hrimfaxi_work @ hrimfaxi_work @midwest.social

Technically I'm an archaeologist, I guess.

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I do touchless, and I don't bother with anything beyond the basic wash option. That tricolor foam stuff looks fun while you're in there, but idk how much good it actually does.

I don't care about my car looking shiny and clean, but I've driven hail cars exclusively for the last 15ish years. I try keeping them rinsed off at all times to avoid anything gnarly festering in paint cracks or whatever. Every third or fourth fill-up, I'll run the car through the cheap $8-10 touchless wash, even (especially) during Minnesota winters.

I think hand-washing is the only way to go if we want our cars clean looking, but who am I trying to impress, you know?

Of course it is. I'm not a monster.

And the third rule is: signal for at least two blinker flashes before changing lanes or braking so the people around you can respond accordingly.

That's 3+ years of stable internet, friend! Who cares how it's run?

We ran snakey boys throughout the house using command hooks on the ceiling when my wife and I had to go WFH 3 years ago.

The temporary fix is still going strong. At this point, the place would look weird without hastily strung up CAT5 all over the place.

Fun fact! My first dnd character was an unwitting champion of Sune.

He was a gangster who primarily worked security in brothels before getting forced into adventuring. My DM reasoned that protecting sex workers by actively doing violence against Johns and shitty pimps meant he had protected more of Sune's devotees than many of her paladins.

I only learned that because she saved me from a final failed death roll for just enough time to extract some narratively satisfying revenge. Then he got a killer epilogue.

RIP Robert, you legendary son of a bitch.

I work in higher education, coordinating advanced degree programs. This situation makes me think of half a dozen research faculty I know personally that behave the exact same way.

I'm not of the opinion that people of advanced age are automatically less competent, but it's a fact that age-related cognitive decline is a thing. People persisting in important decision-making positions after such decline cause immense and compounding problems.

It'll never happen, but I'd love for us to collectively decide that a particular age range is the end of a person's professional life and the beginning of something new and exciting and also dignified. I'm aware of the cultural reasons that it can't happen in this particular time and place, but it would improve things a lot if it could.

The most.

A reason isn't even necessary, insane or otherwise. They'll just say "they caused this. Look what they did," and that will be good enough for a lot of people.

The real pro gamer move is to aggressively shake the can, breaking the contents into small pieces. Then you can simply drink your Pringles.

I hope it happens during the morning rush hour so my spouse rescue mission kicks off to a sophomoric rock station morning show.

HONKHONKHONK AWOOGA glass smash & cat screech HERBIE AND DINGHOLE MORNING HOUR ON 93X explosion HOW THE FUCK DO SHOWS LIKE THIS STILL EXIST IN 2023? sick guitar riff

Why? Does your local PD have really good music taste or something?

You need to think ahead and make the playlist now, then! OP is trying to help us.

Whoa there, sport. You got a license for that reply?

This isn't a joke. And it's not just MC.

From 2002-2008, I worked two full-time retail jobs. Overtime was common at both around the holidays. 2006 was insane for me. Like, the number of weekly hours I worked that year sound like I'm lying, and Thanksgiving to New Year's was crazy in comparison to the rest of that crazy year.

Anyway: Christmas. Retail. I'd work 10+ hours at job 1, then go to job 2 and put on another 8-10 hours, then I'd crash for however long until the next shift. All the while it would be the same 20 or so Christmas songs over and over and over.

Between shifts, there'd still be Christmas music. Gas station? Christmas music. Restaurants? Christmas music. Bank? Christmas music.

Sometimes I'd sleep at my mom's house between shifts because it was closer to one of my jobs. She'd be up, getting into the spirit by.... listening to Christmas music. Even in my sleep, it haunted me.

I can still vividly remember Christmas shopping for my niece and nephew in 2006, standing in line at a Toys R Us holding this big stuffed animal. "Wonderful Chrismastime" by Paul McCartney was on. That fucking refrain penetrated my psyche like it never had before, and I literally began to shake.

"Simply. Having. A wonderful Christmastime."

I thought I was going to cry. Or just start screaming. Or maybe grab someone and punch them until the police arrived. But I didn't do any of those things.

I set the stuffed animal on the floor, I walked outside, and I sat in my car, staring blankly at nothing, and I chain smoked a full pack of cigarettes, lighting them off one another. And then I went back to work.

That was 17 years ago, and sometimes I still drop what I'm doing and leave a store if that, or one of a handful of other songs, come on.

Are fast food music videos a thing, too?? I'm missing out!

I'm visualizing the experience, sitting in a 10'x12' room, and totally unconstrained. Just that makes me feel anxious.

I think that I'd have a mental break in less than a day. Probably in less than a few hours.

I couldn't do it.

No! Are you fucking with me rn, or is that a real thing?? I'm very interested.

Yeah!! B2 is one of the supplements I'm taking to see if they reduce their intensity/frequency.

I went to a neurologist recently because I didn't know that these things I've been getting were migraines in the first place. Turns out I get Vestibular Migraines.

Cue General Hospital's entrance music...