Wow Bryan Cranston’s words are like an arrow to the heart. This may sound weird to someone who’s never been in this situation but when you play parent/child onstage you can’t help but develop some of the emotional scaffolding of that relationship between you. I’ve experienced that in community theater. These men experienced it over what, seven years? Not to diminish the horror his actual parents are experiencing right now, but Cranston definitely lost more than a coworker here.

I was in my minivan with my kids at the grocery store the other day when a woman ran up to me out of nowhere asking for help opening a bottle. She thanked me and said it was the minivan that made her think I’d be helpful. “It’s a minivan - he has kids, I was thinking.”

When you drive a minivan you’re the whole world’s daddy, apparently.

Also, I can lay a piece of plywood flat in the back of my minivan. Most of these “manly trucks” out there with their back seat eating up their bed length can’t even say that.

I’ve been hearing for years that it’s very hard for the government to find qualified doctors who will work with them on this technology or help administer it, and that makes it extremely hard to carry out reliably. This is far from an isolated incident.

One of my Gen-X friends was telling me how he started drinking more during COVID.

He said one day the supermarket cashier remarked “oh hey, are you throwing a party?”

And he said “nope, this is just my personal weekly alcohol consumption.”

Awkward!

I’m fairly washable.

I’ve noticed this “feature” disappearing from most self checkouts.

Your point, she is not making sense.

English is a wreck of three other languages but at least we escaped gendered nouns and adjectives. That’s got to be the most pointless language feature of all time.

The number 18 is not allowed up that cat’s asshole.

Yeah it’s interesting to think about. I’ve been 100% remote for more than SIX YEARS now. Since the first days of COVID. And I’m so deep into it that I’m suffering the ill effects of remote: lack of social interaction with coworkers. Feeling shut up at home all the time. Having to work with people in crazy times zones because remote means you work with whoever, wherever. Zoom fatigue. Lack of separation between work and home life. There are definitely downsides. And some of them are pretty serious. The isolation has really eaten at me, especially.

But would I go back to full time? Heck no.