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The Clark said:
I am so sorry to hear about your family member who is actively struggling with opiate addiction. That's truly awful.

I have a very good support system and I am very fortunate to have realized early on, that this just isn't a road I wish to travel any further down. I wish the best for your family member and I pray they can overcome their struggle. It's just as hard on everyone else in the family to see them suffer. I will never go back to opiates, and I've instead relied on the gym to help me feel better.

Thanks again for the kind words!
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One would certainly be enough but I have two actually - two brothers in law. It is the saddest, most angering, frustrating, heart breaking and helpless path to watch. It impacts my wife & her family terribly (emotionally, physically, fiscally, spiritually etc) as the brothers are good hearted, loving people who I knew before addiction too and who somehow made a horrendously bad choice together to take some pills and got caught up in opioid/heroin addiction that they have not been able to control even with repeated treatments etc. This has been ongoing trauma for about 15 years now. It helps me to see that there is a way out of opioid addiction because we haven’t been able to find & walk it yet as a family & at this point I am not sure if we/they will. Thank you for your bravery in sharing your story. Thank you for your prayers. Live your life full of love and free of addiction.
 
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WriteNow said:
I think I do, too.

My father hated heat when I was growing up, and never seemed to have a problem with cold. Towards the end of his life, he started having more issues with cold. He told me that he'd gotten into the habit of taking something to wear in case he got cold even in warmer months. I don't know in his case how much was age, and how much was related to health issues/treatments.
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Of course, this may not simply be a matter of my perennial preference (and extraordinary tolerance for) for heat, and warmth, and light, nor just a matter of increasing age (and decreasing tolerance for the cold), but also a consequence of the fact that, in recent decades, I have lived a lot in warm climates.

Sometimes, I remind myself of those British exiles back home after a lifetime in India, former servants of the Raj, muttering about "the damned cold getting into their bones" as they shivered their way through the damp and miserable winter of the British Isles.
 
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Certificate of Excellence said:
One would certainly be enough but I have two actually - two brothers in law. It is the saddest, most angering, frustrating, heart breaking and helpless path to watch. It impacts my wife & her family terribly (emotionally, physically, fiscally, spiritually etc) as the brothers are good hearted, loving people who I knew before addiction too and who somehow made a horrendously bad choice together to take some pills and got caught up in opioid/heroin addiction that they have not been able to control even with repeated treatments etc. This has been ongoing trauma for about 15 years now. It helps me to see that there is a way out of opioid addiction because we haven’t been able to find & walk it yet as a family & at this point I am not sure if we/they will. Thank you for your bravery in sharing your story. Thank you for your prayers. Live your life full of love and free of addiction.
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That’s incredibly difficult; I’m so sorry.

I do understand where they’re coming from, though. There’s something uniquely comforting about opiates, no matter how much your life feels like it’s falling apart, a few pills can make everything feel perfect for a little while.

The real challenge isn’t just stopping the drug use, but uncovering WHY you feel the need to escape in the first place. Once you can face that reason, it becomes easier to build something sustainable, though that’s much easier said than done. That’s the approach I took, and it’s worked well for me so far.

15 yeears… that’s such a long time—for both the person struggling and the family waiting beside them. I really do with you all luck.

Thanks for your prayers and wishes :)
 
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Saw an absolutely amazing and VERY, VERY loud concert by one of my classmate’s bands. A fusion of mainstream rock plus heavy metal plus jazz plus avant-garde/experimental plus just sheer noise. (Don’t worry, I wore earplugs.) He (the frontman) LOVES experimenting with stuff like running saxophones and flutes through a distortion pedal, screaming into the microphone with crazy effects, manipulating everyday sounds and objects with audio processing, and just raw noise. 90% of it was either electronics or acoustic instruments run through effects pedals. I can’t do any of what he does (or I should say, I’ve never tried to) but I absolutely love it.
 
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rm5 said:
Saw an absolutely amazing and VERY, VERY loud concert by one of my classmate’s bands. A fusion of mainstream rock plus heavy metal plus jazz plus avant-garde/experimental plus just sheer noise. (Don’t worry, I wore earplugs.) He (the frontman) LOVES experimenting with stuff like running saxophones and flutes through a distortion pedal, screaming into the microphone with crazy effects, manipulating everyday sounds and objects with audio processing, and just raw noise. 90% of it was either electronics or acoustic instruments run through effects pedals. I can’t do any of what he does (or I should say, I’ve never tried to) but I absolutely love it.
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That sounds amazing! I wish I was there.
 
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rm5 said:
It was so cool! I told him he has to show me how he made all those sounds! Instrumentation was guitar, bass, drums, keyboard (a MIDI keyboard run through Logic), and tenor sax. All but the drums were run through effects.
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Sounds like a proper rock outfit to me :)

Do they have any recorded material online for us to have a listen?
 
Just patched my roof … again. My upstairs den sprang a small leak in the summer and so I patched where I thought the leak was but that wasn’t quite right, so was back up there this afternoon and found a few substantial separations around a southwestern facing canale so gave that and the 5x15ft area seams around it a good going over with an asphalt based filler/patch.
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That stuff is so messy and sticky but it beats paying someone else to do it lol.
 
Certificate of Excellence said:
Just patched my roof … again. My upstairs den sprang a small leak in the summer and so I patched where I thought the leak was but that wasn’t quite right, so was back up there this afternoon and found a substantial separation at a canale so gave that and the 5x15ft area seams around it a good going over with an asphalt based filler/patch.

That stuff is so messy and sticky but it beats paying someone else to do it lol.
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We have tiles in the UK. Mine are from the 1960’s and they are getting near the end of their life. Hopefully they last a few more decades though.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
We have tiles in the UK. Mine are from the 1960’s and they are getting near the end of their life. Hopefully they last a few more decades though.
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I watched a renovation of an old pre ww1 English farm house that had fallen into complete overgrown disrepair and the roof tiles on that home were absolutely gorgeous. Turned out so incredibly beautiful.
 
Spent nearly all day transcribing Latin/jazz fusion tunes. Going to try to get booked at a festival in the spring (looking increasingly likely that will happen!) and I have nearly a whole group together to play it. So far the songs are all covers. If I have time, I may write some stuff, too. Got the score done for "New World Spirit" (the full conductor's score is 57 pages long!)—that's a Ray Barretto tune. Started writing out "Auratune" (Dave Weckl, and the one screenshotted) and "7th Avenue South" (also Dave Weckl).

I'm using Dorico Pro 5, which I moved to from Sibelius a couple years ago. I know version 6 is out, but A) I have to pay to upgrade, and B) I don't really feel the need to upgrade versions yet. It's nice being able to work in one continuous view without page breaks. Of course that's not the way it prints, but when just writing stuff into the program, I can just scroll the mouse pretty much and not have to worry about scrolling past different pages.

There are no transcriptions of these songs online, so I am working purely off my thankfully good ear.
 

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DaveFromCampbelltown said:
Just when you thought it was safe to go out.

I volunteer at a herbarium in a major botanical gardens near by.

I got this message --



Oh, and the spur-winged plovers that are hatching a family and attack anybody who walks near. Those spurs they are named after? They’re weapons, and they use them.

You’d think a museum of dead plants would be safe to visit...
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Oh I had a red bellied black snake the other weekend- nearly ran over it (I was on a bicycle going fast). Fortunately it didn’t panic - it watched and stayed where it was.

I have seen a few eastern brown snakes as well, those are bad news, really aggressive and very venomous.
 
That’s hilarious. My wife and I were just talking about this. I don’t mind stores getting Xmas up early as it’s their job and I get kids wanting to fast forward to Christmas but when I see Holiday decor go up the day after Halloween, I consider the value set in place or past experiences that would rationalize in the adult mind prioritizing wanton secular consumerism of things over family and giving thanks. It reminds me of intense, child-like impulsivity.
 
chown33 said:
On the time involved:
"It will take you less time to complete it according to the requirements than it will to complain about it."

On the requirements themselves:
"Sometimes you have to do things to meet other people's needs, not just your own."


FWIW, I'm always interested in wordplay, and I think acrostic poems are an interesting example. Could you post it (with author's permission)?
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