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It was my last official day at the animal rescue for the year. There is still other stuff I can do, but this was my last day with my regular team. So that was a little sad, but I went with 2 of my friends there to hot pot for lunch afterwards. So I really enjoyed that.

I had a great time feeding the baby mice today, which I do not usually enjoy, but they were so sweet today! It was nice to end the term on a surprise high note.

I did get bit by another squirrel, but not near as bad as last week, so that’s neutral, just part of the game, and it’s rainy and bleh from this noreaster storm, but otherwise a great day and all went as planned!

I volunteer at a wildlife rescue and study music. Both are challenging physically and mentally, and it takes my mind off of other things when I’m doing them.

They give me pride and a sense of satisfaction when I have success, and my coworkers or teacher give me support when I’m having trouble.

Having a strong support structure while doing something that requires my full attention just does something good for me mentally.

Volunteer work I strongly recommend to anyone. I avoided it for years even though I thought it might be fun because even so, why would I want more work?

What I do at the clinic is more challenging and demanding than my real job, but unlike my real job, this is actually something I’m passionate about, everyone I’m there with also wants to be there 100%, and all our effort goes into saving the lives of animals and making our local environment a better place. Every time I go, I can actually see the world becoming a better place then it would otherwise be if all of us weren’t there.

I imagine this would be applicable to most any type of volunteering like helping kids or the elderly, cleaning up neighborhoods, or feeding people, etc. A lot of activities can just serve as distractions, but the intense work makes me physically and mentally feel I actually did something, and every animal that recovers and goes free is a result that is inarguable.

Since so many communities here are run by one or maybe 2 people, maybe adding a message about necros welcome or not welcome could be a thing.

I was coming here to say this exact thing.

We’ve been conditioned for a very long time not not to necro posts. I know for many types of posts, they may be more in the moment type things (jokes, current events, etc) but things like all my animal stuff, that doesn’t change, so I wouldn’t care if someone would comment on an older post. If anything, I know more about the subject now than when I originally posted, but I know that probably isn’t the majority of cases.

Superbowl is in the clear then! I just use a background remover and layer a nice scene for our banner.

Does using something like a background remover utility count as AI, or just generative AI?

Normal crust is my go to these days. I love Sicilian but can’t do that much anymore. Bread in general is one of my fav foods, much to my detriment.

I like sauce a little on the heavier side, and I’d rather have it a smidge on the tangy side rather than sweet, with some good seasoning to it.

Modest cheese, enough to hide the sauce, but not where you lose half of it picking up a slice.

Honestly, I probably prefer just a plain cheese pie. When I get fancy, I’m good with buffalo or bbq chicken, bacon and sausage crumbles, or Hawaiian with bacon instead of ham to make it smokey and crunchy. If I’m at one of those trendy spots and they have a pig & dog style, with prosciutto and fig preserves, I’m all over that.

Tomato pies are outstanding as well, but I don’t count them as pizza.

Those of you Hawaiian pizza eaters, I like putting a drizzle of Korean fried chicken sauce on it to balance out the sweet. It’s good on plain or pepperoni too, but contrasting that pineapple is the chef’s kiss!

I used to be big into cars, but they got too complicated, expensive, and I just need something that works reliably, and I don’t have space for a project car. Also I think new cars are way too expensive, but I still like seeing the new tech and what different manufacturers are making.

I used to shoot and reload ammo multiple times a week. I still have everything, but it mostly collects dust. I go skeet shooting maybe twice a year and deer hunting for a week. Besides also getting pretty expensive, the majority of people I run into are, shall we say, not my type of people these days. So I typically don’t want to spend time around anyone at the range. My club membership is like $30/yr, is 5 minutes from my house, and I can bust clays with my brother now and then and make sure the deer rifle is sighted in, and that’s good for me.

I still enjoy watching histories of weapons and ammo development because I learn a lot of world history and see some cool engineering. Most GunTubers also suck though.

I follow a lot of music production and guitar things to see all the new gear. I only ever learned the basics of guitar and bass, and now I play piano and the linear layout of things makes more sense to my brain. Guitar has by far the coolest gear and gizmos though, so I still check out all that stuff. I’d like to check out all these amp modelers, but I don’t own a computer, so there’s that. 😂

I’ve had a couple jobs at 2 very large pharma companies. Most of us are not actually working for said pharma companies, we’re contracted labor, so even if we do a great job, they can just decide one day they want to go with someone else. Sometimes you’ll get picked up by the next provider, sometimes not.

They just fired the heads of who I’m working for now and the company I was working for before this (doing literally the same job) because the pharma company was just “let’s try something new” this month.

The previous site/different pharma I was at, we got replaced by a larger vendor and they said they already had people for my job, so I got the boot. I’m friends with the manager for that job outside of work and he says the new provider basically trashed everything and gave him a random asst. manager he can’t get rid of who trashed all the relationships we built up.

Literally feels like I’m basically a Pokemon card they can swap in and out of the deck when they want. It’s a different feeling from other jobs because pleasing my boss or end users isn’t enough, because there’s both people on site or around the world that can just get bored of the company I work for and just kick us out at will.

Mid-forties now. Mid-20s me would be surprised to know that yes, he does have major depression and doesn’t have to just find a way to work around that. A lot of great things came after that, but many unnecessarily bad things in the interim. Now I’m just what I feel to be a normal amount of depressed! 😅