@Jedi @mac85 thanks, I'm feeling better today. It just felt like I had the flu, sore muscles in my head, back, chest, etc. Guess it's time to try a new Chinese place

@MacG maybe try gratiing cheese yourself? I don't think just grated cheese would cause problems unless regular cheese did as well, but some sort of preservative might

My mom is allergic to walnuts. She used to eat them all the time, but one day, it was Jedi's story about the Brazil nut

Yeah, I was gonna suggest the grating it yourself thing. But I dunno. Allergies are kinda weird like that...

So I made a DeviantArt account for the best of my artwork (not all of it, because only some of it came out "good enough" in my eyes )

Found an adoptable I wanted, but had no points. I was hoping the owner would agree to hold it for me or something, but she just gifted it freely as a "welcome to the site" thing, and it knocked me back

Cool!

I've lived overseas for a while. Grated cheese was one thing that I never saw in any store. It was always fresh cheese. I did not even see pre-packaged cheese in the stores.

So I ran today on less than 5 hours of sleep... So I was in a bookstore, and while leaving after checking out, some lady was standing near the cafe area with samples of cold frappe shots. My mom declined, but on 5 hours of sleep, I was desperate, so I took one.

My mom: "I didn't know you drank coffee..."

Me: "I do today"

It helped, but all the sweetness that made it a frappe made me nauseated too

Also one of my quirks, I guess. I never drink coffee, unless offered.

Facebook is acting up again and Europe is caught up again in the storm. Since Friday Messenger is out and I can no longer see my notifications, nor videos and apparently uploading is hard too. First we thought it had to do with the elections but the disturbance is now over the majority of Europe.

On the disturbance map, Belgium, Holland, Denmark are completely covered in a yellow blotch and it's reaching into Northern Europe, Eastern Europe and large portions of France, into Italy and Northern Spain. Also the majority of England is covered in the yellow spot. I also see a yellow spot near the East Coast (last night it was even worse) and what I think is Japan. But it's like each time something is wrong with Facebook it's always in Western-Europe.

Using a different browser should help but don't feel like changing anything. Probably have to sit it out until they solve it. But it's been at least four days. Honestly, I've never known this much trouble with Facebook as in the past few years. At least I can see my start page and respond to posts.

There, I guess, I needed to get that out of my system.

Sometimes you just need to tell someone or just need to vent. The internet where live doesn't always have the best signal. My television satellite goes out more often than ever. That's when I put a MacGyver DVD in the player. Less stressful than dealing with the TV provider.

Still not better. It's really strange actually, before I lived in the city I can't imagine I ever had problems with Facebook. Then again I wasn't without a job at the time and was only online for a few hours in the evening. So if there were any disturbances, I never noticed. Unless it really depends where you live, but mostly the problems concerning Facebook is due to Facebook itself. On downdetector.com a lot of people are saying it's not the browser, it's the site. Last month and the month before that they were talking about the biggest disturbance ever. But this is the fifth day. Never knew this for so long. At least we're on it and it works for at least 60 or 70%, back in March we weren't able to get online for a while.

I can understand the frustration. Usually, around the holidays, especially Christmas, Xbox Live goes down. The last few years it was due to hackers overloading the servers on purpose to ruin people's Christmas's.

I thought it was the connection between my Xbox and cable modem. I was about to get a new modem when I dug around the Microsoft/Xbox twitter accounts and saw the outage was all over the place. Apparently, the Playstation Network has the same problem from the same group of hackers.

Oh, the good old days. XD

I really haven't been posting all that much because I've been having issues with my guy friend. It ultimately ended with a falling out a couple of weeks ago. I won't go into any details, but I've been a wreck about it. I dunno if I can salvage it or not, but we'll see. Hopefully.

On a positive note, an ex-friend of mine stopped by last Monday. We haven't seen each other in 8 years and haven't spoken in about 5 years. She and I had some issues a long time ago, but we talked out a lot of it so we're good now, which is GREAT!

She's coming back this weekend so we can talk about me possibly moving into her house in Minnesota. She even has a job lined up for me if I accept her offer.

So, we'll see how that goes. XD

I was outdoors a lot this weekend. I even got to see some hawks hunting; they came close to me. It was incredible!

Well, it's all better now. Everything is working again.

Hmm, interesting

So I had to floss after eating corn, got too rough, and cut my gum. And now it's loose skin, pulled away from the tooth, basically driving me insane. Like, until it heals, I'm just dealing with festering loose gums, and exposed teeth (And yes, I am aware that that is also a sign of gingivitis). Basically, I want to rub at it to relieve the discomfort, but that just makes it worse...

I haven't been to a dentist in about a decade, but I'm tempted now to just walk in and be like, "Help me. Just fix this. Ignore the rest of my mouth, just. Fix. This."

Oof, that sounds painful

Finally got my gums to heal. I have the weirdest problems

I was looking at an old drawing I did two years ago, and I decided to redo it. I've definitely improved



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Nice drawing, Dragondog.

Thanks, MacG

A really good friend of mine is trying to get her business to take off. She had an Etsy shop, but is now moving to a different site (but still accepting orders). Strangely, she never got any orders

I mean, look at this stuff. She's a great photographer:



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And there's more where that came from

https://www.instagram.com/soaringdragonsphotography/


So if anyone here wants to maybe help spread the word, it'd be much appreciated

Impulse buy. No regrets



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I apologize for my long absence. The past couple of months have been really rough. I'm starting to come out of it now, so I'll be trying to make a come back soon.

The good news is that I finally heard from my guy friend and he wants to work things out. BUT, he said it's going to be a while. Which is fine, as we're both still pretty upset with each other. Honestly, it's mostly just misunderstanding each other due to poor communication. We'll be fine. But I got a trip to Minnesota in a couple of weeks to see about moving there. If I decide to move it's gonna be in the next few months.

So... got a lot going on. Oy...

I'm sorry to hear that it's been so rough for you , but I'm glad you're back!

No need to apologize, Jedi. If I tell my entire story... Life takes over every now and then.

7400th post.

*hugs* I was wondering what happened to you. Sorry things have been rough. Hope things get better *more hugs*

Happy Fourth of July, fellow American users!

I can't think of a more appropriate day to post this

It's 6:30 in the morning... I've been up for an hour... Because I got woken up by a nearby house catching on fire... I could see the smoke billowing up from my window...

Not a pretty sight to wake up to... I'm going on, what, an hour, maybe two of sleep? Not like I can fall back to sleep now... Too much adrenaline from what just happened...

I'm so tired...

Wow. I hope you sleep better tonight

Read, warm milk, watch tv, you'll be dozing off in no time. Take the Mac-way, go lie down on the couch and dream of the old west.