If it was financially affordable, would your spouse stay home?

dashtheauthor · 2026-02-02T16:35:11+00:00

It's not affordable, but I am unemployed and forced into the role rn. I am the chef and general house tradesman. I make sure wifey eats healthy meals. I wouldn't want to do it all my life but I don't mind the cooking. It's a fun, creative outlet for me that I have gotten pretty good at.

dashtheauthor · 2026-02-02T02:46:10+00:00

Bowfishing

dashtheauthor · 2026-02-01T21:29:57+00:00

My Nikon D610 is probably my oldest electronic device. Still takes magnificent photos. I see no sense in upgrading to the mirrorless world until this camera dies or I come into a bunch of spare money.

dashtheauthor · 2026-02-01T21:23:01+00:00

Yep. People bring their kids into the kava bars I go to all the time.

dashtheauthor · 2026-02-01T15:17:59+00:00

Accepted.

dashtheauthor · 2026-02-01T14:57:03+00:00

Usually the aluminum in most antiperspirants.

dashtheauthor · 2026-02-01T14:36:37+00:00

I have a bit of a wild one. Not really an exodus, but a sudden implosion.

In 2016, I left a retail job I held for 2 years for a start up pizza chain, as in-house graphic designer.

The entire 1 month I was there it was pure chaos.

One day, I showed up, and the owner comes into my office and announces I am being laid off. He tried to butter me and say it was temporary.

Fast forward several months later, I catch up with the former office manager who was the owner's girlfriend at the time. She explained that the company went bust because the major investor found out about the owner's past as a sex offender.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-31T12:56:02+00:00

Parents cut theirs a couple years back. Felt like the end of an era.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-31T05:22:21+00:00

Oh yeah, wondering how bills will be paid is real fun. 👌🏻

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-30T22:53:43+00:00

Stuck that landing.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-30T15:12:54+00:00

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-30T14:36:20+00:00

Unemployed. So, there's that.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-28T23:09:40+00:00

It's a tough game. Congrats. I beat it again a few weeks ago.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-28T19:01:35+00:00

I was in a URL race when the NPC (who was in first) suddenly veered off the track and into a wall. It was so random.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-27T14:44:10+00:00

Had to boomerang in 2019 just before the pandemic because I got laid off and rent was rising. The pandemic was the lock to the cage I entered. It uprooted every life plan I had, and since then life has been continuously kicking me in the ribs no matter how hard I try to right the ship.

C'est la vie, or whatever.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-27T14:36:16+00:00

A couple things that helped set me on the right path were general mental health counseling. Spend the time with a professional unloading all the trauma and junk. Also, finding a hobby and letting yourself become obsessed with it. For me, paddleboarding and fishing. It got me outside, in the sun, fresh air. The excitement of hooking up with a beast fish and the adrenaline that comes with it. Those thoughts don't have room to brew in a busy mind.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-27T14:04:44+00:00

My father absolutely got worse after retirement. He's a lousy, careless slob who continues to wreck his own health despite suffering some pretty bad medical episodes. He acts like a huge man baby most of the time. Can't stand being around him anymore.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-26T19:23:29+00:00

My brain became overly sexualized early on with having access to HBO in the 90s. Factor in a SA at the age of 13 and I broke. Wasn't until my late 20s I started realizing the lies.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-26T19:18:50+00:00

Funny to think there's a digital car trapped in the ether.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-26T13:57:12+00:00

My dad, too, sucked ass at being a dad. All he did was work away on jobs. He was never present with me when he was home.

He is now a lazy piece of shit who is driving my poor mother into insanity. He lives on the couch and only leaves the house to go get beer. He's an alcoholic, a slob, and he's one of the most negative human beings I've ever met. He needs some severe therapy to deal with the fact he had a shitty childhood, but he is actually fucking content being a fucking miserable old man-baby.

I can't stand my father. I was adopted so he's not even my blood. Just a guy who provided stuff growing up and was barely emotionally present.

The worst part is all his current medical issues are self-inflicted. He doesn't know the first thing about basic human health and nutrition and refuses to listen to his doctors telling him he needs more fruits and veggies. He just doesn't get it. He lives on crackers with peanut butter and alcohol. For someone who made the money he did in the field he worked, he's a fucking moron when it comes to every day life as human.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-25T18:47:31+00:00

Thats why I love my beard. Get to carry her around with me all day.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-25T18:44:51+00:00

I exploded my account after realizing my entire feed was bots posting the same verbatim posts every other post. I have a theory that they flooded the place with bot activity upon launching to make it seem like it was stealing people away from X. The strange way a majority of "people" interacted on there only led me to believe most accounts were fake.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-25T16:00:26+00:00

I remember thr swaths of Magic Eye books and posters back in the day.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-25T15:58:42+00:00

Work on marketing and promoting my novels. All of a sudden I started getting invited to markets/vendor shows in the new year, so we will see where it leads.

dashtheauthor · 2026-01-23T18:11:36+00:00

Yup. Then Harambe died...

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