I just woke up and I’m headed for bed, so I don’t have much to say but it looks like we could use an Open Thread.
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I just woke up and I’m headed for bed, so I don’t have much to say but it looks like we could use an Open Thread.
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Benw
Everyone take care of yourselves and those you can care for. I’m hoping for the best for all of you
Another Scott
TheHill:
We’ll see what happens…
Cheers,
Scott.
Jerzy Russian
Your post rhymes a bit (… off to bed, … need an open thread).
I would like to go to bed myself, but I try to make it to 10:00 pm before that happens. I would wake up too early the. next day.
John Revolta
I just woke up and I’m headed for bed
Thought for sure this was Cole at first. Regardless, it’s got “song lyric” written all over it.
West of the Rockies
@Benw:
You doing alright, BenW?
MisterForkbeard
Do we still have aspiring/successful writers here? I recently ran across a SF/Fantasy writing class Brandon Sanderson taught at BYU in 2020 that’d been posted online, and listened to it (all 12 hours or so) over a week. For a non-author it was really instructive, but I feel like there’s a lot there for newer writers too.
For extra weirdness, Covid hits about 2/3rds of the way through the class and they have to move to entirely remote around the 8th or 9th episode. Just fascinating in retrospect.
Anyway, worth listening to if you’re at all interested in the subject but I’m really curious what our own authors think about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HOdHEeosc&list=PLSH_xM-KC3Zv-79sVZTTj-YA6IAqh8qeQ&index=2&ab_channel=BrandonSanderson
Juju
I’m a night owl ?. If I try to sleep too early for me I tend not to sleep at all.
Ohio Mom
Ever since the beginning of Covid, I often fall asleep while reading in bed after supper. Then I wake up around 11 and get ready for bed.
I think it’s because there is just not enough happening in my life. For obvious reasons.
West of the Rockies
Just after 2100 hours here. Some sort of to-do out on the lake because the geese are honking up a storm.
NotMax
Accomplished very, very little today.
And feeling darned pleased about it.
;)
Kropacetic
QAnon may be evidence it was actually a bad idea to let the squares at the weed
RaflW
We packed up the big Xmas tree in the living room tonight. It was time, and tomorrow more light will come thru the front windows since the tree was blocking about 1/4 of it, but it feels a little empty. Still, it’s a ‘celebration’ of sorts: Sunset was after 5pm today for the first time since Nov 9th. We don’t need the tree lights quite as much as I do in bleak December.
Also had a great short hike (just under two miles – not really a hike in dry conditions but the snow increases the effort noticeably) on snowy rustic trails at one of our excellent lake parks here (and as it happens, just blocks from the house where Mary Tyler Moore ‘lived’ during the first several seasons of her eponymous show). Oh, and BF ran out and got yuuuuumy takeout. An OK pandemic holiday Monday.
Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan
@Kropacetic: Or perhaps not ENOUGH weed.
NotMax
The 6000 mile man.
Received another “Help!” tech call from Mom in NY yesterday. The base unit for her landline was doing weird things and displaying cryptic messages.
It’s a cliché but first thing instructed her (once I talked her down from the virtual ledge) was that old buddy “Have you tried unplugging it, waiting 30 seconds* and plugging it back in?” Voila, problem solved.
;)
*Yeah, 15 seconds is usually sufficient for capacitors to sufficiently discharge but I always say 30 to coddle the impatient, who I find then wait 20 seconds while saying they waited 30.
Jeff Del Papa
We had high winds and rain last night. I had one of those “instant garage” tents in the back yard. This morning the roof and sides were in tatters. I moved the stuff that doesn’t like water elsewhere, but the big kinetic sculpture that was the whole reason for putting the tent up in the first place was damaged sufficiently that I don’t really want to repair it.
(It was a “scale” model of a power tool. The scale happened to be 1 foot to the inch. (12 times bigger than the original). It wasn’t built for outdoor storage, I built it like a stage prop, a metal armature, carved styrofoam over that, covered with “space blankets” so it appeared to be made of cast aluminum.)
StringOnAStick
@Jeff Del Papa: So the kinetic sculpture was damaged by kinetic action? Very Zen. Bummer about the shredded cover system.