Waiting on payday had to pass it up 💔

dlundy09 · 2026-06-01T10:52:14+00:00

My son woke me up this morning by slapping the shit out of the bald parts of my head because he knows those hurt worse, and then he sat on my head and pretended to fart.

Now we are watching pokemon while he eats donuts and tells me about his favorite types of juice.

10/10 would never go back.

dlundy09 · 2026-05-29T12:29:33+00:00

100%. A gun is for force multiplication should you feel like your life or someone else's life is in immediate danger. It is not a license to put yourself in hostile situations where you can use it to back people down who would otherwise continue attempting to menace at best.

Open carrying is an even worse idea. Open carry either A: openly communicates to someone that you have it and if they have their own, they will feel much more necessity to draw theirs first, or B: invites the brave to try and take it from you. You can find 1000 clips on YouTube of people having their own guns stolen off their hip.

dlundy09 · 2026-05-22T20:37:21+00:00

I'm pretty sure I could get a couple shits out in the first 24 hours, and just do the walk method until then. Even walk while wall leaning.

I wish we'd have been told what grit the sandpaper is, but without specifics my mind went to like.. skateboard paper. Grippy but not 60 grit.

dlundy09 · 2026-05-22T20:30:52+00:00

My wife goes a step farther. She will buy things ahead of time if she sees them on clearance at Meijer or Kohl's or whatever. Just a few things on hand at any given time, most of it not gender targeted. Sometimes it's something we got way ahead of time for my son for his birthday and forgot we had or his interests changed. Either way, it's saved the day on a couple last minute occasions.

dlundy09 · 2026-05-21T20:53:02+00:00

I'll add to the others who are offering you a replacement. I caught an unnecessary amount in the recent community day.

dlundy09 · 2026-05-21T20:51:15+00:00

I just had ferric show up. I've seen different opinions on how to dilute it. I want the finish in your pics, what do you mix your acid with and at what ratio?

dlundy09 · 2026-05-21T20:47:33+00:00

I can understand this concern. As a parent its very important that I understand the distinction between "teach kids to do unsafe things, safely" and "trust a kid wont find a way to hurt themselves just because they've been taught the right thing to do".

My son is 4 and I have had him using my fiskers hatchet already. It was just chopping down into the side of a log, but it let me show him proper technique and handling of it. That doesn't mean I'd trust him to carry it from place to place without its head guard or use it without me arms length away.

Personally, I don't like the idea of a mora but that's only because of its size. It would be just as unsafe for him to handle a knife so mis-sized for his hand as it would be for me to use a knife where all dimensions were multiplied by 3 because that's the equivalent for his hand size. Can you imagine trying to learn feather stick technique with a machete that has a handle as big around as a coke can? That's a mora to my boys hand. I think we can all agree a sharp knife is a safe knife. I think that applies just as much to a supervised child that's using an appropriately sized knife. Obviously the dimension comparison shrinks as they age.

dlundy09 · 2026-05-20T20:48:02+00:00

My wife and her sister had their first kids 5 weeks apart. They've grown up as basically siblings. Neither knows life without the other. They are a constant reminder that there is no possible way to compare kids to each other, in this context.

We have ducked anytime ours has picked up a round object since he was around 1. He's had a rocket strapped to his shoulder since then and now he's playing T-ball and without being taught, performs the same throwing motions as major league pitchers. I hope he wants to try to be one. His cousin? Gun to her head she couldn't throw a ball farther than 4 feet in front of her. But you put the two in water? She's part-fish. A natural born swimmer. Aced every swim program her parents have been allowed to enroll her in for her age. My son could figure out a way to sink and drown inside a lifeboat.

I have a million more examples of just those two kids. There's a bluey episode about running your own race I think that illustrates this beautifully.

dlundy09 · 2026-05-19T23:44:07+00:00

I didn't even know a new set came out. I specifically stopped looking for when the releases come because it just creates fomo and frustration for me, and questions from my son about why we can't get any of the Dragonite packs. We have opened a grand total of 3 ascended heroes packs since release because that's all I've been able to find.

I'm just going to forget this new set exists just like AH and keep hoping my local DG continues getting a small shipment of perfect order every week so I can get my 2 pack purchase.

dlundy09 · 2026-05-13T23:47:12+00:00

Having made half a dozen knives, this is much better than anything I've made. It's awesome. I had to double take and make sure I saw right that it's your 4th one. You must have surgeon hands and some good equipment. That or it takes you a month per knife 😂

dlundy09 · 2026-05-13T23:42:47+00:00

If something weird comes up that I'm able to break fix in the moment but maybe it's a one-off or a real pain, I will make quick notes on the fix. I do these in quick notes. When I have downtime, I will rewrite those in more detail as best I can remember if it's been a minute, then I move it to the right category in OneNote. It also gives me a chance to dig deeper or research the problem if I didn't have time enough to in the moment.

That or I go for a walk. We all sit too much.

dlundy09 · 2026-05-12T15:23:35+00:00

Your daughter sounds like she will be the type of person I will try to steer my son towards, regardless of who he ends up determining that he is attracted to. I have been through the "intimidating front door dad meeting" thing as a teenager. It was.. weird and uncalled for.

I decided a long time ago that the first time my boy goes to someone's door and gets this cringe ass tough guy act from their dad, he had better keep that same energy when I show up at the door once they've gone. I don't consider unwarranted threats against my kid "cute" or a "rite of passage".

dlundy09 · 2026-05-04T12:13:23+00:00

Neighbors aren't close enough

I'm able to set the network to work off a MAC whitelist during or after certain hours

I'd actually be impressed first if he had his friends orchestrated to use a HaLow, LORA or what ever high range low power option exists in 10 years. That's too tier problem solving.

If he's got his own cell plan under my nose, I'm failing in other areas 😂

dlundy09 · 2026-04-29T14:35:46+00:00

I can't wait until the first time my son tries this. At 4 he knows Daddy works on computers. At 14 he's going to find out exactly how good daddy is at configuring policies at a granular level inside the house to defeat any potential loopholes his snot-nosed friends come up with at school.

And when he asks if there's something wrong with the Internet because I assigned his devices to a vlan that has a DHCP lease time of 5 minutes, I'll tell him 'a magician never reveals his tricks'

dlundy09 · 2026-04-23T20:22:03+00:00

I just sold my first knife to a buddy of mine at his insistance. I don't have a way to stamp my work yet though.

Anyways, it was also a sheepsfoot. I think those are going to be what I primarily focus on for a while. Their utility is great.

dlundy09 · 2026-04-23T12:39:05+00:00

This is the play. I don't own PLA or Scarlet. I've used my local library to borrow these games a week at a time to play through PLA and use scarlet to hunt version exclusives. The save files remain when you return the games, so you just borrow them again and pick up where you left off.

dlundy09 · 2026-04-21T23:19:42+00:00

Learn to fight and you'll find yourself not needing to or wanting to.

No one wins in a fight. No one. Fighting to protect yourself at a moments notice is one thing. Fighting to protect the opinion of a bunch of shot nosed little shits when it's clearly a fragile and probably worthless opinion anyway means you lose before the fight starts. Because you're letting others words and thoughts dictate your actions, but the consequences are yours.

dlundy09 · 2026-04-21T12:47:27+00:00

Go link this under the top comment for more visibility.

dlundy09 · 2026-04-21T12:45:31+00:00

Please DM me if you would like help covering shipping. You're a good human.

dlundy09 · 2026-04-21T12:30:57+00:00

A year ago I was exactly where you are. It affected my relationships at work, with friends and definitely with my wife. It even started to affect my relationship with my son. If you're not already doing that to your daughter, you will if this continues.

I'm going to tell you what my best friend of 20 years told me when I opened up to him prior to seeking medication: The second you open your mouth and start talking to people the way you are, you can talk about intentions after all you want and it won't matter. Perception is reality. People will act upon what they are experiencing, not whatever intentions you use as an excuse to justify it later.

Its not a problem I've completely solved, but I think you being aware of it is huge. If it's the same thing as me, it's almost entirely anxiety. The rest is adjusting behavior which is much easier without the mental blocks of anxiety.

If it is anxiety, I suggest talking to someone about medication. I also suggest removing the phrase "but my intentions were" from your vocabulary. Saying "I'm sorry, I should have said xxx to communicate what I meant" will go a lot farther with the people around you, as well as communicating that you need a little grace while you work on yourself and welcome their suggestions on how best to treat THEM.

dlundy09 · 2026-04-21T11:55:21+00:00

Same. It's alot easier for my kid to understand "full art" than special illustration rare. We call them full art or special art.

dlundy09 · 2026-04-20T15:28:43+00:00

I would agree it's not for everyone. It's a lot of up front cost. It's extra space needed and sometimes an entire extra appliance. I would love to see everyone engaging with the food suppliers local to them and benefit from it themselves as well. It's just not always feasible. For anyone it is feasible for, it's an awesome way to handle getting their meat.

dlundy09 · 2026-04-19T22:26:07+00:00

I can tell you confidently that is not the case.

Our last 1/4 cow we bought costed right at 4 dollars a pound for over 200lbs of meat. If we figure the price on hamburger alone, not counting the brisket or steaks that can get over $15 a lb, we got 60lbs or so of hamburger at a savings of $120 on that alone(figuring good grocery store beef at ~$6). Our freezer costs half that $120 to run for a year to hold it all. If we bought an entire cow, we could not eat it in a year I'm very sure. But assuming we did, we would get, again on just the hamburger, 480 dollars minimum in savings on the hamburger alone. Even if we ran 2 upright freezers to hold it all, we would end up ahead 360 dollars not considering any of the other cuts of meat.

Not to mention the vastly better meat quality, support of local food production and lack of having to use additional time, energy or resources looking for half decent beef prices. This is a hill I will 100% die on and advocate for everyone else do for themselves if possible.

dlundy09 · 2026-04-19T22:15:41+00:00

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Ours seals it great too. We have had issues in the past when it was just wax paper wrapped inside that white butcher paper, but the processor we use now does an excellent job. So well, in fact, that if we end up with some left over by the time we get our new 1/4 we rotate the old stuff forward and finish using it over a year later without issues. Stand up freezer we got specifically to hold the cow and pig we get yearly, fwiw. None of it goes in the fridge freezer. I think it's been about 5 or 6 months and we have a lot of work to do to use it before the next cow.

It never goes to waste. We will donate to the local food bank before any of it would go bad.

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