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Continuing to question 'Nice': the 2023 'Nice Life-y Things' Post

So the thing I really noticed about doing the 2022 is that I'm not so sure how much of all of what was there was truly nice. There were a couple of months that hardly seemed to have anything 'nice' at all and somehow I started drifting these from 'nice life-y' to just 'things I do outside of work'. I'm going to keep that pattern up for the for the next 3 of these (i.e. until I'm actually caught up) for ease of comparison ( and then re-evaluate what I want to actually capture )
Alright, that was absolutely Not As Bad as 2022 -- much better balance of the 'remote' not-work-work and actual Nice Things To Do.

Current Music: Clock DVA - 4 Hours

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Can I even remember?: the 2022 'Nice Life-y Things' Post

Turns out this is still a useful thing to do 'cause if you'd asked me if I was doing much Post-Covid I would have said that I was doing Nigh on Bugger All. Annnnnd yet, even on a quick review, I see This Is So Not True. Turns out it would take until mid-2023 before I pretty much totally burned out on all things Community Engagement. In my mind I was very Community Engaged before Covid and Not So Much after but with all these non-work remote meetings to note in this post... ( boy howdy is this ever not the case. )

Producing alla that actually made me queasy (my stomach legit turned when I opened July in my calendar and I had to step away for a break). I'm not sorry I'd step back from a whole lot of it once work started getting crazy in 2023!

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you choose such a backward time

There's a store on Queen Street that has a sign out front that says "Ice-cream fixes everything."

Yesterday I walked past a bistro on my way to the gf's place that said "Wine fixes everything".

I am prepared to review their respective arguments, especially if said arguments are made via wine and ice cream.

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Note that I said "walked" in that story, because I am WALKING again, no cane required. My physiotherapist is fucking magic. I'm still on a bit of a leash so I don't overdo it, but the gf's condo is a 25 minute walk from my house and not only did I walk there, I walked home after and my foot felt fine this morning.

Plans to set the entire world on fire may be temporarily placed on hold as a result.

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Got my boosters last week. Spent most of my spare time for the next three days sleeping. My immune system calmed down eventually but the first day at work was kinda rough.

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My dad is doing much better and his wife decided he doesn't need the hospital bed since it's a rental. She was planning to buy him a regular bed, but since I still have the Old Man's old bed frame in my storage locker I offered that one. My sister has a pickup truck, so the two of us hauled it over and set it up.

We're both encouraging her to look into moving to a condo but she's not really receptive to the idea. Thing is, she's also running out of the ability to take care of the place, especially since she's doing it alone and taking care of my dad at the same time. She already hires people to deal with the yard.

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Still waiting on engineer.

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( cut for the endless gauntlet of house shit )

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I have the overwhelming desire to put together a playlist for my family's Xmas dinner. This desire was sparked by hearing Laibach's version of Jesus Christ Superstar on Twitch tonight.

C'mon, it would be hilarious.

Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!

Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.