You ever find yourself in the area of Sandy Bottom nature preserve/park?
I used to like going there to run.
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No, but it’s 100% on my list. Only been here a few months, haven’t gotten to explore much. Might check it out this weekend
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That sailor is awesome.
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Yeah, its a nice little place. The ground is soft & easy on the joints.
Me & my kiddo took one of the paddle boats out last time I was down there. Some nice bass back in the creek/marsh area too.
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- you have no idea, dudes an absolute rock star. Hands down my most capable sailor, which is amazingly impressive when you realize the kid is 22. Guys going to be amazing in anything he does, my only worry I ever have with him is just reigning him in so he doesn’t burn himself out trying to carry the entire division on his back single handedly. Just a superior dude lol.
- I love fishing, so I will definitely remember that when it warms up a bit
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Looking back at the last few posts- The 90/10 rule is all over them. 
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So, @atlas13 , this just showed up in the facebook group “I see you don’t know shit about welding”.
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Rage. Pure, unadulterated rage.
Related, we had an incident last week regarding piss bottles. A sailor walked in on a contractor mid-fill of a Gatorade bottle. Sailor pulled out a knife and said “if I ever see your dick again, I’m cutting it off.” Contractor went and complained, and now everyone involved is in trouble.
Very thankfully, not my sailor, not even my department, but I honestly thought it was pretty funny.
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The sailor had a normal reaction to abnormal curcumstance, which is forgivable.
I mean, If I walk into a room- any room- and theres a guy with his hands full of pecker and coke bottle there might be a kerfuffle. 
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Honestly, most of us were saying “ya know, if he had grabbed scissors instead of whipping out a pocket knife, this wouldn’t have become an issue at all.” Guy just chose one level too high of threatening cutting tool
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Had to do Something, damnit!
That bottom one is a little shakey, so you’ll just have to believe it was a really awesome time. Like, record breaking. If the record was an old 33 on a hand cranked victrola.
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ping!
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I’ve never had a certain future. My upbringing was so randomly peppered with violence, loss, dysfunction and despair that the only real constant was pain. No shit. I know I come of as hard bitten and rough around the edges, but its really an affect of years of trauma. My dads vision for me as an adult was either life without parole or death row. My own attempt was to enlist in the military and that got screwed with the drano thing.
So…onward & upward.
What I learned in sobriety:
Sobriety was my first exposure to healthy coping mechanisms. Staying in the moment is actually a big topic in the rooms. There are a lot of sayings about staying in the moment, like “if you have one foot in the past and one in the future you’re shitting on today.”.
So how do you stay in the present when your present sucks? It’s not always easy. One very good reminder I use is from a friend of mine, and that is “True acceptance is giving up all hope of a better past.”. Acceptance of exactly where you are, who you are and what you are is of the utmost importance. This is your starting point, every day- one day at a time. This is who I am, and this is where I’m at (physically, psychologically, spiritually) right now, in this moment. Be honest.
I’ll be back a little later, but thats something to chew on for a while @unreal24278 .
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Maybe my work has desensitized me to edges, but you come off as thoughtful to me, not hard bitten. Just a good egg.
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Thanks!
How’s life treating you, EmilyQ?
Good! I haven’t worked out all week, hence my presence here.
I’ve been under a lot of (ultimately good) stress, because I’m dropping to three days a week at work and start a vacation today that goes through July 4th, so I’ve spent the past several weeks trying to squeeze my caseload into a significantly reduced schedule. So I’m an anxious mess, and when I’m an anxious mess I guess I like to self-soothe by arguing about gender issues on the internet.
I’m excited about the schedule change, though, and hope to be a less-anxious mess going forward.
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I’ve had a very on again off again thing with working out. I’ve gotten a couple of bugs that put me down pretty hard but I keep getting back up!
Kiddo crushed another school year! Not surprising but definitely appreciated. He loved his teachers this year. I could see why too when I met them. They were a great match for his personality.
I don’t know if I told you this, but my therapist retired. He still owns & manages his practice, but dropped his clients. We did like a warm hand off to another therapist in his practice, so it was a nice transition. There was a good handful to choose from but one in particular that he spoke very highly of, so I went with her. So far its a good match.
Work has been pretty nice. I still only do a couple days a week, but as the one kid said “Everything you fix stays fixed!”.
I hope so too. Its hard to find that sweet spot in the work/life balance, and way too easy to just choose one and run with it.
Hows Buttons?
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I’ve been good about the workouts for quite a while now, though I had covid last Halloween followed by the death of my brother on Thanksgiving, and took a couple of months off. But mostly I’m on and trying to be very structured about it. I do less, but something most days.
I’ve come to realize that kids generally like school when their parents are supportive of it and them. Who knew??
Buttons continues to crush it. 
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Me too. My thing lately has been to just get on the airdyne and let habit do the rest. Except yesterday. Yesterday I slept for about 20/24 hours. And it felt damn good!
My spirit animal!
I’m baby sitting my neighbors dogs for the next i dunno. They’re taking the same vacation schedule as you, starting tomorrow.
Remember this little sweetheart?
Well, now she’s at 90+ lbs, but with the exuberance of a 4 month old.
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Oh, pretty girl!
I sometimes wonder if we’ll keep adopting senior dogs, or eventually break bad and get a puppy. Just for the sheer hell of it.
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She is a beauty.
I’d love to get another pooch but we have too many cats now. It would be an animal house.
There was a gang of the most adorable little french bulldogs at the one job site I went to a few weeks ago. I like them more every time I see one. All the features of a real dog, but downsized for manageability!
The one above (Ellie) can be 10 miles away in a matter of minutes if she chooses.