Well, it is that time of year again for me to ponder my age again... on the 11th this month I'll be turning 35, which means I have to start rounding up to being closer to 40 then to 30... Oh, I felt like making jokes about midlife crisis and stuff but then I noticed that I made exactly the same jokes last year. Whoops. I guess I'm getting forgetful in my old age :-P

Any big updates during the last year? Hm... Still the same job, still no wife or kids and stuff, still the same car, still the same flat,... (There's definitely more LEGO in it, though 😉) My dad's sick but so far it's going okay and I'm not the kind of person to let that pull me down.

Oh, just thought of something random to share now that I wrote the a list containing "same job" and "no kids"... I like kids and kids like me and I work in IT which is nice but not very sociable... So I thought I'd look into doing some volunteer work... Not quite unsurprisingly walking into the place that manages volunteers around here as a single 34 year old male with no official qualifications in the childcare sector raises a few eyebrows... And I ended up with nice recommendations of places that needed someone to build their homepages and stuff 🙄 I guess I'll stick to playing with/babysitting the kids of my friends and family 😝

On to what you are probably here for, some GAs... Again, nothing fancy cause I'm lazy and cheap, but there should be some technically unbundled stuff in there... The rules are taken from my last few posts...


Just to clarify 'cause multiple people seem to have misunderstood/over-interpreted: The stuff about no family and my job not being social was not meant so say that I'm really looking for a family and blame my job or anything... I like my solitary lifestyle :) It was more related to the stereotypical stuff about getting older means thinking about stuff like that.

And while I it's nice that people praise me for being willing to volunteer, I must confess that I ended up doing nothing cause everything they actually offered felt like actual work and not the playful fun I was hoping for :-P


New update: I broke my laptop screen. Looks like I did something to crack it while it was in the bag. I don't really use it much and it is already quite a few years old but still it sucks. I mainly use it when I spent some time with my parents, that's also why I did not hang around that much this weekend. Everything else still works so I guess I'll just leave it at my parents full time, I pretty much use it only at my old desk there anyway, guess it'll just turn into a mediocre desktop pc :P

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Yes, volunteering is going to resemble "work" in some form or another. The trick is to find "work" that you enjoy doing. If it involves interacting with people and/or is sponsored by a church or other community group, it will also help you with making new social connections D

P.S.(Nice collection of games you're giving away.)

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The trick is to find "work" that you enjoy doing.

Yeah, that's the 'problem', finding that niche and then getting to volunteer in it... The idea kind of started when I saw what seemed like a group of orphans (or foster children or something) at a nature park being minded by an incredibly annoyed woman. I thought, "I wonder if I can volunteer to do that, cause I don't get how you can be so annoyed, this seems like fun"...

is sponsored by a church or other community group

That would be best, but it feel like that usually involves first getting integrated into that group, to be trusted :-P

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Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

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You could always round to the third digit, and thus claim you are 0 years old. Or if that is unsuitable for (legal perhaps?) reasons, round to the closest 25 and voila, back in your twenties!

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I like the second idea... The downside is that that only leaves 2,5 years until I have to round to 50 ;-)

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That's when you start rounding to the closest 30!

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Herzlichen Glückwunsch, SilentGuy, und alles Gute! Bin da in einer ähnlichen Situation.. einfach ignorieren, ist nur 'ne Zahl auf dem Papier.

Beeindruckende Lego-Sammlung!

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Happy Birthday SilentGuy!

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Happy Birthday

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Happy Birthday, SilentGuy and I hope you'll have a very nice day! ^^

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Thanks. I got to leave work early cause of my birthday and I had no special plans but now I'll be going and meet some friends. Just hanging around at their place but still nice :)

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Have fun and a good time. :-)

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Happy birthday, Sir!
When I was 35, I was single with no kids. By the time I was 40, I had a wife and twin babies.
Be careful what you wish for! :p

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Just use floor rounding ... then you'll be 30 until you actually hit 40!

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Dude you need to do something big to shake up your life. you probaly have good genes that u want to pass on. find someone

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Happy Birthday! Hope it's filled with building a new Lego set you like!

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Happy Birthday!

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Happy birthday SilentGuy, have a great one and i wish you all the best.:)
Sorry for your laptop, i hope you can fix it for cheap

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Bump.

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Bump! And happy birthday :)

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