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[chat] for a better tomorrow
DarkPrimus
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Hey chat
How are you doing?
I was doing okay, but then some stuff happened and now I'm all grumpy and stuff.
So I'm trying to listen to upbeat music and looking at cute animal pictures and whatever before I go to bed.
Regardless of how your day may have gone, I hope this chat helps to improve your mood.
music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8qsZHMthxk
a happy owl:
Be good to each other, chat.
How are you doing?
I was doing okay, but then some stuff happened and now I'm all grumpy and stuff.
So I'm trying to listen to upbeat music and looking at cute animal pictures and whatever before I go to bed.
Regardless of how your day may have gone, I hope this chat helps to improve your mood.
music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8qsZHMthxka happy owl:
Be good to each other, chat.
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Warning: do not necessarily read it unless you're prepared to have your mood knocked down a few pegs.
There's a phrase Kate uses that I picked up on. "The work left unfinished".
I, like many of you, have lost a fair few people in my life. And, especially if they are young, this can be an added sadness to their passing: their capacity for greatness. The good they still could have done. The work left unfinished.
I, on occasion, look for reasons to continue being that are beyond myself. And that unfinished work is one of those reasons. For a multitude of reasons, those who are gone have goals unattained, things they could not do while they were here, things they might have done if they had more time. I have so far been blessed with time. I choose to take on some of the responsibility of their unfinished work.
There's another phrase I encountered lately, while reading about the Apollo missions, as I am wont to do. "A People Without Limits." It can be hard to describe or even imagine the magnitude of the task nearly half a million Americans took on when they decided that humans should walk on the Moon. They invented radical new technologies. They solved problems that had never been solved before. As Kennedy said, it served as the ultimate measure of our skills and abilities. As Mission Director Gene Krantz put it, "it raised our aspirations to those things we can accomplish as a species if we will commit."
There is a lot of work left undone, [chat]. But we are a people without limits. I believe in us.
Happy [chat]ting.
narwhals are the unicorns of the sea, in that they don't exist.
don't believe his lies.
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Because I cannot imagine two more perfectly-paired threads that cover most of my own personal oeuvre than @DarkPrimus ' thread and this one.
Be good to yourselves and to each other indeed, [chat]
but he knows whats in there. Dinosaurs.
Is he trying to be funny? Its not different enough to be funny. He's just being a dick.
Benards good OP. I like.
My building has like, security guys at the doors because the buzzers aren't working, so I had to show them my fob to get in.
Nice to see the stars though
Apparently what I needed was some real food because I am doing much better now. Sadly computers seem to make me I'll so I have to limit screen time to short bursts.
Sorry to hear you're experiencing some photosensitivity (presumably), but glad to hear you got some good grub in ya!
Unintended but hilarious side-effect of my request, I'll admit
Straight jack that wood!
I've narrowed this down to probably being about college football after giving serious consideratiom that you were cheering someone on for manually stimulating a penis.
Good night [chat]
Be good to yourself, to each other, and to our planet
Oregon vs Stanford
So much to still clean up. And I need, NEED to start saving money, as I really do want to move. But I don't think there's anything more major I want to buy from now till Christmas.
Okay I'm setting myself a "by the end of october" deadline to have another draft of my book finished so I can start contacting agents because that is inspiring as all hell.
Will still adjust based on feedback from my readers when I get it.
*pointed stare at beta readers*
You only need to read the last paragraph.
This plant has some really cool shapes in it, so I really wanted to clear away the stuff blocking those. Most of the large clumps were also super messy, so I tried to clean those up a bit. I don’t have any proper bonsai wire yet, nor do I know what I’m doing, so I’ve just jury-rigged some stuff.
I’m kind of surprised at how pleasant it was to snip away at it, rotating it around, clearing a bit here and there, the satisfying effect of cutting away a larger branch after considering it for several minutes, etc. Of course, now I’d probably have to wait a substantial amount of time before it accumulates a similar amount of stuff to clear, but still. Good times.
A lot of the stuff near the bottom will probably go away at some point, but I want to deliberate a bit more. The top right section is something I hope to convert into a separate bonsai by air layering in the spring, meaning I’ll probably destroy it.
Oh yes @So It Goes I forgot to mention that this time of year is apparently the time to go snag plants at nurseries, since they’re looking to get rid of stuff; this plant, for example, was gonna get tossed but was brought to the bonsai club meeting as salvage instead.
it really fucks me up that he's not Hootie.
e. like I thought his name was hootie.
Part of me wanted to go out dancing tonight
Alas I’m so tired and my friends are also tired so I’m gonna be home by midnight
But at least I managed to go hang out till then I guess zzz
Age huh