Random Thoughts Thread

**Gregoshi** · 08-22-2017, 03:58

Originally Posted by Hooahguy

The eclipse was pretty cool, not sure what everyone was freaking out about it for though.

You weren't in the path of totality, were you? I haven't experienced totality, but it is something altogether different than the partial eclipse experience from what I've read over the years. It is an unnatural event (for most) and your mind and emotions take you on your own personal journey as you take it all in. Even animals react to the event. To some, it is a spiritual high that they need to experience again and again. They become eclipse chasers.

The 2024 solar eclipse will pass within a few hours drive from where I live and I expect that I'll be making that trip to experience it myself.

**Montmorency** · 08-22-2017, 11:26

Today I Learned: Figs keep better in the fridge than out.

**Hooahguy** · 08-22-2017, 16:20

Originally Posted by Gregoshi

You weren't in the path of totality, were you? I haven't experienced totality, but it is something altogether different than the partial eclipse experience from what I've read over the years. It is an unnatural event (for most) and your mind and emotions take you on your own personal journey as you take it all in. Even animals react to the event. To some, it is a spiritual high that they need to experience again and again. They become eclipse chasers.

The 2024 solar eclipse will pass within a few hours drive from where I live and I expect that I'll be making that trip to experience it myself.

Where I was it was about 98%, but I do hear how that last 2% makes a world of difference.

**Montmorency** · 08-22-2017, 19:08

This is going to be me in a few years. :(

**Csargo** · 08-22-2017, 19:52

Originally Posted by Montmorency

This is going to be me in a few years. :(

I'm already there friend... I'm making a horse shoe.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 08-22-2017, 23:46

Originally Posted by Csargo

I'm already there friend... I'm making a horse shoe.

But at least you both can revel in your relatively high levels of free testosterone.

**A Nerd** · 08-23-2017, 22:08

I am going gray. Hasn't started falling out yet. Perhaps in time it will, though I certainly hope not.

**Csargo** · 08-26-2017, 01:15

Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

But at least you both can revel in your relatively high levels of free testosterone.

**A Nerd** · 09-01-2017, 10:54

I have found that my nicotine addiction has moved beyond that stage and has become something more of an obsession. I have tried to quit using several methods, but they all seem to fail me in the end. Electronic cigarettes have even faded away in the exhale. I am a closet smoker however, I never leave the house with them although I am home a majority of my time. Perhaps this is normal, but it would seem as if that slowly burning cancer stick is a crutch of some sort that must be relit when it reaches the filter. So is life as they say, but I don't want to suffer adverse affects of them as I continue to age, irreparably.

Perhaps it is not an alleviation technique that I need but rather some compassionate moral support. I am a patient man. Time will tell if the fates do not whim it first.

*puff* I will sip something benign in hopes for and to commemorate a possibility that I have yet to see, or perhaps, seen too infrequently.