@heartny Don’t make your bed - research says you need to air out your bed to kill off crud that grows in your bed and to let the quart or so of moisture you give off at night evaporate.
I do not know how to relax. Usually I just feel a little bit tense because the days skid past at a breakneck pace. Sometimes, if I’m on vacation and can’t stop feeling like I’m late for work, I drink alcohol. That helps.
I’m not sure I agree w/ your statement about the pacing of time or using alcohol to alleviate worry but certainly share in the feeling of guilt when down time exists due to confusion in how it’s possible.
Getting lost in some fantasy world (ie. a good book, tv, whatever) or a project (something I’m building or a new ROM for my phone or whatever) or a long bike ride. Frequently, alcohol is involved tho I rarely drink enough to not be able to drive legally.
Unfortunately, relaxing is usually at the expense of sleeping. It is rare that I am both relaxed and able to awaken on time without an alarm. (Not too long ago, I calculated that my “lifetime sleep deficit” is more than five years.)
Usually I just watch YouTube. I’m subscribed to a lot of channels there. It doesn’t hold my concentration completely though. I’ll end up looking at my phone in between videos.
If I really want something to hold my attention where I don’t think about anything except what I’m doing, I’ll do a puzzle, or one of those metal models, or some other craft. I used to paint my nails a lot, but I’ve been lazy lately.
@RiotDemon i am trying to grow out my nails and have found a beer and doing nail art is super relaxing. Now if I could just get the manicure to last more then a day or two
@CaptAmehrican some things that work for me:
Use nail polish remover on your nails before painting.
Don’t use really crap polishes as your base coat. As much as I love cheap polishes like wet and wild, and sinful colors… They just don’t last. I stick to their glitter polish to put over something else.
I really like China glaze which you can get at Sally’s beauty.
Top coat. Seche vite was the best I could find in a store. Make sure when you do a coat of polish or top coat, make sure you paint the edges of your nails.
Wear gloves when cleaning or doing dishes by hand.
@RiotDemon I do all that I just also work with my hands a lot. I have finally stopped picking at my nails and they are growing out. Also i have learnt that if tips chiping adding french tips makes them last a few more days.
@CaptAmehrican yeah, I would pick at my nails a lot. I was in my mid to late twenties by the time I finally quit biting my nails. Nail art was what finally helped me to stop completely since I hated wasting all that time painting them, and just ruining them by biting or picking at them.
I wear gloves at work a lot. I tend to break my nails more than I chip my polish.
A lot of nail bloggers/YouTubers swear by nail oil all the time. IIRC, my nails were the longest when I used oil a lot.
@RiotDemon@CaptAmehrican I didn’t do this myself, but here is my current gel manicure: http://imgur.com/a/cmAlJ
The design is supposed to be a treble clef, but the manicurists had never done one before. This was the best attempt.
@msklzannie
Went back and reuploaded the picture (and figured out where the correct link was).
Had the music theme done because I was going to attend Winter Jam the next day (Friday). Also it should have been a church orchestra Sunday (I play flute), but those are currently discontinued.
I love nail art also. The only problem I find is the shape of the brush - a smidgen wide for my nails…but I still love it anyway! I like to do them weekly after had got some inspiration from pics (now I experiment with matte nails http://newaylook.com/best-ideas-on-matte-nails . There is officially NOTHING worse than chipped nail polish, especially when it is a bold colour. I often see women with their hair and makeup done, dressed nicely, with chipped polish and I think to myself “you should have spent your time this morning taking that off instead of doing your makeup…you would have finished up looking way better overall…”
I’m not much good at relaxing, but the thing that lets me put my mental and emotional crap down for a little while is art. I get so absorbed that I can start right after breakfast and a few minutes later the sun is setting. Here’s this morning’s work.
@speediedelivery The large grey colored stone is labradorite, it’s a base grey with strong flashes of electric blues and forest greens. The biggest is a spectrolite which is the hot rod version of labradorite, that particular one is an uncommon purple sheen spectrolite. Very nice in person, but they are all a bit gummy right now from being handled while working wax. The other stones are pietersite, sea sediment jasper and bumblebee jasper with some garnet, amethyst and low grade emerald accent cabs too small to see. They’ll show in the metal pieces, but that wax is too dark for them to be seen. Labradorite is an old favorite, I have a pretty diverse gem box but 20% of it is labradorite.
@speediedelivery Labradorite is mostly from Labrador, Canada, although it’s found in various places. Bumblebee jasper is from Indonesia. Sea sediment jasper’s from Australia. Pietersite is pretty rare, it’s only found in Henan, China and Namibia, South Africa. It’s also pretty new, it was only discovered in 1962. The emeralds originated in Columbia. I get most of my stones from Thailand and India from sellers I test on Ebay. Quite a lot of the world’s gemstones are cut in these two countries.
@f00l Unfortunately nothing perfect about this figure. I am my own mode of transport to work, though. I stick to my own two feet because wheels would lead to a one point landing.
A lot of times relaxing involves whipping out my phone and opening tabs to a bunch of threads on this forum, then working my way through them.
Oh yeah, or sleeping. That’s most of the relaxation I get. Usually I’m multitasking, like listening to podcasts while driving, reading here or watching youtube videos while taking the dogs outside, or working (which is its own level of multitasking). I should make more time to do something fun.
@PantHeist Just asked her to make sure and she explained to me why Mary Bell and Lizzie Borden don’t count as serial killers. She also made it clear that Lizze Borden didn’t do it.
@Barney I love it. I love that I can make the font bigger because I need stronger bifocals. I love that it is light and doesn’t aggravate my tendinitis. I love that I can read in sunlight with no glare. I love that I can read in the dark. I love that I can toss it in a baggie and read in the tub or at the pool. I hate the stupid touch screen because when I read during lunch and brush off crumbs the font changes. I highly recommend one.
@sammydog01 That’s a matter of debate and it’s been a while since I read about all the particulars. There were several other suspects in the case. It might have been a nephew or an uncle, but I really don’t think it was Lizzie. I think her family was trying to get rid of her because she was a lesbian.
Think about it. Her family was pretty well off. She wasn’t entirely unfortunate looking, but she wasn’t married (keep in mind, this is pretty much what women did back then). And after she was acquitted, she and her sister had a falling out over Lizzie’s “inappropriate relationship” with an actress named Nance O’Neil.
I could be wrong, but I think it’s much more interesting story.
Now you people are making me relax. I love to read what you all do to relax.
Here is what I am doing tonight. I drove to VA Beach and the Founders Resort and Spa that I have been wanting to try out because of all the positive reviews. I go to the counter and tell them I am checking in. I am told I don’t have a reservation. They said do you have multiple reservations because we have you here on Feb 6. That’s right - I came a week early for no reason.
Instead of stressing I pulled out my meh chromebook went to Expedia and made a reservation for tonight.
So I now sitting in my room - ate my crappy hotel delivered pizza on the super comfy bed, in the hotel supplied robe I usually never wear, watching HGTV, and playing on meh. Next, will be relaxing with my kindle.
Guess I will drive around tomorrow and visit customers w/o appointments.
Had I brought my bathing suit I would have used the jacuzzi.
Every morning around 7am I get a cup of coffee, then sit in my recliner with a heated lap blanket on me. Then my 2 cats join me on my lap for a wonderful purring session, while I watch the wild birds outside my window having their morning breakfast from my bird feeder…
@teddy1781 I set aside reading time every morning, on my reading sofa in the bedroom where there’s a lot of sunlight in the winter, and in my yard swing in the spring, summer and fall. The companionship of my dog and the birdsong are important parts of that ritual. I have hummingbird feeders hung up by my swing so they are always flitting around me.
I’m glad today is the last closed door day for a while, the next ten days will be open door days, high sixties, low to mid seventies. Simba has cabin fever and I’m looking forward to getting back to organizing and revamping the garage/carriage house.
@moondrake During the summer months I spend my mornings out on my Front porch with my 2 dogs watching the birds while my cats sit in the window watching us…
@sammydog01 Really doing more solo card than board games these days since there are a handful of really good ones and space constraints relaxing in bed.
I will say that Castle Panic remains a fun solo board game, though the multiplayer coöperative play is better. Essentially, monsters come onto the board every turn, advance toward your castle, and you figure out which ones you can attack, how to prioritize these attacks, etc. Can be a bit easy, but the mechanics are simple enough that some straightforward variants buff it up a bit.
For cards, I would recommend Friday, where you’re trying to help Robinson Crusoe survive. This one (along with Onirim) is routinely recommended by solo gamers. You’re essentially dealing with a bunch of threats by drawing and playing attacks. When you defeat threats, they become attacks in your attack deck, so it may be worth it to sacrifice health if you know you’ll get a good attack out of it for the next round (as well as taking that card out of the threat deck for future rounds). Losing, on the other hand, gets rid of the attacks you attempted, which can also be strategically valid if you want bad attack cards out of your deck for the future. Lot of decision making for such a small game. Artwork is goofy, but fun.
Don’t want to take up too much more space here, but I will say the other games currently by my bed are the aforementioned Onirim, and two relative newcomers - Deep Space D6 and One Deck Dungeon. Both of these have cards and bunches of dice, yay! I think there’s a print & play version of Deep Space D6 still available for download on BoardGameGeek.
I’d say church orchestra, but ours is currently on hiatus. (Don’t have someone who feels qualified and can devote enough time and attention to leading it.)
Also reading, TS3, and attending local school or community performances when my work schedule allows. Or even heading to Des Moines for a concert or show occasionally.
I finally caved and bought Amazon Prime (to save on shipping), which forced me to finally cave and buy a Roku to watch Prime Streaming. So, that. But my job is actually pretty relaxing, so really every part of my life is chill without me having to do anything.
When I want to relax I play small games like Subway Surfers or Zombie killer or Poker and usually on http://iogames.center/ . I love such small games 'cause they are not annoying and relaxing. I can play 7-20 min and I don’t have to continue playing or make some strategies. Also I listen music and read books.
Turn on some bad (more like terrible) music and cook. And read. And beat 14 year old Swedish kids in soccer video games. When the weather is nice do some or any of the above with dr who playing on the projector on the porch. But the way I’ve set my life up most of it is relaxing
I’m incapable of proofreading until much longer after composing than 5 min. At that point, I still “see” what’s in my head, not what’s in the page. And I don’t proofread even if I try. At my best I barely glance. Even tho trying to actually proofread.
Some kinda bizarre reading disorder, I claim, in order to deflect responsibility. You all totally buy that dontcha?
Yes. I could hold the post (that fabulous masterpiece!) “unsaid” until I was capable of proofreading. I could develop patience and diligence. But apple autocorrect would still destroy my corrections. And that waiting would frustrate me.
I have all the maturity if a flea. Only that’s kinda mean to fleas isn’t it?
I owe you a topic only every time I don’t typo something in a post of at least 200 words.
Shorter posts don’t count.
I am not going to set myself up to owe topics based on something as as inevitable for me as a healthy kitten trying to be cute.
No way I’m making it that easy for me to owe you one as the standard you suggest.
Rules:
I agree not to deliberately induce errors in order to escape having to create topics. and to proofread at least as well as I have been, which ain’t saying much, but hey, I try.
I agree to spell and otherwise behave during this challenge according to the revered Standard Internet Honor Code Of Incredible Honesty.
I agree not to count intentional typos done for fun as being real typos.
I had decided to sorta kinda start being nice to you for a bit, to see if you urged me back toward hatred again. You want me to regret treating you kinda half-well?
You think you can deliver internet malice as nicely and effortlessly as I see able to?
Hmmm, bitch?
Ok I’ll give you a freebie topic. Gimme a day or two. By the time the “big overblown game”, ends I will have a new topic as long as there are no legit disasters in my life between now and then.
Oops. Near disaster there. I dropped keys on the floor.
But I could reach the keys easily. So I won’t count that incident as a true disaster.
Topic of some sort incoming. Watch for it. It will be really incredible. Just great. I promise you.
That’s horrible of me, isn’t it? I should quit. I should sincerely apologize without any emotional reservations, right? I should examine my soul. And then get therapy, I which I so dearly and clearly need, right?
I have small moments of remorse. Sometimes i almost yield to sorrow, regret, and pity. Sometimes I almost want to rise above and be a better person. What if someday I yield??
The typical things don’t work for me. If I sit down and read a book for an hour I feel guilty for not doing all the things that need to get done. Lying at the beach or by the river just fills me with anxiety. So does going for a walk. I don’t get walking for an hour just to get back to where I already was.
I guess the closest I get to relaxing is cooking and eating dinner.
Sit on the porch swing and swing except I no longer have a porch… sail… camping… some music… reading… pet one of my cats…
I remember one really nice day when I was working on a schooner (130’ long or so, 100 ton). Everyone else was below deck trying to fix the diesel engine, we were dead heading (no passengers) from Gloucester to Boston. Nice, sunny day, broad reach, winds just right to do it in 8 hours, not too hot not too cold… and I was alone on deck at the wheel. Saw some whales, dolphins swam alongside and then off the bow, sea gulls including a couple that hitched a ride on the deck and in the rigging (the coolest bird ever on a deck of a boat I worked on was a pelican who parked his butt on the dingy off the stern for about an hour or so… on a different day I was snorkeling and watching some fish and a pelican dove - looked like a rocket or torpedo - within a couple of feet of me and grabbed one of those fish). Canoeing all night (worked for outward bound at the time) watching the northern lights was another really relaxing time.
Yoga is what really helps me.
I am being serious.
@mfladd Make your bed before you do yoga.
@mfladd
Pix
@heartny
Yes Mom.
@heartny I would never make my bed, if I could move the way she does!
@mikibell
If I looked like that and could move like that, I’d have people lining up to be my lifelong servants.
Those people could do all the housekeeping for me, on their time off from worshipping me.
@f00l exactly! She lost me at the transition to the cobra pose… I am just not that limber anymore.
@mikibell @fool I will get pix. Full wheel bridge and tripod handstand oare with in my retinue. I am still very flexible.
@mfladd
Anticipation …
@heartny Don’t make your bed - research says you need to air out your bed to kill off crud that grows in your bed and to let the quart or so of moisture you give off at night evaporate.
Sitting by the ocean, but mainly at night or in the winter. Crowds freak me out.
@PantHeist Yeah, I am not a big crowd person either.
I make snarky comments on the internet.
@Thumperchick
N 4 3!
I go quite mad in silence and solitude, quite pleasantly.
@f00l
@mfladd
I do not know how to relax. Usually I just feel a little bit tense because the days skid past at a breakneck pace. Sometimes, if I’m on vacation and can’t stop feeling like I’m late for work, I drink alcohol. That helps.
I’m not sure I agree w/ your statement about the pacing of time or using alcohol to alleviate worry but certainly share in the feeling of guilt when down time exists due to confusion in how it’s possible.
Beat the crap out of virtual monsters and make soup. Sometimes at the same time.
porn
@awk
Virtual interactive?
Coffee and my Nook
Or that beating the crap outta virtual monsters, or virtual players. Or nuking people in CN. Sometimes with coffee, sometimes 25 year old Scotch.
Steven Universe. The Adventure Zone. Petting cats. also, weed, because Oregon.
Getting lost in some fantasy world (ie. a good book, tv, whatever) or a project (something I’m building or a new ROM for my phone or whatever) or a long bike ride. Frequently, alcohol is involved tho I rarely drink enough to not be able to drive legally.
Unfortunately, relaxing is usually at the expense of sleeping. It is rare that I am both relaxed and able to awaken on time without an alarm. (Not too long ago, I calculated that my “lifetime sleep deficit” is more than five years.)
@baqui63
You live in the Manhattan vortex.
Screw sleep.
It’s gonna happen so you might as well sign on voluntarily.
@f00l Actually, I’m only rarely in Manhattan, tho perhaps the vortex extends out to where I am.
@baqui63
"therefore never send to know for whom the vortex calls;
it calls for thee."
Neko Atsume. I love those little kitties.
@sammydog01 they are adorable.
I guess most of you a-holes relax by not posting in this thread…hmpf!!! Tell me how you fucking relax!!!
Ok, breathe…1…2…3, breathe…1…2…3…
@mfladd Dude, I don’t think the yoga thing is working too well for you.
Usually I just watch YouTube. I’m subscribed to a lot of channels there. It doesn’t hold my concentration completely though. I’ll end up looking at my phone in between videos.
If I really want something to hold my attention where I don’t think about anything except what I’m doing, I’ll do a puzzle, or one of those metal models, or some other craft. I used to paint my nails a lot, but I’ve been lazy lately.
/image metal model pirate ship
@RiotDemon i am trying to grow out my nails and have found a beer and doing nail art is super relaxing. Now if I could just get the manicure to last more then a day or two
@CaptAmehrican some things that work for me:
Use nail polish remover on your nails before painting.
Don’t use really crap polishes as your base coat. As much as I love cheap polishes like wet and wild, and sinful colors… They just don’t last. I stick to their glitter polish to put over something else.
I really like China glaze which you can get at Sally’s beauty.
Top coat. Seche vite was the best I could find in a store. Make sure when you do a coat of polish or top coat, make sure you paint the edges of your nails.
Wear gloves when cleaning or doing dishes by hand.
@RiotDemon
That’s way more work than I imagined.
/image “beautiful nails”
@f00l it’s not so bad. As @CaptAmehrican says, it’s pretty relaxing.
@RiotDemon I do all that I just also work with my hands a lot. I have finally stopped picking at my nails and they are growing out. Also i have learnt that if tips chiping adding french tips makes them last a few more days.
Day 3
@CaptAmehrican yeah, I would pick at my nails a lot. I was in my mid to late twenties by the time I finally quit biting my nails. Nail art was what finally helped me to stop completely since I hated wasting all that time painting them, and just ruining them by biting or picking at them.
I wear gloves at work a lot. I tend to break my nails more than I chip my polish.
A lot of nail bloggers/YouTubers swear by nail oil all the time. IIRC, my nails were the longest when I used oil a lot.
@CaptAmehrican these were around 11 days out. I ended up changing them because of how much my nails grew out.
@RiotDemon @CaptAmehrican I didn’t do this myself, but here is my current gel manicure:
http://imgur.com/a/cmAlJ
The design is supposed to be a treble clef, but the manicurists had never done one before. This was the best attempt.
Eta: the link may not be working.
@msklzannie nope, unfortunately the link doesn’t work. You can upload photos straight to meh now.
@msklzannie
Went back and reuploaded the picture (and figured out where the correct link was).
Had the music theme done because I was going to attend Winter Jam the next day (Friday). Also it should have been a church orchestra Sunday (I play flute), but those are currently discontinued.
@RiotDemon very pretty I like the stamp over the holo glitter.
@msklzannie oh you can play music thats a talent I admire
@CaptAmehrican No stamp; treble clef was freehand with a stripe brush. Glitter is a second gel polish on top of the gel black.
I love nail art also. The only problem I find is the shape of the brush - a smidgen wide for my nails…but I still love it anyway! I like to do them weekly after had got some inspiration from pics (now I experiment with matte nails http://newaylook.com/best-ideas-on-matte-nails . There is officially NOTHING worse than chipped nail polish, especially when it is a bold colour. I often see women with their hair and makeup done, dressed nicely, with chipped polish and I think to myself “you should have spent your time this morning taking that off instead of doing your makeup…you would have finished up looking way better overall…”
@stream26 I love China Glaze brushes because they’re not so wide.
Chipped polish is terrible. Better to just have naked nails.
What is this thing, relax? I am wound tighter than a $2 watch!
I’m not much good at relaxing, but the thing that lets me put my mental and emotional crap down for a little while is art. I get so absorbed that I can start right after breakfast and a few minutes later the sun is setting. Here’s this morning’s work.
@moondrake
Gorgeous.
@f00l Thanks! Most will be bronze but a couple will probably be silver.
@moondrake Very nice!
What is the gray stone?
@speediedelivery The large grey colored stone is labradorite, it’s a base grey with strong flashes of electric blues and forest greens. The biggest is a spectrolite which is the hot rod version of labradorite, that particular one is an uncommon purple sheen spectrolite. Very nice in person, but they are all a bit gummy right now from being handled while working wax. The other stones are pietersite, sea sediment jasper and bumblebee jasper with some garnet, amethyst and low grade emerald accent cabs too small to see. They’ll show in the metal pieces, but that wax is too dark for them to be seen. Labradorite is an old favorite, I have a pretty diverse gem box but 20% of it is labradorite.
@moondrake Where do they come from? I am interested but never studied stones and gems.
@speediedelivery Labradorite is mostly from Labrador, Canada, although it’s found in various places. Bumblebee jasper is from Indonesia. Sea sediment jasper’s from Australia. Pietersite is pretty rare, it’s only found in Henan, China and Namibia, South Africa. It’s also pretty new, it was only discovered in 1962. The emeralds originated in Columbia. I get most of my stones from Thailand and India from sellers I test on Ebay. Quite a lot of the world’s gemstones are cut in these two countries.
I like to read. Maybe watch a movie or binge watch a series. No interruptions, leave me alone!
Yoga looks painful and hard. I think it would ruin my round figure if I tried it.
@speediedelivery
Are you perfectly round? Are you your own wheel-based mode of transportation.
@f00l Unfortunately nothing perfect about this figure. I am my own mode of transport to work, though. I stick to my own two feet because wheels would lead to a one point landing.
@speediedelivery
Sounds good.
A lot of times relaxing involves whipping out my phone and opening tabs to a bunch of threads on this forum, then working my way through them.
Oh yeah, or sleeping. That’s most of the relaxation I get. Usually I’m multitasking, like listening to podcasts while driving, reading here or watching youtube videos while taking the dogs outside, or working (which is its own level of multitasking). I should make more time to do something fun.
I run a bubble bath, light some candles, and read books about serial killers in the tub.
@sammydog01 Not sure if you’re serious, but my wife does the same thing. Only with female serial killers though.
@PantHeist Just asked her to make sure and she explained to me why Mary Bell and Lizzie Borden don’t count as serial killers. She also made it clear that Lizze Borden didn’t do it.
@PantHeist Partially serious, reading the Dexter series now, but I stick to fiction. So who killed the Bordens?
@sammydog01
@PantHeist
Nothing like serial killers for relaxation. Not much for tubs, but I do this also.
@f00l I was so excited to get a kindle paperwhite because I can read in the dark. It’s much spookier for horror stories.
@sammydog01 Do you like your Paperwhite? I’m thinking about putting it on my wish list.
@Barney I love it. I love that I can make the font bigger because I need stronger bifocals. I love that it is light and doesn’t aggravate my tendinitis. I love that I can read in sunlight with no glare. I love that I can read in the dark. I love that I can toss it in a baggie and read in the tub or at the pool. I hate the stupid touch screen because when I read during lunch and brush off crumbs the font changes. I highly recommend one.
@sammydog01 Thanks, I hope Santa is watching.
@sammydog01 That’s a matter of debate and it’s been a while since I read about all the particulars. There were several other suspects in the case. It might have been a nephew or an uncle, but I really don’t think it was Lizzie. I think her family was trying to get rid of her because she was a lesbian.
Think about it. Her family was pretty well off. She wasn’t entirely unfortunate looking, but she wasn’t married (keep in mind, this is pretty much what women did back then). And after she was acquitted, she and her sister had a falling out over Lizzie’s “inappropriate relationship” with an actress named Nance O’Neil.
I could be wrong, but I think it’s much more interesting story.
@PantHeist
Re Lizzy. Borden:
That little looks tangled, interesting, and plausible. I guess it goes on my to-do list.
Now you people are making me relax. I love to read what you all do to relax.
Here is what I am doing tonight. I drove to VA Beach and the Founders Resort and Spa that I have been wanting to try out because of all the positive reviews. I go to the counter and tell them I am checking in. I am told I don’t have a reservation. They said do you have multiple reservations because we have you here on Feb 6. That’s right - I came a week early for no reason.
Instead of stressing I pulled out my meh chromebook went to Expedia and made a reservation for tonight.
So I now sitting in my room - ate my crappy hotel delivered pizza on the super comfy bed, in the hotel supplied robe I usually never wear, watching HGTV, and playing on meh. Next, will be relaxing with my kindle.
Guess I will drive around tomorrow and visit customers w/o appointments.
Had I brought my bathing suit I would have used the jacuzzi.
@mfladd Bathing suit?
/giphy don’t need no stinkin’ bathing suit
So… Think about that!
@Barney thanks, just added to my spank bank. It will definitely help me relax later.
@Barney wait…you just posted nipple.
@mfladd Hey, I didn’t do it. Giphy did.
@mfladd It’s barely areola, completely legal by definition.
/giphy beer and nature
@connorbush I don’t know why, but this disturbs me.
@RiotDemon
Maybe disturbing because none of us want to live in that house?
Every morning around 7am I get a cup of coffee, then sit in my recliner with a heated lap blanket on me. Then my 2 cats join me on my lap for a wonderful purring session, while I watch the wild birds outside my window having their morning breakfast from my bird feeder…
@teddy1781 I set aside reading time every morning, on my reading sofa in the bedroom where there’s a lot of sunlight in the winter, and in my yard swing in the spring, summer and fall. The companionship of my dog and the birdsong are important parts of that ritual. I have hummingbird feeders hung up by my swing so they are always flitting around me.
@moondrake
@teddy1781
I’m glad today is the last closed door day for a while, the next ten days will be open door days, high sixties, low to mid seventies. Simba has cabin fever and I’m looking forward to getting back to organizing and revamping the garage/carriage house.
@moondrake
Got some music for your mood
@moondrake During the summer months I spend my mornings out on my Front porch with my 2 dogs watching the birds while my cats sit in the window watching us…
@brhfl Can you recommend a good solo board game?
@sammydog01 Really doing more solo card than board games these days since there are a handful of really good ones and space constraints relaxing in bed.
I will say that Castle Panic remains a fun solo board game, though the multiplayer coöperative play is better. Essentially, monsters come onto the board every turn, advance toward your castle, and you figure out which ones you can attack, how to prioritize these attacks, etc. Can be a bit easy, but the mechanics are simple enough that some straightforward variants buff it up a bit.
For cards, I would recommend Friday, where you’re trying to help Robinson Crusoe survive. This one (along with Onirim) is routinely recommended by solo gamers. You’re essentially dealing with a bunch of threats by drawing and playing attacks. When you defeat threats, they become attacks in your attack deck, so it may be worth it to sacrifice health if you know you’ll get a good attack out of it for the next round (as well as taking that card out of the threat deck for future rounds). Losing, on the other hand, gets rid of the attacks you attempted, which can also be strategically valid if you want bad attack cards out of your deck for the future. Lot of decision making for such a small game. Artwork is goofy, but fun.
Don’t want to take up too much more space here, but I will say the other games currently by my bed are the aforementioned Onirim, and two relative newcomers - Deep Space D6 and One Deck Dungeon. Both of these have cards and bunches of dice, yay! I think there’s a print & play version of Deep Space D6 still available for download on BoardGameGeek.
@sammydog01 Pandemic can be played solo and is reputed to be a good game for solo. I’ve never played it with less than two.
@moondrake While I somehow didn’t realize that, it makes a lot of sense…
i just take a nap
@katylava
/giphy approved
I’d say church orchestra, but ours is currently on hiatus. (Don’t have someone who feels qualified and can devote enough time and attention to leading it.)
Also reading, TS3, and attending local school or community performances when my work schedule allows. Or even heading to Des Moines for a concert or show occasionally.
I’ve also gone on 2 cruises.
Video games, reading, and watching videos online.
I finally caved and bought Amazon Prime (to save on shipping), which forced me to finally cave and buy a Roku to watch Prime Streaming. So, that. But my job is actually pretty relaxing, so really every part of my life is chill without me having to do anything.
When I want to relax I play small games like Subway Surfers or Zombie killer or Poker and usually on http://iogames.center/ . I love such small games 'cause they are not annoying and relaxing. I can play 7-20 min and I don’t have to continue playing or make some strategies. Also I listen music and read books.
@pfarro1 why listen to terrible music?
@RiotDemon because terrible music doesn’t mean not fun music. I have no problem admitting to my love of horrendous 80s pop.
@pfarro1 if it’s music that I like, I’d never call it terrible, even if other people think it is.
Bourbon.
Among others
Adagio for Strings (Barbar)
@f00l
Groan. I just noticed I typoed his name.
Barber.
I’m incapable of proofreading until much longer after composing than 5 min. At that point, I still “see” what’s in my head, not what’s in the page. And I don’t proofread even if I try. At my best I barely glance. Even tho trying to actually proofread.
Some kinda bizarre reading disorder, I claim, in order to deflect responsibility. You all totally buy that dontcha?
Yes. I could hold the post (that fabulous masterpiece!) “unsaid” until I was capable of proofreading. I could develop patience and diligence. But apple autocorrect would still destroy my corrections. And that waiting would frustrate me.
I have all the maturity if a flea. Only that’s kinda mean to fleas isn’t it?
Oh fucking well.
I’ll just relax.
/giphy relax
@f00l Jinx - you owe me a coke (topic bubble)
@mfladd
Let’s be clear:
I owe you a topic only every time I don’t typo something in a post of at least 200 words.
Shorter posts don’t count.
I am not going to set myself up to owe topics based on something as as inevitable for me as a healthy kitten trying to be cute.
No way I’m making it that easy for me to owe you one as the standard you suggest.
Rules:
I agree not to deliberately induce errors in order to escape having to create topics. and to proofread at least as well as I have been, which ain’t saying much, but hey, I try.
I agree to spell and otherwise behave during this challenge according to the revered Standard Internet Honor Code Of Incredible Honesty.
I agree not to count intentional typos done for fun as being real typos.
I had decided to sorta kinda start being nice to you for a bit, to see if you urged me back toward hatred again. You want me to regret treating you kinda half-well?
You think you can deliver internet malice as nicely and effortlessly as I see able to?
Hmmm, bitch?
Ok I’ll give you a freebie topic. Gimme a day or two. By the time the “big overblown game”, ends I will have a new topic as long as there are no legit disasters in my life between now and then.
Oops. Near disaster there. I dropped keys on the floor.
But I could reach the keys easily. So I won’t count that incident as a true disaster.
Topic of some sort incoming. Watch for it. It will be really incredible. Just great. I promise you.
@f00l I think he was just pointing out that your gif matches the topic bubble… But more thread topics are always good.
@RiotDemon
Oops. Didn’t notice that.
Sometimes a swing and a miss by a mile.
@f00l https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babar_the_Elephant&ved=0ahUKEwjk3c3So_bRAhUERSYKHa8MAr0QFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNFU81ZlExxQZ4woO_C8w015YPYiSA&sig2=PU-vwCjzsxcG7vLJ-Yd2WA ?
Sometimes I abuse @mfladd.
That’s horrible of me, isn’t it? I should quit. I should sincerely apologize without any emotional reservations, right? I should examine my soul. And then get therapy, I which I so dearly and clearly need, right?
Or should I just keep doing it?
Whaddaya think?
@mfladd? Thoughts?
@f00l I’m glad you’re here to take up the mantle. You’re gifted at it
@KittySprinkles
I have small moments of remorse. Sometimes i almost yield to sorrow, regret, and pity. Sometimes I almost want to rise above and be a better person. What if someday I yield??
I need you to join in to keep me strong.
@f00l I wish I could be around more. I’m just rarely able. Currently only here because fighting with the man and can’t sleep.
@KittySprinkles
Sux. Sorry.
Bad when you can’t sleep because angry/agitated/upset/vulnerable.
@KittySprinkles @f00l
Think I already mentioned this somewhere in Meh?
Keith Jarrett - THE KÖLN CONCERT - complete
This might go well with yoga actually.
Or a long walk or run.
The typical things don’t work for me. If I sit down and read a book for an hour I feel guilty for not doing all the things that need to get done. Lying at the beach or by the river just fills me with anxiety. So does going for a walk. I don’t get walking for an hour just to get back to where I already was.
I guess the closest I get to relaxing is cooking and eating dinner.
Sit on the porch swing and swing except I no longer have a porch… sail… camping… some music… reading… pet one of my cats…
I remember one really nice day when I was working on a schooner (130’ long or so, 100 ton). Everyone else was below deck trying to fix the diesel engine, we were dead heading (no passengers) from Gloucester to Boston. Nice, sunny day, broad reach, winds just right to do it in 8 hours, not too hot not too cold… and I was alone on deck at the wheel. Saw some whales, dolphins swam alongside and then off the bow, sea gulls including a couple that hitched a ride on the deck and in the rigging (the coolest bird ever on a deck of a boat I worked on was a pelican who parked his butt on the dingy off the stern for about an hour or so… on a different day I was snorkeling and watching some fish and a pelican dove - looked like a rocket or torpedo - within a couple of feet of me and grabbed one of those fish). Canoeing all night (worked for outward bound at the time) watching the northern lights was another really relaxing time.
Climb into my bed then sleep always makes me feel relaxed.
There’s this Eastern Shore yoga guy on the internet. Stalking him can be a kick.
/giphy stalking
