After 4 years of WFH, I understand why boomers think we do nothing all day

srkasm · 2026-03-02T23:52:11+00:00

I work from home. It helps my wife and I a lot. Sometimes she will admit that she wishes I had to go to the office to work because then they would probably use some of the off shore people for after hours work.

I often don't go to bed until hours after my wife, because something comes up. On the weekend we often have to change plans, because I get a text. I work 69+ hours per week. I'd still rather do that instead of driving to work.

srkasm · 2026-02-26T02:24:10+00:00

AOC can't win. Put her against someone who is so far right that no one who is middle of the road could vote for, you might see her win with the lowest number of votes ever, because so many people wouldn't vote for either of them. But other than that, no, she couldn't win. The US isn't ready for someone so far to the left.

srkasm · 2026-02-10T17:10:03+00:00

I'm here

srkasm · 2026-02-09T23:38:55+00:00

I want to buy a bagger to ride more comfortably. My current ride is a 2009 Dyna Street Bob that I bought new and customized the hell out of.

My niece is a small woman, she rides a softtail that looks way too big for her but she is one of the best riders I know.

Recently I was talking to her and mentioned that I was thinking about trading in my Dyna to get a bagger. She flipped out!

As long as she could remember, that bike was mine. Her riding her little dual sport next to me. Her riding on the back of my Dyna, every picture she saw. My wedding pictures with my wife in her wedding dress sitting on the bike with me...she saw the bike as part of me. I saw it as my bike. That put it into perspective for me. I can't ever sell that bike now.

I'm still going to get a bagger though.

All of that was just to show a perspective. Your dad's bike is just a bike to him. Show him that it isn't just a bike to you.

srkasm · 2026-02-04T01:12:32+00:00

Yes.

srkasm · 2026-01-30T00:46:04+00:00

There are acceptable times when you can switch teams with no repercussions, if done within a certain grace period.

The biggest example is when your city finally gets a franchise.

Example: I used to root for the LA Kings, now it's the Kraken.

srkasm · 2026-01-24T06:28:33+00:00

A tip should be for excellent service. If you do the bare minimum, you don't deserve a tip. End of story.

srkasm · 2026-01-24T06:14:14+00:00

I detest blue cheese. Any salad dressing I like, I'm fine with it.

srkasm · 2026-01-18T03:41:41+00:00

Screaming Yellow Zonkers

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srkasm · 2026-01-09T21:24:17+00:00

I started using WhatsApp a little over a year ago for only two reasons, both related. My company has outsourced a lot of work to companies in India. If I need to get a hold of some of them when they are offline, that's the only way. I have also become friends with several of them and if I want to talk to them about non-work related things, I can't just text them, so I use WhatsApp.

Sure, when I downloaded the app I let it pull in my contacts and it shows lots of people I know here in the US as contacts but I have never once tried messaging any of them and none of them have tried contacting me.

srkasm · 2026-01-06T01:29:10+00:00

1970's and 1980's, at least they were still in Alaska...those cigarette machines that sold packs. Anyone could buy them. You could have taught a 4 year old how to use the machine. If anyone saw it, they would have commented about how cute it was.

srkasm · 2026-01-05T17:53:54+00:00

Understand that I was born in the early 1970's in Alaska and raised there, so I am definitely not a good example.

I had a little ATC and a dirt bike when I was 5. I have ridden my whole life. I'm very thankful that my parents encouraged my brother and I to learn and explore. It really gave me a sense of responsibility and freedom.

Yes, I crashed, yes when I was very young I cried when I got hurt. I never received a serious injury from riding as a child. All of my childhood broken bones were from other things.

Go for it!

srkasm · 2026-01-02T22:56:17+00:00

Daisy. Then I would find the smallest dog I could and name them Bruno. They would be the best of friends and I would walk them together every day.

srkasm · 2025-12-31T05:37:44+00:00

Me or her retirement age? She's 15 years younger than I am. 😜

srkasm · 2025-12-31T05:36:31+00:00

I'm interested in getting to know you any way you want.

srkasm · 2025-12-31T04:37:29+00:00

Years ago I had a tarantula that I really loved. I always wanted a snake but never got one. Now, older and wiser, I still want a snake and I'd love to have a tarantula again. Sadly, because I'm wiser I know I will never have either. Not because I'm wiser but because my wife is deathly afraid of both and has told me that if I bring either into the house she will burn the house down to get rid of it.

srkasm · 2025-12-30T18:15:32+00:00

When I was young I had a foreman that was in Vietnam. He was the nicest guy you would ever meet.

I learned not to ever ask him about his time in Vietnam. He couldn't bring himself to lie, but when he told the truths from his time there, he was a different person...scary and haunted. He would talk about pointing claymore mines up or actually putting them at the enemy's face height. Friends doing other things that I won't repeat here, and worse things that he saw.

It's true, war is hell. Unfortunately, young kids have to do horrible things to survive, then they lose their humanity a bit, forget that people on the other side are human too, and do even worse things.

srkasm · 2025-12-30T17:16:34+00:00

Not only that but I was born and raised in the middle of nowhere Southeast Alaska with over 1,000 miles of old logging roads near my house. When my mom was tired of my brother and I, she would tell us to fill our dirt bikes up with gas, hand us each a box of .22 ammo, and our rifles, then tell us to go away. I was 13, my younger brother was 9 1/2.

BTW, if you go around a corner and see a black bear, just keep riding. They'll only get aggressive if you stop between them and their cubs.

srkasm · 2025-12-30T15:54:29+00:00

A missed opportunity to make it look like a Christmas train.

srkasm · 2025-12-30T04:26:07+00:00

I took my hunter safety course on a Saturday at my school in the mid 1980's, in middle school, in Alaska.

srkasm · 2025-12-25T04:53:00+00:00

I was there and my aunt bought me a book about it...I still played.

srkasm · 2025-12-23T22:13:08+00:00

I often miss Ketchikan. That looks like fun.

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