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Cake day: August 20th, 2024

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  • Yeah it’s all good. I appreciate the check in. I am remarried and am like pretty important in my field. That’s what I’m trying to say here - make a good life and this shit seems trivial. Don’t make someone else into a foundation of your ego. This isn’t some manoshpere shit, just acknowledging that adversity is optional growth.

    I am way more upset about my dog who died ten months ago than anything involving my ex wife. If anything I’d like to take a moment to bring his life into our collective experience and spend a moment appreciating how much of a good boy he was until the very end.







  • On and off. But I have fairly mild allergies/eczema which seems to flare up when I am stressed more than anything. Like, I can’t use regular aluminum deodorant every day or I will get a rash. Three days is the limit for most cheap bars, and fuck off with native charging $20/stick, I’d rather just smell bad.

    Same shit with most fabric softener. But again it’s like a cumulative+ stress thing. I can go months without an outbreak and then the combination of a long week at work and some dry weather will give me itchy thighs.







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    8 months ago

    We got roaches from an Amazon package, I suspect. My wife and I are both compulsively clean people, but we live in an older place so there is ostensibly decades worth of random organic material around to sustain roach colonies. It started one spring with seeing some instars around the kitchen every few days and then it became full roaches about a week later. I did not take it seriously at first and just treated with hardware store sprays and powders. This was insufficient.

    What eventually worked was baits and a little chemical called Alpine WSG. I bought a sprayer and basically coated the entire house in it twice, six weeks apart. We have not seen a single roach since then. I respray once per year just in case.

    Also, boric acid doesn’t work with German roaches. It is a waste of time. If you solved roach problem with that or diatomaceous earth, then you had a entry problem, not an infestation.

    We also had racoons breeding in our attic at one point, which is a very awkward situation because I felt bad trapping them so I just waited for them to leave and then sealed where they were getting in.