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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Built my own CMS while trying to put together my art and design portfolio website. Applied for a graphic design job. In the first interview it came up in conversation that I designed and built the website from scratch. 2nd interview they were very interested to hear how I built the site. Got hired. Showed up on my first day and was introduced to the development team. I was very confused because I thought I was going to be doing design work. Became the lead web developer of their marketing department. Zero experience. Been a web developer for 15+ years now. I keep accidentally doing well at this and can’t get out now. I just wanted to draw.



  • 1000% this. You so frequently see relationships fail because they never established a solid foundation of communication.

    I also believe that you should be each other’s safe person. If you have good open communication where no judgment is passed, you’ll not only learn more about your partner, but provide a safe space you both talk about literally anything.









  • I know I have friends, but they’re all technically my wife’s friends and their husbands. We probably socialize once or twice a month, depending on schedules. I love them all, but I have no friends that I socialize with 1:1. It’s always a group event. So in a way it feels like I have no friends.

    The one friend that is truly and originally my friend, since middle school, I’ll see maybe once a month if I’m lucky and it’s usually a framily event with our wives and kids. And the time and distance apart feels wider than ever as we’ve gotten older.

    Socializing at 40 is… different, and oddly lonely.