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I don't go to the bar alone when I'm at home, but it's something I'm used to doing in traveling for work or leisure.

I can imagine if I had a local pub below me or around the corner I might pop in by myself from time to time, but socal suburbs are zoned and designed in a way that isn't conducive to a neighborhood bar.

I do miss going out from time to time, playing pool with college buddies (don't miss having to dump quarters into the tables, at least have air hockey if you're going to make people pay).

tl;dr/overshare:

Saved a ton on drinks. Stuck with sodas, iced teas. Depending on location there were decent deep fried pickles (sports bar), chow mein (bar conjoined with Asian restaurant), or pizza (bowling alley). I'd say "darn pandemic" but it had already been a few years since we met up anyway. Note that this is my "arts" class. The STEM one I took prior never does anything together.

As an aside, the bowling alley had tried its best to set up outdoor eating in years prior to the pandemic, but the city wouldn't let up on things they kept wanting them to change. First the brick wall was too short, then not high enough, then the pad was too small, but they didn't want to cut off a lane? Incredible amount of nonsense, so now it's just a bricked in concrete pad used to store things. These small-fry regulators need to just be straight with people on requirements and stop moving the goal posts. It's honestly a scourge in some towns.

It doesn't help that while struggling, they get those "the staff and facilities were very nice, but the bowling computers need updated. 1/5 stars" yelp reviews.

the weather literally anywhere in the world excepting maybe Ireland is better than the UK.

My fwp of the day is that I hate workplace sprints into the summer period. Everyone wants to get their shit done before all the kids get their summer break. The last 3 weeks I've been putting in 2-3 hrs of overtime almost every day. It's fucking rough if at 8pm the little time you have left is spent rushing for groceries, cooking, cleaning, laundry - it's groundhog day all the time.

I love what I do but can't wait for mid july to come.

Whenever I've been it was either rain or dreary overcast, which I see now is weird because supposedly we have 2x as many rainy days.

I was in London in the summer and it really was perfect weather.

Two alerts at the top of my phone are Samsung's "new" legal terms (6/1) and account privacy notice (6/10). Quick skim, virtual novels in dry legal forms leading up with "we know how important blah blah is to blah blah" but no good summary for someone without 30 minutes to spare. Do I even have to tap agree to be considered to agree, or does my phone just assume I agree after a time limit. I'm trying to do work, not enter a blood pact.

It's a constant stream of "updated TOS" with these companies. Who has time.

What do we say to the God of Updates? Not today.

Huh nothing really changes when I update

Yea my last phone camera got worse each update. As in wouldn't work half the time, though they said they fixed it.

I don't like mobile chromes new home or whatever you call it where you have to select continue browsing. I keep opening new tabs cause I'm not used to it.

A lot to unpack there. Thank you for sharing.

I am not a germaphob but I do wash my hands after touching garbage, animals, plants and before touching food.

I make sure to scrub clean everything before I put it in the dishwasher. Time in the dishwasher should be "disinfectant time".

My personal living quarters can get a little messy as I have projects half complete/waiting on parts. I always make sure the spaces guest have to use is nice and clean though. I used the bathroom at a friend's house and it was a mildewy mess. Really makes you reevaluate who you're spending time with.

Also, you should never marry a girl unless you lived with her for a few years. You don't want a lifetime of disagreements over cleanliness.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Also, you should never marry a girl unless you lived with her for a few years. You don't want a lifetime of disagreements over cleanliness.

On a personal level, my home office workspace isn't always in pristine condition. I have a lot of things with limited storage space, so I sometimes feel like Gandalf searching for information in that loose paper library, with the light coatings of dust to sometimes go with it despite the best efforts of the air cleaner. But I do make efforts to not manslaughter people with my food prep, and am a proponent of surface decontamination, vacuuming, mopping, keeping "wet rooms" dried, and not wearing shoes inside.