Category: USWM
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Libra season
Libra season is upon us, and a couple weeks ago, I crossed over the official time of my birth across another calendar year. It is now more than safe to say that I am well past the 50% marker of my overall lifespan. Coming to grips with how finite life really is not a lesson…
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Memento Mori
So many incredible things have unfolded this year, both good and bad. I’ve learned many lessons, but the most significant one is the value of time. “Memento Mori” has been the most prominent stoic principle in my life this year. As you get older, there aren’t many “first-time” experiences that make you want to write…
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The Illusion of Connection
The second of May marked my six-months of being at my new post. This would also mark the near nine-month period of time that I have been gone from my last post at Meijer. These people I worked with at that store for eight years, these people who called me “brother” and others who gave…
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Untitled 24.2
All week I have been kicking around the idea of nuking all the posts on USWM and coming up with some new “format” and starting anew. But what would be the purpose of doing this? I’m not going to formulate some new format, be inspired by it, not to mention, stick to it. Arriving at…
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40 Questions to Ask Yourself Every Year 2023 Edition
What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Saw my sister get married on the shores of Lake Chatuge. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions? Yes, because again, I did not make any. Did anyone close to you give birth? Negative Did anyone close to you die? Jerry Zimmerman and Chris…
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from Restaurant Regrets to a New Opportunity
The job in Oconomowoc did not work out the way I had thought it would. It ended before it started, literally. I didn’t make it thru training. It ended up being a wage discrepancy that had a lot of bureacracy attached to it’s solution, which I wasn’t interested in sticking around for. I walked around…
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Navigating the Unknown
Tomorrow is the beginning of my journey at a new company. While I am not completely at ease, I am less nervous than I thought I would be. I am really not sure what to expect from any of this, but I am going to walk in with an open mind and try to take…
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Eight Years Down the Drain
Woke up to notifications from Find My Device that my AirPods were missing, glorious start to the day. When I went into work, the boys had basically everything already done. Nobody said anything to me. When I asked them work-related things, it was all one-word answers and looking at the floor. I basically stood around…
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on being oldtowneast
When I purchased @oldtowneast on omg.lol, I also bought my legal first name. Since the early 90s, I go thru phases online where I hid behind a username and othertimes I would use my full legal name. I’ve been hiding behind oldtowneast for almost a decade now, and I feel like I might be reaching…
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Clouds of Disconnection
There are those days when I’m just not feeling it, which sadly happen more often than they should, and then are days like today, where, I’m not feeling it so much that something inside of me snaps and I’m severed from my physical body somehow and suspended in air and just watching myself walk around…
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Appalachian Dreams
In seven days from this moment I’ll be sipping coffee in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, and enjoying a much deserved break from the Chaos of the North. In 14 days from this moment we will be putting the finishing touches on my dear Sister’s wedding, and organic family-made efforts one year in the…
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on TikTok
When I look at the Sims 4 cover, I sometimes wonder if it shouldn’t really be called “The United States” and China is playing us. These kids at my work are legitimately brainwashed by the TikTok platform. It is their search engine. It is their Google. No logic. No debate. I remember back in the…
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Select All, Delete.
All my life, my biggest enemy on this entire planet is an easy to execute keyboard sequence that can eliminate hours, months or even years of work. This truly has been an enormous source of complication for a vast majority of my life. It has prohibited me from any sort of real tangible progress regarding publishing…
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Hello, Tiny Internet!
This was originally posted on USWM as a sort of “Hello, World!” post. You know, it’s funny all these years ago when I first installed the GeneratePress theme on my WordPress blog I really thought I was something else using a theme that was less than 40kb in size (or at least it was at…
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40 questions to ask yourself every year – 2022 edition
40 questions to ask yourself every year – 2022 edition What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Did you keep your new year’s resolutions? Did anyone close to you give birth? Did anyone close to you die? What cities/states/countries did you visit? What would you like to have next year that…