Path safety: I’m in Australia, it’s pretty safe.
Dog: I don’t take my dog to the library, he’s fine at home.
Encumbrance: That’s personal, I’m a big guy, I can carry a 20kg backpack for an hour or two without issue.

I got a odd religious name that I’ve since dropped for my Anglo name. It’s been a drag my whole life having a weird fucking name. So many people asking the same five or so questions everytime I meet someone. When I meet people with the regular name, no one gets a view into my history and my hippie upbringing, which I felt sort of immediately put me on the back foot with more conservative types. It’s certainly ruined a few job applications. I’ve had a few hospital stays where every person who came made the same dumb small talk about the name FOR A WEEK. My last surgery the change of name forms had gone through and no one asked me why I’m called Andrew, which tbh was glorious.

e: Note I’m a white guy with Irish/Brittish DNA.

5km/h is my casual walking pace.

To answer their question, I walk my dog 4km twice a day.

Bro.

Worth noting, it’s a pretty short book so don’t sleep on it.

the 6th day

One of my DnD groups only share IG memes so I never see them because I don’t have IG.

Fetch, even.

Viagra is a vasodialator so it may help with the circulation issues. But like I inferred, having a rock solid erection isn’t essential to enjoying intimacy with people. If you are getting intimate with someone, let them know you have a minor medical issue that you’ll need to work around. I have one, I mention it openly to partners and they’re happy that I’m comfortable enough to do so. I had a lot of bad sex thinking there was something wrong with me (tight foreskin) when I just needed to communicate better with my partners. My best tip would be to ask partners if they have any sex toys and to show you how they like to use them.

It’s not pathetic, it’s a modern way of finding things out. I had to listen to Dr Love on late night ABC radio with call in questions from teens about sex. My parents were 100% useless. As far as the quality of your erection, if you’re like the majority of young men, once someone you’re being intimate with grabs your dick it’ll get plenty hard.

Mate, you’re allowed to have slow gentle sex. It’s nice. If you’re treating every session like a crossfit workout you’re missing out on the intimacy and tenderness you mention desiring. Genitals are super sensitive and feel great when rubbed together. If that’s not your thing, you do you, but it feels a bit like you’re making a decision from a place of ignorance rather than experience. I’m middle age, low quality erections and vaginal dryness are themes in my sex life now. Penetrative sex isn’t the only way two people can have fun, with open safe communication of desires being at the top of the list.

For first timers, start light, have a trip sitter.

It’s difficult to describe if you haven’t tried drugs. Maybe a lessening of your ego and a different perspective on your life. The combo of psychedelic and dissociative gives a powerful experience. Best approached with a definite question or two about life for when the psychedelic bit calms down and the introspective bit starts.

But also like Alan Watts says, once you get the message, hang up the phone.

Morning dog walking meditation.

Vipassana breathing body-monitoring meditation.

Mahayanan tong-Len.

A little ketamine just as the lsd or shrooms kick in.

New battery for mum’s thinkpad for her birthday.

During covid lockdown I made a list of every friend I still had a phone number for. I called someone for a chat once every few days. I called about fifty people and most conversations went for 2-3 hours. We had a great catch up. Zero of those people have initiated a return phone call.

OTOH I caught up with friends from an old gaming club and the new club has a bunch of people I used to know. They’re not going to reach out, but there’s an event fortnightly that I"m welcome to.

I had some other friends that I distanced myself from as they were all getting into meth. I don’t mind a loose party but meth is a step too far in my books.

Contact details for a plumber, electrician and HVAC tradesperson.

PPE - Gloves, ear muffs, goggles, face shield, etc.

I have a wood chipper and an anatomy degree. It’d be a real bother to feed a body through a chipper. It’d all have to be chopped down to about the thickness of my wrist. Limbs sure, but head and torso would be so much work.

You’d want an industrial meat grinder like what they make dog food out of.

eg, Orange County.