checked out your youtube channel great videos very informative . reminds me I haven’t been out on the water in too long , well it would be ice fishing these days which is fun to .
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A lot has happened in the past week. I think we’re all feeling much better than we have for months in our household.
The big news is that our daughter has given up on her house and we’ve welcomed her back to share our home. This immediately solved about nine tenths of my problems and hers. I no longer need to worry about her disgusting neighbours. She’s happy, I’m happy,
We know from past experience that she can be difficult to live with. Last time she lived here for a year, and smashed up several quite expensive televisions and nearly all our laptops. She also put her foot through a double-glazed window and was unable to walk for six months. I was literally pushing her everywhere in a wheelchair for most of that time. It may be a surprising thing to hear, and I surprise myself saying it, but we were all doing better despite all that.
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did you get a deep fried butter while you were there 
or is that not a thing in NY …
Guessing there was no real fair going on ?
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Deep frying and butter are indeed two things the State Fair is known for
but separately.
Not so you’d notice.
It’s usually late August through Labor Day, though of course not last year. I’ve even performed there (on ukulele, not synth). The Fairgrounds are used for other events the rest of the year, and these days it’s a vaccination site. In late January the earliest appointment I could get was March 30, but after the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was approved a lot more slots opened up; the Fairgrounds became one of only three sites in the state doing 24 hour vaccinations (the other two being in New York City). I live about two miles away. So I got my shot yesterday at 11 pm.
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I was quite down the last few days, hence the silence…
For no reason that I can think of, I got a bit depressed, and I couldn’t get anything done. Not a great mood 
I seem a bit better now though, I hope it will last!
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That happens to me too, where rationally you feel fine but chemically you feel terrible.
What helps me is to do something out of the ordinary. Step outside and get some sunlight, breath some fresh air, listen to some chill or sad tunes. Sometimes, eating something helps too. Everyone is different, just sharing what helps me.
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Yep, exactly that!
That would be a great thing to do, but right now in France we can’t step outside after 6pm… We can only go to work, and that’s it.
Anyway… thanks for the puppy! 
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I was suggesting sunlight specifically because there is research to suggest serotonin levels can dip when not exposed to it for extended periods. I like rain and cloudy days, but I have found that there is still something to this research.
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… Suh… Sunn… what is that? you mean that big ol’ fire moon that states its bed time?
I havent been outside for like 2-3 weeks (ive been out for things, but not just out.)
Unless my spray session in the back yard counts haha.
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Out every day, although dark usualy.
Hailstones up here at the moment, weather a bit wild. Not like last weekend which was lovely…
I am a bit concerned that lock down seems to be ending too fast now. but maybee it’s just a skewed perspective of time… there is even talk about going back to the office for some, personaly I have got used to my setup, but it is my own space away from anyone.
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I have been spending much time the last years in solitude, but the last year has been really tough. Maybe the sense of crisis and lock-downs has affected my thoughts and feelings in a bad way.
Struggling hard to get things done but got myself two projects that hopefully could get my head spinning in other directions.
First project: Speaker.
Second project is much wilder. An hours drive from home is an abandoned railway, where you can hire a rail bike. However I wanted to build my own from a scrapped bicycle. That way I could take my car and go and find some old tracks (no traffic of course) and pedal away.
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I started a daily fitness routine mid December, just calculated that I spent 45h on the crosstrainer, made 1780 pushups, 7120 butterflies and 13350 situps since then. Lost maybe 4 kilos and definetly gained more stamina. The beer belly is still there but a little smaller.
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Looks like a Bomb workshop…
My first ever colonoscopy. The procedure was quite pleasant (I got to see the inside of my colon and it’s rather pretty.) The prep was somewhat less so. The osmotic laxatives they gave me to use the day before and on the morning before had me squirting a Niagara of water from my rectum on and off for over twelve hours. After that the actual procedure was great, comparable to an Attenborough documentary.
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I was okay with the camfisting, I had anaesthetic and sedative and it amounted to a nice man showing me a pretty live video of my insides on a big television. He was so gentle that by the end I was quite smitten, and almost contemplating exchanging phone numbers. Before we got to that point, though, something like this, sporadically for more than twelve hours:
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I think the bomb I am building will not blow up that loud. It’s an experiment, where I hope I can manage to cast me a pair of concrete speaker boxes for a pair of 3,5" full range speakers 
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Report from yesterday: Had a “date” with the cardiac nurse at my clinic. Everything was in perfect order. Bloodpressure 136/96 
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However a few days ago my bike suddenly disappeared when I tried to mount it. Don’t know what dimension it travelled too, but a second later, when I was crawling on the ground, the bicycle was back on top of me. Bruised my had badly. 
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My sleepy head struggled reading this properly. To my dumb mind, all i could picture was some kind of a glitch in a game. you know, the kind where something hasnt loaded in and it drops in from the sky…
Then my mind woke up a little more and read the ‘When mounting the bike’ part.
Is more like a physics glitch where two edges of a ‘world object’ collided that shouldnt have, sending the objects flying apart.
I really spend to much time at the computer… is my life a simulation… what even ‘IS’
=)
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