Inspired by recently buying a cajon, and my husband immediately buying another for additional living room seating because he loved it.
Computer. Another silcon beast joins the herd (Rancher Harvester HCI cluster).
A toilet seat, according to Amazon.
Tattoos, coke, mushrooms, alcohol, camera batteries, camera lenses, tiramisu, sex, kink stuff, time.
I try not to be super consumerist, so it’s hard to think of things as opposed to experiences and addictive substances.
Ube donut.
Fonzies 1kg bag
Was a big fan of cocktails in my 20s. Not a huge fan of the headaches these days.
Brisket
Sex
Circus animal.
A vacation
Cat.
Cats are pretty great
To be fair I always wanted more than one cat, just had to start with one.
I’ve always felt that owners of dogs and/or cats should have more than one, so they have one another to interact with when you’re not home. They’re meant to be social creatures and, assuming they don’t happen to incompatibly hate each other (which can happen), it’s a lot nicer and healthier for them than just leaving a single pet home alone all day.
A döner in Germany. Everything about it is so good, I ended up eating every other day the next week I was there.
My German ‘must have more’ was the sauerkraut. It is sooo much better there than in the states, and it was slightly different in each town I tried it. My staple meal was whatever the local version was of: sausage, sauerkraut, and wheat beer.
The food in Germany is completely meh imo, EXCEPT for the restaurant sour kraut - holy shit it is sooooo much better than what we get in the states. Someone told me it’s because they cook it up in some kind of animal lard
We had different experiences then. I’ve had some meals that I enjoyed quite a bit and still try to replicate. Can’t go wrong with a good schnitzel, kraut, or pommes. I also had a dish with potatoes and bacon, i think was called bratkartoffeln that I would fly back tomorrow for.
Durum was my jam!
I had a similar experience with broodje haring in the Netherlands.
Thats pretty cool. Not too many are into raw fish that instantly.
It’s good, certainly when paired with a good korenwijn jenever.
Try the smoked paling (eel) too next time, if you haven’t. It’s a whole other side of fish.
Pussy. Also cock.
A break
A holiday
Cocaine. It had absolutely no effect on me other than making me want more instantly. I tried it like three or four times before realizing that it didn’t really do anything. Granted, the third and fourth time I only got it because my dealer was exceptionally hot and he allowed me to snort the cocaine off of his abs.
Parts of your life are definitely more interesting than mine
Do you have ADHD? I’ve heard that people who do and try coke end up pretty calm or unchanged.
Very much so. My ADHD has ADHD
I think that sounds like meth not coke. Vyvanse and Adderall are already pretty close to meth in chemical structure anyway.
Cocaine is connected to so much pain and suffering in this world, it’s one thing one should really abstain from in my opinion
A mini PC for my homelab.
A baby. As soon as my son was born I knew we’d have another. And we did. Then I had a vasectomy because I knew we’d never stop. Babies are cool.
One day I was cleaning out my second child’s too small clothes and legitimately thought “If we have another I won’t have to do this right now.” Babies are cool indeed!
I only have one and getting rid of his stuff he grows out of is one of the hardest things in life.
Yeah. We have a small collection.
My mom wanted to make a quilt out of his old shirts from when he was little, but ~7 years on hasn’t attempted anything more than collecting shirts.
I always wished for a third or fourth but we effective an out of time. First was I don’t care if it’s boy or girl as long as it’s healthy. Second I wanted boy because two of the same is easier. But another opportunity for a little girl would have been nice. Babies are cool, kids are cool, teens are cool and college kids are cool. I can’t wait to meet the young adults they are becoming
Do you like all babies or just prefer your own?
I like all babies. I do prefer my own, and I only moon over babies if I know the parents and have approval…
What is it that you like about them? This is a genuine question I’m not a baby kinda person.
When I was young I was a bit of an arse. Raised by narcissists, I definitely had narcissistic tendencies. It was all I knew. When my first son was born it was a profound moment. I saw the potential in that tiny, helpless baby and his possible futures… Based on what I was and what I had to teach, I realised that those futures weren’t great. So I changed. I have tried every day since to be the parent that I wish I had. I have embraced empathy and kindness. I have shed the anger and vanity… And I have forgiven myself for not doing it sooner. I’m not perfect. I make mistakes. When I see a baby I see the potential. It reminds me of how much I’ve changed, how proud of my kids I am, how much I love my family, how much joy I have in my life.
More or less…
Do you think you wouldn’t care about babies if you were born with empathy and a drive to be a kind gentle teaching human?
“Born with…?” We are born with nothing but potential. We are a product of our environment, right up until we realise that we are a product of our environment. Then we have a choice; continue as we are, or choose to be something different. It doesn’t matter which we choose, though… We can no longer blame our parents, our society, our environment, for who we are.
That is a strange question, though. If I was born with empathy and a drive to be a kind, gentle, teaching human then I think babies would be high on the list of people I would want to spend time with. Kindness begets kindness and we know the world could use more kindness!
People like you are so strange to me it’s like watching the birth of a child is some traumatic brain injury that changes you forever.
