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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I had to travel out of the country for work, so the night before I got all packed up and put my passport and wallet on the end table where I always kept them. Next morning I woke up and was getting ready to head to the airport and my wallet was gone. I tore apart my entire house trying to find it. Just as I was about to call the airline to reschedule my flight, my wife found it. It has slipped off the end table hit the arm of the couch and got stuck in a little cut out decorations around the edge of the end table. Just perfectly balanced, so it didn’t fall when I was pulling everything apart.




  • Years ago I went on a date with a beautiful woman. We had been talking online for months but this was our first in person date. We went to a bar near my apartment. Afterwards, she was feeling a little buzzed, so I suggested we watch a movie before she drove home. Looking through my DVD collection she immediately chose this film. We had a wonderful night sharing our love of the Beatles.

    A year later, I recreated that first date. When we got back to the apartment we now shared. I asked her to put on this movie, which I had hidden an engagement ring in. It’s been 18 years and we’re still together and still loving the Beatles.



  • One of my favorite Wikipedia entries comes from this song. This entire passage just cracks me up.

    “Spirit in the Sky” makes several religious references to Jesus, and Greenbaum himself is Jewish. In a 2006 interview with The New York Times, Greenbaum told a reporter he was inspired to write the song after watching Porter Wagoner singing a gospel song on TV. Greenbaum said: “I thought, ‘Yeah, I could do that,’ knowing nothing about gospel music, so I sat down and wrote my own gospel song. It came easy. I wrote the words in 15 minutes.” Greenbaum had previously been a member of psychedelic jug band Dr. West’s Medicine Show and Junk Band.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_in_the_Sky









  • In the same vein I have odd shaped feet. They are very narrow at the heel but get really wide at the ball of my foot. My sister used to tell me I had tennis racket feet. Never found shoes that would fit. Regular would be too tight on my toes but wide would be too loose on my heels.

    That was until I found Altra. They actually make shoes that fit my foot shape. Consequently, they stopped me from getting shin splints too.







  • I’m only commenting this because you said you’re stuck on Win11 and not defending it, but…

    Using winget and Chocolately will make your app installation much better.

    Also, to reload your path variable in a PowerShell prompt you can run the following:

    $env:Path = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","Machine") + ";" + [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","User")

    Again, your gripes are all legitimate, but these might help ease your pain.