Hi! Analysis-Paralysis here! I start planning my next move as soon as I complete my current move, but inevitably something changes board status the player before me so I have to recalculate. During recalculation my anxiety creeps up as I’m 100% aware people are waiting on me and I’m faced with 2 choices. 1) attempt to plan an effective move and frustrate others as my anxiety spikes, then once I make the move someone tells me how I could have optimized better. Or 2) say fuck it and just make a playable move to keep things going, ultimately fucking someone else’s game. At least it’s less often that I’m told how if I would just analyze everyone else’s known game state and abilities along with my own that the next move should be obvious to me.

We’ve managed to find games that I enjoy and can process that I’ll participate in, and the others I’ll wish them well and step back.

I average about 25 grams of fiber a day and am well hydrated. About 20 minutes after my morning coffee there’s a knock at the back door. When I answer, there’s a mass evacuation that results in no evidence. It’s quite refreshing!

I keep a jar on hand for adding to certain baked goods/desserts, and I’ll throw some in my protein shake along with a little extra fiber for breakfast.

The Sony earbuds I have have an “ambient sound” setting that actively brings in exterior sounds along with whatever you’re playing. Depending on the scenario sometimes I’ll wear my earbuds to send the “prefer not to interact” signal while not even listening to anything but with the ambient setting on. Yes, it’s like listening to the room with extra steps, but with the outward appearance that I’m not listening to anyone around me.

My niece has Turner’s syndrome. She had to learn to give herself hormone shots to grow and develop as others normally would during puberty, but due to very underdeveloped ovaries is incapable of producing gametes. How does she fit in?

I tend to wash my face separately from showering, and also avoid directly spraying water in my face because some lizard part of my nervous system thinks I’m waterboarding myself.

That said, there’s generally enough random drippage and mist during a shower to require I dry my face.

There have been people distributing 3d printed whistles, and they’ve come up with signals to notify people in the communities where ICE is showing up. That helps draw in the crowds of people all blowing whistles and screaming at the agents when they try to grab someone. Enough people and it creates a level of chaos and harassment that they’ve been known to get back in their cars and leave.

They can’t stop all of them, but there are videos showing it working.

Coffee makes my pee smell like Cheerios.

Blue Prince was awesome, and literally curled up with my boyfriend watching him play E33 right now (these games make me motion sick, thus the scrolling lol.) I can see why it won so much.

TIL one month is forever.

In 2019 I lost my job and ended up on unemployment. At the time my sons were all still living with me, 20, 18, and 17yo. Unemployment +1 dependant was enough to cover my modest mortgage. My other 2 sons paid the utilities and anything else came from my savings account. We received $15mo in Snap benefits.

It’s hard not to slap people who think people with Snap are skating through life.

Yep! A friend would occasionally walk to the nearest payphone, initiate a collect call, and when it asked for a name he would state the payphone number (we didn’t have caller id). He’d hang up and I could call the payphone and we would make our plans.

With Oneida Twin Star silverware. I’m 53 and still have a few pieces from my parents set floating around for the nostalgia lol.

In grade school I had the worst time remembering which was which, so I used to tell myself After Midnight and Pre Midnight lol. I absolutely knew it was Latin for something, but could never remember it for the life of me.

It was technically smooth and got my order right, but the whole time I was irritated that the money saved on a computer doing the job was not likely to find its way to the employees preparing food.

A couple months ago I went to a Wendy’s and AI took my order.

That was the last time I went to a Wendy’s.

At Mc Donald’s that’s where you dip your fries.

Who am I kidding. If I got that at Subway I’d dip potato chips in it lol.

Here, let me help - That far in the future that amount of money would probably buy a loaf of bread.

😁

Now?

Right now I hate that voice in my head that does the real voices.