Part of me wants to think so; I’m making a lot more money than they did at my age, even accounting for inflation. Aside from my car note, I’m debt-free. All objectively good things.

They had each other though. I’m a few years older than they were when they had their first kid, and they’d been married for a few years before that. I’m alone, and after I had some bad experiences, I don’t bother with dating. Whether that’s “better” than what my parents did or not, I don’t think it’s fair for me to decide.

Bill Paxton, holding hands with a slightly taller Bill Paxton wearing sunglasses. They’re standing in front of a poster for the movie Twister, but the title has been replaced with the logo for the board game.

My roommate made it during a literal fever dream over a decade ago, he was in bed, fiddling with his phone’s photo editor mumbling “I have a vision” over and over again. The tag line “he called me a ne’er do well, he’s dead” was something I said while playing GTA next to him at that time, and he added the quote to the final image.

It’s weirdly cropped since I’ve used it on different phones over the years, here’s what it looks like now.

I stole some bullets from my workplace once.

I was unloading a truck at work one day, many years ago. One of the items on my trailer was a pallet of rifle ammunition. Whoever loaded this trailer on the other side of the country did a shitty job of it; plastic wrap was shredded, several boxes were torn open, the cardboard “do not stack” cone was crushed under the weight of a car engine, among other things. When I managed to exhume this pallet from the trailer, the plastic gave way, spilling dozens of boxes and hundreds of loose bullets all over my trailer and loading dock. While I was cleaning up the mess, I impulsively pocketed a few bullets for myself. Nobody ever asked me about it. I don’t even own a gun. But I have a few bullets.

I’m starting a new job on Tuesday. Normally, I would’ve started on Monday, but day 1 at this company is just about watching training videos. So I’ve convinced my recruiter to let me watch those videos from home, instead.

It’s barely an hour of footage overall, no quizzes to take or paperwork to fill out. I would’ve spent more time on the commute. I have no idea how I’m going to fill the time after this.

I was playing video games with my little brother, until about 4 AM. Made no effort to keep track of time, although we were probably setting up a heist in GTA when midnight rolled around.

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