u/lelanicarver

Has anyone else been interrupted while working by itinerant street preachers?

Just me? Here’s the story.

I was working on my mainland parcel, which is on a roadside. While tinkering with an old mesh sofa project, suddenly someone flashed through my eyeline.

It’s disturbing to cam out to normal view, only to find a scruffy 2 day old guy with no payment on file, standing thisclose to me. He was wearing a fully animated “unhoused person” avatar, and dropping many lines of evangelistic text into local chat.

My response: “Um, hello.”

Preacher: (kept on preachin’)

Me: “Are you shopping for DFS items or hats?”

Preacher: (Bibble babble hats farm bibble babble”

Me: “I’m working on something here.”

Preacher: exit, stage left

Me: bans from parcel, sets parcel to also exclude no payment on file, and no avatars under 30 days.

Disclaimer: have attended services inworld many times, and always stop off at churches, temples, & shrines. I just was startled and felt annoyed to be barged in on by a bloke with a beard and a Bible.

So are roving evangelists uncommon on other continents? I’ve never encountered one before.

A sports comedy with genuinely funny takes on life, friends, and aging disgracefully.

Don’t look at the cast list before watching. Let the setup scenes reveal the players. The lead is a classic That Guy; you may have seen him, or confused him with Oscar Isaac. Everyone else is also a major or minor legend.

The script is tightly paced and the humor feels natural, and I honestly laughed a lot.

It’s on AppleTV, so if you’re looking to watch something funny with good character developments and callbacks while waiting for Ted Lasso S4E5 to drop, this is a good fit.

If there’s a fanfic that covers this, apologies. I like to imagine how the news broke when JPG&R returned with the taumeba solution.

What was going on? There were people standing outside, at least 5 police cars/SUVs, an ambulance and fire truck, and another ambulance arriving as we went past.

Hi all! The announcement about old content and creators not logging in has got me motivated.

My oldest products are, frankly, horribly dated and need to be retired if not sh*tcanned. To get more practice in Blender, I’m going to recreate each product in mesh and send updates to anyone kind enough to have bought the old stuff. It would be nice to find that some of them are still around.

To me it seems LL’s plans seem like a good way to declutter. Do you find it to be infuriating, because of the sheer volume of work? Or is it galvanizing?

I haven’t made a completely new item and listed it in YEARS, just reselling no-copy stuff. So for me, it seems like a good framework for clearing out my mental cobwebs.

What are other creators who haven’t been as active feeling? Has any inspiration borne of desperation hit?

For context, I grew up in Utah (as a “Non”). And the Salt Lake Trib still calls women who say they never wanted kids “childless.”

We don’t feel the lack of children, we’re free of the expectation to have them.

“Utah is a leading example of a demographic transformation that is sweeping the United States and other rich countries, as young women increasingly delay childbearing. As the trend deepens, the worry is that more women would forgo having children altogether, a choice that could have serious consequences for the country, economically and politically. For the first time, about half of all 30-year-old women are childless.”

We’re childfree, journalists. Pleeeeeeese make a note of it.

Climbing off my childhood spring-loaded high horse to email the organizers of my 50th high school reunion a short bio, as I’m not going.

I’ll definitely use the word “childfree.”

Wheeeeeee!

Cops and men in high-vis vests were directing traffic at all the stoplights as far as I could see in either direction. Was there some kind of construction mishap affecting the lights?

Edit: on our way back, all the cop cars were still stationed at all the cross streets as far as I could see, and Golf itself had no traffic at all.

Sune at FoodGeek has a new blogpost up, describing the stages and signs of bulk fermentation.

He’s a great source of tested information that takes a lot of the mystery out of baking sourdough. His videos are well produced, and I’ve been following since the COVID times.

How many miracle balms or creams have you tried for pain, burning, or tingling on your affected side?

What supplements have you tried for nerve health?

At just over a year after a rightside basal ganglia ischemic stroke, I’m still dealing with the burning tinglies (aka the stinglies) on my left side. Complicating matters, 2 EMGs confirmed that I have carpal tunnel in BOTH hands, probably triggered by putting too much weight on the walker handles or parellel bars during daily inpatient PT/OT rehab.

I get relief before bedtime by using an electric massage wand on my left hand, arm, & shoulder, but the stinglies often get triggered. Left arm often feels like I’m wearing a heavy, prickly steel mesh gauntlet from back of the hand and palm to shoulder. It’s not too bad today. I also have tight muscles in left side and hip, and my hip also looks tilted on left side. The scalp and face numbness is almost gone.

Here’s a list of balms and “nerve support” creams I’ve tried:

Mama Bear Oasis - doesn’t work, smells nice
Luna Nerve Balm - ditto
Dragon Balm Super Strength, ditto but smells rank
Magnum Solace Nighttime Magnesium Lotion
- smells very nice, some relief
Frost Aid - doesn’t work, smells nice
Wise Men Balm - doesn’t work, good for massage

The problem may be in a pinched nerve in neck/cervical spine. 2 neurologists noted this after confirming carpal tunnel, didn’t suggest anything to address it.

I do various stretches I learned in OT but also a few from YT or Facebook, and get some relief, but frustrated too.

Supplements:

Amla (Indian gooseberry) caps
Turmeric caps
B complex
Alpha lipoic acid gummies
Ginger extract gummies

My symptoms are improving, very slowly. Any suggestions to try welcomed. A friend of mine recommended her chiropractor, but I don’t have much faith in them. Perhaps an osteopath?