Post awesome things you have been doing recently

[captaincabinet]

That's awesome. I was sent a link to an article about making a light box from an ikea coffee table and was thinking of hacking away at the table at home but I don't think my girlfriend would be too happy when she realises!

[irezumi]

I saw that same link but the table is so low that I'd be breaking my back in order to be able to draw.

Good idea though. Fun project from what it looks like.

[lving4today]

Traveling dreams are coming true, back to Jacksonville in December, then st Petersburg, then Chicago.

I believe since graduating I've gone somewhere at least once every couple months

I also ate a New York strip, vegetables, sushi, noodles, soup and salad for dinner last night. I'm fat

[Our Endless Days]

Took my girl to the museum of natural history to look at dinosaur bones and meteorites and other cool shit, ran around fao schwarz like little kids, and proposed to her on a mountaintop on the blue ridge trail.

this is fucking balling. congrats, dude.

[missStark]

I found a lost dog roaming around while I was walking my dog this morning. It wasn't wearing a collar. I caught the dog and went around the neighborhood trying to find it's owners without any luck. I had to get to work so I brought it to my house for fear that it would get hit by a car if left outside.

I then spent the entire morning while at work putting out ads for this dog. I got a couple calls throughout the day but this wasn't the dog these people were looking for. By the time I got home I called my vet to see if they could scan this dog for a microchip but they were closed for the night. By this time it was dark out but I took the dog for another walk around the neighborhood in hopes of finding its owner, still no luck.

Just an hour ago I was sitting at my computer and thought I heard a very faint whistle and what sounded like someone calling a name. It is unusual for me to not have the TV or music on while at home but for some reason I didn't tonight and I was able to hear this. I opened my window to see if I could hear it again. I saw a woman across the street calling out a name. I yelled across to her and asked if she was looking for a dog. Sure enough she was, and the dog I found was hers. She was in tears and I was so happy to get her dog back to her.

I was so stressed out about getting this dog back to his family. All I could think about was how devastated I would be if my dog was missing. While putting out ads for this dog I couldn't believe how many dogs and cats people are missing in just this city. It really bums me out but I'm glad I was able to get one of them back home.

[Deb Yarian]

I like that story! How gratifying

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My husband and I are big fans of horse racing...we decided, almost on a whim, to get this particular mare off the track and retired to a good home. We had been following her for three years and she was quickly disappearing into the cracks, so I felt compelled to at least TRY to get her.

Local writer for the Daily Racing Form caught wind of our project and did a little piece on it, it was really cool, and I hope it inspires other people:

Retired racehorses: One fan does her part to find mare a home | Daily Racing Form

Very cool! My nephew was raised in the horse racing community - by his grandfather - a race horse trainer.

Very interesting

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Congratulations

[Pugilist]

Aww @missStark I'm glad that story has such a happy ending! We rescued a stray dog this summer who had clearly been intentionally abandoned. (Someone had tied him to the stairs in our back yard! Seriously!) It still makes me feel crazy when I think about it. Luckily he was the was the cutest puppy in the universe and we managed to place him with a rescue almost immediately. And he found his forever home within a week.

Yay for good dog stories. :)

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Aww @missStark I'm glad that story has such a happy ending! We rescued a stray dog this summer who had clearly been intentionally abandoned. (Someone had tied him to the stairs in our back yard! Seriously!) It still makes me feel crazy when I think about it. Luckily he was the was the cutest puppy in the universe and we managed to place him with a rescue almost immediately. And he found his forever home within a week.

Yay for good dog stories. :)

[irezumi]

@missStark has the best feel-good story of the day!

[Deb Yarian]

Awesome things I am doing lately.....

Worked my first convention

Went to my first seminar

and I've made a point of being more honest and true to myself.

Goal next year, travel more.

[Lori Todd]

@missStark I teared up! You are awesome.

My best friend/mother passed away less than two months ago, so I've been keeping myself busy. Enrolled in a stain glass class, so I'm sinking money into this new hobby. But I freaking love it.

And gearing up for holiday craft time. Christmas is right around the corner!

[RoryQ]

Packing to fly to Tokyo on Sunday... I think that's pretty awesome (I'm not one of those people who hates packing).

The only downside is that we were due to be leaving tomorrow morning and without any warning SAS cancelled their flight and re-routed us... I thought swedes were supposed to be super efficient and whatnot? Morons. So we're down a day on our vacation, but I guess the silver lining is that I sent them an e-mail laying some EU regulation smackdown on them. Because we didn't get notice in the appropriate timeframe, and because no exceptional circumstances apply, and because we're arriving more than 2 hours later than our originally scheduled time of arrival we should be entitled to compensation. Look at the regs it will be either 250 euro each, or as much as 400 euro each (depends on what whether the whole distance travelled in the intinerary is counted or just the leg they cancelled).

Bought a few bits and bobs to bring the guys in Yellow Blaze today as small gifts. I know they'll probably never do a celtic style tattoo, but maybe what I bought will find a spot in their rather large library of reference material - a few books on celtic design, knotwork, bordering etc. Going to chuck in a bottle of whiskey too.

[Grant]

current things i am doing that i consider awesome;

Broadening my programming capabilities

Starting up my own company (Something i believe is awesome because i have the commitment to do it at a young age)

Thats about it really...

[Brock Varty]

I have been addicted to shopping the goodwill and salvation army type stores in my area. There is one store called Hope Gospel Center that has a building full of furniture and building supplies where the procedes go to the church. I found a xray light box there for $70. It is a million times brighter than any commercial light box and is way bigger....I think I scored on buying that one.

[Dan S]

Brock, make sure you scope the St. Vincent dePaul stores...always our first stop, they seem to get the good stuff!

[chrisnoluck]

The new band I am playing guitar for just got done recording our EP this week.. Played two shows this week as well and booked a few more for the coming months. I live a boring life so it's pretty much work, sleep, eat, repeat. The little things are what matters.

[SonnyJames]

I am currently working on 20 million pound plus boats in Palma port, Mallorca which is a bit of a difference seeing that i was working in a restaurant a month ago, to which i am actually a plumber :) these boats are awesome, press one button and hot tubs appear, another button and the jet skis appear!

[Brock Varty]

Brock, make sure you scope the St. Vincent dePaul stores...always our first stop, they seem to get the good stuff!

Not sure if they have those in my area. I'll have to look.

[jayessebee]

Sunday I road tripped to an OM/Dan Higgs concert- amazing music, good friends, and got to meet the man himself

[CultExciter]

Did Tomas and Bivetto go with you as well?

[jayessebee]

Did Tomas and Bivetto go with you as well?

Tomas' ride flaked out unfortunately but at least we got to hang a couple times whole he was here... Bivetto and George Archer made it though and we hung with Jeff Cribb which was cool

[CultExciter]

@jayessebee Cribb came up from SC? That's a heck of a drive. But awesome. I wish I could've made it myself.

[jayessebee]

@jayessebee Cribb came up from SC? That's a heck of a drive. But awesome. I wish I could've made it myself.

it was a good one! OM is pretty much a religious experience and Higgs basically played one banjo riff and did cool spoken word

[Delicious]

This may not seem so awesome, but as of right now, I am teaching myself how to make turkey stock... I've also begun to master the imparfait in french

[oliverdjc]

I set up a tattoo blog that is doing ok :)

my blog :) if you want to tell me what you think just my best tattoos

http://tattooplace.tumblr.com/

And i started art and am getting a lot better hopefully get my tattoo kit soon :D

[Tifffany]

I'm sure noone here is impressed but I finished all my Christmas gift crafting... the final item was a hot pink afghan.

Maybe more awesome... I started packing for my cruise that leaves in 3 days (which we plan to be on so long as the trial my husband is a jury member on ends)