Thank you darling. ❤️      I'm not healthy at every size, I'm unhealthy at every size 😭 But thanks ❤️ 

1. & 2. Done.   3. No, not today.   4. I had a walk outside, and it was dark and quiet and peaceful. My phone was dying, so I was not tempted to touch it, just enjoyed the dark, the feel of the path, the smells and sounds.   5. I got back to several people today. I have been a terrible correspondent this week.

Scientia potestas est Society of the Wise • Est. 1775   The Folly Russell Square London, WC1B 7ZF     3rd October, 2024   Dear Sara, I believe you have misunderstood a key part of your tasks. Walking solves everything. Is something wrong? Take a walk. You don't know what to do next? Take a walk. You're looking for some answer? Take a walk. Is it too dark, wet, or impractical to walk? Take a walk inside. Are you too pressed for time? Take a shorter walk.   Are we clear now? (If not, I suggest you take a walk.)     Yours,   Thomas Nightingale   Detective Chief Inspector, Metropolitan Police Acting President, Society of the Wise    

I have this reaction to the verb form "to gift", except I'll never be convinced it's an actual word. The verb is "to give", the noun is gift. The gift is the thing that has been given, the rift is the thing that has been riven, and the drift is the thing that has been driven. (Like sand or snow; the gift, the rift, and the drift are abstract nouns standing in for a specific item that has been acted on in a specific way.) That's basic conjugation of verbs taking the form of give, rive, and drive. That is how English works. "She gifted that clock to her mom" is as bad as "She rifted that paper in two". It does not grammar that way.   (There is "to drift", but it's the passive verb that applies to what the subject of the action does when it's acted on, not the object, because it's an implicit adjectival form. You don't say "the wind drifted the snow", because it's not the verb the object can do, it's just the state of the subject. The snow that has been driven has drifted, so if we're going to verb the noun gift, the clock that has been given has gifted. "The clock gifted to her mom" as a standalone sentence is silliness, but it's at least grammatically correct silliness, and that is how wrong "She gifted the clock to her mom" sounds to me.)   The dictionary disagrees with me, but screw 'em, they're just the dictionary. If "it means we don't have to say more words to clarify" was any reason for words becoming official, we'd have to do a significant efficiency overhaul on the English language. The dictionary and I have a rift of opinion about this verbal drift, and I do not gift a fuck what they think. (Usually those are free of charge, too, so you can see how the added clarity fails us here.)     'Quieten' looks like it's the British form, which puts it on the list of things like 'orientate' that frequently drive Americans up the wall, and I suspect it's not just because of differences between US and UK English, but also partly because of negative stereotypes associated with the Appalachian dialect, which I believe is the primary place those forms survived here. (Big influx of very geographically isolated Irish and Scottish immigrants; you can hear it in the music, too.) It's not just that those forms sound wrong next to the way we're trained grammatically, they also sound like the dialect that's been stigmatized in American media with the worst stereotypes of poverty and "rural backwardness", so they sound wrong with extra knee jerk quantities of sounding wrong.   ("Orientate".  Gaaaah. It's on my transatlantic translation list, along with chips and fanny - the list sometimes doubles as a wish list for a drunken weekend when I'm a young man with basic tastes - but it's not quite a seamless translation yet.)

I started to read and catch up, but dinner is here (at 9 pm ) So I will finish later. But  

Thanks Whisper. I am glad someone remembered me. I really did miss you all. I need to hunt down your thread now.

Boots

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So yesterday was packed full of work, with a nice break for lunch, for which my fellow trainee and I walked to a restaurant I had been anticipating. They were closed. So we walked back, stopping at a sushi place on the way. We also went to the parking lot so I could get my parking ticket validated since I'd left it in my car. We enjoyed the outside for a bit and headed back inside. I didn't climb the stairs later that day because we got to talking to someone else on their way out.    But I took the stairs today! Today wasn't quite as hectic. We did one day's work instead of two. I also got to enjoy brownies brought by someone grateful to the wire dept. There was a multi-pack of three flavors. I instigated the notion of cutting the squares in half to indulge in all three flavors, but didn't require it of anybody, though I think a couple other people did the same. XD   Don't know what I'm doing tonight except that it's Taco Tuesday on a Thursday. XD   Hope your day went by smoothly Maerad

I did not start from now - much snacks today. Ho hum. It's also late, though I had a lovely evening online gaming with a pal, except we only played two games of battleships and spent the rest of the time chatting shit ❤️ Did physio and no scrolling. I think I've basically passed this challenge already, so I might have a think about doing something for the final week - I'm meeting a mate for dinner tomorrow and have boardgames Saturday eve so will likely snack. Hmm.   Yesterday: 2pt Total: 46pts   Yep 45pts was a winning score. It feels uneventful to happen so early though, like if a movie bomb countdown doesn't run down to 1 second before being stopped, yanno?