I'm an Anarchist, which comes from a US conservative background in a liberal state, MN. Several members of my family have served in the military, going back at least to a civil war volunteer soldier from MN. This is necessary background information to emphasize that my family is a speck of progressive liberal in a largely Trump region of the country, which I'm very happy about and trying to radicalize them on.

My Grandpa was the VFW MN state commander in 2003 and served as the local commander several years before and after. He was responsible for leading a movement to get a State Funded Military Cemetery in the same county as the local. Both my Grandma and mom have been active volunteers for years and both currently serve the local in volunteer roles. I'm a lifetime VFW auxiliary member and did a year of community service at the local. My highschool graduation party was at the local. The favorite bar of both my mom and my grandpa was attached to the local, and it burned down the year before I turned 21 (it's a conspiracy, I swear! Someone didn't want me drinking with them at their bar on my birthday I tell you!!!)

The lot has sat empty ever since. He also owned 2 apartments next to the local VFW, and a few steps away from where the bar used to be. When he died, those apartments became controlled by the local. The city government decided to make the downtown lot a city park. 2 of the benches are being paid for by my family in his honor, along with several family sponsors of the park. My aunt is doing most of the painting. After moving away from town for several years, I'm moving back into an apartment controlled by the VFW local. One that my grandpa used to own.

While I was searching for a spot to get stoned, I was thinking about what I should do for a new spot. After considering it for a while, I figured that getting stoned on one of the benches owned by my family would do just fine.

Imagine what someone with ill intentions could manage. Imagine someone with similar political or economic "royalty" could do. Imagine if those people had dark intentions.

Follow up to my post from last night.

Yesterday in a workshop about becoming a union steward:

I will lie for my union siblings.

I will cheat for my members.

And that's why

my word

means SHIT!

Don't be like me

There were people walking across the 4 lane stroad next to the conference without waiting for the walking symbol. They were talking to each other and someone said loudly "why press the button? So you can wait around until a white man tells you what to do?"

I'm playing Skyrim in survival mode, and I'm walking from Winterhold to Whiterun. Right as I was approaching Tumble Arch Pass, I was unable to sneak, no matter where I moved. Not even the invisibility spell helped. So I found the faint red dot of the random enemy that locked on to me.

It was a random goddamn troll! And to make matters worse, as soon as I managed to kill the troll, another one came up from behind!

I've been working as an intern for the last 6 months, and today it ended at 3pm. Not to worry though, I was hired as a full time employee very recently! There's a 2 week gap in employment, which I'm treating like a vacation and celebration of my accomplishments.

I've been a long time Minecraft player, and just like everyone else I have periods of taking long breaks. Yesterday I was playing Minecraft with him on his ipad, and I found out that he doesn't have anyone at home that can help him with Minecraft. He's never even built a house before!

I spent most of today putting off my chores and building a base for him in creative to learn PC controls. I built a house, a greenhouse, an animal pen, 2 beacons, a nether portal base on both ends, and surrounded it with a wall. The plan is for me to turn it into easy mode survival, so I loaded up the base with food, armor, weapons, supplies, farm animals, iron golems, cats, dogs, and more.

I had an absolute blast designing this base! It has a lot of fun details, like the greenhouse having speckles of colored glass. The house is 2 stories with a basement and a tower that goes 2 floors higher. My favorite detail of the tower is making the enchanting table float by using half slabs.

The nether portal building is a huge portal using the boundaries of portal for the building. The walls are alternating between warped planks and crimson planks. The other side had gilded blackstone for floors and deepslate bricks for walls.

I decided that the higher floors of the buildings are on slabs, to prevent unintentional building. There's a ton of chests and barrels, so he can store things all over the place. I gave several max enchanted sets of weapons and armor, even more unenchanted sets of weapons, tools, and armor, and all the supplies necessary to build hundreds more. The kitchen is stocked with food and raw ingredients.

I'm so excited to play it with him! I'm going to turn it into a LAN world.

-Syu ramen

For the last several months, I've been working as an intern with the hopes I'd find a full time position because I love the work. There was one created, and I was encouraged to apply by my manager. I was hired! This position doubles my salary!

I can't sleep, so I'm running some numbers in my head. I have a mutual fund that I plan to invest in, and wanted to make some financial goals and projections for the next 10, 20, and 30 years. I turn 30 this year and I'm likely to start a new job that will last for at least 1 year, so long term planning is probably a good idea at this new phase in my life.

My primary goal is to retire as soon as possible by living off of the earned interest. This is how I plan to invest. I have 3 different investment plans, based on various estimates on what my discretionary income will be. The plan is that I will reinvest all interest until I retire. I marked the retirement age, along with the estimate for what the interest income will be. The conservative assumption is the baseline, where my current salary is at roughly $40k per year with $200/mo as discretionary income available to invest. I want to keep my expenses at approximately this level until I retire. The aggressive goal is what I plan to strive for assuming the next 10 years go well, and the middle is a realistic goal I believe I can achieve.

Conservative: $200/mo only 

• 10 yr income: 7,250
• 20 yr income: 21,750
• Retire at 56: 43,450
• 30 yr income: 58,000

Estimated: $1500/mo for 1 yr, $500/mo after

• 10 yr income: 14,700
• 20 yr income: 45,800
• Retire at 48: 41,250
• 30 yr income: 107,300

Aggressive: $1500/mo for 3 yr, $3000/mo after

• 10 yr income: 43,300
• Retire at 40: 50,950
• 20 yr income: 123,000
• 30 yr income: 311,300

Hey y'all, on this beautifully lazy Sunday we're getting stoned and watching one of the great two parters within the franchise.

I'm watching TNG s4e26/s5e1 "Redemption". There's a scene where Worf's honor is restored, by grabbing and bloodying Gowron's d'k tahg. This got me thinking, Klingons absolutely adore blood rituals. Presumably, 24th century medicine makes contracting an STD a trivial issue. However, 21st century equivalent medicine would be far more limited.