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I love Sci-Fi in all its forms. I usually lean towards Hard Sci-Fi and Space Opera with quite a bit of dystopian sub-genre mixed in. I listen to a lot of audiobooks when running, going through the Adrian Tchaikovsky expansive library of novels. In print, I finished Joel Sheperd's series The Spiral Wars and The Cassandra Kresnov. I started Mark Wayne McGinnis's series called USS Hamilton (book 2/6) and Jeffery Haskell Grimm's War series (book 3/6) I got to the point that my listening was making my public library and Audible audiobook system become expensive and unmanageable. I made my own version that hosts all my library and has a request process that allows family and friends who have accounts to add authors/books to the system to be retrieved for the library.

I had not seen this before but it is awesome.

You play a dangerous game when you go from reporting to entertainment fueled by hysteria and anger. When you whip up a mob, do not be surprised if the mob ends up pointing the pitch forks at you.

We just redid our front. Went to all local plants that support a healthy bee population. The beekeepers about a mile from our house are probably happy that the flurry of bees around us has been extra prodigious. Thankfully the deer population either doesn't like these or has yet to notice...

Hell here's where they consider the bad part of town with all those foreigners bringing down home prices and doing all the drugs and crimes. In six months, only showing violent crimes or thefts of any type, 668 reported cases. Add drugs up to schedule two and you only double it.

This. I just searched and had to go back 18 months for my entire county for a "home invasion" crime. Nine months for a burglary that wasn't a car break-in. If I narrow it down to the zip code of my suburbia on the outskirts of rural, I have to go back to 2019 for a single home invasion. My gated neighborhood has 2700 homes, I pulled the history and we've had two break-ins reported in the last 10 years. I loved using firearms for target and sport shooting but I never once believed a gun would be used for home defense. Here is ALL crimes reported in my county from County Sheriffs dataset which includes all other LEO responses for the past six months within a 5-mile drive of my house: I'm willing to bet 75% of our neighborhoods are have similar stats. WTF are we so afraid of our neighbors?

As well as in bed, at the office, and especially when my daughter is in gymnastics practice, I tire of the gossip by the other gym moms/dads.

I was really wanting to do a retro cave type of entertainment center recently but with Covid, all things suddenly went commodity and a SNES console went from $50 with all accessories to $250 and in another $20-30 per game and it got ridiculous. I turned to emulation. I liked it on tablets fine, adding a Bluetooth controller helped. I even built a web-hosted emulation station that ran everything through a browser from a server of mine so I could just grab a controller and plug a FireTV stick (or similar) and play from a browser anywhere. But a dedicated, portable like the above has sealed my fate. I can emulate from Atari to Dreamcast with no bugs or qualms. It's been a joy.

I can add too! Also Chinese economy it would seem. I've been spending more time with retro gaming and loving replaying, also playing consoles I never owned from days passed. I recently bought a Anbernic RG353V handheld emulator console and have been loving it. So much so I bought the RG35xx for my wife since she kept stealing mine to play Tetris and Zelda!

I'm late to the party here so I'll assume this was Easter Sunday. Yes, I did eat too much. We went to a brunch at a resort on the beach we've gone to a few times with friends. It's rather expensive at $110 a person. It's mostly about who you go with and the "atmosphere" but I hate going to buffet type without getting my monies worth. So in short, I ate too much. It was great and I regret nothing.

I'm concerned but also looking at it in the eyes of someone who has the potential to capitalize on it. The past few years have been a very upward trend for us in income, career market value, and net worth. We spent many years being very frugal and penny-pinching that every new boon has just been another exercise in finding places for it to grow, not spend. I have solid and diversified investments and a decent amount of readily available cash. If the housing bubble ever drops, we're ready to purchase a few properties. This is the first time I have been able to view market uncertainty without worrying too terribly about it. Most of it is all speculation, of course. The only thing I can bank on reliably is if the recession is on the extremely long end (10+ years), I probably won't survive it, but my family will.

Come to the sunshine state, you wear sandals all year.

That sounds like exactly what a Scorpio would say to mess with people. See above.

Only when traveling. My company has a corporate account with Lyft. I use them. Used to jump back and forth years ago depending on rates but now it's not paid by me so for simplicity sake, I use what they pay.

I've done similar. Not the best but works! I actually like jalapeno pickle brine with green olives. Tasty

https://www.liveeatlearn.com/easy-pickled-red-cabbage/ Just like this but I also use whole peppercorns instead of ground black pepper.

Raw shredded cabbage is superior to lettuce on tacos or burritos. Pickled red cabbage goes great on burgers or in pressed sandwiches. I do both fairly often. I pickle my own cabbage.

My mums are in their second bloom of the winter, blue daze's have re-awoken, wax peppers are already fruiting, gerbera daisies have a bunch of buds, and the hibiscus is in full color.

64oz + a day. More on days I train or run.

WFH, the commute is better.

The big waves happen on the Northshore, they only really happen during the Winter months. The other beaches do get waves and there are good surfing spots elsewhere; Makaha Point on the west side is always busy, China walls is great but usually the younger surfers all hoard there after school, and Waimānalo bay is also nice. Why they'd need a wave pool, it's probably for the tourists.

I used those mini candy canes. Also I had a crazy craving for cigarettes about 4 years after I quit. Bought a pack and a lighter. The first drag tasted so nasty I threw them all out

I have a fairly well-developed ability to explain complex systems in a way that a large audience can understand it. Also got a snippet of praise from my immediate supervisor that she passed along from our VP: Wayne seems to embody the concept of a Solutions Architect perfectly. Other Devs build the rooms, buildings, and roads of our tech stack. Wayne somehow visualizes the entire global environment and can provide roadmaps and processes virtually on demand to any scale. Copied it from the email. I liked it.

I use both of these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HO29B06/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/YOUNNE-Waterproof-Computer-Business-Briefcase/dp/B08JYM9P29/ref=d_pb_semantic_session_sims_desktop_sccl_2_2/145-3535219-1162353?pd_rd_w=QxJZu&content-id=amzn1.sym.1e1c444f-ee87-4f5a-8ebc-a5667d93ed43&pf_rd_p=1e1c444f-ee87-4f5a-8ebc-a5667d93ed43&pf_rd_r=8G2W15EAV19BB11Z9C7P&pd_rd_wg=xJzIF&pd_rd_r=d82c8cba-e11b-41d2-8b71-0619b25d5376&pd_rd_i=B08JYM9P29&psc=1 The Brown leather and canvas one I end up preferring. Its is comfortable and capable of packing all the accessories you might need for a day trip to the office or week long conference.