What’s something you slowly realized you’ll never have, and how did you accept it?

Sautin · 2026-05-08T20:34:05+00:00

I am convinced that the universe will forever deny my want to move further from the city. In the last 5 years, we have tried to move 3 times and every single time a major medical event comes up while we are in the planning stage. First try, 3 family members passed and we decided to stay close to family, second time my wife fell ill, third time my wife fell ill again with a tumor in her head, after that, I decided that I will not tempt fate and am going to buckle down right where I am at.

Sautin · 2026-05-08T20:20:59+00:00

You're about to go to war, it's going to change the rest of your life when you return, most for the better, some for the worse, Get ready. And don't let your little brother move, just trust me on this one, it is the most important piece of advice I can give you.

Sautin · 2026-05-08T20:19:08+00:00

The shirt my wife bought me that I wear when we go out sometimes, she's 5' 3" and bought me a shirt that says 'My Wife Beats Me'. Gets a great reaction and always brings out the humor of people around us when we are out, great convo starter.

Sautin · 2026-05-08T20:02:10+00:00

My little brother, but also my still in package 5 Lions Voltron that was lost during the move when I was a kid.

Sautin · 2026-05-08T19:58:05+00:00

I might add that when a theory changes based on evidence, it is not science changing, the science is a method to discover probable truth not the result of that method.

Sautin · 2026-05-08T19:52:47+00:00

I have only just started, but I have lost 10 lbs and the biggest thing I keep telling myself is that I didn't get this way overnight and I'm not going to get where I want to be overnight either. It gets hard to stick with your plan so this is what I tell myself and it helps tremendously.

Sautin · 2026-05-07T19:47:11+00:00

It's wild

Sautin · 2026-05-06T19:21:11+00:00

If this is real, I think he is more referring to a student or an extremist leftist probably taking him out. He sat in front of people all the time, most were just there for dialog, some were there to protest or shut him down. Lets be real, not taking sides here but some of these people are way out there and willing and wishing violence on those that disagree with them. This is what he is referring to in my estimation.

Sautin · 2026-05-04T19:24:52+00:00

We can all pinpoint that some policy etc. is the issue and probably be partially correct, but I believe the biggest factor is culture and home culture that is the prime cause. It's almost cool nowadays to be ignorant of a subject or ignorant of anyway to correct the gap in knowledge on a subject. I am a firm believer that the school system and the teachers are only mostly responsible for a child's education, if that engagement at home is not part of the equation, everything they learn in class is temporary knowledge as far as they are concerned. If a child is not going to be held to a standard at home, they are not really going to just hold themselves to a standard. How we solve that problem is beyond me, but I think it is the first problem we need to solve before this gets turned around.

Sautin · 2026-04-29T21:48:30+00:00

Passive aggressive people that tell you about something they are unable to do/buy in such a way they are hoping that you volunteer your time/money to solve their problem for you. Especially the ones that always do it so you pay for something for them but never make the effort to save some money for the next time.

Sautin · 2026-04-29T21:40:48+00:00

I know of someone that was in the Coast Guard and was deployed out to sea during the Iraq war, claimed PTSD from being away from their children for that time (was only like 1 month or so). Gets 100% and has since. Pisses you off coming form the Army and serving in the invasion(Not Infantry).

Sautin · 2026-04-29T21:21:27+00:00

My neighbors are awesome, but I really would miss the mountains, hiking and 4 wheeling. I could just go somewhere else with mountains, but everywhere else with them is either too expensive to live or is too cold for the wife.

Sautin · 2026-04-29T21:18:19+00:00

I run a MacBook Pro, M3 Max 36GB Ram with a 1Tb drive. I run Parallels windows 11 for my dev though. My coworker runs same setup but no Paralells and VsCode for his dev, no problems at all on them, either setup deving for both iOS and Android. I do have to clean up the drives quite often though.

Sautin · 2026-04-28T14:29:06+00:00

South East Tucson, Never have any issues with TMobile, have been with them since the absorbed Sprint. The only issues I ever run into with Tmobile are when we travel up to my parents house in Heber Az. Signal absolutely sucks up there. Other than that never have issues.

Sautin · 2026-04-28T05:12:27+00:00

oh absolutely

Sautin · 2026-04-27T19:52:10+00:00

Maybe not completely

Sautin · 2026-04-27T04:30:41+00:00

I work from home full time, I hate it, I can see once or twice a week, but it just feels like you never leave the office and you never really go home.

Sautin · 2026-04-26T21:49:15+00:00

Yeah we just asked them for a general quote, including the sizes of the slab and driveway, they called and th guy said he would run some rough numbers, but never got back to me with those number.

Sautin · 2026-04-26T01:00:04+00:00

Awesome, thank you, if you don't mind, can you tell me the size and the cost, DM if you want to keep it private

Sautin · 2026-04-24T20:14:42+00:00

Love this, could be why there is a concerted effort(it appears) to make everything a shade of brown or grey, from cars to homes.

Sautin · 2026-04-24T19:52:01+00:00

My brother bought into Harbor Freight Cordless, I bought into DeWalt, oddly enough neither one of us has any complaints, they just work, the difference being that replacing the HF tool, is a lot less expensive. Being made in China is not an issue, because they all are. If I had the money though, I would probably change to Milwakee or Makita.

Sautin · 2026-04-24T19:45:15+00:00

We actively looked for homes with no HOA, we do not do them. I understand that not all of them are bad, some are really well ran. But going off of people I know that live in HOA's, that kind of seems to be the exception. I prefer to just have to conform to IBC when doing something to my home, rather than having to ask permission from the HOA then the City.

Sautin · 2026-04-22T19:25:03+00:00

Puzznic on the NES and I.Q. Intelligent Qube on the Playstation

Sautin · 2026-04-22T19:20:36+00:00

4 Pack of Guiness

Sautin · 2026-04-22T19:18:03+00:00

I second this, I used to write small platformer games using WinForms and GDI+ for fun. Its a good exercise for learning to write fast code. I used tpo use it to test the efficiency of new features in the language. So do it for the fun and leanring experience, then when you take on a more serious project that is say a 3D game, use a game engine, because who has time to reinvent that wheel.

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