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Blog entries by southwestforests
From the, "You know, animals can be pretty smart", files.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220721-scientists-have-trained-rats-to-drive-tiny-cars-to-collect-food/
That bit is quite interesting,
"... showing that rats become less stressed after they master difficult tasks like digging...
Am unsure what exactly made the change, but late last night I went from from having a fibromyalgia flare to being able to do a bit of midnight boxcar building on a 1950s, 1960s, HO scale kit a friend gave me some time ago.
It is of a rather different size than the little G scale locomotive, and...
Just came across someone on Tumblr posting link to this
https://mecfsskeptic.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/why-the-cochrane-review-on-exercise-therapy-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-is-still-misleading/
Seen just now in an autistic blogger's post over on Tumblr, https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/328/feature/working-our-terms-not-yours
Well, it was more progress than it would have been had it been less progress than it was.
Even though it is a grey rainy afternoon I made progress today :)
10 minutes of progress.
And I'm a happy camper.
Sunny morning today and I made it out to creative writers group weekly meeting.
A few...
The subject of creative writing from a select assortment of words arose earlier tonight as a bit of a tangential topic in a thread about using last two letters of the previous word to form a new word.
The local creative writing group I'm in meets Saturdays and we usually do a 15 to 20 minute...
Ahh, some days ... :headslap::rofl:
Creative writers group meets at Taylor's Bake Shop 10:00 am every Saturday.
Support group for grief and a few other things meets at Taylor's Bake Shop 1:00 pm first and third Wednesdays.
Guess who arrived at 10am the third Wednesday ...
Blame it on the...
Hey Y'all;
Excuse me for about an hour while I do some space geeking with this presentation from NASA about their new spacesuits;
https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2019_1015_Introducing%20Artemis%20Generation%20Spacesuits
:):rocket:
And the 54 minute video can even be downloaded with...
Oh dear ...... I sure didn't see that coming at Sunday school.
Nope.
At the beginning of it we do a thing of everybody takes a turn, if desired, for a minute or two to tell about happy happenings, seek support for less than happy happenings, or just generally say hey here's current news from my...
This caught my interest this morning,
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/california-vintage-neon-sign-photo-model
Splurged on a LEGO set. I'm not entirely sure why it is the price it is, thirty-six dollars, maybe because it uses a large percentage of specially shaped parts other than basic rectangular blocks.
It isn't built yet, might take me a few days.
And it didn't get started on when I got it home...
A new grief support group my friend Liz's church started was indeed worth going to Wednesday.
It also is in same place, the meeting room in a local bake shop, where on Saturday mornings we have creative writers group, which Liz is moderator of after Judy died in June.
Then I went to library and...