Originally posted by Singularity55
Absolutely epic moment from the night I was at last night. I found someone who was at the very pinnacle of the vibe of the club.
Been there, done that
Sometimes you want some kick-ass background music and you need to catch up with your reading, so it's a win-win, really. Now here's something I've never done:
Gotta give it to Marchand, that's a very good way to see if the other players are salty
Sushipunk
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Originally posted by Zoso
Currently having a Stella. Is this moar acceptables? :whip:
Considerably more acceptable, yes.
Just doing some catching up around here. Man, so sorry to hear about your wife. That's intense. Excellent that she's responding to the treatment though. You guys stay strong and beat that mofo.
Lira
Speaking of catching up with your reading, were the 30 books any good? :p
Zoso
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Originally posted by Sushipunk
Considerably more acceptable, yes.
Just doing some catching up around here. Man, so sorry to hear about your wife. That's intense. Excellent that she's responding to the treatment though. You guys stay strong and beat that mofo.
Thank you, Stu. We're doing our best to approach it from the "it's still first world" in the sense that it's 1.) treatable; 2.) we live in a time and place with the technology and resources for 1; 3.) we, personally, have the financial resources to, eventually, get this done and paid for; and 4.) 2 billion people woke up today, walked outside their mud/tin/straw huts/shacks, and asked, "How and what do I feed my family today?" Yes, it's cancer, and yes, I'm scared less...but there are so many more challenges we could be tasked with facing.
DJ RANN
Dude, have to say your mentality is something to aspire to and in the grand scheme of things it's the reason you and your wife are going to be OK. It's great to hear she's battling through it and responding well. I hope you two take a long vacation afterwards.
Zoso
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Originally posted by DJ RANN
Dude, have to say your mentality is something to aspire to and in the grand scheme of things it's the reason you and your wife are going to be OK. It's great to hear she's battling through it and responding well. I hope you two take a long vacation afterwards.
She loves to travel, and I absolutely hate it. My entire body, mind, and spirit reject the very notion, lol. However, in this case, I am going to make an exception and fight my way through it. Not sure when and where, but will most definitely deserve a trip after all of this. This last chemo session has really kicked her tail...she had a really bad episode last night of basically losing feeling over her entire body. Simply waking up and taking a bath this morning has replicated that feeling. :(
MSZ
SYSTEM-J
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Originally posted by Lira
Not Jack, it can't be that sunny in Leeds :p
Amazingly enough, it is! Set to be one of the hottest May bank holidays on record.
And Stu's rejoined the Internet as well. What a time to be alive.
Sushipunk
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Originally posted by Lira
Speaking of catching up with your reading, were the 30 books any good? :p
Yeah, actually. I enjoyed every one of them. Some were better than others, obviously, but I think I chose pretty well.
The down side is that I'm almost completely out of ideas on what to read now.
Zoso
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Originally posted by Sushipunk
Yeah, actually. I enjoyed every one of them. Some were better than others, obviously, but I think I chose pretty well.
The down side is that I'm almost completely out of ideas on what to read now.
No joke...if you've never read "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck, I cannot encourage you enough.
The front of the book contains this little epigraph (Pat is Pascal Covici, Steinbeck's long-time editor...
“Dear Pat,
You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and you said, ‘Why don’t you make something for me?’
I asked you what you wanted, and you said, ‘A box.’
‘What for?’
‘To put things in.’
‘What things?’
‘Whatever you have,’ you said.
Well, here’s your box. Nearly everything I have is in it, and it is not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts—the pleasures of design and some despair and the indescribable joy of creation.
And on top of these are all the gratitude and love I have for you.
And still the box is not full.
John”
This could not be a better, more true description of the novel. It is, for me, the best representation of the spectrum of "the human condition" that I have ever come across. In some form or another, it contains everything that it means to be human. I try to read it at least once a year.
Sushipunk
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Originally posted by Zoso
No joke...if you've never read "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck, I cannot encourage you enough.
Ok, it has been acquired on my Kindle.
Anyone else have any recommendations?
Zoso
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Originally posted by Sushipunk
Ok, it has been acquired on my Kindle.
Anyone else have any recommendations?
Good man. It's a "semi-historical" fiction in that the Hamilton family, one of the families central to the story, is John's maternal lineage. I am not sure if the other central family, the Trask family, is based in reality.
