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Cake day: April 8th, 2025

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  • Imagine every day, your muscles get just a little bit weaker. Maybe you can’t open a container you used to be able to. Or you find you can’t lift your arms high enough to shampoo your hair anymore. No matter how much you try to exercise, it never helps. Pain sets in due to incredible stiffness. Your fingers start to curl up until they are nigh unusable. Entire limbs become gnarled.

    Eventually you lose the ability to walk. Then speak. Then eat. And finally, even your breathing muscles become so weak and paralyzed that you constantly aspirate due to your inability to cough. Recurrent infections set in. Then you die of respiratory failure.






  • Here’s my pixy stix story from my youth. Went on a backpacking trip with the boy scouts. As I’m sure many of you know, when a group of boys comes together in the wilderness, their IQ drops a good 20-30 points.

    Anyway, I was dared to lick some horse manure for a huge pile of pixy stix. Huge. I was about to do it when a scout leader came and blew a gasket on me. He was pissed. Went into a tirade about e. coli and everything. I’m sure he punished us somehow but I can’t remember how.