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@crazy-horse said in Happiness Scale:
Motorcycling is fantastic. I am always in one of my happy places when I am on a motorbike.
Yep. Every now and then you have that Magical Ride which sticks in your memory for decades. Along the Kapiti Coast to Otaki in the early evening, early morning Kaikoura Coast from Picton to Christchurch or, recently, across Bodmin Moor thru little villages at sunset in Autumn.
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@victor-meldrew said in Happiness Scale:
Lost a family member to cervical cancer after she ignored the signs, so really great news it was picked up quickly.
Wish her good luck for the op.
Thanks mate, and really sorry to hear that
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Been debating whether I should post here...most of my more "open" posts occurred in the lockdown thread which seemed appropriate at the time.
I'm one of those people that find it difficult to make small talk. I'm a listener more than a talker. That and observation was part of my training in the one job I ever did that meant something. The rest have basically been lifetsyle funding exercises.
The corporate world gave me the shits especially the HR driven happy clappy bullshit. As I said at one performance review, once you've fallen on a decomposing corpse as part of your job ,team building exercises don't exactly carry any weight. The amount of grief I got for never staying behind for after-work drinks always shitted me. I was 15-20 years older than my immediate boss, who had the worldly experience of Bali holidays and that was about it, and my colleagues were pretty much all born around the time I was working in Bosnia and Rwanda. So I had nothing in fucking common with them in terms of personal experience. Hell I'd spent more time overseas than some of them had been alive. And maybe I was a tad cynical and more prone to dark humour.
If I'm honest, I'd rather not be workin g 7 days a week right now, but I'm rebuilding (again) because I left it way too long to get out of a corporate snakepit and ended up getting out at the last minute before I completely disintegrated mentally.
I am in a good place emotionally as I've been for 20 years though - caught up and re-established a friendship with the one person I can honestly say I love and have loved. My girls are all safe and sound, albeit only just coming out of lockdown in France, but they're about as good as can be expected .
I think the turning point for me was about Christmas 2019 when I did a fair amount of introspection and looked reality in the face. The fact is, anything I want to do, I have to do in the next 10 years or not at all. I'm already well past my use by date (let alone best before) and I've never been able to imagine myself or where I will be beyond around 60-65.
So my priorities have changed - everything is about short term goals and targets - 18-24 months is the longest timeframe I'm allowing myself. That way I've got some much needed focus.
I'm not a bar and pub guy anymore - give me a small cafe where you can have a conversation and well priced decent coffee (Fuck you, Sydney Baristas), so if any ferner want's to touch base, I'm around in Welly - usually at either Deluxe on Kent or Midnight Espresso on Cuba.
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@synicbast you sir, are an inspiration!
Your honesty and authenticity is an example to us all, particularly those of
usme, who grapple with the same sentiments. In a pretend world it's nice to find one who doesn't pretend.
Bravo and thanks mateShit taste in rugby teams though
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@synicbast surely you can make some easy money in the lookalike gig? Find yourself a Jesse and you can double down.
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@siam said in Happiness Scale:
@synicbast you sir, are an inspiration!
Your honesty and authenticity is an example to us all, particularly those of
usme, who grapple with the same sentiments. In a pretend world it's nice to find one who doesn't pretend.
Bravo and thanks mateShit taste in rugby teams though
Collegiate, Wellington, Hurricanes - yeah pretty much the underachievers roll call there. Sort of like the Wellington First class cricket side post JFM Chats and Coney
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@bones said in Happiness Scale:
@synicbast surely you can make some easy money in the lookalike gig? Find yourself a Jesse and you can double down.
That would require me to
a) have a modicum of acting talent
b) be prepared to deal with fans
c) be in a place where people who I do not know can approach me from behind - this last is not happening. The consequences that arise are never good. Even my family know better than to approach me unannounced. -
@bones said in Happiness Scale:
@synicbast surely you can make some easy money in the lookalike gig? Find yourself a Jesse and you can double down.
I’m based in Welly but I don’t have an RV or any knowledge of how to cook Meth
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@synicbast said in Happiness Scale:
Been debating whether I should post here...most of my more "open" posts occurred in the lockdown thread which seemed appropriate at the time.
I'm one of those people that find it difficult to make small talk. I'm a listener more than a talker. That and observation was part of my training in the one job I ever did that meant something. The rest have basically been lifetsyle funding exercises.
The corporate world gave me the shits especially the HR driven happy clappy bullshit. As I said at one performance review, once you've fallen on a decomposing corpse as part of your job ,team building exercises don't exactly carry any weight. The amount of grief I got for never staying behind for after-work drinks always shitted me. I was 15-20 years older than my immediate boss, who had the worldly experience of Bali holidays and that was about it, and my colleagues were pretty much all born around the time I was working in Bosnia and Rwanda. So I had nothing in fucking common with them in terms of personal experience. Hell I'd spent more time overseas than some of them had been alive. And maybe I was a tad cynical and more prone to dark humour.
If I'm honest, I'd rather not be workin g 7 days a week right now, but I'm rebuilding (again) because I left it way too long to get out of a corporate snakepit and ended up getting out at the last minute before I completely disintegrated mentally.
I am in a good place emotionally as I've been for 20 years though - caught up and re-established a friendship with the one person I can honestly say I love and have loved. My girls are all safe and sound, albeit only just coming out of lockdown in France, but they're about as good as can be expected .
I think the turning point for me was about Christmas 2019 when I did a fair amount of introspection and looked reality in the face. The fact is, anything I want to do, I have to do in the next 10 years or not at all. I'm already well past my use by date (let alone best before) and I've never been able to imagine myself or where I will be beyond around 60-65.
So my priorities have changed - everything is about short term goals and targets - 18-24 months is the longest timeframe I'm allowing myself. That way I've got some much needed focus.
I'm not a bar and pub guy anymore - give me a small cafe where you can have a conversation and well priced decent coffee (Fuck you, Sydney Baristas), so if any ferner want's to touch base, I'm around in Welly - usually at either Deluxe on Kent or Midnight Espresso on Cuba.
Man, I feel so inadequate.
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@synicbast i must confess to being a closet Wellington fan as a kid. Took in a few days at the basin and took an interest in them. Erv McSweeney was my favourite keeper. Followed the fortunes of Vance, Edgar Gray, mantis Steve maguiness (pigeon toed run up?) Tony Pigott, the pom, of course chats the favourite. Who have I left out?
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@synicbast said in Happiness Scale:
@siam said in Happiness Scale:
@synicbast you sir, are an inspiration!
Your honesty and authenticity is an example to us all, particularly those of
usme, who grapple with the same sentiments. In a pretend world it's nice to find one who doesn't pretend.
Bravo and thanks mateShit taste in rugby teams though
Collegiate, Wellington, Hurricanes - yeah pretty much the underachievers roll call there. Sort of like the Wellington First class cricket side post JFM Chats and Coney
My old man works with Chats and I grew up with the Coneys.
And thus ends today's "shit I didn't need to know" lesson.
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@mn5 said in Happiness Scale:
@bones said in Happiness Scale:
@synicbast surely you can make some easy money in the lookalike gig? Find yourself a Jesse and you can double down.
I’m based in Welly but I don’t have an RV or any knowledge of how to cook Meth
Move to the Hutt for some character acting?
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@nzzp said in Happiness Scale:
@mn5 said in Happiness Scale:
@bones said in Happiness Scale:
@synicbast surely you can make some easy money in the lookalike gig? Find yourself a Jesse and you can double down.
I’m based in Welly but I don’t have an RV or any knowledge of how to cook Meth
Move to the Hutt for some character acting?
Never again.....
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Happiness is having zero hangover after sake, having the day off work and getting back into bed for an hour maybe two whilst the house is completely empty and quiet. Starfish.
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@r-l can't say I've ever drunk enough sake to even come close to a hangover.
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Low wind, sunny day and a bacon and fried egg baguette at a biker cafe in St Columb to break up a 3 hr ride on the Honda. Oh, and NZ won some Cricket thingy....
Happiness scale: 11/10
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