Great Success! [NOT 26/2/24]

26/2/24 brightersideoflife 30

Hi, friends!

I hope your day went well. Have you had any experiences recently where you had great success? Or small success? Or unexpected success?

I’ve very proud of myself for (1) successfully remembering I need to replace my furnace filter and (2) successfully remembering the correct size of furnace filters to buy.

It’s the little things.

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  1. I got almost all the base molding done now that the floors are finished.  Luckily my wife saves scraps of wood so we had stuff leftover from the cabinet install 15 years ago!  She calls me a pack rat?  Also tried a new Sichuan restaurant I’ve been wanting to try that was excellent & brewed a batch of beer today that will hopefully be ready to drink when my mom & brother come visit in 3 weeks.

    • Wow, if this shot is your daughter she is also insanely flexible!  My daughters were a black belt & a brown belt in karate & the brown belt did ballet but neither one could do that without breaking something!

        • There’s a very funny scene in the first “Downton Abbey” movie. King George V comes to visit. Who knows why. The Dowager Countess gives him her best and deepest curtsy but then the king has to help her into a standing position. I know exactly how she feels.

          • I don’t understand how the Victorians pulled off waltzes because that took a level of athleticism and free flowing clothing I don’t associate with the British upper classes.

            • The waltz is actually not a difficult dance and they would have had dance instructors growing up. The men wore suits/black tie not much different from what men wear today, and the women might have worn girdles and bustles, but that doesn’t really impede movement when you’re standing upright. In fact, women’s shoes were much more forgiving. No one was going around in 5-inch heels.

              You know what I have never done and it’s probably too late now is participate in one of those highly stylized dances you see in party scenes in shows like “Bridgerton” or a Jane Austen adaptation. Minuets. Quadrilles. I have participated in barn dances but those are easy. You pretty much just join hands and dance in a big circle.

              • 3/4 time isn’t so hard, but the square footage of ballrooms in reality were almost always far tighter than you see on the screen. Managing to get everyone moving together without breaking ankles seems like a miracle to me.

                Somebody must have decided almost every Saturday night to do an extra spin against the flow in a space 1/8 the size of a middle school lunchroom, hoping to win the hand of a teenager with a 100 Pounds Sterling dowry.  That it only had 50-50 odds of the guy failing and getting exiled to Burma seems like a minor marvel to me.

  4. Finally made a breakthrough on some content I’ve been writing on charts of accounts for venture-funded startups. Riveting, I know, but it was giving me grief. I think I’ve got a handle on it now.

  5. i fixed my leaky shower….using washers and o rings from coffee machines….but hey if it works it works

    now i just have a leaky roof and leaky toilet to go….plus a broken back door…upstairs window…and some seriously wonky wiring im not touching till ive written a will and testament

    also still sober….but my games collection for distraction is rapidly expanding

    now also playing i am future

    which is a remarkably chilled out way to go about the post apocalypse

  6. We snowshoed to a backcountry yurt over the weekend and really enjoyed it. Clear, sunny skies and more than enough snow to play with.

    Uphill:

    Downhill:

    Sunset:

    The Snow Moon:

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