I'm playing Mass Effect 2 and being evil. My god some of the lines are hilarious!!!
I forced a shop assistant to give me a discount by standing outside the store and yelling about how they were discriminating against me because I was poor ๐คฃ
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Six places on the list viewed (plus two not, but they're out of my price range so they don't count), four boxes and two pictures dropped off at the op shop and a quick Aldi run done.
I think I've earned a prosecco.
It has been enlightening listening to a spine specialist , McGill. Really changed how I think about my back, the pain and what happened. There is no such thing as an achy back, there are injuries and aggravating weakness.
seems I have stress fractures of one or two L vertebrates and a touch of a disc hernia on my left side. Ten hours a week of walking on hard footpaths, walking thru pain, with hard shoes will aggravate a weakness from prior injury or re-injure.
They seem to have been learning a lot about both the spine and pain management in recent years and a lot of the more recent information is quite different to the traditional advice. A lot of the pain seems to be caused by things like bracing in anticipation of pain, which means that learning to react differently can have major benefits. So it is not "all in your head" as it is real, physically based pain, but learning to think about the pain differently can change your physical responses and reduce the pain.
don't worry, I've had a medical diagnosis on which vertebrae
Watching some telly before I get a little rowdy tonight, and one of my favourite costuming tropes is when a character out of their depth goes to the tropics/a hot place (it doesnt matter what they're there for) they must have a huge hiking pack paired with some sort of plaid shirt and singlet, for men you can throw in a henley, for women it must be a skin tight spaghetti strap singlet.
Bonus points for inappropriate footwear, khaki cargo shorts (cargo booty shorts of the ladies), some sort of head wrap, they gain a collection of "handcrafted" bracelets during their tropical/hot place adventure.
and they sit on logs, drink from streams and touch everything ๐ฒ
My fave movie about this Arachnophobia.
This show is about doctors in a "jungle", so them touching everything is extra hilarious! Especially since in the first episode one of the conventionally pretty doctors goes "oh I specialise in infectious diseases".
Edit - a word. I can assure you the tv doctors are not juggling.
Tropics = parasites ๐ฒ
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The Fire Pig ๐ฅ ๐ฝ has chosen to go into the city so I the Fire Snake ๐ฅ๐ and the Wood Rabbit ๐ณ๐ฐ will go and deposit some bottles ๐พ and do something with the rest of the sunnyโ day while the Water Snake ๐ฆ ๐ runs around outside barking.
I'm having so much fun with this. ๐ณ๐ฐ isn't. He assures me he is indeed a ๐ฆ and he's sticking to it.
According to the Vietnamese the year of the rabbit is actually the year of the cat. And a lion is really just a big cat, so I think the claim is justified.
Well that's annoying. I woke up super early (for me anyways) to go to Echuca on the train for the day and 10 mins before we got to Bendigo they told us the Echuca has been cancelled and the train will terminate at Bendigo with a coach to Echuca
I don't really want to do the coach but they said it's at least 20 minutes away anyway
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Fancy going into labour in the mosh pit of a Pink concert.
Sheโll have a good story to tell the kid!
Breakfast ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฅญ๐๐ฅฅ๐ฅฆ๐ฅ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ฅฌ๐ฅ๐ฝ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ง ๐ฅฏ๐๐ฅ๐ฅจ๐ง๐ง๐ฅ๐ง๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅฉ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฅ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ฑ๐ฅ๐ฆช๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ชผ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฅฎ๐ข๐ก๐ง๐ฐ๐ง๐ฅง๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ฅโ๏ธ๐ต๐บ๐ถ๐ฅค๐ง๐ง๐ฅ๐ท๐ฅ๐ธ๐น๐ง๐
Happy Lunar New Year!
๐งงgood morning and Happy Lunar New Year to you.๐งง
Did you enjoy your bat steak and pear yesterday? Perhaps you'd like the thickshake version.
Was thinking peaches and herb today.
That'll be interesting. With a little bit of freshly squeezed nut juice.
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Moon cheese please ๐งง
Thank you!! ๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง
For you bacon ๐งง bring many good fortune.
Thank youuuu! Good fortune to you too!
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Thank youuuuu
I'd like to share a cup of tea with a dragon before they start their duties looking after this year
Happy Lunar New Year! ๐งง๐งง๐งง
Thank youuuuu
It took me a while with feeling crook but I finished rereading Shades of Grey and now Red Side Story. Tbh... it was a bit of a let down and I don't think it's just from the heightened expectations after 14 years' wait...
no spoilers, not even descriptions of the plot or characters, just long rambling thoughts
IMO it wasnowhere near as good as the first book - felt like the author phoned it in to get the book out of the way already. Of course the second one was never gonna have the same effect as the first with its inimitably creative and detailed world building, but where the first book was so tightly plotted and revealed tantalising hints so masterfully and with great wit, the second felt distinctly more clunky and expository with its info dumps and reveals, like it was going through the motions.
It also felt repetitive at times in beating readers over the head about character motivations and old plot points - like we needed reminding because of the huge gap of time between releases? Or maybe the author needed reminding? He couldn't keep his own continuity right (he had someone specifically helping him with this but a minor character's plot-relevant age in book 1 is mysteriously dropped by 3 years in book 2 where they are more prominent, so were even they confused?). I blame the book having two editors...
One more whinge, and maybe this last one is just because fans have had 14 years to theorise, but nearly all the major worldbuilding reveals/explanations in the second book could be correctly guessed in the first, and the second book didn't go much deeper beyond those revelations. I know they have to go through it from the characters' point of view within the world but it felt a bit "meh, we need more". But this complaint is perhaps taking the books more seriously than they're meant to be taken.
That aside it was a long awaited gift to be officially reunited with these characters and their world, and there were still some good nail biting sequences and whimsical turns to be enjoyable enough, plus enough plot threads to write a third book (if the author doesn't die first).
As a fan of GRRM, I feel this pain and am apprehensive about the future. Bring on TWOW. The sooner the better.
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