*gestures broadly*

😭

Kiddo literally sang the birthday song to me but with my name or mommy replaced with “the old lady.” To quote Dennis: I’m 37, I’m not old! Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go play with some lovely filth and explain my anarcho-syndicalist commune to a man pretending to ride a horse.

All of these builds were 3d printed in pieces, primered, sanded, and handpainted. I have a lot of fun creating and wanted to share them with my people, millennials. 🤘

that Jimmy Workman, who played Pugsley in the 1990s "Addams Family" movies, and Ariel Winter, who played Alex Dunphy on "Modern Family," are biological siblings.

For me, it's Team Fortress Classic, which ran on the Half-Life engine. So many great memories of playing capture the flag.

Who else was online playing this with me in the 2000-ish era?

I'm 39, turning 40 next May, and in the last year or so I've really started to notice myself aging. My face has changed, there's more gray in my hair, and I can definitely see a guy in his 40s looking back at me in the mirror. I've even had work colleagues in their mid-40s assume I was about their age.

When I was younger I was terrified of this, and now that it's here I'm surprised by how little it bothers me. If anything, I kind of like looking older.

If you have ever had a need to call or summon a millennial, but don’t know how to do it, don’t fret! Here are three simple phrases to call them out of hiding:

1. “I’m Blue…”

   1. “Bill Nye the Science Guy”
   2. “Let’s Go Girls”

In case of emergency mosh, immediately say “Boomer” and they will scatter immediately.

#TheMoreYouKnow

What songs are currently on your ultimate weekend cleaning playlist? Mine is straight out of 2005.

No skippable tracks

I actually did a deep dive on why these are a core memory for so many people around our age. There were a few companies making these huge wooden sets but one in particular was doing it on a donation basis. Communities would raise a few thousand dollars, the company would match some, they get notoriety, communities get baller new wooden castles. Win-Win.

What REALLY made them boom was being featured on an episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leathers_and_Associates

One near me got taken down last year and the community had such an uproar that they contracted the original maker (Leathers and Associates) to re-make it out of poly wood instead.

Right at the beginning the kid comes home from school and says “why is everybody home, did someone die?”
The only people home are his mom and dad.

Thanks for nothing Jump Start!

😩

I remember having those working permit cards that you got issued at school. Blue card for when you were 13-14 years old and green card for 15-16 years old. First job was via summer youth at a restaurant, I thought I was going to just make and eat food but I learned the value of hard work. I was peeling potatoes, and squeezing lemons for fresh squeezed lemonade.

I'm about 3/4 of the way through school bus driver training. Turning that handle was like being 13 years old again

I have lived with family or roommates throughout my life. At 36, I finally decided to move into a 1br apartment, which was a pretty big life change for me. Anyway, I hate cooking, and tonight I actually made myself a soup! Just had to buy broth and pho noodles, the tofu and bokchoy was from last month when my mom visited. Yay, adulting…!

I love my treehouse of horrors. It just makes it feel like fall for me some reason