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What constitutes as "fun" for you? How did alcohol play into it before?

If your idea of fun was going out to a club or bar with friends, was it the alcohol that you had fun with, or was it the social engagement? You can still have social nights out, you just need to try to change to venues (and/or friend groups) that don't expect alcohol to be a part of the activities. If you enjoy board games, maybe find a board game group. If you enjoy dancing, see if there are dance classes or studios nearby that are alcohol free.

If you usually stay at home and drink to alter your senses while watching TV/movies/videos, or play video games, or such, try doing the same things but without the drinks. Maybe change it up a little bit, to make it more novel and less likely to feel like you're missing something from your usual routine, but see how you enjoy the same hobbies sober.

If you would just sit around drinking, either at home or at a bar, was that actually fun, or was it just something you did to occupy the time? It might have just been a convenient escape. There are other escapes you can find, whether a new hobby, or exercise and fitness, or meditation.

Just be mindful to try to find something sustainable and healthy. Right now, drinking is a habit, and you don't really get rid of habits, you replace them with different ones. There are a good handful of people suggesting weed, and there is nothing wrong with that, but you'll have the same habits of "needing" something to enjoy the activities you do now, just it's weed instead of alcohol.

Not saying there is a wrong direction to face while riding an elevator (without further context), but it always just made sense to me to face the door you expect to open when the elevator gets to the floor you're traveling to. Like, nothing stops you from facing sideways on a moving sidewalk, but facing the direction you intend to go when the ride is over is more convenient.

I had to scroll back up because I wasn't paying attention and my brain initially just saw two dogs... I need more coffee

He's a shark fighter, he fights sharks He fights then in the water, 'cause that's where they are

Same! Obviously with lots of Tesla coils.

Maybe anymore Minecraft is different, but when it started it was about mining and crafting tools to mine more efficiently.

Terraria always evokes terrarium to me, which makes it feel like a whole little world, but also felt like it was more contained to me (from title alone).

A Chow Chow is the only dog that ever bit me, completely unprovoked, and I required stitches afterwards. I've only met one Chihuahua that didn't look crazed and try to attack.

I'd say it maybe depends more on individual temperaments of the dogs than it does a sweeping generalization of an entire breed.

My experience with the log cabin method reduces the flame and smoke aspects of a bonfire, and keeps it at a steadier, more even burn rather than the quick, higher heat of larger fires. We mostly used it for cooking.

Again, I'm sure that with deeper knowledge of fires someone could get better results. But for consistently made fires that were good for cooking, and didn't burn through fuel as quickly as a teepee fire would, the log cabin method was easiest to consistently reproduce. We'd usually cook using a Dutch oven, so coals were more important than flames, and high flames were often not allowed at the sites we stayed at.

The neighbor leaving their own garage open and having only themself to blame is exactly how I read it. I was assuming the HOA was planning to put surveillance cameras around the entire neighborhood, partially because I've only heard HOA as referring to suburban residential communities, and usually have heard "board" or "committee" being used for building or townhome setups.

Isn't the log cabin fire just doing that in a more organized and structured way? It allows the tinder to catch in the middle before catching the fuel logs, instead of having to add onto them. And sure, you can always restructure the fire once it's going, but you can also plan it ahead.

Not questioning your ability, rather the opposite. Sometimes structured fires are a standardized way to help people that aren't as skilled or intuitive for fires.

When I was in scouts we exclusively used firewood gathered on the spot and we're only allowed to do a minimal of chopping (never allowed to chop down a tree, only break up fallen logs into smaller pieces), and we made log cabin fires most often.

From the context of the post, I'm assuming it is personal garages attached to houses, and the theft was from specific neighbors that left the garage door open, not from a parking garage building.