# Mixed Thoughts **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** reactions\ **Created:** [March 23, 2026, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623 "2026-03-23T15:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/maphistos_sidekick/32/84973_2.png) [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Maphistos_Sidekick)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/41 "2026-05-20T13:37:17Z")
> [@Triweasel](#): > > “You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons. I shared that response with my wife after she got off the phone from dealing with the latest bit of family drama, and after appreciating the invocation of one of her favorite movies she said, “well, that’s about right”. I declined to remind her of the implications of turning down my willingness to rebook our trip to Alabama for November-December-ish rather than June given that some of the recent drama is a dying central air conditioning unit… ---
**Author:** ![Triweasel](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/triweasel/32/159_2.png) [@Triweasel](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Triweasel)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/42 "2026-05-20T14:23:26Z")
At least it’s a dry heat. Oh wait, you said Alabama not Arizona? Yep, you’re in for a sweaty time. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/maphistos_sidekick/32/84973_2.png) [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Maphistos_Sidekick)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 7:33pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/43 "2026-05-20T19:33:33Z")
The local TV weathercasters down there take the summer off and are replaced by a recording indicating the forecast is “hazy, hot, and humid with afternoon pop-up thunderstorms”. ---
**Author:** ![under12parsecs](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/96bed5/32.png) [@under12parsecs](https://community.goactuary.com/u/under12parsecs)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/44 "2026-05-21T18:55:09Z")
My driver’s license expires Monday. When I upgraded my license to an enhanced one last year, they told me that updating my photo at that time would let me renew online. I didn’t like the new photo, but no appointments were available, so I debated whether to just renew online vs wait as a walk in. Today I tried to renew online, but got a message that I wasn’t eligible. The DOL is opening late today for training, so as I’m in line waiting for them to open, I overheard someone else say they could book an appointment, so I tried. Appointment successfully scheduled for opening time today. ---
**Author:** ![Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/maphistos_sidekick/32/84973_2.png) [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Maphistos_Sidekick)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/45 "2026-05-24T23:40:13Z")
I mentioned my project with Ancestry a few posts above > [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](#): > > Meanwhile, my wife is extremely annoyed that I’ve hit the mother lode, while so far we’ve only found a bunch of farmers in her family tree. My wife probably shouldn’t have been annoyed, as that mother lode ended up being in her family tree too. Instead, she has to endure my new pet name for her, “cousin,” as we’re supposedly 23rd cousins, twice removed. ---
**Author:** ![Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/breadmaker/32/83065_2.png) [@Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Breadmaker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/46 "2026-05-25T19:18:47Z")
I mixed up the last of my sourdough starter with regular flour and yeast. It baked up real nice and is now cooling. ---
**Author:** ![Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/breadmaker/32/83065_2.png) [@Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Breadmaker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/47 "2026-05-25T20:05:49Z")
Obligatory Simpsons vid: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kQAmCxo_9zg/hqdefault.jpg "S06E24 - Founding of Springfield and Shelbyville") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQAmCxo_9zg) ---
**Author:** ![NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/nerdalert/32/683_2.png) [@NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NerdAlert)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/48 "2026-06-05T12:37:18Z")
Need to pack today, leaving early Sunday morning for a Monday cruise out of Seattle. 8 business days off work. Yay! The happy part of that is, of course, the vacation. It’s needed. I’m at E. The annoyed part is everything that goes into being able to leave on a vacation: getting everything at work settled and delegated, packing, anxiety of flying, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/maphistos_sidekick/32/84973_2.png) [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Maphistos_Sidekick)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/49 "2026-06-05T13:33:31Z")
Every time I take more than a day of PTO, I end up asking myself: “why am I doing this?” because of the headaches associated with getting ready to go; I suppose I could do “staycations”…but they don’t help with the change in scenery that I periodically need for mental health, and don’t get through work anymore now that the folks I work with are more comfortable with meeting over Teams. ---
**Author:** ![Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/maphistos_sidekick/32/84973_2.png) [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Maphistos_Sidekick)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/50 "2026-06-10T20:54:57Z")
Good news of the day: my mother-in-law didn’t kill us, herself, or others driving after insisting she take us out to lunch, and there wasn’t an abnormal amount of drama during our visit. Bad news of the day: our first flight home this evening is delayed enough that there’s a nontrivial chance I, my wife, and my wife’s wheelchair pusher will be sprinting from one gate to the next at ATL this evening… ---
**Author:** ![SpaceLobster](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/spacelobster/32/38216_2.png) [@SpaceLobster](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SpaceLobster)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/51 "2026-06-11T00:56:46Z")
something something department of homeland security. my son was in his way to Alaska today, and the flight got cancelled. Welcome to a 3 hour drive at rush hour to pick him up from the airport and a two hour drive back tomorrow. Not the day for that. now it’s 9pm and in getting back to work. ---
**Author:** ![Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/maphistos_sidekick/32/84973_2.png) [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Maphistos_Sidekick)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 1:17am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/52 "2026-06-11T01:17:53Z")
> [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](#): > > there’s a nontrivial chance I, my wife, and my wife’s wheelchair pusher will be sprinting from one gate to the next at ATL this evening I’m too effing old to sprint from the end of one concourse to the end of another concourse!!! At least we didn’t get stuck at ATL overnight! ---
**Author:** ![Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/breadmaker/32/83065_2.png) [@Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Breadmaker)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 1:32am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/53 "2026-06-11T01:32:57Z")
Flying is for suckers. ---
**Author:** ![Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/maphistos_sidekick/32/84973_2.png) [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Maphistos_Sidekick)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 3:56am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/54 "2026-06-11T03:56:07Z")
Sadly, Star Trek transporters don’t currently exist. ---
**Author:** ![Vorian\_Atreides](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/vorian_atreides/32/65623_2.png) [@Vorian\_Atreides](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Vorian_Atreides)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 11:55am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/55 "2026-06-11T11:55:26Z")
We need to find these guys . . . ![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/8/6/861181aae79f09fb1064937cc35ceef0ce9cdd99.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/nerdalert/32/683_2.png) [@NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NerdAlert)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/56 "2026-06-15T14:29:32Z")
All vacations must come to an end. But I’m not going back to work until Thursday! ---
**Author:** ![SpaceLobster](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/spacelobster/32/38216_2.png) [@SpaceLobster](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SpaceLobster)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/57 "2026-06-19T14:50:43Z")
My son’s gf and I just drove an hour to pickup a porch swing. So that was a fun roadtrip. But she paid for the swing sight unseen and yeah, looks like I’ve got some work to do this weekend. It probably should’ve gone to the dump but the cleverly avoided taking some pictures showing the actual state. Too late, they had their money. ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/58 "2026-07-06T18:56:12Z")
yay me, i take a multi vitamin. well, 4 days a week when im at work. but i should NOT have bough the 275 tablet bottle. things are horse pills. and I have like 2 years of them. maybe I am learning to understand why all things are available in gummy form these days ---
**Author:** ![NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/nerdalert/32/683_2.png) [@NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NerdAlert)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/59 "2026-07-06T19:57:51Z")
I wish I could take a gummy, but iron is the thing I need most and those either don’t come in gummy form (kids can OD on them), or they taste terrible. Horse pills for me… ---
**Author:** ![NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/nerdalert/32/683_2.png) [@NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NerdAlert)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/mixed-thoughts/12623/60 "2026-07-06T19:58:11Z")
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