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Cake day: February 12th, 2025

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  • First time? Uhh. I think it was a car crash that rolled an SUV onto our driveway.

    Since then, a couple wildfires, usually already reported, but I don’t want the bystander effect to cause the fire to spread. Several other car crashes, one I parked in front of a motorcycle that went down and another where a drunk man took down a street light and got his car stuck. One I directed others to call for a heart attack and another I was doing CPR and had someone else call for a cardiac arrest.

    Never been scared to call, usually just what had to be done. I learned some time that it was better for a dozen people to call than for no one to, assuming someone else would call. It’s not like there is a downside to calling.





  • I worked at Disneyland. I met and dated plenty, it’s not so hard to learn to be social when you spend every day meeting thousands of people. Mostly dated fellow cast members.

    I ended up meeting the women I would grow to love during that time. We went on one date and ended up just being friends. We both misunderstood each other’s signals. She ended up deployed and we fell out of touch. Nearly 10 years later, she had a daughter and was going through a divorce. We randomly started chatting again, and she wanted to have some fun. I invited her to a few things, and while I thought I was putting out signals, she didn’t notice. And she was putting out signals that I missed. So we just ended up as friends and I even wingmanned for her.

    Eventually, drunk at a game night we discussed our lone date and our missed signals. We both realized that we liked each other. But we both didn’t want anything serious. She was just getting out of her marriage and I was planning a move halfway across the country. So we started fooling around, hooking up.

    Well, best laid plans and all that. We ended up starting to really care for each other. She introduced me to her daughter. And over a trip where I was checking out the house I was about to buy and she was in Paris for her mother’s honeymoon we were texting none stop. When we finally met again, I confessed my love for her. And we’ve been a thing ever since.


  • I’ve known pets that had lost their owners and just stopped eating. They got super depressed, lost the will to go on, and let themselves slip away.

    I had to put my dog down a few years ago. He was in late stages of kidney failure. He probably wasn’t going to live more than a few more days anyway. I spent the entire day with him, gave him everything he could want.

    It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Even thinking about him years later still brings me to major tears.









  • A field sobriety test cannot ever be used as evidence that you are sober in court. They can only be used by cops and prosecutors as evidence you were impaired.

    There is never a good reason to submit to them. Cops aren’t watching to see if you are sober. They are looking to see if you are impaired.

    If you are drunk, hope they don’t make you take a breathalyzer. Even then, you can refuse and they can make you take a blood test OR if you refuse that they take your license but they have less evidence you were drunk. I’m not entirely sure, but fairly certain they could get a warrant and compel a blood draw, but hopefully by that time you’ve sobered up a bit. You still forfeit your license.

    If you are just a little intoxicated, the time between being pulled over and a phlebotomist takes your blood could be enough to be under the limit.

    That said, even under the limit, they might still claim you were impaired anyway and hit you with the ticket/arrest anyway.