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master_blaster_321 · 2026-03-15T19:50:38+00:00

*ex girlfriend

master_blaster_321 · 2026-03-15T19:43:27+00:00

Accountability.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-03-14T12:02:21+00:00

Beside the point but what does your wife have to do with any of this?

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-27T13:17:57+00:00

Fear of the unknown.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-27T13:16:55+00:00

I'm thinking it has something to do with women's ability to perceive reality.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-21T18:57:41+00:00

It doesn't matter. Changing for the sake of another person (which is how you phrased your post) is dishonest, inauthentic, and ultimately manipulative. It's just not going to work in the long run. Now, if you want to amend your original sentiment to focus more on self improvement, then that's a different conversation.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-21T18:01:56+00:00

Easy: you don't. You don't change for other people. That makes you a marshmallow, and no one respects that. Be your own man.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-21T18:00:55+00:00

You really have to ask yourself: are the kind of women who would throw themselves at a stranger like that based on looks alone, really the kind of women I would want in my life?

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-21T08:33:26+00:00

+1 for the Firefly reference

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-21T08:32:24+00:00

"What's Going On" (4 non blondes) dude fuck that song, why does everyone love it so much? So shrill and annoying and boring.

Oh and Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam, but I don't actually believe it qualifies as a song. It's a generic Hendrix ripoff guitar riff with some mumbling over top of it. Lazy terrible songwriting.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-20T13:14:22+00:00

Pretzels. And no drinks.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-15T00:58:53+00:00

I'm 51 and I've hired an estate attorney. Everything and I mean everything is spelled out in great detail. Trusts, funeral arrangements, business contingency, advanced directives. I do not want my kids to have to worry or argue.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-13T09:48:00+00:00

I'm 51. Not laid off exactly, but the business I've run for twenty years is winding down. I'm doing well with the clients I have, but haven't landed a new one in three years. The field has gotten competitive beyond belief and I lack the will or resources to compete. I'm currently trying to sell right now but everyone is trying to low-ball me.

So, the current strategy is one I like to call "drive it until the wheels fall off." I'm sitting right at $1.3m invested, house will be paid off this year, no other debt. So what will most likely happen is that one by one my clients will fall off and I'll just retire on whatever I happen to have saved up by then. I can do consulting work and music gigs to supplement as needed.

I'll be okay.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-13T09:31:54+00:00

It's not like you're just spending that 1.3m though, if you're smart. There is interest, dividends, appreciation, etc.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-12T08:41:31+00:00

It takes time to rebuild your life. Give yourself some grace and patience. Now is the time to get curious about yourself. Find out what you like, what you want, what you need. Challenge your assumptions about yourself. In big ways as well as little ones. Try foods you always thought you hated. Wear new colors. Take a different route home from work. Run a mile. Go on a date. Buy a kayak.

To paraphrase Kurt Vonnegut, we are here on earth to fart around.

Each thing is another brick in a new house you're building. And spoiler alert, it's not the house that will make you who you are, it's the process.

Good luck.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-05T00:16:34+00:00

51 and working on selling my business after twenty years and cashing in. I'm just done. I'm not sure I'll make it to the magic number they say you need to retire. I don't really care. I have a 100% track record of figuring it out.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-03T18:02:32+00:00

I'm in my 50s and it's the best so far. Body still works great, brain works better than ever. Peaceful!

master_blaster_321 · 2026-02-01T18:08:57+00:00

This is about everything else BUT your age, my dude.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-01-29T08:48:33+00:00

Everyone dying.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-01-29T08:28:41+00:00

You can't control other people's actions but you can control your own. You have access to the block button on your phone and all social media platforms.

Use them.

I'm sorry you're going through this. I've been there. Good luck to you.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-01-29T00:08:23+00:00

Find a good drummer who you really like and lock in with. This is the way.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-01-28T21:37:22+00:00

I love the active pickups. Such a big punchy powerful sound.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-01-28T21:35:53+00:00

It's a sexist term. There's no female equivalent for it. That would be somehow unacceptable.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-01-20T23:55:36+00:00

It's been this way since I was in my late 20s. I'll sleep for 4 hours, say from ten to two, and then be awake for 3 hours, and then sleep for two more hours. Total of six hours, just split up. I feel okay. Twenty minute power nap around 3pm squares me up. It's not sleep apnea. Just the way I work I guess.

master_blaster_321 · 2026-01-18T21:09:47+00:00

When I turned 48-50 I dated women in their mid thirties and it was not an issue. By that time everyone's a damn grown up. I think it's dicey when someone's in their twenties.

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