RL: Last week at my job!
EPL: Tottenham lose, Chelsea tie, and we beat United 2-0. Doesn't get much better than that!
Pedigree chinchilla..
Unfortunately, you're still a Gunner though
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Unfortunately, you're still a Gunner though
Chris Smalling doesn't count as a player anyways.
Chris Smalling doesn't count as a player anyways.
His defending isn't my problem, it's his awful attempt at VvD's hairstyle
How did you get footage of me playing football?!
That does look like a cat attempting to run upright..
RL: One of my supervisors isn't happy because I've taken on a mentoring role (in my own time) with a high school student, who is looking to go into bioscience. I'm like, *shrug*, what can I do? On the plus side, I'm getting some nice data and I can now run 8-12 batches (200-300 slides) of immunohistochemistry over a weekend if I need to. The date of my talk at Pint of Science (Glasgow) is now confirmed too, 20th May, so I will be giving a talk on precision medicine titled 'Precision Medicine: A Dissection of Cancer' - if anybody is local and wants to come along On the negative side, I'm getting some suspicious moles checked today.
D2: Cow runs once in a while, I did two runs this morning after breakfast, so I'm at 2.5 hours now, go me! I also started my zeal druid (Avidity), he is wielding passion in a thresher and its early variants.
OVG: Reading? I'm currently reading through Knightfall, although it's really making me want to go back and read Venom again, possibly my favourite Batman arc.
On the negative side, I'm getting some suspicious moles checked today.D2: Cow runs once in a while, I did two runs this morning after breakfast, so I'm at 2.5 hours now, go me! I also started my zeal druid (Avidity), he is wielding passion in a thresher and its early variants.
OVG: Reading? I'm currently reading through Knightfall, although it's really making me want to go back and read Venom again, possibly my favourite Batman arc.
darkstarhub
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RL: I havent been on much lately, and haven't been playing D2 much lately either. I did get D1 from GOG and tried it out a little though. I always thought I'd get married once and that would be it, and live out the rest of my life where I am now. But, things happen, things change, life throws curve balls at us all. I am getting divorced and over the last month my whole world has just been really fubarred. We dont have any kids together, which will make things easier to deal with, and this house was her Mom's house, so its her house and I am moving back in with my Mom and Dad for awhile until I find a place. Which isnt too bad because I get along with them really well. We've been together for 15 years and it just sucks to feel like all that was wasted time. I could go into a huge tangent on the reasons why, but its done and thats it. I offered to work things out, and tried my best to do that, but I'm not the easiest person to deal with because of my anxiety, and some people are better equipped to deal with that than others, and she isnt or is just tired of it. I'm 99% functional as in I obviously still do regular things like work and all that normal adult stuff, but that 1% is the part that is hard to deal with. The best way I can describe it is a lyric from a Grateful Dead song: Some days the gales are howling, some days the sea is still as glass. But, another lyric from the same band also applies: I will get by, I will survive.
D2: Not for several weeks, but looking to get back to the 99 grind with my Sorc. I've been missing it tremendously for sure.
OVG: Little bit of D1.
D2: Not for several weeks, but looking to get back to the 99 grind with my Sorc. I've been missing it tremendously for sure.
OVG: Little bit of D1.
Sorry to hear that buddy. Always here if you want to vent, or y'know, slay some ******* demons.
jonny5
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@darkstarhub Sorry for the unfortunate turn of events. The fact that you still retain even a little optimism at this low moment is a good sign, though. You will indeed survive, and given enough time to reflect properly on it all, you will come out a stronger and wiser man. I'm also impressed by how classy you're managing to keep your description of the situation - that would be tough for me.
darkstarhub
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@jonnyphive I could really go off on a huge tangent with the whole story, but at this point it’s not going to change things. I want things to be as amicable as possible. It will be easier on me as far as nerves and/or getting angry about it all. The one thing we have in common is the dog, and we will just share her like people do with kids. The cats will go with me. I’m a huge animal lover so all that part is important. At least I have somewhere to go so it could be worse.
jonny5
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@darkstarhub Understandable - makes sense not to endlessly rehash things unless it helps vent (in which case, vent away!).
I think you should let the dog choose. Just stand on opposite ends of a field and you both start calling her until she chooses someone. Just have some raw beef hidden in your pockets and arrange for the dog to be downwind.
I think you should let the dog choose. Just stand on opposite ends of a field and you both start calling her until she chooses someone. Just have some raw beef hidden in your pockets and arrange for the dog to be downwind.
If having a job makes you 99% functional, i'm 98% more functional than i thought.
I read that as 'stranger man'. I was thinking, that's a bit harsh right now
He's probably already as strange as he's ever gonna be.
T72on1
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@darkstarhub That's rough, sorry to hear it. Great of you to take on it as you do.
darkstarhub
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@T72on1 If you knew the whole story it would blow your mind. But, as is the case with most things like this, there will always be many layers of emotions and occurrences. I’m not an abusive person, and have never so much as raised my hand or made an aggressive move(as in the type that precedes physical violence) towards any woman. Sure, we’ve had some arguments over the years, but that’s to be expected. I just want to put that out there as I am not like that at all. My oldest friends have said the same thing in that they thought I would be the one out of all of us that would have a long marriage.
I’ve also been a part of my stepsons life since he was 3 and he is getting ready to graduate. I made sure he knows I will always be someone he can get ahold of for any reason, and we will always remain in contact. He is so smart and I told him to expect me to ride his ass to stay in college so he can get a good job. He has always been an introvert and I am hoping going to college will open him up a little.
Like I said before, anxiety, or any type of mental health issue for that matter is hard to deal with not just for the person that has it, but other people close to them. I take medication for it, but that doesn’t mean it just magically disappears. My job is stressful, both physically and mentally, and sometimes fighting a war in your head can leave other people feeling left out unintentionally. It’s never easy as a man to admit weakness, and you want your wife to think of you as a tough guy and all that, but she has never been able to handle it all in a way that helps. This can lead to a cycle that digs a hole so deep there is no way out. I will white knuckle my way through this as well.
I’ve also been a part of my stepsons life since he was 3 and he is getting ready to graduate. I made sure he knows I will always be someone he can get ahold of for any reason, and we will always remain in contact. He is so smart and I told him to expect me to ride his ass to stay in college so he can get a good job. He has always been an introvert and I am hoping going to college will open him up a little.
Like I said before, anxiety, or any type of mental health issue for that matter is hard to deal with not just for the person that has it, but other people close to them. I take medication for it, but that doesn’t mean it just magically disappears. My job is stressful, both physically and mentally, and sometimes fighting a war in your head can leave other people feeling left out unintentionally. It’s never easy as a man to admit weakness, and you want your wife to think of you as a tough guy and all that, but she has never been able to handle it all in a way that helps. This can lead to a cycle that digs a hole so deep there is no way out. I will white knuckle my way through this as well.
