It’s for donations sent to damus depending on the color of the star, they’re donating a different %

Looked like chocolate waffles

Thanks Fox! I will def check these out. Fun to finally connect with ya 🤙

Heavy note that I felt compelled to share.

Trigger warning: Suicide

I’ve been kicking ass and taking names for 25 years, in less than a month it’ll be 26. To some that’s normal. To me that’s phenomenal. Because by the time I turned 18, a mere teen transitioning into his real life, I attempted to take my own twice and failed.

It was mostly to do with how my brain operated. It wasn’t doing what it was supposed to. It was telling me that everything was bad. And that there’s an easier way out. I had a really good upbringing. I had plenty of friends. I was the student body president. I was the class clown. But my brain was telling me “all this is worthless and stupid and you can’t keep this up much longer.”

I’ve never been more happy to have failed what would have been the biggest choice of my life. Twice.

Since then I’ve seen psychologists, medical doctors, pastors, and I’ve since become more comfortable and open about talking about my survival story. Because it needs to be talked about because I’ve since seen one of my best friends and my younger sister’s best friend unfortunately succeed in taking their own lives. And I’ve seen what happens to families, friends, and communities. No one should go through that. I wish no one ever had to ever again.

I wrote this because you need to hear one of two things:

1) You are loved so damn hard by so many people even when your brain is telling you that’s not the case. I promise. Even further, you are loved by a Creator who sacrificed everything for your sake. And if that still doesn’t help, hit me up. I’m happy to talk to you. Not to try and convince you that what I’m saying is true. I just want to hear your story. I want to be your friend. I’ll listen. That was all I really needed all along.

If that didn’t apply to you, here’s your message:

2) Think about every interaction you have with every single person from here on out. Be extremely intentional and think very carefully on what you say. Because you don’t know what they’re going through, and you could literally be the reason their loved ones see them again. And you might not even know it.

Happy to be here. Thank you for loving me. Now go love everyone else.

Song is lovely

• Biden just asked Congress for $24,000,000,000 MORE for Ukraine

• Maui victims will get $700 each

• Population of Maui = ~180,000

$24B = $130,000 for EACH Maui resident...

We've sent ~$80 Billion to Ukraine so far... I'll let you do the math.

They do not give AF about us. They see and treat us like cattle. We are there to be milked for their pockets, the entire extent to which they care is based on how much it effects the yield they get from us. They toss back JUST enough pennies to stop a revolt, otherwise sowing hate and division to keep us angry at each other so they can spend all their time robbing us blind.

I could be this « friend » ! 👋

List of all jobs I’ve had in chronological order:

-Assistant MMA instructor (part time)

-Deli clerk

-Industrial automation intern

-College resident assistant (part-time)

-Forum administrator (part-time)

-Software intern*

-Electrical engineer*

-Equity analyst/blogger (part-time)

-Freelance finance writer (part-time)

-Lead electrical engineer*

-Engineering procurement/finance lead*

-Facility engineering/finance manager*

-Macro analyst / talking head

-Side gigs: board director, VC fund adviser, author

*These ones were all for the same aviation employer

When I was entering college, my initial goal was to work in space-related electronic systems or in solar energy systems. As I learned more about them and as the Great Recession hit, I ended up shifting into aviation kind of randomly, but liked it a lot for about a decade.

Out of all of the jobs, the most surprising to me was “talking head”. That was certainly never really part of my toolkit and just kind of happened somehow.