Real_AirCooledGirl

One year and one month of HRT!

That's a bit outside of my domain. I'm more of a paleontology, evolutionary biology, and astronomy girl.

I like the KFC slogan. The Dawn one? Not so much.

Chobits episodes 10-18 The second ending song makes me cry.

Any alien life might not even have the same chemical basis as us. Earth life is based on carbon and depends on liquid water for survival. Aliens could be based on a different element such as boron or silicon, maybe metal oxides. Different planets, different chemical bases, different environments, different selection pressures.

Chobits episodes 1-9 So hard to believe it's an old show now.

Ghost sightings and other paranormal stuff is often rooted in subjective convictions and anecdotes. Subjective convictions mean dick in science and eyewitness testimony is the least reliable form of evidence. For instance, if I went into my front yard and saw a large sauropod walking along the street, I'd be quite convinced of what I see. I'd be more satisfied if I walked up to the dinosaur, followed it for a bit, and found that I could touch it, maybe even ride it if I wanted to. When I gather enough sense to run back home for my phone to take pictures of it, I might not find the animal again because I don't know which way it went. But that doesn't matter to me because I saw, felt, and smelled it. And I remember all this with a sober and rational mind. But when I tell others, no one believes me. Someone else might say that she saw a dinosaur, but her description is vastly different, such that we can't both be talking about the same animal. When days go by and there's no footprints, no excrement, no destruction, no sign of the beast at all, no explanation for how a 20-meter long non-avian dinosaur could suddenly disappear in the middle of a busy beach resort town, much less how it appeared there in the first place, nor any eyewitnesses whose testimony lends credence to mine, it becomes easier to explain all the impossibilities against that dinosaur being there. Eventually, even I, the eyewitness, would have to admit that although I did see it, I still don't know if it was ever really there. Positive claims require positive evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And extraordinary evidence is what I'd need because my sighting isn't just extraordinary, it's impossible. Same goes for ghosts, Bigfoot, Nessie, etc.

Yesterday afternoon, I saw a kestrel trapped in the gazebo on my back deck. It was between the sofa and the screen, flapping its wings. Because it was flapping about, the bird showed no injuries. I moved some furniture out of the way, then approached the kestrel without fear. Birb tried to nip at my hand a couple times, but I calmed it down by talking to it gently. I grabbed its foot and freed the talons one by one, then lifted the screen just so. The bird looked at me as if to thank me, then flew right off. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures or I'd post some for you. But that was my good deed for the day.

As a teenager, I once visited Fort Delaware with my mom, stepdad, and half-sister. It's an old Civil War-era fort that was used to house Confederate POWs. Later, it was used during World War II. Today, it's a museum. It's considered a haunted spot. But there was nothing creepy when I went there, and that was during the day.

Spirits can't be observed, detected, tested, or measured.

Ghosts and spirits? No. Those usually start when someone sees marsh gas, St. Elmo's fire (plasma), or even ball lightning.

I have an aunt who's into hauntings, UFOs, and shit. I don't buy into that stuff. Case in point: UFO sightings. They're usually a plane, weather balloon, bird, or something similar. You can make your own UFO sighting for pennies on the dollar. All you need is a Frisbee, metallic spray paint, and a phone to take pictures with. Aliens, on the other hand? We live in a universe with over two trillion galaxies. Surely those galaxies contain worlds harboring life. But whatever is out there won't resemble Earth life. If there's any intelligent aliens out there, they won't look like the humanoids you see in sci-fi movies for the same reason that they won't speak English. And to the aliens, WE'RE the aliens.

Ric Flair called. He wants his woo back.

Putting Carolina Reaper sauce on everything. I ordered a bottle of Elijah's Xtreme Regret off Amazon last week and it came Monday morning. The stuff I bought was made with both Carolina Reapers and Trinidad Scorpion peppers. Best hot sauce of my life. The girl pills got me craving it like crazy. I've sweated, my glasses fogged up, and I can FEEL the heat. All the other hot sauces out there got NOTHING on this stuff.

If you want to run FNV in 2021 and have it run right, you'll want to mod it. At least download New Vegas Script Extender, the JIP LN NVSE plugin, New Vegas Anti-Crash, the Brotherhood/House alliance mod*, the Yukichigai Unofficial Patch, and the 4GB FNV patcher. Nexus Mods should have these mods readily available. Anything else, it's whatever. I mostly have weapon and armor mods installed, but if you want to go that route, Classic Fallout Weapons is a must-have. *There was a planned option to convince Mr. House to forge an alliance with the Brotherhood of Steel. The dialogue options are still in the game files, just disabled in vanilla.

I remember watching Tom Goes to the Mayor when it was new. I HATED it. And all the other stuff Tim and Eric have made? It's like puking on a pile of shit!

Round two of Sweet Lady Pfizer! Yes, I know, double chin again. But my focus was more on the Band-Aid than my face. Tried to capture both.

I have the PS1 re-releases of FF4-6. I first played FF6 on an emulator (didn't have a SNES or the re-release at the time). To confess something: I've never finished any of the Final Fantasy games. Ever. I've played the NES, SNES, and two of the PS1 games at various times, but never finished any of them. I want to like them, given the world-building and stories involved. And Nobuo Uematsu is one of the GOATs of composers. But the random battles always turned me off. I'm more of a Chrono Trigger/Cross girl myself. I liked those games better because they didn't have you stumble into invisible enemies every three virtual meters. Far better mechanic than those pesky random battles.

Well, here I am wearing lip gloss for the first time. Tried eyeliner, too, but I'm worried I might poke my eye out when applying it. I applied it earlier in the day; the lighting just makes it look less pronounced. Went with pink.

Now I feel old. 😐

If they're captive doves, I'm sure you would. But the ones I ate were wild. One of my neighbors at the time was a hunter and he gave me and my family some extra dove meat.

I had dove once. It tasted very gamey. And there wasn't a lot of meat on it. I'm so used to eating bigger birds such as chickens, ducks, and turkeys.

I was in a wreck, too, 4 years ago. I rode my moped onto the highway while making a fish-and-chip run. Some fuckwit plowed his car right into me. He hit me in my front left side. My scooter was totaled. I suffered a broken wrist, a gash on my chin, and two chipped teeth. The broken wrist was a convoluted fracture that needed surgery to fix. The gash needed stitches to heal properly and the goatee I had to grow while waiting for it to heal triggered a lot of dysphoria. The teeth weren't chipped enough to expose the nerves, but they were still pretty bad. I spent my birthday that year in a dentist's chair having x-rays taken of my mouth, but I did eventually get my fish-and-chip fix. The asshole who hit me was a retired doctor and claimed it was a non-medical emergency with no injury to either party. So I sued his ass and won a good-sized settlement. Won't say how much I won, but it was enough to quit my job at a Bob Evans and buy a house.