I laughed at this one.

There's a very specific Gillmore cadence. But it's a show that requires attention. You can't do other things and have a successful Gilmore experience. It helps if you are of a certain age as there are so many pop-culture references.

For my straight male friends I say "come for Lauren Graham, stay for the excellent writing."

My daughter just started watching Gilmore Girls, so I'm watching much of it for the 5th time. One of the best written TV shows in history.

It's hard to know what to say as you didn't include your ages and my input would be far different if your were 20 than if you were 30.

Franklin W. Dixon was young me's favorite author.

I remember the first time I read a WHOLE book in a single day. I thought I was something special.

Doing business with friends is a good way to lose friends.

Tarja Turunen Dark Christmas. It's not 100% spectacular but it's close.

https://youtu.be/85Dqs678AEI

Eeyore.

For the first 50+ years of my life I was a back pocket wallet guy. My wife's a Soldier, so we move a lot, and drive a lot. I always found myself hurting with the back pocket wallet, so I started taking it out of my pocket on road trips. That meant I ended up forgetting it a lot also.

I saw an ad for the Ridge and thought WTF, might as well give it a whirl. My wife saw it and said, "that elastic won't last a year."

I've had mine since 2018. It kinda looks like it's been through a war. Because it's front pocket, I don't end up sitting on it, and because it's slim, I no longer collect the cruft I used to collect. And because I don't have to remove it from my pocket, I don't lose it as often.

I see some folk who think I'm shilling for Ridge. Couldn't be further from the truth. I was at a farmer's market over the summer and some of the vendors there were selling Ridge-alikes with some entertaining patterns and sayings. They will likely serve you just as well as the real thing.

Also, I'm still on my first elastic band. And we're six years in.

I think I have purchased all mine. My current Ridge wallet, literally changed my life.

61 here

What I wanna know is who are all these people claiming that Santa Claus is not fucking real!?

Of course he's real.

Recently at a company town hall, "please respond the anonymous employee satisfaction survey."

My boss a couple of weeks later, "HR says they need more surveys from our group. Please encourage your teams to fill them out."

Yeah, completely anonymous.

I'm an AnCap everyone hates me at least 50% of the time (except on Lemmy where it's closer to 90/10).

It's often not worth the grief.

I don't like abortion, I have grave qualms about it. I'm also vehemently pro-choice.

My wife and I went to see Moulin Rouge for our anniversary. We decided we would spend the night after the show at a pretty nice hotel. So we checked in prior to the show. I handed my keys to the valet and she and I checked into our room.

The venue was about three blocks from the hotel so we walked over and back, on the way back I saw my car parked in the side street that ran next to the hotel.

The next morning we checked out, I picked up my keys, walked out the side door of the hotel and opened the door for my wife. "What the fuck is that smell?"

I walked around, and got in the interior smelled awful. Then it dawned on me. The valet didn't know how to drive a stick, and had done his best to fry my clutch.

That was why it was parked so close. He couldn't get it too the garage.

One of the more disappointing days in my life was when I tried to sit in an R and couldn't get my knees under the wheel. I had wanted one for a very long time.

Went running back to VW and the GLI which works very well for someone whose tall.

No banana for scale so how do we know how big it really is?

Sixty-one years old and I still believe in Santa.

It was at 50 that I started to realize that I was on the downhill slope of my life. I had more days behind me than I have in front.

That is not a bad thing. Every day becomes more precious. It focuses you on things that are truly important and what legacy you may leave.

Happy birthday! I hope it and all the future ones are brilliant.