JCC new best friends club thread

I'm glad your son is okay and there was no actual shooter.

 

@Rylo Ken Very glad there was an extremely positive outcome there.

 

I won't feel right to this weekend. The older I get the more daylight savings messes me up especially springing forward. I love the outcome as it's so nice to be 7 PM and still be light out already but the process of going through it stink!

 

thanks for the well wishes. He came out psychologically unscathed I think, though we were getting emails today about how to get in touch with a counselor if our kids felt traumatized. Holy crap what a ****ed up country this is.

 

Yikes, Ken, I'm glad your son is okay! That's absolutely terrifying.

 

it's friday besties. i am going to do so much nothing this weekend, so much that i had to take monday off to fit it all in.

 

you reminded me that i do have st. patrick's day plans, dammit all!

 

Had a great couple of days, besties. On Friday I had a brunch date that lasted 10 hours. We did all kinds of stuff, and he said he likes me and he thinks I'm cute. I'm planning on seeing him again. Then Saturday I hosted my friend's bachelor party and it was a smashing success. Drunken board games, pizza, and snacks for 12 hours. Better yet, none of the cis guys there gave me side-eye or seemed to find it odd that I was participating at all. Once he got drunk, the friend who's getting married accidentally misgendered me a lot, but everybody just ignored him. Definite feelings of gender euphoria.

 

You had a better weekend than I did. The 14 year old told me he wants to quit swimming because his only aspiration in life is to livestream Fortnite on Twitch. I don't know what that means, but it sounds pretty ominous. Someday I'd like to experience gender euphoria.

 

Parent: You can be whatever you want to be as long as you put your mind to it! I love you and support you.
Child: I want to be a video game streamer!
Parent: Do you have a plan B?

 

For the longest time some years ago, I wanted to go an Umpire's (baseball) school in Florida, in hopes to perhaps be a professional umpire someday... received no support at all from the parents.

 

Tell him that video game streaming is like investing - if you've already heard about it, it's too late to get in. In my experience most 14 year olds are big fans of stock market analogies, so this should easily convey the point.

 

I'd like to make $500,000 per month playing video games.

As a side question, can people that are awful at video games make $500,000 per month playing them?

 

Well, $500K is an anomaly when it comes to Twitch streaming but yes you don't need to be amazing at video games (though in the case of Ninja it certainly helps). Being entertaining is the most important part.

Also Ken, I actually think it would be a good idea to show that PC Gamer article to your son and have him watch the interview. He stresses the importance of having a job and staying in school instead of just dropping everything to pursue streaming.

 

that's a great idea!

Also, I voted this morning. The volunteers gave me a Republican ballot by mistake, which made me feel even more unclean than I already felt from voting in an Illinois primary election.

 

hi besties. i am back from my extended weekend. it was pretty good i guess. not as good as ben's. on saturday i drank an entirely obscene amount of alcohol like a good wanna be irish sheep. me and my friends ran a .5k race (yes half a kilometer, so basically around the block) at a local brewery. here we are.



chewbacca there in the middle didn't get a medal. actually it was a bottle opener. whatever! anyway after the race we decided it was a good idea to drink an entire bottle of gin at 2 in the afternoon. so i spent the next two days recovering. i watched the first season of american gods and the first season of the end of the ****ing world. i thought they were both quite good. i hope they don't make a season 2 of the the end of the ****ing world. it was really sweet but i liked where they ended it. okay bye.

 

Brutally crush his dreams. Tell him how a professional swimming career doesn't usually last over six years, at which point he'll be too old to go to college and too old for cheap labor. Tell him his chances of joining the Olympic team are 0.0013%.

 

I could tell him that if there were such a thing as a professional swimming career.

 

i really loved it too and agree they should leave it how it ends. loved the two leads and a great soundtrack too!

also I too had a 2 day hangover from Saturday :/

 

Thirded on End of the ****ing World. The lead guy was familiar, but I couldn;t place him. As it turns out he was in Black Mirror, playing a paedo. He was excellent in that, too. And of course, I always recommend Black Mirror.