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I've been playing Red Dead Redemption 2 a lot. It's my first playthrough, but 3rd time attempting to get into this game.. it's actually sticking this time though and I'm 35% through now. Enjoying it. It's crazy how many hours I've put in and it says I'm only 35% this game is hooooge.
Anyway the game is absolutely GORGEOUS. Playing on my PC with the graphics almost maxed out and riding around has made me desperately miss America's parks and mountains. I ache to go back there. I don't think we have anything in Australia which directly compares to that place, as unpatriotic as that sounds.
Also I found out that my tablet runs RDR2 fantastically (it's a stupidly expensive one with it's own discreet graphics card) so I can actually play it in bed too. It's not as gorgeous on that as on my 4k monitor with HDR but it still looks and plays great using my PS5 controller.
You can love more than one place. 🥰
Listening to the soundtrack of The Mandalorian. I'd forgotten what a beautiful show it is so might take another look. ( and at The Orville as well 😊 )
Taking Belsomra tonight for my sleep. Scared of waking up like a zombie and not being able to drive. But we shall see. Hopefully I'm fine
HOLY FUCK ORVILLE S4?!!
excellent news.
is good?
Yah, official podcast confirmed. We're getting another season!
My tv has died. I guess I don't need to watch the gymnastics after all, I'll read my book. But boo. I'll deal with it tomorrow.
The race riots in the UK make Cronulla 2005 look like a children's tea party.
The rioting was set off because they believe the stabber of the kids in the dance class was an immigrant Muslim. Nope, born in Britain Christian. Was fake news spread by Andrew Tate and other questionable sources. It’s the idiot olympics, and utterly terrifying how easily people can be set off.
It takes a lot to get the brits of any persuasion off their arses and out in the street protesting, but when they do ... it gets pretty brutal. There'll be more of these riots. Imo the root cause is that brexit didn't deliver the earthly paradise that they were promised ..
TV review. Archer Series 13.
I loved Archer, the first 2 series made me laugh out loud so often and many of the following episodes also had their laughs.
Series 13 is a pale ghost of a show comprising running jokes, boring character repeating one liners they've said a hundred times and vulgarity for no reason. A vulgar joke is funny, these aren't even jokes.
So sad. 1/2 a whisky, no ice.
Man I love my cat. She’s just a big old teddy bear and a sweetheart. Even when she’s a bit spoiled it’s cute
Dropped off the transfer of shares papers to the executor of my grandma’s will today.
I wanted to mail them off so I didn’t have direct contact with the executor but it wasn’t to be.
Drove out of my way and got stuck in a one sided conversation I didn’t really want a part of due to the family feud going on between the executor who is my Aunty and half the family which consequently made me get home later as well.
Hopefully with that out of the way the distribution of the will can go ahead.
Parts of my family suspect that the Aunty has an unfair share of the will or has been stealing or misappropriating funds related to the will. She dumps all her emotional baggage on me because she considers me the nice one of the family but all I wanted to do was run away from her.
It's often the case that when a someone is living, the relatives even though they can't stand each other keep the peace to some degree .
Then they die, the estate and the money comes into the picture and that's when shit starts getting real. That's when folks start to show their true colours.
At least you have one executor. Joint executorship gets even uglier and messier.
I haven’t looked at the will in awhile but there was a slight bias to my aunty’s side which has fuelled this fight and I sort of agree that it was slanted in that way too which I thought was unfair as well.
The problem partly being that she’s the executor as well and also had power of attorney for my grandma.
Anyway I don’t really want to be her emotional dumping ground, i just want this to be done fairly and split properly without stressing me out in the process as I have my own things to worry about.
I have a big preso tomorrow. To about 100 attendees. I have to talk for about 10-12 mins and I'm prepared. It's just that I get so nervous my heart starts pounding crazy fast.
My previous presos have also been in front of the same crowd but that was for like 2-3 mins as I had someone share the time but tomorrow am all alone. Which means that I need to take questions as well.
My heart rate is already high thinking of tomorrow 🤕 can someone give me some tips to calm down? Please don't say slow breathing because it just makes it worse for me 😭
I've also been told I give great presos but I gaslight myself into thinking it was bad. I've prepared pretty well but still nervous as shit as this is the biggest one so far.
Am off to the gym now to take mind off things and just relax. I'll go crazy otherwise
I like to get there early so I have time for a last stress poo. Acute stress goes to my bowels, sorry. And to check out the venue and stuff.
Also you can overheat a bit when you're in a stressful situation, and that feeling of being too hot makes the stress worse. If you can lose a layer or two it can help.
You'll be awesome.
My late bloke was an excellent after dinner speaker, but got horribly nervous beforehand. To the point of vomiting with nerves. He eventually figured out how to manage his anxiety by playing cats cradle while he was waiting to be introduced to the audience. The simple repetition of the hand movements helped him through those awful minutes before he started to speak. He was fine once he got going. Zillions of vidjos on youtube on how to do it. He liked doing the apache door more than the eiffel tower or witches broom one as it was more complex and required more attention. And the evidence could be stowed in a pocket quickly when he stepped up to perform. Pre-performance anxiety is very real and can be very debilitating, but tends to evaporate once the performance starts. Hope this helps a bit.
Thank you!! I'll look these techniques up on YouTube 😊Also sorry for your loss
A few years by now - sort of over all the hard stuff. I'm pretty sure you'll be fine for the presentation. My personal opinion is that the harder the pre-performance stuff hits, the better the actual performance. Which sounds kinda weird but this is what I've observed. Would also recommend not ignoring the post performance stuff. Like having a mental list of things to do immediately after you've finished - from packing up the equipment to organising notes etc. This really helps conquer the jitters.
You're nervous because you know you are good and don't want to disappoint. And you're nervous because you're doing a good thing that you want to do. So being nervous isn't such a bad thing. The adrenaline helps with performance too.
So many hugs. You can do this. We're so proud of you. 🌞😘🌞😘🌞
Thank you ❤️🥺
we believe in you 😘
Have we entered the era of peak fake?
- instagrammers with enhanced images
- fake bodies pumped full of Botox, fillers, steroids or maybe even all three.
- scammers pretending to be someone else, even your own bank.
- deepfakes
- autotune and pitch correction.
- so called live performances with pre recorded audio (yes Celine I'm looking at you)
- people living their fake lives in social media making out it's better than it really is.
- Politicians telling anything but the truth.
I think there more to come. People will use AI to generate art, music, writing, design and claim it as their own original invention. I guess that’s misrepresentation rather than fake, but there’s gonna be a flood of it.
Yeah, it’s all a bit disturbing
Edit: Also nepo babies touting themselves as ‘self made’
Yup agreed.
If we haven't hit the peak, we're pretty damn close.
I reckon Celine gets a pass, she's got some serious shit going on and didn't know if she'd be able to sing.
Didn’t she have Stiff Person Syndrome and it’s progressing, taking her ability to sing?
I'm ok with the pre - recording, but don't say it's live when it's not. It was especially galling to find out even the pre recording has been pitch corrected.
Which is probably more common with recordings than I would care to know, but it's just shows how everything is so fake these days.
yeah, I saw a doco about Celine, she is so strong and brave to sing at the Olympics. And then she did it so beautifully, kudos and hugs to her
I’ve had a weirdly positive day… I mean, a little unexpected. Even though I was running late, I made good time. Even though I missed tea break, had a shortened lunch, wasn’t all that hungry and ran out of time (and verbally road raged a little on the way home), I:
- made it to a Uni appointment
- had some meaningful conversations in intervention deliveries
- made it to my extra-curricular session on time
- had some more meaningful conversations
And just all round one of those days where for a moment you feel as if you’ve woken up, are about 95% yourself and things feel somewhat good… like a distant memory.
I’m even in one my fav burger shops that is always empty and there are about 8 or so other people eating in and it feels… nice.
No guarantees for tomorrow, but I think being grateful for just even the ability to even get out of bed is underrated. ✨
I felt the good vibes rubbing off on me from your comment with how wonderful your day was! Savour the feeling, it's totally ok if tomorrow doesn't reach today's heights, because it sounds like you filled your cup plenty with today 😊 (okay I say this because sometimes I feel a bit sad when the next day's been a comedown from a Good Day. But sometimes it's easy enough to just enjoy the Good Day for what it is)
What a bonus that your burger shop was lively tonight as well. The owner must be having a nicer than expected Monday too
so many hugs 😊🌞
omg, I have finally cleared all 50 levels of bubble town. it only took a few years and many thousands of attempts. I took a screen shot. I'm a bit numb...lol
Round 2 of using the vegetable and tomato paste. This time with frozen pesto, frozen green veg, and canned springwater tuna mixed with pasta. Another win, definitely added an extra depth of flavour without tasting tomatoey for very little cost and effort. I will say I'm also proud of my little habit of chucking in some cardamom seeds to pasta or other non Indian dishes. It adds a certain je ne sais quoi.
Pretty good meal for zero prep. Cost about 3.32 a serve minus the homemade pesto, and most of that would've been the tuna and Fancy Expensive Pasta
🤤🤤🤤 sounds like my idea of a perfect home cooked meal
Ah, our familiar Force is back after spouting such alien statements this morning... And yes I'm very proud of this concoction. I really do love a quick and dirty pasta meal. Bonus it was sirena 185g on special. Tastes nicer I reckon 😛
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