Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[Sibyl]

46% of the total mass of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is JUST plastic fishing nets... but it seems that people stopped really caring about replacing things with hemp when places started legalizing recreational pot...

I don't give a rip about the psychedelic effects of pot. All I really care about are the industrial benefits of hemp in replacing papers and fabrics and other construction materials and the possibility of replacing fossil fuels, though I wish we could rid the world of all carbon-based fuels.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

I don't give a rip about the psychedelic effects of pot. All I really care about are the industrial benefits of hemp in replacing papers and fabrics and other construction materials and the possibility of replacing fossil fuels, though I wish we could rid the world of all carbon-based fuels.

I don't care for hemp in most cases, and I'm hugely skeptical of the alleged economic benefits (Ukraine has legal industrial hemp production, and what an economic powerhouse they are!) but replacing plastic fishing nets seems like a no-brainer even to me.

 

[RunningValkyrie]

My cat is lying in my lap. I have a conundrum: I need to brush my teeth and go to bed but I don’t want to disturb the cat as he is really purring away.

 

[think]

(Random) The plywood flooring is indeed an excellent substitute for the dirt floor 000 but yeah.

 

[Sibyl]

My cat is lying in my lap. I have a conundrum: I need to brush my teeth and go to bed but I don’t want to disturb the cat as he is really purring away.

My condolences.

What date and time will your funeral be?

 

[Sibyl]

I don't care for hemp in most cases, and I'm hugely skeptical of the alleged economic benefits (Ukraine has legal industrial hemp production, and what an economic powerhouse they are!) but replacing plastic fishing nets seems like a no-brainer even to me.

As with the psychedelic effects of pot, I don't care about the economic benefits of hemp. I care about the environmental benefits, of which there are many.

 

[Discofan]

The last time species were disappearing that fast was 65 million years ago when a giant meteor struck the Earth and caused terrible damages that it took about a hundred thousand years for the biosphere to recover from. In the meantime, Dinosaurs were wiped out for good and mammals that occupied until then a small niche at the bottom of the food chain were offered an unprecedented opportunity: Take over all the vacant niches left by the Dinosaurs that had dominated the Earth and contained the mammals in that ridiculous niche for one hundred and forty million years. Now, once more we may be about to take the place of the Dinosaurs, for good. Unlike the Dinos we don't need a meteor to go extinct, we can do it to ourselves.

 

[RunningValkyrie]

My condolences.

What date and time will your funeral be?

I should get one of those cat beds that you can tie around your waist and carry around.

 

[TribbleFeeder]

I hate watching videos on my phone or computer. It’s so annoying when people send them to me and expect me to watch them right away. They’re loud. I don’t like to voluntarily listen to things just because someone wants me to.

90% of the time I’ll just send a laughing emoji back without actually watching said video. No one has noticed yet.

 

[auntiehill]

Dear relative:

I don't meet the height requirement to ride your emotional rollercoaster.

 

[RunningValkyrie]

I’m looking forward to the weekend!

 

[Butters]

I’m looking forward to the weekend!

I’m always looking forward to the weekend,

Working this weekend though. Voluntarily. Doh.

 

[Gary7]

Don't know how I missed it, but totally didn't catch the news that Koko the gorilla died this past summer. Her birthday was on the 4th of July.

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She was such an amazing creature. The gentleness from this super powerful non-human being was just extraordinary. I don't know if they'll ever have another captive gorilla like her. She lived a lot longer (46 years!) than she would have being in the wild... so while some might argue the cruelty of captivity, providing the environment is benevolent and constructive, it can be a very good thing.

 

[Gary7]

 

[Discofan]

I used to have a cat a few years ago. I had him for a long time, nearly twenty years. When he died it was so painful that I decided never to get one again and so far I haven't changed my mind. When he slept on my lap, I would use both hands to lift him forklift truck style but very softly and he wouldn't wake up, I then put him down on a pillow nearby and he would stay asleep. I loved that cat.

 

[Sibyl]

I used to have a cat a few years ago. I had him for a long time, nearly twenty years. When he died it was so painful that I decided never to get one again and so far I haven't changed my mind. When he slept on my lap, I would use both hands to lift him forklift truck style but very softly and he wouldn't wake up, I then put him down on a pillow nearby and he would stay asleep. I loved that cat.

That's kind of how I've decided to continue my life after my Puppy died (she was almost 15 years old, and my very best friend in the world since I adopted her in 1999. She was one when I adopted her).

So far, I've not seriously considered adopting another dog, though I think about more and more cats all the time. First, I feel like I'd be trying to "replace" her, second, I no each dog has their own personality and I'll most likely never find another with the same bond she and I had, and third, the responsibility of taking a dog out several times a day, walking, and the guilt of being away from the house for even a few hours from time to time.

I love dogs (as well as cats and just about every furry animal), but I just can't bring myself to do it again. I may change my mind someday, but for now, I'm happy giving my cats all the love they want.

Oh, and I do the forklift thing all the time.

 

[Sibyl]

Sorry for the double-post, but this is completely unrelated to my last post.

I have a decision to make: I have something that is highly sought-after in the Trek community that I *think* I've decided to sell in order to fund something. Well, kind of an emergency-ish thing popped up (more of a highly-desired whimsy thing) that I'm considering selling my item to fund because I have no other way to fund it, and beyond the end of the year, the second item(s) will no longer be available.

Grrr...

Mods: No, I'm NOT selling anything on this site. It would all be done on relevant FB groups. I'm just thinking aloud here.

 

[Discofan]

Sorry for the double-post, but this is completely unrelated to my last post.

I have a decision to make: I have something that is highly sought-after in the Trek community that I *think* I've decided to sell in order to fund something. Well, kind of an emergency-ish thing popped up (more of a highly-desired whimsy thing) that I'm considering selling my item to fund because I have no other way to fund it, and beyond the end of the year, the second item(s) will no longer be available.

Grrr...

Mods: No, I'm NOT selling anything on this site. It would all be done on relevant FB groups. I'm just thinking aloud here.

I am a keeper, a packrat... I never sell and rarely throw anything. So I am not the one to ask about that...

 

[Gary7]

Sorry for the double-post, but this is completely unrelated to my last post.

I have a decision to make: I have something that is highly sought-after in the Trek community that I *think* I've decided to sell in order to fund something. Well, kind of an emergency-ish thing popped up (more of a highly-desired whimsy thing) that I'm considering selling my item to fund because I have no other way to fund it, and beyond the end of the year, the second item(s) will no longer be available.

Grrr...

Mods: No, I'm NOT selling anything on this site. It would all be done on relevant FB groups. I'm just thinking aloud here.

Well, if the item you have is something you could live without, and the one you're wanting would be more treasured, makes sense to do it. Question becomes, how do you sell the owned item in a way that is soon enough but also nets an excellent value from it. What's the item you're looking to get?

 

[Sibyl]

Well, if the item you have is something you could live without, and the one you're wanting would be more treasured, makes sense to do it. Question becomes, how do you sell the owned item in a way that is soon enough but also nets an excellent value from it. What's the item you're looking to get?

Agreed.

Tell you the truth...relative personal value is kind of a wash. It was something I was probably going to sell to fund something else, anyway, but after this new news I got, I may need to give up what I have to fund the NEW thing, but in the end, they're all related and could possibly net so much more.

Finding the appropriate group (and I have) is the way it would be funded in time (with any luck at all).

And I'm afraid that, due to my own worries and, frankly, selfishness, I cannot name the new item until after I have mine. I don't want to create a run on the item(s).