This and Dilaudid are the two songs I listen to after work every day to signal ‘no more looking at work shit today’.

I found that any video I try to upload longer than about 17 seconds fails while anything shorter works.

Loops ftw.

Do you know what makes hearing videos and stuff on your phone easier when you have hearing loss? Fucking headphones.

A lot of people seriously misjudge turkeys as well. They picture the little dog-sized white bastards you see on farms. But out here in the forest our turkeys are 4 ft tall and their back legs are covered with murder spikes ending in feet with 3-inch talons.

It never gets old and starting the fire is one of my favorite things. And chopping wood can be meditative or therapeutic. But it certainly isn’t exciting.

And around here once the December fires are going it really doesn’t go out until March. So not a lot of meditative fire lighting sessions.

It really is. After 11 years of remote work I would never go back to an office. I also understand we can’t all work remote. I was an automotive and industrial painter for most of my pre-IT career and that would have been rather difficult to do over the internet :p

In my defense - The 3000th night doing it is rather dull

Fair. But to a sysadmin or devops engineer availability is pretty important.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_gods,_no_masters_(disambiguation)

Yup.

I smoked a pack a day for roughly 30 years. My night time breathing was getting ugly and my wife would sometimes get woken up by the sound of my wheezing.

Every method of quitting failed me except vaping. I started as most do with a high nicotine vape juice that tasted like tobacco, but after about a month I swapped and started going lower and lower nicotine and change the flavor from tobacco to a custardy type.

2 months of that got me off the cigs. Two more months got me down to zero nicotine. Two or three more months after that I was done.

I have been off cigs for 7 years.

My breathing no longer feels wet or difficult at night. And My yearly health tests all come back the same as a non-smoker.

Asexual.

Thanks.

That makes at least 3 of us!

Do you happen to know the brand? I’ve been looking for plugs to reduce wind noise without also cancelling out the sound of my motorcycle.

I tried to find the SUPERUPVOTE for this but I failed. So you get a normal upvote :)

We live in the forest so our cats can only ever go outside on a harness or in one of those backpacks to save the lives of all our forest friends.

With floof and love!

This is literally me. We’ve been out here three years - One more year of putting up with the tech world during the day, and building our solace nights and weekends and this place will be close enough to self-sufficient that I can check out of the workday forever.

Don’t get me wrong - building a place in the forest yourself, from nothing, is a lot of work. But it is the kind of work that leaves your body tired and your brain energized. Not the soul sucking every day of dealing with ‘business’ types.

And every year life gets a bit easier here, while it gets harder every day in the tech industry.

It feels like selfish and stupid is winning everywhere. But Alberta is definitely trying to stay at the front of the pack.