SituationCake

Happy Birthday! Hope despite your feels, you have a good day. Could have written this myself, I also get the birthday sads, for the exact same reasons. I don’t have a solution just sympathy, and letting you know you’re not the only one. Stay away from social media for a few days (or forever!) where your friends/family are posting about achievements and having fun. Comparison can hurt. Also remember, people rarely post the bad stuff, and frequently embellish the good stuff.

Gina Rinehart putting a full page ad praising Trump in the Wall Street Journal is unsettling. And that photo, just weird. I’d like to get off this 2025 timeline and go back to the normal one please.

I will give my vote to whoever promises to return these to their former glory. Whyyyyyyyyy must we suffer so?

So the tv show Severance season 2 is finally here. It’s being released weekly instead of all at once, so I was debating with myself whether I wait for it to be all available to binge it, or watch week by week. Have decided I can’t wait and just watched the first episode. Worth it. It’s masterful how they can put so many discombobulating elements into it.

I think best first step is have a chat with him. If he is elderly maybe he has someone already helping him with gardening, maybe ask the leaves be swept from your side too? But you would need to give them access. But genuinely, why not just sweep and put it in the green bin? Why would you blow it into the street? I live in a leafy area. Sometimes neighbours trees leaves fall in my yard. Sometimes mine fall in theirs. Sometimes street tree leaves blow in everyone’s yards. Put it in the bin and enjoy having a nice tree around.

I think there’s a huge difference between people who are homeless due to things like bad luck, domestic violence and economic circumstances; and people who have severe mental health issues, violent antisocial behaviours, debilitating drug dependence. If there was a way of separating them, then temporary basic accomodation might work for the nonviolent group? With fast track supports to get them back into housing and independence. And the remainder need to go to more specialised facilities for long term care, because it might be that they will never be well enough to live independently. But I’m sure that would be very controversial. I wish we could actually try solutions based on objective outcomes rather than political vote getter policies.

Some weekends are just like that. Also I LOVE Severance. I’m up to ep7 of my rewatch. It’s just as awesome second time around.

Great things ahead!

Very much agree. It’s all about maximum volume sales, maximum consumption, minimum possible manufacturing costs. If stuff is crap people will be forced to buy more, yay for the shareholders! It’s hard to find quality items anymore even if you try and are willing to pay more.

This AO match between Borges and Alcaraz is good tennis. Lots of rallies and interesting shots. Much more engaging than when you get 2 players whose style is big serves.

Congratulations!

So sorry to hear that. I’ve also had the experience of finding out direct relatives I’ve never met had died. I never feel anything except maybe a curiosity about who they may have been, would we have got along. But nothing more personal. They were a stranger. I don’t think sharing DNA means anything, really. It’s knowing people and interacting that has meaning. But also, I never had any expectation that we would ever meet, so that probably affects my take on things. Knowing you closely missed out on a meeting would be more difficult. There would a sense of loss if it were me. Hope you can work through it and feel OK.