The Happiness Thread

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  1. The Dapper Hooligan

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    Mitsumi used to make new 5¼ drives up until a couple of years ago. Lots of data critical companies maintain backwards compatibility just for emergencies. One of the big banks here in Canada still has running reel to reel tape drives. In the future it may be outside the level of expertise of the general consumer, but that's not to say it's going to be impossible, or even terribly difficult if you know the right people. But yeah, updating your files to avoid obsolescence is probably a good idea.
     
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    Done. and done. Let me know if you need something.
     
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    Bought a giant pretzel with Parmesan cheese and a Christmas tree today!
    Forgot the tinsel though -- but that's part of my Christmas tradition, forgetting the tinsel.
     
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    I so miss soft pretzels!
     
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    Interesting choice of flavours
     
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    It been an almost productive day. I got a bunch of records transferred and I got two bad tires on my car taken care of.
     
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    :)
     
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    I happy it's consistently raining. San Diego is always so dry, especially out in the east side of the county where I'm at. I hate looking at dead plants and dirt all the time. Fresh green is finally starting to reappear, and my trees i planted are growing again. Can't wait for the colors to come back other than brown, even if it's mostly weeds.
     
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    If you can find yourself some flour, yeast, salt, water, and baking soda, and you have a decent working oven, you can make some yourself! They're only soft for about a day, though, so prepare to eat only pretzels for a whole day. Unless you freeze them.
     
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    Yeah, I've made them in the past, came out okay, but there's something to be said for the professional's touch (not to mention the proper kind of salt to put on the outside).
     
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    I've finished the washing up! Basically everything I owned needed washing, and I had loads of recycling to rinse as well. It took me four and a half hours, but I did it. My flat looks much better now.
     
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    I'm really happy with myself and my writing today. Can you be brilliant by accident? I'm not saying I'm brilliant, but my writing is stronger and better than I thought it could be. Ever amaze yourself when you somehow manage to put all the right words in all the right places?
     
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    Not accidental, natural Talent!
     
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    Yay, the audiologist called! We've scheduled a hearing aid fitting for tomorrow at 10.

    I’m getting a Bluetooth hearing aid!!!
     
  16. Iain Aschendale

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    Congratulations? If you hear voices telling you to burn things, run a security check first :)
     
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    I get to see my sister this weekend. I helped her move an hour or so away back in March, and since then I've only seen her a handful of times. This is after spending every single Saturday with her. I'm looking forward to some quality time with her, just us.
     
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    I've voted in my first general election! I'm feeling incredibly pleased with myself.
     
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    The first one is always exciting, after that it's all down hill. :meh:
     
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    Still never have...
     
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    One more week until i'm home with my family!
    (downside is, its a 10-12 hour drive...)
     
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    I'm getting my boy home for Xmas.

    He's not estranged or home from prison—been unwell.

    Had the toughest of times of late. I got the swerviest curve ball of all with just having given up work, after a many years long stint over which I much saved and invested, to concentrate on magnum grande or opus or whatever it was (supposed) to be. To find out v. soon after settling at my writing desk that my son had lymphoblastic leukaemia. Bottom out of world and world out of bottom and all that. My life turned into a vigil at a cancer hospital with him being poorly then so, so poorly/critical over the stretch of a fortnight owing to complications with his chemo. And that way it's been, rollercoastering, since September—day in day out in the company of young people too on that ward with desperate illnesses and poor prognoses. The happy things, in this happy thread is that his present round of treatment, although I've been told is not a cure, has got him strong enough for another go at getting better... be it transplant or a more aggressive/toxic beat down of the disease.
    Strong enough to come spend Yule with me at least (me is us actually, Mrs Loki's been/being ground by the same mill).
     
  23. Iain Aschendale

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    Sometime in the last few years, Philadelphia Cream Cheese finally stopped using those ridiculous foil envelopes and started putting their product in a nice, normal tub. Y'know, one that does a pretty good job of keeping air and mold out, and lets you get to all of the cheese without having to perform hand contortions every time?

    Life is good.
     
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    My stupid DM friend who bought me the Player’s Handbook last year sent me my Christmas present early and told me just to open it when it arrived since we won’t see each other on the day.

    He got me a fancy stone dice set.

    How dare he. Not only are they beautiful and way beyond what I was going to get him, I am now convinced it is going to be a running gag of getting me (really cool) D&D paraphernalia but never letting me actually play.

    He is such a dork and I love him so much.

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    (That’s just the fancy envelope opener I used to attack the package with because they decided it should be TAPED EVERYWHERE and never open ever to anybody. Even with that dagger I barely got it open and sadly scratched the velvet case in the process. Ah well. It’s got character already.)
     
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    Awesome photo!
     
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