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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The day my mom passed after a 2 year battle with cancer. My wife and I were running all day, from something like 5am. We finally get home about midnight and realize we hadn’t eaten anything at all that day. We look in the cupboards, fridge, etc and there is absolutely nothing but a single can of chef boyardee ravioli. We were so tired, we stood at the kitchen sink eating them cold, right out of the can. About half way though the can we both started crying as we hadn’t let the emotions touch us yet. So through our tears of grief, we ate cold ravioli out of a can.




  • I went to a boarding school for the blind. The high school and elementary schools were connected by a long hallway. I was 19 and so had a bit more freedom to do things the others were not allowed. One of the thing I liked doing was hanging out with the elementary principles admin assistant. She was 22 and we really liked each other. You can fill in the rest I’m sure. They couldn’t do anything about it, but they really tried. She eventually quit but would come back and pick me up to go to her place. Got asked once where I was going everyday by a dorm manager. Told them the truth, this guy was an older biker, drove a Harley and wore a leather jacket. The kids loved him cause he wasn’t an ass and let us get away with a lot of stuff. He thought it was hilarious. I was told by others multiple times that it was inappropriate. The year after I graduated they added a rule to the bylaws that said no students could date or have any other relationships with school staff.




  • I moved from CAL to East TN in my teens. We lived in the middle of nowhere, like garbage got picked up every 3 months, had to drive a mile to get our mail, that sort of thing. Anyway, we had a pit we threw garbage in that was about 200 or so ft from our back door. I was the oldest and so it was my job to take the trash to the pit after dinner every night. I had forgot that night, and around 1am decided to run it down. I have a 12guage that we took when we went down that way as it was on the outskirts of a thick wood. This night, my genius ass forgot the gun, but grabbed the bag and headed down to the pit. It was a full moon and very easy to see. I get down there and toss the bag into the pit, and hit a black bear right in the face. Realizing what I did, I haul ass back towards the house, the bear roars and gives chase. I could hear it pounding behind me but was too scared to look back to see how far it was behind me. I get into the house, slam the door, heart pounding in my chest. I look out the windows and the bear is about 5ft from the glaring at me through the window, it’s standing on its hind legs and I swear it was 12ft tall! (I know it wasn’t, but this is the memory of someone who was in total terror. Also, this is 25 years ago.) It paced back and forth a few times, I went and grabbed the gun, just in case it decided to try to break in. When I got back to the door it was gone. I never forgot to take out the trash, or to grab the gun again though, I can tell you that much.



  • You are probably consuming more salt then you should, but you won’t get cancer or anything like that. A good alternative would be peanut butter and white bread. You could add something like peanut butter sandwiches to reduce the amount of canned food, or could move to frozen veggies instead. But as a direct response to your question, usually canned food’s biggest issue the salt content and just being overcooked.