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    What you've done today - One Life to Live

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    In the last week I have had to do two fresh W10 OS clean installs. The first was owing to what I thought was a very corrupt driver install that knackered too many subsystems. Then it turns out it was the integrated discreet video card on my Alienware M15. That doesn't happen everyday! Now a new mobo and OS install ... back to game!

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    Today was Aarik D's last day at Obsidian

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    4 hours ago, Gromnir said:

    @Aarik D is kinda like Gromnir kryptonite. oh sure, we may have made a crack or two 'bout ska, (am not made o' stone dammit,) but aarik is just so adorably positive that any attempt to give him a hard time woulda' been analogous to kicking a puppy. as such am unable to interact with aarik normal.

    am glad aarik is back. we will wait. we will be patient. eventually aarik will slip up and mock the special olympics or suggest ketchup is a perfect acceptable condiment for hot dogs.  have been here for decades. we can wait for our moment.

    mostly kidding. mostly.

    wb.

    HA! Good Fun!

     

    I believe that what Gromie means, in all of the text cited, is what a gift it is to welcome @Aarik D back ... 

    It is exciting to know that this rich Obsidian community does and continues to be enriched by such care and presence as people such as our trolls, Squad and Devs!

    Welcome home, Aarik: we missed you!

    The Big Green via the Roost ;) :dragon:

    The TV and Streaming thread Series 3

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    6 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

    Liked that and Psych a lot, they were both on/came out around the same time on USA (the network). Ultimately, they are just silly detective shows of which there are about a billion of, but having good humor and non-totally contemptible characters and writing goes a long way, :).

    Thanks! I have not heard of Psych - I will look into that too, perhaps, after done with Monk.

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    What you've done today - One Life to Live

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    25 minutes ago, ComradeMaster said:

    Happy Birthday to me!  I survived a whole year on these boards.  There's been fun times and adversarial times but all-in-all I prefer that over circle-jerking on social media.  You learn through unpleasantness baby.

    Thanks for the endurance, laughs and contribution. Building community here is important to me. I hope you and others continue to find that this is a place that offers such space!

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    The TV and Streaming thread renewed

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    1 hour ago, majestic said:

    The Man in the High Castle is a special case. The first season is, let's say "mixed", the middle parts really drag on.

    It pays off to keep watching. If only to experience the strangeness of rooting for SS Obergruppenführer John Smith (played magnificently by Josh E. Sawyer Rufus Sewell) as he uncovers - and  tries to foil - a conspiracy with the goal of assassinating Hitler.

    Makes more sense in context.

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    And John Smith's Japanese secret police counterpart Kido (played by Lt. Wang from Space Above and Beyond) is pretty good as well. They're terrible people doing terrible things, yet you can't help hoping they'll succeed. The show's pretty good at painting the alternative as even worse.

    Well at least that was my impression. There's also the rebel movement but they're all boring in addition to being terrible people.

    Thanks, Majestic. The first two episodes have me hooked enough to want to watch further. The narrative is sound and the storytelling is very 'Canadian.' That's a literary reference from my context, which may connect with your 'drag on.' This is one of the reason I appreciate Prime's TV over Netflix. Both have merit, but often in the Netflix context narrative or substance seems sacrificed for volume of production: if that makes sense?

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    What you've done today - One Life to Live

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    I have had

    35 minutes ago, Gorth said:

    Do you have medical insurance? If so, time to let them pay for something ;)

    Besides, bowel cancer is a major killer of old males world wide. Wouldn't hurt starting on the annual screening process.

    I have experienced the race car metaphor in this regard ... getting under the hood helps. Do it, lest when stuff gets gummed up, it's too late. Wasn't all that comforting in my experience, but it was, nonetheless, effective fwiiw!

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    What you've done today - One Life to Live

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    13 hours ago, Gorth said:

    I hurt my big toe a few weeks ago... nothing broken, but very painful. It split the tissue as well as dislodged the nail. Yeah, ouch 😖

     

    But, it eventually grew a little less painful and I could walk around again, even if limping badly on my right leg. Then about a week ago, my toe suddenly started hurting again. As did the rest of my body. Then came the fever and completely knocked me out last weekend. Could do nothing, just lying on top of my bed, shivering like a puppy, unable to get warm. First I though, crap, Covid? Now? They ain't no covid near where I live 🤔

    Since I didn't sleep at all for 48 hours, I eventually crashed completely Monday, slept until evening. Noticed a faint red rash on my lower leg, but fell asleep again and woke up Tuesday around 11am. Now the rash was gone. Instead my foot had swollen up and my leg had turned an unhealthy red and purple from the knee down. Besides the ugly scenery, the pain was excruciating, like someone hammering nails into the thing flesh on your lower leg and the skin feeling waaaay too tight for my leg.

    Yeah, time to call the doctor and see if I could get an appointment. He was out of town though, so couldn't get him to check if before Thursday. He spent a lot of time telling me off for not going to hospital straight away 😂

    And then he sent me off to the hospital. Currently eating some 500mg whatever antibiotics 4 times a day. Apparently I cut it a bit close before it turned septic and lethal. The stuff seems to work now, pain is less excruciating today and some of the purple at least seems to have receded.

     

    All because of a stupid little toe injury.

    Hope you're on the mend @Gorth!

    What you've done today - One Life to Live

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    11 hours ago, Guard Dog said:

    It's been near three weeks since I last left the house. Other than to get the mail but that really doesn't count. Today I'm not only goung out I'm going to interact with... (shuuder) people! :lol:

    Some of the local organizations are having a "halloween carinival" for kids in town. Going to help out today. I considered bringing Sunny but probably better not to. 

    Hope the outing was enjoyable @Guard Dog

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