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[ThatNickGuy]

Could've gone biking today. Didn't.
Could've done laundry. Didn't.
Could've done literally anything today. Didn't.

No, instead, I suddenly got inexplicably depressed and played Surviving Mars all day. Didn't even eat aside from breakfast.

 

[PatrThom]

Not really a bad thing, so long as you don't let it become the first in a long series of similar days.

--Patrick

 

[bhamv3]

Could've gone biking today. Didn't.
Could've done laundry. Didn't.
Could've done literally anything today. Didn't.

No, instead, I suddenly got inexplicably depressed and played Surviving Mars all day. Didn't even eat aside from breakfast.

Did you have fun playing Surviving Mars?

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Did you have fun playing Surviving Mars?

I....don't know. In as much as I "enjoy" the "just one more turn" addictive nature of the Civilization games.

I kept thinking "I probably still have time this afternoon" but suddenly "this afternoon" became "this evening" and I wasted the day.

 

[Bubble181]

I know that feeling too well. Not (yet) with Surviving Mars, but plenty of other things.
As long as you actually feel good afterwards, I mean, sometimes you need to unwind and taking time to just relax and do "useless" things is OK.
My problem these days tends to be that I feel like I've wasted the entire day, and feel unhappy during and afterwards, yet still can't motivate myself to go do anything (else, or just anything at all, sometimes).
I know that's depression making me feel that way? But it doesn't help in actually solving anything.

If you're finding yourself just wasting time and feeling bad about it, try to take action and talk to someone about it before it gets worse - it's a stres sign your mind isn't properly unwinding or recovering.
If you had fun but just feel guilty about not doing something "useful", consider that self care also means allowing downtime and decompression and sometimes doing little or nothing is OK.

 

[bhamv3]

I....don't know. In as much as I "enjoy" the "just one more turn" addictive nature of the Civilization games.

I kept thinking "I probably still have time this afternoon" but suddenly "this afternoon" became "this evening" and I wasted the day.

Time you enjoyed wasting is not time wasted. If your day spent gaming helped you unwind and decompress (and couldn't we all do with a little of that these days?) then I think it was a day well spent.

 

[HCGLNS]

Yeah, the whole must accomplish something with your time is bullshit. Sometimes doing nothing is the most important thing you can do.

 

[Squidleybits]

Agreed! I had a super lazy weekend which was exactly what I needed.

 

[David]

For what it's worth, your post just inspired me to go do some cleaning I'd been putting off and move the laundry around before I got into anything else today.

 

[bhamv3]

I found a naughty fanfic for a certain popular fictional universe written in Chinese. At first I was reading it for the salacious elements, but then I actually started getting interested in the plot. However, it reads very much like a translation, so I suspected that it was originally a story written in English, so I started searching for the English version of it. Except no matter what combination of keywords I try, I cannot find the English version of this specific story. So now I have to read the translation.

It doesn't help that this very popular fictional universe has a metric crapton of textual porn already.

 

[GasBandit]

I found a naughty fanfic for a certain popular fictional universe written in Chinese. At first I was reading it for the salacious elements, but then I actually started getting interested in the plot. However, it reads very much like a translation, so I suspected that it was originally a story written in English, so I started searching for the English version of it. Except no matter what combination of keywords I try, I cannot find the English version of this specific story. So now I have to read the translation.

It doesn't help that this very popular fictional universe has a metric crapton of textual porn already.

Oh man, had to break out a CLASSIC for this one

 

[GasBandit]

Tooth's been feeling like I had a popcorn husk stuck between it for a day or so. Finally got in there with floss just right, and it finally popped out.

Wait, that is NOT a popcorn husk.

That's a filling.

Appointment made for monday >_<

 

[PatrThom]

I had a filling come loose on Thursday.
A filling which was just put in there in April.
Good thing I already have an appointment scheduled for tomorrow.

--Patrick

 

[Frank]

Is this where I flex that I've only ever had a single filling and it was like just before Covid?

It is!

 

[Terrik]

Yall should stop eating taffy and chewing on big league chew.

 

[GasBandit]

This filling was like 15 years old. Ironically not my oldest filling (I got several as a teenager) but it hung in there in a really odd spot for quite a while.

 

[Celt Z]

Yall should stop eating taffy and chewing on big league chew.

Hey, this is America!


... you think we can fuckin' afford to go to the dentist as often as we should?

 

[Terrik]

Hey, this is America!


... you think we can fuckin' afford to go to the dentist as often as we should?

You wouldn't have to worry about affording it if you

Spoiler: See me

FLOSSED!

 

[ThatNickGuy]

You wouldn't have to worry about affording it if you

Spoiler: See me

FLOSSED!

I tried flossing once, but I have zero dancing ability.

 

[PatrThom]

Yall should stop eating taffy and chewing on big league chew.

it was toffee, not taffy.

--Patrick

 

[GasBandit]

I'm a little worried about my grandfather. Yeah, the same grandfather who went big into Fox News after he retired and had nothing to do but get indoctrinated, who I had a little bit of a falling out with during the pandemic.

Lately he's been talking to me a lot more, and I can tell he's making an extra effort to do so. We went to go see a movie on a wednesday night tonight. He's asking me questions about VR and what games I'm playing, when previously he barely had interest in those things. Of course I'm grateful for the interaction and we've been getting a long very well (we don't bring up politics, or at least we try not to, and every time it starts to look like it might come up I deflect the conversation subtly in another direction).

What worries me is this mending of fences has suddenly come out of nowhere. My grandpa is 87. The last time we were this engaged was 25 years ago, when I was at college. My grandparents had decided to take a cross-country RV trip and visit everyone in the family for a couple days each. I found out a month later grandma's breast cancer had come back and she'd passed. The RV trip was her last hurrah after the terminal diagnosis. This feels like that visit.

 

[General Specific]

It could also be him genuinely sad at the loss of contact with you and trying to reconnect. People can change and it simply may be that he is looking at things in his life and trying to correct what he feels have been mistakes before something bad comes. It may be one or the other and maybe the best thing to do is just enjoy the fact that he is making an effort to be in your life again and not worry about what may come later.

 

[Chad Sexington]

I'd definitely consider what Gen Specific said, but it's possible that you are right too.

Either way, it's a good thing to be connected to family. If it's comfortable/possible to ask him if he's ill, you might want to consider doing that. Maybe he needs someone to ask because he's reluctant to share. I can be this way with minor things like colds and 'not wanting to inconvenience' people, so I can imagine someone being this way in a big deal too.

 

[sixpackshaker]

deer u toob. i get it is pride month. I GET IT IT IS PRIDE MONTH! I GET IT IT IS PRIDE MONTH! I GET IT IT IS PRIDE MONTH! I GET IT IT IS PRIDE MONTH!

I do not need to be remembered every 20 minutes that it is pride month when I go back to the home page.

I love y'all but wow every time that I go back to the homepage of u toob...

 

[GasBandit]

I definitely love how ublock origin and Sponsorblock take 90% of the BS out of Youtube. If only it could do something about being notified of premieres 48 hours in advance, or those cancerous "shorts" filmed in portrait.

 

[Tinwhistler]

deer u toob. i get it is pride month. I GET IT IT IS PRIDE MONTH! I GET IT IT IS PRIDE MONTH! I GET IT IT IS PRIDE MONTH! I GET IT IT IS PRIDE MONTH!

I do not need to be remembered every 20 minutes that it is pride month when I go back to the home page.

I love y'all but wow every time that I go back to the homepage of u toob...

Oh hey...it's Pride month.

 

[Dave]

Left work Thursday morning at 7:30, home by 8:00. That’s am by the way. I’m on nights right now. But the day shift was down from a 5 man team to a 2 man team. So I went back in at 3:30 pm. And then worked my shift. All told 16 hours.

I get home and immediately start driving to Colorado. I’m here now but I’m god damned tired.

 

[Celt Z]

Left work Thursday morning at 7:30, home by 8:00. That’s am by the way. I’m on nights right now. But the day shift was down from a 5 man team to a 2 man team. So I went back in at 3:30 pm. And then worked my shift. All told 16 hours.

I get home and immediately start driving to Colorado. I’m here now but I’m god damned tired.

Can your wife drive a bit? It sounds like you could really use some rest, especially to avoid an accident.

 

[Dave]

She drove about half. But I can’t sleep in a car so I just drove her crazy.

 

[HCGLNS]

There is no such thing as a magical dance to make it rain. The only way you can make it rain is to seed clouds with silver iodide, OR put something out to dry.

 

[evilmike]

There is no such thing as a magical dance to make it rain. The only way you can make it rain is to seed clouds with silver iodide, OR put something out to dry.

That's pretty much what I'd expect. After all, we already know that dancing won't bring her back, but still, he comes here every year to try.

 

[sixpackshaker]

There is no such thing as a magical dance to make it rain. The only way you can make it rain is to seed clouds with silver iodide, OR put something out to dry.

I disagree. The reason it rains after washing your car is that it has the same motions as a rain dance.

 

[HCGLNS]

I disagree. The reason it rains after washing your car is that it has the same motions as a rain dance.

That's a pigeon summoning ritual, completely separate phenomenon.

 

[Sparhawk]

That's a pigeon summoning ritual, completely separate phenomenon.

Maybe in Canada, but here in Texas it summons rain.

 

[GasBandit]

My appointment to get my filling redone got pushed back to today. Just had it done. Seems to have gone smoothly. I go back tomorrow morning for a cleaning, seeing as how I'm long overdue as I stopped going to the dentist when the pandemic hit.