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My problem is I just leave stuff in piles. Nothing that's in my way or over much. Just more untidy, I guess. So, then I work on cleaning up a spot and either throwing out what is there or if it is something that I need try to find a place for it.

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I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. When I'm on my game, I don't do that and everything has its place, but I haven't exactly been on my game for the better part of 2 years now. There's been a few MASSIVE cleanups in between, but it really is a chore when I let things pile up instead of putting them where they belong or taking care of them right away. I've got a process for my mail and nothing goes out with my name or address. Important stuff goes in one pile and gets looked at frequently, but that junk mail has really piled up out of control a few times when I had been keeping up with that for years.

I finally got caught up on yardwork besides the few lawn mowings I'll still have to do this year, and really busting my butt trying to get that landscaping in the back done, so it's still all piling up inside, but I've been having people over more often so it forces me to clean things up when I do.

Maybe that's what you need. You ever invite any of the mahjong ladies over for lunch or coffee/tea?

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Yeah, drowning them would be a problem for you. I'm glad you warned your neighbours when you were using smoke bombs. Trying to remember what my dad did or my mum's friend's husband. And I can't. My dad may have tried the drowning but mind we were out in the sticks and there were no holes close to the house.

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Nothing else seems to work besides those bombs, although I'm sure the water would work if circumstances were different. Even if it didn't drown it, it might force it out of the holes so I could get at it. I've tried all the other stuff on the market and nothing but the smoke bombs have worked.

But at the end of the day I don't really care about killing it anymore. I'll just get another one in a year or two anyhow. They're very territorial, so chances are I only have one. Worst case scenario I have one in my front yard and another in my back yard. So since 1 or 2 of them are always going to make their way back here anyhow, I think it's best that I just do what I'm doing to protect the important bits like the landscaping and the foundations and resign myself to having a "country lawn".

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So far, so good. Put a ton of stuff down today. I actually have a full shape of some sort that is completely fenced in now, and a lot of that was part of its main travel tunnel. And I've caved in all the holes and flattened all the sand in there. Fingers crossed that there's no new damage there tomorrow.

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Yeah... Had to do it. Once you start getting cranky and frustrated nothing good comes out of that work. I should have just quit an hour earlier and started with that tomorrow. Oh well.

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Yeah. She's cute, but i heard the same thing about her. Does this Doctor really cry every single episode?

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Never heard of Emergency before. Man... I haven't seen an episode of M*A*S*H in forever. I remember watching reruns when I was a kid but most of those jokes and subjects were over my head at the time. Maybe I should watch that myself one day. But doesn't it have like 300 episodes or something? Almost seems like homework tat that point.



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Well, remember when I moved in here and started unpacking I thought I had lost my music books. And I found them in another pile. That's what happens on the kitchen table. I put down something important then it gets covered with other stuff.

Good. The lawn mowing you shouldn't let slide. You don't know how early winter could come this year.

Maybe I should try inviting people over again. It could help.

The water would force them out of their holes for sure.

That's good. And one or two isn't bad but still if you don't realize the holes are there. You could hurt yourself.

I know about getting frustrated with stuff. My writing when something isn't working. I have to leave it for bit.

Yeah, Ruby Sunday is very ditzy. Well, he did in the one I watched last night. Haven't been keeping track of that.

Emergency was one of the shows that combined paramedics with firefighters and hospital. It was really good. And it would have been before your time. It ran about six seasons. I loves me some Johnny Gage. This is just a little set of M*A*S*H discs. The show ran 11 seasons and no way would I buy all of those. I got kind of a deal on these two.

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My problem is I just leave stuff in piles. Nothing that's in my way or over much. Just more untidy, I guess. So, then I work on cleaning up a spot and either throwing out what is there or if it is something that I need try to find a place for it.

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I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. When I'm on my game, I don't do that and everything has its place, but I haven't exactly been on my game for the better part of 2 years now. There's been a few MASSIVE cleanups in between, but it really is a chore when I let things pile up instead of putting them where they belong or taking care of them right away. I've got a process for my mail and nothing goes out with my name or address. Important stuff goes in one pile and gets looked at frequently, but that junk mail has really piled up out of control a few times when I had been keeping up with that for years.

I finally got caught up on yardwork besides the few lawn mowings I'll still have to do this year, and really busting my butt trying to get that landscaping in the back done, so it's still all piling up inside, but I've been having people over more often so it forces me to clean things up when I do.

Maybe that's what you need. You ever invite any of the mahjong ladies over for lunch or coffee/tea?

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Yeah, drowning them would be a problem for you. I'm glad you warned your neighbours when you were using smoke bombs. Trying to remember what my dad did or my mum's friend's husband. And I can't. My dad may have tried the drowning but mind we were out in the sticks and there were no holes close to the house.

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Nothing else seems to work besides those bombs, although I'm sure the water would work if circumstances were different. Even if it didn't drown it, it might force it out of the holes so I could get at it. I've tried all the other stuff on the market and nothing but the smoke bombs have worked.

But at the end of the day I don't really care about killing it anymore. I'll just get another one in a year or two anyhow. They're very territorial, so chances are I only have one. Worst case scenario I have one in my front yard and another in my back yard. So since 1 or 2 of them are always going to make their way back here anyhow, I think it's best that I just do what I'm doing to protect the important bits like the landscaping and the foundations and resign myself to having a "country lawn".

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So far, so good. Put a ton of stuff down today. I actually have a full shape of some sort that is completely fenced in now, and a lot of that was part of its main travel tunnel. And I've caved in all the holes and flattened all the sand in there. Fingers crossed that there's no new damage there tomorrow.

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Yeah... Had to do it. Once you start getting cranky and frustrated nothing good comes out of that work. I should have just quit an hour earlier and started with that tomorrow. Oh well.

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My library just got in the first season with new Doctor. I'm in the middle of it right now and I've got no complaints except for the companion. And off and on for years I have found some of them totally ditzy and Ruby Sunday certainly fits that bill.

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Yeah. She's cute, but i heard the same thing about her. Does this Doctor really cry every single episode?

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Never heard of Emergency before. Man... I haven't seen an episode of M*A*S*H in forever. I remember watching reruns when I was a kid but most of those jokes and subjects were over my head at the time. Maybe I should watch that myself one day. But doesn't it have like 300 episodes or something? Almost seems like homework tat that point.



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Well, remember when I moved in here and started unpacking I thought I had lost my music books. And I found them in another pile. That's what happens on the kitchen table. I put down something important then it gets covered with other stuff.

Good. The lawn mowing you shouldn't let slide. You don't know how early winter could come this year.

Maybe I should try inviting people over again. It could help.

The water would force them out of their holes for sure.

That's good. And one or two isn't bad but still if you don't realize the holes are there. You could hurt yourself.

I know about getting frustrated with stuff. My writing when something isn't working. I have to leave it for bit.

Yeah, Ruby Sunday is very ditzy. Well, he did in the one I watched last night. Haven't been keeping track of that.

Emergency was one of the shows that combined paramedics with firefighters and hospital. It was really good. And it would have been before your time. It ran about six seasons. I loves me some Johnny Gage. This is just a little set of M*A*S*H discs. The show ran 11 seasons and no way would I buy all of those. I got kind of a deal on these two.

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My problem is I just leave stuff in piles. Nothing that's in my way or over much. Just more untidy, I guess. So, then I work on cleaning up a spot and either throwing out what is there or if it is something that I need try to find a place for it.

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I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. When I'm on my game, I don't do that and everything has its place, but I haven't exactly been on my game for the better part of 2 years now. There's been a few MASSIVE cleanups in between, but it really is a chore when I let things pile up instead of putting them where they belong or taking care of them right away. I've got a process for my mail and nothing goes out with my name or address. Important stuff goes in one pile and gets looked at frequently, but that junk mail has really piled up out of control a few times when I had been keeping up with that for years.

I finally got caught up on yardwork besides the few lawn mowings I'll still have to do this year, and really busting my butt trying to get that landscaping in the back done, so it's still all piling up inside, but I've been having people over more often so it forces me to clean things up when I do.

Maybe that's what you need. You ever invite any of the mahjong ladies over for lunch or coffee/tea?

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Yeah, drowning them would be a problem for you. I'm glad you warned your neighbours when you were using smoke bombs. Trying to remember what my dad did or my mum's friend's husband. And I can't. My dad may have tried the drowning but mind we were out in the sticks and there were no holes close to the house.

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Nothing else seems to work besides those bombs, although I'm sure the water would work if circumstances were different. Even if it didn't drown it, it might force it out of the holes so I could get at it. I've tried all the other stuff on the market and nothing but the smoke bombs have worked.

But at the end of the day I don't really care about killing it anymore. I'll just get another one in a year or two anyhow. They're very territorial, so chances are I only have one. Worst case scenario I have one in my front yard and another in my back yard. So since 1 or 2 of them are always going to make their way back here anyhow, I think it's best that I just do what I'm doing to protect the important bits like the landscaping and the foundations and resign myself to having a "country lawn".

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If fencing works then good going for you.

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So far, so good. Put a ton of stuff down today. I actually have a full shape of some sort that is completely fenced in now, and a lot of that was part of its main travel tunnel. And I've caved in all the holes and flattened all the sand in there. Fingers crossed that there's no new damage there tomorrow.

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Sometimes it is best to step away from things and have a think on what you are doing.

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Yeah... Had to do it. Once you start getting cranky and frustrated nothing good comes out of that work. I should have just quit an hour earlier and started with that tomorrow. Oh well.

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My library just got in the first season with new Doctor. I'm in the middle of it right now and I've got no complaints except for the companion. And off and on for years I have found some of them totally ditzy and Ruby Sunday certainly fits that bill.

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Yeah. She's cute, but i heard the same thing about her. Does this Doctor really cry every single episode?

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Never heard of Emergency before. Man... I haven't seen an episode of M*A*S*H in forever. I remember watching reruns when I was a kid but most of those jokes and subjects were over my head at the time. Maybe I should watch that myself one day. But doesn't it have like 300 episodes or something? Almost seems like homework tat that point.



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Well, remember when I moved in here and started unpacking I thought I had lost my music books. And I found them in another pile. That's what happens on the kitchen table. I put down something important then it gets covered with other stuff.

Good. The lawn mowing you shouldn't let slide. You don't know how early winter could come this year.

Maybe I should try inviting people over again. It could help.

The water would force them out of their holes for sure.

That's good. And one or two isn't bad but still if you don't realize the holes are there. You could hurt yourself.

I know about getting frustrated with stuff. My writing when something isn't working. I have to leave it for bit.

Yeah, Ruby Sunday is very ditzy. Well, he did in the one I watched last night. Haven't been keeping track of that.

Emergency was one of the shows that combined paramedics with firefighters and hospital. It was really good. And it would have been before your time. It ran about six seasons. I loves me some Johnny Gage. This is just a little set of M*A*S*H discs. The show ran 11 seasons and no way would I buy all of those. I got kind of a deal on these two.

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Well, remember when I moved in here and started unpacking I thought I had lost my music books. And I found them in another pile. That's what happens on the kitchen table. I put down something important then it gets covered with other stuff.

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The water would force them out of their holes for sure.

That's good. And one or two isn't bad but still if you don't realize the holes are there. You could hurt yourself.

I know about getting frustrated with stuff. My writing when something isn't working. I have to leave it for bit.

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Yeah, Ruby Sunday is very ditzy. Well, he did in the one I watched last night. Haven't been keeping track of that.

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Emergency was one of the shows that combined paramedics with firefighters and hospital. It was really good. And it would have been before your time. It ran about six seasons. I loves me some Johnny Gage. This is just a little set of M*A*S*H discs. The show ran 11 seasons and no way would I buy all of those. I got kind of a deal on these two.

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Well, remember when I moved in here and started unpacking I thought I had lost my music books. And I found them in another pile. That's what happens on the kitchen table. I put down something important then it gets covered with other stuff.

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You didn't happen to find them when you were looking for something else, did you?

I remember reading a story in school about that called Serendipity, and I've always loved that word ever since.

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Good. The lawn mowing you shouldn't let slide. You don't know how early winter could come this year.

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Uggh... It's already getting long again, even though it hasn't rained for a while and we're back up in the 80's. I'm sure I'll have to do it by the weekend. I might even have to take time away from the project to do it on Friday because I think my buddy wants to hang out this weekend and my schedule is way more flexible than his is.

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Maybe I should try inviting people over again. It could help.

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Maybe you could get a few cool board games or something and offer them a different experience than the usual Mah Jong? Or even just Hearts or Spades and a deck of cards?

I'd probably go out of my way to have refreshments and snacks the first time, but if it goes well and you make it a regular thing one day, maybe make it a pot luck thing or something so you're not always the one spending the cash, right?

But yeah... If you could do that, I'm sure you'd keep up with the tidiness if you're anything like me. Every time my old man comes over I tell him, prepare for my house to be messy as hell and he always says he doesn't care, but then the day comes that he's stopping by and I always get up a few hours early and scramble to clean if it wasn't already cleaned up.

It really helps. I buried myself deep into that project work over the winter and didn't really socialize much. When I did, I always went somewhere else and didn't have people over because I really let the place become a mess. For the last few months though I don't go more than 3 weeks without a visitor by design. Forces me to do what I should already be doing if I'm not doing it.

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The water would force them out of their holes for sure.

That's good. And one or two isn't bad but still if you don't realize the holes are there. You could hurt yourself.

I know about getting frustrated with stuff. My writing when something isn't working. I have to leave it for bit.

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I broke down and flooded the holes. Thanks for the idea, Brenda. Never even thought of that until you said it, and this morning I decided it was worth it even if it meant I'd get water in the basement (and I didn't get any in the basement).

I don't know if I killed it, and I said last night I was just going to let it live, but that son of a bitch went right ahead and made a new hole from the top of the soil under the pavers in front of the shed that I quit on yesterday. I was LIVID. It's just a good thing that I hadn't actually done those yet, or that anger would have been amplified ten fold.

This new hole only went about one foot in. I think he was hiding. I can't remember why they leave their holes, but they do, and I believe they generally do that at night when it happens. And from what I saw this morning he was being stalked or hunted by something bigger. Along the side of the garage nearest the porch in between my walkway from the driveway to the service door was an area that was basically done and ready to have the stone put down before I finished last night. I saw paw prints in the sand all along there this morning. Not huge prints, but at least cat sized. And I also saw where it appears the mole tried to make a tunnel under the walkway to the service door and was immediately blocked by my fence, which was a location of one of his main traveler tunnels. So once he figured out the hard way that he was blocked out of it, he must have gone across to the shed to hide out in a new hole. He probably swims in that top layer of sand as if he were a bird coasting in the air, so I bet it was a quick getaway for him.

So once I saw all of this, I got that hose and put it into the hole that I've been staring at ever since I pulled all the weeds, right under my 5.5 ft tall stack of river rock and put it on full blast for about 10 minutes. I couldn't BELIEVE how long it took for that to finally start flooding out of the hole. That water must have traveled all over the yard under the grass in all the zig-zag and curly-cue one-time feeding tunnels it makes as well as the straight travelers along the foundations. Maybe it was even connected to the front yard. I never saw any water rise up anywhere else other than the hole I had the hose in.

Did I get it? Don't know...

Hoping to see no new damage tomorrow.


Finished making the nice raised paver foundation in front of the shed and fencing it all off, and I even put the weed fabric down and almost nine 52lb. bags of river rock are now down between the garage and my service door walkway.

Looks great. Feels real good. I'm exhausted.

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Haha... Let me know if he does. I heard some people say that he breaks down and cries in every episode in both seasons except for one episode that I believe is entirely about Ruby and his presence in it is more like a cameo.

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Emergency was one of the shows that combined paramedics with firefighters and hospital. It was really good. And it would have been before your time. It ran about six seasons. I loves me some Johnny Gage. This is just a little set of M*A*S*H discs. The show ran 11 seasons and no way would I buy all of those. I got kind of a deal on these two.

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I don't know Johnny Gage, but I know Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat. I wonder if he or one of the characters he played was the inspiration for his name. He looks too skinny for that though, at least in Emergency. Did he bulk up a little when he got older and play a cool guy wearing sunglasses?

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I've got older games but I don't think the mah jong ladies would be interested in them. I do have a proper set of mah jong tiles. There are a couple of ladies that do host games at their homes. So, always a thought. Though, it would mean my having to work up my nerve to do it. I will admit that rejection scares me.

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You're welcome. Like I said that came from an old memory.

Oh, no. At least you didn't flood your basement. It may have been hiding with you moving around so much above it. They would leave to look for food. I'm not sure what a mole eats. Would have to look that up. I think they are more active at night as they would be a prey animal.

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The whole one about Ruby is in the first season and I'll see.

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Can't win them all, Brenda... :(

Felt like crap myself by 4:30 and had to wrap it up early today. Got the mole holes taken care of under the staircase into the porch and rebuilt all of that after getting it all cleaned off. Skipped working on the walkway to the garage service door because it was getting late and I wanted to work on rocks and feel like I got something done. I got all the weed fabric down and 30 bags of rocks, but still a ton more to do. Not enough done to make for good pictures to look at yet.

Hoping to get a decent night sleep tonight and get back to it tomorrow after cutting my day short by 3 hours today. I think I should be able to fix the walkway and fence the other side of it in so I can get all the rocks done by the end of the day if I'm feeling up to it.

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I've got older games but I don't think the mah jong ladies would be interested in them. I do have a proper set of mah jong tiles. There are a couple of ladies that do host games at their homes. So, always a thought. Though, it would mean my having to work up my nerve to do it. I will admit that rejection scares me.

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Yeah... I feel ya. Never did well with rejection myself. I remember going to a underage (21 and under/no alcohol) dance club with a high school buddy when we were like 18 years old and saw him get up on a girl with his dancing and she turned around and saw him and made an "eww" face and pushed his hands off of her and he just did an Alfred E. Newman "what me worry?" face and started dancing with another stranger and they hit it off. I remember thinking, that first reaction not only would have ruined my night, but I'd still be dwelling about it 20 years later. And actually, I'm still thinking about it 27 years later, so I'm probably still feeling his rejection almost 3 decades later about something that I'm sure he doesn't even remember happened.

I don't know your situation and I'm not the best at making new friends myself so I'm probably not the right person to give any advice.

It's just a shame you feel that way because you're really good people, and they should be flattered that you would invite them over for a change of pace.

How about Winter? Do you keep playing year round, or go on hiatus when it's snowing and cold out? Maybe you could make a suggestion that you keep the games going all year round and take turns going to each other's places to play? Maybe that wouldn't feel like rejection if they said no to that since they'd be rejecting the idea of going to everyone's place???

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You're welcome. Like I said that came from an old memory.

Oh, no. At least you didn't flood your basement. It may have been hiding with you moving around so much above it. They would leave to look for food. I'm not sure what a mole eats. Would have to look that up. I think they are more active at night as they would be a prey animal.

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No. I can't remember why they go out. It might just be to cool off at night or to stretch the muscles or something. They're blind, and the safest place for them is underground. It's also where they get all of their food. They dig so many damn holes because they need to eat their own body weight in subterranean insects every day to live, because of how many calories they burn hunting the bugs.

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Oh yeah... They're everywhere. My lawnmower bounces all around when I mow because of them, and it's a huge lawn. I found another hole today I didn't know about yesterday and I had the water running in that one for 16 minutes before it started backing up on me. This one was kind of cool to watch though and I took a video of it. The whole time you'd see a bunch of bubbles come up out of the hole and pop when they hit the surface. The other hole didn't do that. I believe the mole has an oily hide so it kind of solidifies the dirt that it digs and the tunnels don't collapse.

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I saw that he was in Sons on his IMDB page. But I think it was only a few episodes, and I watched that a long time ago back when I was drinking and forgot most of it now. The only side character I remember at all was the weird guy who was insulted by the club all the time and he'd just say "I accept that". I don't even remember why he was there.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Been thinking more about this...

I hate to say it, Sigs, because I know it's a real sensitive issue to you. And I don't mean you personally because you and your husband both did what was expected of you and from what I know of you, you did it well enough to exceed most in your generation. And I know you have DD to worry about with all that work you're always doing tending to the house. So this isn't an attack on YOU, okay?



I think a real big part of the current seismic shift we're going through is because the oldest of the Boomer generation is starting to die off and/or go senile, and now it's Gen X rather unwillingly and/or uncaringly becoming the senior generation.

I think we're all just kind of sitting here like "oh... for fuck's sake. What are we going to do now? Our grandparents all died and things got way worse because our parents all kind of sucked and were huge disappointments. And now our parents are all dying off too... and we just sat back and let these dipshit Millennials get in line to take it all over 2 decades ago... And then we watched them speedrun everything from comics and movies to the economy and society in general into the fucking ground while the Boomer Politicians and Senior Management were too busy to babysit them, what with having their schedules full of stacking that cash with all that insider trading, selling the rest of us out and drooling on themselves.

And the Millennials weren't even our fucking kids man... They're our step/half brothers and sisters from our Boomer parents' second failed marriages.

It's like they raised two pretty awful generations of kids overall, but the 2nd experiment was just WAY worse than the first one was...

I would venture a guess that the Baby Boomer Generation in America held more power for longer than any other in the country ever has before them. That's one-third because of how fucking greedy and full of ambition Baby Boomers are, As A Group. It's one-third how self-centered and full of ambition Millennials are, as a group. And it's one-third because of how fucking lazy and/or disaffected and/or uninterested Generation X is in politics or saving the world, as a group. Nihilism was kind of our thing. I have half of a decent friend roster who never made it out of their 20's to back that up. I'd blame TV for it, but that would make me sound like a fucking Boomer.



I think Gen X is like "Fuck This". I was fine with not having to take any responsibility as long as the people who really wanted it were more or less doing right by us, even if they were fucking us over. Boomers fucked everybody, but they just had a gentler touch, and only pushed that envelope a little bit at a time, so subtle that most people didn't even really notice the glacial shift until it was way too late.

The Millennials got in there and said "LET'S BURN THIS MOTHERFUCKER DOWN AND REBUILD IT THE WAY WE WANT IT!"

But their only two problems were that none of them were in agreement about what the way they wanted it would look like, and even if they were, not a single one of them ever built anything beyond LEGO sets and haven't held a fucking hammer in their hands since their Boomer parents gave their Builder Bob plastic tool belt to Goodwill.




To this day, nobody ever talks about Gen X.

I've only rarely even heard murmurings from only a handful of sources even mentioning Gen X, and that didn't start until right after the election results were finally in.



Yanno... They raised us to not really bother going for a degree unless we were top of the class and gung-ho for going there. But they didn't bother teaching us any skills either. We were just kind of left on our own, to our own devices. Then what was left of the non-union, non-nepobaby jobs and Government jobs were either shipped overseas or gated behind a Degree Requirement post-9/11 and we all started working retail and basically the same shit jobs we were working when we were 16.

But we know a lot of shit. We've had to learn a lot of stuff on our own. Things like YouTube was one of the greatest that ever happened to us. The idea that you need to go to college to do 90% of the stupid shit that people do at jobs today is just nuts to us.

For instance, I just found out last night that I don't qualify for applying to ICE. Not for Ted's asinine reason that there's a height requirement and that I wouldn't fit it when I'm average sized. And not even for my only concern about rejection, which would be my Diabetes diagnosis. Nope...

It's because I don't have a fucking bachelor's degree... Can you believe that? The requirements were either prior military service and/or some amount of time in Law Enforcement yada, yada, yada, OR some heavy amount of volunteer work in your history, OR a bachelor's degree. IN ANYTHING. No requirements at all for that degree. Just that you have that piece of paper.

Not that they would ever hire one, but that means that even in Trump's America, a pink haired Millennial Barrista at Starbucks who celebrated Charlie Kirk's death last night with a degree in Gender Studies would fulfill the minimum requirements to put in an application to be an ICE agent, but I wouldn't.



And so, we're the No Step on Snek generation of Meh...

But we're also the generation who learned to bend all the rules without breaking them to get what we want, which mostly meant just being left the fuck alone. Those of us still hanging around have a lot of reading and self-learning under our belts. Street smart and book smart, but without most of that college debt we always hear everyone under a certain age bitching and whining about all the time.

If there's one thing we don't like, it's being fucked with.

And I think we've all pretty much decided that all this Millennial Fuckery that the Boomers still in power just abetted and forced everyone else to endure for 20 years has gone on for just about long enough.


I think I know why you Boomers fucked up two generations so bad. You spanked your GenX babies and yelled at them way too much, and then you never laid a hand on your Millennial babies from the guilt and let them walk all over you and in the process they never learned to grow up. They're like the Peter Pan generation of fucking morons who don't know how anything works but believe they're all geniuses because they all went to college.

In any event, we're fucking done with 'em.

You might not have spanked them, but we possess no such moral quandary.

We'll be sure give them an extra spanking for ya.

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