The other day I lamented my inability to walk away from trucking. A lot of you were very supportive.

Update: orientation is tomorrow. I'm going to be making more than I've ever made in my life. In the eight months I've been away, the industry seems to have changed a lot. Money is making it back down to the drivers after a decade of trimming our pay any way they could. Hopefully the trend continues.

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 — 21 hours ago

Well, I tried hanging up my keys in December. It's not working. So back to the road for me.

I gave it my best shot, but there are just no other jobs to be had. If I don't go back on the road, I'm either going to end up homeless or in jail.

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 — 4 days ago

At what point...

... did Hannah Ascher take up the coin of Lasciel? Was it during the novel? Before the novel? It obviously hadn't been long during her final battle with Dresden, because Lasciel wouldn't have made the mistake that Hannah did, so they weren't working together comfortably yet.

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 — 5 days ago

Well, my new insurance document is approved

It only took three uploads and a 45 minute conversation with support to convince Uber that Chris and Christopher are the same person.

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 — 6 days ago

What's a fact about you that is just pure good luck?

For example, I happen to be almost immune to poison ivy. An exposure that will give other people a two-week arm rash will probably give me an itchy spot about the size of a coin for a couple days. What are some things in your life that you just lucked out on?

u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 — 12 days ago

Ilyana: White Council lackey or Black Council lackey

She's obviously getting her cues from somebody who believes Dresden is the most dangerous force in the universe. But a lot of people believe that. So who do we think is in her ear? And do we think she's going to play a bigger role before everything's done?

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 — 15 days ago

Divorced, single again, have a small crock pot but a brain full of recipes for six

What can I do to cook individual size meals? I can't just eat pot pie and chef boyardee for the rest of my life.

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 — 24 days ago

Dresden's medical history

How many serious injuries has our boy received?

Storm Front concussed with a baseball bat

Fool Moon clubbed unconscious, drugged, shot

Keep it going

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 — 24 days ago

Excalibur (1981) – The effects are outdated, the dialogue is choppy and stilted, and the sound quality is terrible. But by God, I can never turn it off.

I don't know what it is about Excalibur that holds me like it does. Every individual aspect of the movie is mediocre, but the whole thing together is so much more than the sum of its parts.

u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 — 25 days ago

Quick question re: the Harry Dresden short story "Zoo Day"

I'm listening to this story for the second time and Maggie is giving her version. Two things just clicked in my head:

  1. When she asks Harry "What if I set something on fire."

  2. When Harry senses the presence of the warlock and she says, "His head snapped up like Mouse's head when he smells lighter fluid at the Carpenter house."

Is our girl a torch? Not a prodigy with fire magic, but a plain vanilla broken child who lights fires? Because psychologically speaking, that's a red flag the size of Nebraska.

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 — 28 days ago

Quick question re: Zoo Day

I'm listening to this story for the second time and Maggie is giving her version. Two things just clicked in my head:

  1. When she asks Harry "What if I set something on fire."

  2. When Harry senses the presence of the warlock and she says, "His head snapped up like Mouse's head when he smells lighter fluid at the Carpenter house."

Is our girl a torch? Not a prodigy with fire magic, but a plain vanilla broken child who lights fires? Because psychologically speaking, that's a red flag the size of Nebraska.

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 — 28 days ago

Let's fanfic! Help me turn this bit of dialogue I came up with into a full-fledged scene.

Langtry's cold, blue eyes smoldered.

"You've known about her your whole life. Through your time on the White Council, through your time as a Warden, and you never spoke up."

My own eyes matched the heat in his. "What should I have said, honored Merlin? I thought she died with DuMorne. Should I have told you I didn't kill one person with magic that day, I killed two? Is that what that terrorized teenager under the black hood should have said in his defense?"

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 — 1 month ago