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Stardate: 20230111.2330 | |
Location: the lab | |
Input Device: dell 7202 | |
Audio: Kuya Chi's 2019 Birthday Mix | |
Visual: The Helm of Vocation | |
Emotional: Winding down | |
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I just finished part 1 of The Get Down over on the streaming service. | |
It's a series made in 2017 about urban youth in the Bronx in the | |
1970's and early hip hop and disco culture. I am enjoying it so far | |
and really dig the soundtrack and the visuals. Too bad it only lasted | |
1 season/11 episodes. | |
Watching the series inspired me to play the set list I put together | |
for my friend, Kuya Chi's 2019 birthday party, which was held at a | |
dance studio. Most of the songs are disco classics since that was | |
the soundtrack during his heyday. | |
SDF user, christyotwisty has phosted her 5 Questions for January[1] | |
and I will answer them now: | |
COT: 1. What are you grateful for from 2022? | |
xiled: Gainful employment after losing my job of 17 year during the | |
pandemic and being unemployed for 15 months afterward. | |
COT: 2. Has the internet changed the way you think? | |
xiled: The Internet is a conduit that has facilitated a change in | |
my thinking. The people, the interactions, the happenings, | |
the global connections, good, bad, indifferent, all of it has | |
influenced/changed my thinking. I just need to keep applying | |
pressure to the brakes to keep me from being ejected from the | |
vehicle on this here Information Superhighway. | |
Then again, I am unsure how I would be thinking right now | |
if there was no Internet. I'd definitely be m0ar ignorant | |
about worldly and global things. Maybe I'd be playing | |
checkers, getting enough sleep, connecting m0ar in | |
meatspace. | |
COT: 3. What do you believe is true though you cannot prove it? | |
xiled: They are watching me, but I cannot talk about that. Next | |
question, please. | |
COT: 4. What have you changed your mind about and why? If possible, | |
use an example from 2022. | |
xiled: I have changed my mind about my capacity to be of service to | |
the people and community in my life. Previously, I used to | |
think and have been told that I was basically useless. I | |
have since been shown otherwise, forgiven them, as well as | |
myself for believing in what they said. | |
This past year, I was elected into a position to serve at a | |
greater capacity than I ever thought possible for myself. | |
There have been fear-based challenges that I have been able | |
to overcome with the help of others. There are still moments | |
of uncertainty and doubt, but I am confident that I have not | |
been brought this far to fail. The path has been presented | |
and I follow unalone. | |
COT: 5. What would you like to return to? | |
xiled: A return to better physical health? This vessel is not | |
gonna last. | |
COT: BONUS QUESTION: 3 "Things to Love in Life" | |
xiled: 1. Showing up. | |
2. Being present. | |
3. Integrity. | |
Thank you, christyotwisty, for your questions for January, 2023, and | |
for getting others involved in phosting m0ar in the gophersphere! | |
(and geminisphere and mastosphere and fedisphere and whereverelse.) | |
I enjoy participating and reading the responses :) | |
[1] christyotwisty's Five Questions January 2023 | |
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