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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • kakler bitmapto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneJeff Goldbrulem
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    27 days ago

    When I was in my early 20s working retail, I had a dream where I was at work ringing up a customer at the register, and the register just wouldn’t cooperate.

    It kept ringing up the wrong price, wouldn’t apply a discount, and worst of all was making an awful beeping sound that kept getting louder.

    The customer was getting more and more upset with me, and I was starting to panic and smack at my register to get it to shut up. It worked a few times but it just kept happening…

    And that’s how my sleep-deprived brain tricked me into slapping the snooze on my 5am alarm 20 times, sleeping through practically my entire shift and nearly losing my job.






  • Started smoking cigarettes around 12 years old, was addicted by 14, and at my worst I was chain smoking a pack of 20 Djarum Black Grande a day (those are the Camel Wides of clove cigarettes, btw).

    At the end of 2019 and coming up on 40 years old, I finally made the decision to quit (2020 was gonna be my year! lmao). I started switching to an ecig for the last few months of the year, then only the vape after 2020 hit.

    After a few years of vaping the lowest strength of VUSE pods, I switched to a vape pen that uses refillable pods and vape juice. I had my suspicions that I was more addicted to the act of inhaling smoke/vapor than the nicotine itself and switched to 0% nicotine juice as a test. No issues at all there, didn’t miss the nicotine at all.

    My health is way better, I spend a fraction of what I used to on my habit (one bottle of juice costs under$ 20 lasts a couple weeks), and I no longer stink like an ashtray…

    BUT…

    My addiction is absolutely still there - even without the nicotine. I still get irritable and cranky if I can’t take a few puffs off my vape when I want. I do plan to quit vaping entirely at some point if I live that long.





  • kakler bitmaptoAwwnvertsGreen Lynx Spider update
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    2 months ago

    What an awesome little spood - wish we had these guys around here. Love their jumper-like behavior, beautiful green colors and spiky egg sacs. One of the cool things about these spoods is females have been observed spitting venom, which is a petty rare feat among spiders.