Pointless Sites

It’s a lot of really random stuff. I go through a few sites now and again instead of doom scrolling and I always seem to find at least one really interesting or fun thing.

A lot of the personal project sites and just weird stuff feels like the old internet and it makes me happy

I was doing backcountry snowboarding on a mountain I grew up near. It’s not anywhere near an established ski resort so there’s no mapped out sections or any safety measures. I was with a group and we were mostly sticking together, but I didn’t want to wait for them to smoke a cigarette so I just went ahead.

The ride itself was a ton of fun and probably the craziest line I’ve ever hit. I bombed it out of the bottom because I could see there was a big flat section coming and I didn’t want to walk through the snow to get out. I rode as long and far as I could, but eventually stopped as I didn’t have enough speed. I was in the middle of a big clearing and didn’t see really any other tracks, but it was late spring and where I was was pretty icy. So I unstrapped and stepped off of my board, picked it up, and started walking toward our meeting spot.

Apparently the clearing I was in was not so much just a nice meadow. Nope, it was a pond. I don’t know how many steps I took before I just fell straight through the top layer. Now I don’t know if the water had just backed up there from an ice floe and then maybe the dam melted and it all went away, but what I do know is that I landed with my armpits on my board and I was dangling.

Thankfully I was a strong little shit, so I pulled myself right up and was able to spread my weight out using my board and otherwise. But when I looked into the hole I had made, it was like fifteen feet straight down to a bunch of big rocks. Had I fallen in, I have no idea if anyone would have been able to find me.

I wasn’t too scared then, but it hits me now and again how utterly close to death I was just then. Terrifying.

Housecat please. I think I’ve really upped my goodness in this life and can hopefully have a calm, warm, cozy environment to exist in next time.

I feel like I have a lot of every day weird things happen to me, but nothing paranormal or otherwise. Bystander effect is probably the weirdest thing there really is.

But I think the weirdest thing that happened to me was having a seizure. I’d fainted plenty plenty plenty of times in the past, and from my perspective initially, this one was no different. I was exhausted and way overheated after the last leg of a hike, but I was pushing myself because my then-partner had left me on account of being frustrated by my slow speed. He’d gone ahead to finish the remainder of the hike on his own.

So I got to the top and was huffin and puffin and just struggling to breathe. Leaned over a railing to take some effort off of standing and zoop everything went white and then it was all gone.

I woke up on the ground, surrounded by a few different people I didn’t know and sweaty as fuck. I remember talking about how hot I was and apologizing to the others for being so sweaty, but I don’t imagine the words actually came out of my mouth like I thought they might. I was kinda in and out for a little bit, but finally came all the way to and was so sore and so confused.

Turns out it was a full tonic clonic seizure caused by a blood clot getting into my spinal cord because the meat between the ventricals in my heart had burst and ripped open, allowing blood flow to go the wrong way.

Turns out I had a hell of a lot more going on than just being “out of breath” and I’ll always hold a little bit of resentment for my partner just taking off on me. That seizure was the wake up call to bite the financial bullet (yay america) and see a real doctor about the problems I was having. And then lo and behold, I was in the ICU for two months after finally seeing a doctor.

Was it packed? I’m so happy it’s finally open

Oh nice! Was it a good concert?

The perspective in this makes you look like a giant

Legitimately, the biggest thing that helped me was to join an RPG group. For me it was D&D. It made just talking to random people way easier, and I made a ton of friends throughout the years. Granted, I play exclusively online and join random games now and again, so I always have a new batch of people to talk to.

Otherwise, ask questions. Not boring, “how’s the weather” / “how are you” questions. But questions like “do you have any pets” or “do you have a favorite place/restaurant/hike/bookstore in the area”. Personal ish questions. People like to talk about their favorites or their things or their pets.

Also, mirroring questions. If someone asks you about your pets, asking them back is a good way to keep a conversation flowing, so I’ve found.

17 years ago. That is over half my lifetime, good god.

John Williams Acapella

CHEEZITS!!!

I love the idea of 13 months in a year with leap days here and there to make it so days don’t fall on the same days of the week. As much as that could be nice for planning stuff, I agree that people should have the chance for their birthdays and other celebrations to fall on weekends.

My radical thinking is that we keep the first 12 months as close to what they already are and the 13th month is just a big holiday. Kinda how England seems to treat August. And while we’re at it, let’s change working expectations to be no more than 32 hours a week

An electric eel is not an eel.
A mountain goat is not a goat.
A maned wolf is not a wolf.
A mountain chicken is not a chicken.

Also, there is an animal called the Headless Chicken Fish.

I knowww it’s shit on, and I hate that the price went up. But I can’t get rid of Spotify. I don’t love it, but it’s definitely the best music app I’ve used. I do love that it shows local concerts based on the music I listen to.

BEARS! Gahhhh they look so cuddly and cuuute.

Having a domesticated bird would be really cool, I think. Like a roadrunner or puffin. A kiwi? Imagine having a hummingbird ride in your front shirt pocket?

I live basically on the border on the US side and pray that BC changing will allow WA to change.

Full DST is better imo. Having light after work/school/the day makes the dark months so much more tolerable. Helps alleviate my SAD partially, personally.

I prefer rounds - less cylindrical tots means more crunch per cm. But same thoughts.

I married my first bf and after 12 years, we split.

Ouch. Oof. Ouchie

I don’t know if it’s normal, but intrusive thoughts like that happen to, I’d imagine, a lot of people.

The other commenter that said you can train yourself to sort of step back from them isn’t wrong. That’s a big sort of “mindfulness” thing. Maybe that can help you and I would advise looking up some info on it.

Personally, I bounce off of the whole of mindfulness, it just doesn’t work for me. What’s helped me is to structure some sort of way to move away from that thought. In my head, I have the vague script of the garbage thoughts written on a huge mental chalkboard - like the ones in college lecture halls - and I will imagine a big eraser just cleaning the whole thing. Like a sort of power washing simulator thing. Haha.

But I would say maybe check yourself for habit revolving around these thoughts. Like are you checking your door is locked for sure or putting your blankets in just the right way? It might be more of an OCD behavior in that case, and I would definitely suggest talking to a professional.

I found Midnight Mass a little too pretentious and slow, but it was interesting.

Bly, for me, has a great pace with several twists that I would have never guessed. Even knowing the twists, I enjoy watching it still and picking out some of the fun things.

But I think what just brings it above Hill House for me is that I think it’s a really beautiful love story in several different ways. And truth be told, I’m an absolute sucker for it all.

I think I’d probably go for the YouTube version too. I love both, but yt is probably the better one by a slight margin