Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff

Ganymede

@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

It just sucks to think that trying to get out of living paycheck to paycheck... may be stymied by being in said state to begin with.

I know you work remotely, so you could really work anywhere, right? Austin, I hear, is really nifty, but it's also, I've heard, hipster central.

Egads.

Auspice

@Ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

It just sucks to think that trying to get out of living paycheck to paycheck... may be stymied by being in said state to begin with.

I know you work remotely, so you could really work anywhere, right? Austin, I hear, is really nifty, but it's also, I've heard, hipster central.

Egads.

It's true. But it also has opportunity for better jobs in the industry my degree is in. The other cities with said jobs are where I am now (Seattle), San Francisco, New York, Chicago, etc.... Austin is the best of the lot.

I actually get along well with hipsters.

Kanye Qwest

Austin is an amazing, wonderful city. Four thumbs up! Expensive, but definitely not more so than SF, NY, or any of the others. I hope you own a car. Like all cities in Texas, public transport is kind of a joke.

Auspice

@Kanye-Qwest said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Austin is an amazing, wonderful city. Four thumbs up! Expensive, but definitely not more so than SF, NY, or any of the others. I hope you own a car. Like all cities in Texas, public transport is kind of a joke.

I do not. But that's part of the hope in it being a more affordable place to live; being able to actually -buy- a car. Right now I don't have the money to spare.

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Austin is not hipster central anymore. A lot of them died off. Also, Austin's public transportation isn't terrible anymore. Also we recently got Uber/Lyft back, and have had Fasten for quite some time so there's really a lot of options if you don't wanna pay 10-15 bucks for a taxi.

Ganymede

@Admiral said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Austin is not hipster central anymore. A lot of them died off.

Thank the Maker.

Auspice

@Ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Admiral said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Austin is not hipster central anymore. A lot of them died off.

Thank the Maker.

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Catsmeow

Austin is on the list of cities I want to visit! I have heard good things about it. I understand wanderlust, I get it like every 6 months or so. It's probably good I don't have a telecommute job or I'd move way more.

I will put out good vibes that the move goes well and funds fall into place for you.

Auspice

@Catsmeow I appreciate it. I def. need those vibes.
I thought maybe roommate would be good letting our lease go month-to-month so we could both take our time finding our next places (and so I could get money together), but nope, her boyfriend wants to get a place with her ASAP.

So I have to move in 2 months.

And I have $0 of the monehs together.

SparklesTheClown

I apologize for my behavior the other day.

I think I'm gonna withdraw from the greater hobby at large for the time being. I'll only be in one MU due to irl connections.

I won't be responding to anything, so just assume I don't see anything after this post.

I don't think I'm ever gonna change, and I'm tired of this endless cycle of fucking up and being crazy.

I'm still working on my game but I don't think I'm the person who should be running it, because I don't think anyone would want me to, so I might just make it as an art project, I don't know. If there's a major update on that, I'll post again.

That's all, later.

surreality

@HelloProject Sincerely, don't be too hard on yourself, man. We all have those moments. Been having plenty of them myself lately, anyway, so for what it's worth, there's at least one person who gets it. (And I would bet a lot more than one.)

Take the time you need for you. Everybody needs that sometimes, too.

Some folks may think they're entitled to be gatekeepers or whatever, but nobody really is that. Heck, even the folks almost universally on record for doing massive harm or have an intent to do harm as predators don't get blocked out of participation save for by a small few, in the end.

By comparison? A random argument on a forum's pretty much nothin', and perspective's a thing.

It'll be ok, even if it doesn't seem like it right now. Be good to you, dude. If that means taking time away, that's cool, but don't convince yourself you have nothing of value to offer here or that everybody's gonna hate you forever or something and let that keep you away if you decide you want to come back some day.

Tinuviel

As a certified crazy-person. See a therapist.
You might not be mentally ill, but having a non-judgemental person to shout at, vent at, cry at... it helps. It really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really...

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really, really helps. I mean it.

SG

@Thenomain said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

My bike is old and hard to pedal. A lot of people have questioned me for purposefully riding a heavy bike. I tell them that this is the point.

You can get a chain cleaning kit for about $20 with degreaser. When I clean my chain, it's like getting a new bike. If it's really really old and messed up, a new chain + a chain tool is a bit more, but worth it if you like bike riding.

Ghost

@HelloProject Love and Peace. You're alright.

Auspice

@HelloProject

Seriously man, find a therapist. You don't need omgmajormentalhealthissue to talk to one. Having that third party who is separate from everything, but also on your team is cathartic as fuck.

Thenomain

@SG said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Thenomain said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

My bike is old and hard to pedal. A lot of people have questioned me for purposefully riding a heavy bike. I tell them that this is the point.

You can get a chain cleaning kit for about $20 with degreaser. When I clean my chain, it's like getting a new bike. If it's really really old and messed up, a new chain + a chain tool is a bit more, but worth it if you like bike riding.

Thanks for the link. I'll look into it.

I am one of those people who would like to "blame" their family and for projects for interrupting any time, but as advice people who do exercise often have for people who don't, the key Number One thing you have to do is start.

I can't say "I don't have the money" when I'm buying game from the Steam Summer Sale that I know I'll never play, go to Origins Game Fair (tho I did bike there from home with long pants on in 90 degree weather--hey, it's something, right?), and use these other things as excuses.

I'm typing on a keyboard right now, which is not something I would recommend anyone try while peddling on a bike trail. Which I'm not. Fft.

Arkandel

@Thenomain said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

I am one of those people who would like to "blame" their family and for projects for interrupting any time, but as advice people who do exercise often have for people who don't, the key Number One thing you have to do is start.

In my experience one of the unexpected bottlenecks between people and getting fitter is that they consider fitness to be a binary goal; either they are doing The Thing - defined as something they saw on TV, read in a magazine or just like the sound of - or they just won't start.

The result of that is that if anything sands in the way between this ideal diet ("I would do <X> but I'm allergic to it"), the absolute optimal exercise ("I want to do <Y> but I've a chronic injury that prevents me") or even way more commonly just a lack of a whole lot of time ("I can't do 3 hours of exercise <Z> a week, I only have two hours free") then they won't do anything at all.

The thing is... almost anything is better for you than sitting on your couch eating sugar-coated sugar. Just go out there, fix what you can fix in your diet and do the best you can, see how it works after a few weeks - obsessing about the scale on a day to day basis is an exercise in futility at best - and adjust as needed. It's not all or nothing.

Misadventure

Oh yeah, for the procrastinators on the forum, the best "advice" is "Just get started." No pressure to get done, just do that first thing.

Auspice

@Misadventure said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Oh yeah, for the procrastinators on the forum, the best "advice" is "Just get started." No pressure to get done, just do that first thing.

The other great advice: if it's truly important, you'll "find the time."
With the ever vital subtext that if you don't somehow magically fit it into your schedule, clearly it wasn't important enough you horrible person, you.

Thenomain

@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

The other great advice: if it's truly important, you'll "find the time."

A lot of people don't do things that they should. "I can't find the time" is my biggest lame excuse right now, even though I have logged over 20 hours in Wolfenstein: New World Order. Really, Theno? Can't find the time?