Ok, maybe just the bourbon, honey optional.

Omg, this is a true pickmeup 🤣🤣

The intro sounds like it’s some Blues Brothers number and then… I want to violate you

But it’s about the euphoria one may experience after deciding to go through with it. Ya^ayy

/s

PS, I have witnessed the euphoria, but I didn’t recognize it for what it was at the time. They were calling to say goodbye. Fuck, that still gets to me.

Hey Ya is an excellent example.

Steely Dan seems more low key. And he hates on my alma mater lol. And he acted like kind of a dick when I saw him live. But I do love his sound, like warm tea with honey and a lil splash of bourbon.

Good point. Born in the USA and Fortunate Son would probably fit in here as well.

Agreed. Maybe if it were set to the tune of Mr. Bluesky…

Please tell us guy
Please tell us why
You showed us your dark secret
Seeecret

I do love the Richard Cheese cover of Down With The Sickness.

That’s pretty smart! Would be a good travel size. I like the nostalgia of a cookie tin but yeah, not very portable.

Don’t forget to pick up a tin of cookies at the dollar store when you get your kit. You get snacks and a place to store your sewing supplies that is needle-poke-proof.

They didn’t get their start shooting college students!

A bunch

37 was one of my better years. I had disposable income to go do whatever stupid hijinks I could think of. I did start seeing less of my friends who had started families. But I also switched jobs to do new interesting things. We did lots of concerts, community events, I took photography classes. It was great. I enjoyed my thirties.

My forties have been very rough though. And that could just be from coincidence of life events happening. I’m actually looking forward to 50. I am hoping my 50s are like my 30s, just a tad slower. And my friends are coming back on the radar as their kids are leaving for college.

I used to get somewhat concerned about the remaining time I have left, but I must have somehow come to terms with it. I look back on the last 25 years and think of all that has happened. It feels like both just yesterday and “damn, that was forever ago”. The next 25 may feel just as long and be just as full. I’m ok with that. I’m just trying to enjoy the ride.

Small technical correction:

To DEcrease withholdings (the dollars shown on the Fed line of your paystub)

One must INcrease exemptions claimed on Form W-4

But the rest is correct. If you underwithhold/underpay you risk penalties come April.

However, if you try to claim so many exemptions as to get to zero federal withholdings, employers are required to second-guess you and make you document the exemptions you are claiming (not all will do this but they’re required to nonetheless). But if you go to very little federal withholding, just not zero, employers generally don’t give a shit and will just make the payroll adjustments accordingly.

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Oh lawd Jesus, this probably is the future.

It doesn’t. The naming and shaming is claimed to be a deterrent. But the juicy gossip is too loved by the law-abiding folk for the elected Sheriff to consider not doing it.

🎶 We’ll. Make. Great pets!
We’ll make great pets! 🎶

They were always going to be permanent additions. We have enough room that H.S. could live on another floor. I wouldn’t have put her in that situation if we were in a condo. She wasn’t restricted; she had free rein of the whole house; the kittens were cloistered to the upstairs via baby gate. And while they were kittens and rambunctious, they were getting put to bed in their own bedroom, not allowed to sleep with us. I.e. the calico would take advantage of that and get her snuggles in at night (as well as on & off throughout the day as we both WFH).

We did become their fosters when they got unfortunately early weaned, as we had put in adoption applications on them when they were 2 weeks. We got them at 5 weeks. I fed them a wet food/formula slurry and monitored their weights, got them that stuffed cat surrogate that has a heartbeat, etc. And basically I hedged and adopted 2 instead of only 1 in case the calico didnt like them, they would have each other.

Wait are you coming from PA or DE? Because the Maryland roads near Virginia are god awful. And I mean the little roads as well as the Maryland half of the beltway that seems to always be under construction.

Yes indeedy! And to turn on your lights if your wipers are on, and to buckle up, and your speed may be monitored by aircraft. But pay no mind to the aircraft signs. The program ended up being way too expensive and they just never took the signs down. But do watch out for those cut throughs between the trees along the interstates because staties absolutely are hiding in there hoping for easy pickins.

And some have radar detector detectors. Turn your device off if you don’t want an extra $100 added to your speeding ticket.