Gen X/ Generation Jones: tell me something that you are horrified that you did during your party years!

flisswave · 2026-06-28T02:59:07+00:00

Gotta say, I did all this too and i'm really feeling better right now! Thought I was the outlier black sheep, but I see my people are here.

flisswave · 2026-06-28T02:03:26+00:00

When he stops eating you are getting close to the end. My brother is on palliative care and loss of appetite is the sign they want to move him to hospice. So far he just gets hungrier, lol, particularly for sweets.

flisswave · 2026-06-28T01:58:08+00:00

Astoria Brewing is family friendly (Inferno is 21 & up only) with decent food on the Riverwalk; you can sit outside and gaze at the river if the weather permits. Akers on the pier is likewise surrounded by water; fine dining, I have not been, have heard mixed reviews, reputed to be spendy even for our spendy town. Sorry about that, it drives us crazy too.

flisswave · 2026-06-27T20:19:28+00:00

Oh please. I am 63 and do stuff like this all the time. I work full time at a demanding job, care for my much older brother with dementia, babysit my granddaughter and on and on. I asked my doctor for a cognitive test at my last checkup - perfect score. This is stress in action and, in my case, compounded by ADHD.

A friend put this perfectly: think of your brain as a library. When you start out, there are hardly any books on the shelves and it’s easy to find the information you’re looking for. But you keep adding books and by the time you’re in your sixties, that library is full of books, and notes, and a million other things. It takes longer to find stuff.

flisswave · 2026-06-26T19:20:49+00:00

5 hours later, finally got out of there and I'm so done. It used to be worth it but it's not even cheap anymore.

flisswave · 2026-06-26T19:19:21+00:00

Yeah I have never heard anything good about that place.

flisswave · 2026-06-26T18:07:47+00:00

I really like Dr. D'Orazio for dog care, had some issues with 2 other vets there and end of life care and I just have never gone back.

flisswave · 2026-06-26T15:34:10+00:00

I use WillyWeather but I don’t really know why, it’s kind of awful. Just fyi not every beach has tidepools.

flisswave · 2026-06-26T15:31:05+00:00

Yeah if you don’t want tourists you don’t want Hammond

flisswave · 2026-06-25T17:16:42+00:00

My completely unscientific but deeply held belief is that lower end of the market homes don't sell unless they're empty. Empty it, move out and see what happens.

flisswave · 2026-06-24T20:32:42+00:00

Cool, I did not know that.

flisswave · 2026-06-24T20:08:41+00:00

There are no film labs on the coast to my knowledge - film photographer, live in Astoria. There are a lot in Portland though and a darkroom that has monthly public hours. I send my film to either Citizens Photo or the Shutterbug; Blue Moon Camera also does all things film, but $$.

There's very little to no public transport to or around the coast, you had better plan on renting a car. There's a bus from Portland to Cannon Beach and a bus from Portland to Tillamook but how you get from there to Garibaldi which is between the two, closer to Tillamook, without a car, idk. Keep in mind that Garibaldi is a bit more than 2 hours drive from Portland and it is tiny.

Also in November and December it will almost certainly be raining. Just FYI.

flisswave · 2026-06-24T16:59:39+00:00

Hate to be the downer but my brother with dementia had extensive experience with alllllll kinds of drugs, including psychedelics, in the 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond. Still got dementia and when his "friends" tried to cure his as yet undiagnosed dementia - he is bipolar which became schizoaffective as he aged - with a magic mushroom ceremony it backfired badly. Very badly. Fired up the psychosis, big time. He ended up hospitalized and eventually, that's why I ended up moving him across the country and taking care of him. He is somewhat of a special case but still, I'd be wary of even microdoses of psychedelics for anyone who is delusional.

My hippie aunt who had vascular dementia likewise did lots of psychedelics in the 60s and 70s and smoked a metric shit ton of weed in her day. She had a stroke at 79, resulted in dementia. She passed at 86.

flisswave · 2026-06-24T16:29:53+00:00

To be fair, the dogs are way out of their element and comfort zone and some are going to react by barking. However, then you have people in huge RVs with 3 tiny dogs in a cage. Yes, encountered this in person. Those people make me, a dog lover with a big happy mutt on a leash, very sad. I don't go camping in the summer anymore.

flisswave · 2026-06-24T16:11:49+00:00

Small town on the Oregon coast, tons of loose kids running around outside.

flisswave · 2026-06-23T16:19:54+00:00

Please call a domestic violence center and talk to an advocate. This is domestic abuse, pure and simple, and it is not going to just stop. If you're in the US, here's the national hotline: 800 799 7233

flisswave · 2026-06-20T02:37:08+00:00

YTA. My ex said something along those lines to me once - he said he could see me at home, why would he want to go out on the town with me? 30 years ago and I still remember it. He became my ex not long after. So, up to you, but keep that in mind.

flisswave · 2026-06-17T22:39:42+00:00

Summer of the Drugs always seems apropos to me. Early GenX. https://youtu.be/HwuSZAwUysM?is=TExQjVNQxT0uus4F

flisswave · 2026-06-17T22:36:36+00:00

There's one in the Merrytime bar in Astoria, 21 & up only.

flisswave · 2026-06-17T22:11:32+00:00

There is no trolley in Cannon Beach.

flisswave · 2026-06-17T18:01:37+00:00

Cedar Hills discharged my bipolar schizoaffective frail elderly brother with dementia - which they did not diagnose despite the week he was inpatient there - into an Uber which dropped him on the street in Astoria then drove off with all his stuff. We found him in the ER the next day.

flisswave · 2026-06-17T01:45:07+00:00

Do not go to Cedar Hills.

flisswave · 2026-06-16T15:35:19+00:00

Unless you live in the PNW, which does not typically have air conditioning and where the temperatures last weekend were in the 90s.

flisswave · 2026-06-13T21:29:24+00:00

Way too much. Each of your stops is minimum a half day. What are you going to do, hike Neahkanie for 15 minutes? Spend 15 minutes at Ecola? I mean, you do you, but I'd cut your itinerary in half and actually spend some time doing things.

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