Update for Everyone V: Born Under A Bad Sign

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Finally decided to try convincing the folks to let me "switch teams" again. Maybe I wasn't so clear in my coming-out essays, so this one will be a little more obvious. I am prepared for disappointment, but hoping to be surprised. The only problem is that I don't know what to say.

[NOVA Green]

I am finally out of school

Congrats!

[NOVA Green]

So was outside on the street having a cig in my non-smoking apartment complex in the medium size factory town in Oregon where I'm currently living, and see this older man from 200 Feet away that looked like someone I knew 15 years ago and haven't seen since.

Recognized him from that distance and shouted his name, and the guy turns around after a few hollers.

Turns out it was "Ray" (Names have been changed to protect the innocent) who came of age in Rural 'Bama in the Post-Civil Rights era, knew the legendary University of Alabama Coach Bear Bryant, driven Long Haul rigs from Florida to Mexico, worked a Coal Miner in Northern 'Bama for a year, was a roadie with Hank Williams Jr for a few years, shrimp fisherman off the Gulf Coast for a bit in the '80s, and most importantly a friend that I lost touch with some years back....

He just moved back to Oregon about a year or so back, as did I, and he's literally living one block away....

Anyways---- this is one of the most random encounters I have had since 1994 where I bumped into someone I knew at the major Train Station in East Berlin....

Not sure if any of y'all have had similar random encounters, but we'll be grabbing a beer next week after he comes back from the Coast and getting caught up on 15 years of life.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Finally decided to try convincing the folks to let me "switch teams" again. Maybe I wasn't so clear in my coming-out essays, so this one will be a little more obvious. I am prepared for disappointment, but hoping to be surprised. The only problem is that I don't know what to say.

Best luck.

[Mr. Smith]

Just got approved for my first credit card.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Just got approved for my first credit card.

Now you're a man.

[Crumpets]

So was outside on the street having a cig in my non-smoking apartment complex in the medium size factory town in Oregon where I'm currently living, and see this older man from 200 Feet away that looked like someone I knew 15 years ago and haven't seen since.

Recognized him from that distance and shouted his name, and the guy turns around after a few hollers.

Turns out it was "Ray" (Names have been changed to protect the innocent) who came of age in Rural 'Bama in the Post-Civil Rights era, knew the legendary University of Alabama Coach Bear Bryant, driven Long Haul rigs from Florida to Mexico, worked a Coal Miner in Northern 'Bama for a year, was a roadie with Hank Williams Jr for a few years, shrimp fisherman off the Gulf Coast for a bit in the '80s, and most importantly a friend that I lost touch with some years back....

He just moved back to Oregon about a year or so back, as did I, and he's literally living one block away....

Anyways---- this is one of the most random encounters I have had since 1994 where I bumped into someone I knew at the major Train Station in East Berlin....

Not sure if any of y'all have had similar random encounters, but we'll be grabbing a beer next week after he comes back from the Coast and getting caught up on 15 years of life.

I had a pretty weird experience like this in high school when I ran into my friend's mom in the Karol Bagh area of Delhi. For context, this is what Karol Bagh looks like:



i.e., not the most touristy place out there. It turns out she was there with MSF.

[Technocracy Timmy]

I have a really bad cavity that's been hurting these past 3 days. I've been using some very strong orajel paste that was 10-20 bucks and it was only somewhat effective. I googled potential reliefs and found out about mixing salt and pepper plus water into a paste and applying that. The toothache I had is now a hundred times less painful than before and now I'm 10-20 bucks poorer

[This account no longer in use.]

It's my birthday now

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

It's my birthday now

Congratulations on making it around the sun again!

[JustinTimeCuber]

It's my birthday now

Congratulations on making it around the sun again!

isn't it weird how the earth is constantly being pulled towards the sun yet it never loses a significant amount of potential

[Kingpoleon]

It's my birthday now

Congratulations on making it around the sun again!

isn't it weird how the earth is constantly being pulled towards the sun yet it never loses a significant amount of potential

As the person in charge of pushing it, you have no idea how it is to keep that going year after year.

[JustinTimeCuber]

It's my birthday now

Congratulations on making it around the sun again!

isn't it weird how the earth is constantly being pulled towards the sun yet it never loses a significant amount of potential

As the person in charge of pushing it, you have no idea how it is to keep that going year after year.

BREAKING: CERN Physicists Discover So-Called "Graviton"
[...] it appears that the particle, contrary to our prior belief, has an I-AR avatar.

[Kingpoleon]

I just heard the word "memes" on television. Our society deserves destruction.

[LLR]

Happy birthday cxs

[JustinTimeCuber]

Happy birthday CXSmith!

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

sleeping pill hangovers suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

also happy birthday cxs

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

God, I am so gonna chicken out of sending this.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

After a grueling and at times scary drive through seven hours of inclement weather, I made it home to see my five and three year old cousins for the first time in a while. Last time I saw them, my engine blew on the drive home so hopefully that won't happen again.

[Mike Thick]

Happy birthday CXSmith!

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The asshats next door are shooting off low-power fireworks; my room smells like gunpowder.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Neighbors are being annoying, for the last 2 days they have been launching fireworks from 8 pm to 11:30 pm

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Neighbors are being annoying, for the last 2 days they have been launching fireworks from 8 pm to 11:30 pm

Same here, but for like a week now.

[NOVA Green]

So was outside on the street having a cig in my non-smoking apartment complex in the medium size factory town in Oregon where I'm currently living, and see this older man from 200 Feet away that looked like someone I knew 15 years ago and haven't seen since.

Recognized him from that distance and shouted his name, and the guy turns around after a few hollers.

Turns out it was "Ray" (Names have been changed to protect the innocent) who came of age in Rural 'Bama in the Post-Civil Rights era, knew the legendary University of Alabama Coach Bear Bryant, driven Long Haul rigs from Florida to Mexico, worked a Coal Miner in Northern 'Bama for a year, was a roadie with Hank Williams Jr for a few years, shrimp fisherman off the Gulf Coast for a bit in the '80s, and most importantly a friend that I lost touch with some years back....

He just moved back to Oregon about a year or so back, as did I, and he's literally living one block away....

Anyways---- this is one of the most random encounters I have had since 1994 where I bumped into someone I knew at the major Train Station in East Berlin....

Not sure if any of y'all have had similar random encounters, but we'll be grabbing a beer next week after he comes back from the Coast and getting caught up on 15 years of life.

I had a pretty weird experience like this in high school when I ran into my friend's mom in the Karol Bagh area of Delhi. For context, this is what Karol Bagh looks like:



i.e., not the most touristy place out there. It turns out she was there with MSF.

Wow!!!---- That is pretty insane and random experience-----

[MaxQue]

On that subject, one of my university friends in Montreal met a lecturer in a bar in Prague, during the summer between two semesters.