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Cake day: June 25th, 2025

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  • In the 15 years I’ve been in my current house I think I’ve seen trick or treaters come down maybe a handful of times. I’m only a block off the main road, but my street stops at the corner on one end (not a dead end, just have to turn), so if you aren’t starting from that end, coming down is a waste.

    More importantly, I live in a very very old part of town sort of on the outskirts (my house was built in 1880, and I’m like 2 blocks from fields and woods, for perspective), and the parts on the other side of the river are much newer and more like suburbs… my side of town has a larger proportion of expensive houses, but they are between shitty cheap super old houses like mine, rather than consistently mid-range.

    When I was a kid the only time I ever did the drive to a rich area was when I was like 14 and went with a friend for the first time (my parents changed my school every year from 5th grade through graduating so having a friend was ultra-rare, especially that early in the school year). It was surreal. Huge fancy houses that you -had- to drive to because they were so far apart, but full size candy…


  • I got pulled over the other day. The reason given was a lane change violation (which was bullshit pretense, it was right outside a very rural, but very busy, bar so this was likely actually entrapment, tho I was for sure under the legal limit - I was there to check out line dancing because I’ve never seen it before, and only had one beer in the hour I was there).

    I also had a very expired registration (haven’t driven much, and didn’t realize I forgot to renew it).

    But I got let off everything with a warning…? I spent days trying to figure it out because it should have been a ticket… he didn’t even seem interested in waiting for me to dig out my insurance info (which I had, just had to get it out of my wallet).

    But I have a dash cam… and it records sound. It would have proven I didn’t violate anything, and he was recorded saying why I was pulled over so no way to flub it and say it was actually the registration all along, and thus the pretense for pulling me over in the first place was void. I’m pretty sure that’s the only reason I got off with a list of warnings rather than tickets.