Like, I have no friends who have big events (or any events at all) planned, no significant other to impress, and no like family holiday reunions (my family is small, we don’t meet up with other family during the holidays and have like big family dinners and stuff like that, like what you see in the movies and what my ex told me out with his family). I don’t have any events to look forward to. I just want to play some dress up to feel good about myself, but where do I wear a fit if I do buy one? The mall while I’m probably holiday shopping?

All I do is work and go home, so all I really need are work and home clothes. It feels like a waste of money if I were to spend some money on some cute clothes that are a little dressier, and I can already hear my mom ask why I’m doing my makeup if I were to do some and I don’t want to answer bc she’d just mock whatever I said. Ugh. I just want to feel pretty and have people compliment me and feel good and like a person and maybe make new friends and stuff.

My new car doesn’t have it and now my hand is getting cold in the mornings.

Just that really. My sisters cat pissed on my switch 2 and while she says she will pay half of the warranty cause (only had it for a month) Im still waiting. I heard shrek 2 was remastered and on the switch so I pulled it from its safety case and my book back to put on the charger, it had been a few weeks since I played. I found it’s not turning on any more.

Also my jelly beans taste like play doe. I hope I don’t drop my keys getting home.

FF is pure dumb luck, apparently.

The technical name is Piriformis Syndrome, but it is usually called fat wallet syndrome because it can be caused by sitting on an overfill wallet.

Backstory: wife and I are big yard sale people. I withdrew about $400 a few weeks ago in small bills. First yard sale was canceled. Normally I’d stick most of the cash in my stash book, an old copy of Watchmen that was my first prize for writing I ever won. But another one was coming up so I just let it go. Fast forward from sitting at a desk hours a day for the whole week and I start to feel some sharp pain in my upper hip/lower butt area. At first I think I pulled a muscle. But the pain is wrong somehow. And sure enough, it’s a sciatic nerve issue because of sitting exactly the wrong way on that fat stack of cash. And now I’m hobbling like an old person and getting jolts of pain if I move or sit a certain way.

It sucks, and I very much hope it’s a short term thing. But it is also pretty funny, objectively.

My bed is too big and comfy. My garden is too lush and private. My linens are too luxe and my rugs are too plush. I can't find anywhere to vacation that doesn't make me wish I were back at home!

Now I have to make more coffee

I got home around 10pm, tired and thirsty, and went to fill a glass at the fridge dispenser like I have done a thousand times. Instead of water, the screen lit up with a notification saying my filter had expired and the dispenser was paused. Underneath was a button that said “Resume with app.”

I do not remember ever downloading an app for my fridge. Apparently I did, at some point, because my phone already had it. It asked me to sign in. I did not have an account, so it asked me to create one. Creating one needed an email, then a phone number, then a verification code that took four minutes to arrive, then agreement to a privacy policy longer than my last lease.

After all that, the app informed me that I needed to order a replacement filter through its store, eleven dollars plus shipping, before it would unlock the dispenser. It would not accept that I already had a spare filter sitting in my cabinet from the last time.

So I stood there in my kitchen at 10:30pm, holding an empty glass, being walked through a checkout flow by my own refrigerator.

I eventually gave up, filled the glass from the tap like a medieval peasant, and went to bed annoyed. This morning I found out the filter reset can be done by holding a button for three seconds, which the app never mentioned.

Anyone else have an appliance that has decided it is a subscription service?

My wife ordered some beer and hard cider on DoorDash. The dude showed up and asked for ID. That’s cool, it’s routine. I handed him my DOD ID. He immediately seemed confused. He scanned it and it worked. Then he asked me when it expired. I explained that that particular ID didn’t have an expiration date. I could pretty much watch his mind buffering in real time. He asked if I had another form of ID. I handed him a printed, temporary driver’s license since I recently lost mine. I’m waiting for my new one in the mail. He looked like a 5 year old if I tried explaining algebra to them. I eventually got him to accept my federal ID. It was just a strange interaction. It took a lot longer than it should have.

It made it ready at 4:00 instead of 5. It’s a zojirushi so I thought I wouldn’t have to manually change the time. Feel like an absolute peasant tonight.

really jealous of everyone with their I Voted stickers because we got our ballots early to take home and then my mom dropped them off. so I never fucking got a sticker. I didn't get one last year either. :( maybe I can get some online but it doesn't feel the same man. this sucks

I have this favorite hoodie, it’s a white Ralph Lauren zip-up. As I was getting ready for my trip to Egypt, I realized I needed to get all my white clothes washed. So I took a bunch of them, including the hoodie, to the laundry room in my house. The next day, I asked my cleaning lady to wash the whites and put them in the dryer.

The following day, I found out that she’d done the white laundry first and then did a second cycle, this one with the colored clothes, as she’d stayed longer than usual because I’d asked her to do a bigger clean (I love coming back to a spotless house after a vacation).

Another day goes by. My trip is now three days away. I head down to the laundry room to look for some clothes I know I won’t need before the trip, and the hoodie is one of them.

I check the basket with the white laundry. I find the clothes I’m looking for, but no hoodie. I check the colored laundry basket. Nothing. I check my bedroom, my closet, my bathroom, my son’s bathroom… everywhere.

And it’s just gone.

Now I’m leaving tomorrow, and unless a miracle happens, I’ll be going to Egypt without my favorite hoodie.

And honestly, it’s pissing me off more than it should.

I travel frequently, both for work and pleasure, and often drive at night. Why do Starbucks locations close so early? Even locations by the interstate close at 8:00 pm, some close at 7:00 pm. The latest I have found close at 9:00 pm.

Just when you need coffee the most all the locations are closed.

Ok so this is kind of (I guess) an embarrassing admission but I love my cold coffee (not that it matters but I’m an almost 38-year-old man) and went through three Mr. Coffee “Frappuccino makers” over the last few years with each of them having worn out even with regular cleaning with vinegar and water. This time I decided to try out a new brand, “Tastyle” from Amazon that can brew both K-cups (I’ve never had one that can do that) and ground coffee. I’m really just wondering what the point of any brand advertising itself as making “cold coffee” or “Frappuccinos” is when all they do is make watered-down coffee. It’s 100% my fault for thinking even for a second that this brand could do any better but I’m disappointed nonetheless. It wasn’t super expensive ($40) so I’m not really that upset because it still does a great job of making coffee but it feels a little misleading when they make it sound like they’ve somehow found a way to make cold coffee without it becoming just watered down coffee. I dunno, it feels like a definitely “first world problem”. They shouldn’t advertise “cold coffee” or “Frappuccino” when that is factually not what it’s able to do. 🙄 I’m gonna sit here and drink my lukewarm watered down and kind of disappointing coffee. 🤦‍♂️