Tell us something positive from your day!
From winning the lottery to maybe just having a damn fine cup of coffee this morning. Not from the news, but something you experienced.
Share the little wins.
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My project degoogling is working as expected… even if is not completed yet. I already have a “Google drive”, “Google Photos” and “Google Docs” replacement, and trying to figure out how to implement a “google maps” (with timeline) replacement and some kind of note taking and password manager… All running locally on an upgraded old PC, but can access it with my phone via VPN
Though is been a lot of work I think is positive for me for the feeling of getting back a bit of control from the horrible, horrible web 2.0+ (now with Extra ~NFT~ AI!). It doesn’t hurt that also gives me “work creds” to know how to deploy dockers and similar crap 
(also did a netflix replacement 
, but that one is usually more common)
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This morning, bed was extremely comfy and I did not want to get up. But my doggo came in to say good morning so I rolled over to give him some scratches around the ears and said hello and asked how his night was. He responded in his way and then rubbed his face against the bed and took a few steps away and smiled at me.
I tried to reach him to give him more scratches and called him to come over, but he stayed just out of reach, still smiling. It was his way of letting me know it was time to get my ass out of bed and start the day. He’s very good at quiet encouragement.
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If I had a dog that could bring me coffee, I wouldn’t mind how early they woke me up.
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After several hours of color mixing and painting today, kiddo is officially ready for Halloween tomorrow:
Well, almost ready: need to cut some eye holes and paint the mesh to match, but that will be a few minutes’ work.
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Nice work!
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Lemme tell you, doing color matches and variations with $10 worth of half-used acrylics from the junk store was quite the challenge. Definitely putting this one in the win column for that alone.
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Kudos! We always cheated with Etsy shops selling printable Minecraft heads.
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That’s a win 
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My friend Marcelo helped me finish off the catio to keep the cats contained but still allow them some outside time. He’s a much better carpenter than me. Now the asshole neighbor isn’t able to blame my cats for the poops in the entryway and maybe everyone will start looking at the house dog Palomo, which I’ve been saying for months.
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I slept for ~12 hours.
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Woah.
Witchcraft!
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Red dot sticker, I was happy to be included in the exhibition, selling a couple of drawings was a real boost. More drawing today.
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I like it. Congratulations!
My big accomplishment yesterday was finally using a second round of the felt pads that I bought long ago to stop a chair from scratching a wooden floor. The adhesive on the pads didn’t stick last time, so this time I used super glue. Fingers crossed!
Today’s big accomplishment? Hmm, maybe I can go without one…
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I scored a free Baratza Encore coffee grinder from a neighbor. They were giving it away on the local “Buy Nothing” group because it was not grinding consistently. Turns out the only problem was that a $5 sacrificial part had sacrificed itself.
Anyway I ordered a new part and soon I will have a $150 coffee grinder for all of $10 including shipping. I’m quite excited since it will pair well with our free semi-working espresso machine.
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I love when just a simple repair makes something worth having again.
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Today I managed to cook for myself… more or less. The cleaning lady left some arepas for me, and I decided to try and make some kind of “arepa pizza”, with a couple mushrooms, grated cheese, bacon and a bit of chorizo I had lying around.
Not my best work but I think is the first thing I cook for myself in… two months?
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Despite an exhausting week, that brought me to tears and inaction more than once. I have a small, an a HUGE win.
- The small win is I was able to reconnect with an american friend whom I lost contact when I left facebook. He’s on the old side and finds difficult to use other platforms. We had a very heartfelt conversation and (hopefully) raised each other spirits (it sure raised mine).
- The huge win is I managed to sing in front of 300 people for a benefic recital. It was exhausting, compounded with the fact that to be able to attend the practices and trainings I had to comp the hours, I probably clocked nearly 60 hours this week between the job and the choir - I know, that’s nothing in american hours. I left the recital with more energy than I entered, wondering why I could not do this for my job instead of the soul sucking, mind numbing, joy depriving tasks I perform usually (the short answer is: it doesn’t pay the bills. The shorter answer is: capitalism)
I was this close to not being able to attend the concert (last minute breakdown before leaving home) and would not have been the first time I had to skip one, despite how much I enjoy them, because the enourmous amount of energy you need to put forward to be there in the first place. And I know it will sound tacky, but thank you guys. This forum has been feeding me a steady dose of virtual hugs, good music, memes, and empathy, and helped build a small reservoir of goodwill I can tap for this kind of things, so know that if today rains in Barcelona because of our singing, it is partly your fault
PD: You can hear a couple of the songs here.
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Magnificent! And congratulations!
Thank you for sharing. Was that you doing a “meow” in the first one? Are the lyrics about a cat?
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No. I’m the fat guy sitting right, that does the cat gesture at the end.
The song is about a “mestressa” (lit mistress, in this sense the female owner of a farm) and a “Cabrer” (goat herder, probably employed by the mestressa to keep the farm herds) doing something something noisy (they “make the bed and make again”). When the “amo” (lit the master, but in this sense the male owner of the farm and also assumed in this case, the husband) comes back from the market and hears the noise he asks from the outside “mestressa, que es això ha estat?” (“mistress, what is it that was happening here?”) and she answers “això haurà estat el gat” (“that must have been the cat!”) and she makes the meow.
In this song we were supposed to go through motions as if we were gossiping, hence our exaggerated gestures all along.
This song was a traditional tavern song in the oral tradition of Northern Catalonia and first recorded by etnologist Kristin MĂĽller in 1965 in Beguet, Girona.
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