I'm sorry for your loss. Time helps, but it never completely heals. As I was sorting though some files on my Mac yesterday I started looking at some images I have of Miss AFB. Mostly iPhone snaps and the like. I have to say it made me cry.
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I know this uncertainty has lead to discomfort around the world but it has lead to me deciding that I'm no longer interested in herding cats and that I want to become an emergency manager. I'm all kinds of tired of supporting the man, I want to be the man going forward.
Thank you.
Well, Decent Brother - who was on the phone for an hour and a half this evening - and I had a good chat about him.
He would have been meticulous about observing quarantining and self-isolation and being sensible and responsible (whereas my mother might have looked for ways to subtly assert her independence with a subversive interpretation of recommendations and regulations).
Decent Brother had also phoned Formidable Aunt - my father's sister, aged 95 (and lucid and sharp with it). My father and his sister were close (as, I suppose, Decent Bother and I are close).
Usually, we meet Formidable Aunt, and a few cousins - some of her children, and one or two other cousins, the children of my father's brother, also join us - in a local hotel at this time of year - we treat them to tea, coffee, scones and sandwiches and have a good chat for an hour or two, a nice family gathering. For obvious reasons, that hasn't taken place this year.
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From time to time, opportunities present themselves (and one has presented itself to me) to us.
It is often difficult to know if you should or should not, take the opportunity.
Even with weighing out the factors, there is still no definitive guide on if your decision, accept or decline, is the correct one.
Challenging at times...
It is often difficult to know if you should or should not, take the opportunity.
Even with weighing out the factors, there is still no definitive guide on if your decision, accept or decline, is the correct one.
Challenging at times...
I have such a terrible way of decision making that usually by going against what I want to do, it turns out brilliantly. It's quite ridiculous.
I think my internal compass seeks my own demise, constantly.
Okay, while I may enjoy birds as my alarm clock, there is one exception: pigeons. They seem to be doing something on our roof and it doesn’t sound fun.🤢
Back to bed for 90 minutes...🙂
Back to bed for 90 minutes...🙂
I just saw this my condoleances, also sorry you can't meet with your relatives.
I guess overall, I have not been dealing with this very well - I used to be a news junkie but the only non-covid news that leapt out at me were the massacre in Nova Scotia (where I did my undergraduate degree at Acadia University) and the news that Kim Jong-Un may have died. Well turns out he didn't which may have been a good thing after all.
Worries about my job which was looking up this year due to higher enrollment for the fall, wondering when I will see family again, Mom in Western Canada who is computer illiterate (so not even video calls), aunt and uncle and cousins in Eastern Canada, sister and her family in the US and my remaining cousins and one aunt in Greece.
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City pigeons are one of my triggers only exceeded by coackroaches and rats. In my old apartment the nieghbour upstairs basically abandoned her flat (vanished without paying rent apparently) to leave her balcony to pigeons who made a mess of MY balcony, even found one made a nest on my balcony shelves.
On the bright side, there hasn't been any mass shootings.
Playing video games at my age, till 02:30; and now my body is paying for it.
Honestly, grow up will ya
Honestly, grow up will ya
Boardgames played this weekend:
Arkham Horror - 2 Edition
Codenames
Onitama
Cards Against Humanity
(no pic...)
Dead of Winter
(no pic is mine)
We also bought this classic gem, Diplomacy, which means that my family will probably fight, I will divorce, my kids will abandon me, I will disown them, etc..
Arkham Horror - 2 Edition
Codenames
Onitama
Cards Against Humanity
(no pic...)
Dead of Winter
(no pic is mine)
We also bought this classic gem, Diplomacy, which means that my family will probably fight, I will divorce, my kids will abandon me, I will disown them, etc..
Playing video games at my age, till 02:30; and now my body is paying for it.
Honestly, grow up will ya
I get up with the light usually, so earlier and earlier during springtime. But I've been staying up too late reading lately and have had to resort to setting my laptop to announce the hour in that god-awful stentorian Siri-without-a-sense-of-humor voice. "It's two hours" is definitely not something I should be hearing at my age when I know the morning light will roust me out of bed.
Never completely grow up...or is that never throw up?Playing video games at my age, till 02:30; and now my body is paying for it.
Honestly, grow up will ya
I think both apply.
@Scepticalscribe and @decafjava hope you are both okay.
Ohhhh regarding the last one reminds me of Junior High a group of us dudes regularly met to play Risk, eat junk food and drink soft drinks. Until a few of us decided to ally and knock out another guy who then flew into a rage, threw the board and pieces across the room as well as the snacks and drinks. Good thing that doesn't happen in real diplomacy.
Ohhhh regarding the last one reminds me of Junior High a group of us dudes regularly met to play Risk, eat junk food and drink soft drinks. Until a few of us decided to ally and knock out another guy who then flew into a rage, threw the board and pieces across the room as well as the snacks and drinks. Good thing that doesn't happen in real diplomacy.
Ah the good 'ol games of Risk... there are boardgames that seem designed with the only purpose of causing real life conflict. I have never played Diplomacy, but its reputation for causing major conflicts among humans is stuff of a legend. I guess we'll see how it works.
We also purchased Game of Thrones by Fantasy Flight (the wargame, not the card game)… I think that's another candidate for family feuds.
Ohhhh regarding the last one reminds me of Junior High a group of us dudes regularly met to play Risk, eat junk food and drink soft drinks. Until a few of us decided to ally and knock out another guy who then flew into a rage, threw the board and pieces across the room as well as the snacks and drinks. Good thing that doesn't happen in real diplomacy.
I played Diplomacy on a number of occasions in those dark, dim and distant undergrad days.........with a group of dudes (I was the only woman, but then, I was the only one majoring in history and politics, they were mostly English majors, and a few studied the hard physical sciences) - mind you, I used to destroy them in Trivial Pursuit.
However, one of our circle gave rise to both admiring envy, consternation, and no small degree of uproar when he managed to keep Germany in the game until summer 1946.
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Same. I have been using Snooze liberally on FB lately. If it's not conspiracy, it's the 640,000th time you complained about staying in.
When people start threads and over the course of a few posts, it becomes incredibly obvious they have a chip on their shoulders heavier than the communal efforts of a tech forum can lift.
Anyway, if anybody needs me, I've graphed the names of everybody in my state who has come out as having COVID and am going to email it to the head of the Parks Department.
Anyway, if anybody needs me, I've graphed the names of everybody in my state who has come out as having COVID and am going to email it to the head of the Parks Department.
You should start a thread entitled "Top 50 Covideans Extrapolated".
Be sure to post tables and charts.
It's worked for me.
Be sure to post tables and charts.
It's worked for me.
oh you are the concerned citizen That is flooding my mail with spam!!!
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Actually, the friend, one of those English majors, (he was born in the US to a cardiologist and a nurse, but returned later with his parents to our wet isles, where they had been born) who introduced me to Diplomacy thought that the argument that this was (according to the sources he cited) Henry Kissinger's favourite game might persuade me to want to try it......
ahahah well, it would’ve worked with me, as you know.
It also seems that the legend is true, he apparently liked playing Diplomacy.
Over the weekend I stripped three carbon steel pans then reseasoned them. Tested one last night. 👍