I’ll tell yah though. Ever since I got put on adderall, I’ve never been properly congested. Amphetamines do help keep your sinuses clear. So she wasn’t completely wrong.

*fuck

Kinda similar. I work in HVAC-R. There are a ton of times where I’m working on a system where I would love to just spend a few more hours making part of it better and then another few hours streamlining things to make future work on it easier. But we charge $200 per hour so no customer wants me to spend 12 hours making their system perfect; they want me to spend 2 hours and just get it functional. If I didn’t have to charge money for my time then not only would every system I touch run like a dream, but they would also be beautiful. As it is people more frequently wind up with duct taped functional travesties and then refuse any follow up work to fix it properly.

*Fucked

Meanwhile, me.

Or it can rapidly switch back and forth between both.

English is my first language and I still read it the same way as you at first.

It’s so weird, I’ve tried various shampoos and conditioners of every type and my hair just seems happiest with the cheapest shampoo I can find with absolutely no conditioner. With anything else I wind up with horible dandruff, hair which gets greasy within 6 hours of taking a shower, or hair which dries out so bad it looks like I got the worlds shittiest perm. But as long as I use some cheap ass generic mens shampoo that’s scented like a verb then my hair is fine.

If you just want to prevent opporitunistic break ins then you just need to make your house a less appealing target than the neighbors. A sturdy door, motion activated lights, and a dog can do that easily enough. If you want to go the extra mile then put up a few cameras. The cameras don’t even need to be real. I used to work for a fortune 500 company that made extensive use of fake cameras on their properties. The trick there was that they also had a few identical looking real cameras as well so unless you had insider knowledge, you would have to consider all of the cameras real.

Now if you want to stop someone who is determined to break into your house specifically then that gets trickier. You will never stop someone determined enough so the goal is to just make the process of breaking in as noisy and difficult as possible. You will want a good and properly mounted deadbolt on all your doors. By properly mounted I mean, throw out those dinky 1" screws that came with the deadbolt plate and mount that plate with some big old 4" long screws. A deadbolt plate just screwed into the doorframe does little good. But if you screw that thing clear through the door frame and into the (preferably doubled up) stud behind it, then bashing in your door goes from requiring a swift kick to requiring a ram or a sledge. Also, if you don’t like the look of bars on your windows, you can just apply huricane laminate to your windows instead. It’s a film that is designed to be applied to windows in huricane prone areas to prevent debris from flying through the windows. It also makes smashing in your windows a tremendous pain in the ass. The glass will still break but it will all be held in place by the film similar to a broken car windshield. It is possible to get through but it is a very time consuming and conspicuous process. Finally, cameras. Now that you’ve made it a pain to get through your doors and windows, you want to be sure that anyone who would still be willing to put in the effort also knows that they’re being watched the entire time they’re breaking in. Yes you can still smash in a door with a proper deadbolt or smash in a laminated window but few people are willing to spend that much time on camera being recorded committing a crime. Beyond those measures your walls become the weak point and there isn’t much you can do about that without rebuilding the house.

Tiger balm.

This would be more funny if it wasn’t a picture of my house.

Ah, gradual reforms.

Where are these good dating apps you speak of?

I don’t want kids and I’m not interested in short term flings so I wouldn’t.

It’s not not wanting to “raise someone elses kid” but rather just not wanting kids period. I didn’t get snipped at 21 just to wind up with a kid anyways.

At the same time I wouldn’t be opossed to a hookup with someone because they are a single parrent if that’s all they were looking for as well. But I’m asexual so hookups just aren’t my thing period.

Back to normality.

Woop there goes gravity.

I wana be growing and firing teeth out of my jawbone like bullets and become the worlds most horifying superhero/villain. ~haven’t decided which yet~

It’s the same study that’s been in process for about a decade. It entered human trials last year with those trials expected to take 5 years. Growing teeth is slow. It’s not really being pushed, it’s just the same reliable hit for various news sites to break out on slow news days.

It was 5 years away last year and now this year it’s 4 years away! Why do they keep changing the number !!1!

This reminds me of the time I was complaining to my therapist about some “sideeffects” I was getting from my new antidepressant.

I said something along the lines of “It’s just kinda weird. It seems to make me tired but not in a sleepy way. It’s not like physical exhaustion either. It’s like I could lay down but not to really rest. It’s hard to describe.” My therapist thought for a moment and said the most correct and harsh thing I’ve ever heard someone say about me. “Are you sure you’re not just relaxed?” She was completely right, but man does it feel weird to have to have someone else tell you that the strange foreign feeling that you’ve been feeling lately is what most people call being relaxed. Like sure, just strip my brain bare right here in your office and slap me with the fact that I didn’t even know what being relaxed felt like.

Everyone thinks Ihave the tism but jokes on them, I’ve never been assessed for it.