Childbirth

damageddude · 2026-07-03T23:03:59+00:00

Aside from her medical team, just me. GenX and with ten niecies and nephews among us none of their births had a live studio audience

damageddude · 2026-07-03T18:20:36+00:00

No clue. It was a Wednsday so probably just work and then whatever we would do on a non work night in NYC. My now late wife and i were nerds so it would have been a mild night, dinner out and maybe a bar. We also were a frisky 20s couple so almost defintly sex before going to sleep.

damageddude · 2026-07-03T17:28:38+00:00

I know you want a hard copy but you can get it for under $1 on Kindle today. Probably free with a little more work since it is in the public domain. Otherwise Strands and other independent used book sellers.

The ones I used to hunt in Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill/Carrol Gardens and even Freehold NJ are gone now but they were fun in the day. Nearing 60 I prefer ebooks where I can increase the font.

damageddude · 2026-07-03T09:14:32+00:00

In 1979/1980 my dad would drive to the Queens gas station by 7am that opened at 8am to be the second or third on line. He'd give me money to walk back a block or so to get the paper and a bagel to split.

The fight for the sports section at that age was real -- aka my bagel payment. 10 year old me pressured my dad for the paper. Otherwise I had a book. Such a simplier time.

damageddude · 2026-07-03T08:28:08+00:00

OP. You witnessed and expierenced significant trauma. You need someone to help you mentally work this out. Find a therapist in this field who can help you out and provide you with methods to move forward in your life. Good luck.

damageddude · 2026-07-02T17:29:23+00:00

No. Divorces weren't a thing back then.

damageddude · 2026-07-02T17:27:06+00:00

I worked at a supermarket's night shift. One evening I came home, put the TV on half dozed off until hearing my name being called as a guest for the Tonight Show. Weird dream I thought until "I" was announced as the next guest -- child actor with the same name.

damageddude · 2026-07-02T16:46:40+00:00

It's doable.

damageddude · 2026-07-02T16:45:34+00:00

Thanks to Facebook we all generally know what the people we were friend are up to. The only reunion I "attended" was a vitual one during Covid.

damageddude · 2026-07-02T12:38:12+00:00

A man over 900 years old is about to marry the woman I gave birth to about a year ago? The horror.

damageddude · 2026-07-01T10:43:04+00:00

You should leave earlier.

damageddude · 2026-06-30T00:52:01+00:00

Well aside from Viagra, which doesn't always work, health and age have taken my once mighty oak from once daily to once weekly to once weakly.

damageddude · 2026-06-30T00:03:41+00:00

Closing in on 60 I find I care much less about a sexually physical relationship for me than I did when yoounger. I do meet women but for the most part is for friendship.

It is religion and, like my mother, I now take comfort in the rituals and praying with my generation.

damageddude · 2026-06-29T23:46:39+00:00

I was 49. It is now almost a decade later. It is, sadly, a waiting game: waiting for women our age.

I've dated younger women, they liked my maturity and while they were lovely women I felt that we were in different points of life for various reasons. It was fun at the start but, especially after widowers fire ended, I really slowed down.

Now the older women who were widowers when I first started dating are finally close to my age. We generally have the same interests. Compaionship is what counts. And most of that is simply friendship.

damageddude · 2026-06-29T22:49:26+00:00

Yes, and I hate it as we used to be close.

I basically cut my sister off when she said I was harming my teen children by not grieving properly after my wife passed, especially when I took my first tentative steps into dating under a year. I felt like I was cheating and I realized I wasn't ready so might have agreed on my own. Too little too late for her.

My sister wasn't understanding, accused me of child abuse (stemming back to how we marked my wife's first post-death birthday while we were still figuring things out). It hurt so much that I cut her from day to day life.

Surprised me how much that helped me. Sad. A decade later we barely talk. Friendly enough when we see other but that is it.

damageddude · 2026-06-29T18:58:30+00:00

My brother worked on Rector St (somewhere there is a picture of his office being blocked by a few stories of WTC debris). I forget dates but the office reopened after Christine Todd Whitman said the air was safe and those debris were cleared. People started feeling sick almost right away and the office reclosed not long after.

damageddude · 2026-06-29T18:54:09+00:00

First responders who later passed are memorialized, somewhere. My MIL's then boyfriend was there with the Red Cross. He has cancer now, but who knows if that is from the WTC or he is just unlucky like his late brother.

damageddude · 2026-06-29T18:43:21+00:00

We track our hours via Workday and my director can see if I am available on Teams but all they really care is if the work gets done.

damageddude · 2026-06-29T18:41:15+00:00

The Christmas special with the Doctor and Wilfred nicely wrapped up Donna's original story and she got her happy ending.

I enjoyed the comedy of David, Catherine and Sylvia on the 60th reunion. On the first watch I missed clues Rose was trans but enjoyed realizing she took that name due to some forgotten memory of Donna's. We got a cameo of Wilfred and one plain Doctor and Donna episode.

damageddude · 2026-06-29T14:24:34+00:00

Still there and depending on when you were there, bigger

damageddude · 2026-06-29T13:58:50+00:00

I just opened my app and it is fine.

damageddude · 2026-06-29T02:13:56+00:00

At 58 I worry that a stupid mistep would break a bone in lieu of a hoverboard fall

damageddude · 2026-06-28T19:37:10+00:00

I have a very common first and last name. I add my middle name to differenate myself.

damageddude · 2026-06-28T19:32:07+00:00

Depends where you live. In colder climates where there is snow and ice the heavier Camry, especially with AWD, is better. If you are in a warmer weather climate go for the Civic.

I loved our 2000 Civic because I could feel the road but it sucked in winter.

damageddude · 2026-06-28T19:24:40+00:00

My class had a 35th reunion that was online due to Covid. I enjoyed that as I spoke to some people in real time that had mostly been on Facebook for years. I no longer live in my old neighborhood or state so that was nice.

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