Thank you, sir!

Life is sometimes stranger than fiction.

Quick folo: A friend brought by another battery that seems to charge just fine, but I can’t speak to more than a day of that, given that I did not wake up in my van today. It is very strange to be surrounded by nostalgia while my ex-wife finishes her shift.

I take the specific view that inadvertent phrasing of three words or less has repeatedly changed my life. Three is actually really excessive. One usually does the job; I only had to go to three once.

But then again, I’m a writer. Oh, I sure as shit wasn’t the first time, but this is where serendipity cones into play. You know what you have to say without even thinking about it.

Oh, it always gets worse with these surveillance companies. Also good to bear in mind this is the tip of the iceberg.

What matters the most is not the words within an utterance, but the discourse conveyed by that utterance. [Translation: how you say it matters less than what you say.]

Under certain circumstances. How you say things in work and personal settings such as dating can absolutely affect outcomes.

Absolutely excellent profile. It also helps to live in Austin and know about all the landmarks listed. I’ve actually never been to the Broken Spoke.

If this isn’t a clickbait hed, what is?

While I appreciate the offer, I’m currently awaiting a small inheritance that could provide a temporary reprieve. Unfortunately, services around here demand you find a wildly corrupt version of Jesus first.

I guess you didn’t get the memo that modern “Christianity” is about making money and looking down on others. I’d look up the exact chapter and verse, but as it doesn’t exist, not much one can do.

Sure, but contrarian investment and bets are built into the system. Everyone wants to think they’re the genius.

This week has been … trying. My electrical system failed twice in my van, and I don’t trust it to survive the night (luckily, I have good bedding that should negate the need to risk heat tonight). But it’s only 17.00 and I’m already down to 25.3V.

Which sounds fine for a 24V system but is actually scarily low, as nominal for LFP is 25.6V, and things tend to go sideways below that.

I continue dealing with the fallout from Pop’s death, and the seemingly solidified plan to visit my ex-wife for a couple of days, starting tomorrow? Yeah, she’s being a bit flighty about the offer holding.

I essentially wake up each morning wondering what’s going to go wrong today.

But I also remember times when this was not the case. Being constantly on edge is ageing me.

I’ve played with it for a little bit, but at this point, I’m so far removed from print design, I gave up after kicking the tires. When my resume ceased to be able to get anywhere as a PDF’d INDD, I tucked tail and went back to Word.

While I grant these things are true, there’s no way in hell multiple people aren’t trying this bet.

Fucking hell. Take my upvote, and let us never speak of this again.

More seriously, like, isn’t the fucking irony here obvious to everyone?

No, no … it’s Actually Indians.

I mean, that always makes me feel better.

Oh, you just know someone’s shorting this. It just doesn’t seem to get reported on.

I’m typing this on a Surface, so I’m not inherently anti-MS, but they’ve very clearly given up on the consumer side, which is an industrywide trend.

AI is sort of like having a plug. If you know you want it, it’s easy enough to find.