejournal Archive
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Cold Day Outside
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Read More →: Cold Day OutsideWe went up to see my in-laws this weekend (after having been too sick to see them last weekend). There was still a lot of snow up near The Bridge even though we drove through rain to get here on…
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Daughter’s Attitude destroying my wife
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1–2 minutesRead More →: Daughter’s Attitude destroying my wifeOriginally posted on r/Parenting on February 3, 2025 (14:38 UTC) with 85 upvotes and 169 comments. Permalink: https://reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/1igqj0h/daughters_attitude_destroying_my_wife/ My daughter is 7 and has always been independent and had zero interest in having us comfort her or help her. She…
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2008 vs Now
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1–2 minutesRead More →: 2008 vs NowI normally don’t do these (because it’s likely feeding the Facebook facial recognition training data more-so than normal) but this one shows a pretty stark contrast between 22 and 39. I don’t know if either of these guys would recognize…
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Get the Power!
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1–2 minutesRead More →: Get the Power!Back before the internet, if you wanted to get through one of your favorite video games, you couldn’t Google for a walkthrough or watch YouTube play-through videos; if you got stuck, you were just stuck. Sometime in the early 90s,…
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Backyard Camping 2024
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Read More →: Backyard Camping 2024Backyard camping. It’s one of those activities that sounds really simple but always ends up being more of a pain than expected. The kids have been begging to “go camping” ever since last fall. Besides being the wrong season, Dear…
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…and we’re back!
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2–3 minutesRead More →: …and we’re back!Note to future self (and you, Dear Reader): WordPress on Docker, behind an nginx front end, spread across two servers in a home environment (see photo) is not a good combination to maintain data reliability. To summarize: I’ve always kept…
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Some Reason for Optimism!
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3–4 minutesRead More →: Some Reason for Optimism!After losing an entire night worrying about my family’s Dwindling reserves (and having a long convo with an old friend with a financial background) I settled on giving things a few weeks, then cashing out my smaller retirement account and…
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Dwindling reserves… Do I sell house or cash out 401k?
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3–5 minutesRead More →: Dwindling reserves… Do I sell house or cash out 401k?[Originally posted on Reddit to ask for help…] I was laid off in the middle of July as part of the tech layoffs. I am the only person able to and do many household chores while my spouse is between…
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AI Generated – Mediocre Creamy Garlic Crock Pot Potatoes
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1–2 minutesRead More →: AI Generated – Mediocre Creamy Garlic Crock Pot PotatoesWe had some potatoes starting to rot and Wife said I should look up a scalloped potato recipe. In my CIS college classes, one of my professors drilled into us, “work smarter” and “make the machine do the work” so…
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Consciousness and Life
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2–3 minutesRead More →: Consciousness and LifeAfter dealing with some health anxiety and fear around death and dying, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be conscious, living, or what even “real” is in the world. Sometime ago, I read a theory that…
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