You Disappoint Us!

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls." -Dr. C Jung

So much to be disappointed about. Let's talk about it.

[You Disappoint Us! @YouDisappointUs]

@omgsidewalks We still aren't letting you in. Work on your own country for a bit.

[Our Old Dad @OurOldDad]

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[You Disappoint Us! @YouDisappointUs]

@OurOldDad Dude, i forgot all about Little Tommy. I hope he's doing ok. He'd be almost 40 now!

[Our Old Dad @OurOldDad]

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Back in 1995, I had a giant box of duplicate photos, too much free time at IBM, and a theory that people can’t stand nothing.

So I invented Little Tommy.

He mailed strangers random photos and waited to see what stories came back.

[Our Old Dad @OurOldDad]

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The obvious answer was: some idiot mailed them junk photos.

Almost nobody landed there.

They made plots, clues, warnings, conspiracies, and one very disappointed fake child.

Little Tommy:
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[You Disappoint Us! @YouDisappointUs]

@lizzkelly7 what's really disappointing is that a story this shitty, with so many contradictions and inconsistencies gets so much attention. This is what we reward and then wonder why the world smells like sewage.

[Our Old Dad @OurOldDad]

How I'd love to experience being 2 on a beautiful summer day again, just for a few minutes!

[Our Old Dad @OurOldDad]

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Naming a baby sounds sweet.
It is not.

It is negotiation with a hospital deadline. In our house, it is also foreign policy, psychological warfare, and letting the right person suggest the name I already wanted.

[Our Old Dad @OurOldDad]

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Somehow I got Raven Zam.
Then I got Alexander Zam.

One Zam is a tribute. Two Zams is a doctrine.

The coup of all coups:

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@AM_Pines @meishato If you already have a family enrolled, then you don't pay extra per kid. Where have you been getting your insurance? It is one of the only things that doesn't get more expensive when you add kids, thankfully.

[Our Old Dad @OurOldDad]

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I got the miracle. They get the math.

That is not an even trade.

So the only answer I have is to be their dad now, all the way, and get serious about staying in the room.

Loving them more than anything is true.

It is not a fitness plan.

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[Our Old Dad @OurOldDad]

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I read an article by a woman who had an old dad.

She said he was a great father.

That was the part that hurt.

Because her complaint wasn’t that he failed her. It was that the math was unfair from the beginning.

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Economics & Finance is not about worksheets, hot takes, or getting rich.

It is whether a young adult can handle real money decisions without getting trapped by debt, paperwork, sales pressure, or institutions that profit from confusion.

[LifeEducation.org @LifeEd_org]

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The floor is practical: budget, read the lease, understand the paycheck, spot bad deals, ask better questions, and know what tradeoff they are actually making.

Domain 6: Economics & Finance
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It wasn’t just the music. It was the year everything was right in front of me, and I didn’t reach for it.

Hit shuffle. Let it argue with itself.

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1993 was my musical home year.

Pearl Jam at Balch. Nirvana at the Denver Coliseum. CDs, tapes, late nights, Boulder, IBM during the day, and the strange freedom of being twenty-eight with too many versions of myself running at once.

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Spring 1990. Purdue after graduation. A random party, too much weed and shrooms, and somebody saying, “Let me play you something.”

Then Let Love Rule and Shake Your Money Maker, back to back.

Some nights don’t come back. They just get within a listen.

[Our Old Dad @OurOldDad]

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Thirty-six years later, the memory is still blurry at the edges and dead solid in the middle.

Two records. One room. A life path cracking open a little.

New Our Old Dad post: Within a Listen

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