I have the best crazy date story of all time IMHO!! In 2012 I had a weekday second date planned. We were going to have a picnic in Rock Creek Park because she lived across from it. While driving the hour to meet her she got LASIK Surgery!

It's pretty common as a software engineer to get to pick out a laptop and go pick it up or have it shipped to you when you start a new job. I haven't had that pleasure in years because I don't work for a dev shop anymore and my extracurricular job is consulting on the side. That said I finally had to bite the bullet and got an upgrade that I can travel with. This was painful but I'm really looking forward to getting it next week and seeing how well it can handle some local 27b and 70b FP4 models. I'll still serve up the bigger 200b models from my desktop in my office but I really like the idea of having more options especially as I work on modernizing and cleaning up some behemoth legacy rails apps. I recently did the full version 1 conversion on a monster RAILS4 legacy app running on Ruby 1.9.3 up to Rails 8 and all I can say is that agenic coding it's a lifesaver. The amount of time that it saved me on rewriting gems from scratch that no longer exist is incalculable. I say incalculable because I would not have bothered doing the conversion if I was going to have to write eight gems from scratch some of which are defunct C extensions. In fact I would've just started from scratch and written the whole thing in Crystal lang or Rust. OK that's enough babbling from me. Have a great weekend everyone!

The baby raccoon being absolutely ridiculously cute!

My boy @Gnome4308 Is not to be F'd with!

Andy Griffith vs warrantless surveillance Make America Great Again

My daughter and her boyfriend found a baby raccoon in the road curled up and they took it in for the night and they are taking it to a wildlife rescue tomorrow.

Every summer before COVID, there would be kids coming around asking if they can mow the grass. I haven't seen a single kid since then. I've been sick and I would love to pay some local neighborhood kid to mow my grass, but I can't seem to find any!

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Here is a sign that you were in a toxic relationship for too long: My new girlfriend is sweet and kind to me and very caring. I find it confusing because she has not insulted me yet.

Did you dry fire today, anon? What about the gym? What are you doing today to make yourself better for tomorrow? The world is on the brink of chaos. Do something and make yourself harder to kill, or else the wrong people will be in charge again after the chaos.

I second that!

My fever from my infection came back and instead of going to work today I'm on the couch sweating but this little thing is keeping me company! ❤️

This is what is happening in the UK: We have to unite and take back control of our countries before it is too... youtube.com/shorts/Jdf4EgTB_…

I had a very important lesson hammered home tonight. I have had an incredibly busy, but productive day. I am very tired. But I thought to myself, "I don't want to be lazy and get fast food, I'll make something quick and easy." I had some left-over chicken breast in the fridge. I needed ice anyway. So I swung by the store, grabbed some fresh pasta, my ice, and a couple other things including a BEAUTIFUL loaf of garlic sourdough. I get home and start cooking. I'm making Aglio e Olio with some chicken breast and pan fried zucchini. Easy peasy. I slice the fresh garlic super thin to fry up with the zucchini. Everything smells amazing. I get everything cooked up, the bread is toasted and finished with a Sicillian Garlic olive oil. The pasta just needs to be drained... I dump the entire pot into the sink. All the pasta ruined. I let out a few loud expletives. Still angry I look on the bright side. I have extra pasta in the pantry. I go looking. I find a box of rotini. I take the box out. Someone has already used part of the box and put the box back in the panty with the open side away from the door. I dump half THAT box on the floor. More expletives. I finally finish cooking the new batch of pasta. I drain it EXTRA CAREFULLY. I finally put every thing together. Finish with grated Parmesan cheese. Everything tastes amazing. It was supposed to be a quick, easy dinner that ended up taking much longer than planned. The lesson here being that even though it took much longer than expected, and it doesn't look like I initially planned, it is still a beautiful and fulfilling experience. Wherever you are in life, my beautiful friends, even if it isn't where you expected to be, a beautiful thing can be just around the corner.

Still a banger.! Creed - One Last Breath (Official HD Music Video) youtu.be/qnkuBUAwfe0?si=BdDl…

“Babe, remember we’re having dinner at my sister’s house tonight. Please don’t talk politics.” Me at the kids table:

i am a proud anarchosexual. intellectual contempt for the state is so hot.

Congrats to @KatByTheRiver On her first day doing Couch to 5K!

"Slow Little Poison" is a somber song by Adam Walker about a long, deteriorating relationship marked by emotional distance, manipulation, and the slow erosion of love.