After many attempts this year alone, I am now one month cigarette and nicotine free!
HUGE.
Congrats!
After many attempts this year alone, I am now one month cigarette and nicotine free!
Outstanding! If your experience is anything like mine was (over 25 years ago now), very soon you won't be able to stand the smell. Also breathing and smelling and tasting things will soon become exhilarating.
A 60-year-old man in Germany has become at least the seventh person with HIV to be announced free of the virus after receiving a stem-cell transplant. But the man, who has been virus-free for close to six years, is only the second person to receive stem cells that are not resistant to the virus.
“I am quite surprised that it worked,” says Ravindra Gupta, a microbiologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who led a team that treated one of the other people who is now free of HIV. “It’s a big deal.”
dejanzie wrote:After many attempts this year alone, I am now one month cigarette and nicotine free!
Outstanding! If your experience is anything like mine was (over 25 years ago now), very soon you won't be able to stand the smell. Also breathing and smelling and tasting things will soon become exhilarating.
This is honestly the first time I actually do resent the smell, and find the idea of smoking again rather repulsive. Which is very promising really.
Also: wow, congrats on 25 years and more!
Gojira at the Olympics.
Gojira at the Olympics.
Yes! They stole the entire show. It was so, so good.
After many attempts this year alone, I am now one month cigarette and nicotine free!
Gefeliciteerd! That's great news. Keep up the good work, my Flemish friend! I'm highly in favor of anything that keeps you with us for longer.
This cracked me up: https://www.threads.net/@joshcarlosj...
(It's an Olympic gymnastics floor routine with an amusing title provided by the poster)
I bought an impractically large piece of ginger. Probably won’t get it all eaten but it looked soooooo healthy, especially compared to the scrawny bits they often have and I love me some fresh ginger.
Put it in the freezer in a sealed bag/container.
Our ginger lives in the freezer and is functionally immortal. Stays there until deliciousness is required and then it hits the microplane - it even grates more easily because it's harder when frozen!
Damn. That right there is some sexy ginger.
(p.s. I drink ginger tea every night but I have no idea how to make it using ginger as sexy as that ginger)
Put it in the freezer in a sealed bag/container.
Our ginger lives in the freezer and is functionally immortal. Stays there until deliciousness is required and then it hits the microplane - it even grates more easily because it's harder when frozen!
Ooh great tip. Thanks.
Damn. That right there is some sexy ginger.
I bought an impractically large piece of ginger. Probably won’t get it all eaten but it looked soooooo healthy, especially compared to the scrawny bits they often have and I love me some fresh ginger.
Oh, that looks fantastic. I’ll definitely give it a go. You can tell it’ll be refreshing just from the ingredients. Thanks.
I haven't tried it with fresh ginger; the recipe I use uses powdered ginger, which is definitely kinda gritty, but it's like drinking french press coffee: just don't expect to drain the glass because there'll be a certain amount of sediment at the bottom. The recipe I use is just a gallon of water, a cup of apple cider vinegar, two cups syrup (usually about 1.5 cups of molasses and another half cup of something sweeter; honey, maple syrup, light corn syrup, whatever I have on hand), and two tablespoons of ginger.
It's definitely refreshing, I've been knocking it back all summer. The vinegar and ginger give it a little bit of a bite like punch, but it feels hydrating, not syrupy.
I have finished rewatching Twin Peaks from start to finish, if you whistle during parts of the second series it is as perfect as T.V and film gets and Fire Walk with Me and The Return are actually perfect . David Lynch is a genius who should be protected at all costs.
I'm now officially an American citizen! I had my interview yesterday, and in contrast to the glacial pace of literally everything else USCIS related (and I know that they are underfunded, so it's not their fault), my swearing in ceremony was literally two hours later. I wasn't expecting it, but it was a very pleasant surprise! Now to register to vote, get a US passport, and start being a good citizen!
Congratulations!
Proficiat man! Wait, do you still understand Dutch now? Can you still point out The Netherlands on a world map?
Proficiat man! Wait, do you still understand Dutch now? Can you still point out The Netherlands on a world map? :lol:
I'm no longer allowed to speak or even listen to Dutch, by law. Also, pointing countries out on a map sounds like a thing that commie elites would do. Are you a commie elite, dejanzie? Are you?
Today's random love: I got a Lego Ornithopter from the Dune movies. I love how intricate, detailed and just plain beautiful this thing is. I played with Lego endlessly as a kid, and I am seriously tempted to blow a whole bunch of money on other models. Must... resist... urge...
Nerdiest joke you'll see this month:
What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber?
Nothing! You can’t cross a vector with a scalar
Holy shit, that's so nerdy Bill Gates just dropped his Star Wars action figure while Big Bang Theory is playing in the background.
Yes, I laughed. I'm so nerdy.
My mom told me about this show that she was 100% sure I would absolutely love. So with some trepidation I checked it out. It’s called A Murder at the End of the World, and it’s on Hulu. And I am actually really enjoying it. It’s created by Brit Marling and her production partner with a name I can’t spell. I’ve loved everything she has created. Some years ago, in the Before Times, there was a Netflix show called The OA she created and starred in. Outstanding show. Very weird and cool. Anyway, if you’re looking for something cool to watch check it out. Or The OA. Or her movie Another Earth, also very weird and cool.
I had heard this show mentioned but hadn't realized that she (and her production partner) were a part of it. Adding to be next up on my list. I loved The OA and Another Earth. Both were the perfect amount of head-trippy-ness for me.
I go for a coffee and a walk with a friend most Sundays and we often amble around the town’s duck pond. One of the many perks of this routine is seeing the swans, usually only one pair, raising their cygnets.
We get to witness their development over the weeks and months until the parents and young disappear, hopefully headed to warmer climes, until next year.
Today, as the entire family indulged in an intensive preening session, one cygnet flexed it’s developing wing muscles.
I had made a mistake in my tax form, or at least missed it before applying. The decimal for the mortgage tax deduction field jumped 2 spots, which would have cost us 1200EUR. I only found out when I got my tax return last week, but (and this is the love part) one phone call and it got fixed.
I'm SO relieved, I was afraid of having to wait in line for hours only to bump into a pencil sharpener kind of person. But she was super friendly, when I explained she went "OOPS I can see what happened" and proposed changing it immediately. I thanked her profusely, as I got a much better customer experience with our federal government than any time I tried to call my telco or whatever other commercial entity!
I had screwed up and somehow completely missed sending my check in one year, and I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to just call the IRS and get it handled. The IRS will directly work with you to set up payments that won't kill you, and it's surprisingly judgement/punishment-free.
I now understand how predatory those "we'll help you fix your stuff with the IRS" companies are, because all they're doing is getting in the middle of a thing the IRS will happily work with you on anyway.
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