My Fairphone 2 got delivered today!

After missing the Steam sale I ordered a physical copy of Grey Goo online for 7€ + shipping, 10€ in total. Actually less than I would have paid during the sale, nice. The activation window actually said that also the soundtrack was included. Okay, even nicer, it almost made me feel dirty. Then I fired up the game and... even the DLC was added to my account. What the hell, man? I should be happy but it just feels so wrong... I wonder if it was a mistake by the publisher or something because the box doesn't say anywhere that the DLC is included, it should just be the base game... anyway, ended up saving 20€ (and actually 50+ € outside of the sale). I *think* I'm happy... but I still feel dirty...

I'm 45. People with mental illness have a life expectancy of 15 years less than normal (just from natural causes, not taking suicides into account). Reaching 90 is very unlikely, 80 unlikely as well, 70 - well, maybe. But I turned 45 on the second day this year and I feel like the finish line comes in sight. Thinking back to when I was 20, how tired and depressed I was looking at all the years that were still ahead - 25 of those years I've managed to struggle through and perhaps there's less struggle ahead than has been in the past. Death, eternal 'sleep', forgetting about the world and all it's injustices and suffering. I'm coming, only a few more decades to go!

Congratulations on reaching 45 and happy birthday.

Me, I'm happy about being wrong on the internet.

Happy Birthday :)

Today I took a long walk and was surprised to see two deer cross the street very close in front of me. That was a beautiful moment.

Me and a friend destroyed the wall of flesh, and a goblin invasion immediately after!

Today i got news of something crazy. My elderly gardener, man responsible for a great deal of pain in my life (in the past, he "pushed" one of his granddaughters on me and tried to implicate and frame me for monetary profit and worst of all, i even got a deep crush on her out of this all which hasn't healed even on this day; he also insulted my dying grandmother not one year ago and talked badly about her in front of me, even though she always treated him kindly before when she had been in health), showed up here entirely crushed. His second daughter, not the mother of my crush, gave birth to a boy who died upon birth and she almost died with him in that hospital, but ultimately survived.

If things continue like that (doom, gloom, accidents, deaths), i might be able to avoid staining my hands for revenge or being forced to defend my life and find myself in peril, again (i have been harmed physically in the past, as i already stated before and even by kin and relatives). I keep my fingers crossed that the wheel of karmic shitstorm will keep flinging poo on those bastards, who buried me alive, ruined my life and killed off those years of my life, that should had been the most beautiful ones out of it all...

P.S. Girl mentioned here is the ex who showed up herself in my door this new year's eve unexpected and unannounced and made my soul bleed (again).

Wow, that's especially beautiful as you were walking and get so close to them. Trumps seeing deer from within a vehicle anytime.

Tell me about it.

GOG should force KiNgBrAdLeY7 to stick to one avatar image. The forum users should be properly prepared for what they are going to read before they read it.
Maybe they could give him red text or something as a warning... :/

Made it through my first year of QuickBooks without making a total botch of things. I've decided on a few changes to my entries for 2016, and the accounting folks have walked me through some things that were messing me up, namely Journal entries. I don't particularly understand the Journal, but at least I can make proper entries instead paying them to do it once per quarter.

I was dreading the switch to LLC and QuickBooks but so far it has been relatively painless. Also changed how I think about business versus personal finances, whereas those were previously lumped together.

A lot of snow up in the mountains now. They reclaim their environment from forest workers and hikers during the cold season, it's like stepping into another realm altogether going there now.

Happy Birthday!

Left town this morning for a few weeks, off to work in Rapid City, SD. I didn't get to the area until after dark but from what little I could see I think it's going to be quite beautiful around here. Badlands to the east, Black Hills to the southwest. Hopefully there will be time on the weekend to go bumping around a little bit. Trips like this make me wish I could bring the wife along.

But she did make me some Elvis cookies for the trip: peanut butter, banana, chocolate chip, and pretzels. I asked her to leave out the bacon because it sounded like too many competing flavors.

Can't believe I actually said "leave out the bacon," and "please". What's wrong with me?

Its snapped back to freezing cold today, but the homemade chicken & dumplings my daughter and I made together came out really well. Everyone enjoyed the homemade cheesecake afterward too. Yay Its cold enough to really cook and I feel well enough to cook at the same time. I am definitely happy about that :)