What made me happy today?

[MoonChild]

Just got told my "eyes are beautiful, such a pretty colour".

*preens at the compliment*

 

[Iain Aschendale]

I once lost 6kg in one go. Can only work twice though, for most people. YMMV.

There was an updated homage to The Cold Equations that featured an extreme version of your weight loss program.

 

[Iain Aschendale]

I have finally, after more than a year of (occasional, hobbyist) work, completed the 3D CAD models for an RC project I've wanted to do for literal decades.

Now I just have to work up the guts to trust myself and send it off for a few hundred dollars worth of 3D printing and hope I got it right.

 

[GrahamLewis]

I sit here, strolling through news feeds and sighing, wandering in a web of thought and worry. I glance down at the lovebird sitting softly and lightly on my hand, his eyes half-closed in an obvious sense of security in the immediate world that surrounds us. He comforts me without trying.

 

[Selluwud]

So ... I'm not sure if I should be happy or confused about this. Maybe both.

I got up this morning and did the usual things: made the bed, went to the bathroom, weighed myself - 67.3 kg (~148.3 lbs). My healthy weight-to-height ratio means that 72 kg (~158 lbs) is the absolute limit, so that was fine.

Then I did the usual morning routine: brush teeth, wash hands and face, shave (I shave every day) ... and then, just for a goof, I weighed myself again.

This time, I was 66.8 kg (~147 lbs).

WTF?! Did I lose half-a-kilo (or about 1.3 pounds) just by shaving my face?

that was some heavy gas you passed.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I have finally, after more than a year of (occasional, hobbyist) work, completed the 3D CAD models for an RC project I've wanted to do for literal decades.

Congratulations!

Are you referring to model airplanes? (That's what Professor Google suggested.)

 

[Rigor Mortis]

I have finally, after more than a year of (occasional, hobbyist) work, completed the 3D CAD models for an RC project I've wanted to do for literal decades.

Now I just have to work up the guts to trust myself and send it off for a few hundred dollars worth of 3D printing and hope I got it right.

Ok, there's Canadian dollars and maybe a photo shoot, possibly in a church. The rest is gibberish.

 

[Louanne Learning]

there's Canadian dollars

Yay Canada!!

 

[Homer Potvin]

Patriots in the Super Bowl... we're back, bitches!

 

[Rath Darkblade]

That's a helluva heavy beard, sir.

Can't be. I shave every day, no excuses. It makes me look younger and better-presented.

Ok, there's Canadian dollars and maybe a photo shoot, possibly in a church. The rest is gibberish.

CAD is Computer Aided Design. (I heard about it when I started studying IT in university, way back in the fabled Mists of Time). It's software used by engineers, architects, and designers to create, modify, analyze, or optimize 2D drawings and 3D models of physical objects.

And yes, it's also Canadian Dollars.

 

[defaux]

Happy Australia Day.

40 degree heat. Not sure what that is in American, but to use the local vernacular, it's bloody hot.

 

[Naomasa298]

'Stralia, 'Stralia, 'Stralia!

 

[Homer Potvin]

Happy Australia Day.

40 degree heat. Not sure what that is in American, but to use the local vernacular, it's bloody hot.

17 inches of snow last night with the highest drifts in my driveway. It's waist deep in spots and my car is buried over the tires!

 

[CatrionaGrace]

My 7-month-old Bernese/mountain cur ate most of a box of kleenex and lived to tell the tale.

Stupid dog will eat whatever doesn't eat him first.

 

[Heartlet Happer]

My 7-month-old Bernese/mountain cur ate most of a box of kleenex and lived to tell the tale.

Stupid dog will eat whatever doesn't eat him first.

Quick advice, I got from a vet, when dog just ate something sharp like chicken bones chewed to splinters. Feed dog with bread, soft, no crust. It will protect dog from the inside.

 

[Madman Starryteller]

My 7-month-old Bernese/mountain cur ate most of a box of kleenex and lived to tell the tale.

Stupid dog will eat whatever doesn't eat him first.

My brother's dog was the same when he was a pup. A borzoi. He ate old cigarettes off the street, he ate the old carcass of a dead bird. I tried to yank it from him without success. And all manner of unknown things. We were all amazed he lived past all that. One had to keep an eye focused on the ground when out walking with him.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I spend half my time prying open his mouth to remove whatever is in it. My Pyrenees/lab was bad about eating stuff when he was a pup, but NOTHING like this canine garbage gut.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Happy Australia Day.

40 degree heat. Not sure what that is in American, but to use the local vernacular, it's bloody hot.

'Stralia, 'Stralia, 'Stralia!

Shouldn't that be 'Straya, 'Straya, 'Straya?

Today was the day after 'Straya Day, and over my way, it was 45 degrees C (i.e. 113 F). Even worse, I went to the office ... and wilted on the way home. It was very hot and dry, but I was still sweating like anything and felt my heart working harder.

Somehow I made it through the 15-minute walk home, shut the door, stripped off, had a cold shower and a rest, and finally felt alive again. I'm not going out in heat like that again, no sir. Still, I ought to count my blessings -- at least it wasn't humid too.

But I'm not complaining. Over in the north-west towns of Walpeup and Hopetoun (in my state of Victoria), they recorded 48.9 degrees (i.e. just over 120 F). This is a statewide record temperature, eclipsing the 48.8 degrees the same towns recorded back in 2009, as part of the Black Saturday Bushfires. This notorious event burned over 450,000 hectares across the state, destroyed over 3,500 houses and killed 173 people.

Let us hope we never see the like again.

 

[edamame]

I was helping someone pull their cart of groceries over an icy curb after shopping and they gifted me a free tub of yogurt.

 

[Iain Aschendale]

CAD: Computer Aided Design.
RC: Radio/Remote Control

The not happy news: I'm not as good at CAD as I thought. The printing company has kicked it back twice with issues. Sigh.