New Beginnings - A senseless adventure.

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Next launch attempt Monday SpaceX Time. Back to World of Tanks and my gardening. I'm also back to Walking. Touch Wood.

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Hey Kirk Sounds like your well prepared with a vehicle like that. (I respond in here - I think better that way - to many words and srry if a pain) Working is a great way to keep active on many levels. I only wish I could work on projects at the pace I used to. As long as people enjoy what they are doing and doing it for the right reasons (only they can know) then working can be the spice of life.

Your talk on lost in space has sent me into a nostalgic spin. Angela Cartwright probably the best actor out of the lot. Of course being a boy closer to Will's Character's age I connected with him mostly as well as the Robot. Dr smith was also a hit with the kids but I did not find that out till all these years later watching documentaries on the now retro show. I was born in 69' four years after the show had ended and watching when I was like 7. The show produced between 65' and 68' would have seen me watching re-runs something like 11 years after it was created. I'm 52 - the Feb. Will is now 66 and Penny is now 68.

Judy was too intense for me even now. lol As I got older Penny still won out in the sex appeal re those silver uniforms and my slowly developing mind but back in the day when I watched lost in space will, penny the doc and the robot stole the show for us kids. At least in my opinion. Judy and Major Don were quite frankly a little boring for me at that age and even later I still find those two a little boring. I probably would of been more entertained with a gay couple. No offense of course. I like gay people and thankfully have a gay friend. Certainly don't do well with homophobics (and like wise narrow minded peeps), or at least struggle maintaining friendships with such limited mind sets. Then again not many people get along with me as I talk too much.

Sorry where was I? arrrr Yes - Lost in space. HERE you might like this photo I just found:



Got to tell you the 12yol on the left (hard to beleive - research google and do the math - did not start until 12) has a look like my 7yol grand son and the 15ylrl on the right is emanates way way more differently than 15yold girls today. Times have changed soooooooooooooooooooooo much. I'll just call the era of TV the age of innocence. At least I think so looking back - comparatively so. The time when you could watch a show with your kids without the drama of sex. Granted Judy and Don where at it but it came of more corny as opposed to the mild porn we get these days. Today you get like 12 yolds mastering the art of crutch grabbing with golden globe award winning performances. Sigh - don't mind me. I guess I am just an old grouchy fart before my time. That said today people are said to be over the hill once they pass 25. @ 30 your mutton dressed up as lamb ... thereafter a try hard for the consumer market.

Here is another photo I found of Penny - Is not hard to tell who she is as she stared in this one (Sound of Music) at the same age she started lost in space:




But lets not forget the star of the show - The famous lost in space chariot:



Yea ... got to love those classics. I miss the 70's and an this case for those a little older than me ... the 60's. To be sure they had their own hung-up like we do today and I ponder to think what kind of kind of family shows they will have in the future. One things is for sure - they don't make em like that anymore. I don't we have evolved much at all, but that's just my opinion. Sorry if it sucks.

Great memories though. I think I will go out the back and make beleive play with a few clumps of dirt and rocks. : )
Seems like the only ones doing that today are the autistic ones.

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Hey, Dave..

Its a winter wonderland out there today. Get this ... today I feel trapped in the house because I can't go out, when on good days, I don't go out - go figure

I decided to remove my posting from the "How Are You Doing" thread so its not about me and my drama. Besides, we should give D our support now. If you want to read it (or haven't already) I'll find another place to post it as I saved it on my compute. Perhaps a new thread as I always promise but never deliver Lol. As I said in that posting, you really seem to have your zest back - good to see!

I've been reading your thread (as I always do) and find you to be a very accepting and open minded person. The world need more people like yourself. Regrettably I don't know much about Lost In Space, but am enjoying you and Kirk discuss it.

I like gay people and thankfully have a gay friend. Certainly don't do well with homophobics (and like wise narrow minded peeps), or at least struggle maintaining friendships with such limited mind sets. Then again not many people get along with me as I talk too much.

Well now you can say you have 2 gay friends - one in real life and one online here

Enjoy your Monday and week up ahead - Wow, its February already!

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That's awesome Sal. You made my day re my online friend. I would like you to know that whilst I consider most facets on the internet (and off) nothing more than a construct of a vivid program, that when it comes to 'real life' ... there are aspects of online that I consider quite genuine and influencing. Your revelations and the spirit with which you regularly express here at AF is as real as the sunshine that filters through my window. I'm talking about all emotions as well. Not just the warm and fuzzy ones. Cloudy ones are awesome too! This place has seen many connections; well established, fractured, reestablished, disconnected, tolerable, beneficial, & repairing all of which for me is a work in progress. Such has been and is my experience. Whilst many of us like our anonymity the energy expressed is as real as the neurons that fire whilst at our keyboards sipping coffee or tea. Admittedly as I get older I much prefer life over my keyboard or at the very least make the most of it to energize me that I may go relate with said sunshine in the way it's meant to be.

Never underestimate the digital world. 10101010101010101 ... Those zeros and ones are flying by with every step we take on our walks and or whizzing by in our minds with each and every thought. In that sense I can better sustain the growing intolerance now facing this so called real world when making healthy online connections. I guess I am just saying you, I and everyone else here at AF is as real as it gets. Furthermore everything we do, say and think is also real (Intention and perspective being ingredients for much needed grounding) - mmmm - forgive me Sal as I mean not to imply of others. This is how I certainly tick and I see the world in which I exist. Often my online friends mean more to me than those I see and touch. Pros and Cons like everything. Possibly easier to maintain but just as easy to screw up. I kind of eluded where I 'struggle' in all friendships re my lost in space post. The section you quoted.

Anyways - LOVE THE COLD!!! Easy for me to say living in Australia - but I do much prefer winter either way.
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Writing!
Possibly the best thing I reap from online. Expressing my own thoughts rather than just absorbing those of others. I don't want to push re your own thread Sal but but do enjoy it when I read you expressing yourself. Like I do with anyone. Not just echoing the cliché stuff - but questioning our own stuff. Taking what is already hashed and redefining it in a way the questions the impact and revealing it, that and ourselves in a unique way every time we revisit keyboard in writing mode. Granted my modes have been out of sorts of late - or simply just lacking the energy to summon up that creative spark. Honesty I have been extinguished.

If offline is working go with it I say. That said - it is liberating to say whatever online and still have one or two chime on in regardless if it's on topic or not. The energy feels way better when it's synergized. I feel dead in my off line writings. I have tried it. I only need one other connection from time to time to make me feel alive. Validation seems inherent but it need not be at the level of FB or YouTube. The ability for self programing in such environments is deluded in as much as when one thinks they are writing their on book, they are in fact being written into one. More meaning even with the little witty one liners people are not captaining their own ship. Instead they be playing in a bathtub on a ship that's being swept away in a digital ocean that sets the path far removed from free will.

OK - that perhaps only makes sense to me but that's OK. That's the beauty of making only one or two connections as those that connect with what others cant see is what makes those connections real. Keeping it open / being open is important though and I thank you for your kind words. I have to admit I am struggling to be tolerant of intallroance. That in itself is resistance and causes stress as well. I mean not to playing the guru with infinite loops that mess with the mind. If I do it's 100% directed me myself. Such deep reflection has gotten in the way of connections made in here and regrettable so. But not to digress there are things on my mind that need addressing with respect to my psychical health which could do with a healthy dose of reprograming.

All in good time.

I just wanted you and the others to know just how real you are to me.

Yes Feb already! I turn 52 on the 12th. My grandson turns 7 very soon. SpaceX takes anther step closer to Mars between the 2nd and 4th of this month.

Have a good day Peeps.

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What about making a trip to buy yourself a treat. Some hot take away? Do you drive Sal? I can't recall if you ever said. I cheated and made two oven pies today.

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STARSHIP LAUNCH TODAY - Touch Wood:

Could be in the next 30 minutes or the next couple of days:

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Edit - Oh Well ... better luck next time. It took him 4 goes to get SpaceX off the ground. Here is to the third try! A+

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What about making a trip to buy yourself a treat. Some hot take away? Do you drive Sal? I can't recall if you ever said. I cheated and made two oven pies today.

Good day to you and hope you're doing well.

I don't drive actually, but when I do get out, I do splurge with a doughnut - very hard to resit krispy kreme

"as real as the sunshine that filters through my window." -

Thank you for saying that; that really lifted my mood today and means a lot. Yeah, I've always considered myself to be quite genuine .. good, bad, or, ugly .. just 'me'. Not always sunshine, but never dark. I was and still am a bit vulnerable in this harsh world, but its something I can't (and don't really want) to change. My dear father used to say ... there is nothing wrong with being an outsider. I understand, because people don't know quite what to make of me either. I don't interact with other people as expected and it catches them off guard, but the (few) people that know me accept me without judgment. My speaking and affect is, how shall I say, perhaps, (off) inconsistent and unpredictable and a little naive. Jeez, it's hard to describe myself with words. Ha

Anyways..

Hope everything is going well this week.

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I hear ya Sal. I wouldn't change me either. To hell with trying fit into a corrupt world. At least that is how I see it mostly. That said we do what we can to improve it and or the space around us. For all the benefits of driving, I can say it's over rated. I don't drive much since the road rage incident that happened to me last year. I'm kind of over it. That was the last straw re me and humans. At least in general. Of course I make allowance as I do what I can to improve myself and others where I can.

Krispy Kreme - I just found a website:
https://www.krispykreme.com.au/

Not sure if any of that looks familiar but I am kind of hanging out now. Looks pretty good to me.


Pretty exhausted today. I finished laying some turf which took quite an effort to prepare the ground over the last week or so.

Also was up till 2:30am researching a computer build for a friend. He wants 3 coms built for his 3 kids - then a high end custom gaming rig for himself. My mind races away with the technical side of things when doing new builds.

Hopefully I get good sleep tonight and start grounding myself over the next few days. The yard work has been an unwanted distraction for me. I don't mind a little yard work but this new place was not looked after and pretty much let go until I moved in. Lots of work during a time I am not fit. Hot summer as well.

Other than that I see a good break coming up with the cooler months in which I can do more re my weight and over all mental health.

Take Care - don't be a stranger. Don't worry about the forum being a ghost town. We just carry on as usual.

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You've got it - that is the doughnut shoppe!

Besides, their coffee if to die for. The doughnuts are sinful to say the very least Lol. You have not lived until you savored a classic Krispy Kreme, my only advice, is, avoid the scale for about 2 weeks after you indulge!

Seriously though..

Should improve ourselves, make allowances (pick our battles) and not let others mood(s) drag us down, because its quite toxic out there for a multitude of reasons. Lots of anger and frustration and people don't know how to deal with it (react), so they take it out on others especially on the road. I do see/feel it.

Sounds like you accomplished a lot done last week. You did better than I, essentially vedged out, I just have to much too do and don't know where to start. Everything is overwhelming, frustrating, daunting, unmanageable, relentless, and sometimes I just can't keep up, but every day or week that goes by I'm losing ground. Hard to explain, I guess.

Yeah, good sleep is very important. I can manage with around 5 1/2 but less than that and I'm a basket case

It doesn't bother me at all that its quiet here, I just worry that it's not helping the longevity of AF. I guess as you said, we'll enjoy it while it lasts here so long as the admin is willing to allow us this forum to continue and keep the lights on for us. Kirk, Camille and D pop in every so often. Maybe we scared off a few peeps HAHA .. nobody can say we make for a lackluster welcoming committee here ...

Enjoy your weekend

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I read this in the morning and now again before bed. Too exhausted but just wanted to let you know I read it and chuckled more than once. Wise word and agree re the concern of how long this place will last. I'll PM details so that we might become old fashioned pen palls via email if it comes to that. If agreeable I can store yours in my password book in the event one day none of us can log back in. Ya never know. I might hunt around for another place but have looked for years. This place is truly unique. Many of us have said it many times.

I'll write in the morning re my weekend. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Yes I have been sinful and will be avoiding the scales but will endeavor to make a new start as usual.

Hope your also doing well Kirk and Dahila + everyone for that matter.

Take care guys. zzzzzzzzzz