A Number of Hobbies Interrupted

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 up buried food. They may get the same kind of satisfaction as we get when we perfect a new skill, she says." Hmm, I wonder if that transfers to humans riding in self driving cars? "... the team found...

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 of course, a G scale boxcar. As to what made the improvement in my body, I don't know. Unless it was the eggnog flavor Walmart brand ice cream I got a couple days ago. I had some of that yesterday...

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 dollars spent later at hardware store for machine screws, hex nuts, eye screws, and a Dr Pepper for some more caffeine, got some of what was needed to make at least some progress on this locomotive and...

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 timed writing exercise to some manner of prompt. Prompts can be concepts, questions, words, groups of words, phrases, and so forth. Varying levels of adherence apply; sometimes a sentence must be used...

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 brain fog. Right? But ... Didn't want to go back the 2 miles home so went and hung out at our little library. Found in their book sale to raise money for furniture for new building soon being...

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 captioning! :) If you are in to books, this from the Smithsonian in 1994 is quite good; About the author: https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/lillian-dzmura-kozloski

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 life. I let out how I was really truly actually feeling deep inside with the frustrations of getting safe and accurate health care for this stuff and though I have had some good care here and there...

This caught my interest this morning, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/california-vintage-neon-sign-photo-model