If I were in your shoes, I would not think my relationship is “great” because there seems to be a very basic lack of honesty and honesty is the foundation of a good relationship.

If this was a situation you and your wife discussed and came to an agreement on, that would be one thing. There are all kinds of couples that have unique “arrangements” and yet they have successful marriages because they communicate openly and honestly.

Being dishonest, especially about something as big as an affair, only leads to more dishonesty. Lies to cover up lies. Before you know it, you don’t even recognize the person you’ve become. I know this from personal experience.

And in about 15 years, Harry’s family will be forced to move to California when the soil they’re working is dried up and carried off in big black clouds by the wind.

“Gorilla Ladder step stools. Now at your local Home Depot!”

I’m a Cox customer only because I have no better options.

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I asked ChatGPT to do a simple addition problem a while back and it gave me the wrong answer.

The Art of the Deal is fiction according to the author.

Does the new ISP require use of their router or just offer it as an option?

AT&T used to require using their router, which was a pile of hot garbage. I have a Mikrotik Router and managed to mostly cut the AT&T router out but I had to configure my router to use the AT&T router for authentication, at which point the Mikrotik would take over. It was complicated to configure but it worked.

There are plenty of people out there who believe gay people choose to be gay. Nevermind that straight people didn’t choose to be straight and can’t just will themselves into being attracted to people of the same sex.

It’s such a a simple concept and yet I have to admit there was a point in my life where this had not occured to me until a friend of mine, who was gay, politely pointed it out. It made me seriously reconsider much of what I was taught about human sexuality.

Being annexed by Canada would be a good option as well.

I was listening to Terry Gross interview some broadband experts about broadband legislation the other day and they mentioned that the White House added a Starlink connection to “boost the WiFi signal.” The White House. Probably the single most well connected building on the planet, added a shitty Starlink connection. It was not lost on Terry or the panelists that the whole charade was nothing more than the President of the United States abusing his position to effectively advertise one of his cronies’ products.

And don’t forget to say “Thank you”.

I, too, am extraordinarily humble.

2008 General Election. Voted for McCain. I would change that if I could go back but I didn’t know any better at the time. And yet today, I would gladly take John McCain over our current President.

I only recently discovered that not everyone can do this. I was telling my teenager to “just pop your ears” when she was swimming under water and neither her nor her mom had any idea what I was talking about.

…aaaannnndddd I’ve just stumbled into a rabbit hole that’s going to eat up half my day.

CRT TV’s emit a high frequency noise while in operation. Apparently there must be a significant number of people who can’t hear frequencies that high. My wife can’t hear it and had no idea those TV’s made any noise at all.

It doesn’t happen that often but it does happen. Poor management, taking on excessive debt, and poor location (cough Tunica cough) are usually contributing factors.

19 year old me was dirt poor and thought everything was expensive. Now I spend more on my mortgage than he made in a month. 🥲

The short version is that my father was both a victim and perpetrator of the cycle of abuse. When I was a kid, he was an angry man who would often explode in a violent rage. I ran away from home when I graduated from high school because I hated him and didn’t want to be around him anymore.

Eventually I learned that he wasn’t a bad person at his core. He genuinely wanted to do the right thing. He never had much of a chance. His own father destroyed him. Some of the stories he told me about his dad, when I was a kid, are horrible and sad. I think realizing that he was just a very broken man made it easier to forgive him.

We’ve talked about it a lot over the years. He is genuinely sorry for the way he treated me and my siblings and has lots of regrets. He’s not perfect but he is a good “Papa” to my kids and we get along pretty well nowadays.

I am more like my dad than my 19 year old self probably thought I would ever be. But I managed to mostly hang on to the good parts and get rid of the bad ones. My kids will never learn to fear me the way I feared my dad.

P.S. The time I called him a dick to his face.

I was in my mid 20’s. I called him on the phone to confront him about something he had done. All of a sudden, he blurts out, “why don’t any of my kids want anything to do with me?” At this point, I was very angry with him and didn’t care what his response was. I said, “Dad, we want to have a relationship with you but you make it really hard when you’re being a dick all the time.”

When I was a kid I would have paid dearly for saying something like that to him. The beating would have been fierce and merciless. When I said that he kind of just stopped and I could tell he was considering what I had said. I don’t know why but I think he actually took it to heart.