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Re cold and heating; my lil heater works amazingly well, and are easy to move.
Bedroom, before bedtime an in the morning. Yoga/office, between that. Other rooms gets part of the heat from these locations.

Re the stalker, I’ve come to a place where I can laugh at it and even feel some compassion. I don’t however direct it towards anything special, just to the mentally and ethically retarded people on the planet 😉
What a disgrace it must be to have no evolved consciousness at all when life is moving within and towards the last part of life. Horror even!
I have also used various techniques of protecting myself, that I can shift between. Work fine!
It also work amazingly well of forgetting this persons existence- must be my favorite practice!
As I assume this is probably the worst for the stalker, disappear into oblivion, and no soul evolved, and no awareness of any of that.

Re. the winter and the cold.
It’s not going to get warmer from here, so it’s acceptance or suffering.
I choose the former, and might start to enjoy it more as it goes - I usually do 😄

I also had 2 x 4 doubled espressos to start this day.
Why not?
 
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Lioness~ said:
It’s not going to get warmer from here, so it’s acceptance or suffering.
I choose the former, and might start to enjoy it more as it goes - I usually do 😄

I also had 2 x 4 doubled espressos to start this day.
Why not?
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As in many things in life. I can adapt to the cold but it is much harder to adapt to the dark, but you know as you said why make oneself miserable. Espresso is always a good idea.
 
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Long jons and vests are the norm for me now.
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Yes, me too.

Courtesy of a wonderful company (organic, ecologically and environmentally aware, garments made solely from natural fibres, lovely and warm and comfortable) in Devon - they go by the name of greenfibres - that I discovered when they had a stall at the Bristol organic food fair/festival that I had attended a few times well over a decade ago, when staying with my friends in Bristol.

In fact, not only do I use (and wear) their wares, but, for the last decade of her life, I used to order their undies and thermals (longjohns and tops) for my dear old mum as well, so, she, too was nice and toasty and warm in winter.

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The journey down south was challenging this morning. The trip back tomorrow is on my mind as I enjoy my Stella.
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Ah, safe travels and do enjoy your Stella.
 
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Yes, me too.

Courtesy of a wonderful company (organic, ecologically and environmentally aware, garments made solely from natural fibres, lovely and warm and comfortable) in Devon - they go by the name of greenfibres - that I discovered when they had a stall at the Bristol organic food fair/festival that I had attended a few times well over a decade ago, when staying with my friends in Bristol.

In fact, not only do I use (and wear) their wares, but, for the last decade of her life, I used to order their undies and thermals (longjohns and tops) for my dear old mum as well, so, she, too was nice and toasty and warm in winter.


Ah, safe travels and do enjoy your Stella.
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Well as Mrs AFB controls the thermostat (15 max), I’m using them at home. I only used to wear them when out shooting in winter!
 
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Apple fanboy said:
Well as Mrs AFB controls the thermostat (15 max), I’m using them at home. I only used to wear them when out shooting in winter!
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Well, I only used to wear them while out and about in winter in some of the mad places where I have worked over the past decade and a half; and now, strange to relate, I am wearing them at home......

How wondrous and bizarre life is.......
 
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decafjava said:
As in many things in life. I can adapt to the cold but it is much harder to adapt to the dark, but you know as you said why make oneself miserable. Espresso is always a good idea.
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Yea don't mind the cold unless it start going into teens or lower F. Don't like the dark so early since I have to drive home in the dark then. The main thing I hope to avoid is major winter weather
 
So, I had this 2011 13" MacBook Pro, with 8GB RAM and 500 GB SSD. A nice working machine, for five years. Then silly me spilled beer over the keyboard and it went nuts. With a "hack" I found online I made it run for another year or so, hot and slow, then replaced it with a 2017 13" MBP nTB. And that machine annoyed the 🤬 out of me with its ever faulty keyboard. Sold ist after two replacements, in 2020. Got the freshly released final Intel 13" then. Now, today I sold the 2011 MBP for 30 bugs as spare parts. Three hours later the guy emails me: "cleaned the board, runs fine again". I'm now having my "Hide the pain Harold" moment... But why? Not because I gave it away for cheap, price was fine. Maybe because back in the day I was quite happy and settled with that old machine, while its successor really gave me a hard time, when almost everything else in life gave me a hard time, too? Now that I'm writing this, I'm absolutely sure it's that.
 
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So, I had this 2011 13" MacBook Pro, with 8GB RAM and 500 GB SSD. A nice working machine, for five years. Then silly me spilled beer over the keyboard and it went nuts. With a "hack" I found online I made it run for another year or so, hot and slow, then replaced it with a 2017 13" MBP nTB. And that machine annoyed the 🤬 out of me with its ever faulty keyboard. Sold ist after two replacements, in 2020. Got the freshly released final Intel 13" then. Now, today I sold the 2011 MBP for 30 bugs as spare parts. Three hours later the guy emails me: "cleaned the board, runs fine again". I'm now having my "Hide the pain Harold" moment... But why? Not because I gave it away for cheap, price was fine. Maybe because back in the day I was quite happy and settled with that old machine, while its successor really gave me a hard time, when almost everything else in life gave me a hard time, too? Now that I'm writing this, I'm absolutely sure it's that.
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At least someone else gets the joy of ownership. For yourself, look forward to these M1 and M2 Macs, their performance is awesome and the keyboard works every time, just like one would expect.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
@Scepticalscribe when you think that conspiracy theories can’t go wilder… apparently Ancient Rome never existed.


https://twitter.com/x/status/1594036375178944520

Looks like I am wasting time reading all those books on Rome. Oh well.

The silver lining: I am sure that I am not the dumbest person on earth.
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Makes sense. The Roman Empire was a couple of thousand years ago.
If people can deny things that happened in our lifetime or our parents, then why not?
 
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I do have many words that I could write, but I don’t want to be banned.
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Ah, yes.

Well, yes, words do now suggest themselves, but, perhaps, it may be better for prudence to prevail, and for tongues to be bitten to prevent speech, and pens stayed so that some.....words may remain unwritten.

I hear you.

Actually, I agree with you.
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I have never seen Australia, so it doesn’t exist!
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Yes, I have wondered about that.

Mind you, I also wondered about some of the amazing countries of central Asia until I travelled there.....relatively regularly for a few years and - even then - I was aware of what a privilege it was to be able to do so.

Actually, I remember flying over the Caspian Sea (on a number of occasions) and I never ceased to be awed and thrilled by the experience, for I also recall the child (me) poring over a massive atlas that my mother had bought, staring, enthralled, fascinated, marvelling, at maps depicting features such as.....yes, the Caspian Sea.
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Well of course it doesn’t. The earth is flat, so the Southern Hemisphere must be the underworld or just made up.
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Ah, that also explains Southern Hemisphere rugby teams.
 
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Mind you, I also wondered about some of the amazing countries of central Asia until I travelled there.....relatively regularly for a few years and - even then - I was aware of what a privilege it was to be able to do so.

Actually, I remember flying over the Caspian Sea (on a number of occasions) and I never ceased to be awed and thrilled by the experience, for I also recall the child (me) poring over a massive atlas that my mother had bought, staring, enthralled, fascinated, marvelling, at maps depicting features such as.....yes, the Caspian Sea.
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Considering that those places clearly do not exist (of course our conspiracy theory must be US-centric), the question remains if in reality you just saw cinematographic sets. As we have seen, the Roman Empire doesn’t exist, therefore when I lived in Italy and visited all the ruins I was in reality just looking at cardboards. The massive Colosseum in Rome? Plastic. Obviously this brings to more interesting points about actual chronology (Julius Caesar? Was just a Greek pizza delivery guy) such as the one that the tiktoker I mentioned above actually makes: The temple of Jerusalem was destroyed, but since Romans don’t exist then the most plausible solution is that Jewish people decided to destroy it by themselves, and then blame a non-existent civilization. Of course she also mentions - so much acumen! - that Latin was invented by the Vatican, who forged all the old documents, as they clearly never spoke Latin in Rome before 33AD.
 
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Considering that those places clearly do not exist (of course our conspiracy theory must be US-centric), the question remains if in reality you just saw cinematographic sets. As we have seen, the Roman Empire doesn’t exist, therefore when I lived in Italy and visited all the ruins I was in reality just looking at cardboards. The massive Colosseum in Rome? Plastic. Obviously this brings to more interesting points about actual chronology (Julius Caesar? Was just a Greek pizza delivery guy) such as the one that the tiktoker I mentioned above actually makes: The temple of Jerusalem was destroyed, but since Romans don’t exist then the most plausible solution is that Jewish people decided to destroy it by themselves, and then blame a non-existent civilization. Of course she also mentions - so much acumen! - that Latin was invented by the Vatican, who forged all the old documents, as they clearly never spoke Latin in Rome before 33AD.
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Etruscans, Greeks, Egyptians, and - for that matter - Phoenicians, do they not exist, either?

Dear me.

And just who was Pontius Pilate, - who appointed him, who funded his administration, what world, or civilisation, gave rise to him - in that case?
 
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Etruscans, Greeks, Egyptians, and - for that matter - Phoenicians, do they not exist, either?

Dear me.

And just who was Pontius Pilate, - who appointed him, who funded his administration, what world, or civilisation, gave rise to him - in that case?
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According to that innovative historian lady (on her profile she calls herself “historian”), Greeks did exist. It’s only the Romans that didn’t, and history has been changed (by the Vatican) to fit the conspiracy which would make the Vatican incredibly efficient.

It’s one of those cases in which I want to laugh, but the actual subject is so depressing that I want to cry. But I can’t cry because the stupidity of it is just so striking that my brain can’t process it.
 
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According to that innovative historian lady (on her profile she calls herself “historian”), Greeks did exist. It’s only the Romans that didn’t, and history has been changed (by the Vatican) to fit the conspiracy which would make the Vatican incredibly efficient.

It’s one of those cases in which I want to laugh, but the actual subject is so depressing that I want to cry. But I can’t cry because the stupidity of it is just so striking that my brain can’t process it.
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Well, what can I say?

Apart from sympathise (and deplore the insult to the noble profession of "historian" which is how I still describe myself when asked, though I sometmes qualify it with a preceding verb, as in "lapsed historian").

Perhaps Friedrich Schiller expressed it best: "Against ignorance (stupidity?) the gods themselves battle (contend?) in vain."
 
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