And now what did you do TODAY?

[swt61]

BTW, the above pic of the fishing vessel, is the very ship I crewed back in the early 90's. 

[Knuckledragger]

I've been reflecting a lot on talent and luck recently, for a variety of reasons.  The former because I've observed that the world is full of people who believe that their own incredible luck means they are far more talented than they actually are (every tech bro not named "John Carmack" ever.)  The latter because I've been a photographer for 20 years at this point and I swear I was better in 2008 than I am now.  Similarly, I've been a DJ for over 30 years and I'm ...fine at it, but I haven't played out in a dozen years and I haven't done my radio show in over two (sad face.)  What I observed was that no matter how much effort I put into my shows (which was a lot, from having decades of esoteric musical knowledge to to spending 2-3x as long as the actual broadcast figuring out how the selected tracks should go together) what people always commented on was the long and winding rant I did at the end.

My one true talent is putting words together, either in text form with careful editing (I'm dyslexic and often accidentally a word or a letter or add add an extra one) or off the dome on a microphone.  I've been working on improving that at which I'm already good.  So far my outlet has been reddit comments (seriously) as well as a couple long form pieces (one of which got removed from reddit because fuck me right?)  I've gone after controversial subjects not because of the attention they bring but because that's what relevant.  One big one is how we ended up with Donald Jumpin' Jehosephat Trump back in the White House with Elongated Muskrat (off his tits on ketamine) in tow.  Another is is the relations between gay and trans people in the US.  You know, light fare.  I might post a couple examples here if I can figure out what thread is appropriate.

[n_maher]

^^ Suggestion, make a thread. It'll be appropriate that way.  I've always enjoyed your contributions, Knucks, regardless of medium/media/format.

[Voltron]

Claire and I ended up joining Steve's steak dinner and there was still too much food! Everything was delicious.