2020 can fck off!

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He sleeps 8pm to 1am, eats, then sleeps till 4am, eats, then sleeps till 6am, eats and then sometimes I can get him to go back to sleep until 8am.

I go to sleep at 9pm and only wake up to swaddle him after mom feeds him. So, while I don't get 8 straight hours, I still feel pretty good. Especially the days he does the bonus 6-8am. No complaints here.
 
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Biggest adjustment is getting work done. My wife and I are business partners and work from home, so we juggle him back and forth depending on who needs to get what done. gotta work faster with a time limit, where as before was work whenever I want and take as long as I want. Can’t go down YouTube hole or read pointless Wikipedia pages lol. Probably for the best.
 

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I absolutely love my boy unconditionally, but I'm struggling with how inefficient our life has gotten.

Wake up, keep the guy happy, then it's 4pm and I haven't done sh!t all day. Whadefuq space time vaccum am I living in?

I've started doing 20 pushups every time I want to punch the sky. Hopefully I'll be ripped soon.
 

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Looks like I am the lone soldier in this group who has had an adverse reaction to the vaccine. Can’t debate statistics.



The Pfizer Covid-19 shot gave me Tinnitus in both ears. It happened the morning I woke up from the first shot. Farking ringing. It is constant/persistent since then. I’d say its about 35% in decibels on my scale of hearing. I’m at the point I’m pissed I took the shot. It’s now going over a month +.



I also felt a cytokine storm about an hour after taking the shot, so I knew I was sorta fsrked. Then came a metallic taste on the tongue. I‘m one of those with an autoimmune disease so the cytokine storm is something I‘m quite familiar with. I always feel like I have the flu so no big whoop to me. But this fsrking ringing - BLOWS! My short term memory is also shot since the shot…I think that’s a evolutionary circuit breaker when something goes awry in the brain. Note, I stopped taking any autoimmune therapy's January 2020. My balance is also off at times since the shot



Having the autoimmune disease though puts it all in perspective, and something I’ve contemplated for quite some time. Nothing is guaranteed, I accept I’m broken, So It Goes. That’s also why I got the second shot. Greater Good.



One of my kids will not be getting the vaccine. And if my ears are still ringing when any one has an issue with it, I‘m getting straight in their grill and telling them to Kick Rocks. I also will not be getting any Booster’s down the line.



I also think this was a Lab Leak. One of the best articles I read was from a scientist who studies biological threats who is from Switzerland. The person has connections with bioweapons specialists in various countries, ex-diplomats, and people who work in “biological disarmament”. Can you even believe that exists? “Biological Disarmament?” They are in the Biological Weapons Security World. Apparently that whole group of people started asking questions immediately when they saw the traits and markers of the virus when it first emerged. They were all shocked they were muzzled by journalists and social media companies.



The stance is that the Chinese lab workers were sloppy. They have past video of the lab workers where they are in breach of standard bio-safety protocol. The group was in shock seeing it. Especially that they work with the world’s deadliest pathogens.



Then you got to look at the WHO. FarkNA. Enter Frank Daszak, a zoologist who has his own non-profit Eco Health Alliance. His non-profit directed millions of dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He is the same guy who wrote an article in the Lancet trying to debunk a lab leak that others were voicing and he got the NY Times and the Washington Post to go along with him. The WHO then has this guy on their “Origin of Research Team” for Covid. So typical of this farked up world…corruption.



The smoking gun will never be found. China sent in the cleaners and I’m sure other countries too. Maybe even ours. Who knows. China also has a muzzle and rope around other countries necks with their Belt and Road Initiative. They are not allowed to peep a bad word about China or they will face the consequences.



The nice thing is I liked to be pissed.



I’m not saying you shouldn’t get the vaccine. Maybe I’m being a wuss complaining about ringing ears, but science is about questioning. People with adverse reactions to these vaccines is less than 1 percent, which is exceptional.



Like the experts say, why is there not any international oversight in these level 4 Labs like Wuhan who handle the world’s deadliest pathogens? I suppose those people in Biological Security have golden parachutes.
 
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I absolutely love my boy unconditionally, but I'm struggling with how inefficient our life has gotten.

Wake up, keep the guy happy, then it's 4pm and I haven't done sh!t all day. Whadefuq space time vaccum am I living in?

I've started doing 20 pushups every time I want to punch the sky. Hopefully I'll be ripped soon.
It can be a tough slog. I had three under three and every day was a mix-match of screaming, wiping a$$, occasional laughter and washing up. It went on for years. Just getting them all in the car was like some bizarre torture - all the crap you've got to take everywhere and trying to balance their sleeping. I gave up. Then one bright shiny morning. It had ended. My youngest was 4 1/2 and the nightmare was over - I can't even really remember what those blurry days were like. But I was free.

And then my wife told me she was pregnant again.

The horror, the horror...

But he has actually been good fun. I realized you just gotta go with the flow. Don't plan too much; don't try to manage situations. Surf when you can. And get a vasectomy.
 

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Then you contemplate why the fsrk do I still surf if I can’t even pull airs…?

Why the fsrk do people even bitch about board design if they can’t get above the lip. You are doing the same sh!t they’ve been doing since the 70’s…

The you realize it’s the human experience…2020, fucck offf.

Then it dawns on you how selfish we are.
 
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I realized you just gotta go with the flow. Don't plan too much; don't try to manage situations. Surf when you can.
im starting realize the same. Why do all this sh!t if he’s just going to throw a wrench in all our plans any way. Might as well just do what I can in the situation. My plans are fcked Unless he does everything right, which isn’t going to haopen.

I started singing this song to him lastnight:

you’re only gonna sleep when you want to/
youre only gonna do what you wanna do/
so why do I bother trying to get you to/
do what I want you to?/

(in a Morrissey voice)
 

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I absolutely love my boy unconditionally, but I'm struggling with how inefficient our life has gotten.

Wake up, keep the guy happy, then it's 4pm and I haven't done sh!t all day. Whadefuq space time vaccum am I living in?

I've started doing 20 pushups every time I want to punch the sky. Hopefully I'll be ripped soon.
I had two kids under 2 at one point. I couldn't even remember what day it was most of the time. Most of the time I'd pass out at as soon as they were asleep. Then they get older and they all start playing sports and your free time is sucked up by shuffling them everywhere.

The only time I can surf is usually dawn patrol. Then I injured my elbow and knees. Then one day I was paddling out on a longboard when trying to rehab and thought to myself WTF happened. I'm now that old guy...
 
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Kids take up a good amount of time.


Likely why I’m only having one. My mental capacity can’t take another newborn and my entire existence revolving around multiple kids.

1 kid is great. He’s like a cool dude we get to hang with all day and have fun. Not competing for attention with another kid. Just cruises and does his own thing.

I’m gonna go get the snip snip.

And I didn’t even mention the cost of kids
 
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im starting realize the same. Why do all this sh!t if he’s just going to throw a wrench in all our plans any way. Might as well just do what I can in the situation. My plans are fcked Unless he does everything right, which isn’t going to haopen.

I started singing this song to him lastnight:

you’re only gonna sleep when you want to/
youre only gonna do what you wanna do/
so why do I bother trying to get you to/
do what I want you to?/

(in a Morrissey voice)
That Morrissey song is perfect! I can imagine it with a little Johnny Marr rift like in This Charming Man.

The change between who you once were and who you are now is monumental. I remember some dude I lived with in Alaska telling me kids weren't going to change him. Years later I heard he had two. I would love to track him down to see how that little mantra was working out. In fact it would make a great second verse in your song.

I told him they'd never change me
I told him they'd never change me
I told him they'd never change me
but I was wrong...what have I dooooonnneee?
 
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im starting realize the same. Why do all this sh!t if he’s just going to throw a wrench in all our plans any way. Might as well just do what I can in the situation. My plans are fcked Unless he does everything right, which isn’t going to haopen.

I started singing this song to him lastnight:

you’re only gonna sleep when you want to/
youre only gonna do what you wanna do/
so why do I bother trying to get you to/
do what I want you to?/

(in a Morrissey voice)
Not that I condone it ... and it's something I can say here in a safe space....

If you asked me about "shaken baby syndrome" prior to having kids, I would have jumped on a soapbox and proclaimed that anyone who does that to an infant is a monster.

I still think the same thing, but somewhere inside me there's someone that sympathises with the monster that shook his kid.
 
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Crying babies never really bothered me. Maybe that's why I had two so close together. When they got old enough to talk back and not listen was so much worse.

I'll never forget chasing my toddler and watching him throw my $150 fancy tv remote control into the dog's water bowl and then laughing about it. lol
 

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these are the best of times before they go off to school and start answering back
just remember your parents went through the same and so did theirs and so on and so forth
it's the circle of life when you transition into another aspect of growing up
and being responsible/committed for someone other than yourself and your honey

you're creating stories to tell friends and your kids when they start having their own.
before you know it they'll be gone and all you'll have are these memories
hopefully they'll be packed more with joy than with regrets
You'd be surprised how many parents screw this part of their lives up and pay for it later

choices
its all about the choices

it's a marathon so pace yourself you got this
surf buddy just around the horizon