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Cake day: April 10th, 2024

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  • It’s a problem even for those of us who are neurotypical (my son is not which is why I follow this community also, so as he gets older I can understand better).

    But as someone said, bosses especially will say this and they really just want you to say it was your fault.

    In my mind, the difference is if you are excusing the behavior.

    “I’m sorry I’m late, I missed my alarm” is an explanation because I’m not excusing the behavior, just explaining.

    “I’m late because my alarm didn’t go off” is an excuse because I’m asking to excuse the behavior.

    That said, excuses seem to have this bad reputation as being just a reason for laziness, but they really shouldn’t as they can be valid.

    Example, my work requires 2FA to log in, which I get via a text. I use a local carrier and “our vendor who handles texting went down”. In that sense, that was my excuse for being late getting logged in - and it wasn’t laziness.


























  • I had forgotten about this game. It was a fun time. I think there was a Jungle Strike also

    The last memory I have of Desert Strike going to a local video game and card game place (Heebeegeebees in Ogden, Utah before they expanded) with some of my siblings and buying this for some portable system (GBA?) and starting to play.

    I then heard the owner (who was still in the shop back then) say “We can do this the easy way or the hard way”. It had transpired that one of my siblings had tried to steal something. Cops got called, fun times.

    For those curious, the rumor was that the easy way was police and the hard way was him chasing you with a bat