Suitedjustice's Ongoing Mid-life Crisis

AppleGuy is my hero. And heroes get $20 tips.

It tracks that Apple was twice the price for the same service.

I had a similar port gunk issue a while back. Now keep a toothpick on the table to remind me to de-gunk once in a while.

I have a very thin and narrow eyeglass repair flathead screwdriver that might work, but I'm worried about the damage the metal might do in my clumsy fingers. Prolly better to use a plastic toothpick.

On my drive home, the local alternative/progressive station played two tunes by a new band called Birds Flying Backwards, and they're very good. Kind of a cross between modern ethereal folk rock and Hüsker Dü-style indie twang.

Keep an ear out for this band; they could be the Next Big Thing.

Here's the other rock song on the EP. The rest of it is ambient instrumentals, which are fine but not exactly the commercial unit shifters that would make them into the Next Big Thing, so I take that initial assessment back.

They're new, though, Pink Floyd's debut, Piper at the Gates of Dawn wasn't exactly a big pop album either.

googled this out of curiousity - youtube video (so clearly an expert) says don't use anything harder than a toothpick because you could damage your port

kind of sounds like the don't put anything smaller than a 2x4 in your ear from the qtip nits

My charge port on my Mac stopped working so I took it to Apple. The first tech screwed around with it but told me they had to send it off for a new port. Fortunately another guy did a clean out and it has been fine ever since. May depend in who you get?

SJ & I on the same wavelength on metal in the charging port.

This seems as if it should worry at least one of us. Not sure which. 😉

FWIW, we had the same problem with my son's phone a year or two ago. We went to a "phone fixer" in the mall who basically did the same thing with a plastic toothpick equivalent. Fixed for no charge (other than tip).

The invention we need is a snap-on port protector with a hinge that will fit on various phone cases.

Potential problems with that include the edges of the protector catching on material inside your pockets, and also having to open it every time you want to charge your phone, which could be more tedious over time than just cleaning the port every few months.

On the phone charging issue. When the Verizon guy de-gunked my port, he also suggested a wireless charger. Might be an idea rather than getting the port replaced.

Naturally, I still haven't gotten around to finding one.

I'm currently using a wireless charger.
The downside is that it takes longer to charge. The hidden upside is that charging more slowly is better for the lifetime of the battery. Besides, I charge it when I sleep so I don't really care if it's slower.

But the main benefit of wireless charging is that it doesn't loosen up the port. The 2 phones I had before my current one, I ditched them because the port was too loose and I couldn't keep the wire well hooked. I was regularly taking 10-20 min just to find creative ways to keep the wire stable and well connected.

Nowadays, I only use a wire when I need a quick charge.

Same things about my last two girlfriends.

Lack of poker updates!

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

I've played five poker sessions since I last posted numbers: three awful losing sessions and two frustrating breakeven sessions. The casino floor is swarming with advantage slot players, and I've mostly broken even on the few slot plays I've found.

My funds and credit are running out. I didn't post about this because I was employing the denial stage of grief. I have since moved on past anger and into bargaining. If I can just hit something, a few good slot or poker sessions, I can turn this thing around.

Stick around and find out.

"Tight rolls are better for sushi than for poker."
- Me

Well [strike]spoken[/strike] written.

I've decided that today will be an online tourney day—my first and enduring love in poker. I'm playing a bunch of freeroll sattys on ACR, trying to turn a toothpick into a lumberyard. Tonight, I'll play the two $11 Bosky tourneys. Those carry a big bonus for getting to the final table on both in the same night.

Sorry to hear that. Good luck in your next session!

Thanks. Completely my fault. Just like the time before that, and the time before that, and the time before that.

I mincashed the Boskys, but I also found a (virtual) bag for Day 2 of today's $50k gtd Dime, with mystery KO bounties ranging up to $5k, so we'll see.

I bailed on a bucket list classic movie today after 30 minutes: John Ford's The Searchers.

In it, John Wayne plays Ethan, a proud ex-Confederate soldier, in typical John Wayne fashion: as an authoritarian whenever he's in charge, and an iconoclast whenever someone else is trying to give the orders.

When our hero isn't busy berating his 1/8th Cherokee adopted nephew Martin for existing, calling him a halfbreed, and reminding him that he isn't really his nephew, Wayne's Ethan is tasked with roaming through director John Ford's beloved Monument Valley, between Utah and Arizona, looking for the "savage" Comanches (pronounced as Comanch in the movie) who massacred his brother's family and kidnapped his 9-year-old niece.

The Indians are headed by Scar, played by a blue-eyed, German-born Henry Brandon.

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And it wasn't long before I was done with this movie. What I saw was beautiful to look at, and I wish I could have been around to tell the the writers to go **** themselves.

The Dry 2024 Challenge Update

January: ✓
February: ✓
March: ✓
April: ✓
May: ✓
June: ✓
July: ✓
August: ✓
September: ✓
October: ✓
November: UNLOCKED

I'm getting into the final stretch of this dry year, and I'm busy overseeing a bad financial turn, and my luck seems to be completely and permanently lost, but I have something going for me with my sobriety, and I'm happy that my thoughts have not often turned to the sauce for solace from my troubles. The passage of time has helped to reduce a good portion of that connection.

Not that I haven't thought of drinking from time to time, but the impulse is only an echo of what it used to be, and for that I am grateful.

And yes, I'm still grudgingly getting on my knees and thanking my unknown higher power once a month, and asking it for help to continue with the program. The Twelve Steppers would want me to do this every day, but screw that noise.

I'm down four belt notches since the beginning of the year (I don't have a scale, so I don't know how much weight that translates into, maybe 35 lbs (16 kg?)), and I'm just moving around and doing normal things more easily, which is good, because I'm going to have to move around and make some money. Next week I cover for my former bosses at the old office while they take a vacation, so that will at least provide a week's guaranteed salary.

This is about as good an update as there can be that lacks oodles of winnings from poker and advantage slots. WTG, SJ!!!

twas an awesome update!
always thought a notch was an inch
how tall are you sj?

i also insert the buckle prong four doors down from a while ago
after months of empty calorie reduction
mostly beer but didn't quit

rarely weigh me as well, but happened to see 220 on a time scale early 2020

now we have a growing pup and i've become the weekly weigh-in tare while holding her
been hovering around 185 which would be about the same amount of mass as your estimate
as for her she hasn't quite yet tipped fifty and is captively vapid

Thanks guys!

I am around 6'1" (185 cm), but I'm shrinking as I get older.