personal light show" yeah I feel that. Had a guy at a campground near San Antonio bring out one of those giant work floodlights. Set it up on a table like he was at a construction site, not a campsite. Felt like I was staring into the sun trying to make dinner. Some people just don't get that not every spot needs to be lit up like a football stadium. Wish they'd save that stuff for their own backyard.

Didn't someone on a podcast point out that Flynn actually said in an interview she wanted both narrators to be "reliable but not trustworthy"? That always stuck with me because it changes how you read the whole thing. It's not even about liking them or not, it's about realizing the book is literally built on the idea that memory and truth are flexible. So the moderator's question was fair game, it just got derailed when people started taking sides instead of talking about craft.

Man that is the absolute best feeling. The subway gods smiled on you for sure. I had one the other day where the train was packed and this lady shoved past everyone to get off, then two stops later the whole car cleared out. Best random seat of my life. People don't realize how rare those clean wins are on the T.

The first time I ran a Grove 700 and someone pointed out I had my tagline running through the wrong sheave. Felt like an idiot for about a week but hey, at least you didn't bend anything.

800 bucks is brutal, man. That stings. What exactly was in that generic spreadsheet? Like was it just a list of job boards and tips you could have found on YouTube in ten minutes? I had a buddy in Fresno pay a similar amount to a guy in a strip mall office who basically just handed him a printed map of the bus routes to temp agencies. I'm trying to figure out if these programs are all the same low effort stuff or if yours had anything unique that was supposed to make it worth the money.