Getting sick of maintenance (1 Viewer)

[Dezbelief]

Everyone is still vulnerable to social attacks to get a CS agent to let someone into the account

Translation for a dummy?

CS customer service

Calling the credit card company and pretending to be you.

Yes, or even these days cases of folks training AI with your voice to call customer service to get access. Really scary stuff.

Someone that smart would have much better targets than me.

I hope.

 

[Terminalxylem]

Sitting here eating my healthy breakfast.. hard boiled eggs, chickpeas, some cottage cheese, and a meh tasting cold brew.. just took my vitamins.. And i'm just mad I can't pour a MASSIVE bowl of cinammon toast crunch, NOT take these viamins, and having a giant delicious latte with caramel and cream like the obese woman that just walked in the door.

Don’t agree with your outlook at all, but Cinnamon Toast Crunch is delicious.

The negativity or the general vibe

Both. I’m not trying to be harsh, but the concept that achieving and maintaining a high quality of life/standard of living should be easy is absurd imo. Anything worthwhile requires effort, usually a lot of it.

It also makes me think you may not encounter enough suffering in your day-to-day life. Volunteer in a homeless shelter, hospice, the developing world, or anywhere people are less fortunate. Not only is it rewarding to assist people in need, it helps with perspective.

 

[Dr. No]

Sitting here eating my healthy breakfast.. hard boiled eggs, chickpeas, some cottage cheese, and a meh tasting cold brew.. just took my vitamins.. And i'm just mad I can't pour a MASSIVE bowl of cinammon toast crunch, NOT take these viamins, and having a giant delicious latte with caramel and cream like the obese woman that just walked in the door.

Don’t agree with your outlook at all, but Cinnamon Toast Crunch is delicious.

The negativity or the general vibe

Both. I’m not trying to be harsh, but the concept that achieving and maintaining a high quality of life/standard of living should be easy is absurd imo. Anything worthwhile requires effort, usually a lot of it.

It also makes me think you may not encounter enough suffering in your day-to-day life. Volunteer in a homeless shelter, hospice, the developing world, or anywhere people are less fortunate. Not only is it rewarding to assist people in need, it helps with perspective.

I don't suffer much, you got me there.

Well not until about the last 15 months... but that's another thing altogether

 

[jwb]

Sitting here eating my healthy breakfast.. hard boiled eggs, chickpeas, some cottage cheese, and a meh tasting cold brew.. just took my vitamins.. And i'm just mad I can't pour a MASSIVE bowl of cinammon toast crunch, NOT take these viamins, and having a giant delicious latte with caramel and cream like the obese woman that just walked in the door.

Don’t agree with your outlook at all, but Cinnamon Toast Crunch is delicious.

The negativity or the general vibe

Both. I’m not trying to be harsh, but the concept that achieving and maintaining a high quality of life/standard of living should be easy is absurd imo. Anything worthwhile requires effort, usually a lot of it.

It also makes me think you may not encounter enough suffering in your day-to-day life. Volunteer in a homeless shelter, hospice, the developing world, or anywhere people are less fortunate. Not only is it rewarding to assist people in need, it helps with perspective.

This.

My neighbor was complaing about the price of gas, politics, how it's so hard to really get ahead, etc... I said "c'mon, look at where we live. Look at the houses we own. Look at the nice cars in our big driveways... most of the world can't even dream of this. Big deal... you have to spend a little more on gas. I'm sure we'll find a way to survive." To his credit, he was actually a bit introspective about it.

 

[-OZ-]

don't like eating healthy, exercise is fine. But you can see why most people fall off and fail. Good athletic health is difficult to maintain

Until you get addicted. Then it’s, well not easy but almost automatic. Habitual.

Financial ****. Also legal, medical, financial stuff for an incompetent parent and two children.

It adds up.

Yep. I actually enjoy most of this but wife hates it.
We have a standing monthly lunch date now where we go over the spreadsheet and Sorta budget - fuzzily, while tracking what we’ve been doing. It’s super romantic

 

[-OZ-]

Sitting here eating my healthy breakfast.. hard boiled eggs, chickpeas, some cottage cheese, and a meh tasting cold brew.. just took my vitamins.. And i'm just mad I can't pour a MASSIVE bowl of cinammon toast crunch, NOT take these viamins, and having a giant delicious latte with caramel and cream like the obese woman that just walked in the door.

Don’t agree with your outlook at all, but Cinnamon Toast Crunch is delicious.

The negativity or the general vibe

Both. I’m not trying to be harsh, but the concept that achieving and maintaining a high quality of life/standard of living should be easy is absurd imo. Anything worthwhile requires effort, usually a lot of it.

It also makes me think you may not encounter enough suffering in your day-to-day life. Volunteer in a homeless shelter, hospice, the developing world, or anywhere people are less fortunate. Not only is it rewarding to assist people in need, it helps with perspective.

if you want to change your perspective. Go visit orphanages in China (actually don’t do that now, maybe later), Costa Rica or other countries.
You don’t need to go that far, but it definitely made a difference.

 

[Sand]

Everyone is still vulnerable to social attacks to get a CS agent to let someone into the account

Translation for a dummy?

CS customer service

Calling the credit card company and pretending to be you.

Yes, or even these days cases of folks training AI with your voice to call customer service to get access. Really scary stuff.

Someone that smart would have much better targets than me.

I hope.

Your selfie shows you to be an NFL player, so .

 

[Sand]

We have a standing monthly lunch date now where we go over the spreadsheet and Sorta budget - fuzzily, while tracking what we’ve been doing. It’s super romantic

Yeah - I have given up on a budget. Too many things pop up - last month was $900 the wife and kids spent at the optometrist (sheesh, of all things). I track and I have a hazy hope of what the next month will be.

 

[song]

Shouldn't have to be condemned

you are not condemned to anything.

you are free to choose anything you like.

including giving it ALL up and LIVING again, or keeping all as is, or choosing anything in between.

just sayin

 

[Zow]

My feelings exactly in regards to brushing and flossing. Stupid maintenance.

 

[Dezbelief]

Shouldn't have to be condemned

you are not condemned to anything.

you are free to choose anything you like.

including giving it ALL up and LIVING again, or keeping all as is, or choosing anything in between.

just sayin

Go homeless and sit around all day.

 

[JAA]

Shouldn't have to be condemned

you are not condemned to anything.

you are free to choose anything you like.

including giving it ALL up and LIVING again, or keeping all as is, or choosing anything in between.

just sayin

Go homeless and sit around all day.

manifest destiny

 

[Mr. Pickles]

nomarriage.com

/thread

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Currently look like Tom hanks in Philadelphia. Stupid pre cancerous maintenance.

 

[Terminalxylem]

Sitting here eating my healthy breakfast.. hard boiled eggs, chickpeas, some cottage cheese, and a meh tasting cold brew.. just took my vitamins.. And i'm just mad I can't pour a MASSIVE bowl of cinammon toast crunch, NOT take these viamins, and having a giant delicious latte with caramel and cream like the obese woman that just walked in the door.

Don’t agree with your outlook at all, but Cinnamon Toast Crunch is delicious.

The negativity or the general vibe

Both. I’m not trying to be harsh, but the concept that achieving and maintaining a high quality of life/standard of living should be easy is absurd imo. Anything worthwhile requires effort, usually a lot of it.

It also makes me think you may not encounter enough suffering in your day-to-day life. Volunteer in a homeless shelter, hospice, the developing world, or anywhere people are less fortunate. Not only is it rewarding to assist people in need, it helps with perspective.

I don't suffer much, you got me there.

Well not until about the last 15 months... but that's another thing altogether

What’s been going on?

 

[Terminalxylem]

We have a standing monthly lunch date now where we go over the spreadsheet and Sorta budget - fuzzily, while tracking what we’ve been doing. It’s super romantic

Yeah - I have given up on a budget. Too many things pop up - last month was $900 the wife and kids spent at the optometrist (sheesh, of all things). I track and I have a hazy hope of what the next month will be.

Agreed. One of the major benefits of earning a decent wage is not worrying about money too much - although it’s seemingly all some rich people think about.

 

[Terminalxylem]

Shouldn't have to be condemned

you are not condemned to anything.

you are free to choose anything you like.

including giving it ALL up and LIVING again, or keeping all as is, or choosing anything in between.

just sayin

Excellent point. It‘s not hard to extricate oneself from the jaws of materialism, or the doldrums of the American dream.

 

[Terminalxylem]

nomarriage.com

/thread

Meh. There are plenty of undemanding partners, but too many guys get suckered in by the superficial stuff, much of which demands painful maintenance.

 

[Dr. No]

Sitting here eating my healthy breakfast.. hard boiled eggs, chickpeas, some cottage cheese, and a meh tasting cold brew.. just took my vitamins.. And i'm just mad I can't pour a MASSIVE bowl of cinammon toast crunch, NOT take these viamins, and having a giant delicious latte with caramel and cream like the obese woman that just walked in the door.

Don’t agree with your outlook at all, but Cinnamon Toast Crunch is delicious.

The negativity or the general vibe

Both. I’m not trying to be harsh, but the concept that achieving and maintaining a high quality of life/standard of living should be easy is absurd imo. Anything worthwhile requires effort, usually a lot of it.

It also makes me think you may not encounter enough suffering in your day-to-day life. Volunteer in a homeless shelter, hospice, the developing world, or anywhere people are less fortunate. Not only is it rewarding to assist people in need, it helps with perspective.

I don't suffer much, you got me there.

Well not until about the last 15 months... but that's another thing altogether

What’s been going on?

Wife has had long COVID fatigue and other symptoms since July 2022.

Admittedly that has caused a 50 percent spike for me in stuff I have to do around the house, have to be "on" all the time to be empathetic, and has cut down on tons of fun things we can't do anymore due to them being too physically challenging to do anymore.

Added a dog to the house a year ago .. thought the kids would help take care of it... they don't

And I wrecked my back last summer after having problems with it on and off for decades... so I embarked on an ambitious YouTube workout plan to remedy it finally. The good news it's worked brilliantly. Better back, flexibility, hips and neck than I had in my 30s. Downside is all the time it takes

 

[Hawks64]

And I wrecked my back last summer after having problems with it on and off for decades... so I embarked on an ambitious YouTube workout plan to remedy it finally. The good news it's worked brilliantly. Better back, flexibility, hips and neck than I had in my 30s. Downside is all the time it takes

Link?

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

I saw something on this recently that highlighted how we all have these houses now that would be considered mansions not that long ago. People who had houses like we do had a staff of people to do all the chores and maintenance.

 

[jamny]

I saw something on this recently that highlighted how we all have these houses now that would be considered mansions not that long ago. People who had houses like we do had a staff of people to do all the chores and maintenance.

We downsized from our house to a 1 bedroom condo in 2021 and its been great. So much less to do. It also helped that we got out of NYC too. Much less stress and more opportunities for exercise and healthy living here in Boise.

 

[Dr. No]

And I wrecked my back last summer after having problems with it on and off for decades... so I embarked on an ambitious YouTube workout plan to remedy it finally. The good news it's worked brilliantly. Better back, flexibility, hips and neck than I had in my 30s. Downside is all the time it takes

Link?

https://www.youtube.com/@lowbackability/videos

 

[Lehigh98]

You could just walk the earth, meet people... get into adventures. Like Kane in Kung Fu.

 

[Phil Elliott]

Just get a pool and relax.