Writing Prompt

You sometimes hear older people complaining about how kids are not outside enough, and how parents are too helicopter parenting and all that. And while there are benefits to keeping track of your kids more, its also very clear where this comes from, because a lot of the stereotypes about kids running all over are pretty accurate. They say the TV would ask "Do you know where your children are" to get parents to remember to check on their kids. Its definitely true. When I was young, my friends and I definitely just sort of, wandered all over. We had…

Plenty of people use Discord these days, which is literally just the modern chat room. But this concept has existed essentially since the start of the internet. And even before. There was a time in High School, where my friend and I figured out how to directly call each other over the computer to chat online. I mean, we could have just called each other, especially since we were doing it over dial up modems, but it was new and techy and super cool! We also used a few BBS systems that had a chat feature. I used to use…

I feel like I am fairly fortunate. So far, I mostly manage to avoid joint pain. I sort of have a knee thing that comes up for like a day every couple of months, but its not terrible and I probably just sat on it funny. I do feel it when I over exert, like recently dealing with water in the basement put me out for a few days, but that was more muscle than joint issues. On the other hand, I have a lot of second hand experience with joint pain through my wife and her EDS. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome…