How Do You Feel Today? v4

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Jul 05, 2018 5:54 am

Good news Menolly.

Thursday here, and the week proceeds apace.

--A

Post by **Skyweir** » Thu Jul 05, 2018 8:37 am

Menolly wrote:Follow up appointment with my surgeon yesterday. I'm healing well and the pathology came back completely clear. She feels no radiation or chemotherapy will be needed, but I still need to meet with my oncologist in a few weeks to make a final determination. But, so far, so good.

Very good news Menolly.

Great to hear and read this.
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This week has flown by .. got heaps achieved today. Tomorrow we have a few jobs but am looking forward to my girls visiting this weekend. Gonna be a good one

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Jul 06, 2018 6:32 am

Friday.

Hooray.

GF and I decided that today after work we will go for a little climb, maybe start getting back into it, since our local crag just reopened.

So, was checking the gear last night, making sure everything still safe etc. and on completing, started coiling up the rope, something that I would usually do many times on a day out.

I'm so out of shape that just coiling it up twice (first time I left it too long for the rope bag) ended with burning arm and shoulder muscles.

This afternoon should be a lot of fun...

--A

Post by **Skyweir** » Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:25 am

Good on both of you for going out and giving it a crack after a short period

I tell you, its not easy .. this getting old business .. of course speaking personally .. Im sure you two are quite spritely.

I went to a yoga workshop recently which was awesome .. but havent done any yoga for more than a year and was a little stiffer than Id like lol

Still was fun and feel great for having done it .. might see if I can attend a little more often than annually

Its good I think to be actively engaged in stuff ..

Ive mentioned before about the guy I used to go climbing with here many moons ago .. hes like in his 80s and still climbs. Hes pretty fit for an old codger LOLS ..

Hed give me shit for calling him old .. but lol .. he is. And fuck it .. Im heading in the same direction .. never be afraid of ageing, I say.

Its all about your attitude to life and living it. You can sit by and watch others do stuff and wow at their accomplishments or you can go out and give stuff a red hot crack.

Of course I draw the line at gyms .. not my cuppa tea at all. I prefer to be active in other, more productive ways hahahahahahaha

Post by **Ur Dead** » Sat Jul 07, 2018 12:29 am

Friday today.. but Wednesday was bad.
4th of July here.. had a big storm come thru, blow tree limbs down,
power went out at 3:30 PM didn't restore until 11:00 PM.
Found out later the second half of the warehouse collapsed and another
9000 barrels of booze with it. I would have had a chance if I knew it on the 4th. No power, no internet.... no able to see news.

but it's Friday...

Post by **Skyweir** » Sat Jul 07, 2018 4:25 am

oh thats bad Ur Dead

and .. missing out on that booze soaking opportunity

Hope your property is all ok. Weve had terrible winds here too ... always do a lot of damage

Hope for better weather.

Post by **aliantha** » Sun Jul 08, 2018 4:08 am

Ur Dead, sorry about your booze.

Glad everyone's on the mend. And Cag, hope all goes well for you.

Yeah, yeah, I hear you: "Where the hell have you been, ali?" On FB too much, basically.

So since we're trading health stories like old people

here's where I'm at: I've been diabetic (type 2) for several years, and in denial for most of that time. My weight has been up and down -- mostly up -- which doesn't help, but I have a lot of trouble with restrictive dieting, which of course virtually every diet is. Weight Watchers, Atkins, blah de blah -- they all involve counting something-or-other (carbs, calories, Points, whatev) or not eating certain foods or something. I can do it for a while, but then I bust loose and gain back everything I've lost.

When things got tense with my mother's estate, it got *really* bad. And when all that got resolved but I was still eating everything that wasn't nailed down, I finally got myself to a therapist. Turns out I have binge eating disorder as a result of C-PTSD, thanks to all the emotional abuse I've taken from my brother over the years.

So the good news is I'm getting counseling, and the bad news is that I may have to find another primary care doc because the one I have, who I've had for years and used to love, seems to think the PTSD diagnosis is an excuse for not taking care of myself.

Other than that, things are okay here. I need to get busy writing the next novel -- I wrote about 1500 words and realized I needed to do more research before I could get any farther on it...

Post by **Skyweir** » Sun Jul 08, 2018 5:57 am

Speaking of your writing .. I must get to the library and get them to order it in so we can read it.

You seem to be on the ball with your future project though .. 1500 down and on to your cracking on with your research. Pretty impressive stuff.

Sorry about your health issues .. its like being between a rock and a hard place

But C PTSD thats pretty deblitatingly serious.

And yes you are always greatly missed Ali .. I love it when you have a sec to pop in and post

.. youre one of my favest humans .. atbh I dont have that many of them :LOLS:

Post by **Sorus** » Sun Jul 08, 2018 11:01 pm

aliantha wrote:
Yeah, yeah, I hear you: "Where the hell have you been, ali?" On FB too much, basically.

I'm not on FB, but I think it really loudly sometimes if that helps.

Post by **Skyweir** » Mon Jul 09, 2018 4:59 am

I wish you were on facebook Sorus .. :mgreen:

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:21 am

Skyweir wrote:Good on both of you for going out and giving it a crack after a short period.

Yeah, it's not a short period...more like several years.

Monday and rainy. Meh.

--A

Post by **Skyweir** » Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:30 am

Perfect weather today and we got out and cemented the posts in for the greenhouse. Of course we had to double check all our measurements, set the panels out, then string and post the dimensions. All done now .. and now we wait ..

For the cement to set .. then we can assemble all the panels ..

Post by **Savor Dam** » Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:36 pm

Always nice to be able to see concrete results from your efforts!

Post by **Sorus** » Mon Jul 09, 2018 11:11 pm

Avatar wrote: Monday and rainy. Meh.

Monday and not rainy. Meh. Had to work yesterday, so this is technically Monday 2.0. (Not an upgrade.)

Skyweir wrote:I wish you were on facebook Sorus .. :mgreen:

Too paranoid about getting doxxed.

Post by **Skyweir** » Tue Jul 10, 2018 1:51 am

Savor Dam wrote:Always nice to be able to see concrete results from your efforts!

Bows to the pun meister

Post by **Skyweir** » Tue Jul 10, 2018 1:52 am

Sorus wrote:
Avatar wrote: Monday and rainy. Meh.

Monday and not rainy. Meh. Had to work yesterday, so this is technically Monday 2.0. (Not an upgrade.)

Poor you .. that sucks

Sorus wrote:
Skyweir wrote:I wish you were on facebook Sorus .. :mgreen:
Too paranoid about getting doxxed.

mmm .. what is this thing called ..... doxxed?????

Post by **Sorus** » Tue Jul 10, 2018 2:07 am

Skyweir wrote:
mmm .. what is this thing called ..... doxxed?????

Basically someone figuring out a connection between my real name and my online ID and using it against me somehow. I've probably not been quite as careful as I should have been over the years, and I expect it will probably catch up with me one of these days. Facebook comes with an expectation that it's acceptable (if not required) to use real names, and that is something I will never, ever be comfortable with. (Which leads to general awkwardness and discomfort when everyone else is comfortable having their real name out there and I'm withholding mine.)

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Tue Jul 10, 2018 4:01 am

Okay, I'm telling an actual -funny- story involving "dox" and... accidentally discovering someone's "dox."

I was like 16 or 17 hanging out on this dorky IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel as I always did...
And someone there (probably no older than me) pastes the output of a command he just ran on a server.
It shows that he has a file (basically a text file) called "dox" and the size of the file.
And I'm thinking, "WAIT. I have an account on that server. The file permissions... anyone can read that file."
I copy the file to my own directory. I look at its contents. I tell him I just did so, "hehe." (almost 100% certain I told him over private /msg)

He COMPLETELY freaks.
Turned out that the dumb doofus do-do-head (that's dodo like the bird, not poop.) put HIS OWN NAME and location info (possibly just city) in the darn file to make it look like he had even more info of people's addresses than he did.

I had zero interest in doing anything with it... I assured him that NO I would not give that info to anyone.
And I didn't give it to anyone else.
I didn't even make any effort to hold on to the information.
I wouldn't have guessed that the file had his name in it if he hadn't TOLD ME in the process of freaking out and trying to ensure I wouldn't do anything with it...
(I didn't know the real names of most of the folks from there.)

ah well, that was crazy...
I felt like telling that story even awhile ago.

Better than telling about "How I feel today."
I've been anxious and stressed out most of the day, unfortunately.. got some stuff to deal with... like a move in less than 2 months...
...and I DON'T want to.

to ali. Yay, hi! (saw you on the list of people who were around in the last 24 hours. At the bottom of the screen on the main page.)

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Jul 10, 2018 4:58 am

Sorus wrote:Which leads to general awkwardness and discomfort when everyone else is comfortable having their real name out there and I'm withholding mine.

Meh, I use a 'nym everywhere and it doesn't bother me. Nor does it mostly bother people I interact with, for what it's worth.

Of course, I have been careful over the years...

--A

Post by **Skyweir** » Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:27 am

I sooo get that need for anonymity .. I guess now Im old and shit .. I dont care any more and its not like I have to safeguard my privacy for professional reasons any more..

So doxxed is weird .. does it translate as an acronym for something else? Odd .. anyhoo

Horses for courses ..

As far as facebook is concerned .. no one is likely to ever give a shit about my personal data .. sure there are identity thieves out there .. but beyond that .. whose going to want personal data of an old girl .. out in the middle of whoop whoop .. who looks after animals for a living?

I must admit I kinda like it .. a lot .. for me its a kind of liberation .. from all things in my past lives .. my professional life, everything .. I can finally be myself .. which is quite a thing for me .. actually LOLS.

Even when I finally came out of the closet about my gender on the Watch .. it wasnt satisfying or liberating .. but with Facey .. what you see is what you get .. and I like that ..

Of course there is always a level of withholdingness .. because even though most people use their real names and identities NOT ALL DO .. so some people you will never really know .. and of course you only share what you want to share .. so its never really a transparency ideal .. cos you decide what others will or wont see.

I am getting more and more easy going with what I share now .. so for me .. its truly a good experience. And I can say what the fuck I want about government policies .. without fearing being pulled in to answer to someone about that .. which indeed would very much be a concern.

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How Do You Feel Today? v4