Whats making you happy right now

#12472 Slow Ben

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Posted 23 September 2015 - 05:24 PM

Of the 4 houses i've got for sale atm, i've received offers on 2 this week and i think i'll be able to rent the other for a while and get a little income.

Good week so far.

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

#12473 TheRetiredBridgeburner

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Posted 23 September 2015 - 07:01 PM

Ticket purchased for The Great Yorkshire Airshow - and we have a free ticket for being residents of the village too. I'm going to see the last display flight of the Vulcan before she is retired! So excited!!! Posted Image

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#12474 Andorion

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Posted 24 September 2015 - 05:37 AM

Briar King, on 23 September 2015 - 09:15 PM, said:

Charlie Nom, on 23 September 2015 - 04:23 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 23 September 2015 - 03:16 PM, said:

Andorion, on 23 September 2015 - 05:48 AM, said:

Briar King, on 23 September 2015 - 05:17 AM, said:

I've gained a great deal of strength back in my body from my seizure Sunday morning and have had almost no headache today. It's crazy how weak your body gets from even a very light one.

I would be worried about these seizures. Do you know why they happen?

He lost the source of his powers when he got a hair cut.

And now Spindle holds that power.
(Yes, I believe BK is Spindles mother)

Tiste Tiste....

Ando a CAT scan in 07 showed a tiny amount of fluid on the top of my dome and it can effect act like a peusdo tumor they said.

And it's still there? Can't it be removed?

#12475 Andorion

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Posted 24 September 2015 - 05:55 AM

I am reading Lord of the Rings to my visually challenged friend. (posted about this earlier in the reading thread)

What follows will have basic spoilers for Lord of the Rings.

So my friend has been rather depressed ever since Moria and the fall of Gandalf. Several times he has shaken his head sadly and said "they don't have a chance without Gandalf". Me being a good non spoilery reader, always nodded solemnly and agreed that things looked dark.

Yesterday we read the chapter the white rider where Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli meet Gandalf in Fangorn. When Aragorn exclaimed Gandalf the expression on my friends face was priceless.

Reading to him reminds me that the old tropes we jaded fantasy readers take for granted still have the power to bring joy and wonder to new readers.

#12476 worry

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Posted 24 September 2015 - 06:21 AM

Briar King, on 24 September 2015 - 06:15 AM, said:

I was told either a drill(who wants a drill near their brain)would get it or a massive amount of speed to burn it up(risky to the rest of my organ from the sounds of it)

Not good options to me.

You've seen Rome season 2, right?

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#12477 Gothos

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Posted 24 September 2015 - 06:51 AM

So at the very least I'm going back to uni (IT/programming this time) in a week's time and possibly moving into an owned bigger 2-room flat with the gf (so it will actually be cheaper). So I've got that going for me, which is nice...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

#12478 Andorion

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Posted 24 September 2015 - 04:41 PM

Briar King, on 24 September 2015 - 06:15 AM, said:

I was told either a drill(who wants a drill near their brain)would get it or a massive amount of speed to burn it up(risky to the rest of my organ from the sounds of it)

Not good options to me.

Yeah, both sound nasty. Tough situation to be in.

#12479 TheRetiredBridgeburner

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Posted 25 September 2015 - 05:53 AM

Docs think they've found the source of the migraines I've started having, and it's relatively easy to put right. Phew! Also, last day of work this week and very much needed. It's been an utter bitch.

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#12480 Solidsnape

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Posted 25 September 2015 - 06:39 AM

http://youtu.be/rcj5DJVvvTk

This ^

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gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
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#12481 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 25 September 2015 - 06:58 AM

Turns out the whole "Japan is a bit weird" thing is not new...

Slightly NSFW I guess but it made me laugh lots!

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I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.

#12482 Puck

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Posted 25 September 2015 - 10:00 AM

I can now officially prove my allergies have not only gotten worse but there are also new ones (grass and rye pollen). That only took more than a year to prove, but hey, getting a prescription for anti-allergy shots with that info took all of five minutes!

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#12483 Andorion

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Posted 25 September 2015 - 10:11 AM

Puckstein, on 25 September 2015 - 10:00 AM, said:

And now you can breathe again! Pollen allergy really sucks.

Change of seasons coming up here and that means I get to choose between holdng my breath or getting sick.

#12484 Andorion

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Posted 25 September 2015 - 10:14 AM

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 25 September 2015 - 05:53 AM, said:

Docs think they've found the source of the migraines I've started having, and it's relatively easy to put right. Phew! Also, last day of work this week and very much needed. It's been an utter bitch.

That is good news. Unexplained migraines are the worst. My father has those.

#12485 Gredfallan Ale

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Posted 25 September 2015 - 10:17 AM

My great-grandmother joined the centenarian club last Thursday looking like she's still in her eighties. She's still very healthy, although that's relative and fragile term when it comes to that age group.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'

#12486 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 25 September 2015 - 11:21 AM

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 25 September 2015 - 05:53 AM, said:

Docs think they've found the source of the migraines I've started having, and it's relatively easy to put right. Phew! Also, last day of work this week and very much needed. It's been an utter bitch.

My mom's been hospitalized by them occasionally for years and I've inherited them, not as bad but debilitating for days at a time.

Any light to shed?

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

#12487 Mentalist

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Posted 25 September 2015 - 10:28 PM

Got called (to the Bar)

Now my parents can officially be proud of me. W00t

Thanking just about everyone and everything that kept me going for just over 10 years (since I started Undergrad). I'd be remiss if I didn't thank this forum for all the good times when it kept my brain from exploding, and gave me a place to vent when things weren't going as I'd hoped.

Thanks, Malazites. You're the best.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

#12488 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 25 September 2015 - 10:54 PM

Mentalist, on 25 September 2015 - 10:28 PM, said:

Huzzah! You're officially an asshole part of the problem now! Yaaaaay!

I know it's different in Canada but it's still a hell of an accomplishment, Ment. Great job. Good job!

#12489 worry

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Posted 25 September 2015 - 11:45 PM

I also got called to the bar.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#12490 TheRetiredBridgeburner

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Posted 26 September 2015 - 06:31 AM

Mentalist, on 25 September 2015 - 10:28 PM, said:

Congratulations, that's wonderful!

HoosierDaddy - in my case they're almost certain they were caused by the contraceptive pill I was taking. Mine are specifically hemiplegic migraines though (the kind where you get the numbness in the left side of your face and left arm, as well as all the visual disturbance and what have you).

Basically I'm not allowed anywhere near synthetic oestrogen in the future.

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 26 September 2015 - 08:33 AM

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#12491 TheRetiredBridgeburner

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Posted 26 September 2015 - 09:16 PM

Sorry to double post, but....

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Forgive the less than brilliant phone photography.... but I was lucky enough to catch one of the last flights of Avro Vulcan XH558. For the unfamiliar, she's an iconic piece of British aerospace engineering and pretty much the most popular plane in our air force history, and she's being retired from flight at the end of the year. Absolutely unforgettable. Posted Image