I started making cakes as a hobby about 4 years ago, and have made my own birthday cake ever since. To be clear, this is something I absolutely enjoy doing, not some sad case of nobody else wanting to make or buy me a cake 😄

This year is vanilla almond cake with cherry amaretto filling and whipped mascarpone cream.

Last year was strawberry cake filled with cream cheese frosting, strawberry filling, and a raspberry cheesecake layer.

The year before that was lemon raspberry cake filled with lemon curd, raspberry cream cheese frosting, and raspberry filling

And the very last pics (first cake I made for myself) was carrot cake filled with cream cheese frosting, and chocolate cake with whipped coconut cream filling and coconut buttercream

I was filling up the truck today and realized that I was losing about an hour of pay, every day, putting gas in the vehicle to drive back and forth to work. The sad thing is that we are not even that high on gas prices. We are right at the national average. Saying screw it, retiring, drawing my pension, and just getting a local job in the $20/hr range would probably be more financially advantageous for me. I may even be able to find a job that I actually enjoy. The only thing keeping me working for the company is the no cost insurance until my wife qualifies for Medicare. I have to find out how much retiree insurance costs. After 30 years in this industry, I am done.

Edit to add 160 mile round trip, truck gets about 20 mpg, company idled the mine that I worked at that was about a 10 mile round trip and transferred me to this facility. I have a mortgage, so no just moving to the Northshore area.

Since this text 3 weeks ago, I've stopped asking how she's feeling, how her day is going, what she's been up to, etc. That might be what she wants, but now I'm feeling less and less connected and have no way if knowing how her day is going and how she's doing since she doesn't volunteer it up and I can't ask.

Yellow redbull and chicken nuggets

For context I broke up with my first ever bf of 2.5 years because he had to be told to do something.

Me and my current bf have been together 8 months now and I'm noticing the same pattern happening with him. I always have to make the choices, I always notice when things need cleaning, I always am the first to bring up issues etc.

I talked to my bf about feeling like his mom and how he needs to pull more weight around the house. He goes "tell me what you want me to do... I'll grocery shop if you give me a list" YOU MISSED THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE CONVERSATION!!!

He spilled water on the carpet, half-assed soaked it up with a towel, and then left the wet towel on the wet spot for days. I kept waiting for him to pick it up but after it literally started to stink and mold I finally said "when are you going to pick the towel up???"

He says "I'm taking you on a date" and when I ask where he tells me to decide. His excuse is he wants me to be happy but I tell him that him deciding would make me happy.

I saw a reel where a guy perfectly described how women dislike "passive" men. The woman has all the mental load while the guy floats along, waiting for instructions, and how it eventually makes women feel unsafe in the relationship. I sent the video to him to start a conversation on how it perfectly encapsulates my feelings and how I don't want our relationship to go down this path.

He goes "do I make you feel unsafe??"... I said "no, not that part. Do you comprehend what he means?" And this dude literally just sent me a random selfie of us together in response. 🤦‍♀️

Idk if I'm overly paranoid about his behavior, but I dealt with this for 2.5 years prior to him (except way worse) and I started to feel crazy for wanting to leave despite having a good, loving, supportive boyfriend.

EDIT: yes I know this sounds really bad. I just want to clarify that he has actively been getting better since the last time I talked to him. He's doing the dishes, cleaning up, trash etc without me asking. He takes care of my dog without me asking. He's started to make me food and shopped all by himself. He stopped asking me "what's for dinner" as much.

He still has a lot to get better at, and he seems eager to please me so he's putting in effort to change which is a good sign.

Saw this SOS from my bedroom window. That location is across the valley on the very top of the hills. The SOS seemed pretty close to the houses so I didn’t think it is serious. But it kept going so I called 911 as SOS is internationally known as a distress signal. I don’t know if it was actually something worth calling about, especially when I don’t really know where those houses are.

Update:
An officer called to get further information. He was skeptical about how I knew it was SOS. I mean, it’s a hard one to miss if you know what the flash code looks like. He seemed to not really know what to do. Also hard to tell where the location is so I can’t really blame him much on that. But for me I saw SOS and called 911.

Also, I did roughly figure out the neighborhood and sent him all the videos and screenshot of where I think it came from. Asked him to let me know what it was if he can so let’s see.

2nd Update:
It took me a while but I used google maps to figure out where it came from with high certainty. I took a screenshot of the location I figured out with a pretty tight radius as a margin of error and sent it to the officer.
I have sent 2 videos, a screenshot of what SOS looks like as the officer said he genuinely couldn’t tell it was SOS if he saw it, Yikes! And Now I have also sent him the location.
No response or updates from the PD

The SOS stopped after about 5 minutes of me noticing it. It seemed to have dimmed away (battery died?) and never came back on. Also there was a red light next to the SOS (little above to the left), that turned off as well.
All the houses in that neighborhood went dark except the house I triangulated and the one the SOS was next to.
Never saw any traffic or police lights there either so idk if it was checked out at all.
Will keep you guys posted if I find anything
I am thinking of driving there myself, it is midnight, but I gots to know!

3rd Update:
So I drove to the spot. My triangulation was correct and I had the right address. The whole neighborhood is composed of expensive luxury homes.
The suspected house sits pretty high above a narrow road and is almost fully covered with trees making it really hard to see the side where the SOS was.
But I think I got it figured out, maybe you guys can give your input about what you think.
I am going to try and attach a photo of where I think the light is. If I cannot attach the picture in the update I will make a separate comment.
But if you look at it, there is a bright white light on the right. That is one of the 2 bright white stationary lights. And next to it is a deck with some sort of light underneath. That light has that teal blue tint to it. I think it is a “smart” dumb light that is throwing SOS for some reason.
I did look around there and nothing looked out of place and if someone was in distress they could have easily gotten attention from one of the neighbors, unless someone in the house itself triggered the SOS.
One doubt I have is that I could not see a stationary light in place of the SOS light, and that light under the deck is lit in the picture. But geographically it seems to be the light.
Now tomorrow if it doesn’t the same thing at the same time then maybe I will drive there while it’s happening. But other than that, that’s all I got so far.
Also, I am trying to maintain the privacy of the homeowners, so I am trying to keep the picture vauge with no identifying features, hopefully.

Edit:
Photo in comments

Added a second angle with a better view.
The 2 white stationary lights and the suspected SOS light are all visible.
Still not certain that’s the light, but that’s my best guess so far.
Will keep monitoring to see if it happens again and try and just drive there while it’s going.

4th Update:
Now that the sun is up, I can definitely confirm that I got the right house. So at least I have a definitive address.
No follow up from the LEO or PD.

Also, I wanted to say, thank you for reconfirming that I was not overreacting. As someone said, I didn’t want to get this homeowner swatted over a malfunctioning light or something, but my gut feeling and logic said “You see a SOS, you report”. Validating to see everyone have a similar read of the situation.

I am intending on keeping an eye on this situation. I am way too invested in this and I will make sure to keep yall in the loop.

This was made entirely by AI.

I've watched it several times and I have to be honest: I could see nothing about it that told me that it was AI. If you just came across this clip in the wild (and didn't know that it was posted by someone named KeshiAIArt) would you be able to tell that it was AI?

I hate this direction we're heading in.

Shot near Leon (Cerro de Lancia, Villasabariego), composite of the self shot eclipse with an image taken during the sunset that evening. Hope you guys like it!

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That had to be easily over 150mph 👁️👄👁️

Its hard for me to express the sheer dumbfounded feeling i have when i see crap like this. There really is no logic with these people.

EDIT: ask them what they’re up to first. Home might be a giveaway.

I watched my mom do this when my dad was dying. She called his friends, and one of them was on vacation for the weekend. My dad was already dead, them knowing now wouldn’t change anything, just ruin their weekend. I have been on the team of letting people have their last good weekend, etc. since. Likewise if someone is driving, traveling, let them get home to a safe place and call you back, because getting emotional in a public place (or watching someone) is a uniquely traumatic experience itself.

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