What Are You Doing?

I'm freezing. My store is some kind of temporal vortex, where 72° here is colder than 72° anywhere else on the planet. I went out to my car for a jacket and just as I tried to eat some of the Pringles I had in my hand the wind kicked up and blew just so that I got a mouthful of hair and potato chip. Not a wonderful combination.

 

Looking at funeral plans and costs.

 

Why?

 

I'm not planning on letting my body ever be found.

 

Just to be clear, no one has died (as far as I know), and I'm not planning murder.

 

I asked my wife to just drag me up a mountain when I'm dead and lean me against a tree. Let the wildlife eat my body. She refused. She's opposed to animal cruelty. On the other hand, I've ingested so many MSGs and preservatives over the years, I may not need to be embalmed when I die.

 

But would using sporks make me a lesbian? Not that it would be a deal-breaker.

 

Damn fine quote and I'm seriously holding back tears from reading your thoughts.

While I regard being in love with someone as the most wonderous experience, as an introvert that deeply appreciates the awe inspiring expanse of solitude and quiet, being alone in nature, though the sensations are different, is equal to being in love with someone.

It's as you've found, being deeply interconnected.

And how syncro, for yesterday while editing me book, one chapter I was working on has the short story of the time I met the most profoundly beautiful small tree I'd ever encountered. Couldn't miss her, she was literally glowing (aura), and was the only one doing so in a sea of lush and various greens. The chapter is on Awareness and Mindfulness and how a still silent mind enables one to observe more via increased clarity and range, thus increases potential to sort one's shit out.

Again, as you said, Observation...and for soul repair, I'd add Contemplation (half of that is observation)

I'd often have to hold back tears when I used to do my 2hr walks on the abandoned traintrack next to our cottage. Even after 6 years, seeing the same elements, I'd still have weepy days...so beautiful is nature. I also experience this on my rides to the village. So many beautiful elements - plants, farm animals, birds, either clear light blue skies or dark multicoloured rain clouds, mist, fog.

 

The backbone of council work. From my childhood to today, it still takes 5 council workers to dig a hole, 4 standing around watching, leaning on or holding their own unique tools for the job and one bloke doing the actual work. It seems as long as you're touching a tool you can't be fired as contact somehow constitutes work.

 

6am:
Been up since midnight due to Hunter had remained in me room and was painfully biting my chin and ripping into me beard to wake me up to give him some cuddles then let him out.

It's unpacking lappy day.
Unpacked and tested my pristine condition EVGA GTX 770 and sussed out my Windows 7 disk and tried to format a lappy 500g drive I found when cleaning out me tool room.

But I'm hesitant to unpack me lappy...what if it's a disappoinment, what if it's not as pristine and kickass as I envisioned. It's actually not the negative imaginings, it's more that I'm super excited thus the anticipation is being drawn out. Excited 'cus if this lappy is in near perfect condtion, it'll be with me for at least a decade, like most of my deskies have been. My current one which is comprised of nearly all new parts, built it from scratch, will last me 2 decades.

Imma have me usual stew combo first as I haven't eaten for a while, then it'll be lappy time...oh just realised why so excited, first lappy experience.

 

Not in Oz, only for some large jobs are contractors brought in, eg, a few Ks of road resurfacing.

 

I've been very aware of this here in Ireland. They blatantly have too many guys for the job, and I can't help but wonder whose cock up that it. IDK who sends them out there, so IDK who's in charge. That, and most of them aren't wearing protective gear-namely earmuffs when drilling. I have to cover my own ears when I go past, and I'm not even on that side of the road. Maybe they figure if they go deaf from the work, they can sue and retire early or something.

 

I managed to be offline for less than 20 minutes, because I came up with a smart arse response to a post...and my good intentions of being offline went out the window.

 

Right now I am trying to figure out what is wrong with my notebook.

 

Realising I haven't done my DBT homework for tomo morning! I may have to try and do it on the bus in.

 

Uh-oh.

 

I am trying to getting an avatar made for this forum but I went to check on Adobe Stock to find they gave me 10 new credits I can use.

 

Needing to work on my story and get part of it out before it gets too late for group.

 

You can do better than that.

 

I wish I could do that!

 

Wish I could decide on a snack, but I am still in my room.

 

I decided on cookies. I also made some coffee to have tomorrow. I do not like hot coffee so I make coffee the night before so I do not have to buy coffee at the mall tomorrow.

 

As a teenager, I was able to do that with one hand. Folks never even knew about my *******.com surfing.