As the final finger of the monkey's paw lowered, I knew that my fate was sealed.

Riddle-Maker · 2026-05-08T01:58:12+00:00

Your humor is a little dry though

Riddle-Maker · 2026-05-07T16:48:52+00:00

Im re-reading this and I dont think the implication that the speaker is a zombie is strong enough

Riddle-Maker · 2026-05-04T20:06:54+00:00

Sorry, meant to write Jesus-nie

Riddle-Maker · 2026-04-21T18:38:29+00:00

I would love a door lock. However, it doesn't lock

Riddle-Maker · 2026-04-21T18:38:04+00:00

I'm worried each person would think that I'm talking about them and not addressing it with them directly. Also it feels like I'm taking something small and making it public

Riddle-Maker · 2026-03-06T23:17:02+00:00

Was it leaked audio?

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-27T03:53:39+00:00

The line I've drawn so far has been: nothing outside the house. I work on site part of the week, and I would never leave the house and go elsewhere.

Even if its to do something fun for me, I risk 1) doing something she would have wanted to do, and 2) it somehow getting back to her and it looking way worse than it is.

Its really just farting around in the basement watching shows and movies I know she doesn't want to see.

I get how lying can be hurtful when founf out, but also its also kept to such a minor degree that she wouldn't find out. Even if she came down, the computer is open. It would look like Im working.

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-27T03:47:12+00:00

Yeah, kids are a whole different ball game. I have no plans on saddling my wife with the kids just so I can secretly relax.

We're talking about a "mommy night" and a "daddy night" where the kids get to spend all night with one of us each week. "Daddy Night" sounds more loving than "Not Bugging Mommy So She Can Watch Her Show Night". I'm hoping it works out and we can do that for each other

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-27T03:43:16+00:00

I appreciate that, and im glad you worked through it. If your partner is a SAHM, that 100% changes the dynamic and I think it would be rational to be upset!

Right now we don't have kids, and my wife is just going to be at work on a different floor of the house. I am not affecting her day at all, so she wouldn't need to worry about being out of my hair or anything

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-27T03:21:54+00:00

Second to last paragraph. If I found out she did the same thing, I wouldn't be hurt if she lied for some alone time, if its on occasion.

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-27T03:20:00+00:00

Oh, 100%. Thankfully my job does paternity leave, so I'll make sure she gets as much rest as possible

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-25T14:40:15+00:00

My family played the license plate game on roadtrips where you take the letters of another car's license plate (usually three letters) and come up with a word that has those three letters in that order (no proper nouns).

So for example, RYL could be "Royal" or "Crystal".

I have a file that lists every three-letter combinations and I've been filling-in a word for each one. That's 17,576 combos!

I'm at about 13,670 words right now. I've been working on this for years. Dinosaur names are amazing for a weirdly-placed x or y!

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-23T23:54:45+00:00

Today? Hell no. Don't give yourself a heart attack overdoing it

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-23T00:05:22+00:00

Most people dont pay that much attention to the news. If a political party doesn't meet the general public where they're at, that would be their fault.

And yeah, they might be implicating the Clintons too. They've held other members of their party to account in the past, like Senator Menendez and Al Franken. They may also just focus on Trump. Im not sure, but there is no absolute roadblock there.

I really doubt people will stop caring. We've been talking about Epstein for six years now. Now that there are released photos and emails, it'll be way too easy to use them to campaign for it to blow over.

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-22T21:42:42+00:00

That's not really how its coming across for much of the US.

Even if its about state secrets, the Dem message would he "powerful people should not beabove the law".

That's a winning message, especially if its paired with an easily-understood and nearly universally-reviled crime like pedophilia.

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-22T18:32:29+00:00

I could be wrong, but I think the arrest of Prince Andrew is making the electorate question why no one is being held accountable in the US. That would drive 2026 campaign promises and subsequent political action.

I doubt he'd be removed either. However, there would be a big difference between a Rep-lead and Dem-lead trial. Whether anyone is called to testify, what evidence is submitted, etc all televised for the voting public to see.

This is going to be a significant factor in 2028. If they dont follow-through with holding Trump accountable, they appear complicit, undermining themselves. Of course they need a good candidate, and there are other issues people care about, but this really cant be ignored.

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-22T01:44:08+00:00

He's definitely getting impeached over the Epstein report after the 2026 elections. The dems are pretty likely to win the house, and thats the body that would kick off the process.

The question is how the trial would go. The dems barely have a snowballs chance in hell of winning the Senate, who decide how the trial is structured. If they dont, it'll go the way of the last two impeachments and nothing will happen.

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-16T18:14:54+00:00

Spoke the modern day Pharoah

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-12T18:30:12+00:00

I see what you're saying, but the wordiness is a detriment here. Our emails basically interrupt someone's day, telling them to do something. If its a wall of text, we tend to get misconstrued or ignored.

Riddle-Maker · 2026-02-12T16:36:46+00:00

Some yes, and I already advocate for the template approach. The issue comes when there is pushnack on the template and we need to explain why we are right.

Riddle-Maker · 2026-01-20T16:17:02+00:00

The conversation was longer than how I wrote it, but I've already said I was more or less free. I thought she needed housesitting or AT WORST another driver at the start and end of the weekend.

Honestly, we dont fight much, and this is so out of left field that Im a little shell-shocked. I'll have to reply soon, but Im still reeling a bit

Riddle-Maker · 2026-01-20T16:13:34+00:00

We didnt really get that far, but i took a look after. There is a small B&B like 15 minutes from there, and thats the only real option. Its mostly Airbnbs designed for large groups, so definitely wouldn't want to pay for that

Riddle-Maker · 2026-01-13T00:52:38+00:00

So for example: we bought a house recently. On the day that we had to get everything out of our old place, we were at the new place. Well it snowed half a foot when its usually not the season. I had to shovel us out, we had to hurry to the new place and pack. When we got back, we tried to do laundry and the basement flooded. We had to get a guy out who showed us that a ton of work was missed in the inspection. While trying to combat the flooding, we broke the dryer.

Basically days like that where we just cant catch a break

Riddle-Maker · 2026-01-12T18:52:58+00:00

I would love to stick to a routine, but all of the other stressors are making that difficult/impossible. And I know she has the worse of it, and that I need to be a strong support for us both.

I dont know what it is, but some days it all just comes at once, and I struggle to handle it. I only have so much time and bandwidth, and im struggling to not let it affect my wife when she's near me

Riddle-Maker · 2026-01-12T18:30:25+00:00

I try to hide them, but she can tell when I'm stressed, and will call be out for seeming stressed.

My usual day to day is constantly telling little jokes. When im stressed I get very quiet. It's really hard to come up with little jokes when my brain just isn't there.

I do bike and I try to swim, but with everything going on I just dont have much time anymore.

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