The Gaming Den

Cats are awesome.
I miss having one, but i can't bring myself to get another after mine died years ago.
Maybe some day when i live somewhere not on a 4 large major road and with access to a garden and not on the 4th floor with no way to go outside.

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:It's nice to come home to a kitty. I missed having one.

Knowing you, Count, I have to ask- are you talking about a specimen of felis domesticus, or a 20-something goth with daddy issues?

Follow up question: How did you acquire this kitten?

I say this with all compassion as I do have friends in their 20s that I care about deeply: people in their 20s are idiots and I can't see myself putting my penis in any of them regardless of appearance. I adopted a cat (an actual housecat) from a friend. She's a bit of a problem child, in that they had 5 other cats and she kept starting shit with them until they decided to gang up on her. I can totally relate, so she has a cat-free living space here.

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I say this with all compassion as I do have friends in their 20s that I care about deeply: people in their 20s are idiots and I can't see myself putting my penis in any of them regardless of appearance.

Without meaning to generalise too much, I've gone from "Why do people think teens/schoolgirls are attractive, have they ever met one?" to "University students today, seriously...".

I'm getting old.

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I say this with all compassion as I do have friends in their 20s that I care about deeply: people in their 20s are idiots and I can't see myself putting my penis in any of them regardless of appearance. I adopted a cat (an actual housecat) from a friend. She's a bit of a problem child, in that they had 5 other cats and she kept starting shit with them until they decided to gang up on her. I can totally relate, so she has a cat-free living space here.

You know I'm just giving you shit, Count

I still find people in their 20s attractive, but I'm only 32, so... I just feel skeezy about it if they're under about 24/25.

I can't always tell when people are giving me shit.

Fair, it can be hard sometimes. I was very glad to get me cat too, even if she can be a bit of a pain in the ass.

Thaluikhain wrote:

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I say this with all compassion as I do have friends in their 20s that I care about deeply: people in their 20s are idiots and I can't see myself putting my penis in any of them regardless of appearance.

Without meaning to generalise too much, I've gone from "Why do people think teens/schoolgirls are attractive, have they ever met one?" to "University students today, seriously...".

I'm getting old.

Perhaps because teenagers are noted as having knowledge and experience, and are therefore good at sex?

I don't know, either.


Edit: Teenagers and similarly-young people.

I also am not particularly attracted to women my age either. Can you change sexual orientation as you age? I mean i generally approve of sex and do enjoy adult entertainment, but sex just seems sweaty and mucus-y outside of art and I'm just not crazy about it anymore.

Your libido can certainly drop, which would make it harder to ignore the sweat and mucus of actual intercourse. And while it'd be dangerous in today's political climate to suggest too loudly that sexuality can involuntarily drift over the years, our understanding of your sexuality can certainly evolve with your aging and experience.

As for why older men pursue teenagers - cheap validation at best, opportunity for domestic abuse at worst. Nothing to do with expecting them to be good in bed.

March break starts for us next week (or I guess, this afternoon). All of Ontario schools (which excludes First Nations communities) have canceled school for the two weeks following March break. Our school hasn't said they're doing that.

My wife originally wanted to go to Winnipeg for March break, and still does. I've been growing more concerned about this over the past few days. We've been cleared by the education director to go, but we have to let her know, and we have to self quarantine for five days when we get back (longer if we show symptoms).

To make matters worse, our nearly 16-year-old cat is disinterested in eating, and seems to be having trouble swallowing. I don't feel like asking a cat-sitter to take care of a possibly dying cat. Any way this week goes, it's going to be a weird one.

RobbyPants wrote:March break starts for us next week (or I guess, this afternoon). All of Ontario schools (which excludes First Nations communities) have canceled school for the two weeks following March break. Our school hasn't said they're doing that.

My wife originally wanted to go to Winnipeg for March break, and still does. I've been growing more concerned about this over the past few days. We've been cleared by the education director to go, but we have to let her know, and we have to self quarantine for five days when we get back (longer if we show symptoms).

To make matters worse, our nearly 16-year-old cat is disinterested in eating, and seems to be having trouble swallowing. I don't feel like asking a cat-sitter to take care of a possibly dying cat. Any way this week goes, it's going to be a weird one.

2 reasons to skip the trip this year? Probably a good plan. Stay home, take care of cat, and maybe talk to family on the phone/online or whatever reason you'd otherwise being going to Winnipeg. Missing a vacation will be a bit stressful, but better than worrying about cat and getting sick.

That's mostly how I feel. Even before all this, I've always been the type of person who appreciates a good stay-cation. Of course, being out in the middle of nowhere, I have very little I can offer the cat to help her get better.

Does the cat love you?
Be there for her.
That goes a long way.

We're deciding to stay home (yay!). Sadly, I'm giving the cat about 50-50 odds on making it through this. She does love being by us, though, which is good.

We're trying to play at least one playthorugh on every board and card game we have in our gaming closet this week as a family. We started right after breakfast and went until one of the girl's friends came over. I think we made it through four games so far, and it's not yet lunch time.

We adopted a puppy today from the humane society.

What kind?! Pics or it didn't happen!

It's probably a lab mix. Hard to know what exactly. Puppy is black with some white on the paws and chest, so doesn't show well in pictures. But her's one:

Google Photo

Inque!

Aw. OK. So it did happen. She's cute.

RobbyPants wrote:We're deciding to stay home (yay!). Sadly, I'm giving the cat about 50-50 odds on making it through this. She does love being by us, though, which is good.

We're trying to play at least one playthorugh on every board and card game we have in our gaming closet this week as a family. We started right after breakfast and went until one of the girl's friends came over. I think we made it through four games so far, and it's not yet lunch time.

Sounds like a good time for a legacy-type game. Except they're out of pandemic for some reason. Fox in the Forest and the cooperative version, Fox in the Forest Duel, are very good trick taking games for pretty cheap.

deaddmwalking wrote:We adopted a puppy today from the humane society.

Cute puppy, and it's a good time for adopting.

You know what I have an issue with on these dating websites? Thinking I'm not good enough for the ones I like. I'm used to dating shitty people that it's become normal and that's not good.

So I'm going to attempt to communicate with higher-quality ladies. If I'm not good enough for them they can figure it out...

Think of it as applying for jobs: You won't get the good ones unless you swing for it.

Also, a special shout-out to the nurse who upon being told that my insurance doesn't cover my shrink and that I'm looking for a zoloft refill got this terrified look in her eyes, told me she wasn't comfortable helping me, and asked me to leave. On a side note why are nurses more likely than average to be utter shitheaps? Guess I'm riding out this breakdown sans medical assistance. Could have done without having someone recoil like I was a strung-out junky demanding xanax and waving a knife around but I guess these things happen.

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Also, a special shout-out to the nurse who upon being told that my insurance doesn't cover my shrink and that I'm looking for a zoloft refill got this terrified look in her eyes, told me she wasn't comfortable helping me, and asked me to leave. On a side note why are nurses more likely than average to be utter shitheaps? Guess I'm riding out this breakdown sans medical assistance. Could have done without having someone recoil like I was a strung-out junky demanding xanax and waving a knife around but I guess these things happen.

From having worked with a lot of medical professionals, in general the lessons people take home are:

Doctors: they are right even when they aren't.
Nurses: doctors are right a lot less often than they think, so believe the opposite of what doctors think.

These are both terrible for different reasons. But while you get doctors screwing things up or not doing things because they can't admit they don't know something or confidently talking out their ass about things they don't understand, you have nurses actively disbelieving science because they saw a doctor believe science.