Open Thread - Friday, April 13, 2018
Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 3:20am
I stopped fighting my inner demons. We are on the same side now.
- NCTim -
Happy funkin' Friday the 13th.
I have been having a hard time coming up with a theme for the funkin' Friday Open Thread.
Is a funkin' theme, or coherent thought process, necessary?
So why not just revel in the ambiance of Friday the 13th?
So this is a call to action, get out there and celebrate Friday the 13th.
The plan is to burn one, take the shoe leather express and hit the streets. Care to meet me at Friday Night On White?
Reminder to self, pick your funkin' feet up, when you walk.
See you out there!
I promise to be a bad influence!
Have a great weekend!
The thread is OPEN.
Comments
funk to the tune of
situational overload. We have seen the demons dancing to the tune of death and destruction. The vaunted halls of justice are filled with them. All for the pleasure of a few demented fools.
Thanks for the Stevie and Stevie! Keep on.
question everything
Conservatism as a Mental Illness
Republican pols have recently exhibited 10 telltale signs of mental illness.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
It's so easy to slam the "Conservatives"
But just try turning the same microscope on the NeoLiberals - just try, and see if you can get published anywhere but samizdat.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Eve of destruction?
Should I be planting seeds? Yesterday was a nightmare of reinstallation of Win10 via DSL. Now the PC has forgotten all my links. I can't even pull up wunderground. IIRC, it's gonna rain today. Still I have garlic to set in the ground in my slouched beds. A cool-down after today.
My dog Skya seems back to normal after a bout with something et bad. She's now guarding the house from the fog. I am applying for an extension on taxes (again). I have hundreds of mail items not yet opened. Including all my statements.
A good Friday the 13th to all. Son turns 32 tomorrow. At least the PC seems stable and need not be tossed from a second floor window. A gun-free zone exists here.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I love that your dog is protecting your home from fog.
Good Day
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Offline spending time with Ray and Magenta
Time with them, it's not really helping my state of mind but at least it is helping other human beings suffer a bit less. Just a little, instead of harming them to death. Actions have consequences, I think that is the saying.
Blocking embedded YouTubes from my systems because GOOG billionaires helped create California's homeless. They just came here and took the money, created a few billionaires and now millions of citizens are destitute. "That's the system." They keep buying off Democrats to prevent even a little bit of progress. Fuck Google and YouTube, I hope their stock price crashes off a cliff, gets hit by a train, and dies in a fire. Happy Friday the 13th! lol
Hint: It only takes a few copy pastas to plunk down the name of the video, so I don't have to "--get-filename" on every link to see what is being shared. Stevie? I have lots of Stevie Wonder here, so I'll listen along. I love this where he goes Ah! just before this part in As:
peace and thanks
Off-line is good
I am down to a handful of hours a week and feel better for it.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Good morning, NCTim.
OMG, I love this: "I stopped fighting my inner demons. We are on the same side now."
I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it sounds very tempting anyway. (Silently criticizing myself incessantly was a very poor choice of hobby. Addictive, though, apparently.) I would rather become one with my highest angels, but, at this point, just being on the same side with myself would be a relief. Besides, the inner demons bit is far funnier.
In my lifetime, I have had two awful things happen on Friday the 13th. But, they both ultimately were blessings. So, I can't figure out if Friday the 13th is my lucky day or my unlucky day.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIa2QOTyJGw]
Update: A week or two ago, I posted about an upper respiratory infection (first time that I can recall posting about a personal problem). After a couple of weeks, I finally saw the doctor. Turned out, I had pneumonia. The scrip is nasty, but I have been improving dramatically for about a week now.
Moral: Toughing out something unusually severe on the theory that your body will heal itself sooner or later is not always smart. IOW, I should have at least called the doctor sooner. So, y'all do as I say and not as I did.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksz4NAM94Rw]
P.S. Friday Night on White sounds great. Have fun!
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhQbhDjtreI]
Prescription
During her convalescence, Sue had a bronchial infection and the antibiotic really threw her for a loop. During the final weeks she contracted pneumonia, due to shallow breathing. It is a common form of demise for an ALS patient. The doctors advised that the antibiotic would probably be worse than the decel to a stop.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
So sad to hear that level of management
Was she aware of your options then?
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
It is hard to say
She knew she was dying, and never quit fighting. Sue was a mute quadriplegic. ALS shuts down the nuero-muscular system. I think she knew, but was not ready to go.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Thanks for the info, Tim.
I did not know that shallow breathing could lead to pneumonia.
The scrip is indeed a bear and probably would have been unbearable for someone in Sue's condition. However, I have already relapsed once after starting to improve; and I really want this to go away and stay away.
Saw an osprey, watched a fox
On the way back from the Russian River, on the bridge I was blessed by an osprey circling, tree swallows all around. Then, under the 101 there is a creek, and on the bank among the horsetails was a fox. A catdog! Haha that's what they look like to me. I didn't just "see" it, I stopped and watched it lapping up creek water for a few minutes. or however long the time stopped. I remember traffic driving by but I couldn't take my eyes off that gorgeous fox. All red with a silver back and black striped brow. What a beauty. Then, it turned around and disappeared up the bank. Now I'm quite sure where its den is. Lucky me. grin
I picked up all the trash along the street yesterday in honor of that trickster fox, thank you very much. A five gallon bucket stuffed full of plastic bottles and spent batteries.
Ospreys make their long-awaited return to Sonoma County
Photo by Paul Brewer
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Waiting for Mercury...
peace
Mercury retrograde is great for re-doing things.
Did you make a repair that did not turn out as well as you hoped? Do it over when Mercury is retrograde. Or so they say.
Communication and appliances are both likely to gang agley. Or so they say.
FWIW:
More on Mercury retrograde. https://www.astrologyzone.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-mercury-...
And here's one about Friday the 13th falling during Mercury retrograde: https://www.bustle.com/p/friday-the-13th-mercury-retrograde-are-happenin...
Well I didn't get diagnosed with pamonia, so there's that
thanks man, I hope you get well in due course, as fast as possible. Also, I didn't break any bones and no one died. sheesh
I did brick my FreedomBox doing a dumb maneuver on the command line during retrograde. That was a big bummer for I have no JTAG cable to recover it. After all the years... ~shrug~ oh well
Fallen Angel
May all beings feel love and healing, and be at peace with the world.
thanks
Thank you so much!
Mercury in retrograde
Wreaks havoc with me every single time.
I don't make a habit of seeking out the dates, but after a few days of "WTF?!", I absolutely know what's happening. Same this time around. Looked it up, and lo and behold!
Really looking forward to the 15th ... if the world survives that long.
Hey! Related: maybe the latest $h*tshow is all a massive miscommunication and saner heads will soon prevail. (I can dream, can't I?)
Birds of prey
I finally saw the owl, up close. Walked right up on it, sitting on a fence post. I thought we had a barn owl. It turned out to be great horned, and absolutely gorgeous.
These birds go to my old school ->
Their home:
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Good morning, Tim ~~~
I have to be at one with my inner demons, as they can be overwhelming. It's been a tough week. I had a bad fall Sunday and broke my left hand, bruised some ribs and sprained my left foot. Those demons keep reminding me I wasn't being careful. On Monday, my husband's dad died.
So, here we are.
Working hard to make lemonade out of those lemons.
Working hard to keep perspective.
Have a beautiful day and weekend, folks!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Wow Raggedy!
you have had a rough week. Condolences to you and your husband on loss of his dad. Take good care of yourself. I'm wishing you a speedy healing.
Yikes
Take care of yourself. The one two punch can set you back.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
So sorry to hear, RA.
Best wishes for your speedy healing -- and healing thoughts for the loss of your father-in-law. Be kind to yourselves.
Happy Friday the 13th, y'all! :-)
I have never had bad luck on this date. Weird luck, yeah, but not bad luck. Knock on wood! Brits do a decent version of this song.
Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
I have always embraced ...
Friday the 13th. My inner demons prefer the dark side, they have cookies.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Hola amigos. Went up over the hill into La Mesa, Santee,
El Cajon area of east San Diego where is was 45 degrees at 6am today. That's positively icy compared to where we had been out in the desert. A short stay poking around this area and we'll ramble up and over to the coast to begin the ramble home through yet more disparate chunks of geography, geology, climate and ecosystems.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Heh
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Thanks for the introduction
to Chris Duarte; a musician from San Antonio. I've never heard of him but he's impressive. I see he plays in San Antonio occasionally, but always in a venue that I dislike. I'd have to check him out in Austin where he seems to play fairly frequently.
I second the enthusiasm for the Stevie and Stevie, I've never seen that clip....pretty darn nice.
Have a good weekend!
CD
Pick up Texas Sugar.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Will do.
TY