simple pleasures

Desertgirl44 · 05-01-07 04:00:26

polarchill wrote:

--Putting on a loud thunderstorm screensaver before I go to sleep so I can pretend that I'm sleeping through bad weather

Oh! You do that too! Cool! I haven't done that for ages ... I actually use a CD with thunderstorm recordings. I am inspired! Thank you Polarchill.

Siobhan · 05-01-07 06:20:55

Dauphin -- you may recall that we discussed this over the summer -- and i thought it was you then who asked if the forums were googlebable, but it may have been someone else.

over the past six months i've gotten increasingly more comfortable wityh the new reality, which is that we have no privacy. it's the cost we pay for being "connected;" i've decided i can live with that, and -- in life -- i'm an odd mix of blatantly public and FIERCELY private person.

Anyway, Max - it's fine. i figured it out. i know you have better things to do!

Jessica -- your thread is a great one and i promise to respond and not keep babbling on about other things!

Blind_Ryan · 05-01-07 07:17:20

Polar, where can I get a cool thunderstorm screensaver? I'd like to try that.

My simple pleasure is smelling a rainstorm... smells like moisture (I'm not being facetious. I love the smell of a good rain.)

polarchill · 05-01-07 07:33:13

Desertgirl44 wrote:

polarchill wrote:
--Putting on a loud thunderstorm screensaver before I go to sleep so I can pretend that I'm sleeping through bad weather
Oh! You do that too! Cool! I haven't done that for ages ... I actually use a CD with thunderstorm recordings. I am inspired! Thank you Polarchill.

The girlfriend isn't too fond of the practice, I must admit. She tends to wake up in the middle of the night having to go to the bathroom. Still, we try to tolerate our little differences.

I must say, she was far more disturbed the first night I turned on the fireplace screensaver and she awakened to the sound of crackling flames in the next room. This was particularly true since it was also the first night this winter I had turned on the electric heater in the bedroom. I really must be more careful about my timing . . .

polarchill · 05-01-07 08:26:31

Blind_Ryan wrote:

Polar, where can I get a cool thunderstorm screensaver? I'd like to try that.

There are many good thunderstorm screensavers online. Very few free ones any more, I'm sad to say.

The one I've ended up using most of the time is called the Dark Castle 3D Screensaver. It is not as realistic as some. That is to say, it has great graphics and sound (the castle in the storm is particularly beautiful), but the constant intensity of the lightning is pretty insane. Still, I choose to use that one most of the time mainly because the intense thunder and heavy sound of rain hitting wooden rooftops is very evocative of a summer vacation place I remember from my childhood.

If you Google "Dark Castle 3D" you'll get a lot of hits for that one, but a simple "thunderstorm screensaver" will pull up most of the current crop.

Note: There ARE a few sites offering hacked versions of screensavers, if you're a starving student type. You have to be extremely on-your-toes at all times, though, since these sites are doing everything in their power, second by second, to load you up with spyware, toolbars, and adware. It's true what they say about there nothing in life being free. I would recommend just buying the screensavers and going the safe route (which is sad, really, since most of the sellers are third and fourth party dealers who have no connection to the original programmers, who stopped making money off of their creations a long time ago).

Blind_Ryan · 05-01-07 08:30:22

Thanks a ton. I greatly appreciate it.

Desertgirl44 · 05-01-07 09:20:12

Siobhan wrote:

over the past six months i've gotten increasingly more comfortable wityh the new reality, which is that we have no privacy. it's the cost we pay for being "connected;" i've decided i can live with that, and -- in life -- i'm an odd mix of blatantly public and FIERCELY private person.

Very, very true Siobhan, and I understand the mix of blatantly public/fiercely private.

Apologies Jessica, back to the Simple Pleasures thread ...

... and it's almost time for me to indulge another of mine: gazing out the back window watching the colours change on the rocks as the sun begins to set on the mountains behind my home.

... followed by dinner - a simple, home-made, low-fat vegetarian pizza, yummm

nihpuad · 05-01-07 20:54:42

Siobhan wrote:

...i thought it was you then who asked if the forums were googlebable, but it may have been someone else.

Prob'ly was me; even though I'm too young for them, I seem to have the occasional "senior moment," and it's very likely we had a conversation a few months ago that I've entirely forgotten.

Siobhan wrote:

over the past six months i've gotten increasingly more comfortable wityh the new reality, which is that we have no privacy. it's the cost we pay for being "connected;" i've decided i can live with that, and -- in life -- i'm an odd mix of blatantly public and FIERCELY private person.

Yah, I'm not naive about the state of privacy these days. I'm actually not a particularly private person, and there's nothing I've written here that I'm ashamed of. OTOH, there are a few people to whom, if they read all that I've written here, I'd have some 'splainin' to do.

Siobhan · 06-01-07 00:48:09

yup!

polarchill · 06-01-07 01:28:38

Ditto

The_Elfman · 06-01-07 01:32:12

A hah.

annoula · 06-01-07 10:50:24

i asked a question in the tech forum after googling my username......................................................................................................................................i will just say i was experimenting under the influence if cornered.

Siobhan · 06-01-07 11:50:21

lol.

annoula · 06-01-07 18:45:59

hey, some not so simple pleasures will be easier to enjoy now as an undercover agent

Calenture · 10-01-07 05:47:12

The smell of ozone immediately after it begins raining.

Cate · 10-01-07 05:52:52

To continue the rain theme
walking in the rain so long as I have somewhere warm to look forward to
smelling my bed
to get very simple, feeling my pulse
now i have long nails scratching myself
quoting the movie MASH
wanking of course

and richard sniffing armpits is hot

Blind_Ryan · 10-01-07 06:27:13

Man, we haven't had a good enough rain for me to do it but I love walking in the rain until I'm absolutely soaked. It sucks at first but once the ratio of wet to dry matches a bit, you kinda get used to it.

And because I walk, my body is heating up itself so the cold has no affect.

polarchill · 10-01-07 06:30:01

Cate wrote:

and richard sniffing armpits is hot

See, now, I think the same thing, male or female. My fiancee, alas, does not, so I try to keep nice and dry and deodorized at all times.

Arielle · 10-01-07 07:33:44

When did I miss richard sniffing arm pits? You upstairs girls have all the fun.

He claimed today I berate him constantly. That may be true, but I think he secretly loves it.

Cate · 10-01-07 07:39:31

I just re read that and am choosing to re word it
Richard I think the act of sniffing armpits is hot

Blind_Ryan · 10-01-07 07:55:14

Hell, I told everyone online. I'm proud to be part of such a different site... I don't even think of it as one of "those" sites anymore because I bookmarked the forum.

Use as many "eye" euphamisms as you want. I use them all the time at the Society for the Blind... to groans

Puns are a simple pleasure

shamFritters · 10-01-07 17:32:27

That time spent doing laundry - sure it's a chore, and there's the inevitable folding of the fitted shee to contend with, but for two hours there's absolutely nothing else you're supposed to be doing. Sanctioned slacking.

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