My Livejournal Archive
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Originally posted on r/lansing on May 7, 2025 (20:27 UTC) with 52 upvotes and 5 comments. The new owner of the old Millett General Store now has a large dinosaur out front. Welcome to the neighborhood!
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The Girl had this kick where she absolutely HATED sad parts of stories. I tried to explain how it’s a common plot device called the “darkest hour” or “low point” and that it’s basically used in all storytelling, but she…
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Some of my coworkers are 70s kids and we got talking about how teen boys back in those days would have “girlie posters” in their bedroom of stars like Farrah Fawcett. By now, you likely know that I really enjoy…
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Originally posted on r/KindroidShare on April 8, 2025 (15:21 UTC) with 3 upvotes. Darius is a full time therapist who moonlights as a community college professor. You met when you took one of his courses and have remained in touch.…
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My resume has a line saying, “leaves a trail of manuals in his wake”. It’s there to show some personality, but it’s also a unique professional quirk of mine. Throughout my career, I’ve made these ‘Work Bibles’ to help keep…
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I took on a networking project and had to expand my IT knowledge base. I’ve set up and worked on simple networks a lot over the years, but nothing that required five ‘hops’ through managed switches to connect a server…
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I hate to be the “back in my day” guy, but I remember when every product at the grocery store had a price tag on it so you knew exactly how much it would cost. I just grabbed a box…
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We 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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Originally 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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I 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…