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  1. Heyyyy!

    the Kardinal
    Definitely not a demon who's masquerading as a cardinal to infiltrate the catholic church.

    #KätToon #TheKardinal #oldfriends #Satire #demon

  2. RE: mastodon.social/@nvo987/116807

    One of the glorious things about being relaxed and real in #midlife is you can send your text-buddy mutual crush a Cosmo article about sex positions as a .... Birthday gift certificate, redeemable if we ever get to it.

    #enm #love #chaos #oldfriends #reallife #polyamory #birthdaycelebration #longlostloves

  3. RE: mastodon.social/@nvo987/116807

    One of the glorious things about being relaxed and real in #midlife is you can send your text-buddy mutual crush a Cosmo article about sex positions as a .... Birthday gift certificate, redeemable if we ever get to it.

    #enm #love #chaos #oldfriends #reallife #polyamory #birthdaycelebration #longlostloves

  4. Success?

    The word for the day at Ragtag Daily Prompt is success

    I don’t “hate” a lot of things in life. I did when I was younger until I eventually reached a point where I realized it took a lot of energy to hate. But “success” is a word I hate.

    I used to have a friend (RIP 11 years now☹️) who would judge everyone and everything. We would sit and be miserable together and he’d say stuff like, “He’s had a lot of girlfriends, he’s really a success”, or “He’s really successful, he has a good job and a lot of money.” You get the idea. And of course the underlying idea behind everything is that he and I, by virtue of our not having the things that he defined as “success” in life, like girlfriends, or glamorous careers, or fancy cars, or big houses, or lots of children, were failures.

    Worse, for me, was that his standards of success and failure, they all flew in the face of my hard-earned (and expensive) belief that we don’t judge our insides with other people’s outsides. And as it turned out, hard-earned doesn’t always mean easily kept so there I was crying in my pizza along with him, failure that I was.

    Ok, I don’t totally hate the word success because it has some legitimate uses, but I hate using the word “success” to define a person’s place in life, or in contrast, to indirectly label, or imply, someone a failure. And I’m pretty much back to not judging my insides with other people’s outsides.

    Kiss a little baby, give the world a smile
    And if you take an inch, give ’em back a mile
    ‘Cause if you lie like a rug and you don’t give a damn
    You’re never gonna be as happy as a clam

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clfb4UpwG74&list=RDclfb4UpwG74&start_radio=1

    #Failure #JohnPrine #Life #OldFriends #personalGrowth #pizza #SelfEsteem #SelfWorth #Shame #Success #Therapy #Writing
  5. Success?

    The word for the day at Ragtag Daily Prompt is success

    I don’t “hate” a lot of things in life. I did when I was younger until I eventually reached a point where I realized it took a lot of energy to hate. But “success” is a word I hate.

    I used to have a friend (RIP 11 years now☹️) who would judge everyone and everything. We would sit and be miserable together and he’d say stuff like, “He’s had a lot of girlfriends, he’s really a success”, or “He’s really successful, he has a good job and a lot of money.” You get the idea. And of course the underlying idea behind everything is that he and I, by virtue of our not having the things that he defined as “success” in life, like girlfriends, or glamorous careers, or fancy cars, or big houses, or lots of children, were failures.

    Worse, for me, was that his standards of success and failure, they all flew in the face of my hard-earned (and expensive) belief that we don’t judge our insides with other people’s outsides. And as it turned out, hard-earned doesn’t always mean easily kept so there I was crying in my pizza along with him, failure that I was.

    Ok, I don’t totally hate the word success because it has some legitimate uses, but I hate using the word “success” to define a person’s place in life, or in contrast, to indirectly label, or imply, someone a failure. And I’m pretty much back to not judging my insides with other people’s outsides.

    Kiss a little baby, give the world a smile
    And if you take an inch, give ’em back a mile
    ‘Cause if you lie like a rug and you don’t give a damn
    You’re never gonna be as happy as a clam

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clfb4UpwG74&list=RDclfb4UpwG74&start_radio=1

    #Failure #JohnPrine #Life #OldFriends #personalGrowth #pizza #SelfEsteem #SelfWorth #Shame #Success #Therapy #Writing
  6. From my Sketchbook / Journal / Scrapbook 1977-1987 ... Pen & Ink sketches of my co-worker + flatmate Anita that I turned into postcards. It's funny how certain people inspire art - I drew Anita numerous times. A bit awkward in real life ... it seemed a guise for a coolness + elegance that few actually possess.

    Although we have lost touch I remember her every time I hear Joe Jackson or the The because she introduced me to both and they became absolute favorites of mine .... Thank you Anita! 💜💜💜

    #sketchbook #scrapbook #journal #postcardart #penandink #thethe #joejackson #art #myart #oldfriends

  7. From my Sketchbook / Journal / Scrapbook 1977-1987 ... Pen & Ink sketches of my co-worker + flatmate Anita that I turned into postcards. It's funny how certain people inspire art - I drew Anita numerous times. A bit awkward in real life ... it seemed a guise for a coolness + elegance that few actually possess.

    Although we have lost touch I remember her every time I hear Joe Jackson or the The because she introduced me to both and they became absolute favorites of mine .... Thank you Anita! 💜💜💜

    #sketchbook #scrapbook #journal #postcardart #penandink #thethe #joejackson #art #myart #oldfriends

  8. This is Hank Williams Sr. He used to live above my studio.

    We used to startle each other. I’d open my door and he’d be there on a tree a foot away. We’d stop and stare at each other. Then calmly walk our separate ways.

    On this day he just leapt onto the screen and stayed there for a couple of minutes while I talked to him.

    #Animals #Squirrels #OldFriends

  9. This is Hank Williams Sr. He used to live above my studio.

    We used to startle each other. I’d open my door and he’d be there on a tree a foot away. We’d stop and stare at each other. Then calmly walk our separate ways.

    On this day he just leapt onto the screen and stayed there for a couple of minutes while I talked to him.

    #Animals #Squirrels #OldFriends

  10. The latest book by my Iraq battle buddy and roommate, Fred Minnick. I’d gotten word today there’s a couple pages where I’m a part of his story. I called him and he read the pages in which he tells of one of our experiences having mortar rounds miss our quarters and then, unable to sleep, he opened a Listerine bottle full of whiskey he’d received in a care package, I grabbed a couple cigars and we sat outside in the area between the trailers we were in dubbed “NCO Alley.”
    #Memories
    #OldFriends

  11. The latest book by my Iraq battle buddy and roommate, Fred Minnick. I’d gotten word today there’s a couple pages where I’m a part of his story. I called him and he read the pages in which he tells of one of our experiences having mortar rounds miss our quarters and then, unable to sleep, he opened a Listerine bottle full of whiskey he’d received in a care package, I grabbed a couple cigars and we sat outside in the area between the trailers we were in dubbed “NCO Alley.”
    #Memories
    #OldFriends

  12. 3/ FYI, I pulled the trigger on the snapshot restore and #OldFriends is back up. Once accounts got cleared of the pg_toast chunks, it was failing in the status table and that would have taken another several days to clean and who knows how many other tables.

    Working out a better database backup solution...

    @losttourist @revivalrecords @SpaceLifeForm

    oldfriends.live/@paul/11606739

  13. 3/ FYI, I pulled the trigger on the snapshot restore and #OldFriends is back up. Once accounts got cleared of the pg_toast chunks, it was failing in the status table and that would have taken another several days to clean and who knows how many other tables.

    Working out a better database backup solution...

    @losttourist @revivalrecords @SpaceLifeForm

    oldfriends.live/@paul/11606739

  14. RE: hashtaggames.online/2026/02/13

    🎵 "Wish I was there"
    #MissingFriendsASongOrPoem
    #HashTagGames

    (This game is inspired by missing all of you while I lay low on my backup account until I get #OldFriends .Live back running which should be completed in an hour or so. I authorized the full snapshot restore...)

  15. RE: hashtaggames.online/2026/02/13

    🎵 "Wish I was there"
    #MissingFriendsASongOrPoem
    #HashTagGames

    (This game is inspired by missing all of you while I lay low on my backup account until I get #OldFriends .Live back running which should be completed in an hour or so. I authorized the full snapshot restore...)

  16. Edit: it's fixed now

    If you follow anyone from the Mastodon instance oldfriends.live they seem to be having some major problems at the moment.

    They're reaching out asking for help from anyone who feels like they're enough of a #PostgresQL expert to help them troubleshoot what sounds like major database issues.

    oldfriends.live

    #OldFriends #MastoAdmin #DBA

  17. Edit: it's fixed now

    If you follow anyone from the Mastodon instance oldfriends.live they seem to be having some major problems at the moment.

    They're reaching out asking for help from anyone who feels like they're enough of a #PostgresQL expert to help them troubleshoot what sounds like major database issues.

    oldfriends.live

    #OldFriends #MastoAdmin #DBA

  18. Played music with my friends last night. Often there were extended jams at the ends of a song. It’s hard to find words for how joyous this intense and ephemeral listening and responding is. This resets my soul and heart in the most exquisite way.

    At one point we transitioned from playing “One” right into “Low Spark” … oh my …

    We’ve been playing music together every couple of weeks for almost 20 years.

    I’m playing a saxophone, clarinet, or harmonica.

    #PlayingMusic #joy #OldFriends

  19. Played music with my friends last night. Often there were extended jams at the ends of a song. It’s hard to find words for how joyous this intense and ephemeral listening and responding is. This resets my soul and heart in the most exquisite way.

    At one point we transitioned from playing “One” right into “Low Spark” … oh my …

    We’ve been playing music together every couple of weeks for almost 20 years.

    I’m playing a saxophone, clarinet, or harmonica.

    #PlayingMusic #joy #OldFriends

  20. Tena and I talk every day here on facebook, but actually ran into each other live at the Mifflintown I-HOP for the first time in decades. What fun! #friend #friends #oldfriend #oldfriends #friendship #lifelongfriends #mifflintown #ihop #pancakes #breakfast #juniatacounty

  21. Tena and I talk every day here on facebook, but actually ran into each other live at the Mifflintown I-HOP for the first time in decades. What fun! #friend #friends #oldfriend #oldfriends #friendship #lifelongfriends #mifflintown #ihop #pancakes #breakfast #juniatacounty

  22. Had a great evening chatting and drinking a couple beers (at the rad Hop Merchant) with a friend I don't see often enough. We talked about video games and RPG campaign ideas and movies and our shared desire to make more stuff! The joint was playing all the music from high school and early college all night too!

    #oldfriends #beers #2000sMusic

  23. What a fabulous day we’ve had. Did most of the Yindyamarra Sculpture Walk in Albury which was about 5-6km all up, not huge but definitely enough. My NZ friend absolutely loved it all & so did I, such a lovely area in the wetlands. No wallaby’s today but plenty of bird life. Then off to the Lavington mall where my friend was looking for something specific & that’s where we ended up having lunch & coffee. Back into Albury & a visit to a local op shop where another friend works & I actually found 3 lovely winter tops & a pair of trousers & was charged less than was marked 😃 which was very nice. Lifeline Albury is a fantastic op shop if you’re ever down this way. Didn’t get home until mid afternoon & am feeling just a little tired, but it’s been a great day.
    #BusyDay #Exercise #Walking #Sculptures #Nature #OpShop #OldFriends #GoldFriends

  24. So nice to be home. We’re both unpacked, showered & in our pjs. Some washing has been done. I’m pleasantly weary & the train trip went quickly. I’ve had a lovely few days in Melbourne catching up with friends & my very good old friend of over 50yrs. We’re all grey & crinkly now but somehow it still feels just the same.
    Soup & toast for tea & that’ll be us for the day.
    #Melbourne #Wodonga #OldFriends

  25. Ever wondered about the horses some of the paddocks are named for? Here's Trouble - and he was trouble until the very end. He loved playing pranks on new workers. Continue to RIP!

    #SES #SilverEagleStable #TBT #ThrowBackThursday #Horses #HorseLife #BarnLife #OldFriends #InRememberance

  26. #humor #oldFriends

    Small talk of old friends.

    - It's windy.
    - No. Thursday.
    - Me too! Let's get some beers.

  27. P.S. We had our children late, and so for us the subtle drag of aging combines with the constant rejuvenating joy of helping two new humans find their way.

    It was a blessing that my daughters could see me with my old friends, hear me speak in my mother tongue, see me interact in a way that echoes how I acted and spoke as a young man.

    #OldFriends #daughters # parenting #age