The Cellar / Things that are improving your mood today

**Posted by griff** 12/17/2020 5:07 pm

Lol. Almost no one.

**Posted by griff** 12/17/2020 5:13 pm

Diaphone Jim wrote:
Herding dogs seem to usually be closet retrievers, loving especially to chase Frisbees. I worry about their fixation sometimes, though.
Unless those are its dinner bowls.

Those are two frisbees which he had misplaced outside but managed to find just before winter hit. In that position he can monitor both his disks and the door in case of UPS incursion. We are well monitored here.

He can get stuck on stuff but he isn't as crazy as some borders I've seen. He doesn't spend his days escaping and destroying.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 12/19/2020 4:03 pm

It's the ski people, they prayed for this.
I'm snowed in but they're saying ¾" of rain and 63° on Thursday... I'll wait.

**Posted by griff** 12/21/2020 7:01 am

7:28 am to 4:36 pm
The days will get longer from here!

**Posted by Limey** 12/21/2020 10:47 am

griff wrote:
7:28 am to 4:36 pm
The days will get longer from here!

8.55 am to 3.47 pm here. No chance of seeing the conjunction of planets here, it's cloudy and rainy.

**Posted by fargon** 12/21/2020 1:20 pm

Getting the Hidradenitis Suppurativa cyst on my leg lanced.

**Posted by monster** 12/25/2020 8:54 pm

I am so chuffed ....all christmas diners cleared their plates entirely like empty. We are a family of fusspots and over-servers but.... :D

I was not the chef of the family until recently, I do not enjoy cooking, we have one visitor who is used to southern US cuisine...... *gringringrin* There's only a bit of roast beef left and it was a 3lb joint for 5 people.....

**Posted by fargon** 12/25/2020 9:01 pm

No leftovers are the best leftovers.

**Posted by Limey** 12/26/2020 4:54 am

monster wrote:
I am so chuffed ....all christmas diners cleared their plates entirely like empty. We are a family of fusspots and over-servers but.... :D

I was not the chef of the family until recently, I do not enjoy cooking, we have one visitor who is used to southern US cuisine...... *gringringrin* There's only a bit of roast beef left and it was a 3lb joint for 5 people.....

No leftovers?! But what are you going to eat on Boxing Day?

**Posted by griff** 12/26/2020 7:46 am

There's a fight on? ;)

**Posted by fargon** 12/26/2020 7:51 am

Limey wrote:
monster wrote:
I am so chuffed ....all christmas diners cleared their plates entirely like empty. We are a family of fusspots and over-servers but.... :D

I was not the chef of the family until recently, I do not enjoy cooking, we have one visitor who is used to southern US cuisine...... *gringringrin* There's only a bit of roast beef left and it was a 3lb joint for 5 people.....
No leftovers?! But what are you going to eat on Boxing Day?

We have plenty of leftovers.

**Posted by monster** 12/26/2020 2:34 pm

sure was......

griff wrote:
There's a fight on? ;)

**Posted by griff** 12/26/2020 4:21 pm

Ha! Keep your left up.

**Posted by monster** 12/26/2020 4:51 pm

griff wrote:
Ha! Keep your left up.

too late

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**Posted by Gravdigr** 12/27/2020 2:32 pm

Lost my internet, cell, and landlines due to the bombing in Nastyville on Christmas day.

Got urrthang back this am.

Woot.

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**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 1/01/2021 1:09 pm

I got yelled at the last time I posted in this thread. Too bad.
I really like this writer and this website.
For some reason, this improved my mood on this first day of 2021:
https://truthout.org/articles/in-2020-covid-put-a-mirror-up-to-our-society/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=61ce87a8-fe51-4a5d-bc8f-610257faa73f

**Posted by BigV** 1/01/2021 2:11 pm

"We must love each other or die."

Sounds about right.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 1/01/2021 7:19 pm

BigV wrote:
"We must love each other or die."

Sounds about right.

Even Sexobon?

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 1/03/2021 12:03 am

Got a letter from my Health Insurance company which had a new ID card glued to the back with that snot like stretchy glue.
The card was cut wrong cutting off most of the bottom line. Then I noticed the printed line at the end of the letter.

We're her for you. That's good for me and lesbians but what do they tell others.
Are the screwed up card and this letter the result of working remotely? If so keep doing it because I can use the chuckles.

**Posted by Clodfobble** 1/03/2021 8:06 am

Seems like the most important phrase there is "operated locally."

**Posted by footfootfoot** 1/04/2021 3:24 pm

I started doing yoga again. It's been several years. Since I completed my siding project I've been pretty sedentary and watching my muscles disappear like snowflakes on a wood stove. I didn't have much to begin with apart from my biking legs and even they are shadows of them selves former.

It's day four of a 30 day challenge; Yoga with Adriene. She's a bit quirky and perky but I don't really think she's as clear at explaining the postures as other teachers I've had. Ex: "extend the leg" vs. "slide your leg back." I'm sure as Ilearn the postures it will be easier and I won't have to look at the screen.

Apparently my core is such a chump that even the simple postures that involve the abs or stomach in the most peripheral way make me nauseous. Each day gets a little better.

We'll see how things are on day 30.

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**Posted by footfootfoot** 1/04/2021 3:26 pm

upload images

**Posted by glatt** 1/04/2021 3:32 pm

That's most excellent. Well done!

I really need to do something similar. Covid lockdown is taking my fitness from me as well. I had exercise built into my life in the before time, and not so much now. It's an afterthought. My commute used to include 2 miles of walking each day, and now it's literally like 10 feet.

**Posted by footfootfoot** 1/04/2021 3:42 pm

I suck at consistency, especially when it comes to exercise. As grueling as it was sometimes, I got my best exercise when I had no car and was commuting form Burlington to Waterbury back in my mid 20s. About 32 miles each way. From the waist down I was shredded but only because I had to ride. If only part of my commute had involved monkey bars...
I bet you are probably pretty good at consistency and so it wouldn't be too tough to carve out 30 minutes a day for something.

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**Posted by BigV** 1/04/2021 6:38 pm

My new gig is close to home. So, my commute is six or seven minutes. The driving part, that is. Once I park, it's another twenty minutes by foot, if I hustle. And the same on the return, of course. And the jobsite is big, 179 acres according to Wikipedia. No bike riding allowed (on site, biking there and back, no problem. well, they put the site down at sea level and I live a few hundred feet higher, so, there's that). I am *definitely* getting my steps in. Built in consistency, which is nice.