Cube > Saw. First time I watched Saw the only thing I could think of is “This is Cube with a different aesthetic and a creepy puppet.”

If not friend, why friend shaped?

Awwww yeaahh…that’s the good shit.

In my very last move with my parents, I almost got to have my dream room - wood paneling, old 70s orange-brown shag with pilling like a lawn in need of mowing, the works. I was staying behind in the old city a month longer than them, but I begged them to keep it exactly as is.

I moved in to find it was replaced with beige, boring carpet, with almost no pill to speak of. I was devastated.

“Lookin’ for a good shag with the missus, gov’ner?”

Me, with my wife in the carpet store “Please leave us alone, it was hard enough getting her to come”.

“But didja manage?”

“Hell yeah!”

And then we high five, I buy my carpet, and turn around only to notice both my wife and car are gone and never coming back. And I’m left to hump that shag down the road myself.

[This was fun]

Personalized, matched to that specific instance of the game, and the clue gets the Star Tropics treatment but with paper that dissolves after 60 seconds.

Orange. Shag. Carpet.

Yes, it’s a bitch to clean. Yes, it traps every particle of dirt that wafts into the room. Yes, to almost everyone other than me and some equally damaged enthusiasts, it looks god awful.

But if I could carpet my whole house with it without that being grounds for divorce, I’d be doing it right now. It’s the feeling between the toes, top-tier. I can’t explain it - it’s not like I grew up with it - but there’s something about orange shag specifically that screams “comfy” to me.

Combatives are fun as hell, and the athleticism and coordination improves with training, but yeah - all carry at least some of risk of brain injury.

Didn’t 100% do it for me, but fencing might scratch that itch a litte bit. Risk is still there but much lower than hand-to-hand combat sports.

Both. Tobacco (now vape liquid) was a product of extremely misplaced curiosity. If you’re young and reading this, fuck your curiosity, fuck what your friends are doing - don’t fucking do it. Buy a stress ball if you have that “Well [x moron] smokes when they are stressed, maybe I should try it” thought. Putting aside the health effects (which are reason enough), shit is basically a money hole for idiots and addicts. I really need to try quitting again (just with a lot of prep for the early stage when I want to kill myself and everyone around me).

I like beer and spirits, but I find anything above 3 standard drinks is diminishing returns. I did the ‘get dangerously drunk’ thing in my teenaged years/very early adulthood. Very happy I grew out of that, shit was getting dark by the end. Have overindulged since and every time, woke up thinking “I should have stopped at 2”.

2 beers is a nice, very lucid buzz for me - body relaxation and a bit chattier. 3 is when my motor skills start to soften in a perceivable (though still light) way. Experience has taught me this is a good place to switch to water/non-alc beer/tonic water for the rest of the night (if ‘partying’, supplemented with some weed.)

Now - a cup of coffee before heading out, 2-3 beers, and some weed? This is generally a good Friday or Saturday night.

To this day, I always wonder about the boots who actually bought stuff for my crew of teenaged degenerates. We almost always cold approached strangers around the liquor store, and always found at least one person within (on average) 30 minutes.

It was actually kinda rare for someone to take a cut too (though did happen occasionally). I know I don’t fuck with that as an adult now, the fines are pretty severe (and were back then too).

Have them pop up, but they work extremely erratically. Mostly pop up in the context of reading a single text, which changes if I think to look at it again (rare).

Buttons do whatever they feel like (mostly nothing or stuck keys producing garbage text), and I don’t think I’ve made or received a phone call (can’t say this for landlines when they show up).

Idk man, dreams are weird.

Was definitely one of my favourite poking around spots when I first stumbled across it. Very pretty facade.

I am sad that I missed the trend where kombucha was stocked at a bunch of bars (or so I’m lead to believe). Non-alcoholic beer is getting better all the time, but the bar that stocks a good, strong tasting ginger kombucha would get my business. Love that shit.

…makes a note to try and connect his local haunt with the kombucha brewery 15 minutes down the road, as it sort of fits the vibe they are going for these days anyway

Dunrobin Distillery makes some good gin as well, though the Earl Grey gin is a novelty imo.

The Niagara region in ON and Okanagan region in BC produce some good stuff, or so I’m told. More a beer and whiskey guy myself.

Short term?
-Keep hydrated. This one is key.
-Take an OTC painkiller for the headache.
-Splash your face with really cold water a few times and go for a brisk walk during a break/lunch period (when I was in office my lunches were pretty small/quick to eat to maximize doing-anything-else time, YMMV).
-Depends on your working environment, but if you have the ability to do at least some of your work standing, stand.
-If you’re crazy drowsy and just need some means to stay conscious until clock out, a rubber band on the wrist can help. If you start to space out/feel your eyes start to close, give it a snap. Not the greatest thing, but a little pain can release some useful endogenous chemicals.
-If anyone has little candies in the office, ask if you can take some. The sugar in well-timed doses can help a little.

Medium term?
-When you get home, pack up some dried tea/tea bags of acceptable quality, and immediately place it in your ‘going to work’ kit (bag, car, whatever) so you have a stash in case you forget to make a thermos/whatever of tea the following (and subsequent) mornings.
-Go talk to whoever stocks the tea at work and let them know they’ve expired. They may not drink tea themselves, and if no one else has brought it up they may not know/haven’t checked in a while.

Long term?
-Ween yourself off of caffeine. Slowly start swapping out your tea stash with herbal teas with no caffeine content (some are quite tasty), and reduce the amount of caffeine you’re inbibing bit by bit until it’s 0.
-Work on adjusting your sleep schedule.