Some IT guy, IDK.

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  • Possibly.

    I wasn’t about to jump to that conclusion.

    People just focus so much on a number on a scale, when the focus should be on being healthy. Sometimes weight is a part of that, sometimes not.

    I’ve met people that couldn’t weigh more than 100lbs soaking wet, yet they’re unhealthy to high hell, and frequently paying the (medical) price for that. Meanwhile, I’ve known people who can’t, by any means, get below 200lbs and they’re in near perfect health.

    Weight does not equal health.

    Being healthy doesn’t require that you are a particular weight.




  • I’m definitely of the mind that “if hell exists, we’re already there”.

    I also believe that reincarnation is possible, and if you combine those two things, and “heaven” is being able to leave this place and not come back.

    I don’t know what’s actually out there. I know what I believe to be out there and I obligate nobody to agree with me on that. I also think that athiesm is a more likely factual belief versus any religion that uses a text book to dictate their thoughts; but like with many things, I believe the truth is somewhere in-between, in the unknown chasm that science is trying to fill.

    My beliefs will always be that science is fact, any “faith” I have beyond that is just an educated guess at best, and when science proves something I used to believe was different than what was proven, then I am wrong and my beliefs must change accordingly.

    It’s a wild world, and I’m tired of suffering it, but someone put me here and unless I take “the easy way out”, I’m stuck here for another few decades at least, barring any unforeseen circumstances.



  • My logic is along the same line.

    I didn’t ask to be here, nobody asked if I wanted to be here. Being here, I kinda wish I was given that choice so I could say no.

    Why would I force someone, who I supposedly love, to suffer through gestures at everything this? I love my potential children more than to condemn them to dealing with the children of those wealthy enough to have them.







  • I need savings because all my bills land in the same week-and-a-half timespan.

    So there needs to be all of the money in the account before that happens.

    I know, it’ll balance itself out in the long term, but the weeks I don’t have bills to pay are usually the weeks that I need to refill the pantry, and end up spending more than I have allocated for that week so that I can eat.

    I need to accumulate the base amount to pay all my bills when they come due, before I can really get started.

    I know it seems really simple, once all my bills are done for the month, start then! Except there’s probably incidentals, like the food that I mentioned, that need to be purchased, that I just can’t afford on the $100 available for me that week. So I take what’s needed, and then I’m behind again. The cycle continues.

    I had a very good system for this when I was getting paid twice a month. I took the ~400 or 450 or whatever (again CAD) from each paycheck, and I split my bills so that, by cost, they were roughly split between before-the-15th and after-the-15th pay periods. I’d get paid, take my share, let the bank do the rest, and when I get a notification for a bill I need to pay by hand, from my calendar app, I go and pay it in full.

    Then I ended up with weekly pay and suddenly, I’m paying 130%+ of a weeks income to pay my bills on the same week.

    It fucked me up man. I’m still pretty wrecked by it and it’s been like this for more than a year.





  • This all sounds great until you realize that you need time to run up to this, or a modicum of savings in order to make it happen.

    Your numbers are optimistic at best. My bills vary and they’re more than 70% of my income (roughly).

    It’s more efficient to deposit my money into a bill payment account, then take out what I can spend from that.

    Guess what I already do?

    Guess how much “spend” I have, per week, that needs to cover all of my gas, food, and everything else? I’m not even saving a dollar, and my available money per week is around $200.

    That seems great until you realize that I’m Canadian and it’s Canadian dollars, and $200 CAD is around $150 USD.

    I’m employed, full time, in a specialized field, and I can spend $100 USD a week on food because I need the extra $50 for incidentals and gas.

    I don’t need a budget. I have a budget. I need a raise.