I'm not sure if this counts as petty revenge, or a dad joke, but here we go.
I was at a friends house the other day, playing games or something, and she made a joke, I laughed, it was a good joke, but it was TOO good. -I'm- the funny one in the group.
So I started leaving 2 pound weights at her place, without letting her know. After about a month of this, she finally gets that something's up. She confronts me about it and I say "So you're telling me that you've...been gaining weights?"
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I constantly see "sleep begets sleep" thrown around in mom groups and I'm wondering if this is actually research based. Anyone have an article on it?
TLDR: Inadvertent pissing match generates out-of-proportion road rage. Exclusively karmic damage ensues.
Throwaway because I know many of you will consider me TA, and just in case Dale reads this forum.
Backstory: I try to keep driving interesting by looking for efficiencies where I can find them, and taking advantage as best I can. My record shows that I am a safe driver in terms of one ticket and zero accidents in roughly 20 years. I also do my best to be courteous, waving people in, taking turns appropriately at the merge, never tailgating, etc.
If I am driving locally, and I am aware of traffic flows enough to know where there will be a gap, I will very often go into the empty lane and fill that gap at the appropriate time, no harm no foul, nobody even needs to tap their brakes. I'm also that guy who has followed the reddit wisdom concerning highway zipper merges (go as far as you can in the empty lane, take turns merging ), to the chagrin of those who don't.
Story: I'm on my way to the poker room to play my favorite game, which only happens twice a week, and if you time it wrong, there is no seat available. Heading to the highway where I live, there are two lanes in each direction, but parking is legal in the right lane, so it's more like 1.25 lanes in each direction. There is a traffic light with two stopped cars in the free lane, zero cars waiting in the quarter lane. I am rolling with inertia on my side as the light turns green, and I've got maybe 1/4 mile to zip past them and merge before the first parked car, or I can take a full stop and not ruffle any feathers. If I had done the latter, no story.
So, I'm zipping past the first car, and about to zip past a very large pickup truck, when I notice the pickup seems to be taking it personally and is speeding up to thwart me. My options are to speed up, or slam on the brakes and let both cars pass. If I had done the latter, no story.
After passing the hemi-equipped pickup with my trashy looking minivan (with an unexpected V6), the driver (Dale) is clearly enraged and is doing his best to freak me out by crowding me at the next stop light. We have a complicated merge onto a six lane highway, and Dale violates the law to get past me at the merge and puts himself in a not-very clear lane of traffic. I signal, merge legally, and make my way courteously over to the empty lanes, as I know the roads well and I am now going 10 mph faster than Dale. You would think the story ends here,
... keep reading on reddit ➡A while ago i've cosplayed my Titan as a Grineer soldier from Warframe. Corpus crewman was he next logical step. Imo, it's still not entirely on-point, but i did my best. XD
Next project could be either Tenno or Ostron themed. Sentients i'll have to skip, there's really nothing even remotely close to that style, that i have access to, at least.
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My LO is nearly 6mo and went through a terrible nap phase for nearly the last month, only napping for maybe ten minutes and then waking up bright eyed and bushy tailed. The tiny terror would then spend the next two hours UNHINGED and not able to rest but also not able to play or do anything else. The ship was sinking and he was batting the plug from my hands like a plump little kraken.
This week he is finally FINALLY napping for an hour or more at a time. Not only do I get to EXIST in peace but he’s sleeping so much better at night.
Sleep begets sleep. Now I’m gonna take a nap.
I have an 11-week-old daughter, who, blessedly, has been a fairly good sleeper since around 2 weeks. (She’s a champion at night but naps are tricky…) It seems to me… when she gets a solid night’s sleep with no wakings (usually 11 p.m. - 6 or 7 a.m.), she’ll go down easier and stay asleep longer for daytime naps (Up to two hours in the morning and another two hours in the evening…) She will basically put herself to sleep!
HOWEVER, if she has a fitful night’s rest and wakes at 3 or 4 a.m. to eat… the following day, when she’s presumably more tired, she will only nap for 30-40 minute clips and seems much more restless.
WHY is this? And, how can I get her to take better naps during those restless days?
Thanks so much! :)
I appreciate that Bill gave it to us straight. I can't justify holding for months for only the potential of SPARs. I'm sure there will be a record date once/if they are approved. It's too expensive for me to maintain my position in the meantime for this. I have too much leverage/concentration.
There goes my $2.7m, but I hope my loss is your gain. My sincerest apologies to everyone for the hopium. Talk about expensive lessons that seem obvious in hindsight:
- Don't buy pre-Merger SPACs above NAV.
- Don't buy options on them.
- Don't buy them on margin.
- Don't buy based on hopium or camaraderie.
This was one of the most horrible experiences I've had, but I do value the new friends I made (the irony of this statement after lesson #4 is not lost on me). Please don't contact me about lawsuits you'd like to file. This is my mistake and I will bear it.
I'll be around. ❤️
How do you take your coffee? Lots of sugar and cream or no frills and black?
Do you take time to fully wake up, like me, or are you bright eyed and busy tailed first thing?
If you get inconvenienced, something small happening that annoys you, how do you handle it?
Are you a more observant person or are you wholly present?
Do you use a bookmark? What is it? Do you use any scraps you can find, or do you use the one I left?
When conversation's edge dulls, do you take the reins and steer it or let it fall flat?
If you see a bug on its back, do you flip it over or watch it squirm and leave it?
Do you get super obscure songs or snippets stuck in your head? What are they?
When you see a mirror, do you fuss over your hair, check your teeth, say nice things to yourself?
What's your motivation like? Your creativity? How do you hype yourself up to do things?
How's your headspace? Do you feel that you're vocal enough?
Little details are sacred. That's intimacy. Whatever routines you carry out, I want to be privy to them. It's because I'm nosey, forgetful, and altogether way too curious. You've always seemed an open book, but even open books have secrets. If I knew these things already, remind me. Even if it's the small things.
Especially the small things.
It's not that hard to wrap your head around. No single life is complete without it's death, so if you're responsible for the existence of a living being, you're as responsible for it's death. I suppose this worldview is unpopular since a) I observe my fellow people act and argue like it's completely fine to bear life into a world overstocked with agony (and sometimes even blaming their offspring for their own failures) and b) because the media will not ever seem to stop with portraying life solely as a gift, which it most definitely is not....
