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Ladies and gentlemen, 

 

If it was not apparent from that introduction,  I am drunk. I adventured. I went to state fair.  Goats were not nearly numerous enough. I ate cheeses curds and fried bacon. I saw art. The largest boar, if present, was not large enough. Next we went to drink cider,  then I drink beer and watch game of thrones.

 

Adventure!

 

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Crappy day. 

 

5 hours of sleep... partly because it's hot this week.  Part because I've managed to transform a very "E for everyone" type of mobile game into a total grind fest and lost track of time. 

 

It was the cherry on top of a disappointing weekend.  The state fair was kind of a disappointment.  Mainly because a lot of stuff was closed off and there wasn't much too see.  We did spend plenty of time looking at the art. There were a couple gems,  and I started following one of the artists on Instagram,  but meh. There wasn't much for inspiration. The best part of the Indiana state fair was the "Hot Wisconsin" fried cheese curds.  (Side note: we were supposed to go back to Madison for beer fest but couldn't find tickets for sale). And the deep fried bbq bacon wasn't worth it. 

 

Then we went to drink cider at a local craft cider place. And I lost track and drank one or two too many... I got l didn't get that tipsy,  but I did spend a little too much money. Though I was tipsy enough to decide to get a pizza and drink a beer then get four more beers to go. Then I started binge watching GoT to get caught up while eating pizza and beer... until 2am.

 

The result was I was feeling too shitty to accomplish anything on Monday. I did a little painting, but my heart wasn't in working much. Then Tuesday I had an eye appointment and my day just revolved on that... and killing time playing "Merge Dragons!" Then the bill was about 2-3 times more than I expected. 

 

Work sucked today. We're starting a big ass project,  but it was just the general boring shit... and some of the usual personalities I'm getting increasingly weary of. 

 

Then,  my car starts to overheat as I'm leaving work. I pulled into a gas station with steam coming out from the hood after 10 minutes of driving. It looks like a radiator or hose leak. Not sure which yet. The steam was coming from up front on one side, very likely where the hose connects to the radiator but I'll have to keep checking on this and topping up my coolant until I can get it in somewhere or find and fix the leak on my own. 

 

My weight is back up to 254.

 

FML. 

 

...

 

Imma try to end on a positive note. Despite the disappointing weekend,  I got to spend a day with two of my best friends. I showed then some of my art and they seemed interested and impressed. My friend said the demon toad king reminded him of some of H. R. Geiger's (Alien movies) work which was kinda cool. Not that I entirely agree, but I'm going for mysterious, cryptic,  and a bit horrifying. 

 

I got a new pair of contact lenses. So seeing in 20/20 is a lot more comfortable. 

 

We got a $1 wage increase at work so the next paycheck and those after it will be nicer. 

 

Tacos still exist.

 

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Ughhhh I'm sorry you had such a bad weekend. It sucks when things pile up on you like that. 

 

2 hours ago, Curl Brogo said:

Tacos still exist.

 

 

Way to be positive!

 

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(I don't THINK this was posted in your thread yet?)

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On 8/16/2017 at 7:56 PM, Curl Brogo said:

My weight is back up to 254.

 

FML. 

 

...

 

Imma try to end on a positive note. Despite the disappointing weekend,  I got to spend a day with two of my best friends. I showed then some of my art and they seemed interested and impressed. My friend said the demon toad king reminded him of some of H. R. Geiger's (Alien movies) work which was kinda cool. Not that I entirely agree, but I'm going for mysterious, cryptic,  and a bit horrifying. 

 

 

Congratulations on the raise - that's sweet!  I liked your warehouse workout post, btw. I am sure the wage is well earned and helping along with fitness goals. 

 

I was lucky enough to see the HR Geiger museum in Switzerland a couple of years ago. SO cool!  I had to zoom through it, though, because toddler cousin was waiting outside with her mother for me to come back out. I'm not sure if your toad reminds me of his work, either... but I do really like the toad! 

 

I'm sorry you had a crummy week. I hope the next one will be better. 

 

It helps me to remember that weight tends to ping pong up and down, but it's the end point and overall trend that matters... 

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Re: baby goats 

 

I reiterate, there were not enough animals at the fair. Let alone "goat mountain" which consisted of 5 or 6 pens, several of which contained sheep and potbelly pigs. And no baby goats. There weren't even pygmies. 

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Well...

 

I was trying to leave work today and my car wouldn't start. I got a ride home from a friend and now I'll be spending my Monday off making phone calls and arrangements for getting that fixed. 

 

I'll count going to a mechanic to fix my car an adventure. 

 

Ironically,  I was very nearly thinking of taking the car on a road trip to somewhere near Nashville just to get under totality for the eclipse. 

 

At least it didn't break down in Kentucky somewhere. 

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I just got back from taking my keys to the mechanic/towers. They said they'd get it in and might be able to fix it today if they have the parts. All in all it was a two mile walk (6300 steps) and I went through some streets I haven't explored so it was a nice little adventure. And I got good and sweaty doing it. I made it back just before a huge thunderstorm and downpour so good timing too.

 

I did 11 lbs of spare ribs in the slow cooker overnight. Gonna drain the fat and juice and prep those for storage. That's about a month's worth of dinner there. 

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1 hour ago, Curl Brogo said:

 

I did 11 lbs of spare ribs in the slow cooker overnight. Gonna drain the fat and juice and prep those for storage. That's about a month's worth of dinner there. 

 

that's a lot of ribs yet not enough, it's never enough when there are ribs involved ;) 

 

I hope your car gets sorted out quickly. 

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Okay. I stayed with some friends while the car was in the shop. I took a half day of vacation Friday morning so I can pick the car up friday morning. Then ihave to go back in the afternoon for an interview for a seasonal management position. I drove the car right off the garage lot to home no problem. I get home shower,  eat a little. When I get ready to return to work,  the fucker won't start. The mechanic reminded me the fuel light was on. The fuel gauge had been broken for a while, it dips to zero when it's full or whenever.  I knew I'd filled it up middle of last week. I know my mileage,  I should have used 7 gal so I'm pretty sure it's not that but I second guess myself and walk to the store,  but a gas can,  then get two gallons at the station, go back to my car and add a gallon. It starts right up. I drive to the gas station, to fill up... 6 gallons fills the tank.

 

Btw... this story doesn't have some great punchline, it's just the details of shit going wrong with my car so feel free to skip ahead to tl;Dr unless your generally interested in car problems.

 

So it wasn't out of gas, and damn straight I know my mileage. I am noticing that to start it takes two attempts. The first doesn't quite do it,  the second does right away.

 

It starts this morning just like that. I make it to work fine. The car runs.  I try to leave work.  It won't start. I ask a Co worker to give me a jump,  maybe the battery doesn't have quite enough juice? Nope.  That didn't help. I dick around under the hood,  look through the manual,  check YouTube/Google. Well,  without tools I can do squat.  I call my friend.  He brings tools we check the spark plugs,  and got to the fuel pump through the trunk.  Neither of those were the problem.  The pump runs and the plugs spark. We happen on a YouTube video suggesting starting fluid. We drive to autozone,  and my friend is trying to make a case to buy a fuel pump and just change it right there in the parking lot, mind you the sun is going down and neither of us really knows shit about cars. We'd be there hours and probably start a fire. I stuck with the $5 can of fluid and we go back to the car.  I sprayed some into the air intake manifold,  and the first crank misses,  the second fires it right up. It sounds like it's struggling a bit off and on as we let it idle.  But it keeps going. I drive home just fine. 

 

Tl;dr: Starting fluid is awesome.

 

My thoughts,  if it's not the fuel pump, and the plugs are firing and it's generally capable of running... fuel/air mixture sensor not reading right on start up? 

 

So,  I think I've had enough (mis)adventuring for a while. Plus all the walking, and, oh yeah,  pushing my broke ass car about 50 ft in the apartment complex parking lot,  into a parking spot that sits on an incline... that broke a sweat.

 

Be careful what you wish for. 

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The car seems to be sound fine now.  I went to the grocery store and back and both times it started without starting fluid. 

 

I weighed 247.4 pounds this morning. So as new low. 

 

I worked overtime yesterday,  and am going in tomorrow too. So this will be my only day off this week. I'll have the days of OT on my next pay check and that should offset covet the cost of most of the repair bill,  and I get $100 reimbursed for the towing cost from insurance. 

 

No time for adventures or painting this week. I am planning ahead for something big next year. I'm going to try to save a bunch of money from overtime and spending cuts. I'll soon calculate out my financial need,  but if I can hit the number of savings I need, I'm going to switch to part time at work and spend 2 or 3 months,  painting 4 or 5 days a week and develop a body of work, get a website going to sell it. I'd hope in the end to have a solid portfolio of work and a fledging web business.

 

In the meantime I have to scrimp and save and work like a dog. It's going to suck building up the savings,  but there is one big silver lining. If I keep working I'll lose a bunch of weight. I'm positive that today's new low is because of the overtime and I eat less and sit around a lot less when I work. Duh.  That will motivate me to keep going.  Plus once I know that if I hit my number I've got more time for art it'll motivate me to keep at it. 

 

It could be risky. But at the very least I'd learn whether or not I could realistically paint 40-50 hours a week and make enough quality work in a timely fashion to live off of it. And at least be getting a few extra bucks on the side.

 

 

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3 hours ago, Curl Brogo said:

I am planning ahead for something big next year.

 

This sounds exciting. Stoked to hear more about it. Congrats on your new low, and just keep pursuing Awesome!

 

Btw, saw this gif and thought of you:

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"...wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." 2 Corinthians 3:17b

 

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Okay.  We haven't nerded out about game of thrones on one of my threads in a while...

 



 

So who thinks Bran is actually the night king? The show had hinted at it pretty heavily. And surprisingly,  I'm far more interested in the conversation between Bran and Jon that is yet to come than the fact that Jon and Dany hooked up. 

 

But I'm re reading the first book and I'm not sure I see the Bran as the night king unless there's a greater good in the battle to come. 

 

It was also awesome to see littlefinger get taken out by the stark sisters working together. 

 

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13 hours ago, Curl Brogo said:

Okay.  We haven't nerded out about game of thrones on one of my threads in a while...

 

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I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.” -- Jack London

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.” -- Leo Tolstoy

"I feel love rising in my chest again
Rising like a burning sun into the day..." -- Gungor, "Hurricane"

"...wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." 2 Corinthians 3:17b

 

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13 hours ago, Curl Brogo said:

 

Okay.  We haven't nerded out about game of thrones on one of my threads in a while...

 

 

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the Littlefinger scene was THE BEST!! i dunno how many times i've said someone just needs to stab that DB. oh it was wonderful. except now they've set it up to have one really bad villian (the wights) and one other pretty bad villian (cersei). when throughout the books and first few seasons we kind of have a nice range of semi-villainous people to choose from.

 

i'm intrigued by your Bran/Night King theory. I just read a bit about how that could work. You think he traveled back and warg-ed into the guy who becomes the Night King?

 

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4 minutes ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

I read the books (and the hubby) but when we moved and lost HBO we stopped watching the show. HOWEVER, I do plan on watching it through this winter.

 

I have the books, with the eventual plan to read them (maybe), but the show especially is just...so much sex...I just can't.

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I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.” -- Jack London

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.” -- Leo Tolstoy

"I feel love rising in my chest again
Rising like a burning sun into the day..." -- Gungor, "Hurricane"

"...wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." 2 Corinthians 3:17b

 

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