I have a cat, two dogs, married, high paying 30 hour a week job, no debt, several good friends, tight family. Still net negative.

My experience has been a net negative and I don’t event have it that bad.

Go outside. Pet an animal. Play in the snow if you have any. Get coffee with a friend. Etc.

100TB, external enclosures, no backups 🤔 I would pickup a used storage server with a lot of drive bays from eBay. The external bays seem attractive but I’ve never heard good stories about performance or reliability.

The south.

I can see a PA same day at a urgent care but not a doctor. So I can get meds for common things. But no ongoing care.

USA. Others have covered cost but I’d like to add how long it takes to see a doctor.

I have an established primary care physician that I’ve seen for years. Now though if I want an appointment I have to wait at least two months. So I have a membership with an urgent care near me that puts a $180 cap on visits to their chain of urgent cares. There is obviously no on going care with them but most of the time that’s okay.

A friend of mine doesn’t have an established PCP and to get one he must wait at least a calendar year….

My father used to tell me sister he was going to paint “Goodyear” on the side of her and float her out the back door. Like a blimp. She turned out fine I think.

You tell your kids their ugly?

A wannabe manager / story teller type.

He couldn’t tell the truth to save his life. He would tell stories all day within earshot and you could hear the story morph through the day.

He’s a director of IT now I think. I can’t be sure because he never told the truth.

I’ve just been installing updates since 2016 for windows 10. I just fix what I break and learn from it just like on any other OS.

I hate concerts. I don’t want to be hard of hearing later in life. Drinks cost too much. Bathrooms have a line and smell awful. Thousands of people.

I’ve been to 5 or so in my life and each time I regret it and hate the whole experience. Even artists I really like. They just sound better in a quiet studio.

I don’t understand the appeal. Can someone explain it to me please?

One without designer suffering.

Make things just complex enough that others don’t want to learn it but not so complex anyone can say it is too complex.

Also pick up tasks others don’t want to and make yourself hard to get rid of.

Then quit and get hired back as a consultant/contractor and work your own hours and how much you want to.

I paid off all of my debts and have a few months saved up. Same feeling I think. It is the most freeing feeling I’ve ever felt. Like a mini retirement.

Too many eggs in one basket

You need help stopping and there is help available. I quit drinking a few years ago after realizing I was an alcoholic. You need to stop before you body forces you to stop.

With some effort, support, and planning I was able to not drink for a year straight. And have since been able to have a drink without having too much or wanting more.

It isn’t easy but neither is liver issues.

Figure out what drives you to drink and avoid it. I cut friends that I liked to drink around. Quit a well paying job because it stressed me out. I took a few weeks off after I quit and kinda reset and finally had found my major trigger.

Anyway you can get a handle on it.