ROAD TRIP THREAD - 4:52am Los Angeles California. quick 550 miles with 🐐 @candicepool
this is a romantic birthday getaway and we were supposed to fly (flights booked, rental car reserved etc) but, like a petulant child, I woke up and decided I didn’t want to go to the airport and insisted we drive.
she seems excited about the drive though
the right song 🎵 can set the tone for the entire trip. the choice here is obvious
yikes.
first, of what will be many, refuel stop. also holy hell it’s freezing
at least gas is cheap.
we took Candices truck, I got it for her for Mother’s Day. it’s an incredible vehicle. basically a lux civilian version of a 6,000 pound NATO military vehicle. drives like a tank
basically this, minus the turret add leather seats
✌️
wife update
well well well. looks like this ray of sunshine is finally awake and ready for an exciting day
the girl loves wildlife
crossed state lines!!!
she needed to stop to buy a new toothbrush now, somehow, we are here
this isn’t going well at all.
she said when I order I screw it up.
people smoke here like it’s the 90s
she switched out of her normal pants and back into her pajama pants. also gas again
a hat with a badge and two six shooters. no way i’m passing up on this gem
hi Arizona!
this thing sure does love gasoline (the car, not the girl)
the sun is very very bright here in Utah.
also I nearly rolled the whip pulling off the freeway at 65
ok we made it. thanks for following along.
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iPhone 16 review. a totally non-technical review. context; i upgraded from a 14pro that i got two years ago. got the 16 pro white with 512g (wish id gotten 1tb but i flinched at the price) this phone cost me $1,414.29.
i didn’t need a new phone. old one was perfectly fine but wife needed a phone, hers was a 12 and battery was strugglign so justified the purchase by giving her my old one. plus new camera marketing was stellar and im a sucker and i just like to buy new stuff.
so i guess my thinking is this - we’ve reached a critical mass with iPhones, big leaps in capabilities stopped several iterations ago. my two year old device never seemed slow, camera never seemed bad, it never left me wanting for more.. continued..
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! a quick thread about marriage.
*this picture is from 2005, the day Candice and I eloped, got married in a Texas courthouse without telling anyone. we had gone on our first date just 3 weeks prior.
Marriage can be absolutely brutal. its work all the time. anyone who says otherwise is a fucking liar. Sharing every aspect of your life with another human is unnatural and requires relearning how to live.if you can do all that then you win. a life shared is a life lived
and while marriage is hard being alone is also hard. you have to choose your hard. there are no cheat codes.
any English majors out there? I heard someone use ‘cocksure’ in a sentence and it sounded awesome and smart and badass but I’m not sure I understand it’s usage vs just saying ‘sure’. I want to be cocksure I’m suing it properly (that seems right, right?)
I should probably get a job or something
way too much free time on my hands since I left new york city