Mine says it doesn’t accept messages and to please text me if its important.
I had one client that caused that. He’d call after work hours and leave seemingly endless messages about nothing almost daily. So I let my mailbox fill up and changed my outgoing message. Its been close to 4 years and my mailbox is still full of his rambling.
I’m that neighbor thats really, really into Halloween. My whole family is. We do a pretty big yard thing every year and this year we had the scene change every week to tell a bigger story. On Halloween handing out candy and goodies, everyone was stoked and wanted to stop and say how rad it was and how much fun it was to watch over the course of the month. Except one person. She just kept on going about how I should charge people to see it. Dude, first and foremost, I’m not going to make one of the few things I find true joy in doing another goddamned chore. Also, how the fuck would I keep people from just looking at my front yard? How do you expect me to manage that?
One good thing came of it though, after her insistence again and again I told her the only practical way to charge admition would be to do an actual walk through haunted house in my back yard. So the neighbors and fam and I are going to do just that. But for free because fuck that. I might charge her a dollar though because I’m super petty.
You Don’t Mess Around With Jim by Jim Croce isn’t directly about him but does give good advice on treating this wardrobe with respect.
I think probably none of the details matter, I just hope someone said it about one of those two guys.
“The “what pantyhose did to finger-fuckin’” quote, meanwhile, was supposedly said by Waylon Jennings about Garth Brooks, as part of an international country music beef of the decade previous.”
Kristofferson was saying it about Kieth but his quote (reportedly) was
“You know what Waylon Jennings said about guys like him?” he whispered.
I shook my head.
“They’re doin’ to country music what pantyhose did to finger-fuckin’.”
Jennings was (reportedly) talking about Brooks.
Love your name. Buddy of mine said if I was ever a magician my name would be The Great Sarcasmo.
Yeah, the holidays bring it out in me.
I helped win that.
About drinking- If you think you’re talking normal, you’re sluring. If you think you’re sluring, you’re not speaking human.
From a keyboardist in a band- have a good time, all the time
From Billy Idol - Too much is never enough (though I did have to unlearn this latter in life and get into treatment. Still, fun while it lasted)
Don’t write anything down you don’t want everyone to read.
Because Mario recognizes a good time when he sees one and isn’t a dick enough to not invite everyone because of a little personal beef.
Communication skills (aka bullshittery) I’m a finish carpenter and project manager so its my job to figure out what my boss thinks the client wants, what the client actually wants, what the fuck the architect is talking about, whatever the interior designer thinks they do, and translate it into usable language to get my carpenters to build it and make everyone think it was their idea that was the best.
If she’d get a decent keyboard with good wrist support, shed have a better time.
Random thoughts in no order.
I started therapy way late in life. I wasn’t against bit in general, I just thought I was too stubborn and private to get anything out of it. Good for you starting earlier than I did.
It started out awkward but I realized this was up to me if i wanted to get any thing out of it. This person went through a lot of trouble to be in a position to help me and I could either just trust that, or I should stop wasting her time and my money.
I got lucky and found someone I could connect to on my first try. My wife had to go through a few till she got someone she felt good about. Don’t feel bad if you dont find a connection with the first few you go to. This is important enough to get right. Do a session or two till you find someone you can be open and honest with.
The one I ended up seeing for a few years was significantly younger than me but we had a couple of big things in common so it worked really well.
Its like seeing a doctor, be honest. They cant help you if you don’t tell them what’s wrong. Doctors and therapists you tell everything to, cops you say nothing to. Everyone else is a case by case thing.
I can only speak from my experience but sessions were just talking and having conversation about what was going on in my head and life. Sometimes she’d suggest a book or something, but mostly she’s ask a few questions and let me work out what was up. Like, she knew the questions to ask to get me thinking about untangling my knots. It wasn’t her making notes about my problems and giving me solutions. Though she did have a few exercises to suggest I do that helped as well.
Once I let my ego or whatever go and started being honest with her and myself, I started feeling better pretty quick. Thats not to say my problems were solved or I had shit figured out, just that I felt like I was actually doing something about it. And that felt good. Like there was a better way to do things if I put in the work to relearn some habits and understand why I did things one way instead of another.
Good luck with this.
This is my goat Lemmy. Named aftercLemmy, but not Lemmy.
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Ha, yeah. And later when we figured out how to double the size of 5.25 floppies with a hole punch.
Hes bald and hates that he is. So, wear a beanie because then its a Thing. Hes a fucking choad.
Fuck em’ find another group. Anyone that wants to give a DM shit isn’t worth having at the table anyway.
I did. My parents were hippies and thought it was weird to call people anything other than their names. So they never tried to get me to call them anything but their names. At one point in maybe jr high I tried goingbwithbmom and dad but it didn’t take.
Maybe but I have chronic lower back pain and the best stretch I do is cobra. Its done while prone but very similar form to this guy. Say what you will about opioid addiction but I bet the first guy has trouble in the morning getting loose and moving freely that the second guy doesn’t.