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Cake day: 2026年10月8日

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  • I’d love to take a train, but I think the website is either purposefully made to be shit, or it’s just super shitty. Because trying to book any train ticket is impossible. Every time I’ve searched on their website, it gives me the same alert: "This trip cannot be booked. We do not have any travel options between the stations entered. "

    Even though I know they have trains going there. I know the stations, I know the routes, and yet it STILL gives me this error code. It’s like they actively are discouraging you from riding the train. I say this, of course, because I think that’s exactly what they’re doing. Auto makers have captured the railway system, and between them and the monopoly of the current rail system, they’re trying to make train travel as painful as possible so you give up and either fly or drive.

    You guys see the route right there in this post, yeah?

    Go to https://www.amtrak.com/home and try to find a train ride between any two locations. I bet you $100 it gives you the same message.


  • yeah but nowhere near the video quality.

    I’ve had the same 40" LG OLED TV for like 15 years now, and I want to get myself a new big 4k OLED 65" behemoth for Christmas this year. I looked up hospitality TVs of that size and whoo boy, they’re like $3-4k. But you can get a regular TV that size and spec for like $1k.

    I have no open Wifi in my house or nearby, I plan on just using it as a second monitor for my computer, and never connecting it to anything beyond my soundbar. Then just hope that it doesn’t brick itself I guess.











  • Have a friend, and we have a complicated relationship. Making friends as an adult is hard, but then life shit happens and even the friends you do end up making can be assholes.

    I had just gotten out of a divorce, and wanted to throw a big halloween costume party. Told everyone months beforehand, with plenty of reminders and groupchats, spent over $1000 on decorations, couple hundred on snacks, alcohol, weed I’d have stocked. It was going to be a rager. Well, a bunch of people cancel, because my house is like a 40 min drive, but my best friend at the time, he was, for some reason, not giving me a definite answer. Like, I figure even if nobody else shows up, my buddy and I could still hang. But come the day of the party, he tells me he’s not coming, and it’s just so he can maybe find something better to do closer. And I’m just… So upset. Cancel the whole party via an on-line thing, and just sit there feeling fucking awful.

    Shit messed me up so bad, it’s like 5 years later, and some of the decorations I put up for that party are still up. I obviously haven’t even tried to host anything since.

    anyway. like, a couple months after that fiasco, my buddies brand new girlfriend texts me, asking me to come to his birthday party. She was putting a bunch of work into it, making it a scavenger hunt thing for him and his friends. I told her immediately, “nope!” Not coming. She asked once or twice more and got the same answer.

    But in the end, I was still nicer, because at least I gave a clear answer right away.







  • Weed, video games, over eating.

    that list used to include drinking alcohol, but I’ve been clean from that for like 7 or 8 years.

    When life is going well, I don’t overeat over-game, or smoke weed much. But then holiday season descends upon my life and I’m left with a feeling of “hunker down and survive.” and in so doing, I go back to my comforts of weed, video games, and over-eating.

    C’est la vie. I gain and lose 20lbs every year it seems.


  • You can do it, brother! Sometimes we find a thing in our life that seems to be a button for happiness. And once we find it, we press the shit out of that button. Only the button is a lie. It doesn’t cause happiness and never did. It was the life surrounding it, that made it seem like it was the button. In fact, the happiness would have been there even if the button was never pressed.

    Sometimes we gotta put the button away forever, and that’s OK.

    Because it was never the button anyway.