You are in my brain

Five years ago I could get a foot long spicy italian combo with chips and a drink for less than $10.

When the world has gone to shit sometimes you gotta focus on the only shred of fun or respite you can get. I too am looking forward to the distraction of football, if only for a few hours every week.

Modern dating apps are my personal hell.

Z U N E

As a former ink stained wretch, I can confirm that is the reason.

Ah, yes, truly the sign that they’ve integrated into society.

yeah, it’s AP style guidelines.

So do deer, this is intended as a mental shortcut to roughly approximate size instead of a precise measurement.

I’m so glad I was dumb before smart phones were this prevalent. Any video evidence of my antics is either relegated to some long forgotten drive, or is too low resolution to be of any real concern.

Places either closed down or dropped so far in quality they are now a shell of their former selves.

Bonus points if you transferred the file to your phone via IR.

To be fair I encounter that problem with other adults, too.

Plus think of all the groceries you’ll haul on that motorcycle. The savings are endless!

It’s still good if you know where to look, and the country hot list ain’t it. Tyler Childers, The Steeldrivers, Colter Wall and Chris Stapleton are some of the best, just to name a few.

Yep. The grass is greenest where you water it.

When I was an undergrad my professors put a big emphasis on developing a portfolio of work and picking up experience where we could before graduation. For me that meant freelancing a few times a month while working a part time job along with class. Internships are great, but everyone had to have one to graduate from my program. A degree will set you up, but a portfolio of work and related experience will help set you apart.

Honestly it’s among the main reasons I switched grocery stores from Dillons (Kroger owned) to Aldi. Over the last three years Dillons has added more self checkout lanes, routinely staffed the bare minimum human checkout lanes, and regularly has looooong lines to checkout at peak hour. Going to Aldi I tend to save both money and time; their cashiers scan shit so damn fast.

That’s how you can tell Lemmy is growing.

I’ve done this. I was working for scraps out of college as a community reporter when an ostensibly conservative online news organization offered me an 80% pay raise and the opportunity to do most of my work from home. I was young, recently married and wanted to start a family, and we needed the money. The bigger salary was nice, but over the course of two years I spiraled into a deep depression and began to loath myself and what I did. It was so bad I began looking for a way out after the first six months. Eventually I got out (took a pay cut to do so) but am now in a much better place personally and professionally. I would never do anything like that ever again.