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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I can relate in that I’ve never had a desire for someone else to take my name. But my ex-wife wanted to take my name because it would replace her father’s name, and that name was problematic to her. She has since changed it to a name she chose for herself. When my current partner married her ex, they both changed their name to one they chose to identify their new family. Those all seem like pretty good reasons.



  • I got myself a Xerox printer because I figured I’d be familiar with the interface since all the offices I worked in had Xerox printers, plus I figured getting a near-corporate printer might keep some of the bullshit away since Xerox would probably not want to motivate their corporate customers to switch brands. AFAICT they probably get most of their business through service, not so much product.

    So far it has worked out well. I have yet to buy a Xerox brand toner cartridge, and I’ve had this printer for several years and I keep getting consistent high quality prints. Some of the features are not super intuitive, but I don’t think it’s terrible to have to read the manual once in awhile.


  • It wasn’t huge in terms of actual numbers, but it still feels like my biggest win. I bought my first car for like $750. It needed some work, but I fixed it up. Before long, I crashed it. It was totalled. But, it was a 1973 Dodge Charger. I started pulling parts off of it and selling them on this new thing called eBay, and by the time I ran out of parts, I had made more than twice what I bought the car for.






  • indepndnt@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlDating
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    10 months ago

    Man, I can relate, I was in a bad way when I was 24. I was very lonely and dangerously far down the incel path (though nobody called it that then) before I snapped out of it.

    What I wish I had understood then is just how vast the bredth of human experience is. It may be hard to imagine right now given experiences you’ve had, but there are a lot of women who would be into you if given the chance. I know this is true because women are people. Quite a few of them are into men, of those quite a few are available and also yearning for a connection, and of those quite a few still are into some of your interests and particularly like various traits that describe you.

    Rejection can be hard, but it only means it’s not just right just now for just her, not that there’s anything wrong with you.


  • In the movie Point Of No Return, the main character is taught by one of her trainers to say “I never did mind about the little things.” To demonstrate the appropriate use of the phrase, later in the movie a guy shoots her friend then looks at her to see how she’s going to react and she says it to him. Given the time and perspective thus afforded her, she later kills that guy before he kills her.

    I dunno, I just think of that phrase a lot. Also I’ve been through a lot of big things that make practically everything seem like Little Things in comparison.





  • It’s not the same thing, but it looks like you haven’t got a match yet. I’m in my 40’s and just had jaw surgery about 6 months ago. Everyone I could find seemed wildly glad they’d done it. I’m relatively early in recovery and still somewhat annoyed with the process. However, my teeth line up how they should now so that’s pretty sweet. (That was the reason for it.) Also my face isn’t crooked any more and my tongue has more room and apparently I don’t snore any more.

    It sounds like the tongue tie surgery is much less invasive and stuff in your mouth heals pretty quick. (All I’m waiting for at this point is nerves and bone.) I ultimately decided to go ahead with it even though I feel like I’m pretty old, because I figure I should live at least another 40 years, and 40 years is a long, long time. May as well make it a little better if possible.