Author Topic: What made you happy today? (Read 96888 times)

Elite · « **Reply #245 on:** July 07, 2020, 03:45:29 PM »

I have holidays since last Friday. This past weekend was spent inside a rehearsal room in an old bunker, doing silly music stuff with two friends. That was fun. We stayed at a local camp-site in some small tents.

Holiday for me means: lots of practice time (as well as doing other fun stuff). Played a lot of music today again and I made nice food. Good day for sure

Indiscipline · « **Reply #246 on:** July 10, 2020, 05:59:33 AM »

It actually happened yesterday, but I traveled to the place I was born for mother's birthday. My favourite place in the world and great family night.

My sea:

The moon dawning:

Can you believe this girl is 70?

King Postwhore · « **Reply #247 on:** July 10, 2020, 07:23:04 AM »

Enjoy every moment. I miss my mom so much. I felt see was robbed passing away so early.

Indiscipline · « **Reply #248 on:** July 10, 2020, 07:33:50 AM »

Quote from: kingshmegland on July 10, 2020, 07:23:04 AM

Enjoy every moment. I miss my mom so much. I felt see was robbed passing away so early.

Thank you, man. I do and I will (hence the 600km hit and run trip in the night). Learned that lesson taking my dad for granted.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #249 on:** July 10, 2020, 07:54:29 AM »

Same with my dad. Though he is battling lung cancer and has MS. He's a fighter.

Podaar · « **Reply #250 on:** July 10, 2020, 08:16:17 AM »

Quote from: Indiscipline on July 10, 2020, 05:59:33 AM

Can you believe this girl is 70?

Your mom looks amazingly like my beloved Mrs. P!

to her good health.

Indiscipline · « **Reply #251 on:** July 10, 2020, 08:30:21 AM »

Thanks Gregg! You can see she's toasted more than enough

TAC · « **Reply #252 on:** July 10, 2020, 10:30:44 AM »

She looks fantastic Alex!

Indiscipline · « **Reply #253 on:** July 10, 2020, 10:36:58 AM »

Thank you! Two packs a day since I know her. It's infuriating.

Evermind · « **Reply #254 on:** July 11, 2020, 03:34:19 PM »

Silly thing compared to the other posts, but just finished an intense D&D session which I was building up to for more than a year for my group. We were to play on 6 PM and we had to move it to 7 PM because one of our players couldn't make it earlier and I was nervous the whole day, like I couldn't even sit still for 5 minutes. The hour of delay was especially excruciating. But as usual as we started playing, the fear evaporated and I feel like I've been at my best for the whole session. We played for five hours and at the end I've even got a round of applause from the players.

This shit makes me nervous as hell before the game, but it's thrilling when we nail it as a group.

Indiscipline · « **Reply #255 on:** July 11, 2020, 03:39:51 PM »

Not silly at all. You had an orchestra cheer its own conductor.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #256 on:** July 11, 2020, 03:51:57 PM »

That’s awesome, Ruslan.

TAC · « **Reply #257 on:** July 11, 2020, 04:28:27 PM »

Quote from: Evermind on July 11, 2020, 03:34:19 PM

Silly thing compared to the other posts, but just finished an intense D&D session which I was building up to for more than a year for my group. We were to play on 6 PM and we had to move it to 7 PM because one of our players couldn't make it earlier and I was nervous the whole day, like I couldn't even sit still for 5 minutes. The hour of delay was especially excruciating. But as usual as we started playing, the fear evaporated and I feel like I've been at my best for the whole session. We played for five hours and at the end I've even got a round of applause from the players.

This shit makes me nervous as hell before the game, but it's thrilling when we nail it as a group.

What are you talking about? A whole year?

Evermind · « **Reply #258 on:** July 12, 2020, 04:17:19 AM »

Quote from: TAC on July 11, 2020, 04:28:27 PM

Quote from: Evermind on July 11, 2020, 03:34:19 PM
Silly thing compared to the other posts, but just finished an intense D&D session which I was building up to for more than a year for my group. We were to play on 6 PM and we had to move it to 7 PM because one of our players couldn't make it earlier and I was nervous the whole day, like I couldn't even sit still for 5 minutes. The hour of delay was especially excruciating. But as usual as we started playing, the fear evaporated and I feel like I've been at my best for the whole session. We played for five hours and at the end I've even got a round of applause from the players.

This shit makes me nervous as hell before the game, but it's thrilling when we nail it as a group.

What are you talking about? A whole year?

Well, we started the campaign in February 2018. We're usually playing for 3-4 hours once a week or once in two weeks depending on our schedules, so you can imagine the story doesn't move quite fast. The current big story arc which is a part of the main plot which started in spring of 2019 I think, when the party's druid became competent enough to become a full member of their circle and had to pass a trial to prove it. The trial, essentially, if passed, allowed her to meet and talk with the goddess on another plane of existence who watched over the circle (because the head of this particular circle, a high-level druid who is a shape-shifted silver dragon, made a deal with that goddess long ago), but only once. All druids of the circle passed that test once, and the goddess would give them cryptic directions which they were to follow if they wanted the circle to stand (but which are also tied in with the major events happening in the world). So the druid passed, and the goddess gave her three riddles/prophecies from which the party unknowingly picked one and been following it since, and in the last six or seven months it gradually began to become obvious to them they were following one of them. And yesterday they reached the final part of that prophecy, which in turn kicked in the final sequence of events in this arc and the next couple of sessions will see how they'll resolve the whole situation.

I had three big moments for this arc in mind in 2019 depending which prophecy they would pick (if any) to follow on, and to see one of them come to light a year after without any big railroading was extremely satisfying for all of us I guess. I'm still happy as hell after sleeping on it.

It's a nerdy thing.

TAC · « **Reply #259 on:** July 12, 2020, 02:47:42 PM »

Through my remarkable powers, I was able to pull a future post of yours in from thread.

Quote from: Evermind on February 28, 2021, 02:50:39 PM

I finally got laid!

Evermind · « **Reply #260 on:** July 12, 2020, 08:39:21 PM »

TAC · « **Reply #261 on:** July 12, 2020, 08:41:02 PM »

Just bustin'.

Seriously you could've write that in Russian, and it would've made more sense.

Elite · « **Reply #262 on:** July 13, 2020, 11:22:25 AM »

It's great weather outside so I jumped on my bike and started cycling and came back home 100 minutes and 30 kilometers later. I do not own a road bike, this is just my silly city-bike (do they call them that in english, or is this just a Dutch word to make it seem more fancy?). It was fun. When I'm getting enough exercise for a couple of days in a row, I tend to get stupidly pumped up to do stuff. This was a good way to spend my built-up energy.

JayOctavarium · « **Reply #263 on:** July 13, 2020, 05:18:09 PM »

Hearing from my cousin (who is my stepmother's niece, same age as me) that she always accepted me as her family, while we discussed family events from the past, as well as how the family treated myself and my father during that time.

Almost brought a tear to my eye. I've always had... family... identity? issues.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #264 on:** July 13, 2020, 09:41:20 PM »

Quote from: JayOctavarium on July 13, 2020, 05:18:09 PM

Hearing from my cousin (who is my stepmother's niece, same age as me) that she always accepted me as her family, while we discussed family events from the past, as well as how the family treated myself and my father during that time.

Almost brought a tear to my eye. I've always had... family... identity? issues.

Awesome Jay. Don't sweat it... we all have family issues of some sort or another. So you fit in just fine!!

Cool Chris · « **Reply #265 on:** July 13, 2020, 10:01:40 PM »

Was thinking about this the other day... my wife has been trying to connect more with out-of-state relatives due to Covid-19. Many are older, and she is not sure when she will be able to travel again with the virus apparently planning to stick around for a long time. She says family is recognizing the importance of family more, and she asked me why I don't connect with any of my family members outside of my parents and my sister and her family. Aside from my extended family being much smaller, my parents were never close enough with their siblings, cousins, and such to foster a close relationship between them and me. So while they are my family, I feel more of a familial connection to my neighbors, as my kids play with their kids almost every day. I have no connection with my cousins on my mom's side. I only saw them on Thanksgiving growing up, and haven't seen them in 30 years.

TAC · « **Reply #266 on:** July 14, 2020, 05:04:12 AM »

...and that made you happy today??

jingle.boy · « **Reply #267 on:** July 15, 2020, 10:24:46 AM »

Quote from: eric42434224 on July 06, 2020, 02:14:59 PM

I reached out to someone with an olive branch and they accepted. Made me happy. It makes me realize that having stupid grudges or whatever, are just silly. It’s not like we will be best friends, but we did agree to be civil and nice to each other. With so much negativity, hatred, and tribalism going on, it was nice to break out of a negative situation and into a positive one. Sometimes I guess all you have to do is ask, and be willing to change a bit.

I had thought/wondered if that was to/about Stads, and happy to assume (based on another thread today) that it was.

to each of you.

TAC · « **Reply #268 on:** July 15, 2020, 10:29:45 AM »

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2024

The Walrus · « **Reply #269 on:** July 15, 2020, 10:30:10 AM »

Quote from: jingle.boy on July 15, 2020, 10:24:46 AM

Quote from: eric42434224 on July 06, 2020, 02:14:59 PM
I reached out to someone with an olive branch and they accepted. Made me happy. It makes me realize that having stupid grudges or whatever, are just silly. It’s not like we will be best friends, but we did agree to be civil and nice to each other. With so much negativity, hatred, and tribalism going on, it was nice to break out of a negative situation and into a positive one. Sometimes I guess all you have to do is ask, and be willing to change a bit.

I had thought/wondered if that was to/about Stads, and happy to assume (based on another thread today) that it was. to each of you.

Yay, glad to hear this. I wish I could say the same for me and someone else. Oh well. Reached out to 'em, ball's in their court, they chose to ignore me entirely.