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The best advice I have for strumming patterns is to just listen to the song and try and just focus on the rhythm. Down strokes sound a little beefier and up strokes are a little more jangly. I'm terrible at identifying chords by ear but can get the rhythm down pretty much immediately. It just comes with time.

As far as playing songs I would not worry about playing just like the recording but just getting close enough that it's recognizable.

I moved to the opposite side of the country as my friends and family a decade ago and refuse to travel during holidays. Some years I've been lucky enough to have friends in similar situations but since covid it's been kinda rough. IDK if it will work for you but I fly back between Thanksgiving and Xmas and we celebrate then. Other than that to me it's just another day.

Yup I usually just dry scrub with a little chainmail scrubber to get all the bits off with. Then I wipe down with a little veg oil and it's ready for next time.

I just put out a dog blanket for the dog to lay on top of. That way my sheets stay undogged. As a bonus she knows if that blanket isn't laid out she's not welcome on the bed and if it is she can come up if she wants.

No, you could act on in appropriately. Ask on a date, go in for a kiss etc whatever the situation calls for. You can't force yourself on them or keep trying if you get turned down. But expressing your own interest is the only way either of you will know what's going on.

Link to the Past?

Ehhh all my important files are sync'd to my NAS. I have a script that just apt installs everything I normally use. Sometimes it's just faster than troubleshooting. Usually if I'm about to do something whacky I clone my disk and use the clone. If it works it's my new primary, if it doesn't nothing lost.

There's a special place in hell for those people.

My calculator got an update it won't display 5318008 anymore.

Looks nice but I won't buy anything Palmer Luckey is involved in.

At least it's better than defend the dog missions.

You're out of RDPs

Car 1 sucks and car 2 super sucks. Truck is just doing his job and often there is no good place for them to load/unload. Last car there is no way they could have known a bike was coming due to truck.

Takes one to know one.

Thanks, it's definitely better now a few weeks in. I can at least sleep through the night now. Mostly I just feel a little hot and thirsty all the time which isn't so bad in the winter and is keeping me hydrated. Antianxiety has definitely been a bonus the last few weeks.

I hated discovery because of spore drives and logic extremists.

OSX peaked in the 2000s and early 2010s. Apple started walling it off more and more a decade ago.

Their hardware has gotten better in the past 5 years with the m series chips and getting rid of that terrible keyboard though.

Why do you think he doesn't deserve to be punished for slander and libel against victims of a tragedy?

Long story about healthcare workers.

I went to the ER for chest pains this summer. EKG was good, did a scan, and didn't see any blockages. They determined it was probably heart burn.

I started taking prevacid and that helped but I still wasn't feeling great. Doc said to try the three main over the counter heart burn drugs to see what worked. So I tried nexium next.

By the time I finished that bottle I was feeling very nauseous, dizzy and would get sharp quick headaches that lasted a few seconds. On top of that still feeling pain in my left shoulder/ chest area. It got to the point that one day at work I just felt so bad I had to go back to the ER.

Another round of scans and tests and they still said the old ticker looked good but did give me an IV and anti nausea that helped. The ER doc this time asked if I had anxiety and I said sure because at that moment I was very worried about my health.

They discharged me and I went home for the day and set up some doctors appointments. I went to my doc and talked about everything going on and she looked at the test results. Then she says the ER doc says you have anxiety and gives me a bunch of pamphlets about mental health and suggests talk therapy.

I've got nothing against therapy and could probably use some, but I don't think it's the cause of my chest problems. I was perfectly fine before the first ER visit. Anyways I fired her and went looking for a new doctor.

I found one and set up a physical. We did all the basics and he went over all my tests results. I felt like I was being listened to and we were getting somewhere.

His big suggestion was to lose weight... Again not a bad idea but maybe not the core of the problem. He thought that or nerve pain.

Well losing weight seems more appropriate than talk therapy so I set out doing that for a few months. I'm down about 15 lbs, got another 30 to go. Hasn't really helped, but I am looking better.

In the mean time I'm still taking prevacid because that helped and I didn't have any side effects. Except one time I bought a bottle of Prilosec instead by accident. I got about halfway through and started feeling dizzy, and nauseous again, so I cut that out and went back to prevacid.

I looked it up and turns out Prilosec and Nexium are closely related and do have those side effects. Nexium just was worse for me. Prevacid is a completely unrelated drug and does not cause me issues. So second ER was probably all from the Nexium and no one caught that despite me informing them of what meds I was taking.

We also scheduled a colonoscopy and endoscopy to look for a root cause of heart burn issues but found none. The new doc who told me to lose weight said let's try a nerve blocker so I said okay. Turns out it's also an anti anxiety med as well... so I think that suggestion was based off ER doc saying I'm anxious.

I decided to take it anyway even though I don't think I need anti anxiety meds. It's been two weeks and shoulder pain is pretty much gone which is great but I'm having way too many side effects from this drug. Wake up in sweats, always thirsty, low libido etc.

I go back next week to talk to doc about it see if there's something else to try since this path seems to be working.

My dog is always sweet but not always chill. We were about to take a ferry from Vancouver Island back to Washington so I gave her a chill pill before we left the house. She hates them so I normally just use the. on the fourth of July and new Year's Eve due to all the fireworks in my neighborhood. Ferry seemed like a high stress environment as well.

We stopped at a breakfast joint with outdoor seating and she hopped up next to me on the picnic table bench and was just so chill. So many people came up and pet her praising her calmness. I didn't have the heart to tell them she was just high as a kite. I think all the affection made up for her not liking the chill pills.