I quit smoking pot and no longer enjoy the Spin Doctors. Well, that’s half true. I heard them straight one day and decided if that’s the kind of thing I like when I’m high, I should quit.

After the intervention, Jesus knew he had to give up wine but he had a solution.

Do everything I can to remember what it was like when I was young. Try to remember the feeling of confusion and dread. The feeling of being the only smart person in the room. The feeling that if only they would listen, really listen, they’d get it. The feeling of determination that I wasn’t going to be like that when I got old.

Now I’m old and I know it’s not my world. It’s not my place to dictate to youth how to feel, act, think, behave, or grow. I try to just listen. It’s their world and I’m just kind of still around. They want me to not say certain words or use pronouns because it makes it better for them? Yeah, I can do that. That’s easy. Being young in a changing world is brutal. I know. I was there. I was in a changing world where our parents used horrible words to describe classmates and friends. I was there when AIDS was a joke on TV. It was confusing. People I knew just wanted to be treated as people.

So now, I just listen. I adopt by letting people tell me how they want to be treated. I can do that. I can take their word for it. That’s easy. Being young in a world of crusty, loud, old, bitchy people telling you how wrong you are? That’s the hard part. If I can make it easier for them by just listening? That’s how I adopt.

It’s been more books recently.

We just did Snowcrash, which has parts that aged poorly, but over all was a fun read. That leads to the old movie Pontypool (Snowcrash is in a shot in that that’s an obvious plant- both had similar themes). That lead to Pontypool Changes Everything a book that, try as I did, I could not get through. But the movie and BBC radio drama are both great.

We’re doing Ubik by Philip K Dick right now, and I’m enjoying that a lot. I’ve read a fair bit of his stuff but missed this one. I tend to binge authors so I imagine I’ll do a few more from him.

Late last year I did about everything from Scott Meyers. The Magic 2.0 books are deff for a younger audience but were fun in their own way.

I tried to do the Murderbot series recently, but it missed it’s mark with me. I didn’t not like them and I can see goung back to give them a second try maybe in the fall.

The Duck and Cover series was heavily thrown at me through ads so I gave that a go. It deff has its moments but I think there’s underlying difference of opinion between me and the author. I have no proof of this, it’s just kind of a feeling. Not bad books, funny and clever in spots.

John Scalzi and Dennis E. Taylor are two guys I get everything from as soon as something new drops.

And recently a buddy got me to watch Ravenous. An old cannibalistic, period piece in the Spanish American War era with a good dose of homoeroticisim thrown in. Deff highly recommend watching that.

I find they’re neither.

I grew up watching cartoons, and still do. I’m an avid scifi, horror, and speculative fiction reader/watcher. There absolutely should be animations geared toward adults.

I don’t like Rick and Morty. I think it’s dumb, self obsessed, drivel. I think it’s writing style is the literary equivalent of pumpkin spice latte. No one hurt me, I just don’t like it and I don’t understand why people do. I answered a question. I didn’t tell people to not watch it.

Day Z with a friend till I hate everything about every thing. And therapy twice a month.

Everyone on Rick and Morty.

Isn’t it always past 3am? Like, ever since the first 3am, it’s been past 3am. Time is a line. An arrow if you will. Kumquat.

Wait, hang on just a second. I thought it was from kids that got lost in the ball pits of fast food chains.

That I had a wallet with exact change every time I opened it. Dinner? My treat, you tip. You need groceries? Give me the list. The lady in front of me at the dentist that can’t get more care till her bill is paid? Is cash OK?

And they’re assholes.

General. Finish carpentry is in-house, just about everything else is subbed out. We have some fantastic subs too. My plumber has worked with me for close to 30 years. We sort of came up together. And my electrician is the most particular electrician I’ve ever worked with.

We do renovations and build new homes. I’m a superintendent/project manager/babysitter. I love making people’s homes exactly the way they want them to be. Making custom one off shit for a single family that no one else has is absolutely the best. I love the idea thatbim making a house into a home.

The worst part is the fucking clients. Bunch of rich ‘have to have it now’ spoiled brat, lama people.

I’ve been doing this for about 35 years and still have zero way to reconcile these two things.

Yeah. I figure there’s little to no point trying to engage with people online anout topics I feel strongly about. And I mean anything. Like I quit trying to convince people Mike V is actually a worthless skateboarder and king of the kooks, all the way down to the Sex Pistols are a boy band. Not to mention actually important topics like healthcare and reproductive rights. Though, I’ve quit doing it irl too. I think if anyone I talk to can be convinced to change their mind after talking to me, they’re just going to change their mind next time someone else tries. I find it’s better to just be the person I want more people to be and live by example. It’s the same thing I tell my kids- strive to be the person you want as a friend.

But I also tell my kids no one is allowed to play guns and roses in my house, so come to your own conclusions.

Pffft. Fury Road was the best movie in a decade, let alone in the MM franchise. I’m going Friday to see Furiosa. I hope it’s half as good.

If you think about it, let me know what you thought of Bob.

K. Should I care as much as he does about others? Because I think you’ll find it’s the same amount.

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Also, if you haven’t yet, check out the Bobiverse books by D. E. Taylor. If you dug Scalzi’s “fun” books, they’ll probably be right up your alley.