I always had a similar belief about "stymied" because of the word "stye"! That's wild that it is from golf.

@sauer Merriam webster concludes the following: "By the early 20th century, the verb was being applied in similarly vexing non-golf contexts." which is really funny. Similarly vexing non-golf contexts.

New mental stim while I'm waiting in line anywhere. It's got a cadence to it.

one time i stopped my car by some cows and they all came trotting up to the fence <3

"It is scary that every moment is gone already when it appears, and it is happening all the time, all over the place." hit me like a truck

late last evening, enveloped in a soft daydream (involving a new-dry-crush-kindling friend, somehow), i must've felt a brief wave of warmth equivalent to the love of fifteen cows... always brief, this sort of feeling

also good luck handling the Frustration, sometimes not for the faint of heart, that

@oopsie The cow is a beautiful animal inside and out.

@c190 More things are happening in this very moment unseen than I will ever witness in all my life combined, and that's just how it is.

@sneek I think in fifteen cows there is also an amount of frustration at times, I'll take it. It is what it means to exist among others.

I have a bunch of large unused canvases that I've been too afraid to paint on bc I'm afraid the finished paintings will just end up in a closet. but they take up the same amount of space either way! perhaps I will finally use them !

@wordsoup Excatly. Forward motion !

Yes! I know this feeling, I agree and I like how you've put it. You've inspired me to get my sewing back under the needle.

@sauer Yes!!!! Very happy to hear this !

Please vacuum your caches and access thru the dyr page for best experience

(dyr means animal)

the petting zone is so clever

@tabf5 Thank you I like it a lot too

really nice work as always

@c190 Thank you, most of these are 8-10 years old by now.

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actually true (i have recently independently discovered)

heavily poisons the well if it seeps into interpersonal things in certain ways i have learned the hard way...

thank you for the manul wisdom

@tabf5 No problem

I feel that grinning color-inverted kitty has seen into my very soul...

"Stupid dog, you make me look bad" - Eustace, Courage the Cowardly Dog

manulzone appearances making me Smile (but you need not rush back in from being Outside in this Outside Season. i am patient)

@tabf5 I think if a dog makes you look bad, that is usually a "you" problem.

@sneek That makes me happy to hear. I am around occasionally, the site is just not the focus of my energy during this time.

I am so glad we are being thought of outside

re mid-activity holdup: thinking about it its cool that my brain can put someone else on hold for a bit by lifting my hand toward em with finger up (mostly at work when a customer wants attn while im dealing w another)

@sneek This is indeed most recently in reference to a coworker asking me something mid water