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QOTD – Sort of

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The question of the day was about nicknames. I don’t really have one, I did in high school but those days are long gone and bring back unpleasant memories. I’d like a nickname. I often wonder what people would call me if they knew me. The bitter man. That’s an appropriate one. I guess it would make me feel socially connected. For that, I would need friends. Of which I have one. Who doesn’t live anywhere near me? I need to take people’s advice and start going to groups and things. Not only to get me out of the house but to meet people as well. I managed to go out yesterday, D took me to an appointment in town and I hobble about a bit but managed it. The next step is the park again if I can work up the motivation as fatigue and FND symptoms are playing up today.

See I work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10am to 2pm. All online at the moment, we have a nice system setup but it would be nice to go to the office on Tuesday and Wednesday, at least for a few hours. On Friday they run a food bank thing in the morning at one of the buildings in the city center for the homeless, so wanted to go to that. Be more involved. Today I also managed to update the side project website. I’m trying to make it a repository of digital articles for people to access as a resource. It’s called Busy Bee Tech but need to get it noticed somehow. I’m alright with with SEO in terms of putting tags on things but open to advice on how to get it in front of people. I’ve set it up so it posts to LinkedIn so was hoping to pick up traffic that way or should I throw a few pounds at an advert? wouldn’t know where to start. It’s odd. I used to do this stuff and the knowledge is fragmented at best.

I have a secret addiction to buying trading cards. Well. Guess it’s not that secret when you see the collection. But in recent weeks, I’ve been using the spare money I have to buy Pokemon cards, DC Heroes cards, and some other bits. That in itself isn’t the weird thing. The weird thing is that I haven’t opened them. I have four boxes each with various packet amounts in them. It’s weird because usually I would have ripped them open the moment I received them and put them into a binder. I guess I lack the interest anymore? or I’m waiting for the right moment. Like when x is done then I’ll do it. Right now, as soon as I get my housing sorted I can open them. But that might take months. Weird.

Rambliiiiiing.

Sorry about the increasingly bad short stories, they made the last of them REALLY difficult to do. But tried my best.

I had another FND thing today. The left side of the body went numb for 30 minutes. No other symptoms with it so I’ll take that as a sign it wasn’t a stroke. Stupid illness.

Avoid the void, question time!

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What are your top 5 favorite things to do on a rainy day?

  1. Listen to the rain. I love it. Always have since I was little. At the farm, we had a slate roof. The sound of the rain beating off the slate was mesmerizing and put you in this instant trance. Rain against the window works too when it’s stormy. I can sit and look at the rain for hours. I sleep by the window in the bedroom so I can sneak a peak if it’s raining at night. Also to a lesser degree, the sound of rain hitting the tent. That induces both panic and joy. Lovely to hear, horrible if there is a leak.
  2. Play on my Switch. Granted I don’t play on it as much as I like but I’ve got a few good games such as Diablo 3 (god I used to be so obsessed with Diablo 2), Arceus, and zombie army. Which is awesome. Who doesn’t like shooting nazi zombies? I’m not very good at it but it’s a good excuse to practice more. Take my anger out on them and not myself!
  3. Play on my PC. Okay, so that sort of is like the last one. But on here I play Russian Fishing, Counter-Strike, and Diablo. They are all great games and I had an obsession with buying random Steam keys to get random games to play. B shares the account with me so he’s always testing out the new ones and letting me know if they are any good. Sharing is caring. Except when you want to fish or play Defcon and he’s busy playing beamng drive. One day I’ll make him his own account and transfer the games he wants over.
  4. Walking. I love to walk in the rain BUT it has to be a certain type of rain and I have to have a coat on. It happens sometimes when I walk the dogs, the proper raindrops that you feel when they hit you. Wrapped up in a coat with the hood on. You’re dry. Sounds of rain. Puddles to jump in. What more could you ask.
  5. Board games. What kind of answer to this question would not be complete with saying I love playing board games with the kids. The actual answer would be no. A while ago D found a games shop in Manchester where you could play board games drink coffee and chill. We went a few times. Coffee? fu*k me that was some bitter organic vegan shit. But the games were good. But that coffee. That was bad. The only reason we never went back is because of that coffee. Please, people. Serve normal coffee to black no sugar coffee drinkers.