When I was in college, my second roommate would constantly ask me to be his best friend. Lots of tears from him about never having one before, wanting one etc etc. I kept having to reiterate a) We are in college, what the fuck. b) I don’t want “a best friend”, I want a group of friends c) Again, what the fuck

Exactly. I like to bring up the cat analogy. No one wants to pet the cat that meows in your face and rubs on you and won’t leave you alone. Everyone wants to pet the cat that is happily sitting in the sun minding it’s own business.

Totally agree. I was hung up on a girl for a long time after HS, and it messed up other relationships I could have had, and I spent way too much time thinking.. Then I stopped trying and worrying about girls. I focused on doing things that made me happy, and [surprise] being happy and confident and not looking for…

Just one example to show that in many places, there is enough budget.

The father who owned the guns should be arrested and jailed as an accomplice to murder. I’ve had enough with the myth of the “responsible gun owner.”

Filling the streets with unwanted, uneducated, uninsured people is a fantastic idea to prevent violence.

I have a good salt story.

That second anecdote is....weird. How can a place stay in business with that model

If I am paying to eat your food, I can put whatever the fuck I want on it, and as much as I want. The Chef’s “ownership of my meal” ends when it hits the table.

Peet’s Big Bang is even better (medium roast)

Totally agree. Cops would kill a million citizens to protect “their own”. Fuck the lot of them. Protect and serve my ass.

I have already made up my mind on this topic. I have three kids. None of them will be attending a school where the teachers are armed. I won’t even entertain the notion that arming teachers is a reasonable idea. It’s wrong and deadly.

Have you brought your toddler to an ultrasound yet? Kind of blows their mind that yes, there is a baby in there. I can’t recall the ones we read (it was only a year ago!), but I know we read them over and over and over.

Ahh, that sounds interesting. Is that the actual name of the book?

Finished I’ll Be Gone in the Darkness - Michelle McNamara, moved to BTK: the Inside Story - Wichita Eagle Writers, now on Green River, Running Red - Anne Rule.

yeah, um...very weird choice of terms. I did a double take

MS-13 needs a change in optics.

Not sure if it saved my life, but it saved something certainly.

CMON! Everyone else is. Nothing to be ashamed of, I suspect we’ve all done many stupid teenager things.

You have a great wife! And thanks for sharing and the note at the end.