This kind of level-headed consideration is why he was able to come to you with his concerns after, so good job there. I think you’re on the right track with an open conversation about coming to you with these kinds of things before they happen. “I’m concerned about you keeping safe so could we please talk something like this through before you do it next time?” Would be the line I’d use but you obviously know your son better than me so YMMV. All in all I’m glad things worked out okay and hopefully this’ll be a learning experience for mindfulness.

Time will put your enemies in the ground.

Wait that’s a thing?!

No, but I don’t wait for the beeping to stop.

That’s the cholesterol clogging your arteries.

I used to work overnights at Walmart and nothing slapped harder on my midnight “lunch” break than a couple of red hot dogs from the Circle K, especially if their nacho cheese machine was still running.

He’s blond! He’s pissed! He’ll see you in the lists!

Legit one of the best moments of my college life was sitting on the roof of my car with a friend watching the sunset from a Margs parking lot waiting to sober up.

“Bug” is a scientific word that refers to members of the sub-order Heteroptera. See assassin bugs, leaf-footed bugs, etc.

But yeah language is fluid and most people call any old arthropod a bug.

Until the pillow starts to get spicy…

I wonder if they’re banking on wireless chips lasting longer than physical ports. Though making them wireless also means batteries and charging ports, two parts notorious for failing.

I’ve got some decent smithing skills, I’d go looking for bog iron and skip the bronze age.

A bunch of randos on the 'net won’t be able to tell you any better than she can. If she says she’s fine reaffirm your friendship and tell her you’re there if she needs to talk and otherwise carry on. Not much else you can do without jeopardizing the friendship.

Got a Gameboy Color from my grandparents in '98 and I’m still riding that high to this day.

A textbook example, yes. And Today I Learned something!

For work I use a database written in COBOL. Reports are simultaneously running and frozen until I either get the report results or sufficient time has passed that I’m certain the system has crashed.

Why choose one country? I’m selling everything and buying a boat.

This post made me think about Cooking Comically for the first time in about a decade.