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I've done a bunch of these over the years. My favorite was a breakout reindeer Christmas card

I have yet to raise a freeloading young adult. She's only knocking on five years old at the moment. How kids and parents get to the point where their 20 something and no desire to work, I cannot fathom.
 
***Warning*** Soapbox speech incoming.
 
However; I will give you a second take. The employment shortages could be caused not by lazy millennials (I'm one of those millennials if you look at a certain calendar) or whatever they generation after us are. We are in our 30's or so, maybe find another generation to blame for all the worlds commerce problems please! 
So maybe, just maybe, the fact we lost over a million people in the US to a global pandemic, historic levels of early retirees, and of course an awakening in our culture to the fact that the economy of lowest possible salaries does not make a suitable workforce? I constantly see jobs asking the youth of the workforce to work for a pittance. My sister, my twin, has 15 years of experience as an account manager. She went through a job search recently and was offered 3 positions. All eager to have her fill a much needed position. Each wouldn't/couldn't offer a livable wage. Two were offering $16/hr for a job that requires 10 years or more experience! She ended up taking a job that offered her $22/hr for the same type of role.
The average rent in Tampa is $1800 a month, if we take rule of thumb that 1/3 or your expenses should be living costs, then she needs to make $5400 a month take home. $16/hr is $2800 before taxes. THAT IS NOT A LIVEABLE WAGE! Even at the job she actually took she gets less than $3k per month after taxes and healthcare. She has to work a second job to afford incidentals. 
 
She does not blow her money on Gucci, Starbucks Frappuccino's or avocado toasts. She busts her ass as a skilled worker and is still shit on by the US employer economy.
Why even bother too work if the businesses that are claiming record profits cannot afford to pay their workers?
 
The state of entry level jobs is even worse in many cases. Hell my company has been bleeding talent because they don't, won't, pay what people are worth. There isn't a lack of workers or workers willing to work. There is a lack of businesses willing to pay their workers their worth. Instead the need to always reqward shareholders with record profits, stock buybacks, and bonuses to executive suite all eat into the "budget" to pay the average Joe in marketing his fucking value.

After presentation report: 
I went off script about 5 slides into it and just rolled with it. Turns out it was my best work. The Q&A afterward was 50 people deep!
TL;DR I fucking slayed it.

I may have went a bit overboard on lunch today. I wanted to grill tonight but the forecast shifted to rain so I bumped up out time table. 

Lamb shish, grilled long hots and tomato's, and an onion/sumac/parsley salad.

Technically wouldn't a dildo be a vegan condom. No "meat" packed object and all that...

Obligatory: Fuck Boston.

During the healing period I essentially adopted a chopstick approach to using my left hand for fine control of objects. Less than ideal for sure, then if I forgot and did something somewhat normal I'd be reminded by the pain of trying to use it. It is still sensitive in the nailbed area and the extreme tip so I haven't been able to really see how much normalcy can return. 
I think since it's been almost 4 months of healing I've adapted enough I'll probably not realize what is or isn't normal.
For the most part I believe so. I'm fully sensate across the whole tip. The human body is an amazing thing, I lost the better part of the thumb down to almost the knuckle, they removed a half inch of bone and yet about 50% of material they reattached, mangled material from the crash, managed to reattach by itself. I mean they sewed my nail back on. The nail grew back. Crazy.

Beautiful watch. Used to service a bunch of the Eco-drive series back when I was a watchmaker/jeweler. I've always liked them.
Two tips:
1) Don't store it in a drawer. Seems obvious but I made a fortune from installing new capacitors in watched people put in drawer for a year plus and it went too dead to recover.
2) IF is does go dead, put it under a bright light for about an hour and then follow the "All reset" function first before you try to set it. I made more money by charging $10 just to set the time on these as if you don't do the reset first, it hardly ever takes.