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  • The happiest year of my life

    My first “real job” after graduating high school was working for Home Depot. I had started in the plumbing department, then went to paint, then early morning inventory management, and my last job was in overnight freight. However, the overnights were causing me health issues and all of my attempts to get transferred back to… Read more

  • How has your life changed between Zelda BotW and TotK?

    (A random prompt on Reddit gave me some motivation to write. Here’s a link to the original post.) I grew up in a high control religion. Video games were already kind of taboo, but games like Zelda were disallowed for having magic. One time a childhood friend brought Link to the Past to my house… Read more

  • I’m lucky to still have fingers

    To understand this story… …it is necessary to know how they used to make commercial grade wood fruit box at scale when orchards packed fruit into wood boxes. This isn’t your grandpa’s finely crafted box that he made in his wood shop behind the house. It requires a team of people cutting down wood into… Read more

  • Protected: Prologue and Chapter 1

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Read more

  • 17 A.WoW.

    14 B.WoW My childhood has one major event that divides it and so I tend to think of my life in pre and post terms: When I started playing the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) known as World of Warcraft (WoW). This year I turned 31, and it occurs to me that this is… Read more