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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023
  • “Knock knees” is a predominantly childhood thing that most kids grow out of. It’s not a less-than-luxury-size thing.

    Adult peeps with knock knees who have never talked to a doctor about it, please look into PT. That shit can be potentially fixed or at least improved with good ol’ physical therapy.

  • As long as I’m not anxious about anything, I sleep well. I do all the usual advice. Maintain a consistent sleep schedule, including weekends, and try to hold to it as much as possible even during travel and vacation. General healthy diet and exercise. Turn off screens. Max Richter sleep soundtrack low in the background. The “alphabet game” or whatever, probably learned about it on here or reddit: pick any letter and then think of every word that starts with that letter. It keeps you brain occupied on something inconsequential so no other important thoughts take my attention. Melatonin when I do need to shift away from my normal schedule for some reason.

    I suspect a genetic predisposition; my dad is like this and most of my siblings.

    My real super power is my ability to sleep on planes. I’ll be out cold by the time the plane leaves the runway.

    And sometimes I’ll get my brain knotted up over some dumb problem, worry about it and not sleep for two nights straight. Crash hard. Then be fine.

  • Since I have to work, I don’t mind the job I have. I’m good at it, I get to exercise skills not everyone has so I am welcomed as a useful teammate. The nature of the job exposes me to no shortage of new things to learn, which I greatly prefer to repetative days.

    If I won the lottery tomorrow and no longer needed to work, I would be gone before my boss had a chance to read my three sentence resignation letter. All the things I enjoy about my job, I can do better on my own as hobbies or volunteering or other social community-based endeavors.

    I don’t know that anyone I work with would say they enjoy it right now. We’re going through a particularly awful re-organization that no one is happy about. My emotional distance from my job puts me at an advantage over others who look for more life meaning in their job/career.