Why not? We have a choice of any color for our hair, I'm not going to go my whole life with just one. I'm at a job that's fine with it and I'm heading to Burning Man soon, so now seemed like a good time to try something a bit wild. Worst case, I hated it and changed it later or let it fade. Pretty low risk IMO.
Commercial real estate brokers need to die in a fire. All of them. To a man. We've now missed our opening because apparently, people don't bother to check in on things unless you call them up and tear their heads off twice daily. Brokers don't think you're serious unless you threaten to walk from the property a couple times a week. And they don't think there's anything wrong when they tell you that the HVAC unit is fine, and it's totally sized appropriately, and the landlord will be a gentleman if it breaks, and then your own guy goes on the roof and discovers it's a Lenox from 1968 that hasn't run in ten years and is sized for a building one quarter the size of yours. Meanwhile the number your architect thinks is appropriate for a budget gets you laughed at by one of his contractors (the one he says is "hungry for work") and one of the others doesn't even bother calling you back. And then the bank you've had since 2002 sends you a letter letting you know they're not going to extend you an f'ng HELOC because they've decided you're a credit risk (ORLY? You guys do realize that you gave us a line of credit twice as big as what we're asking for not five years ago and we never used it, right?) right about the same time the bank your accountant turned you on to approves you for five times what you asked for, which is probably good, because your contractors are saying things like "you should probably recalibrate your expectations in this market" and your designer is speccing $800 sinks. But then you get something like this and maybe, just maybe, it's gonna be real. I can say without hesitation that this has been the absolute worst experience of my adult life and the money is just now starting to bleed out. I can also say that it's been the absolute worst experience of my adult life entirely because of the commercial leasing process as evolved by the aforementioned DIAF fuckheads because you know what? They're going to wait me out into buying $7500 in wall upgrades I shouldn't have to pay for and $20k worth of HVAC they should be on the hook for because they know that eventually I'll get sick of yelling, eventually I'll realize that through two brokers and three firms (no lie! Our current guy quit his job of 18 years IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR DEAL!) we're still coming out ahead, and eventually I'll get to the point where I know I can curse the mutherfuckers under my breath every day for the rest of my life because after I fucking sign a contract that's $30k disadvantageous to me, they'll go away, collect their 3% commission and I'll never have to fucking speak to them again. And that's how I've "recalibrated my expectations" to victory.
That "forest" suite looks dope. Unfortunate that this horse hockey with real estate continues. Only advice I can give is to just keep the eye on the prize, as you're doing.
Totally agree with this, imagining what the room will look like with those materials I would absolutely choose it for a delivery, there's this 'distinguished warmth' to those choices that I think says "We're professionals and we're here for you." Can't wait to see it when it's completed, you'll have to do a tour KB, maybe find someone who does 360 tours and get it put into Google Streetview etc?
I've only smoked 2 cigarettes today and it's noon (6 or 7 by now would be standard) and I blew the lid off my GREs, plus I'm kind of extending my vacation by working from home for the rest of the week at the vacation house my family decided spontaneously to rent in Wildwood, NJ this week - and my mother hasn't been here the whole time. There's a word for times like this. I believe it's "tits." things are coming up pretty tits.
I survived my weekend hike in the Adirondacks. According to my GPS I covered 16 miles and 4000 foot total ascent, though the guide books say it's 13 miles. I haven't figured out the discrepancy yet. This was my first time with an overnight bag in the mountains. I'll do it again but will leave the pack at a lower spot. Going up was tough. Going down with that weight was brutal. I'll do a #tripreport later.
Trust your GPS. Guidebooks and signs probably like to lie to us. I was in Yosemite this summer, and went for a hike by the Hetch Hetchy dam. The guide book said I think a round trip of 3 miles, trailhead sign said 3.5 miles, and then the signs along the trail turned it into 4 miles. Didn't have a GPS, but that surely would have said something different. It has literal eyes in the sky though, so I'd go with that. Plus, it's more impressive.
I wonder if WanderingEng's GPS could have been tracking erroneous locations as it went in and out of satellite coverage (is that the right term here?), it's common on Smartphones where it will default location to a network tower though I assume this is an actual GPS unit that we're talking about here so maybe not. Eng: You planning on doing anything with your data points?
Yep, it's an actual GPS. It's a Garmin Oregon 650 designed for outdoors stuff. I did pull the GPS tracks into Google Earth last night, and there Google calculated something like 13.5 miles compared to the Garmin calculation on the GPS unit itself of 16.0. My best guess is Garmin measured every distance between every point while Google smoothed them a bit. Two and a half miles of small, extra segments seems huge, but it's the only theory I have.
My own experience with GPS units has been limited to older models with no computer connection -- or maybe there was over serial... certainly my Grandad has never had a computer to try it! That sounds like a really odd discrepancy, perhaps try importing the route into different software and see how it varies, does Garmin offer a desktop or web app that you could trail? My concern is that is actually pretty dangerous if it is reporting differently in the field, though I suppose the actual co-ordinates should be accurate... but then how would you know?
What hike did you do? I've hiked fairly extensively in the Adirondacks over the last ten years. I'm actually headed up there this weekend!
Oh cool! I hiked from the loj up Algonquin and over to Iroquois. That all went pretty well. Then I dropped down to Lake Colden, and that was insanely slow going with the pack. I need to download the GPS track, but I think it took me three hours to get to the bottom of the trail. I camped at a designated site near Avalanche Lake and hiked around (over, in parts) it the next day. That took me past Marcy Dam, of course, on my way back to the loj. I'd done Algonquin before, but Iroquois was my ninth High Peak. Where are you headed?
Ah yes I'm very familiar with the loj, Heart Lake is a gorgeous sight. I actually stayed at the John Brooks Lodge last time I was up. Have you heard of it? The bedding and grub was surprisingly nice for being three and a half miles in the woods. They even have complimentary ear plugs in case your bunk mates are snorers. The staff is very nice, definite pot heads though. I think I would be too, if I was stuck out in the wilderness for weeks on end. We did Saddleback and Basin, I think it was 15 or 16 miles from jbl to the peaks and then back to the parking lot. Great views but very treacherous descents on Saddleback. My brother actually broke his ankle on the way down and had to hike out on it. Not our best trip! I've done Wright and Algonquin before, but I don't think I've done Iroquois? I usually go with my family and assorted friends a few times a year, and I've missed hikes here and there. It's hard to keep track at this point. I'm not sure what peak we're doing this time. Something on the easier side I believe. Maybe Cascade or Noonmark? We usually like to stay in Placid and enjoy the restaurants and shopping. We're not what you would call "hardcore" hikers!
OMG so I'm so excited to share with you this week. I was up all night BUILDING A FUCKING CHROME EXTENSION! It's so FUCKING EASY! It's just HTML in a tiny itty-bitty fun sized container. And if you link to another HTML page it opens. And if you link to an HTML page with target="_blank" it opens in a tab. Okay look look look! Basically, what this is going to be, is essentially what the website is (a place for people to make Ether wallets / send transactions without command line and doing as much client-side as we can. Even send transactions just signs the transaction with the private key and sends that off rather than sending or storing the private key at any point) but as a Chrome extension WITH STORAGE. People are begging for a blockchain.info type of set up but kvhnuke and I refuse to take a decentralized system and give it a centralized UI (like blockchain.info). We hope to add contract functionality and open up an API so sites/dapps like http://groupgnosis.com/ can give users the option to use our extension rather than having geth or another command line tool running. I have also smoked two cigarettes like _refugee_...but it's only 10am and I've been up since 8:30am. :P
You'll be happy to hear that Mozilla are planning to migrate towards a Chrome-based WebExtensions model retiring the existing addons system, it's based off the the Chrome one but will have it's own features added to it and I think is expected within a few months. That should make your work more portable, wahey! :)
So, so, so tired. I think I got three hours of sleep last night. I really need to start going to bed earlier, this isn't healthy. I feel dehydrated too. I don't drink nearly enough water. I need to fix this. This should be an easy thing to fix, right? Otherwise, things are going well!
b_b is to flossing what I am to water. I'd honestly say even 8 glasses isn't enough, though, where I am it's really dry. But I go for 10 or 12 in a day. Everything's better with water. Clear mind, more energy, better sleep, and weight loss on top of everything else. The only downside is that you really feel on days when you don't drink enough water.
Okay. That's pretty simple. I think I can handle that. Thanks
Put a cup of water on the bedside table. Don't drink it before bed or you'll be up in the middle of the night. Drink it when you wake up. If you're dehydrated and have been for a long time, it'll be like drinking a potion from the gods. You'll be amazed at how you feel that day.
Work ended at 3am. Daughter was up at six. Need to take her to daycare, then wrangle a commercial broker, an architect, a designer and three contractors. Maybe get a nap, then pick her up at 5, then get her ready for bed, then wait for my wife to make it home then go back into work at 10pm, when work will be done at 7am. The little minute maid squeezers work pretty well for making you drink more water.
Homer Simpson bought his daughter Lisa a pony and, to help pay for its living at a ranch, took up a second job. Homer: I work from midnight to eight, come home, sleep for five minutes, eat breakfast, sleep six more minutes, shower, then I have ten minutes to bask in Lisa's love, then I'm off to the power plant, fresh as a daisy.
!! I'm never more than two feet from my trusty canteen. If I'm focused on something, muscle memory takes over and I drain it in half an hour. The downside, if you can call it that, is when you're at a restaurant or out drinking you feel like you need six times as much water as everyone else. And I get annoyed on the rare occasions when I get stuck without water access, because I don't feel right and I know how easy it would be to feel right, if I just had a water fountain. Doubling the amount of water you drink is the single easiest way to instantly improve your health and it's pretty crazy that more doctors/etc don't emphasize it. I'm sure you've done this, but if you google the recommended water intake it'll blow your mind. Over three quarts, and that's baseline male without factoring in any strenuous exercise. I get 4+ every day -- but I know people who have probably never reached that mark in their entire lives. It's impossible to explain to them how they'll feel if they just try it once. Oh and that problem of just not being able to stand drinking another pint of water, needing flavoring, whatever, goes away fast.
When I can't handle another quart of water - I'll cheat with one of those little propel packets. Light flavor and helps get another jar of water down. And there are some of those packets (crystal light and a store brand) that even have a caffeine kicker. I use those on days like the one it sounds like you're having.The little minute maid squeezers work pretty well for making you drink more water
I got my dissertation mar back today and it was 67. This was the minimum I needed to maintain my hopes of a distinction overall. One of the main criticisms was that my syntax and grammar were erroneous and that it needed proofreading. That was a bit surprising as it was proofread by multiple parties. Still, I think I may have tendency to make my writing to 'flowery,' for lack of a better word. Perhaps I put too much weight on what I perceive is an aesthetically pleasing sentence at the expense of its message. Overall though they said it was 'very good.' However, I still feel somewhat disappointed but maybe I'm being too hard on myself. My main frustration is that some of the criticisms could've been addresses if my supervisor had actually met with me as I requested during the critical last two weeks of writing. All that's left now is my composition portfolio which I need at least 66 in. The deadline for this is September 1st. I am reasonably confident I can get 70+ for this as my music has so far got me my highest marks. Fingers crossed.
There's an app for that...and it is REALLY fun.
Thanks for sharing that site, I never really know how to improve in writing and this might help give me some direction. Though maybe I should lurk more in #writebetterdammit ;)
I did actually use this before I submitted and got a pretty good score. Either way, I brought up the issue of not being able to see my tutor sufficiently before hand-in in a meeting with him today. He said he felt it was a valid and reasonable observation and that it would be brought to the attention of the other marker and the external examiner.
I found I had a real problem with weasel words when writing to meet a word count, perhaps there's some cruft accumulating in your work? I'd do a CTRL+F for the example phrases and try to remove them -- preferably through expanding the sentence to include more information.
I'm not sure I even know where to start. But I did just take a big drink of water. I'm lurking, dude, lurking. Putting in my odd two cents here and there, trying to make the world a little better. _refugee_ just sent me a poem by pm, the new 8bit and I had a little messaging, and BLOB_CASTLE, bless his blobful heart, has a postcard on its way to me with news of whether or not he visited the Cavern of Jazz in Paris. You, of course, are only a weird text away. I'm so happy to have my disembodied friends. The everwise kb said in this thread I am about to post an #askhubski regarding some work I'm preparing for the west coast in January. Show it some love when it pops up.And that's how I've "recalibrated my expectations" to victory
reminding me and all of us to move in the direction of victory. I am.
I've been working on a shoe rack as part of my ongoing foray into woodworking Super basic, but it's coming along nicely and looks pretty nice actually. Research still sucks right now, but I'm transitioning into the phase of not really caring. It's too emotionally exhausting to put so much effort and time into something that gets ignored by people because of petty academic politics.
It looks great!! Hope you're having fun with it :) Sorry about this. I saw your pubski post last week too and it sounds like it's a really rough time right now.Research still sucks right now, but I'm transitioning into the phase of not really caring. It's too emotionally exhausting to put so much effort and time into something that gets ignored by people because of petty academic politics.
God but that's the truth. And half the problem is they can't measure things. Luckily if you call them out on it usually they'll just keep retrying until you're happy-ish, at no extra cost. But if you bought the only piece of x by x wood in the entire store, you're fucked. There's no way they cut it right in one try.
There's finally a date set for my fiance's visa interview and I couldn't be more excited. Once we know we'll be allowed to live in the same country we can actually nail down some permanent wedding plans. Life is moving forward and it's looking great. The future seems a lot brighter than it used to look.
It's up pretty early today. I've got less than a week left before I begin my final year of college, and I'm beginning to lose my shit (just a little). I can't believe next year I will be done with school. What comes next? It is all pretty much open-ended. I have a general plan of what to do next, but there are still some blank spaces in there. I think I'm just getting into my own head a bit too much with it, just really freaky that after nearly 18 years of constant schooling it's over (Eventually I might go back to school). In other news I turn 21 in just about two weeks which will make this thread even more relevant for me. Weekly check-in arguewithatree. Hope you are in good health, and still hitting those weights!
As somebody who just graduated, listen to arguewithatree.
Most of life is blank spaces. Take a deep breath, reflect on how far you've come, blast your resume everywhere, and enjoy your time left in college. Also being 21 is awesome but also expensive. Plan accordingly. Haven't hit the gym yet but I did get guilted by a fit friend of mine for neglecting cardio and he's probably right so when I do make it in, I'll do a little of both. Classes start up next week so I'll be on campus more which simultaneously complicates and simplifies getting to the gym more frequently
I spent the weekend visiting my brother and his family in his holiday home out in the countryside. It was great to see my two little nephews again. The younger one is now 3 and the last time I saw him he was still being pushed around in a pram. Now the child is tearing around the place and has zero concept of self-preservation; cuts and scrapes everywhere. I had to physically restrain him at one point from riding his bicycle down a set of stairs. I don't know how my brother and sister in law manage to keep up with the child. In other news, the Arduino I ordered came early yesterday. Right now I'm just blinking LEDs on and off and controlling them with buttons and switches. Once I master LEDs I'll be ready for NASA, I reckon.
Which Arduino did you get? It's something I've been interested in since forever and now I regret waiting as they've had a huge falling out, one of the original team went and copyrighted it in the US or something I don't know... just seems to be a big ol' mess now. I'm sure you're probably already familiar with Adafruit which has some good Arduino content, but please do share if you come across any tutorials/guides/hacks/projects that you like or find useful... maybe there's a #arduino?
I got the Arduino Uno Rev 3. I didn't realize that there was drama about the Arduino, but then again, I'm pretty out of the loop with that kind of thing. It's just something that would come up in conversation with friends, and looking at some of the projects it looked like a lot of fun to get into. Thanks for the link to Adafruit! I recognized the name and saw their stuff being sold on Amazon, but I didn't know there were tutorials on there. A lot of it looks like it'll be really useful in the next few weeks. I've mainly been working with a little kit I bought with the Arduino which has a bunch of tutorials, resistors, LEDs, a servo, and other goodies. It's a Sunfounder kit, if that's helpful at all :). Also, this guy's tutorials have been really helpful so far. It would be awesome to start a #arduino! I often browse /r/Arduino on Reddit just to look at all the awesome projects.
This Hackaday article (also a great site for projects) seems to paint the Italian company as the bad guys, but the first I heard of this painted a different picture -- a lone team member usurping the US trademark from under them. I'll see if I can find that article to give a balanced view. Edit: It seems there's been a lot more recent posts under the Hackaday Arduino vs Arduino category. Those should give a more balanced view of things. Either way: Crazy stuff! We should make a cross-platform tag too so things can be posted to both that and the platform specific one as I don't know if I'll be picking up an Arduino or sticking with the #microbit or what have you. I hope to! Maybe #hardware would be a good fit?
Huh. Weird. I could have sworn there was a #diy tag already but when I clicked the one in your comment, it led to nothing. Apparently tags are case sensitive. #diy style posts are awesome. This community has a ton of creative people constantly making art and what have you. I think it would be great if some people would take step by step photos of their creative process, letting us in on the development of their work.
I did that with a special bookbinding I did a while ago, and people seemed to like it. I don't know if I used #diy for it though. It would have been more of a #hobbski thing I think. I fixed up a straight razor yesterday and put it there too, but that's pretty boring. It'd be cool to maybe see how the music club does their thing, or some of the wood workers here.
The first project I did out of college was monitoring for commercial AC instillations using Arduinos with SquidBee shields. I haven't kept up with Arduino since then, but getting a working proof of concept out of a $200 trip to Radio Shack and a 50 line perl script was awesome.
I am on vacation with family in Las Vegas. During my time here, I have learned that gambling is a boring thing to do. You push some buttons on a machine and hope it will give you some cash. Its not even like a hard game where you got a low score but you can still say you had fun. I just don't see the appeal.
Well, I mean, this isn't true. Or if you're only talking about slots/roulette you're experiencing roughly one two-hundredth of what gambling has to offer. But casinos suck anyway.Its not even like a hard game where you got a low score but you can still say you had fun.
The only game I had fun with in Vegas was craps. It's not nearly as complicated as it seems, unless you want it to be. Plus, there is a communal feeling around the table and everybody (usually) is excited when somebody wins, because it means they win too (usually)! Hi fives all around! The only trouble is finding a low minimum bet. I just don't have the bankroll for Vegas and get much too stressed out over losing money to have fun anymore. Check out the table games though, that's where the fun is to be had.
I just went to Vegas for the first time with my parents about a month ago and felt the same way. I didn't even understand the slot machine I was trying to play. Walked away when I lost $2 and still didn't even know what the button did. On the other hand, Vegas is great for people-watching!
Yes all kinds of people from all over the world come to Vegas. Although it's a bit sad to see all the old people just chain smoking spending all their time at the slots. Some even get food delivered to their seats. It's even worse to see the drug addicts spazzing out in the street.
You can kayak under the hoover dam next time. There are hot springs. It is pretty nice to hike up the trail and get in the hot water, then jump into the cold river, before you get back to paddling. It is 26 miles long. I like to go to casinos, get the free play money, gamble until it is luckily all real money. Use whatever perks they gave me, cash out, then leave never to return. Win every time. It is usually just a buffet coupon, 10 bucks, and something to do for a bit.
Starting up work on the article seres on learning the 3rd Bach cello suite I mentioned a while back. Don't have "pen to paper", but do have some movements on the go and some research and analysis I'm reading. I'm trying to plot out how I want to do the series - I'm thinking 7-8 "articles", intro, one for each movement, then a final thoughts sort of thing. I'm a little scared that it will turn into a monster that I'll never complete, then I think to myself "you're not doing it for some deadline, just do it because you want to."
Working on hubski SQL stuff. I could livestream, but most of the time is waiting on the app to load. During which I watch Spice and Wolf. Still up in the air whether I push it live tonight or tomorrow morning. If not, it won't be for another week, because I'm on vacation next week, and not about to push a big change and leave. It's looking good though. Fixed a minor community tags bug, but I'm testing, and not seeing anything else.
To An Old Camper by Mary S. Edgar . . . You may think, my dear, when you grow quite old You have left camp days behind, But I know the scent of wood smoke Will always call to mind Little fires at twilight And trails you used to find. . You may think someday you have quite grown up, And feel so worldly wise But suddenly from out of the past A vision will arise Of merry folk with brown bare knees And laughter in their eyes. . You may live in a house built to your taste In the nicest part of town But someday for your old camp togs You'd change your latest gown And trade it for a balsam bed Where stars all night look down. . You may find yourself grow wealthy Have all that gold can buy. But you'd toss aside a fortune For days 'neath an open sky With sunlight and blue water And white clouds sailing by. . For once you have been a camper Then something has come to stay Deep in your heart forever Which nothing can take away, And heaven can only be heaven With a camp in which to play.
It's weird having days off in the middle of the week and working some weekends. What do you do when you're off in the middle of the week? Clean? Happy hour? I've been here for almost two months now and I've met some people but it doesn't feel like I've made any friends right here where I'm living but maybe that will change now that I'm starting to frequent a couple places and will start doing some volunteer work soon. Sigh.
What do you do in the middle of the week? Go shopping, run errands, go to the post office or the car wash. All the things that normal people do on the weekends. Or relax. Or find a coffee shop or something. Find some people without real jobs. You could go to a kids park with a toy stroller and toy baby and freak out all the housewives and nannys. That would be fun. Or just hang out on Hubski.
Going to start frequenting a couple of shops around hear to see if I can't pick up a day a week at one of them to learn more about coffee and small-scale roasting, brewing methods, etc...wonder what the odds of that working out are. On the other hand, maybe I'll just do this.Or find a coffee shop or something. Find some people without real jobs.
You could go to a kids park with a toy stroller and toy baby and freak out all the housewives and nannys. That would be fun.
3 more days left at my internship and back to school on monday! (yay!) I've been helping out my dad sending emails, dealing with the city for the past week too. Here's the situation: my dad is a landlord for a living. and there's this perpetually angry lady living in one of his apartments. She's constantly calls on inspectors for the smallest things and contests the 5$ rent increase every year with 10k worth of repairs. So on apartment in the building was undergoing renovations and there were about 3 days left to completition when she called on the city saying the renovations were done without permit. Inspectors came, stopped the construction and my dad went to the city hall to get the permit. Next day, she calls on the syndicate saying the workers are illegal and they send their own inspectors that give the contractor a huge fine and stop the construction until my dad hires an architect and gets an approved syndicated construction company to do the job. All that for a refinishing of floors, changing the kitchen cabinets and re-painting. He's totally in the wrong not getting permits and hiring contrators that don't pay benefits to their employees and now he's gonna pay the price. Personally, I'm not sure how I see his business practices. Usually, all the people involved are happy (including the tenants, he's not a crummy landlord) but everything's not by the book either. He claims if he followed all rules, he won't really be able to make ends meet (some buildings he makes about 3k profit a year), but I believe it's important to pay workers a living wage. And renovations should be done according to new ecological standards and stuff. Anyway, kinda torn on the issue.
Oh man, this job. I spent the first two days of this week working on a pathfinder spreadsheet. I told myself it was because I can be a little obsessive and just needed to get it out of my system, but the truth was that I had no real idea of what to do next. I was stalled. Today, I had two meetings back to back. I proposed the next three steps of my plan. The first step requires little effort, people just send me the training plans they have and I translate them to a standard format. The second step requires them to write out documentation of every "course" in their plan, a moderately tedious process but not terrible. The third step was to have them write out every tedious step of every lesson in every course so that I could put it into a learning management system. I plotted the last two steps just to sell the first idea, to prove that I had somewhere to go if they would just help me out a little. In both meetings, the people were so ecstatic that someone was tackling the training problem that they committed to all three steps. That'll give me enough data to sell my site. With what they've committed to give, I can put meat on my skeleton and present it to top brass to get funding. I KNOW I can sell this idea, but not as some ethereal plan I have in the back of my mind. My coworkers have come together to help me flesh this idea out and give it the weight it needs to be viable. I'm still so stunned and so thankful for this day.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I can see what it is I'm trying to build and I have been since I got here. But so few things go as planned and trying to get everyone else to share in the vision is so much more crazy complicated than I thought. It's wonderful.
I'm not entirely sure, and Isherwood is welcome (and encouraged) to tell me I'm wrong but I think it may be 'pathfinding' in the same sense as the find a path subreddit where people can seek out advice on careers, life planning etc. So this would be a website which can help people find a path and begin training within that? Or is that a seperate thing entirely? Ish, maybe subscribe to #sellingwithtng and see if he'll help you refine your pitch. I would definitely recommend reading this deconstruction of Elon Musk's presentation and remember: you do not have to have a working product or feature set for a product, but do be truthful about the status of it and show visually where you want to take it.
Oh, no, sorry. I just got into the D&D style game, pathfinder. I was making a spreadsheet for my character to make leveling and remembering spells easier. I'm glad that I have enough of a reputation that it could be considered as a cool thing though.
We saw the Red Arrows today! It nearly was rained off, and eventually the heavens opened whilst they were performing but it was fantastic as always. I'm very fortunate that my grandparents house is practically at eye-level and they often target the performance towards or near the house so we get the full power of the jets rushing in towards us. They used to fly directly overhead but that's not happened for a long time now.
That is an absolutely majestic photo! It looks like you had an incredible view, I'm glad it went ahead! I remember when I was a kid seeing the Saudi Hawks for the first time. They also use a variant of the BAE Hawk. The noise was fantastic, it was one of the most spectacular things I had ever seen.
Back to the grind real, real soon. Classes start in exactly a week, 8 billion textbooks are en route to my house right now, I need to bite the damn bullet and finish the edits on my fucking Fulbright essays because that's due next week because even though I know they're shit a shit application is better than no application. Connected with an old friend from a bygone era and it's been kinda odd. Not bad, just odd.
I'm at the dentist for a cleaning. I think I may be in the minority - I love it. If I was wealthy, I would have my teeth professionally cleaned as often as it is healthy to do so. I used to hate it - the scraping, the scratching- but now I love how clean and smooth my teeth feel.
Haven't been in ages. I feel like every time I go all that happens is I pay a fee to hear the dentist tell me how healthy my teeth are. After a while I decided it was a waste of time and money. Floss daily, kids. Cheapest health insurance policy money can buy.
Me too! Used to hate it, now I love it. There's something so oddly satisfying about them scraping off the plaque -- for some reason no matter how much I floss I always get plaque buildup on the back of my front bottom teeth. They're always so smooth after a cleaning :')
Around two weeks ago my older brother and main social contact flew off to Norway for 3 months, so I've moved into his room to get away from my extremely obnoxious younger brother. It's great, I thought I'd feel lonely, but the loneliness from one brother leaving cancels out the now reduced loneliness from being around the other brother. The quietness and less frequent "Hey Caelum." "Yes..." "So you know x right?" "Yes..." "You know how x does x?" "Yes..." "Yeah, well, <extremely time inefficient explanation of some mildly interesting news>" "Huh." "To be honest <very ignorant opinion that he will defend to the grave, again explained to take as much time as possible> make for much more productivity too.
Things are meh. I can't enjoy much of anything without feeling extremely discontent about it. But I don't feel like talking about it because of shit that's too volatile for most people. hubski included, I guess. My streak of bad luck continues, in the sense that the one thing I find myself passionate about makes everyone else in the room uncomfortable. And I like anime, so that says something, heh. I dunno. There's a hazy filter over everything around me right now. Like those claritin clear commercials where everything's all grey. 'Cept there's no allergy pill to brighten things up in this situation.
When I was your age, I would get really hung up on philosophy, trying to understand things and making big theories. I don't usually share my most depressing thoughts with anyone. I used to get really upset, when theories fall apart. If I am really sad, I am living in my head. I am much happier, since realizing I will never understand everything. What about a sativa or DMT? (If you want me to leave you alone, I will. If you want me to listen, I will. There are plenty here who care.)
Thank you guys so much! I moved in to my dorm last week and I've been having a blast! My classes are great and I've made a ton of new friends! The weather here is also so much nicer than in Houston (at least for now) and I just want to thank everyone for all of the advice and helpful tips. I've been really busy, so I haven't been able to get on Hubski recently, but I've got a bit of downtime, so I thought I'd thank you guys.
Monday I've gotten the keys to my new place, finished my enrollment and got my second job offer which this time does work with my schedule (pun intended) and sounds pretty cool. Tuesday I have spent the entire day moving to my new place, found out I finally got all of the money I was supposed to have and bought myself a sweet (cheap) couch from Ikea. Great way to start the week, especially because I've felt like shit / been ill between last Thursday and Sunday. Friggin' fever of something.