Since the blog thread is overflowing, can I make a new blog thread?
Blog Thread 5: The blog, the whole blog and nothing but the blog, so help me Jephzibah?
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Since the blog thread is overflowing, can I make a new blog thread?Blog Thread 5: The blog, the whole blog and nothing but the blog, so help me Jephzibah?
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I haven't blogged regularly in months.
it has been hard to try and get back in the groove.
!phrasing!
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Better now?
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Better now?
(Welu, I hope you don't mind! We have to cosset our poor delicate souls.)
Three bedrooms? Wonderful plans??(click to show/hide)
Yes, all is well. Little Martha has started swimming lessons already and managed to sleep through the first two in their entirety! Subsequently she has made better progress once waking up for the lessons.
The country of polar bears, vodka and balalaikas.
So it's two weeks until I move to Wisconsin, and I'm making my final plans for how to actually get there, but I'm not sure my old beater of a '93 Taurus can actually make it. I'm planning on replacing the car after I get to Wisconsin, but I don't want to do it right now in case I need the money I would be spending on a down payment. So, my choices, as far as I can see, are:Also keep in mind this week is going to see one last winter storm come through, so things are gonna be messy, esp. if you drive up along the Military Ridge on 151.
1) Put everything in the car, drive the car there, and take the risk of getting stuck in cornfields in Iowa with no cell phone reception.
2) Get rid of the car somehow, rent a car, drive that to Wisconsin, drop it off, and then get by without a car until I can get a new one. (Added cost due to the one-way car rental: ~ $500)
3) Rent a U-Haul and tow my car there (Added cost due to the U-Haul: ~ $750)
In terms of money, choice 1 is the clear one (plus I'm probably being overly pessimistic about my current car), though it doesn't exactly give me peace of mind. Choice 2 has the disadvantage of not being able to use my car after I get there. Choice 3 is the most expensive, but at least I wouldn't be taking the risk of getting stuck somewhere and I'd still have my car after I get there.
I feel like I'm playing Oregon Trail again. :psyduck:
Long range forecasts aren't very reliable 'round here lol.I'm planning on taking US-151 into Madison. I don't know the geography of the area well enough to know if that'll cross the river.
I had it snow on the day that I moved up here to North Central Wisconsin - on May 1st. :psyduck:
Good luck on your drive, whatever you choose. And if you cross the Wapsinicon River, take a picture for me. ;)
I have never seen a polar bear in Belgium, tyvm.The country of polar bears, vodka and balalaikas.
Be***um?
another option: take it to a reputable mechanic. Insist youre on a tight, tight budget and ask him to check out the car for anything that would leave you stranded. ask him to make it as reliable as can be.I have an appointment to get it checked out on Saturday. I'm still tempted to go with option 3 (the U-Haul truck), though, since I'm going to have to buy furniture for my new apartment (my old one was furnished, so I don't already have any), and the truck would be useful for getting the furniture there.
budget: $250
items that be covered by that much: Belts, Hoses, Brakes, ignition, tires.
He should be able to give you a solid diagnostic and estimate.
the hard part is finding a reputable local mechanic.
At least I'm not buying game conso- THANKS FOR THAT WONDERFUL IDEA, BRAIN.
In more happy news: I totally look forward to the ninth of April. :roll:
Funny how that works, isn't it? :-DIn more happy news: I totally look forward to the ninth of April. :roll:
Weird coincidence. I do too! :3
It's weird, the first time in a very long while, I've reached the end of the month and I have absolutely no financial worries. My rent I paid for in advance, which relieved the main burden, but even then, my bank account shows a balance normally occurring at mid-month, and I have two significant paychecks incoming before I'd normally run out of that money. Feels totally weird, like any moment some random thing will happen and I'll have to pay my soul. Also, it's causing me to make impulse purchases. Case of Strawberry Cider I've wanted for years but couldn't because I hadn't moved my fridge into my room yet? Yes please.Not to pry, but have you set up a rainy-day fund for yourself?
At least I'm not buying game conso- THANKS FOR THAT WONDERFUL IDEA, BRAIN.
Well the other place is also a Beer brewery, but the food is also excellent. And the atmosphere is amazing.
So it turns out the noise I was hearing and the engine running warmer than normal were both because the water pump was failing...another option: take it to a reputable mechanic. Insist youre on a tight, tight budget and ask him to check out the car for anything that would leave you stranded. ask him to make it as reliable as can be.I have an appointment to get it checked out on Saturday. I'm still tempted to go with option 3 (the U-Haul truck), though, since I'm going to have to buy furniture for my new apartment (my old one was furnished, so I don't already have any), and the truck would be useful for getting the furniture there.
budget: $250
items that be covered by that much: Belts, Hoses, Brakes, ignition, tires.
He should be able to give you a solid diagnostic and estimate.
the hard part is finding a reputable local mechanic.
If I lived near you brah, I'd be rhythm guitarring the shit out of your anus.I don't think he's interested in hearing you play the brown note.
I can't decide whether to turn the hose on you or demand a new pair of sides.If I lived near you brah, I'd be rhythm guitarring the shit out of your anus.I don't think he's interested in hearing you play the brown note.
If I lived near you brah, I'd be rhythm guitarring the shit out of your anus.I don't think he's interested in hearing you play the brown note.
I am currently sitting in front of my PC, listening to Kraftwerk music, drinking my whisky and dancing on my chair.
Neko knows how that looks like.
It's Ankhs faultI am currently sitting in front of my PC, listening to Kraftwerk music, drinking my whisky and dancing on my chair.
Neko knows how that looks like.
For some reason, I wouldn't think to pair whisky with Kraftwerk. :)
Quick post to say I got back last night. Trip was amazing.
Good luck, Cesium.Thanks. I passed. Once I turn in my thesis on Monday, I'll be a doctor (not the kind that helps people, though). :-D
Guys, we may be witnessing the formative stages of a super villain here! Why aren't you more worried?Nah, I'm not a mad scientist.
The molecules my thesis discussed were called "trilobite" molecules because their wavefunction sort of looks like a trilobite fossil. So as a graduation present my advisor got me a literal trilobite fossil. :)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBttZgFUEAEkuQU.jpg)
All in all, today was a pretty freaking awesome day.
Guys, we may be witnessing the formative stages of a super villain here! Why aren't you more worried?
The molecules my thesis discussed were called "trilobite" molecules because their wavefunction sort of looks like a trilobite fossil. So as a graduation present my advisor got me a literal trilobite fossil. :)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBttZgFUEAEkuQU.jpg)
All in all, today was a pretty freaking awesome day.
That's a good looking trilobite!Flexicalymene retorsa, from Indiana.
Do you know what species it is?
Also, congrats!
Good luck on your drive, whatever you choose. And if you cross the Wapsinicon River, take a picture for me. ;)Here you go:
Nice! Welcome to the People's Republic of Walkerstan, Sponsored by Koch Industries!No problem. I took a few more pictures if you want them...
I hope you don't mind that I shared that photo with the appropriate persons on the Wapsi forum...
Sure thing!Nice! Welcome to the People's Republic of Walkerstan, Sponsored by Koch Industries!No problem. I took a few more pictures if you want them...
I hope you don't mind that I shared that photo with the appropriate persons on the Wapsi forum...
I support this exchange. If we must lose one forumite from the evil leftpondians, we should at least recruit another in return.
Join us Linds. Join the dark side. (The sun's setting over here, nothing sinister like)
I support this exchange. If we must lose one forumite from the evil leftpondians, we should at least recruit another in return.
Join us Linds. Join the dark side. (The sun's setting over here, nothing sinister like)
SO TEMPTING.
Re: Spain- I'd like to visit, but not live there.
I will miss my cat so much when I move :-(
...and also my family and friends, I guess.
I'll be teaching a meditation class next week. So that's cool... never even tried mediation myself, so I guess we're all going to learn something.Meditation is part of my daily routine, though only in the zuòchán (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zazen) style, so if you have questions, I might be able to help.
There is no accounting for the minds of burglars.
I thought that manual transmission cars would be more expensive in the states, since EVERYONE uses auto.The dealerships keep some manuals around for the people who want them, but often discount them because they have a hard time selling them.
Oh, and I found out that the button I thought locked the doors doesn't (it locks the back door only). I really should read the manual, but would I be a good experimental physicist if I did? :psyduck:
I owned one car with a manual tranny. Got rid of it because the clutch was close to burning out.
I guess this is a blog topic. Was looking up family ancestry stuff and found these two old news stories from the county my Mammy's family lived in for many a-year.
October 19, 1854
A CHILD EATEN BY A SOW--Last week a fine child belonging to a person named CONAGHTY, residing in the townland of Kill, near Kilnaleck, was left alone in the house, some occasion calling the rest of the family out for a time. The first that returned, met a sow outside the door, having in its mouth the child, quite dead, and already half devoured.
THE TURNIP--We have seen a specimen of the turnip crop grown by Dr. KELLY, of this town, on the farm which he holds from MR. M'LENIHAN, of Ballyhaise. The specimen now before us weights 111bs. in measure- ment it is 30½ by 25½ inches. The seed was purchased from Mr. Edward KENNEDY, Cavan, and sowed in June last. It is the white stone turnip. The manure was guano. Mr. M'LENIHAN deserves high credit for the encouragement he gives his tenants to grow green crops, and improve upon the agriculture of bye gone years.
They were together so the juxtaposition caught my attention.
Hard work week. Eight days in a row, finishing with two days of double shifts.
It's the hazard of being an unofficial relief worker. :(
The only true Middle Of Nowhere:
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My grandson in Germany has been recommended to move on to Gymnasium when he changes school; I gather this is a good thing.Congratulations!
after my day at work....
I'm very jealous & you deserve your retirement very much.
You're still out a potter's wheel, though, right?
It's nice to know that the perpetrators have been caught.I can't help thinking they should be buried on Potters Field.
New avatar. Temp. Maybe not. Moving on from pointing out dicks for now.
So I've been kind of... a satellite floating around this forum for the past couple of months. Many, many things have gone on with me in that time and if I was to split them into all the relevant threads it would cover panic, depression, TMI, relationship and probably a couple more along the way. And it's long, so I am spoiling it.I felt like that for years after my wife died. Saw pieces of her everywhere, in everything. Places we'd go together, things we did together, movies we watched together, foods we ate together, music we listened to together. It felt like drowning at times, drowning in a sea of memories. Like trying to find water in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by her but never being able to touch her. It still happens sometimes, I'll be going along with my day, perfectly fine, and then I'll see or hear or think of something that reminds me of her and it's like getting kicked in the stomach. It doesn't happen as often now, and that is both a relief and deeply saddening. On the one hand, I am healing and letting go of my grief, and on the other hand it's like I'm slowly losing what little I have left of her.(click to show/hide)
I am glad things are turning around for you. I hope this new situation works out. You deserve a place to feel safe and welcomeJust saying "this" seems inadequate. You're a good guy, and an important part of the community here, and I'm glad things are turning around for you.
Hodges and I live very near to each other,
I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night.
including one who is the kind you don't meet just every lifetime.
The 20th anniversary party went off OK. The centerpiece was my wife and I singing a duet of "Save the Best for Last". I took singing lessons starting earlier this year so I'd be able to do that. My singing tutor came to the party. Several people there complimented him on his work.
Today I was reading a book about overcoming insomnia and fell asleep.
I'm fairly confident there's some folks here who still remember me, so I'd like to check in and say hi, and also fill you in on what's been going on. Don't know why I feel so sentimental, or why I feel inclined to drop this on y'all, I just kinda wanna.I've never forgotten you! And I'm so glad you came by to let us know how your life is going.
The scary thing is that I am always just one or two steps from turning into someone selfish and peevish.
Just came out to my sister because I am ramping up to coming out to my mum. Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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I'm feeling really miserable today. Like existential hating myself and my life miserable, but also my tits look amazing today. I don't know what to do with this combination of feelings. I tried taking selfies and while my tits look great, everything else is just exuding sadness.
I'm feeling really miserable today. Like existential hating myself and my life miserable, but also my tits look amazing today. I don't know what to do with this combination of feelings. I tried taking selfies and while my tits look great, everything else is just exuding sadness.
I'm feeling really miserable today. Like existential hating myself and my life miserable, but also my tits look amazing today. I don't know what to do with this combination of feelings. I tried taking selfies and while my tits look great, everything else is just exuding sadness.
At least your boobs look good. If my boobs looked good I'd have a problem, since i'm a guy.
Last night I had a serious bout of feeling lonely. It's not like I don't have friends or anything, it's just something different entirely. So I somehwat get the miserable part.
...When I told them they were duly surprised that I could know about anime, let alone one they themselves didn't know.
Paul's old. :angel: :angel: :evil: :angel:
Watched the Macy's Parade on TV with my wife and daughter. I think My wife may be pregnant.
Context: ....
(EXCUSE SNIPPAGE!)
So yeah, I think she may be pregnant or at the very least in a very emotional state.
So far this week I have managed:
A refund of £130 for Duty and VAT incorrectly assessed on the return of a microphone I owned from repair in the USA;
A refund of about £1600 of overpaid income tax (they gave me an incorrect tax code at the start of the tax year);
Ordered a very rare second-hand CD I've been looking for for the past eight years;
Been sent a rip of another (even more rare) CD which I discovered that a person I once did a favour for had a copy of.
Quite a good week, I feel.
On this page (https://ambisonic.info/mirabilis), MRCD 905 (ordered) and MMSCD 3 (ripped).
They are recordings of organs made using Ambisonics by a man who is now owner and MD of one of this country's oldest organ building businesses (Willis organs).
Spent today hauling a cargo van-load of furniture. I have a bed now! well, once i finish draggi it all up the stairs and putting it together. But I'm looking forward to it, been sleeping on a pad on the floor for the last few years and bit weary of it.
course my out-of-shape, disabled body is a wee bit miffed at me right now, and tomorrow's probably just gonna be a fatigue haze, but fuckin' worth it.
Are pokestops still a thing? (I had never heard the word, but I assume it has something to do with Pokemon Go, which is no longer generating any media attention....)What, I'm only allowed to play a game if it attracts media attention?
Trivia corner. In 1984, while a prince, the new Emperor designate of Japan was at Oxford University. During that time he sang in the chamber choir which I also sang in (the same one I sing in again now, in fact), and I made a recording of the choir in which it is likely that he took part.
May it be so!
I have now dined with Zoe in a virtual sense. She felt very awkward having scones and jam while we were on a Skype call until I offered to eat something myself.
Double post because surprise development: They sent an email asking me to send a video of me singing another song to see how it sounds so they haven't totally discounted me :psyduck:
Pat, one day I am coming to the West Coast, and we are hanging out.
A few weeks ago I encountered a considerate Lexus driver. I was turning left across busy traffic and she stopped short of the intersection to leave room for the turn.
Until next time,-PatGreat to hear from you, Patrick. Bike shops are cool places.
The feeling of liberation has been truly extraordinary.:) :) :) :) :)
Following on from the second half of 2019 being better, I attended an audition for the local theatre group and it went so bad.Any audition attended is a good audition. Break a leg on the next one!
Until next time,-PatGreat to hear from you, Patrick. Bike shops are cool places.(click to show/hide)
It can really sometimes feel like a tiny bit of hope can be crushed so quickly by the reality around it.
Woke up at 3am last night and thought, "That sounds like rain... But inside?"Yuck. I hope it's all taken care of expeditiously.
I offer my deep appreciation to everyone I have learned from.
I offer my deep appreciation to everyone I have learned from.What about those of us you just wanna punch!??
I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night.
On another day, feeling cabin fever-ish, I took both girls outside. The oldest was walking around, while I had the youngest strapped to my chest. we were hanging out by the side of the house with the water and power meters, when I turned around and saw what I thought was a squirrel facing me. I took a couple of steps towards it (it was about 40-yards away) to see if I could get closer, but instead of turning tale and running, it sucked its head back into the ground. It was at that point I realized it was no squirrel, but a gopher! I walked over and sure enough it was a hole. I talked with one of the neighbors today, trying to see what they do to keep the animals off their lawns, and she said gophers are not known to be around here and it was probably a vole or a woodchuck. Looking them up and the vole seems too small for what I saw (it was just a head) and the woodchuck seems too big. So who knows what it is.I finally got a good look at it. It is absolutely NOT a woodchuck, groundhog, etc. Its a motherfucking Weasel!!! More specifically a Fisher which are the second largest of the weasel family behind the otter.
Jesus Christ Pat the maturity level in that post is just goddamn sickening
Do you remember we used to be on this forum when we were still CHILDREN for fuck's sake?
I find things like that comforting even when they're attached to traumatic events. Which is weird because I hate everyone.
Was it a small prescription, a prescription for wee, or a prescription *of* wee?A small prescription. :lol:
In the last week, I've attented two BLM protests, and it's been some of the most meaningful shit I've ever done. There's a certain adrenaline rush that happens when you stand between black/brown people and a line of cops, hoping to protect the former against racist violence in a town that has never been famous for treating those people well (Oakland), and coming back to my current town and participating in peaceful protests there. I won't lie and say I wasn't a little scared, but it was fuckin worth it. I realize that this is what I'm here for. I have loved the people of Oakland for a long time, and I'll be back to help them again tomorrow. They always treated me so well. Now it's my turn.
I hope this isn't patronising but I am so goddamn proud of you.
Oh yeah, guitar nerds: I bought my first Fender Stratocaster recently. It's the Vintera 60s Strat in ice blue. It is way too fucking good for words. I'll post pictures in the appropriate thread.
Also, isn't it mirrored now?
I got a new pair of athletic shorts to wear around the house and to bed. Its peculiar though. I am guessing the designer has had problems putting on athletic shorts in the past, because these shorts are impossible to put on backwards. There is a draw string on both front and back on the inside lining, and the pockets don't conform to either front or back and can easily be re-adjusted by just putting your hands in your pockets.
This is probably a dumb thing to post, but I just find it fascinating that someone designed it this way.
Congrats on making it to somewhere less crazy.
I am in the province that elected Doug Ford, after all...Congrats on making it to somewhere less crazy.
That's... debatable.
I fell of an e-scooter today, at about 20km/h. Would not recommend.Hope you heal quickly. That sucks.
Now I know why the dogs have been barking at the end of the gardenIs that an egg in there or just a nice smooth round rock? Also, cute kits.
Someone at the dog park recognized the "Dogs: They're Good" T-shirt I was wearing and chatted with me about QC.
Kimchi is excellent! So is 泡菜 (pàocài pron. "pao-tsai", is a similar fermented/pickled vegetable dish) especially served with congee for breakfast.
My wife got dose 2 today.
Nurse returns with Covid test: I"m positive.Poor thing. Look after yourself, and get well soon.
Foam sword - probably a good idea. Fencing lessons - Probably not before third grade at the earliest.