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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • I won’t let myself leave a local book store without buying anything, hence I only visit when I’m out of reading material.

    Probably plays back into when I helped watch my father’s and mother’s trade show tables respectively. My father would sell sports cards back in the 90s and he was lucky to have one paying customer all day at an event we had spent all morning setting up for.

    My mother used to paint whimsical designs on chunks of wood (toll painting) and set up a table of her painted wood art various church sales. I saw the hours my mom had spent tracing and painting those dumb little seasonal characters, only to see these rich bitches saunter by her table, turn her work over, say “That’s cute!”, And walk on.

    To this day I will not walk into an antique store or junk shop or book store without at least ten bucks to burn. It feels gross to take up a shopkeeps time and space without buying something.


  • xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlThe Bezos way.
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    1 year ago

    It’s good until you pay off the union that doesn’t provide until you’ve been a member for a number of years

    Things may have changed, but I noped out of the package handlers Union back in the 00’s when I was offered a shitty job at UPS because it looked like the pay was going to be shit until I’d suffered for years, then it’s be slightly less shit.

    /please correct me if I’m wrong, I don’t want to spread misinformation, just want to share how shit the union system can be unchecked.



  • I over spice everything, garlic included, but:

    I had a girlfriend that misread a recipe and made a pot of gazpacho with four whole heads of garlic instead of four segments. It was quite spicy, but I loved her and ate it anyway.

    No matter how much I showered and brushed my teeth I stank of garlic for the next couple days.

    It was tasty, though.





  • I miss having knowing there’s a Radio Shack around the corner if I need an obscure component or an exotic battery for a project.

    Yeah, you can find anything online now, but you have to wait for it to ship, hope it doesn’t get lost or stolen, and hope they actually sent the right part.

    Edit to add: Basically 80-90s RS, not the husk that it was more recently that sold mostly phones and crap toys around the holidays.



  • My family’s fist computer was a Tandy 1000 around 92. I was so stoked to make video games on the fly like Clarissa Explains It All did.

    Little did I know game development takes a little more elbow grease than cutting and pasting pictures of your friends into an existing game format.

    I learned a lot about getting around in DOS because the desktop OS it shipped with was garbage, at least.