What made me unhappy today ?

[Homer Potvin]

I hope you get your voice back by the carol concert, Catrin! *hug*

I don't have a cold (it's summer here), but I have been struggling with chronic back pain that lasted the last two weeks at least. So, I was in near-constant pain and had to miss the Messiah concert last Sunday.

The rest of the work-week was OK, just punctuated by pain, visits to my GP and physio, doing physio-mandated exercises, and taking painkillers. The back pain seems to be going away, little by little, but it still comes up every so often, and it's like being punched in the flanks.

Wish me luck getting rid of this stupid thing. As it is, I was supposed to do 3 carols concerts next weekend, but I don't think I can do them, for obvious reasons.

Do you do regular stretching and core exercises? Planks and tables and the like? Works miracles for mitigating future injury. Been doing em for years.

 

[GrahamLewis]

Do you do regular stretching and core exercises? Planks and tables and the like? Works miracles for mitigating future injury. Been doing em for years.

Sounds suspiciously like yoga.

 

[GrahamLewis]

Crushing sunflower seeds for my lovebird. I noticed that he's been leaving them alone lately in his food dish, after years of nonchalantly and dexterously cracking them open, then removing the inside all in one motion. Now he apparently can't do it anymore, at least not easily and he now contentedly opens the ones I've started for him. Another sign that we're nearing the end of a wondrous shared road.

That's the down side of opening your heart to a pet; we're usually doomed to outlive them and more often than not to see the end approaching, even if they don't. Maybe especially if they don't. I've lost various pets over the years, from beloved dogs and cats to my daughter's beloved fancy rats. And every damned time it's hard, and harder each time the pet and I have formed a mutual bond.

It's not time yet, but I realize how much I'm going to miss this cantankerous annoying personable loving guy.

When the time comes.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

My dear Vallhund was my constant companion for almost 15 years. When she died, I was bereft. Someone told me, "You didn't get to spend your whole life with her, but she got to spend her whole life with you."

 

[Luxuria]

That all my writing is not forum appropriate. I want to share, but can’t. My stories are just too dark and twisted and full of taboo topics and have always been that way.
(Mods: I am fine with the rules. They make sense. Not griping for change. ) I have tried to write Sunshine and Rainbows. But it just doesn’t feel right. It comes across shallow and fake. Anyway. I have been thinking about my philosophy paper and how to ethically share it.

 

[GrahamLewis]

That all my writing is not forum appropriate. I want to share, but can’t. My stories are just too dark and twisted and full of taboo topics and have always been that way.
(Mods: I am fine with the rules. They make sense. Not griping for change. ) I have tried to write Sunshine and Rainbows. But it just doesn’t feel right. It comes across shallow and fake. Anyway. I have been thinking about my philosophy paper and how to ethically share it.

I'm sure its a fine paper, but I doubt anyone would have any seriously objections to your sharing it. It's your work, and there's no monetary interest in to justify anyone wanting to invest in arguing about whether it should be posted.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Sounds suspiciously like yoga.

Don't go a day without it!

 

[ps102]

Anyway. I have been thinking about my philosophy paper and how to ethically share it.

I don't know anything about USA college etiquette, but if it were me, I would simply contact the person I wrote this paper for and ask. If they agree, you can't get anymore ethical than this.

But it's also your paper, isn't it? I doubt anyone would object even if you shared it without asking.

 

[DLC]

I have been thinking about my philosophy paper and how to ethically share it.

What would Spinoza do?

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Do you do regular stretching and core exercises? Planks and tables and the like? Works miracles for mitigating future injury. Been doing 'em for years.

Not sure what planks and tables are, but my physio gave me gentle stretching exercises to do every day, which I've been doing with great care and perseverance. They hurt a bit, but things feel better afterwards.

Other than that, heat packs and painkillers help much more.

 

[Link the Writer]

I...accidentally lit some guy's electrical lightbulb on fire when we were doing luminaries...

 

[Homer Potvin]

I...accidentally lit some guy's electrical lightbulb on fire when we were doing luminaries...

Better than his nutsack.

 

[Link the Writer]

Better than his nutsack.

Chestnuts roastin' on an open fire...

 

[Homer Potvin]

A mass shooting at Brown University. Evacuating a restaurant. That wasn't on my Saturday night Bingo card.

 

[Luxuria]

What would Spinoza do?

Funny thing. We didn't read him. HAHAHAH!
But I can tell you what Kant, Mill, and Aristotle would say.
Also, what Descartes and Berkeley wouldn't say, because nothing is real.

 

[Luxuria]

I just messaged my philosophy professor to ask. Fingers crossed he says yes to sharing it! I just don't want to post his words without permission. I even said I would phrase it differently.

 

[Catrin Lewis]

A mass shooting at Brown University. Evacuating a restaurant. That wasn't on my Saturday night Bingo card.

3:14 am Sunday now. Have they caught the perp yet?

It all sounds awful.

 

[Amontillado]

I see Fermi, a company developing a "Hypergrid" (emphasis on hype, I think) to power AI was valued at $19 billion. In the last 60 days it's lost 2/3rds of its value.

Of particular concern is an unnamed "investment grade" tenant cancelling a $150 million contract this month.

'Scuse me, Mr. Banker, but if I hear you blaming a huge loss on a contract worth 0.79% of your recent expert valuation, ask not on which dead horse villagers beat. They beat on thee.

 

[Kiraann]

Fermi is putting in an AI data center here with its own nuclear power plant. Lots of locals are upset.

And about 30 miles down towards Dallas, google is putting in a data center. Both of my sons - union electricians- are working on it.

 

[Homer Potvin]

3:14 am Sunday now. Have they caught the perp yet?

It all sounds awful.

They're not saying publically, but my cop friends say yes. Mess with my town, they can beat him to death in his cell for all I care.