this site is a blast from the past, for sure

i guess i'm thinking how many of my formative years were spent on here...

My mother-in-law almost did something really dumb yesterday.

She is staying at our house for Thanksgiving. She comes downstairs a little while ago and announces we're helping someone for Thanksgiving and Christmas. My wife was like, "what are you talking about?"

She says she found a family on NextDoor that needs help and she called them and talked to a man.

So my wife starts asking for more information and mother-in-law doesn’t want to say. She doesn’t like how my wife is often so skeptical of what her mom is saying (but has good reason to be). She’s just like “I got a handle don’t worry we just need to go get the stuff and bring it to him and go to his house” and so on.

We are like, no, tell us more about this guy. Show us the post online where you found him.

We find the post. It has his name attached. We look up where he lives and his background info. We know where he lives because he gave her his address directly on the phone.

We look him up. He’s been arrested several times recently for theft, making threats, and assaulting a woman last year in December.

He lives in a tiny shack house in the woods. That’s the address he gave her to go deliver food.

She was totally about to find herself in a very bad situation.

When she talked to him on the phone, she never got his name. We found that out through the online post. We were like, you didn’t ask for his name? And mother-in-law was like oh I didn’t think about it. So many things weren’t adding up.

I’m glad she did not give him our address or something like that. I would’ve been super mad. Probably enough to tell her to go home because now we have to worry for our safety.

I remember a time when the older generations told us, "don't believe everything you read on the Internet." And now it seems so many of them believe every meme and clickbait and scam post they find.

I just had a great hour of opening Pokemon card booster packs with my kids. We each took turns opening up our Elite Trainer Boxes (they were on sale 50% off and knew this would be fun) and they both really had a great time. I managed to pull a Charizard card for the first time in my life! My childhood 'Zard was bought at the swap meet, and now it shares a binder with this guy!

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I really don't want to go down the expensive path of buying TGC, but every now and then doing something like this is probably going to become a mini tradition.

Just got back from a work trip in Chicago. Longest I've been away from my kid, so I missed him so much.

So exhausted and haven't gotten any real rest or downtime to truly recover since the summer. Looking forward to trying to get some rest and get my energy level up again.