Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Zloth]

He was also hilariously really scared of any animal bigger than him, like horses. Told me why. Apparently he went to Spain on holiday and took a horse ride, but the horse got a bit panicky. 'So. I punched it in the side of the 'ed'.

I assume you called him "Mongo" from then on?

 

[February's Ghost]

I assume you called him "Mongo" from then on?

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

I assume you called him "Mongo" from then on?

I believe the horse won, hence the lifetime fear of them. It was just they way he said it, like it was the most natural thing you would do.

He was actually a really decent kind of fella, not scary at all despite how it sounds.

 

[ZedClampet]

OH MY!

CoPilot just told me it didn't know the answer to a question.

That's a pretty significant milestone.

 

[February's Ghost]

OH MY!

CoPilot just told me it didn't know the answer to a question.

That's a pretty significant milestone.

Ha! I got that beat. I don't know the answer to a whole bunch of questions.

 

[ZedClampet]

Ha! I got that beat. I don't know the answer to a whole bunch of questions.

How often do you then fabricate convincing lies to tell the person who asked the question? We might need to get you into their training program. I'm signed up for the third week of March.

******

Speaking of AI, I wanted to see what it was like to make an AI video. I imagined it was awful, but you never know. So I wanted to try picture to video, so I made a picture of Santa Claus, and then I uploaded it to the video program. Very carefully, I told the AI to make Santa laugh and his belly jiggle. Then I hit generate!

90 minutes later I watched my new video. It was like something out of The Exorcist. Santa did everything but spit green vomit.

I decided I was done with AI videos.

 

[Zloth]

That's a pretty significant milestone.

It is! You would think they could slap some sort of confidence level on their responses, but I guess not. Still, there has to be something going on in the background to be able to say it can't give a response.

 

[February's Ghost]

How often do you then fabricate convincing lies to tell the person who asked the question? We might need to get you into their training program. I'm signed up for the third week of March.

I've never had to fabricate a convincing lie. I have a duffel bag full of convincing lies I found near some abandoned factory with all sorts of weird symbols painted everywhere and the phrase "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" in several spots. Not sure what that means, but whatever.

Anyway, anytime I need a convincing lie I just pull one out of the duffel bag. Always seems to be just the lie I need and the bag hasn't run out even after 27 years since I found it.

 

[ZedClampet]

One time many years ago, I was struggling with severe depression. Several things had happened, and I was not just depressed, but very down on myself. I felt like a failure and was even embarrassed to be around my wife's family. One day I was sitting silently with my father-in-law in their kitchen, and out of nowhere he reached over, placed his hand on my back, and said quietly, "You're a good son-in-law," and then he got up and left the table, gently squeezing my shoulder as he left.

He didn't share any wisdom. He didn't give me any advice. But to this day I can remember those words and feel lifted up.

He passed away 10 years ago. I just felt the need for a little tribute.

 

[BeardyHat]

I hate my week.

It is completely full (at least, until Thursday, I'm pretty sure...) of routine breaking things going on. It (along with many other things) is causing me no end of anxiety; I absolutely hate breaking my routine and I'm trying to figure out just how I'll get through today, tomorrow and Wednesday without melting down.

That's a bit of an exaggeration, as I will just do it, but I'll be hella anxious leading up to all of it.

I've also started digging a tench in my backyard... I got really into this RC Rock Crawler Hobby a month or two ago, sparked by my oldest receiving one for Christmas, as they hadn't stopped talking about it all year and saying they wanted one. Rock crawling is something I've been into in general since my teens, so this wasn't a huge step for me, really. But my wife gave me the go-ahead to make some alterations to a little used portion of the backyard--and actually, has entrusted me to redesign the front yard for crawling--so I've begun to scrape away the river rock, cut through the weed barrier and begin digging. I'm intending to fill it with plastic, then rock on top and maybe get some larger rocks to run the sides of it. I'll then fill it with water and connect it to the rest of my course.

But I just want to sing the praises of my wife here; what a tolerant, loving, woman. Not only does she tolerate my numerous hobbies, but actively supports and encourages them. I was trying to keep my coarse to a smaller, out of the way location in the backyard when just the other day she said I should do this trench idea and use up some more of our available space that is just rocked over. On top of telling me to redesign the front yard around crawling, but "make it pretty" (of which, I have every intention). And again, this is further on top of the fact that she's been our sole breadwinner for the past 7 years so that I could be a stay at home parent. Not to mention, she deals with my constant anxiety and the days where I'm depressed and just completely useless. Dunno how I managed to find a woman like her and continually have her in my life the last 17 years.

 

[February's Ghost]

90 minutes later I watched my new video. It was like something out of The Exorcist. Santa did everything but spit green vomit.

I decided I was done with AI videos.

Dude, that was worse than staring into the abyss. That was winking at the abyss and inviting it to dinner.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I hate my week.

It is completely full (at least, until Thursday, I'm pretty sure...) of routine breaking things going on. It (along with many other things) is causing me no end of anxiety; I absolutely hate breaking my routine and I'm trying to figure out just how I'll get through today, tomorrow and Wednesday without melting down.

That's a bit of an exaggeration, as I will just do it, but I'll be hella anxious leading up to all of it.

I've also started digging a tench in my backyard... I got really into this RC Rock Crawler Hobby a month or two ago, sparked by my oldest receiving one for Christmas, as they hadn't stopped talking about it all year and saying they wanted one. Rock crawling is something I've been into in general since my teens, so this wasn't a huge step for me, really. But my wife gave me the go-ahead to make some alterations to a little used portion of the backyard--and actually, has entrusted me to redesign the front yard for crawling--so I've begun to scrape away the river rock, cut through the weed barrier and begin digging. I'm intending to fill it with plastic, then rock on top and maybe get some larger rocks to run the sides of it. I'll then fill it with water and connect it to the rest of my course.

But I just want to sing the praises of my wife here; what a tolerant, loving, woman. Not only does she tolerate my numerous hobbies, but actively supports and encourages them. I was trying to keep my coarse to a smaller, out of the way location in the backyard when just the other day she said I should do this trench idea and use up some more of our available space that is just rocked over. On top of telling me to redesign the front yard around crawling, but "make it pretty" (of which, I have every intention). And again, this is further on top of the fact that she's been our sole breadwinner for the past 7 years so that I could be a stay at home parent. Not to mention, she deals with my constant anxiety and the days where I'm depressed and just completely useless. Dunno how I managed to find a woman like her and continually have her in my life the last 17 years.

Thankfully the only routines I have to worry about breaking anymore are my own personal ones, as I'm retired. Still though, as I'm trying to get back in shape for mt biking, I have found the planned routine at the local gym isn't going to work out for me, as they are definitely the shame, blame and suck you into hr sessions game type place, not for me. So now my routine lately has become using one of my rather stout 10mm carabiner clip equipped bungies I bought a while ago. I use it to do resistance band exercises each morn for upper body while I wait for the spin bike I bought to arrive. The bungie is a temp get me by while I wait for the resistance band set I want to get back in stock. I have no shame btw in using the stainless steel senior grab bars on the bathtub wall to hook the bungie to for some of the exercises. I DO use them as well for grab bars while bathing anyway. LOL

It's basically planned to be 15 min of resistance band workout ,then 15 min of spin bike intervals, after my morn stretch routine. I must say, even though the stout bungie is a get me by, it's worked out my shoulders enough to cause a fair bit of scapular pain in my right shoulder, the one I suffered a separation in years ago from an OTB crash on one of my previous mt bikes. It makes it very hard to do long gaming sessions, as the inflammation causes pain from my shoulder blade to my elbow and even Ulnar nerve in my right (mouse) hand. It makes the frequent spawnings of hostile patrols in STALKER 2 aggravating enough to cause cussing fits.

None the less, I continue with the bungie workouts daily, and just received a nice little hot/cold shoulder wrap I bought yesterday. I also should be getting the spin bike today. However it won't be for another month and a half or so before I get the resistance band set. I'm hoping the shoulder wrap and setting ADS to toggle will help immensely in heavy fire fights.

Shoulder Wrap

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HY1V9M7?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Resistance Band Set

Product details-Bodylastics

app.gohighlevel.com

Spin Bike (I paid $175 for it)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2RRKJQR?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

RC Toys are getting to be pretty cool lately. I found a video the other day of a guy that was testing one of the better stunt trucks, at a pretty elaborate stunt track, and was doing some very good stunts. He was doing effortless double back flips, largely because the thing had so much torque he could fine tune the rotation in mid air with throttle bursts.

Can you imagine if someone made the mistake of bringing a hyperactive dog along with them while doing such stunts.

 

[BeardyHat]

Thankfully the only routines I have to worry about breaking anymore are my own personal ones, as I'm retired. Still though, as I'm trying to get back in shape for mt biking, I have found the planned routine at the local gym isn't going to work out for me, as they are definitely the shame, blame and suck you into hr sessions game type place, not for me. So now my routine lately has become using one of my rather stout 10mm carabiner clip equipped bungies I bought lately to do resistance band exercises each morn for upper body while I wait for the spin bike I bought to arrive. The bungie is a temp get me by while I wait for the resistance band set I want to get back in stock. I have no shame btw in using the stainless steel senior grab bars on the bathtub wall to hook the bungie to for some of the exercises. I DO use them as well for grab bars while bathing anyway. LOL

It's basically planned to be 15 min of resistance band workout ,then 15 min of spin bike intervals, after my morn stretch routine. I must say, even though the stout bungie is a get me by, it's worked out my shoulders enough to cause a fair bit of scapular pain in my right shoulder, the one I suffered a separation in years ago from an OTB crash on one of my previous mt bikes. It makes it very hard to do long gaming sessions, as the inflammation causes pain from my shoulder blade to my elbow and even Ulnar nerve in my right (mouse) hand. It makes the frequent spawnings of hostile patrols in STALKER 2 aggravating enough to cause cussing fits.

None the less, I continue with the bungie workouts daily, and just received a nice little hot/cold shoulder wrap I bought yesterday. I also should be getting the spin bike today. However it won't be for another month and a half or so before I get the resistance band set. I'm hoping the shoulder wrap and setting ADS to toggle will help immensely in heavy fire fights.

Shoulder Wrap

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HY1V9M7?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Resistance Band Set

Product details-Bodylastics

app.gohighlevel.com

Spin Bike (I paid $175 for it)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2RRKJQR?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

RC Toys are getting to be pretty cool lately. I found a video the other day of a guy that was testing one of the better stunt trucks, at a pretty elaborate stunt track, and was doing some very good stunts. He was doing effortless double back flips, largely because the thing had so much torque he could fine tune the rotation in mid air with throttle bursts.

Can you imagine if someone made the mistake of bringing a hyperactive dog along with them while doing such stunts.

I feel you on the shoulder pain and the fact that it interferes with a hobby is damn frustrating. I've had arthritis in my knees since I was a teen and while it can be excruciating at times, I've started developing RSI or Carpel Tunnel in my hands this last year and it's made it more difficult to game. My sister is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, so I've got some exercises from her I can do, but I continually forget to do them; I need to get on it though, as I fear being able to continue my hobbies of painting minis, working on cars (and RC cars) and gaming as I age.

My brother(s) in law have some basher style RC cars like that and yeah, the dogs hate them! I'm more into the slow stuff, personally. I really enjoy the strategy of tackling obstacles and being able to think through my lines and tire placement, plus I don't need a ton of space for my little mini crawler!

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nn05ogkqD3Q

 

[Frag Maniac]

I feel you on the shoulder pain and the fact that it interferes with a hobby is damn frustrating. I've had arthritis in my knees since I was a teen and while it can be excruciating at times, I've started developing RSI or Carpel Tunnel in my hands this last year and it's made it more difficult to game. My sister is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, so I've got some exercises from her I can do, but I continually forget to do them; I need to get on it though, as I fear being able to continue my hobbies of painting minis, working on cars (and RC cars) and gaming as I age.

My brother(s) in law have some basher style RC cars like that and yeah, the dogs hate them! I'm more into the slow stuff, personally. I really enjoy the strategy of tackling obstacles and being able to think through my lines and tire placement, plus I don't need a ton of space for my little mini crawler!

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nn05ogkqD3Q

Yeah, you definitely need space and a fairly elaborate track for the stunt stuff. I like the crawling too, and it reminds me at times of the nasty forestry roads I've encountered while doing mt bike rides. There was a ride I wanted to do in Oregon on a 6000' high trail called Gunsight Ridge. I had planned to drive up the forestry road to a campsite at a meadow as a better starting point. The staff at the nearby ranger stationed warned they recommend only high clearance 4X4s on that road, as it hadn't been maintained since the 20s.

As gung ho as I'd been with my little '79 Corolla though, with it's truck-like leaf spring rear suspension, I wanted to try it anyway. I basically took it real slow and made sure my tires were up on the ridges on either side of the ruts. There was one tricky spot where I got a small dent in my gas tank, but other than that, smooth sailing and no traction issues. I stopped on the shoulder of a paved road after finishing the ride and coming back down to look under the hood, just to make sure my hoses and stuff were not leaking, as there was a bit of twisting and jarring at times. A sheriff vehicle pulled over and told me they don't allow people to stop on the shoulder to check their vehicles. It's OK I thought, as I'd already verified there were no leaks.

 

[neogunhero]

I’ve been using the Brave browser on my phone for little over a month, and I’m still loving it. For all of the minor quirks and inconveniences it gives me, it more than makes up for it with a much better web browsing experience.

Other browsers probably has the same features, but I've never used a browser that has built in adblock, tracking prevention, and paywall bypass. I'm able to read every news site without ads and without being annoyed that I have to pay a sub to access it. It has honestly made browsing the web so much easier for me, not to mention faster as well.