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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!
but Hey, this is supposed to be the smiley happy thread not the shit that boils your piss thread
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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.
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.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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/
Made I larf.
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.
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
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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
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
https://www.space.com/34921-geminid-meteor-shower-guide.html
Bloody kids! Don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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.
A very happy Humbug to you all
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Tomorrow we get an extra 3 seconds of daylight.
Summer's coming!
Progress!
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself