My 5 year old iMac is starting to feel obsolete. I find myself wasting a lot of time waiting for it to load and such, which I think may be related to new demands that I placing on it by using multiple AIs and other tech. Has anyone upgraded to Mac Studio, and if so have you found it to be a significant upgrade from iMac? Is it helping you get more lawyer stuff done is less time?
There’s been this gradual loss of freedom of expression since we were younger, and I’ve had trouble putting my finger on it. Then I went through the rabbit hole of watching old Norm MacDonald bits on YouTube, and I was like “this is it.” I remember me and my friends used to spend a lot of time saying the most absurd things we could think of — just because it was funny. In the 90’s there was a novelist named Mark Leyer publishing books like The Tetherballs of Bougainville that I think captured the same thing.
Hello my fellow gratefully recovering alcoholics. I have been active and strong in the program for about 3.5 years and it’s been amazingly positive for me. That said, I have moved slowly through the steps. Overall, I think that has been a good exercise. 1.5 years considering my defects of character, for example, was a good exercise. That said, I am ready to move. I think one stumbling block is I am not sure how to approach Step 8. I feel like a lot of my bad behavior was towards random strangers, just being drunk at the bar and so on. I’d like to think of a way to make amends to them.
Update: I am getting a lot of “ask your sponsor” responses, which is fine. For context, I posted this because I will be meeting with my sponsor on this topic soon and thought that working out my thoughts on this issue ahead of time might better prepare me for that conversation.
I have numerous of these in my yard and have gotten different answers. I live in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Hey everybody, I was in 1982. In my middle age, I have come to believe that almost all my problems are the result of a lack of good mentorship or poor planning. For example, my finances are way more of a mess than they need to be, but don’t you remember when we were kids how the message of every movie was that adults shouldn’t care about money? In retrospect, that was stupid advice. I wish good personal finance had been drilled into me from a young age in the same way that Spartans were raised for warfare. I could go on. But more and more, I am realizing that many of our generation were raised on a bunch of trends and theories that were not really well thought out. Almost everything that I actually find that I want is almost the opposite of what I was told that I would want as an adult. What do I really want? A quiet, conventional life with my wife and kids. Moderation. Sobriety. Stability. Humility. Safety. Friendly relationships with my neighbors and community. A spiritual life. Extra money for childcare and help keeping up the house. Zero debt.