Xaphanos

My father always used to say:

"Last thing I remember, I was 18 years old, standing on a streetcorner with my friends. This morning I woke up with a wife, 3 kids and a mortgage."

I'll upvote again.

• Dragonslayer
• Excalibur
• Time Bandits

...drilled over 4,000ft into the earth’s mantle...

No, they didn't.

You missed "become poor" and "have his family turn on him".

I wonder how that new truck was paid for.

I only recently learned of this:

https://youtu.be/olFmklCCccE?feature=shared

Time is the coin of your Life.

It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.

Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

And when you spend it, spend it wisely so that you get the most for your expenditure.

~Carl Sandburg

This is the best in a while. So earnest. So perfectly innocently confident in SovCit Truths. And so about to slam into reality in a painful way.

About names: My lastname was changed on my great grandfather in a unique way. My fullname (and my son's) is globally unique - and rather long. I had considered changing it, but I already have to sign a lot of name affidavits whenever a legal or financial issue comes up.

Thank you for seeing me. Some days, the worst is the feeling that all of the struggle is not only insignificant in the end, but also invisible. I think of all of the rest that are in situations like me and that I'll never know them.

Most of those are due to COVID. Not that he didn't make it all worse...