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Hazel_1914

Hazel_1914

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  • Hazel_1914
    Up at night, rain falling. Fuzzy bathrobe found in luggage. Listening to Christmas carols a few days early on the radio. This is super nice.
    Hazel_1914
    I have to sit down and write it all out but I'm looking at some excellent news here.
    Gerald Wilgus
    Gerald Wilgus
    Wellllllll. Let the other shoe drop and let us in on the good news you breathlessly dropped on us.
    Hazel_1914
    Tchaikovsky on the radio right now. I should have bought a good FM radio a long time ago.
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    Nitro
    The sound quality of tube type equipment has such a warmer quality to it than transistorized stuff.
    I have a "fake" audiophile Bose Wave radio here, but since I live in a river valley, the reception is poor at best.
    My favorite tuner amp is likely my Onkyo with the runner up being an Onkyo surround system that plays a fairly decent station 24/7.
    N
    Nitro
    I put a bluetooth module on it so we can play stuff remotely off of our phones.
    My entertainment system is based on a Yamaha surround sound system bolstered with audiophile quality 5 way speakers augmented with a 250 watt sub.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    I usually have tube radios but I confess this one was transistorized. You have really got a nice setup.
    Hazel_1914
    Tomorrow is a major religious holiday for Catholics. The day after should be a major holiday for me (being done.) Yet somehow final exams are a drain on the entire system.
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    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    It's the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Protestants use the words immaculate conception to reference the whole virgin birth thing but Catholics are talking about Mary not having original sin
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    Wordsworth's poem with the lines: "Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrossed/ With the least shade of thought to sin allied" basically is what was so exciting they made it a holiday. Wordsworth was a Protestant but he had the right idea
    Butterfly88
    Butterfly88
    Oh yes, I have heard of that before, just forgot. Wishing you an early Merry Christmas!
    Hazel_1914
    Hurrah for having a whole paper to write that I didn't realize needed to be written. Familiar enough topic, but I don't relish the timing.
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    Jordy
    Jordy
    It's mostly Internet and TV that's causing it. 90% of people wouldn't really use computers that much if they couldn't connect to their social media garbage.
    Jordy
    Jordy
    Personally I love computer science, it seems like my brain was made for it. I am not really concerned over missing out on interacting with real people, Autism has makes it near impossible to have friends anyway.

    Without computers I guess I would have been a book person and spend more time on math Instead of programming. Still spend all my time isolated in my room.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    You do seem exceptionally good at computers. I'd disagree a tiny bit about friendship and autism, it's hard to have NT friends sometimes though, for sure.

    Computer science is pretty interesting.
    Hazel_1914
    This website has probably been the most constructive online space I've been on in a long time. Thank you all. You are good friends.
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    Luca
    There's a reason that this is the ONLY online space I'm comfortable in!
    O
    Owliet
    I always appreciate your posts Gerontius.=)
    Hazel_1914
    Things that used to be difficult with executive functioning are getting somewhat better, and it is a hopeful thing.
    Hazel_1914
    Today I think some of my friends IRL are beginning to be affected by seasonal depression. I wish winter was cosy instead of sorrowful.
    Metalhead
    Metalhead
    I wish I could hibernate through winter and wake up in spring with all of my belly fat gone.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    @Metalhead wouldn't that be fun? I don't mind winter much but it's definitely a trifle gloomier outside. Soak up all the sunshine you can get, I guess.
    Hazel_1914
    Spent the morning digging through a stash of gramophone records, the midday networking so I can start a second job and further a career, the afternoon out on a good horse, and the evening in a text of Thomistic metaphysics. Work, study, exercise, and music. Not bad!
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    And the funniest part is I haven't had time all day to doomscroll through posts on the internet, so that's been good. I am starting to suspect that too much of my doomscrolling was actually quite detrimental to creativity and mental clarity. I'm not too creative & I'm not that much of a planner but I do like to be more optimistic.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    My interests have gained me some notoriety in my community & I am networking with the folks who trade antiques professionally. My interest in horsemanship is actually going somewhere, pun intended, and I've figured out a number of things with that I thought I was incapable of, newfound physical dexterity has improved that. And my head is clearer; even favorite records sound fresh.
    Hazel_1914
    Hi, Awful People checking in. I don't leak DMs but I do cite public posts. On behalf of Catholics I am so sorry, we aren't all like this. Same goes for Autistic people. We aren't all this way.
    Hazel_1914
    Negative cultural perception of religion is most strongly driven by the attitudes and reactions of the angrily religious devotees.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    The whole culture war nonsense can be resolved as simply as humbly acknowledging that the majority of Christian people are damned poor advertising for their faith.
    Hazel_1914
    Raise your hand if you hate the question, "Where are you from?"
    Metalhead
    Metalhead
    I respond by saying I am from Hell and I have come to collect your soul. That shuts them up very quickly. :)
    LadyS
    LadyS
    I get it all the time. I always say I'm from here, born and raised. They say, of course but where do you/family originally come from? (Thanks for reminding me that because I'm not white/black that I must hail from somewhere else) :rolleyes:.
    Jordy
    Do you have any finished novels?
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    Jordy
    Jordy
    Could i read something you have written?
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    I think I can arrange to send you something! Be warned, I'm an amateur who probably should not be let near a pen without supervision.
    Jordy
    Jordy
    You could direct message me a link to a pdf file if you have that.
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