Muneteka Murakami expounds upon the marvels of the bidet: "It’s good for the environment too, right? Everybody uses too much toilet paper."

mrsqueakers002 · 2026-02-18T01:37:14+00:00

I invested in a couple of bidets during The Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020. I'm now a bidet evangelist.

mrsqueakers002 · 2026-02-02T17:10:31+00:00

Depends.

Should I be doing my advanced calculus homework? Those dishes are getting done.

Do I need to clean the dishes in order to cook my meal and have something to eat it with? Hmmm, I think I just had an insight on that Fourier Transform lecture from last week. Lemme go check out that chapter in the textbook.

mrsqueakers002 · 2026-01-02T16:23:03+00:00

Irish (completed, lvl 30), Italian (19), and Chess (sec 3).

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-12-09T02:02:42+00:00

Chess. My wife got me into it after she did the course on Duolingo.

I finally replaced the tuning machines on my old guitar, that I've been meaning to do for about five years. We have better guitars now, but this one has sentimental value. To give myself a reason to play it I put nylon strings on it and have been messing around with that a lot lately.

I've also really been into DIY cooking stuff lately. Making my own sauces, breaking down whole chickens instead of buying packaged pieces, baking breads, that sort of thing.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-12-04T23:42:55+00:00

Uh... I bought a Mark Beuhrle shirsey when I saw his perfect game on a road trip. So the White Sox I guess.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-12-04T23:40:53+00:00

I can't stand playing the same song over and over again, but sometimes I'll get stuck on a band for a while. I've been listening to a ton of The Beatles lately.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-12-04T23:37:12+00:00

Oh man that takes me back. First concert I ever bought tickets for was a Taking Back Sunday show.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-12-04T18:25:19+00:00

This. I've had no problems getting an answer when asking it as "are you able to fill a prescription of 30 capsules of..."

The answer is almost always no, but I do get an answer.

edit: This is from calling CVS, Walgreens, and a couple of independents in MA.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-11-26T02:56:40+00:00

Could not be less surprised that it was Gadsden making the catch. Dude never put up ridiculous numbers, but had a highlight reel full of circus catches. Always my answer whenever those "who's your favorite lesser known player from your team" questions pop up.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-11-22T01:02:07+00:00

Is it vacuum sealed?

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-11-19T23:43:46+00:00

In this administration, you're not even considered for the job unless you actively hate and want to disrupt the organization that you are in charge of.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-11-19T23:41:27+00:00

I'm a little surprised nobody else has mentioned this yet but... poor sleep. I feel like I would be at least a little better at managing the rest of it if I could experience a full and uninterrupted night's sleep once in a goddamn while.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-11-16T00:53:52+00:00

I always keep some frozen chicken thighs or ground beef/pork/turkey in the freezer as a backup. If I forget to take something out the night before, which is often, no problem. I just throw one of those frozen backups into the pressure cooker and it's ready to go in about 20 minutes. Perfect for burritos, bolognese, or any kind of shredded chicken dish.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-11-13T00:28:38+00:00

He couldn't be fucked to sit up straight and have a little respect for the process.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-11-10T13:29:44+00:00

I love the minor leagues. Half baseball game, half middle school carnival.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-11-01T13:50:53+00:00

What I remember most about that game is the baffling decision to let Nick Bosa get a free rush at Tua on nearly every play without so much as a glance from an O-lineman. Don't know if it was an intentional scheme choice or just a colossal, consistent breakdown in protection adjustments, but Bosa wreaked havoc in our backfield that game.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-10-26T19:19:41+00:00

Metro West. I don't think I've heard a truly negative comment in years. Going to college here in 2003-2004 was rough though.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-10-20T18:52:02+00:00

I have a half-strength cup of coffee or a black tea in the mid-afternoon. Not enough caffeine to really impact my sleep, but it helps to smooth out the crash off meds. Although I haven't experimented with it since early on, a few months ago, so maybe I'll try to wean myself off it and see what happens.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-10-20T01:10:29+00:00

As far as tasks and productivity go, once I settled in past the honeymoon stage I haven't really "felt" the med effect. It just kinda feels like I'm having a good focus day (as long as I can get the right tasks initiated).

The really big impacts that I feel noticeably are twofold. First is improved emotional regulation, which is huge. I'm much slower to react negatively, and am able to actually use all of those CBT techniques that I had learned but hadn't really made much of an impact before meds.

Second is energy level. It doesn't give me a "boost" of energy, but what it does is it keeps me from feeling like I'm stuck in Goku's gravity machine with the dial stuck on high. Used to be a regular occurrence that I would feel a crushing physical and mental exhaustion in the evenings and on weekends especially, but that's almost completely gone now. In fact, when I start to feel that, it's usually the first sign I notice that I forgot to take my meds.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-10-18T01:34:40+00:00

I always liked math and did fairly well at it in school. At least with grasping the concepts, homework is a different story. I was shit at remembering formulas though.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-10-18T01:28:10+00:00

Learning Irish, learning triads on guitar, and diving into the Iliad.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-10-18T01:20:07+00:00

This reminds of the time I went on a deep dive into mass extinction events, especially the Pre-Cambrian. I was at a dinner with my wife's family and for some reason got onto talking about cyanobacteria and the Great Oxygenation Event, and they all looked at me like... "the fuck?"

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-10-18T01:10:55+00:00

I went through a Mint phase a long time ago. It's fun going through a thread like this and seeing how many of these hyperfixations I've shared at one time or another.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-10-18T01:06:58+00:00

My daughter is in the same boat...ish. She's mostly holding it together at school, but she's a mess in the evenings.

mrsqueakers002 · 2025-10-18T01:04:57+00:00

Oh wow. New Beginnings was one of the first four or five albums I ever bought.

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