Been thinking a lot about how bonkers and heartfelt EEAAO was.
I want to see A24 get into video game publishing. See what projects they’d be keen on throwing their money at.
Annapurna Pictures have been doing that and I think they’ve done a great job sourcing unique interesting games.
Man, apparently I hasn’t been active here for about 2 weeks which is unusual for me 
It’s just every day I have something to do and there is no strength left in the evenings.
Most interesting that it’s nothing special I’m doing. Just going here and there to not sit at home just like I did back in Odessa.
It’s a different place and it would’ve been unpolite or something just to sit at home and doing nothing.
But I must tell after a big city this one seems too tiny for me with nothing much to do here.
And still with me being here for already 3 weeks it’s still hard for me to speak in English for some mysterious reason. Never expected that it would be so hard for me and it annoys so much, because I understand pretty much everything, I can normally think and speak to myself in English, but when it comes to speaking to people I stammer a lot for unknown reason. And it makes me angry as hell.
Hope it will get better in some time. But when? Seems it slowly does gets better, but too slowly
There is nothing wrong with what you are experiencing, I have seen it before from the exchange students at high school and in university. These students were smart people and they could write and speak English well a lot of the time but they were always quiet. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that they realised that speaking another language is radically different from communicating in another language.
But they all got better at it over time not always the same time mind you and that is the important thing for them and for any skill really. Remembering that you won’t be good at something overnight even if you are applying a transferable skill to it. It is better to make good progress that comes slowly than simply rushing it.
Well, rush is always not good in any sphere, and I don’t want to rush things but it just annoys me that this is going on at all
Oh it will be annoying and frustrating but some say that anything worth doing and worth doing well is like that.
I’ve finally started addressing all the challenges I need to complete in Sniper mode this weekend, and wouldn’t you know it, not only did I finish all of them for Himmelstein, but I realized that the one I most feared doing, the one where you have to kill all the bodyguards after raising the alarm, was actually the most fun to do. I saved it for last thinking it’d be the one that would make me rage to be done the most, but no; it was so much fun, I went and did it for Hantu Port and Siberia first to just get it out of the way, and I did after only a few tries, and it was friggin fun. Now, I’ll get the other challenges on the other two out of the way, and then address all remaining challenges in the main game while working my way toward level twenty completion on the sniper maps and get those completely finished, and I’m actually looking forward to making progress since I enjoyed what I accomplished so far. Very unexpected, but a productive weekend.
You’ll get there. Keep your chin up!
I am alive, I am pretty sure my brother is, my dad seems to be OK and my mother is alright as she can be. Both my brother and mother don’t do so well with viruses.
Alive but my throat is scratchy so it pretty much means I am positive and have been since yesterday. I still feel really fine though, my mum is better, my dad is still good and I can hear my brother fucking about in his room so I guess he is better as well.
all of you have to stop having birthdays so close together because it makes what I’m trying to do right now pretty darn hard 
Mine is the 25th of June if you are wondering. Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Oh yeah and for everyone else I am alive, my brother is almost over it or maybe he is over it. My mum is better and my dad is the same.
That’s good to hear, you’ll all fully recover hopefully.
I was going through my bookshelf the other day, and god there were some golden books I had totally forgotten about.
Le Petit Nicolas, publication dates (not the initial ones of course) were ~2000’. The inner humor was utterly enjoyable back when I was reading it.
Heidi, from 1991. This one interested me in goat milk lol. I remember the translation to be fluent, which made the story even better.
Omidvar Brothers Travelogue. The basic story is that, back in 1954, two brother (Isa and Abdollah Omidvar) decided to do a research adventure around the world with their motorcycles. It took more than ten years but the result was fantastic, the book includes their experiences from the south pole, to African tribes, and all the way to rather wild South American tribes from the Amazon area. Citroën gave them a car when they were in France, if you’re wondering how they did all of it with two motors.
The text mistakenly states 1945. It’s 54.
This one I’m unaware of its origins, but the publication date is 1970 
Wonders of Mathematics by Harold Joseph Highland.
Ah yes, “der kleine Nick”, i loved those books when i was a young kid.
Almost all of us have, I give my parents a day maybe two for my mum and I am still the one that got out of this unscathed (so far).
Ah yes that is some of Rene Goscinny’s earliest works.
I’ll volunteer to hold off on mine until September if it helps… sometime after the 5th but before the 7th I think.
So, it seems my wife has Lyme disease from a tick bite she got back in January. Three antibody tests just came back positive. It’s one of those late developing infections since it’s been so long and is only now showing signs. Hopefully it’s still enough in time for the proper treatments to work fully and not leave her with lasting pain or fatigue.
Oh no! All the best with the treatments. Fingers crossed for you guys.
I hope she gets better soon!
Ok so, not exactly good news, but decent news, better news. Chances are she doesn’t actually have Lyme, at least not anymore. It may have once been a factor, which would account for the antibodies, but there weren’t enough positives to say she actively has it. More likely, she has Mono, or did have it recently. There’s a good chance she got it from me, as I had similar, albeit less severe symptoms two months ago with similar treatment (steroids), and that her other health issues (job-related stress and anxiety) contributed to the severity of her symptoms. Antibiotics and steroids for a little while, plus an ultrasound just to make sure the swollen lymph nodes aren’t due to any cancer (unlikely), and she’ll recover in a few weeks.
If she does have Mono, and she did get it from me, this leads me to wonder how I got it. You get that from other people’s body fluids, typically saliva, and if I didn’t have her full trust and confidence, this is where a spouse might suspect some unfaithful behavior. Definitely none from me, and she’d be even less likely to be unfaithful than I am (a tall order), so I know she didn’t get it from any funny business if it wasn’t from me. Most likely, one of us either ate someplace where something wasn’t as cleaned or sanitized as it should have been, or we spoke in close quarters with someone and some of their aerosolized saliva got breathed in by us. You’d think we’d know better in the age of COVID, but even borderline geniuses like us can be prone to moments of overwhelming stupidity, so maybe.
Either way, unless something worse comes up, she’s likely going to be fine with rest and medication. Thank you all for your support and well-wishes earlier; I think you’ll understand that I’m happy that they were unnecessary.
thank god she doesnt have it, may she have some good rest and some support from her great husband
