Reasons to be cheerful!

[hermes2015]

And then there were the Shakers, whose minimalist furniture aesthetic I really admire very much.

[xSilverPhinx]

Finally, not one but two days off!

[jumbojak]

Excellent! I get one... And nothing extra for Christmas...

[Magdalena]

Finally, not one but two days off!

[Inertialmass]

I do not understand the causal linkage, but ever since my interesting experience with eye surgery anesthesia two days ago I've been oddly cheerful.  In fact just thinking about it right now cheers me up.  Maybe I'm a masochist and did not realize it.

My nurse explained ahead of time that I'd be receiving just a small dollop of general anesthesia administered IV whose intent is to thoroughly calm patients but not knock them out.  However, maybe due to not sleeping well the night before, I seem to have zonked right out totally.  Then for only a few seconds or maybe one minute during the deepest part of my anesthesia I remembered very clearly that I had gone in for surgery.  But I decided that something must have gone wrong because I couldn't see and I couldn't move and so, therefore, I must have died.  Oh well, I thought over and over, I saw a lot of really neat stuff and lived through very interesting times.  And isn't it so cool that consciousness does indeed continue on for awhile after death?  Must be these thoughts are fueled by the residual blood pooled in the brain, allowing what little oxygen and glucose remain to diffuse inward as food for thought.  Then I suddenly heard Dr. B***** ordering me to stop looking rightward -- please look straight ahead at the light, Inertialmass!  We're almost done with your surgery, please hold completely still, Inertialmass...

Maybe this experience cheers me because as an atheist it affirms for me that I deeply, genuinely feel that death ain't a cause for panic???

[Magdalena]

I do not understand the causal linkage, but ever since my interesting experience with eye surgery anesthesia two days ago I've been oddly cheerful.  In fact just thinking about it right now cheers me up.  Maybe I'm a masochist and did not realize it.

My nurse explained ahead of time that I'd be receiving just a small dollop of general anesthesia administered IV whose intent is to thoroughly calm patients but not knock them out.  However, maybe due to not sleeping well the night before, I seem to have zonked right out totally.  Then for only a few seconds or maybe one minute during the deepest part of my anesthesia I remembered very clearly that I had gone in for surgery.  But I decided that something must have gone wrong because I couldn't see and I couldn't move and so, therefore, I must have died.  Oh well, I thought over and over, I saw a lot of really neat stuff and lived through very interesting times.  And isn't it so cool that consciousness does indeed continue on for awhile after death?  Must be these thoughts are fueled by the residual blood pooled in the brain, allowing what little oxygen and glucose remain to diffuse inward as food for thought.  Then I suddenly heard Dr. B***** ordering me to stop looking rightward -- please look straight ahead at the light, Inertialmass!  We're almost done with your surgery, please hold completely still, Inertialmass...

Maybe this experience cheers me because as an atheist it affirms for me that I deeply, genuinely feel that death ain't a cause for panic???

Those are good reasons to be cheerful. Being able to see better after eye surgery and genuinely feeling that death ain't a cause for panic. 

[Magdalena]

Here's another reason to be cheerful:
Most Online Today: 635. Most Online Ever: 635 (Today at 03:52:29 PM)

I don't think we've ever had so many people here before. Have we? 

[No one]

They heard you were going to appear. Can you blame them?

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Here's another reason to be cheerful:
Most Online Today: 635. Most Online Ever: 635 (Today at 03:52:29 PM)

I don't think we've ever had so many people here before. Have we? 

Have you been casting spells again?

[Magdalena]

^^^

[No one]

Find yourself neither insulted or outraged, some can only define the awe-inspiring with magic.

[xSilverPhinx]

Here's another reason to be cheerful:
Most Online Today: 635. Most Online Ever: 635 (Today at 03:52:29 PM)

I don't think we've ever had so many people here before. Have we? 

And I missed it! 

[Tank]

Here's another reason to be cheerful:
Most Online Today: 635. Most Online Ever: 635 (Today at 03:52:29 PM)

I don't think we've ever had so many people here before. Have we? 

And I missed it! 

Bots.

[xSilverPhinx]

Here's another reason to be cheerful:
Most Online Today: 635. Most Online Ever: 635 (Today at 03:52:29 PM)

I don't think we've ever had so many people here before. Have we? 

And I missed it! 

Bots.

Even so, does it really matter if Skynet is paying attention to us now?

Ok, maybe it does...

[billy rubin]

the alarm went of at 0300 this morning, so i started th eslow processof waking myself up.

then the telephone rang.

except telephones don't generllay ring anymore. anyway

no work today. sorry

so i turned off the 0315 alarm and went back to sleep.

no money for the day, but i don't have to go play in the salt water at -2C either

we've got two extra teenagers in the house from christmas, cut loose from the quaker boarding school in town. one from uganda and the other from rwanda. one has already blown the household electrical panel trying to get warm