“Happy wife, happy life”

Just an extra high five for those floor touches without an arched back. Well done!

Been married for 10 years, have two kids. Aside from pregnancy and monthly lapses, sex is very frequent, usually daily. Two things I’ll share:

Fully engage. Say fully engaged and close, if you need to move your hips a bit, use a glacial pace. Make out for a while. Move the hands all over. Maybe just a minute, maybe…

Been there. Well water and a TINY septic system. If people took long showers it backed up fast.

I was chatting with a manager <Linda for now> a few months ago. We knew each other for years and she used to sit next to me prior to her getting promoted. So when she asked “Hey, do you have a problem with <we’ll call him Bob>? He thinks you hate him.”

Every job where there was any possibility that someone might feel like communications with me might be necessary, all of my vacations have been to “very remote” places “without internet or cell service”.

Online-only is a non-starter for me. 100% pass. And Microtransactions for a game like GT are also a non-starter. I’ve put a LOT of time in most of the previous entries. GT is one of my favorite series of all time.

If you work for a company that has travel policies, you can often leverage your company’s corp discount (and insurance) on trips. My last three companies have allowed using the corporate account for personal travel as long as you’re paying on a personal card.

Most states can cite you if your tabs aren’t on, whether or not your registration is up to date.

This is “The Friend Zone”

Yes, we’re talking whatever was cheapest at the time of purchase.

I get a little over 300 miles out of my Brooks before the tread starts to wear down in the front to smooth. But my runs are punctuated with burpees, pushups, mountain climbers, etc, so that’s to be expected. Then they’re downgraded to bootcamp shoes, and the bootcamp shoes become lawn work shoes. 2-3 pairs a year.

Peanut butter. How diabolically evil do you have to be to refrigerate peanut butter?! I’ll tell you! As evil as my evil aunt! Who insisted on peanut butter in the fridge smeared on crappy wonder bread, so when lunch came around it was peanut butter sorta scraped over chunks of “bread” that did not resemble a sandwich…

Used to live in a 3rd floor apartment that faced into a courtyard. My roommate’s hunting buddy came over with his dog once. He put the dog on the deck, was there for all of five minutes, and gone. I didn’t even notice that he had the dog with him until he they left.

Ick. I invited my oldest friend to our wedding. We hadn’t talked much for 5 or 6 years owing to him joining some pseudo cult. I was at his wedding but couldn’t be part of it, and that got him in trouble or something. So when I invited him I called him to be 100% certain that he and his wife would use the spot. We had…

I feel like every friend group has one of these. We want to kick them out, but they’re technically post of the fabric. With ours, we had to just start offending him by being ourselves. We weren’t jerks, just told the truth and wouldn’t let him steal focus. He would “disappear” and pout for weeks or months at a time.…

I’ve let this happen to me one time.

In my mid-20's, I was invited to one of those family style restaurants by a friend (buca de beppo sounds right). We have this big group of people, well over ten, including my friend’s parents and little brother. I know everyone at the table so I don’t think anything is up. I’m lost…

Oof, that sounds painful. Breech of etiquette, though. Don’t invite someone to a party they’re not invited to. IE, their wedding preparations.

Similar story. In my early 20's, and it’s the very early 2000's and a guy I barely knew invited me to go fishing with “me and the guys” (from church, that I also barely knew)…

As others have said, when you’re out of town on work, some companies have a nice stipend and “get their money’s worth” by having you in the office or whatever for 10-14 hour days. You get back to your hotel room for a shower and the last thing you want is to have to budget 2 hours to go find food that isn’t going to…

Also, if running isn’t your thing, give rucking a shot. Just throw some books in a backpack and go for a long walk. You’ll work a bit harder than walking, feel it in your breathing, and it’ll burn a few more calories.

Really any amount of weight will work, but 20+ lbs is where you start to really feel it.