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  • tampaxbootampaxboo Frets: 487
    edited November 2017
    forgot what i came to this thread for, which sums up my predicament.

    had big plans today to do my hair for autumn winter. black and red and brown and white stripes. have worked out a staging programme so that dark goes onto light, and the bleached bits get hit twice for maximum whiteness. so that's the good news; i have my plan and am pretty excited because i know it will look immense.

    but bad news is that i feel so shitty exhausted and foggy today i think i will have to cancel (sleepy and bleach not a good mixer) and resort to plan b, which is herzog documentaries in bed and reading another chapter of fisher's 'capitalist realism' (which is joyful).

    but wtf with sleepy at 9am? i actually feel twice as exhausted now than when i went to bed?
    not fair! i have given you my 8 hours oh sleep god, restore me please!
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  • tampaxboo said:
    but wtf with sleepy at 9am? i actually feel twice as exhausted now than when i went to bed?
    not fair! i have given you my 8 hours oh sleep god, restore me please!
    That's me most mornings. But I've usually woken at 3 needing a wee and taken the next 3 hours getting back to sleep again :(

    but Hey, this is supposed to be the smiley happy thread not the shit that boils your piss thread :s
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  • quarkyquarky Frets: 2777
    edited November 2017
    tampaxboo said:

    how did you learn to do it? from books or sites? or is it something you used to work with?
    No, when I said I can't take much credit, I wasn't being modest. I buy into funds through my S&S ISA, and simply try and work on major events. So making sure I bought non-UK assets before Brexit, and bringing the money back in after, or the same with Japan. I got reasonably lucky by buying some Indian shares. I am not talking about anything major here, but I am up around 18% this year which is significantly better than I would hope for or expect. I am not doing it to be rich, but really, it something in case my company pension doesn't work out, or if it does, to pass on to my kids when they are older.

    I am not a lefty, but fundamentally disagree with investing into residential property, so this is a way of taking responsibility for my future (see, told you I am not a lefty )  without fucking over other people to the same degree.

    Oh, had hot cross buns for breakfast this morning. Yes, in November, and they were damn good.


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  • GrunfeldGrunfeld Frets: 4028
    I have finished a piece of work that I started on Thursday.
    Staring at the screen all that time. 
    The piece has now gone off into the great fuzzy cloud...
    And I can forget all about it.
    Which is nice.
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  • I've been summonsed at the Quack's for a "Medication Review" with the Pharmacist. Probably a wastes of time, but hey, it'll be a very pleasant waste of time - she's drop dead goregeous
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  • just got big bag of fresh italian chestnuts for £2 to pick at over the weekend. lidl is awesome!
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  • tampaxbootampaxboo Frets: 487
    edited November 2017
    as an fully-paid-up autie i come appropriately equipped with a healthy geek super-obssession for all things natural history and outer-spacey, in which field i have have been blessed threefold, thriple and thrice the joys this week.

    first i got a new trilobite and i am very much bonded with. i keep she/he/it on my bedside table to admire last thing at night when i go to bed and first thing when i wake up. happy devonian times!

    secondly living stromatolites have just been found in tasmania for the first time, 3,7 billion years old. thank the cyanobacteria that forms and lives on these (like icing on a muffin) for the very air you breathe. no cyanobacteria, no evolution of complex oxygen breathing lifeforms on earth.
    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/australian-scientists-just-found-a-37-billion-year-old-living-fossil-in-tasmania/ar-BBEYG9v?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout

    thirdly, interstellar overdrive! Oumuamua = 'a messenger from afar arriving first' in Hawaiian.
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/first-known-interstellar-visitor-is-a-bizarre-cigar-shaped-asteroid/

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  • NiteflyNitefly Frets: 4902
    @tampaxboo - I am pleased that these things make you happy  =)
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  • Taking my 5yr old daughter to school this morning, she points at the man mowing the grass in the church graveyard and says "Look! That man is ironing dead people!".

    Made I larf.
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  • GrunfeldGrunfeld Frets: 4028
    In three days time it will be...
    9,500 days exactly
    190,000 fags
    £££????  quite a lot!
    Today is the 26th anniversary of something I remember wondering if I'd ever achieve.
    After giving up so many times and starting again.

    I can remember looking at packets of fags and despairing at the control those little bastards had over my life. 
    Breaking free still feels good.
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  • Well done @Grunfeld! That's £76,000 at today's prices :o 

    The Assumptions - UAE party band for all your rock & soul desires
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  • They've bought us some new tables and a some shelving at work. So now we have some communal shelves, and each of us has, junior school style, a shelf with our name on it to put stuff :)

    Tomorrow we're re-arranging the tables to maximise table-top space, and untangling loads of ethernet and mains cables from under the existing tables. I'll be wearing my scruffiest dirtiest clothes to go crawling under the tables. The dust down there has to be seen to be believed. But at the end of it I hope we will all have a better working environment
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  • Nitefly said:
    @tampaxboo - I am pleased that these things make you happy  =)

    thanks @Nitefly
    i'm not sure why (autism probably a part of it, maybe not all) but i have always found nature and science really consoling and comforting, as well as (obviously) intensely fascinating.
    i wonder if i get from it what people who are into religion (i'm atheist) get from their religions.

    there's always something more to learn to add on to what you already know, there's always some cutting edge theme that keeps things open and exciting. and it's a wonderful thing to get into if you are poor (i'm a bit poor) because even if you don't have shoes (ok i'm poor but i do have shoes) you have always got the moon and the sea and animals and nature to look at and dream and think about.
    these are like eternal riches every person on earth can access and wonder at and wonder about, if they want to take an interest. like a birthright for human kind. it’s very grounding.

    when i walk past a cat sitting on a garden wall i don't just think 'there's a cat on a wall', i feel a connection in a very deep way. we're mammals, so on that animal-animal level we have so much shared history and ancestory going back millions of years. but even on the basic atomic molecular level, every element in our body is either made from the dust of a long exploded star, or was forged on earth under heat and pressure from that basic original material. it's amazing.

    anyway, supermoon next week. i wish you a good one however you spend it.

    https://www.space.com/34515-supermoon-guide.html

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  • Nitefly said:
    @tampaxboo - I am pleased that these things make you happy  =)

    thanks @Nitefly
    i'm not sure why (autism probably a part of it, maybe not all) but i have always found nature and science really consoling and comforting, as well as (obviously) intensely fascinating.
    i wonder if i get from it what people who are into religion (i'm atheist) get from their religions.

    there's always something more to learn to add on to what you already know, there's always some cutting edge theme that keeps things open and exciting. and it's a wonderful thing to get into if you are poor (i'm a bit poor) because even if you don't have shoes (ok i'm poor but i do have shoes) you have always got the moon and the sea and animals and nature to look at and dream and think about.
    these are like eternal riches every person on earth can access and wonder at and wonder about, if they want to take an interest. like a birthright for human kind. it’s very grounding.

    when i walk past a cat sitting on a garden wall i don't just think 'there's a cat on a wall', i feel a connection in a very deep way. we're mammals, so on that animal-animal level we have so much shared history and ancestry going back millions of years. but even on the basic atomic molecular level, every element in our body is either made from the dust of a long exploded star, or was forged on earth under heat and pressure from that basic original material. it's amazing.

    anyway, supermoon next week. i wish you a good one however you spend it.

    https://www.space.com/34515-supermoon-guide.html

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  • The Geminid meteor showers coming up soon 

    https://www.space.com/34921-geminid-meteor-shower-guide.html
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  • Im currently sitting in hospital waiting for my 5 year old to go into surgery.  Not particularly happy or smiley until you find out that the surgery is to extract a 'Googley Eye'  that she somehow managed to get stuck up her nose!

    Bloody kids! Don't know whether to laugh or cry.  
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  • tampaxbootampaxboo Frets: 487
    edited December 2017
    just finished watching the launch of the new galileo satellites (via an arianne rocket launched from africa).
    http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/Watch_the_launch_of_Galileos_19_22

    launch livestream was a bit cloudy but still possible to see launch and ascent farily clearly. sexy thing.

    all three stages burned as intended (velocity up to 7km per second), engines cut and it is in the ballistic stage, eg momentum and gravity will slingshot/carrying it into a stable orbit 23km above earth over the next 3 hours. something to think about as you lay in bed tonight.

    don't know why but it just makes me childishly happy. a simple but pure pleasure.
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  • I knocked off from work this afternoon until the new year. Christmas has begun, so I've started on the bottle of Tullamore Dew in the whisky stash ... hoping to make it last as long as possible. Off to the pub in a moment or two :)

    A very happy Humbug to you all :)
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  • GrunfeldGrunfeld Frets: 4028
    The Winter solstice was just over an hour ago.
    Tomorrow we get an extra 3 seconds of daylight.
    Summer's coming!
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  • Stairwell walls & ceiling painted. Hammond organ sold, so freeing up space in the hallway. Downstairs loo door fixed. Other downstairs doors painted.

    Progress!
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