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QOTD: what's the precious thing that you would abandon to the fates without a second thought?

As in, if you're cutting the fat, tightening the belt, the tidal wave is coming...

I'm listening to my soon-to-be-future-wife talk a friend off the (emotional) ledge, and this came to mind.

Everything but her. That's my answer.

Et tu?

Myself. I am only temporary, stuff is forever!

RG, I'm not sure I understand the QotD, but if I do, the first "precious" thing I'd abandon to the fates would be the family photos and my old journals, because all that stuff is now scanned in and stored offsite.

Pulled out an old worship song lyric I'd written in 1998 and did up the music and a recording yesterday - still deciding if I'm going to lay a few more things onto the recording, but it's a minor milestone in that it is the 900th song I have written. (I mentioned a while back that I have a pretty extensive cataloging system for my music, with .mp3 files, scanned in originals, etc., which is how I know it's #900, and there is only one of those songs I don't have a recording of... for some reason, I just keep putting it off... )

Today: most of the day will be taken up with doing sound stuff for a short film shoot, the same people I worked with back in May.

Charles (KA)

I'll see your confusion and raise you one, King. You are unsure that you understand the question? I am sure that I don't understand it. Nor anything in the whole post. Reload, Rabid, and try again.

From what I gather, he's saying "What's the first thing you see as precious that you'd give up", as in, what's least precious to you, but then he answers his own question by saying the one thing he'd keep (kind of - he says he'd give up everything but her).

Geez, that was confusing. Edited and de-convoluted, all. Hopefully.

I simply don't have anything precious in my life except family and friends (including my cats) and I wouldn't give them up in any circumstance...so if you consider ME precious to myself, I'd be the first to go.

Its a nice Saturday afternoon here in Tampa. I've gone for coffee...come back... not enough sleep so maybe I'll do a nap in a couple of hours before I do another overnight.

Its weird because I have to be able to get up in the morning on Monday morning and I have no -friday or saturday night out - So, what I do is I get up around 1:00 or 2:00 pm after going to bed around 6:00am on Sunday, start drinking immediately and am good and drowsy by 10:00pm

Which also means I only drink once a week right now.

I don't really have much in the world that I consider precious. I like my guitar. I like my big box of pictures. If a tidal wave was coming, I would feel like shit if I lost either one. Even if all my favorite people in the world made it out safe.

I would save my cats before I saved the hard drive that contains my song project files. How about that.

I'm quite attached to my George Foreman Lean, Mean, Grilling Machine. As long as I knew that was OK - then I could start worrying about family and such.

I still don't understand the question as Rabid wrote it, but I take it to mean "what's the most precious thing that you would still let go if necessary." I think my creative works are like that - it would hurt a lot to lose them but I can always rerecord my songs and redraw the crappy comics of mine which are worth redrawing.

I finally saw "V for Vendetta". I don't think that the girls have ever seen me so disgusted at a film. I can understand why Alan Moore took his name off. They took his subversive book about anarchy and took out some of the most pointed parts. Shame.

In other news, The Yellow Crayon is Missing made another song. The theme... what else? Ninjas vs. Giant Robots. So far that's 4 songs on that topic. I think this is gonna make quite an album.

My youngest son threw out a 2000 year old roman coin his uncle gave his brother because he was "mad". That sort of sucked. Not sure how I'd answer the QotD though.

roymond wrote:My youngest son threw out a 2000 year old roman coin his uncle gave his brother because he was "mad". That sort of sucked. Not sure how I'd answer the QotD though.

Why does your brother give away old coins when he's mad?
Sorry, I was feeling Spudly there for a brief moment.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:

roymond wrote:My youngest son threw out a 2000 year old roman coin his uncle gave his brother because he was "mad". That sort of sucked. Not sure how I'd answer the QotD though.

Why does your brother give away old coins when he's mad?
Sorry, I was feeling Spudly there for a brief moment.

I would have taken it a step further, trip.

Why does your brother give you old coins when he's mad?

p.s. I almost DID make this post, but it was roymond, so I let it go.

I was in Taco Bell one day, and in my change, there was a 1944 steel penny (43 or 44, whichever year they made the steel ones). I bet somebody's kid or brother raided a coin collection and was in big trouble afterwards.

Charles (KA)

king_arthur wrote:I was in Taco Bell one day, and in my change, there was a 1944 steel penny (43 or 44, whichever year they made the steel ones). I bet somebody's kid or brother raided a coin collection and was in big trouble afterwards.

Well, if you see any ... oh forget it.

fluffy wrote:I still don't understand the question as Rabid wrote it, but I take it to mean "what's the most precious thing that you would still let go if necessary." I think my creative works are like that - it would hurt a lot to lose them but I can always rerecord my songs and redraw the crappy comics of mine which are worth redrawing.

Also, it turns out that now that I'm on Dreamhost I have plenty of space for keeping offsite backups of everything, which is awesome. (200GB of storage is plenty for keeping an offsite of my mp3 collection and the masters of every song and drawing I've ever made. Woo!)

I always wonder about that off site storage. What if they go out of biz and walk away? How would you get your stuff back?
Why not just buy 200gb external drives?

There is something to be said for having important data at an offsite location, in case of fire or other catastrophic events. However, that going out of business question is a concern.
-bill

Billy's Little Trip wrote:I always wonder about that off site storage. What if they go out of biz and walk away? How would you get your stuff back?
Why not just buy 200gb external drives?

Are you planning on keeping them in the same place you'll be having this fire/flood/catastrophic event? Backing up insn't just a fail safe for computers that fail.

Besides, alot of time you'll find that you want some of the 'stored' stuff available to you remotely from anywhere.