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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Mine? As miserable as ever. My little bro wanted to go to a little comic con thing, is just not my vibe, felt surrounded by people in weird costumes is just... Thankfully I was there for like half an hour.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (22 children)

You got to spend some time with your brother. He'll remember that.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I had a job interview Friday and no one was there to interview me. Apparently HR dropped the ball. It’s 110 outside and I’m homeless and living out of a car atm. We had thunderstorms which meant rolling up the windows. I only have a few bucks left and therefore cannot run the AC because of gas. Once the storms were over it was back to 110 but with nearly 100% humidity and even more sweating. I’m currently stealing WiFi to write this out and I’m hungry AF. So yea, bummer about your 30 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

There are mutual aid communities on lemmy where you might be able to find someone willing to send you some cash through an app. Good luck.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I had a cookout at my house, had maybe 15 people over, lots of drinking, lots of swimming. I just got a new grill for the party and it was nice to cook on. Today I'm working 12 hours which is annoying but that's life.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Lost a dog to lymphoma. The whole week prior he was mostly not eating, his back legs were swollen up, and he was having even more trouble standing up and walking. Saturday I woke up and found him under the guest bed laying in a puddle of blood, I cleaned everything up while my wife called vets and then researched an at-home euthanasia. He was 9, a pitlab mix. I figured the mix in him would make him healthy, but he died so young. I lost my last one to a bowel obstruction in 2020, he was 11 or 12. The next one’s 11 right now, but going strong. Watch the universe take him 2028, that’d be every 4 years right now…

Anyway, back to work tomorrow, so hey… the wheel keeps on turnin’.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Sorry for your loss.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (16 children)

I assume you're quite young, which is great! I'd suggest learning to enthusiastically jump into whatever activity you wind up in. It's way more fun that way.

At a comic con? Throw on a mask and start talking in a funny voice!

At an opera? Listen closely to the sounds and try to enjoy the artisticness of the performance!

In a big grassy field with nothing to do? Take your shoes off and let the grass tickle your feet!

In my experience it's easy to judge things as lame and to tell yourself that you're too cool for that thing, but that winds up not being fun, and you wind up missing out on a lot of stuff that you actually would've enjoyed if you let yourself get into it. Learn to be open to trying new types of experiences and you'll wind up having more fun in life!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Bro here acting like a lil bro with his lil bro

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The Left ranked first at the elections in France, so suddenly much, much better than the expected brown/black outcome.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

And Labour won a landslide in the UK! Good stuff!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

My spouse and I rode our motorcycles from the Midwest to the East Coast over Thursday and Friday. We've spent the weekend hanging out with family and friends that we haven't seen in months. It's been a good time and we'll be here for the rest of the week.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Hello,

I see you are a new account, feel free to join [email protected] , we have a lot of those threads

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not a new account. It's a serial ban evader who is on like his 6th account because he keeps getting banned from asklemmy for acting like an incel

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This makes so much sense. This person sounds insufferable on so many levels.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I went to a small (~30 people) festival dedicated to wood carving, because I was asked if a wanted to cook for everyone. Found it very inspiring to get an impression of that very specific sub culture.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Far far too short, though did have a mates birthday so that was fun

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Up and down. Depression hit me super hard, slept/read 14-hour days, but despite that, there were some great things.

Took the family out on my little 10' boat and watched the downtown fireworks from the river. We were directly underneath, cardboard shells raining on us! What a rush! None of us has ever seen anything like it.

Been limping along with a shit fridge that barely works. Got a new one from FB for $200! Nicest fridge I've ever had. Going to be a huge project swapping them. Hell, getting it out of the other guy's house was a chore.

And tonight we're hitting Aldi and loading up on food. Can't wait to have a good fridge, freezer and ice maker again.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pretty good!

I am in parental leave for another two months so I get to play with the little one and stay home.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Got the air conditioner mounted in the bedroom in time for the heatwave. Now to take a quick afternoon nap and then work on the fence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

My weekend was interesting. Opened my gaming mouse to swap the left mouse button switch since mine had started doing random double clicks. Discovered the battery was building pressure. Kinda a pain because it's still sitting disassembled while I wait for a new battery, but I'm glad I did find it like that instead of it eventually starting a fire when the package ruptured.

Oh also apparently some spiders successfully mated in my place and the spiderlings hatched on Saturday. I've relaxed my "catch and release, no kill" rule for spiders until further notice, though the one bigger one that showed up last night still got that. Looking around, I don't see any right now. Guessing I've killed like 40 so far. Apparently it'll take them a week or two to starve, assuming they don't catch some of the few bugs in here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Started GMing a Cyberpunk Red campaign, went to the pool, cleaned my bathtub.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Spent most of today on trains coming back to Germany from my 2 weeks Interrail trip to the UK. Had a great time there. Spent yesterday exploring Bath and climbing up Solsbury Hill in the evening.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I went to Vienna to see Kraftwerk and it was really great. Vienna itself is a bit shitty though IMO

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Mine's been great! Was playing some old games that I still love

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

My depression has been trolling its way back recently, I was doing good since January... Those two weeks have been hard. Keep crying without knowing why exactly during my visits at my psychologist.

But the weekend wasn't that bad. We went to the municipal pool yesterday, the kid was happy. Today we went to the beach with friends, it was a most beautiful and relaxing day. When we came back, everything started going so wrong, I became super clumsy and almost broke stuff multiple times. Ended up screaming at myself and went to my office in the basement to isolate myself.

I feel bad for my wife and son. They deserve better than what I can offer right now.

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