Little things that cheer you up.

[Chris_CDN]

Cave Johnson

[Beef of the Sea]

Duke Cannon

[Frozen Beach]

Dan Barrett (Have A Nice Life, Giles Corey) spell corrected one of my drunken facebook statuses

[Blackbookpress1984]

People realizing the fact that the world must really be ending this taime because Skrillex is winning grammys.

[sublimaze]

Pedicure today. I'm sleepy.

Also, looking forward to my vacation in two months.

[redshoewearer]

Here it is!
http://www.westwoodasl.com/moodle/

Thanks for that!

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I'm trying to think of something positive because I don't always want to only post on the gloomy thread (I'm about to), so I guess I'll say at least I could eat some food today. I don't know what I caught (some type of flu I guess), but whatever it was, it dropped me in my tracks Saturday the way a hornet drops when you spray hornet spray on it. Today was the first day I walked out of my bedroom to the other side of the house.

[Fixer808]

Karaoke tonight!

[DF118]

When you spend ages coding something, and it keeps failing. Then after a break, you come back, it clicks together and works!

[marodi]

Mmmm... coffee!

[Hula]

Agonising for days over something you have to write under a deadline only for it to turn out to be a whole lot more painless than you were expecting when you finally get around to doing it.

[Elke]

Lent starts tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to having no excuse not to lead a structured life
This year, the plan is:
- to eat no artificial sugar
- to loose weight for a good cause (and have my students sponsor me)
- to watch no television, and only documentaries on DVD
- to take walks every other day, or if the weather doesn't allow it do some other sort of excercise
- to study one Bible story each week (these are the stories I plan to study: Creation, Babel, Jeremia, Elia, Jona, Tobit, Amos, Daniel and the Holy Week)
Let's see how it works. See you on Easter!

[tireless.mind]

going to the gym with a hangover and three hours of sleep.

i didn't want to go, and the entire day i had been looking for a reason to just go home (and probably eat my face off and play video games). but i said to myself "look, it's not going to hurt to show up." so i took the escalator into the gym. "it's not going to traumatize us to get on the treadmill for a few minutes." "you're not going to get a heart attack if you lift some weights. well maybe, but let's play the odds a bit"

here was the kicker. i found myself saying, "if it really does get too much, we can go home. i'm paying attention now. we did our best." i've gone to the gym, and fallen off the wagon and gotten back into it, and i always did it like my life depended on it, like if i could lost enough weight or got enough muscle i could win my ex-girlfriend back and beat the shit out of her boyfriend. i could do reps into self-esteem. if i just did enough. i shit-talked and killed myself to do whatever i said i was going to do, only to let things slide when i got exhausted from the perpetual boot camp in my head.

and i ended up hurting myself - not in an emo kind of way, like a chronic neck pain and sciatica kind of way.

now here i was just doing something with no particular goal, being nice to myself along the way. a full workout and half an hour of running later, painless and good.

[sentient02970]

I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations in my head like that over working out or just doing ANYTHING for myself. Good for you man. Now...your next trick will be to make this a habit...something you WANT to do..all of the time. Good luck. Just feeling better for this one workout is a huge thing.

[Dra508]

Lent starts tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to having no excuse not to lead a structured life
This year, the plan is:
- to eat no artificial sugar
- to loose weight for a good cause (and have my students sponsor me)
- to watch no television, and only documentaries on DVD
- to take walks every other day, or if the weather doesn't allow it do some other sort of excercise
- to study one Bible story each week (these are the stories I plan to study: Creation, Babel, Jeremia, Elia, Jona, Tobit, Amos, Daniel and the Holy Week)
Let's see how it works. See you on Easter!

You didn't say you were going to give up the internet.

I like to take it as doing something good rather then taking something away from yourself. That said, a good friend of mine, every year, gives up cursing and biting his nails. Every year.

I don't know what I would give up to express what the intent of giving something else would express.

so i took the escalator into the gym.

gaffaw

[redshoewearer]

Let's see how it works. See you on Easter!

Goodbye and good luck!

I'm spending less internet time myself - it doesn't feel that bad. But I still like to check in here and see the familiar names.

And I'm starting to get over some deathbed flu which absolutely flattened me. I'm not at 100% capacity - still more like 60% but it is a start.

[tireless.mind]

gaffaw

there is LITERALLY no other way into this gym! not my fault!!! does it help if i took the opposite escalator? i mean didn't, just wonderin

[theruiner]

There's nothing like being sucked into a good book.

[Beef of the Sea]

There's nothing like being sucked into a good book.

Unless you're being sucked by a good book.

[Pillfred]

Don't know if it cheered me up really but I finally called the doctor about an issue that was bothering me for a while now. Hopefully it ends well, at least i can free my mind from the anxiety of it hopefully soon.

[heroicraptor]

Unless you're being sucked by a good book.

Yeah, but the paper cuts are vicious.

[theruiner]

Patton Oswalt live-tweeting the debate tonight.

[brightshadow]

My dog's new favorite hobby is following my cat around and licking him like he's her baby. He gets so freaked out that he just rolls over and looks at me like "what is happening​?" It's the best.

[the duder]

I'm bummed that I'm not traveling with our men's team to their conference championship swim meet today. They won the school's first ever championship last year, and have a great shot at repeadting this year. As much as I'd love to be there, I am stoked that the reason that I'm staying behind is that one of our female swimmers has (potentially) qualified for NCAA D-1 swimming championships after a stellar performance at the women's conference meet last weekend. Since, as graduate assistant, I'm low man on the totem pole and I have to stay back to train her, along with some other team members who have qualified for US Olympic Trials and others who are looking to qualify.

[Dra508]

there is LITERALLY no other way into this gym! not my fault!!! does it help if i took the opposite escalator? i mean didn't, just wonderin

Don't do that! I've heard of so many escalator accidents that turn into scalpings. Ewww.

Talking to my manager tomorrow about my pay grade. Not of my prompting. Wouldn't it be nice to get a bump up without asking?

[NINmuffin]

Little things that cheer me up..
NIN obviously, good read - henry rollins.. Sergei Lukyanenko.. Clive Barker.. Neil Gaiman... Phillip K. Dick.. chuck palahniuk... henry david thoreau... fitzgerald, 32oz fountain coke, polluting my lungs with nicotine, my son laughing and smiling, a hot bath or shower, fall, snowflakes, taco bell, writing, poetry, unicorns, kittens, the office, driving, smell of juniper, cold sheets, skeletor, cheese, a pair of super worn in shoes, no shoes, a cold beer, cupcakes, good movie, smell of old bay, invader zim...

[Morad]

Little things that cheer me up..
NIN obviously, good read - henry rollins.. Sergei Lukyanenko.. Clive Barker.. Neil Gaiman... Phillip K. Dick.. chuck palahniuk... henry david thoreau... fitzgerald, 32oz fountain coke, polluting my lungs with nicotine, my son laughing and smiling, a hot bath or shower, fall, snowflakes, taco bell, writing, poetry, unicorns, kittens, the office, driving, smell of juniper, cold sheets, skeletor, cheese, a pair of super worn in shoes, no shoes, a cold beer, cupcakes, good movie, smell of old bay, invader zim...

This entire quote was what cheered me up. Thank you for that.

[poinoup]

Those surveys at the bottom of receipts work! $500 gift card from Future Shop!

[Rav Gahan]

I don't know about me, but I hope this cheers everyone here up.

My name is Rav, and I'm known to my friends back in the UK as DJ Shadowchaser. I will be hosting an NIN tribute night in London this Easter weekend. So if you happen to be in town, please come to Y34R Z3R0 - the only night where we will play nothing but NIN and Trent Reznor, as well other industrial/electronic classics.

I will host the event and be joined onstage by my friend, the awesome DJ STATIC. Y34R Z3R0 takes place on Easter Saturday, so there's no better excuse to party and enjoy the holiday. There will be plenty of free cake and Easter chocolate on the night! In addition, there will be a raffle - will you be the recipient of a cool mystery prize?


The clock is ticking. The countdown to Y34R Z3R0 begins now. See you there.


Date: Saturday 7 April 2012, 10pm-4am
Address: The London Stone, 105-109 Cannon Street, London EC4N 5AD, UK
Entry: £4 all night
Nearest Tubes (subway to my non-British friends): Bank (Central/Northern/Waterloo & City/DLR) - 3-minute walk
Monument/Mansion House (Circle/District) - 5-minute walk


More information at http://on.fb.me/zpkuak

[Pillfred]

My new cheap phone is actually a nice step up from my last one. That and paying off some bills with my taxes.

[icklekitty]

I don't know about me, but I hope this cheers everyone here up.

My name is Rav, and I'm known to my friends back in the UK as DJ Shadowchaser. I will be hosting an NIN tribute night in London this Easter weekend. So if you happen to be in town, please come to Y34R Z3R0 - the only night where we will play nothing but NIN and Trent Reznor, as well other industrial/electronic classics.

I will host the event and be joined onstage by my friend, the awesome DJ STATIC. Y34R Z3R0 takes place on Easter Saturday, so there's no better excuse to party and enjoy the holiday. There will be plenty of free cake and Easter chocolate on the night! In addition, there will be a raffle - will you be the recipient of a cool mystery prize?


The clock is ticking. The countdown to Y34R Z3R0 begins now. See you there.


Date: Saturday 7 April 2012, 10pm-4am
Address: The London Stone, 105-109 Cannon Street, London EC4N 5AD, UK
Entry: £4 all night
Nearest Tubes (subway to my non-British friends): Bank (Central/Northern/Waterloo & City/DLR) - 3-minute walk
Monument/Mansion House (Circle/District) - 5-minute walk


More information at http://on.fb.me/zpkuak

Oh man, I LOVE The London Stone!!