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       Stardate: 20230505.1411
       Location: The Lab
       Input Device: Fire Tablet running LineageOS 
       Audio: Wagakki Band - Yasouemaki album
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       Emotional: Friday apathy to work. 
       
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       For those who celebrate, Happy Drink-O de Mayo!
       
       SDF user, christyotwisty, has phosted her monthly 5 questions for the
       month of May.[1]  Here are my responses:
       
       COT: How would you describe sleep to an alien?
       
       xiled: If the alien understood English, I would describe sleep as the 
              essence of me exiting the vehicle and venturing to the place 
              that transcends while the vehicle is in the shop for 
              diagnostics and repairs.
       
       COT: What in your opinion is a fascinating cultural tradition or 
            practice?
       
       xiled: Fascinating cultural tradition...Halloween/Dia de los Muertos.  
              Embracing the living, remembering the dead.  Costumes, candy, 
              and calaveras!
       
       COT: What's a beverage you loved, but was discontinued?
       
       xiled: Josta.  From wikipedia: "Josta was a soft drink brand that 
              was produced by PepsiCo and the first energy drink ever 
              introduced by a major US beverage company. It was marketed 
              as a "high-energy drink" with guarana and caffeine. "
       
       COT: Have you ever experienced a "healing crisis" or withdrawal 
            symptoms while recovering your health? 
       
       xiled: Well, I did go over the handle bars of my mountain bike 
              several years back.  I was jumping the curbs on the driveway 
              aprons and did not anticipate the compression from the shocks 
              on my forks.  This was my first bike with shocks on the front 
              forks and was used to fixed forks.  The rebound had me flying 
              over the handle bars and gravity had me smashing my shoulder 
              into the pavement.  The gas station attendant phone an 
              ambulance since she saw me go down and not get back up.  
              Nothing was broken, just a bruised ego and a b0rq'd shoulder.  
              I had to go through physical therapy to get my shoulder 
              re-aligned.  The shoulder never went back to how it was and 
              my collarbone juts out underneath the skin.  Lately, I've 
              been having to go back to doing the shoulder exercises and 
              bringing out the door pulley since there is shoulder pain 
              and the misalignment is noticeable.  I don't want to lose my 
              range of motion.
       
       COT: Have you recently had a rediscovery? 
       
       xiled: I have rediscovered the joys of playing video games.  I am 
              still allowed to play them even if I am biologically an adult.  
              Life shouldn't be so serious to not be able to enjoy playing 
              video games.  I also rediscovered that I was not going to die 
              today so I better get back to the land of the living.
       
 (TXT) [1] christyotwisty's 5 questions for May, 2023
       
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