What’s bringing you joy?

    • Flamangoman@leminal.spaceOP
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      2 months ago

      Ya, sometimes life can feel so overwhelming and I long for death, not in like a suicidal way, but just like the absence of the stress of everything

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      2 months ago

      Gotta love the kids, I made this post after getting my youngest to bed and having my heart feel so full of love

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        2 months ago

        Thank you for this thread. I’m a little misty-eyed and feeling so wonderfully blessed. Pumpkin Tikka masala and coffee for breakfast (I know, right?!), mixed greens, tomatoes, blueberries, strawberries, mozzarella with good balsamic vinegar for lunch, for the time in months, I made a half-gallon of iced tea, sweetened with local raw honey, fur baby sleeping next to me as I enjoy the sound of the storm, outside. So many have no meal, no roof, no companion. It’s nice reading the simple pleasures here. No one mentioned their private jet, Bugatti, haute coture. It’s nice when we recognize the real riches life grants us.

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          2 months ago

          My pleasure, it’s been a treat hearing about all of the different ways people are soaking up life right now, including all th wonderful things you listed here 🙂

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    2 months ago

    A friend just had his first kid yesterday, he’s so happy it’s honestly contagious. Everyone in our group is already doting the kid and he’s only 12 hours old.

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    2 months ago

    What’s bringing me joy ? When I go back home after a day of work and my daughters (7y) run towards me with a real smile. Knowing that she is really happy to see me.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I think I’ve done a reasonable job improving my dovetail jig.

    That 12 inch Porter Cable model; it has some problems with repeatability. The reference marks are quite wide and positioned in a way to give a lot of parallax error. There was no real way to quantify how far you’ve moved the template in and out, which meant it’s basically guaranteed to come out of alignment. So I took a knife to it. Scribed the alignment line around all the tines and put graduation marks on the brass thumb wheels. It’s a lot easier to be deliberate in adjusting this thing now.

    It still needs a few other things here and there, and I need to put those alignment marks on other templates. But it’s a start.

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    2 months ago

    Post surgery sick leave. My body is still a bit fucked but it’s also the most time off I’ve had in one go in years.

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    2 months ago

    I have about 2 months left of college (Canada). Going to be graduating with about a 3.9GPA. Finally going to have a degree to my name and hopefully going to be having a job right away when im finished.

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      2 months ago

      I think a lot of people find that stressful, but really you get to tailor a big party that includes all of the closest people in your life to see you celebrate love

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        I’m more excited for the future after the wedding, to be honest, haha. It’s just most fun to be in the moment right now is all.

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    I’m teaching guitar to a couple of students in town. I’ve started doing an active listening at the end of our shared class. I’m introducing them to all kinds of music they haven’t heard and I love it. They’re responding and listening to some new albums outside of the genres they’ve liked.

    Thank you for the opportunity to share some good. :)

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      2 months ago

      That’s awesome, I used to teach guitar, and I wish I had thought of that as an idea for incorporating into a lesson.

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    2 months ago

    The home server im setting up. I can finally break free of the clutches of cloud storage.

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      Oh buddy, I’m right there with you. I just got a free cpu and mobo off marketplace and got my own thing running, I had so much fun figuring it all out

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    2 months ago

    I’m a month away from completing my union electrician apprenticeship. It’s been a lot of work, and there is plenty more to come. But after five years of working towards something, it’ll be nice to reach a big milestone.

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      2 months ago

      Well done, that’s a hell of an accomplishment that will set you up for life, world will always need sparkies

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      2 months ago

      Congrats! I rememeber finishing mine and it was a lot of work. Just remember to take care of your body and especially your ears! My body has started to hurt in my wrists from all marrets and wire twisting