The Happiness Thread

It's ok, we'll wean you off it with Tetris

 

I've been making food presents (smoked candied nuts and brandied fruit) for five people for the last few weeks/months respectively, with a high failure rate that has left me just within the margins of error I built in at the start, thank goodness there weren't more.

 

I'm glad you've been able to get them done, shame you've lost some from doing it, but i suppose these kinds of things don't necessarily go to plan 100 % of the time

 

Nuts are in the smoker right now, going to the coworkers in 12 hours or so...

 

Awesome

Never trust any Family/Syndicate of this nature XD else it might just be more than your balls

 

After a few days offline I finally got internet again!
Anyone miss me? No? Oh well...

 

Give it time, @deadrats, give it time...

Just kidding. Consider yourself lucky.

 

My feelings about it go back and forth, but it's sort of working so far. I'm taking some time to edit what I've got. This is probably where I hate it. Fix it. Love it. Hate it. Scream. Cry. I just want to write a novel, damn it!

 

The days are finally getting longer! Here in the Northern Hemisphere...

 

I'm finding it easier and easier to write several hundred or even a thousand words in one sitting. My technique still leaves room for improvement, and I haven't gotten back to writing fiction yet, but it's a vast improvement over the beginning of this year. I'm going to see how many blog posts I can write, even if I don't get that many readers. It should be interesting to look back on in the future.

 

Is my name on Tinder

 

The squirrel foam parties are the worst...Lollipop sticks everywhere, overdosed squirrels on fake Ecstasy, underaged squirrels carrying fake IDs...

 

If they came out sticky and refused to harden, it may have been humidity. Candy prefers dry weather.

Also, I would imagine cane sugar vs. beet sugar would be a thing? Only go for cane sugar.

For all the science, sometimes shit just happens. I used to make this "crunch" that was basically candy coated shelled pumpkin seeds, nuts, and spices, and for some reason it was wildly unpredictable. Sometimes it would cool and harden like it was supposed to, sometimes all the conditions were perfect and it never did so we ended up using it as ice cream topping.

 

An old friend of mine stopped by today with a house warming present; home made bacon flavoured vodka which I am now enjoying with cherry juice and holy shit this is an amazing combination.

10/10 would bacon again.

 

God jul, everyone!

 

Didn't you JUST move in? I wont get any guests in at least two weeks - and they probably won't bring gifts.

Though I did ask them to bring strippers to my housewarming party, so it might be worth the wait!

 

Lol I wasn't expecting her to stop by, actually I thought she was up north working this week. I just said I was done unpacking and like an hour later she showed up with vodka. Sadly only a flying visit, and I'm not expecting anyone else to show up until I make some new friends but at least I still have a couple of old ones.

Way better friends that I deserve as it turns out. Haven't seen her in five years because my ex stopped me having female friends.

It's nice to reconnect with someone who's known me since before I had a beard, even if I don't get a house warming party

 

I dislike your ex.

...just wanted to say that...

 

I too have come around to this way of thinking

 

Ya know, understanding the in depth backstory to Darth Vader,
and just how screwed up he really is, has helped a lot on how
to try and depict my own MC in a really shit situation.

Much better than simply trying to find it in wallowing.
(Spoiler Vader is one depressed dude.)

 

Yeah, that's not cool. I get that being in a relationship with someone means there's going to be a modicum of jealousy every once in a while, but not wanting your SO to have friends of the opposite gender just shows a complete lack of trust.

 

I think I am OK now. At least until the end of what was a shitty year for me in retrospect.

I feel as if I have crossed a threshold today by understanding, and hence accepting certain cluster fucks of late.

Please read and/or understand the original statement above as my appropriating the suitable perception for the time being.

Damn !

I think that I understand certain undesirables now. Especially the part about junctures and the the overwhelming factors of finding oneself alive at this time and place. These reamin some of my favorite things, the undeniable and the overwhelming in the life I have lived so far however difficult they are to accept.

Truth can not be quelled, especially when it follows you around in and through the shadows of your path while you happen to look around and catch a glimpse of the bastard through the spectrum of your gaze, yet turn away because it may be too much to deal with in that particular here and now. Regardless, those of us who understand this real life gig know that a truth that follows you will not just go away, or that it will not allow itself to be avoided or duped in any significant way. You will likely run into it again and again until you turn to face it and wrestle with its' weight and message. A truth looking for you is a son of a bitch no matter how you choose to deal or not deal with it. It remains there lurking in your shadow.

So we exist, and we continue to struggle to find meaning beyond what is proposed by the commercialism and self serving empty desires promoted by those who are cleverly far removed from the masses. The very rich and stupid and often bored. Contempt and desires will often promote anger and sadness respectively, somewhere and somehow. There is so much more to being alive in America than the American dream. The values of capitalism are man made, and the shifting truth is not. Yet I agree, it is easier to make lots of money and just attempt to buy happiness than it is to pursue truth when it is constantly changing and may or may not bring you peace and enlightenment, especially if you have let yourself become a moron.

Like Katrain said about writing in a post, (and I am adapting her words to what I feel about truth these days) - trying to grasp a truth may be like chasing pigeons while drunk in the public square.