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Regenbogen:

--- Quote ---Today we had rain and the temperature dropped so we are quite happy
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Yay!


Tomorrow is my husband's birthday. But he won't throw a party yet, because it is Monday and he is not that well. Also probably because I don't have much time to help prepare for a party this week. So he would have to do all by himself. Maybe he' reschedule in February.


We found a new German series on TV. It's called Hameln and it is about the fairy tale of the Pied Piper, which also influences modern Times. Mystery or horror. There have been some apparition of ghosts or zombies already. And one blind girl seems to have visions. Seems interesting

Dina:
I hope he had a good birthday, even when party is coming weekend.

I do not like horror shows or movies but I admit that sounds interesting.

My first official day of holidays, another power outage (shorter, from around 11 to 18:30 or something like that. So, I could use natural light, no need for candles or flashlights. Problem was my computer was half battery but luckily my kindle was charged so when my computer turned off I could read.

Luckily Tuesday has no lack of power so I am happy.

I watched an old movie (Before sunrise, with Ethan Hawke). I liked it and I was amused by a few things that were quite different in the 90's. Like people smoking in trains and restaurants. I am planning to watch the two sequels, so no spoilers, please.

Regenbogen:
Hello, maen and greetings to all you wonderful weird people!

I hope you are all well.

I've been busy but in a positive way. OK, work is positive in a way that I get paid for doing it. 😁
There was a concert I was involved in.  And I was busy helping Mini think about what to do after school. We went to some schools and some events where you could gather information about apprenticeships and universities and how to get there and so on.
In two weeks she has to do an internship at the far end of the city and I need to do a test runwith her on how to get there and get home again next week. This end of the city is not so easy to reach if one has no experience in how to use public transport. And she will have to do this on her own. So I'm going with her on Tuesday and show her how to get there and how to look for alternatives. She will have to take the train first, then the correct tram and then a bus. There are several possibilities to get there. All of them take a bit over one hour.
In my youth, I was alone in the city a lot and I knew how to get where I wanted, but I realised that my kids don't know and Mini is a bit afraid she will not find her destination alone.

There was no need to go to the city a lot whith the kids. We have all we need in the vicinity. Even doctors. And to be honest, everything else I order online.
I don't want to buy a ticket, go by train and then by tram for half an hour in one direction, then walk through the shops for the one item I need and realise, they don't have it, having spent a whole afternoon in the city, when I can just order it online from home in less than 10 minutes while drinking my coffee.

When I was a child, you had to travel to the city for almost everything. Now there even is a cinema. There is almost no need to go to the city any more. Except for work or special stuff like museums, theatres or amusement parks.


I am still reading the book which is no romance despite looking the part. 😉
It has definitely evolved into a horror story now. Kind of an apocalypse caused by fairy tales, lol.

I also listened to Dead Beat to push the progress bar and look what happened! Twelve Months is 100%. Very cool and it makes me very happy to have the book sometime this year.
I will continue relistening to the DF. I am half way through Proven Guilty now.

Dina:
Hello weirdlets!  :)
I am  sorry I did not answer before. I read it, but I was busy at the moment and then I totally forgot. I've been on my vacation (staycation) and my mind has been lazy. I tried to stay away of pretty much anything,  to charge my batteries sort to speak.
Regen, I hope all went well with Mini's test run, and I wish her all the best in the internship.

I've been also worried about a relative (a very dear cousin) who needed surgery and I am glad to report that all went very well  :)

Regrettably, come Monday I will be back at work. Oh well. I'll miss being lazy.

Something funny happened to me today and I wanted to share. I had downloaded on my computer several episodes of a Canadian show, Murdoch mysteries. It is a charming show, set on Toronto and in the end of the Victorian era and beginning of the XX century. Well, on the wee hours of today (I mean, it was already today February 15 but i had not gone to bed yet) I was watching an episode and they showed a hotel with the UK flag, the US flag and another flag that I assume would be a Toronto one or perhaps some proto Canadian one and that made me wonder when has Canada adopted its current flag. So I've checked. It was 1965. But the funny thing I wanted to share is that the flag has been approved on 1965...February 15. And according to wikipedia, Feb 15 is the Canadian Flag Day. And I even after watching 16 seasons of the show I had never wondered that until its 60 anniversary  :)

In other topics, I watched the other two movies of the Before Sunrise trilogy I told you about last time. I liked them all, but I think the first one was the best.

BugBear:
Hey weird. Boy, have I got something weird.

I did an Enlightment.

But wait, it gets better: You guys went through a similar process. Probably multiple times. "Awakening," the process of kicking off a potential enlightment, is actually super, super common. It's also called Positive Disintegration in modern society. Most major Empires figured out a way to weaponize or utilize it. Name a seer, tbh.


--- Quote from: Regenbogen on January 19, 2025, 01:43:16 PM ---Oh my. I feel you.
I've been there.
...
I kind of woke up...

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Yeah you have. Recently, too. That's how you're at one with the friggin universe right now. Don't suppose you happened to make a couple new friends along the way? Or maybe hooked up with a couple of old ones?

Making those people mad obviously wasn't the most skillful way a hypothetical person could have handled a hypothetical situation. But it was the beat way you could have and did. Jesus man, we're exchanging text and I can see the glitter farts trailing behind you


--- Quote from: Dina on January 19, 2025, 08:21:55 PM ---Anyways, I hated those periods but we (hubby had to supported me) endured it because we know they were temporal.

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You went through one a long time ago, and remember what it's like to remember it. But the lessons you've learned have started to decay, the world changed, or your place in it changed. You're fighting through it like a champ.

It's not working. You're overdue for another one, a big one. This staycation you're taking is like holding a chainsmoking convention in a fireworks factory. You're one creative endeavor of a spark from an extended staycation.

And that brings us to the the weirdest part of it: Jim Butcher had an awakening as well. He cribbed the Dresden Files from mythology during a time when his self image was breaking down in a time of extreme stress.

That's enough to do it, it turns out. That's what happened to me. I was cribbing from Dresden. That's not enough on its own, but I was also a built up forest fire waiting to happen. A huge one actually, super weird personal circumstances.

Reading a bunch of fiction is what's required to prime you. Actually trying to create something good based off it, while under extreme stress, is what's required to initiate the process. Or at least it's one way to do so. Remember: If youre going through hell, keep going. Just take it slow and steady, the only way you can get hurt is by pushing too hard.

If you get lost, Remember: Faith, hope, and love. Love is the greatest of the three. That's 1 Corinthians 13 (1 cor 13:13). I'm deeply grateful to Jim for including that in the series. "Mantling" is also your friend. The three Rational Enlightment values are better for navigating your way back to conversational ability, and the Buddhist Three Jewels kind of maximize your long term gains. That's all I've worked out.

There's all sorts of wacky shenanigans I could get into. But that's the brass tacks, and there actually is a "people talk themselves out of believing" effect. So I'll keep it brief so that the part of you that listens and makes memories has an easier time.

Man, what couple of weeks it's been. Oh, and 12 months is finished too. Nice!

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