I don’t speed.

I mean I do, but only if I’m not paying attention. I naturally want to go fast. If there were no cars on the road, I’d be going as fast as I want. During the pandemic, when no one else was on the road and cops weren’t pulling people over, I was getting to work in 30 minutes. Normally it takes no less than 45, and usually more like an hour and a half.

However, I don’t speed because there are other cars on the road.

I’ll drive at the speed limit if I can. I used to drive about 5 mph above the speed limit, but the last time I was doing that, I stopped for a school bus dropping off kids, and the guy behind me didn’t even stop looking at his phone (I assume). And it occurred to me that he was going 5mph faster than he would have been because I let him.

So now I try (again, fighting my nature) to never go above the speed limit. I also never drive closer than 4 seconds to the car in front of me. I also very slowly decrease my speed down to 10 mph below the speed limit if someone is tailgating me.

Prior to the pandemic, people would be annoyed, and they’d aggressively pass me when it was safe to do so. Since the pandemic people just cross the double yellow line into oncoming traffic to pass.

They’ve made it much harder than it used to be to get your license in PA, but it’s still too easy to get and keep your driver’s license. Every driver should have to repeat a driving test every five years.

My wife has health problems, and voluntarily stopped driving about 15 years ago when she noticed she was developing muscle weakness. The only time she’s driven a car since was an early Sunday morning when I took her to the empty high school parking lot and had her drive our civic around so she could just see what it felt like.

My dad drove him and my mom to church on the day he died. He had been having increasing number of car accidents, but no one could stop him from driving. My wife and I refused to ride in a car with him driving. I think the last accident he had was with a light pole in a parking lot because “the sun was in his eyes.”

If his heart had given out on the highway on the way instead of in church, my siblings and I would have had to bury both parents.

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You seemed to be running low, and I had some extras I wasn’t using.

I assumed Bernie was included.

I keep track of money with GnuCash.

There are accounts in there for my checking and savings accounts, credit card accounts, mortgage, car loan, etc.

I also have accounts I created for things that don’t exist outside of my GnuCash file. Accounts for money set aside for college payments for my kids, accounts for saving for vacations or whatever. The money in those accounts is “really” in the savings account, but since I don’t look there when I’m checking what money I have to spend, it is left alone. So, for example, the bank might say I have $1000 in savings, but GnuCash says it’s $200 with $800 in a vacation account.

A former boss would say, “Don’t just do something. Sit there!”

It’s a way to remember that very often it is more important to do the right thing than it is to just do something. Stop, think, then act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

I don’t mind how many episodes are in a season or how long a series is. I’ve seen great shows that had a single eight episode season. However, I don’t want to watch anything that doesn’t have a defined ending. I’ve been burned too many times when I find a great show only to discover it died in a cliffhanger.

If it’s good enough to complete it’s entire run and get a proper ending, then I’m interested. I don’t want to be on the hook dependant on the whims of the creator or the production company.

How do you define actively involved in war?

We were actively involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

It looks like the only age group that didn’t increase support for Trump in 2024 compared to 2016 was 65+.

Am I reading that right?

In my case, having my manager quit did more for my depression than any pill could do.

My wife would tell me I’m depressed, and I’d agree about that.

However, she thought I should get meds, and I thought I should only get medicated for depression if the depression was chemical.

If you’re depressed because life sucks, then you should be motivated to fix what sucks. Unfortunately, that’s not how depression works.

Luckily, life started to suck slightly less.

I was pulling all-nighters well into my 40’s, but I had insomnia. It wasn’t something I wanted to do. However, I did take advantage of it for work.

I found the solution to my insomnia and never looked back. Now I fall asleep almost like a normal person.