@cmerry sympathy regarding your dad, Leukemia is nasty.
As to zombies run, going to a gym is too much like hard work, or rather it's not something I can do every day, .

Actually running on the trampoline isn't that difficult. I don't jump (if I jumped I'd probably brain myself on the ceiling), I just run. The problem/bennifit is that its harder than standard running and thus not as good for actually judging distance, see this article.
I suppose I could get a treadmill at some point, though they take up a hell of a lot of space and I'd probably have to run for longer to get the same benefit, and even with zombies run, running  so interesting that I want to do it for really long periods, especially since I need to lift my weights as well .

I'm tempted to pump up the distance per stride counter to compensate.

at the moment short bursts of exercise are probably what I'm looking for, since I realise myself that I need extra energy to look after my lady, and I won't get that by sitting around on my behind, but neither do I want to spend hours toning my hole body when I need to be doing other things.

@Mirage, thanks, my lady would appreciate that.
The cat cafe was nice, albeit we've learned  next time we go, we insist on staying down stairs, because we got stuck on the first floor, and I suspect most of the cats who like talking to people stay downstairs.
That being said, there was a lovely pale ginger maine coon cat called Heethcliff who I got very fond of, who just lay there rather the way Crookshanks is described in the Hp books "like a furry ginger cushion" and wanted to be stroked .

Well I admit things are even less fun now. Reever my guide dog had to go to the vets yesterday since she's had a swelling on her ear and the vet decided that trying to get it down by surgery  was better than trying tablets. This means she's got her ear bandaged and one of those rubber inflatable collars (it looks  like the rubber rings kids have in swimming baths), to stop her scratching it.

So I've now got an unwell dog as well, and all last night wound up sleeping on the sofa since she's very groggy from the anaesthetics and probably can't manage the stairs, so I alternated playing  until I was too tired to think), and sleeping with occasionally checking she's okay.

It was also great fun getting to and from the vets yesterday, since while it's only a ten minute walk, its impossible due to some ridiculously stupid road crossing so I need to get a taxi.
This would be fine (its not far so costs very little), accept that yesterday evening therre was a flood warning in effect and the traffic was ridiculously insane! so my quarter to four taxi didn't show up until close to twenty five past, then as for getting back, the company claimed I hadn't made a booking at all, which is sort of a joke.

Luckily a very nice engineer who was having his puppy seen  to gave me a lift back anyway, though that didn't make an already difficult situation any easier.

I've got to take Reever back to the vets today to have her bandages off, and I'm  she'll feel better, since she's very much not herself, which will also make getting to my lady's chemo sort of interesting, since Reever probably wo't be working now for at least a week, though since we still don't know when exactly my lady's first Chemo is we can't really plan anything round it. Actually my lady would like to get started since she doesn't like the thing looming over her.

Apart from that, as people who've seen  the topic in general game discussion will know, I've restarted Manamon 1, which isn't going badly.
I've tried a couple of muds, but I just don't seem to be in my stride mudding wise, not since a recent cosmic rage kick, though I did have a brief look at esteria which looks good, albeit lack of ability to know what quests will get you killed was mildly frustrating.

I've not tried venture zone global, the writeup looked a little too coorporate for my taste, indeed the next major Ios game I'm looking forward to is Galactic colonies when the accessibility mode is fixed, I've already played through several bits of crafting kingdom and path of adventure whilst waiting in hospitals, plus my lady rather enjoys cooperating on the word builder part of gameworld, her being a language nut.

So things aren't exactly great over here right now.

@thetechguy thanks.
My lady's first chemo is monday. We've been told it probably won't be as bad as usually advertised, but probably still won't be fun, actually I like the idea of the audio wizards update since I'm going to need something to do whilst I'm hanging about the hospital for eight hours with my lady, who will obviously need some space some of that time.

A shame I can't take in my laptop and play Manamon, especially since Manamon is really good as I can save at a moment's notice, but plugging it in, let alone putting it on a table in the rather small hospital room would be interesting, this is  reason I'm rather looking forward to seeing the accessibility on galactic colonies finished.

Well this week has been sort of a bit nuts. We've been waiting to get the appointment for my lady's chemo, and I've occasionally had to scuttle back and forth to the vets as well with Reever. She's doing better, although she's got one of those cones to stop her scraching her ear and she's very much not pleased about it. Apart from that, I'm very much missing having a guide dog for purely mobility reasons, especially  crowded environments like hospitals, actually when my lady had to go in for  first operation and was there for 24 hours, I was frankly amazed at how quickly reever got the routes.
I'm a pretty good long cane user, I used a cane for 17 years, including walking several miles a day when I was doing a degree, and going to different countries like Egypt, however I admit finding my way around a pretty huge, very crowded hospital in a really shot space of time would've been rather difficult, especially since different doors were open at different times, something Reever got surprisingly quickly.

In other news, my lady was supposed to go to a beautician on Thursday for massage and such as a birthday present, which finished up not happening because the damn place closed due to flooding, this after we slogged through torrential rain to get there. I will admit this was disappointing, since it would've been good for her to do that before starting her chemo, as one possible side effect will be skin sensitivity. Though this was a miner bust we did get to have some rather nicet chocolate and see our first Christmas tree of the eyar, and a rather good tree it was too.

On the plus side, I'm also learning Caccini's ave Maria which is gorgious, and not so unsurprisingly given I'm now doing weight lifting and running away from zombies each day, my voice isn't doing too badly which is good, although I don't know if we'll get a chance to do any actual performing this christmas.

So, hope everyone is having a slightly better time of it so far.

Damn I guess no one is doing overly well. Today, my grandpa passed away. He'd been  in the hospital for about a month. I was out to see him on Friday and it's a good thing, because today, around 10 AM my time he took his last breath. It's been up and down with him for a while now, and part of me is relieved that his suffering had ended. He had virtually no quality of life before the hospital due to his dementia, but their prospects for him didn't look good even if he would have survived. They were talking about him being basically bedridden and needing a feeding tube. That's not what he would have wanted, so as much as it's tough to lose him, at least he's at peace now.

#9, I am sorry for your los.

Ironcross,
I am so sorry for your loss. You have my condolences and my prayers.

Dark,
Happy for the concert, sad for the hospital.
I'm glad your lady is feeling better, and I pray she'll continue to do so.
Sending many prayers for her, and you as well.

Ah, it's been a long time since I have posted here in one of these...

@Dark

May the angels up above watch over you and Mrs. Dark, and may everything pull through with "flying colors."
There's a 1990 Peanuts short which I don't know if you or Mrs. Dark has seen called Why Charlie Brown, Why?, which sadly is not described though the linked Wikipedia article should clear up things. Sad story, though happy ending. Most US stations are too afraid to show said episode.

@everyone

On Thursday the 21st in Denver CO, it's only gonna be 34F 1.1111C degrees. But then again, it has been around 65F (Indian Summer.)
In addition, the @DenverQueen and I gotten an "Apple TV" last October (the 4k 64gb model for 200 USD). Considering it was one of the only ways to watch Hulu with "Audio Description" (until recently as it is now on phones), we like it our TV Box! It's currently connected to uour "Fire TV Edition" in the living room, though we may switch it to the "Roku" TV we're planning on getting this Christmas.

On the 9th of November As I mention with in this thread, I recently bought a "refurbished2014 " Thinkpad X240, and it honestly doesn't look or feel refurbished at all!

Lastly for now (and I'll track down the original thread that someone made for this later), the Elten Network (which is an "open source" successor to the "Klango Network"), is now at version 2.3.5 as of today/tonight.
Besides being able to make your own group communities since v2.3.4, and ya can now "encrypt" your installs as of v2.3.5, coming up in 2.3.6, its "Audio Calling!"
NB. English site coming soon, bur for now just hit the "f6" key and tap the translate button so ya can choose the option for setting it to "always."
I'll go more in depth in to everything (once I find said Elten thread).
But for now, it's time to watch some more "Peppa Pig" for some reason. Me being 34 years old (soon to be 35 on the 17th of December), you'd think I would get tired in watching said show!

Peace, everyone!

It's a lovely tribute to a life well lived.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Prayers for you and your family.

Well, for those who take part in it, thanksgiving is coming up. Despite me being an American, I choose not to make any thing out of it because of it's history. Pluss, I hate turkey. Good thing I'm having pozole for dinner instead. Enough thanksgiving bashing for the moment. In honor of native american haritage month, I am reading books by native american writers.  Code talker by Chester Nez, the only autobiography by one of the original  World War II Navajo code talkers, and there there by Tommy Orange. This one is interesting, and  too complex for me to really some up here.  The book summary could do it better than I can.  Funnily enough, it also brings up the  brutal genocide filled  history of Thanksgiving.  The other moment passed., As soon as Halloween had passed, I saw people immediately start getting ready for Christmas, almost 2 months early. I love  Christmas, but sometimes I feel that’s a little overkill.  Although, it’s less than a month away now.

@Lawren, thanks for the best wishes and all the extra r's .
Also hope your friend is okay, my brother had a detached retina.

I confess black friday just seems pointless to me. There's an old episode of the Simpsons where the store executives come up with the new holliday of Love day just as an excuse to sell more crap, see This here Youtube clip

And now we have so called black Friday, there was aeven a report on the news stating that most of the so called "discounts",  didn't actually save people much either.

hurray for commercialism .

@An idiot, I can't speak on Thanks giving since that's not a holliday we have in Britain, though at some point if I go to stay with my lady's family I wouldn't mind trying out thanks giving just to see a different set of traditions, dodgy native american history notwithstanding.

Things haven't been fun over here, well not counting Manamon, infinicrawl and bashing out book reviews of course.
I've also got zombies run fixed I think so that I can do a 5k run with running 20 minutes on my trampoline, which is harder than running normally.
This is nice since there are a lot of 5k adventures which sound fun, especially now I've just finished season 1, indeed I've just started venus rising, which has some really interesting ideas, albeit its a little hard to get creeped out by scifi body horror when your sprinting your legs off .

whilst my  guide dog reever is feeling a lot better, it turns out the side affects of chemo are not going to be worth it, the problem is, now we're basically stuck sitting around and waiting for the side effects to go away which isn't fun.

This does probably mean a little bit of a reprieve for my lady, since we won't start the radio therapy until January, though that isn't likely to be fun either.
Sorting all of this out also took a lot more trundling to hospital and hanging about, which was a miner pain, actually I'm really! wanting galactic colonies to get finished since a deep resource management  on Ios might b just the ticket, and I've just about finished with crafting kingdom.

I'm also really looking forward to my full set of game of thrones arriving on dvd, which should be at the start of december. Iv'e only seen up to season 4, and whilst I gather the finale was slightly disappointing, there's still a lot of good stuff before then.

Hi,
@D.D.D.D.D.D.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.r.r.r.r.r.r.r.r.k.k.k.k.k.k.k.: I know these best wishes from Internet People are probabbly getting annoying, but anyway: Best of luck to you and your lady.
On the subject of Black Friday, I think as long as you know exactly want you want to buy and buy it with a Discount on Black Friday, it's not a problem. But I think that this mass Shopping Thing which apparently is a Thing in America is rather problematic.
And another Thing is that those stupid Black Friday Discount ads the Radio (and sadly, also my E-Mail inbox) are being spammed with is really annoying.
For me, it currently is a stressfull time because of many exams in a short timespan. This week I had maths, next week I'll have english and the week after I'll have French.
Christmas is also coming around, but buying presents is usually not a big stress for me, so it'll be quite relaxed.
The bad News is that I will have to do a lot of schoolwork during the Christmas Holidays, so yeah.