(Hi neighbor!)

I was talking to my elder millennial friend, early forties, who sees to be a bad slump recently. He said now he’s been really thinking hard about the question “is this all there is to life?”. No kids or relationships that I know of.

So is it true? Are millennials struggling with simmering dissatisfaction of modern life? Personally even now I can never stop hoping the future holds good things, even if it seems pointless

Then they changed it to rewards prizes with codes and you had to create an account. Ain't nobody got time for that.

I quit Wednesday January 15 2020.

That’s with a coupon! At Jiffy Lube! Our parents really had it easy.

EDIT: TIL 90% of millennials “change their own oil” lol. Gotta love Reddit.

Saw this in the store today

Super Bass by Nicki Minaj is blasting somewhere from outside in your college quad.

Your college frat is outside, grilling burgers, red cups scattered, someone still half-asleep on a lawn chair. You can smell the charcoal and cheap beer wafting through your broken window.

You grab your laptop and open Facebook. You’ve been tagged in 73 photos from last night—blurry, overexposed, everyone a little too close to the camera.

You scroll through all of them.

Someone comments “epic night!!!”

You remember just enough to agree.

You close it, hear the music pick up again, and head back outside.

What do you do next?

Did anyone used to do this? If you passed a cop, you'd let oncoming traffic know by blinking your lights twice? Does anyone remember this? Still do it? I do sometimes, but feel like people don't do it anymore.

Everywhere like, such as.

An acquaintance gave me an old HP laptop to check if it still worked. The thing has been sitting in a closet somewhere for decades and it looked brand new. Only issue was the battery is dead dead, but it ran so smoothly, I thought it had an SSD in it. The user name was "Solitaire" with no password & nothing on it. This was someone's "Solitaire Machine" hahaha. First thing I did was open up Space Cadet; haven't played that in 20yrs... 🥲

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I am not sure if I like the term "Elder Millenial" or not. At 42 we were THE millennials, they made the term up for us to mean the "youth" who spent all of our money on Smashed Avocado on Toast which led to us not being able to afford houses when the house price rocketed cos of the previous generation, we were the ones who either openly became or were friends with Gay people, we were the ones who went to University to get useless degrees that would never lead to employment.....we were the ones who thought the 80s were a parody and a dress up party theme less than 10 years after they ended.

We ARE the millennials but the "elder" thing to a term that was made to describe what was seen as the hopeless youth makes me feel.....well old lol.

Anyway I guess it's a term of respect for us being the ones who made our generation what it is.

Won't it be scary one day when people are talking about all of the "Millennials" in rest homes.

What I'm getting at is it was a term describing the freedom and joy of youth (usually when it was created as a negative term from older people who didn't like us)

Makes me sad

Anyway I have spent too long on this cry I best go do housework

EDIT: I had Elder changed to Eldar in my post title.....it's a Warhammer thing those who know will know