Not sure if it has been noticed or not but unos sig line says today is his one year off cigs day.
I tried to catch up but it's been 24 hrs and I only made it until 0800 Hawaii time today. Too busy. Stuck in an office that isn't my own (so I can't vape without sticking my head out the door) guarding bottles of urine (chain of custody thing). Not an ideal day. However, I mixed ecto cooler and whipped cream up in my wife's discarded protank (I was feeling quirky and needed something different) and it's absolutely awesome. Probably 5/8 ecto 3/8 whipped cream. Looks like I'm going to have to order a 50 of the ecto. Now I'm bummed I only have about 10 ml left.
Oh, I remember those days. I am *so* glad I don't have to worry about chain of custody any more.
Or supervising legal blood alcohol tests. I'm needle phobic. Our medics learned that they'd better have smelling salts nearby if I was going to have to watch a blood draw - because if I passed out, we had chain of custody issues. Only got near that point once, but that once was enough to end up with some friendly teasing for the next few months.
Guess I'm just not feelin' the love
Aw...

Uno mas
No I gotcha. And I didn't mean to sound critical or challenging. I actually agree with you. Kids who defend themselves often get dubbed violent because the dubbers don't see all the nasty that lead up to that moment.
I had to deal with explaining to my kid that in school, no, it wasn't ok to dive into a fight to protect your friend who was getting the snot beat out of him. You had to go get an adult. This was after explaining that the school had a no tolerance policy for violence of any type, so fighting back at the bullies meant getting into just as much trouble as the bully.
Got to explain to him that I actually was fine with what he'd done, but that sometimes, you have to learn to play by the rules and beat the system from within, rather than acting on instinct. Made me cringe to have to explain both of those, but learning to figure out what the rules are and how to make conscious decisions about when to work within them, when to bend them, and when to accept that there will be consequences for breaking them that may not seem fair (or, frankly, *be* fair) is part of growing up.
I'm still annoyed about the "if you fight back against a bully you get punished too" rule, however.
Finally home. Warm. And grateful that the crazy cold weather is leaving us for now.