Donald Trump

If that were me, I’d probably be upset, but my guess is someone who can afford to lose $1.9M has a lot more to back it with. Of course, if that were me I probably wouldn’t be playing the market like that. I tend to be a more conservative type of investor.

Yesterday, my wife and I stopped at the donut shop after church to get a dozen donuts. As we were choosing donuts, my wife told the guy that she wanted a couple of one kind to which he answered, “how many?” She says two. She picks another kind and says she’ll take a couple. He again asks, “how many?” Two. After we get out to the car, we relay this interaction to the kids and the teen girls defended him saying a couple doesn’t denote a specific number so he was right to question. My wife and I both said we’ve always known a couple to mean two and that it’s pretty well defined. The teens rebel and tell us why we are wrong. My wife pulls out the dictionary, multiples actually, to define the word couple which supports our knowledge of a couple as being two. The teens say a couple in the legal sense means two, but in any other sense is undefined and can mean anything. We go back and forth.. my wife gets upset. The teens get upset. I ask when did this change and got a response from the teens about how language changes over time. Yes, girl, I know that. I’ve been on this planet a lot longer than you have. But still every definition we could find of the word couple always came back to two.

I’m curious what everyone thinks the word couple means in terms of a number. What do you think?

I feel better this morning, and that’s partly from the comments I received to this post. Thank you to all that responded. Sometimes it feels like I am alone. Yesterday was a whirlwind and things happened that I wasn’t prepared for mentally. Thanks again!

In 35 years I’ll be 85. 🤨

GN all. It’s been a hell of a day and I’m totally spent. Tomorrow (well, today now) is another day so let’s see what happens.

Wow, I’m really sorry for whatever happened to you. There are a lot of evil people in the world. The stuff some people do to other people is just so wrong and troubling.

Thanks for writing. It’s much appreciated.

By the way, thank you for the zap. It’s totally not why I posted this here but a coffee sounds great! Thank you again!

Thank you. I tend to be an optimistic person, but some days violations of trust happen which just blow me away then I lose it and say stuff I probably shouldn’t say. I’ll keep striving.

I appreciate the note. You are probably right about being on the winning side, and there is plenty in my life that is good, however things that affect my relationship with my kids hits me pretty hard.

Well this day has turned to shit. Be careful who you hook up with in life. Narcissistic people with mental issues will generally prevail when it comes to alienating the kids against the other parent. It’s a real problem. The instant the alienated parent comes up with some more boundaries because the kid needed it, they flex their muscles and decide they will not be subject to the new rules, which are quite tame, by the way, in my case. I don’t have enough boundaries, but I’m not going to sit by and let some pissant kid who thinks he’s going to challenge me get his way, especially over stupid shit (I blocked him from the Internet). Parental alienation is a very real thing, but it’s hard to prove, and the courts don’t care even if you do prove it so there’s not much point in challenging it in court. I’d rather keep my sats anyway.

I’m not perfect and I guess I could have handled this situation better. None of you know me so for all you know I’m some psycho dude with serious issues. I think I’m fairly rational. My issue is I’ve been left a lot in my life by people I was close to and it’s a pain that never goes away and one which I don’t deal well with. I have a hard time letting people get close to me. My current wife is one I let get close, but everyone else is pretty much kept at arm’s length. Too much past unresolved pain to be ok letting people in. I think many of us have similar issues.. maybe not exactly my issues, but issues nonetheless. I don’t have the answers for what to do so tomorrow the sun will rise and it’ll be another day and I’ll find something else to keep me busy, all the while ignoring my issues until they come up again. My wife says I should go see a counselor of the Catholic variety. She’s probably right. I should do that. But again, past counselors, I’ve seen several, have only made things worse so I’m trapped by the familiar feeling of not being able to get close again.

Why am I writing this here? Well.. I’m out walking off some steam as I write this.. and I considered many times deleting this text because I’m usually not one to air my dirty laundry, but I think I will post it because I want others who are in less than perfect situations to know that you’re not alone. Just keep trying to do the right thing, consider trying to right the wrongs you’ve done to others, and seek faith in God.

Looks like he did quite a bit of digging. 😉

I have a complicated family life so the one teen who really pissed me off today is mine.. the others are my step kids. They’re all spreading their wings and starting to figure out that living with people is hard, but they’re expecting me to bend to their will.. sorry peeps, it doesn’t work that way.

Uninformed teenagers can be a real pain in the ass. The stupidity flows forth which shines even brighter when they stand their ground on something they’re dead wrong about.

Please help me to return to being humble, God, for I lost my shit on at least one kid today. I did OK with the others who were arguing something else that they were wrong about.

I’m seeing some cold temps forecast for a week from now. I’m not sure if that’s going to put a damper on our cold weather glamping or not. I mean.. I’m happy to go. The wife..maybe not so much. We’ll see.

GN Nostr!

These wars are senseless.. at least the ones that the US is promoting.

Having fun stripping chairs and trying not to get too high from all the fumes.

Bring it on. Of course, I’m not traveling anywhere, especially by air, so I don’t much care. I’ve always liked a good snowstorm.

The box boogers are my kids’ favorite part. They get a ton of mileage from the jokes they make about these. 😁

I’m on the Damus side. I guess we can duke it out. 😃