I grew up in Texas. Needs more dominos and spades, and pawpaw needs to pray over the food.

I ain’t religious but I ain’t telling pawpaw not to pray over the food.

My new retirement plan is to open that joint here in the States.

I did have the answer when I was 5. I knew in my early 20s. Now I’m a year and change older than you and now I have no idea. It’s a lot more fun this way!

Also USA. My teachers ran the gamut from not letting anyone to treating us like adults. My school was VERY white with only a handful of black kids across all of high school. One of the teachers was well known for never letting the black kids go until one of them went and peed in his trash can to prove a point.

The ones who treated us like adults got treated with the most respect. Weird how that works.

Plus the bottom handle looks to be about the same height as my butt cheeks. If I can grab it between the cheeks instead of getting my hands dirty then I’m definitely doing that.

(No, not really, I’m not that talented)

If you had a business that boiled down to “corporate mercenary” don’t you think it would be incredibly convenient to have a reputation as a villainous bulldog?

There are very few companies who get to pretend they don’t give a flying shit about people. This is one who will thrive on that reputation. Pinkertons and whatever Blackwater is now.

I hate that for you. If you find a good Popeye’s it’s really great for fast food. Unfortunately to find a good one you’ve got to look for a line.

I bet I’m about to own one just like it

It does look like a sapper or field jacket.

I’ve had to explain to three different people that they’re not getting a production window on Christmas Eve. I’m the only person in the office from the day after Christmas until January 2.

And it’s constantly screaming at us.

I feel the same way, but in real life.

Same, except my company (of which I’m the sole employee) has a long term contract where I’m very comfortable so I’m paid pretty much the same every month. I’ve also got a few companies that I’ll do a bit of off consulting work for when they need it. That’s usually good for extra spending money at the end of the fiscal year if they have extra to spend and want to reinvest in their technology. I just got a couple of those invoices paid so Christmas is looking nice.

But, like you, I’m taking off a few weeks in the spring. I get paid nothing for that or sick days.

I have several drunken and glib responses ranging from actual seasoning advice to something about the season of the witch. How-the-fuck-ever…

Run. Just fucking run. Neighbors? Kids? Whatever. Run.

There are two types of people. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data

I didn’t even see that photo bomb.

I loved the first couple before I stopped playing games entirely for a decade. But I was a console player and didn’t have to think about things like this.

Sure thing! I had an older one before my current emulation setup. It worked really well.

If you want an SNES that’s going to take a while, but it’s definitely findable. If you want a device that can play SNES cartridges (along with many others) look into getting a Retron. It’s got NES, SNES, GBA, Genesis, Famicom, Super Famicom, and Gameboy plus a place to plug in those old controllers.

You’re 5000 candles in the wind