Joys And Sorrows

DDeer · Post by **DDeer** » Sat Mar 08, 2025 2:55 pm

A great synopsis Weston, interesting your point regarding the faces, I must confess I found the inconsistency and sometimes unflattering drawing style of the faces a little off putting at first but I soon found myself too absorbed by the tale to take issue with it. It is touching how one of the technicians took Laika home to spend time with his family and be a normal dog for a short while.

I always wondered if the gift of the puppies was more of a gloat from khrushchev but I don’t know enough of the history on that front, it could have been more of a reconciliatory gesture. Apparently the descendants of the puppy lived with Kennedy family members and some were given away to local children, direct descendants of these dogs are still living with families in America.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:07 pm

Rising to your thought about the puppy, DDeer, it's what my Quaker mother used to call a "calculated ambiguity", a comment or action that can be taken several often conflicting and contray ways. The gift is both charming but also, as you suggest, a subtle taunt. I'm glad to know the little dog's descendents are still among us.

There are verifications of the story of Laika being taken home by one of the officers to spend some "play time" with a family before her final, lonely journey. There are also indepndent verifications of the story of "Gypsy", a previous "cosmo-pup" before Kudryavka who was adopted by a scientist named Blagonravov who had taken a shine to her. Apparently, Gypsy's partner, a mutt named Dezik, died in an earlier accident. In fact, in a book titled Laika's Window, that author (whom I forget) mentions the fates of several of the dogs "Mistress Yelena" introduces to the Designer and his colleagues while she's showing them off and explaining how each one got her name.

Again, I'm delighted you enjoyed the book. A great weekend to you and Mrs. Deer.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Mar 08, 2025 10:10 pm

Joy: Tomorrow we are going over to my great aunt's house to celebrate her birthday even though it is a month later than her birthday is so its gonna be a nice get-together as the reason we are doing it now is because her daughter (my mother's first cousin) had surgery and was recovering from it.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sun Mar 09, 2025 5:19 pm

Enjoy!! Happy Birthday to her.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Mar 10, 2025 2:51 am

Joy: Had a really nice time at my grandaunts house for her birthday and the lasagna that my mother made was delicious even if the oven over there did give us issues since it didn't heat it up fully at first.

GingaDensetsuAleu · Post by **GingaDensetsuAleu** » Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:52 pm

Joy: creative energy recharged!
Sorrow: gotta get up for work in 8 hours

Curses!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Mar 11, 2025 4:32 am

Sorrow/Annoyance: No matter how hard I try to go to bed at a reasonable time, I end up procrastinating with it. Thus it gets pushed back further and further until I get LESS than 7 hours of sleep.

GingaDensetsuAleu · Post by **GingaDensetsuAleu** » Thu Mar 13, 2025 7:27 pm

Joy: I was in the zone today, I popped out 2 1/2 chapters and started planning a third chapter in my head. This story is coming out GOOD.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Mar 13, 2025 8:10 pm

Annoyance: At work today out of the blue my eyes just started ITCHING and being irritated. I am not sure what triggered it or how it happened but I spent an hour rubbing my eyes almost raw trying to get them to stop so I could get work done because I couldn't focus on anything else.

HiraokaNettoMichio · Post by **HiraokaNettoMichio** » Fri Mar 14, 2025 2:09 pm

Illness: upper respiratory problems with me and my biological family. At least I don't have the runs like the other family members.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Mar 14, 2025 8:08 pm

Fear: I am SERIOUSLY considering cancelling my plans to go to my sister's wedding in North Carolina after hearing what ELSE happened in the world of aviation. Why are SO many incidents happening now!? Now I have to worry about a plane catching fire.

DDeer · Post by **DDeer** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:58 am

Sorrow, currently have a heavy cold, very much not bright eyed and bushy tailed.

Joy, rereading Moondust by Andrew Smith, a fantastic book about the lives of the Apollo Astronauts. As much about the human condition as it is about the programme itself, fascinating. What each astronaut did after their missions is particularly intriguing, they all went in widely differing directions both in terms of careers and general outlook. I highly recommend it.

HiraokaNettoMichio · Post by **HiraokaNettoMichio** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 9:55 pm

Sorrow: Strained relationship from the furry that gave me hope. He stated I need therapy but the family I'm living with refuses to get me the help that I actually need to begin with.

Determination: I'll see if I can write something that would allow me to go out in a sonic boom before I stop writing fan fiction all together.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Mar 16, 2025 12:49 pm

Concern: I am running low on my medication that I take and my pharmacy said they would contact my prescriber for a refill i only have one day left and I am not sure if they will get in touch with the doctor in time and I will have to go without.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sun Mar 16, 2025 2:37 pm

Understand. I submit refills when I have ten days dosages left because my doctors are often tardy in responding. Isn't there an AI that can do this?

Welsh Halfwit · Post by **Welsh Halfwit** » Sun Mar 16, 2025 4:04 pm

NHWestoN wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 2:37 pm Understand. I submit refills when I have ten days dosages left because my doctors are often tardy in responding. Isn't there an AI that can do this?

I've seen the 'fun' AI can cause. You don't want it doing your perscriptions.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sun Mar 16, 2025 7:30 pm

Yer wisdom much`ppreciated, Welsh. Y'ud think I'd known better'n to say something that naive, what with all the "fun" this mechanism already provides me.

IsraeliDisneyFan · Post by **IsraeliDisneyFan** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:04 am

Hope: today I'm going to a doctor appointment for review, I hope that everything is good and running, and there is already a schedule to do the screenings for eliminating the cancer tiny bit remains and I hope by the end of April I will be cancer-free, I'm really hopeful everything will go according to plan!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 2:21 pm

Relief: While my psychologist couldn't give me a script to get anxiety medication because I haven't seen him in a while, my primary care doctor was MORE than happy to write me a script so I won't be having a meltdown on the plane in April.

HiraokaNettoMichio · Post by **HiraokaNettoMichio** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 10:59 pm

Joy: Decided to not retire from writing fan fiction since my trustworthy furry and I are still on good terms and all.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Mar 18, 2025 12:21 am

Annoyance: Despite the fact that I didn't want to take a nap today during the day, I ended up doing it anyway and now its almost time for me to go to bed again and I feel like I wasted the day for some reason if that makes sense.

IsraeliDisneyFan · Post by **IsraeliDisneyFan** » Thu Mar 20, 2025 2:53 am

Sorrow: Sometimes living in Israel makes me depressed

HiraokaNettoMichio · Post by **HiraokaNettoMichio** » Thu Mar 20, 2025 1:53 pm

Sorrow: Feeling mentally unwell, to the point of considering... I don't want to actually say it but it's to the point of where I have nothing to live for.

I haven't done anything to anyone recently, but I just feel that mentally ill. I'll see how long I can go on before it gets to the point of my removal.

HiraokaNettoMichio · Post by **HiraokaNettoMichio** » Fri Mar 21, 2025 4:15 pm

Challenge: Stimulants are being in very short supply in the states. That would be needed to get me off the stuff overall and hopefully in a functional state to where I don't need it.

But I'm still having to contend with everything else in my life.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Mar 21, 2025 7:56 pm

Sorrow: My uncle is now in hospice and from what my mother told me he doesn't have long to live especially as she said he has just given up on life.

GingaDensetsuAleu · Post by **GingaDensetsuAleu** » Sat Mar 22, 2025 2:36 am

Amazee Dayzee wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 7:56 pm Sorrow: My uncle is now in hospice and from what my mother told me he doesn't have long to live especially as she said he has just given up on life.

I'm so sorry to hear that

IsraeliDisneyFan · Post by **IsraeliDisneyFan** » Sat Mar 22, 2025 3:56 am

Sorrow: there are moments when I feel boring or unimportant or rather unwanted

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sat Mar 22, 2025 10:06 am

A friend of mine in church lost his last remaining brother last month. They had been estranged since the turn of the century, mostly over an accumulation of bitsy-snitsy trivias, but G's efforts to restore their relationship met with tepid "maybes" and continued silences. He found out about the funeral details through a cousin, not the immediate family, and they treated him with a kind of "stiff correctness" at the final service.

He's still mourning and very glum. Being a former High School classmate of mine, we're both seventy-eight years old and both the last of the boomer generation in our families. There's a certain loneliness and melancholy that descends upon you in that situation, and G's in all the harder because he has three divorces (one deceased former, the other two estranged as well), no children, and is pretty much destitute. Very sad.

Maybe all this has put me in something of a Lenten mood but, friends, now is a good time to think about reconciliations.

There comes a time when there's no more time.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Mar 22, 2025 12:21 pm

Uncertainty: Haven't heard anything about my uncle so I don't know if he made it through the night and not sure if him still being alive when he basically gave up on life is a good thing or a bad thing.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sun Mar 23, 2025 3:48 pm

Prayers and hopes, Amazz. How's he doing?

IsraeliDisneyFan · Post by **IsraeliDisneyFan** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 1:40 am

Joy: today I finally defeated this stupid cancer!!! how I waited for that moment to happen!!!

GingaDensetsuAleu · Post by **GingaDensetsuAleu** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 2:55 am

IsraeliDisneyFan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 1:40 am Joy: today I finally defeated this stupid cancer!!! how I waited for that moment to happen!!!

Congrats! Huzzah!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:48 am

Ba-RRRRaVOOO, Is !! We're all rejoicing with you! Get it gone, pal!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 4:29 pm

Sorrow: My uncle finally succumbed to his COPD.

CunningFox · Post by **CunningFox** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 5:08 pm

Condolences, Dayzee.

GingaDensetsuAleu · Post by **GingaDensetsuAleu** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 6:24 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 4:29 pm Sorrow: My uncle finally succumbed to his COPD.

So sorry to hear that.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Mar 27, 2025 2:39 am

Thank you for all the condolences as they really mean a lot. I am just glad that he is not suffering anymore because when I last saw him he kept saying he wanted to go.

Annoyance: Really wishing that the weather would begin to warm u over here as we are now 1 week into Spring and its still kind of cold outside but no where near it was during the Winter.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Thu Mar 27, 2025 9:41 am

Amazee Dayzee wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 4:29 pm Sorrow: My uncle finally succumbed to his COPD.

Regrets and prayers, Amazz.
... but ... it's sunny today in New England, so there's that.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Mar 27, 2025 12:11 pm

It may be sunny out right now but is it warm outside with there being no chill in the air at all? I want to feel the warmth without having cold air blowing intermittently.

Sorrow: Feeling kind of groggy after waking up and I had to get up because I am going to work today.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sat Mar 29, 2025 2:16 pm

IsraeliDisneyFan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 3:56 am Sorrow: there are moments when I feel boring or unimportant or rather unwanted

Defeating cancer's pretty important!!