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kazmac said:
It's Friday 🥳. I am heading into the mines (thankfully not Moria), and wish you all a cup of your favorite beverage.
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Gandalf's shouted command, while trapped in the Mines of Moria: "Flee, fools" - is probably my favourite line from that entire trilogy.

But, thank you for your good wishes, @kazmac, and may I take this opportunity to return them, and hopefully, this week-end may allow you to enjoy your favourite beverage, as well.


Gutwrench said:
Occasional spelling issues seems to be only one aspect I’m noticing.
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I'm chuckling.

Gutwrench said:
Lookout liver it’s Friday.
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Yes, liver about to receive a summoning to action and a bout of energetic activity.
 
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Trying to be kind to myself as work errors with software repeated yesterday. I immediately scheduled training with the IT person who is fixing bugs and such in this software.

Was royally annoyed with myself and was so grateful to finally draw late last night and before prepping for work this morning. So glad to be sketching again, it is very cathartic, relaxing and fun.

My fave Tolkien characters have always been Saruman, Gandalf, Treebeard, Thorin, and Aragorn. Even as an 11 year old reading LoTR for the first time (before reading The Hobbit), I grumbled "Where are the wizards already!" more than once. I still mumble that, but at least I can skip to their scenes in the movies.

That Gandalf line is one of a very scant few I remember. So thanks for posting it.
 
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decafjava said:
Pleasantly mild afternoon, blue sky after a slate grey week. Not looking forward to the clock change this weekend.
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Likewise.

I must say that my heart truly sinks the day the clocks go back an hour, and I always found the first working day after the clocks had gone back to have been one of the most depressing days of the entire year.
 
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Thank you @Gutwrench for reminding me that it was high time my liver and kidneys earned their right - by way of putting in a little bit of - or a good bit of - over-time - re their residence (as in "writer-in-residence") corpus moi.

Meanwhile, and separately, heart (and yes, soul, um, cough) and mind are feeling a little relaxed and reconciled to their place in this world.

Raising a glass to Mother: In her good days, she would have sighed happily on a Friday night - if she wasn't heading out to meet friends - and settled down comfortably to watch her favourite TV shows - and asked me - for some strange reason, I was the drinks mixer and the coffee maker ever since my early teens - "do you think you could prepare a nice vodka for me?" - knowing that ice, lemon, mixer, cocktail stick, elegance, glassware (and yes, vodka) would all be flawlessly served (on a sliver salver, no less - well, why ever not?)
 
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Gutwrench said:
Occasional spelling issues seems to be only one aspect I’m noticing.
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Seriously, if you are noticing other things in addition to occasional and presumably surprising spelling issues, it couldn't hurt to have a chat with your physician.....
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So are you guys in the UK making the dreaded time change THIS weekend?

In the US ours has been moved so that it falls after Hallowe'en (actually falls in November now) due to concerns about the little ones going out trick-or-treating in the dark, which is perfectly reasonable and understandable. I'm all for the delay anyway; in fact I would be perfectly happy if we didn't have to fool with ANY time change, just keep Daylight Savings Time all year around!
 
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Clix Pix said:
So are you guys in the UK making the dreaded time change THIS weekend?
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Um, yes.

Saturday night.

Heart sinking time (and clock changing time) and all that.

Once upon a distant time, my father wandered the house - whisky glass in hand - amending and altering the clocks as time and calendar required.

Since he passed, that time changing task fell to me (if I wasn't abroad).

However, more recently, since the carer joined us, she enthusiastically embraced the clock changes, and raced around the house, doing the needful and attending to the necessary changes.

Now, since my mother passed away, once again, this task falls to me.

The spring changes, I welcome; the autumn ones, a lot less so.
 
Ugh. I was just thinking tonight how dark it already is at 6:20 pm...

My solution to loathing the switchback to EST is to draw the shades at dusk so that nightfall occurs while I'm still just starting to think about preparing supper... and so then I don't really notice that plunge into darkness that otherwise shocks me when I walk out to the kitchen and en route, through the living room, realize that it's going to be pitch dark out there while only 5pm.
 
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Zenithal said:
That one thread still hasn't been snuffed out...
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Which one have you in mind?

I think I can hazard a guess.

If it is the one I suspect it may be, this will all end in the shedding of copious buckets of tears.
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LizKat said:
Ugh. I was just thinking tonight how dark it already is at 6:20 pm...

My solution to loathing the switchback to EST is to draw the shades at dusk so that nightfall occurs while I'm still just starting to think about preparing supper... and so then I don't really notice that plunge into darkness that otherwise shocks me when I walk out to the kitchen and en route, through the living room, realize that it's going to be pitch dark out there while only 5pm.
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I have noticed that the time the heat kicks in (or on) in the evenings is gradually getting earlier an earlier, while it stays on ever later in the mornings.
 
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Babka. A couple weeks ago someone dropped off a plate of homemade babka in my office. It was delicious. I’m not one to chase pastries or confections but today might be an exception.
 
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SandboxGeneral said:
About how rude our (perhaps just American) society can be after an unpleasant interaction with a wrong-way driver yesterday,
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Not only American society, unfortunately.

However, it is true that some who hail from America do lack manners, and basic courtesy.


Gutwrench said:
Babka. A couple weeks ago someone dropped off a plate of homemade babka in my office. It was delicious. I’m not one to chase pastries or confections but today might be an exception.
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Ah; and what is babka?
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Ah; and what is babka?
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I know it as a Jewish bread. The one I sample was an Israeli recipe.

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Zenithal said:
It's a Polish cake or Ukrainian.

There's inferior people from just about any country really.
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Man, I had to read that twice and then backtrack to uncouple those replies.

It gets weird sometimes without the original posts.

The couple of likes on there clued me in I wasn't quite getting it.

Well carry on.

btw I agree with both the replies, just not together. :D
 
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