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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I can’t even tell you how many times I tried to put together a big event and had two or three people there.

    For my 21st birthday, I didn’t even do the planning, my best friend had invited all our favorite people that we worked with and went to school with. He made plans for someone to drive us around and a list of the local bars that he wanted me to visit. In the end, it was me, that friend, and my girlfriend. We sat in a dive bar for about two hours until my girlfriend took us home because she wasn’t feeling great and didn’t drink.

    That’s probably not even the worst one. I’ve had so many nights just sitting and waiting for everyone to arrive only to entertain the same two people that I hang out with every day.

    I don’t have any great tips for you, because I don’t try to do things like that anymore, but I understand how you feel, and it just really sucks. Sorry it fell apart like that. Take a day to focus on you and I hope you feel better.












  • As a teen, I was told that playing Mortal Kombat would turn me into a serial killer. Now, as an adult with kids (one of which is an adult) I’m happy to report that I’m probably one of the most docile people you’ll meet.

    (Unless someone seriously hurts my family and/or cats.)

    I used to have fun with Call of Duty, and I never saw it as “I am a soldier and I must kill these people.” Every game needs a theme, and that just happened to be it. I just saw it as a competition of dexterity and strategy. Whether it’s soldiers with guns or a yellow circle munching on ghosts, it’s all just tapping buttons at the right time.

    The reasons I quit playing CoD were because I got sick of buying the same game every year, and as I got older, I couldn’t keep up with the kids. During the 12-25 year old range, your reaction time is WAY better than any other time.