Done! 

You put your exhaustion out to the universe and IT ANSWERED YOU!! 

Glad you had a good time with all the kids home.  Finding those treasured moments is more important now than ever.  

Hopefully the massage sorts you out! 

Inktober thread is up!    

@Ranger Hal @Everstorm @Heidi @Sovalis - don't think I'm missing anyone who chimed in on the General Chat thread, but if I did, apologies! Jump on in and tag anyone else who you know is interested.

It is September 30 and that means that tomorrow kicks off Inktober!    What is Inktober you ask?   As created, it is a challenge to do one inked drawing every day in the month of October, following a list of prompts. However, it is not meant to be a strict challenge, instead the purpose is to encourage fun creative practice.   Do I need to do ink drawings? No! You can use whatever medium you want, even words! Pencils, paints, pastels - all are accepted here. I personally shall be having fun with limericks, and possibly dipping my toes into other poetic forms as inspiration strikes.   Do I need to post every day? Totally up to you. The point of the challenge is to encourage a daily habit, but it's by no means required. Daily, every other day, once a week, just find what works for you.   Do I need to do the prompts in order? Absolutely not! In fact, you don't even have to use the prompts at all if you don't want to. They're just there to give you a springboard if you need one.   Any other questions, just ask! In the meantime, here is the official prompt list for 2024:   As you can tell, there's a definite theme here. Feel free to combine multiple prompts into one sketch if you like. Or lean harder into spooky season with the Dawlloween prompts:

Oh! I just tried my gym's for the first time a little over a week ago, and it was nice. It's now on my list of things to add to my home gym at some point. Alligator bar is a cooler name for it.

This week's villainy - A Sentimental Man   Synopsis Elphaba finally gets a chance to meet with the Wizard, who turns out to be surprisingly mild-mannered, promising her that he will help her if she can prove herself because he is "a sentimental man."   Applied Villainy Elphaba has not yet realized this, but the Wizard is a giant fraud. She, in her currently untrained state, already has more power than he ever will. And yet he sings that he would "like to raise [her] high?" Preposterous. There is, of course, something to be said for accepting support from others. Minions are valuable assets and a trusty lieutenant is worth their weight in gold.  But don't let anyone claim credit for your accomplishments. Elphaba is (spoilers for next week's lesson) about to discover her own ability to fly. And it is no thanks at all to a conman from Kansas. People may downplay what you are pursuing in the establishment of your villain empire. Your circumstances are easier, or someone else laid the foundation on which you build. Lies from those who are envious of our accomplishments. We all have our own challenging circumstances that we face and eventually we all must forge our own path. We are powerful and fierce and have no time for those who are too weak to seize their own fate, and instead seek to cheapen ours.  

I am glad to hear that you made it through the storm safely. The brain effects are clearly no fun, but you knew what would happen and implemented a solid plan to cope.