It’s sort of wild that I knew a WWI veteran when I was little. He lived across the street and brought us tomatoes. I don’t think my kids have even met a WW2 veteran.

I’m 53 today. I legit feel old. Winter birthdays suck compared to the lovely May through Oct stretch. I can’t (don’t want to) go out & even attempt to do something fun. And also, see my last post re cabin fever. And I have a beard, which is now mostly white. I’m closer to 80 than I am to college.

Wife & I have been working from home since Mar. 2020. We have no issues seeing each other a lot (which is obv good!), & we can talk about household stuff & plan & walk the dog. But it’s weird when it’s cold AF & our patio has 10” of snow. I’m the Suburban Recluse, but even I get cabin fever.

I started working at 7:00 and I blinked. It’s now 11:00. This is how days turn into years so suddenly.

When a big snow storm is coming and you go around d the house doing things like dusting and straightening books on shelves and other stuff that has nothing to do with warmth and survival. 😂

A large percentage of my tweets (or whatever they’re called here) have concerned her. 😂 My life is exciting. Wasting my time complaining about a cleaning lady.

Cleaning lady has canceled again. We have decided we are done.

These days a Breaking News pop up on your phone can be anything from Stranger Things collaborates with Burger King on a new type of onion ring. to Trump declares war on France, declaring “We will destroy your weak country swiftly.” Fun times.

I had a dream that there was a silver coin vending machine which sold coins for a ridiculously cheap price. You put in 4 quarters and get a fat silver coin worth far more than $1.

“Suits”… attractive people who are incredibly bright solving complex problems while wearing expensive clothes. My law practice … old tired guy wearing a Costco hoodie while writing out a check for $1.62 for client medical records. Practicing law … it’s just like on TV.

This Providence College - UConn game is nuts.

Completely unrelated to my cleaning lady rant, I just mis-typed the word “service” as “cervice” and it reminded me of “crevice.” 😂

For 15 years my cleaning lady has been parking in a spot in the driveway that gives us access to both garage doors. Out of the blue, a few months ago, she just starts parking in front of the garage doors. I told her then that she must park where she has alway parked. I explained why…

I don’t have any crazy stories or Scroogish comments about this Christmas. But the adult gift giving remained awkward and unnecessary. My BIL’s sister (my wife’s sister’s husband’s sister) who we don’t really know well or see is literally on the verge of bankruptcy. And she got us a $25 Amazon card.

Today’s the day! … the day we learn nothing. We will be in the same place with Epstein tomorrow at 10:00am. The Epstein stuff won’t be Trump’s downfall. His ineptitude about the economy will be. Raise your hand if you think the country’s jobs and prices will be kicking ass in nine months.

Is Epstein stuff really getting released tomorrow? Or will it just … not be released? Or will all/some be released but as a mass of blacked out redacted documents? Serious question.

Lovely little 🦊 in our back yard this morning

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Heady few days. Brown shooter just 2.3 miles from my son’s college. We had a neighborhood lurker Saturday night and when a neighbor called the State police, the Statie (from the barracks a mile away; we don’t have a police force) never showed up. Australia shooting. Reiner murdered. This world. 😡

There’s an insane amount of food waste this time of year. You have 7 friends over for a small holiday get-together. Drinks. A few food items. And they show up with like hundreds of cookies & chocolate peanut cluster things & donuts. More sweets than my wife and I eat in a year….

As you know, my cleaning lady has been terrible for the last year or so (after 10+ years of outstanding service). She cancels about one out of three times, always at the last minute. This week she just never showed up. My wife texted her. She’s in Poland. She never told us…

Now soccer is truly done. Banquet a couple of nights ago. The departing seniors. Soccer was a big part of our lives for the last 12 or so years.

I still rant and rave on a couple of anonymous Twitter/X accounts. Really unhinged stuff. Do you all do this? I never fully left Twitter.

It’s weird being unlocked. I suppose people could stumble upon what I’ve written. Like when I said our friend was pissed when we surprised her for her birthday. I guess she’d have to go on here and do a really specific word search to find that. Or the widow of the guy who drove into the house.

Earlier, I alluded to the crazy things that have happened adjacent to me. My good friend (X) from college married Y. She had an affair w/ another guy (Z) we went to college with. Z gave Y an STD and she was worried she gave it to X & that would get Y & Z caught. Y & Z dosed X’s sushi w/ antibiotics

My niece, in MA, applied to colleges in the stretch of PA through GA. She has gotten into colleges in NJ & NC and is waiting on more in PA, VA, NC, SC. My MIL *cannot* wrap her brain around this. She says “I think she’ll end up somewhere in Mass.” Uhh, no. She didn’t apply to any colleges in MA. 🙄

I’m 52. I raked leaves yesterday for two hours. It kicked my ass in a way it would not have 10 years ago. Don’t get old, folks. But more importantly, don’t get fat and out-of-shape. 😂

My son got his wisdom teeth out today. When he was coming out of anesthesia he asked the dental assistant if she smoked weed. She said “Not now. In the past.” 😂

Adult gift giving is a drag when you’re buying for well-off people who buy what they they want whenever they want & possess everything imaginable. It would be a great contrast to have a poor relative. “Here, Aunt Sally. I got this for you because I know your toaster has been broken for 2 years.”

Big ass black bear has been roaming all over our neighborhood for about a week. This is across the street, in my closest neighbor’s yard. He walked through our yard about a week ago. I was a bit jumpy when I put the trash out last night.

If Trump looked any more like a roadkill RFK Jr would cook him for breakfast.

My MIL is wondering if “streaming is going away.” I guess she means like all streaming. Going away. 🤔

My MIL bought 8 bacon-wrapped scallops for 10 people, which inevitably causes two people who would like to have them say “I’m okay. I’ll pass.”

BIL’s father (father of my wife’s sister’s husband) has a huge mass his colon. For months he’s been experiencing abdominal pain & alternating constipation & diarrhea. His doctor has been telling him not to worry about it. Now it’s not looking good for him. Man. These doctors who dismiss complaints.

We ask for a starting line photo. My son and his friend decide to take one with the totally strapped cops. 😂

2020, 2025

My wife’s friend owes me a small amount of money via Venmo. She and her husband are idiots, so I’ll probably never see it. Just one of those things that bothers me. She’ll just totally forget that she owes me money. She’s one of those people who isn’t on top of shit. Husband too. Details get lost.

food takes are what got jean valjean into trouble

Christmas is in a month. yay 😐

Congrats to this guy… Villanova University class of 2030.

Over the years I’ve experienced a few instances of people I know having really whacked out relationship things happen to them. Boy did it blow my mind. In a way, it’s more shocking than learning people you know died. One such instance occurred 10 yrs ago & I still think about it once a month maybe.

My son, 17, and his friends had a party last night at a farm (owned by his friend’s father). Apparently about 500 kids came. They had a DJ in a greenhouse. There was zero trouble. No fights. No hard drugs. Just a big fun beer bash with designated drivers. Refreshing to hear.

I am 52. Almost 53. Born in 1973. The youngest Boomer would be someone born in 1964. Therefore, I am not a Boomer. Gen X. That being said, I sometimes I catch myself doing or saying stuff that’s pretty damn elderly, even for a 52 yr old. So I could totally see a youngster calling me a Boomer. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It drives me nuts when people on FB or Insta say “Awe!” instead of “Aww!” in response to a cute or heartwarming photo. Awe and Aww are different words.

Last regular season game of his high school career. 😢

Little brother visiting big brother at college. Perfect fall weather.

I remember when my BIL couldn’t get his contacts from his old phone onto his new phone, so for a while he was carrying both phones and using the old deactivated phone to look up numbers. 😂

Over the last few years, myself and most of my close friends in town have turned 50, and we’ve done something fun, but not extravagant. Dinner out followed by a fire pit. Axe throwing for my birthday. Our youngest friend started to sulk b/c nobody was throwing her a party. But she’s not yet 50. 😐

I hate when people give Amazon reviews based on something other than the product itself. “I gave this book 3 stars. I would have given it 5, but the box it came in was damaged because my mailman dropped it. He’s a bad mailman!” Cmon dude. That’s not about the book.

There is no rhyme or reason to self-employment (my self-employment, at least). After the most profitable 7 or 8 months in 15 years, the last 2-3 months have been my quietest spells ever, w/ no new clients & not even any phone calls for matters I don’t want. I go from making money to not existing.