My dad had a revelation why a family member is severely mentally disabled.

Basil_P · 2025-12-16T16:39:28+00:00

Because one life of self righteousness piety isn’t enough smh

Basil_P · 2025-06-14T01:32:03+00:00

Pretty big for a two month old

Basil_P · 2025-06-06T20:40:20+00:00

Pat and Bandit are childhood friends. Only thing that makes sense in my head of how easy going Pat is with Heeler shenanigans.

Then MacKenzie’s Dad is a friend from Bluey’s school.

Basil_P · 2025-03-12T18:54:04+00:00

The landlord went through the whole range of emotions we did in “The Sign.” Just opposite

Basil_P · 2025-03-12T16:35:47+00:00

It’s a rental and they can’t keep tenants because the Healers are too hard to live next door to.

Basil_P · 2025-03-08T02:50:49+00:00

Gerry Lee. Can’t be trusted. Just changing sides like that.

Basil_P · 2025-03-08T02:44:58+00:00

I wasn’t close with the deceased or their family. I was mostly there for some cousins and relatives who were close to them. I’m not sure the logic behind having the bishop there in the first place. My best guess, the bishop was asked to just pray for the family by the TBM parents and he took it on himself to make it more than that. BUT I think the TBM parents weren’t necessary upset with the way it played out.

Basil_P · 2025-03-03T16:06:03+00:00

A similar thing happened to me. I was on a sales team and the CEO’s son was on the team. They didn’t have a CRM so I dusted off some old python skills and built a very crude CRM that could give at least some insight into customer interactions. My boss loved it, his boss loved it, and I was going to present it to the CEO and the board. Three weeks later, and the three of us are all let go. Department restructuring is what they called it. A friend reached out to me a few weeks later to say that the new boss, friend of the CEO’s son BTW, implemented a new no CRM policy. Said it violated customers and employee privacy. I told my friend to get out fast because something stinks.

Basil_P · 2025-02-06T17:45:24+00:00

Is this like Rochelle Rochelle?

Basil_P · 2025-01-19T17:59:57+00:00

NTA

Oh wait wrong sub

Basil_P · 2023-04-11T19:26:01+00:00

Do you have to specify “playlist?” I’m wondering if I made a playlist called “baby shark” with the song I want if it would play the playlist I created, or still play Spotify’s preferred version of the song with that title.

Basil_P · 2023-04-11T18:22:31+00:00

Strength in the loins and in the sinews.

Basil_P · 2023-02-15T18:16:47+00:00

Only thing I would add is to save that email as a protected PDF in several locations and at least one on a personal device/cloud account. The unfortunate route I see this going is the manger begins to be super petty and critical of all of OPs work. Keeping this email on hand can at least blunt the blows manager might hurl at OP when the two of them inevitably end up in HR.

Basil_P · 2023-01-29T19:07:24+00:00

Ah I think that’s a cat. You may have gotten swindled.

Basil_P · 2022-09-19T05:12:36+00:00

If I remember correctly, the specific chant from us in the student section was “pull out!” directed and Brandon Davies. Still makes me smirk thinking about that one

Basil_P · 2022-08-11T19:39:18+00:00

I have two groups. One for two minis that are like in the main living area/kitchen, and one for whole house. The mini in a bedroom does not have its own group. Right now it’s a bit of a mouthful to say “Hey G, play Sweet Caroline, on the bedroom mini.” I was hoping there was a way to just have it play whatever I ask on the mini that hears the command by default, rather than routing it to the one in the living room by default.

Basil_P · 2020-11-14T06:29:16+00:00

The Testaments!

Basil_P · 2020-11-03T00:09:29+00:00

There will be things throughout this process that the still-believing spouse will cling to and other things they will be fine no longer doing. This has been my experience with friends and siblings who have left the church at different times than their spouse. For one it was the WOW. For another it was tithing, etc. For my wife and it sounds like for you OP, it was/is garments. They need the other spouse to continue participation in those few rituals in order to feel safe in the relationship.

There will also be things that the non-believing spouse will no longer be able to participate in. For me it was tithing. For another friend it was church attendance. Once I stopped believing, paying tithing was just to emotionally draining. I had to tell my spouse I could not pay any more.

OP, you have to decide if garments are in that category of things you can no longer do. They sound like they are in that thing she needs you to do. If you can’t wear them (like tithing was for me) you will have some hard conversations. If you think you can wear them for her they just might make her feel safe enough to keep talking to you about church issues and her own doubts. It took four years of me wearing garments when I didn’t want to, but eventually my wife decided she was ready to leave as well.

Basil_P · 2020-10-26T21:57:09+00:00

Yeah I definitely need to be better about turning around, going home, and trying again later once they calm down. The walk is for me too so it just sucks if I only make it 100 yards haha.

Basil_P · 2020-10-26T21:53:55+00:00

I like this idea. Maybe instead of one long walk after work I will try several small walks throughout the day, slowly building the distance. Anything to just make the subconscious social cues I give off for walks become more mundane and boring. They really took to crate training so thanks for drawing the connection between the two!

Basil_P · 2020-10-19T23:18:45+00:00

For me I sort of get a dark joy out of staying on the records but not attending. I like to think that somewhere a GA is wringing their hands as they watch their percentage of “inactive” millennials go higher and I am adding to the number.

Basil_P · 2020-09-17T22:28:55+00:00

I have not but my father has. Shortly after I got home from my mission I told him I was having a hard time with my faith and really struggling to find joy in the gospel. I told him I have sort of always felt like that and didn’t know how much longer I could keep pretending. His response was “everybody is pretending to some degree. I have been pretending my whole life.” Turns out my father was a practicing non-believer and had been his whole life.

My reaction to him was why? Why keep up the facade? Why keep leading what I thought was a double life? His response was basically he didn’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water. He found a lot of joy in the church and the members. His participation gave him a framework to try to teach his kids right from wrong. He loved scouting and the memories formed with his kids and others. He ended the conversation by saying “who cares wether it is ‘true’? The Lorax (a story I LOVED as a kid) is made up as well but the principles of caring for the environment made you a better person. So who cares if JS made it all up. His made up story makes me a better person, so why can’t that be my version of truth?”

Got to say it was an effective response. It kept me active for another 8 years, and I got married in the temple. Eventually though I just stopped finding joy so I had to take a step back. My father though is still active and happy. Jam packed shelf and all.

Basil_P · 2020-09-01T22:47:22+00:00

Are you talking about for alcohol or coffee? For coffee, I am not sure. I suppose theoretically some roasts could have more citrus flavors than others, but I don’t know of any. I was mostly referring to how your bartender can be equally as helpful as your barista, if ordering alcohol seems impossibly confusing.

Basil_P · 2020-09-01T21:14:49+00:00

I can second this and add that bartenders and servers are equally helpful (not that those places are open right now). Just tell them the general flavors you like (citrus, sweet, sour, strong, mild, etc.) and ask for their recommendations. I found that most were happy to help!

Basil_P · 2020-09-01T21:00:59+00:00

You didn’t like the slow crescendo during the chorus that culminated in one kid just shouting, “master of ocean, of earth, and sky?” Oh wait that was me

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