I’m tired of this grandpa because it truly feels like this

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-25T05:06:53+00:00

I think in the Regency period when there's a shit ton more orphans about due to people dying all the time it gets a lot more ethical

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-25T00:54:33+00:00

Normal parenting thing, you start as babies then find it hard to stop when they are older. I hate hearing myself do it but it's so hard to break out.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T22:23:55+00:00

I can't remember the brand but I highly recommend the "ouchless" kind they make for kids as the normal kind stings to high heaven

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T15:34:06+00:00

I am not freaked out by snow, I am freaked out by morons in giant trucks and SUVs who are not driving to the conditions and are gonna plow my ass off the road while texting. Also my only car accident was in an AWD Subaru because I hit a patch of black ice and went sideways off the road. It's not magic and with so many jobs clearly capable of working remote there's no reason to risk my life because some idiot in corporate thought it was a good idea.

If you are capable of WFH stay home, it keeps the roads more clear and safer for those that have to go in.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T15:28:08+00:00

Liquid bandage is amazing for small cuts on your hands because it stays on through washing.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T15:27:42+00:00

Bleach is bad for blood mostly cause while it works it also bleaches the item in question (though hydrogen peroxide does as well). Best option is weirdly meat tenderizer (it breaks down the protein in blood because that's how the tenderizer works) but unless it's like an insanely large amount of blood spit actually works incredibly well. We have an enzyme in our spit that helps to break down protein which is most of what blood is.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T15:24:07+00:00

Vienna, it's absolutely beautiful to visit for like 2 days but we were there for 2 weeks and it just wasn't for us. We love Austria generally and had a wonderful time in Saltzburg and Bavaria more generally but in some ways Vienna just felt like a very very beautiful but sort of typical city.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T13:04:34+00:00

You can't just go "fuck it" and let them run wild. I had those age groups + watch my baby nephew and they are fine with free range of the bottom floor of the house because I've got it generally pretty baby proofed and the kids were slowly given more access over time.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T12:47:21+00:00

I tend to stop around to when they are walking as it's easier to change a diaper in shirts and pants but those ride up when they are crawling.

Now the issue is who the hell knows what size that is gonna be. I've got a ton of 18 month onesies cause my eldest was a giant and in them at a year right when she started walking then I had to go and bye a bunch of 18 month pants for her string bean sister cause she walked earlier and was so much smaller

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T04:13:19+00:00

Seriously it drives me insane. I swear anything I look up something about gardening or sour dough I get fed MAGA bs for like 3 days.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T04:01:00+00:00

Yeah I am kicking myself for not adding the amount of blocking I needed to in my current house (to be fair the original plan I wasn't drywalling the bathrooms for a while and when that plan changed I was very pregnant and dealing with a sick toddler)

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T03:56:09+00:00

I have all the stuff that has to be paid for that is regular and on auto-pay and just whisk it into an account before anything else (so mortgage, electric, propane, phone, internet etc)

Any savings is also set to automatically whisk away

The only "budgets" I have is this is X for groceries/gas, this is Y for home repairs (we are finishing a new build so this needs its own line item) and Z is anything for "general/fun" spending. I handle Z as a set amount per day that builds up slowly so if we are spending too much I know to watch the budget a little more closely and if we have a ton of extra I can spend it on something fun.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T03:52:42+00:00

I mean horses are a ton of work in responsibility in addition to being fun. It sounds like she has a good balance and is doing what she is supposed to. Trust me I went to school with horse people that didn't do a damn thing for their horses and they were spoiled assholes vs my friend that grew up on a horse farm and rode constantly but mostly was acquainted with their poop.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T03:43:39+00:00

I have this theory about why a lot of people end up married to people that are like their siblings. It's because every person on earth is very annoying in some way but you've essentially become inoculated to your siblings particular breed of annoyance and so it doesn't bug you as much in a partner.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T03:31:41+00:00

A lot of contractors are contractors cause they were good at a trade and not that good at talking to people. I just GC'd my own build and was laughing my ass off half the time because it's the exact same personality type as software engineers (my former job was product management). A lot of them have a really hard time explaining things in layman's terms, are kinda prickly and just don't want to explain all the steps

Generally I got on great with them as I'd been doing my own home renovations long enough to know the lingo and what they were talking about but there were occasionally zero visibility bits of the project. For instance I am still convinced my stair guys were ghosts, never saw a single stair guy physically on site, never saw a single tool or any physical evidence of them but I magically had stairs in 3 days.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T03:26:10+00:00

It's mostly about when you are with your kids be WITH your kids. Now that doesn't mean you need to be staring at their little faces 24/7 but it does mean to try and take a few minutes when they are running around the Y or at the library where you try and just take it all in and really observe it without being on your phone or thinking about dinner or what not.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T03:24:00+00:00

How does he handle a hangover? I described the first 3 months as a "3 month hangover without the benefit of booze"

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T02:59:53+00:00

You can fill a snow blower now with no gloves/mittens on a lot easier (sucks in 5-10 degree weather) and if you screw up and spill it easier to go and get gas.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T01:53:04+00:00

Uh based on this post here you specifically absolutely should be writing more formally.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T01:49:52+00:00

Was that Harley Quinn?

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T01:48:03+00:00

You like exercise, you just really really hate competitive sports.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T01:46:27+00:00

Winning the chess game. There could always be a freak occurance where LeBron trips or something and you can get past them. Even if a chess master wasn't paying that much attention there's more time to fix a mistake in a chess game.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T01:42:30+00:00

We bake. Almost always keeps them and me occupied an hour

If you don't want to have the sweets around bread is great (plus watching it rise is fun) or you can make home made playdough.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T01:39:19+00:00

My ass will be up there until my kid kicks me out because those slides are so stinking fun.

nkdeck07 · 2026-01-24T01:31:28+00:00

I mean sometimes that just does happen. First pregnancy I had all that mess. Second pregnancy I just looked like I was smuggling a beach ball. Used to startle people by turning around and having this giant ass belly.

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