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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
Zingoleb:
--- Quote from: CardinalFang on 09 Apr 2013, 18:19 ---
--- Quote from: Metope on 07 Apr 2013, 07:29 ---Hey guys, I think I'll go back to posting on this forum again. Just popped in for a sec and realised how many people I know here who I don't have much contact with elsewhere, so yeah, good to be back!
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Great, another reason to check in here. Geez!
I kid of course.
Wait, wasn't I supposed to start posting more or something?
Hmm according to a post back in January I was.
I need to start working on that I suppose.
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well, you always were a prolific poster
(eric, right?)
Valdís:
Brain-dump time right before sleep!
When Gareth mentioned the city of Preston over in the Relationship thread I was reminded of a short story I was writing when I was like.. 15 or so? Coincidentally it took place in Preston.. or at least a fictional in-my-head version of it, since I hadn't the faintest idea what it was like. Picked something in northern England. Probably because I wanted to write it in English.
Essentially it focused on a girl trapped in a medical institution for all her life, with only the faintest idea of humanity. Although she manages to get away from there for a time in the end she dies without rectification and after the loss of the people taking her in. I've lost the old file I wrote it in, but I did find my old notebook. Later I made a sort-of continuation about that alternative world where it followed an amoral researcher traveling through war-torn eastern Europe (related: those post-it notes).
(Note: I don't really take regular notes. A lot of the time I draw pictures or find little sayings that'll remind me of a mood I wanted to convey.)
(click to show/hide)Gotta love being uncertain about how to spell "guard" in this character-bio:
Some bits of text from thinking about what to write:
Like I said, sayings can help me remember. "Brother, hello and good-bye? Oh, that's her forming a real bond with someone and then losing that person." etc.:
Roaming a Crapsack World:
Random bit on the cover which I think is neat:
Hurray for memories more to do with terrible teenage writing. Fun to still have stuff like this. :angel:
Jace:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 08 Apr 2013, 23:33 ---
--- Quote from: Jace on 08 Apr 2013, 21:53 ---t turns out that paypal took out an extra $345 for the rattan order I did on Friday. I'll be getting it back tomorrow probably (I called with a very wtf tone in my voice) and so it will be okay, but it was still a bit jarring to see my checking account at zero dollars when I thought it should be around $250.
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I had a time when a sales website kept crashing mid-transaction - and I found that PayPal had "reserved" the amount in my account each time; it wasn't taken, but became unavailable. I did wonder how it could have been done without, and whether full-on crashproof transaction programming is practical through a browser; at the least, the banks would have to cooperate a lot, I guess. (It's not a field of programming I know much about.)
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I didn't fully explain on this oops. What happened was that I sent the payment and then noticed the order was wrong almost immediately after and called the guy. He noticed too and thus refunded me the money and then recalculated and sent me a message with the proper amount. Neither of us knew that paypal sort of fronts the money to the seller then takes it from the account. So what happened was paypal sent the seller $345, then $299 on Friday. The seller sent them back $345. Then paypal apparently still needed to take out the $345 and $299 from my account and then give back the $345, which I should get back today (wednesday).
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Akima on 09 Apr 2013, 16:28 ---My sympathies too.
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Thanks, people.
--- Quote ---I had not heard of Michael Gerzon, so I googled him. He died as a consequence of an asthma attack. It is shocking that this still happens. In 1995 Teresa Teng (adored by millions in the "Sinosphere", including me), died at 42 after an asthma attack. Asthma sucks. Cancer too. Support medical research!
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To be fair (I don't know how much your source said), Michael's liability to asthma was a severe and chronic condition, and not the only serious chronic condition that he suffered from even when I first met him. Every few years he would disappear off the radar for months at a time, and then reappear just mentioning that he'd been in hospital. I'm sure it severely limited what he might otherwise have achieved. At the end, his last attack came while he was out; but instead of calling a taxi or an ambulance, he decided to walk the mile to hospital, on a cold night. This over-faced his immune system, and he died from complications rather than simply the asthma.
Metope:
I'm sorry, Paul. Cancer really is the worst, I'm glad he had such a good group of friends and family around him.
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