The Daily Grind
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When you play video games, the grind is real. 
In video games grinding is when you do something over and over, like kill the same batch of enemies over and over, to gain money or experience points or some kind of loot that this group of enemies only drops 6% of the time or something.
In a game called The saboteur I shot two guards over and over again with a sniper rifle. They were lined up perfectly for a double headshot, and I needed 15 double headshots to unlock the perk that gives me the terror sniper rifle in the shop.
That was a fun game. Not too grindy, and quite interesting to play. Very trite storyline though.
In video games grinding is when you do something over and over, like kill the same batch of enemies over and over, to gain money or experience points or some kind of loot that this group of enemies only drops 6% of the time or something.
In a game called The saboteur I shot two guards over and over again with a sniper rifle. They were lined up perfectly for a double headshot, and I needed 15 double headshots to unlock the perk that gives me the terror sniper rifle in the shop.
That was a fun game. Not too grindy, and quite interesting to play. Very trite storyline though.
Ok so I get up, put the coffee on, feed my 3 sm dogs, by that time the coffee is ready. Make a sm brekkie then I catch up on emails, fb, cc, NDapp and texts. Then I have the daily YT 1 yr Bible Reading, Christian TV shows..J Meyer and Better Together, until 11:30. Other daily routines icl exercise 10 min/hr, studying for sm group lessons for Tues & Thurs eves, house & yard work, shopping, visiting my daughter, praying and reaching out to the poor. Oh 2 churches on Sunday, one local and one online both for yrs now. Passtime is watching my favorite shows & good movies, going out to eat+ yakking w/my friends. Ima widow but hear from my son's dad who I had to ban from coming over bc he doesn't want to grow up. How's that for starters
Lol I see where that sounds confusing...I'm twice a widow and my son's dad was after them. Also to add to my list of routines, I have Wed nite service from my online church, go to yard sales and am a landlady. The fun part of all of this is when it's sm group Bible study nites, when we catch up, share, study and do prayer requests. Rn I just signed up for a free trial of Hallmark+ where I'm looking forward to watching 2 new Hallmark Mystery Movies, one of my indulgences. They're never bloody but more like a whodunnit type with lots of colorful characters.
Landlady is the same, only gender specific. Actually I have a quarter acre and rent out a room. Sometimes I'm renting both extra rooms but a relative is staying here now. It's pretty cool and I've been blest w/good tenants bc I always pray for the Lord to send me good people. I had a young man a couple yrs ago who was very polite, had a steady job, brought me food from his work but after a couple months told me he had HIV. I had to let him go but gave him double his deposit back. My current tenant says he's a Buddhist and is not here a lot but when he is he gets an earful of Christian TV (the walls are thin here lol).
Huh is it all one house or is it self-contained with their own kitchen/bathroom?
Am not sure how that works, as homes here are rented out by the dwelling not the room, if its a family. If it's just a room and the landlady/lord owns the house, and they live in the same house, wouldn't that be more of a boarding situation?
I kind of don't know much about leases and tenancy agreements though mum did all that, but it also meant that if there was a long term tenant she didn't get much updating or renovating done at all. Like we could paint the outside of the house, but not evict the tenant so we can redo the inside while they living there.
Some people though, just rent and then move on to another rental when their lease is up. But mum had a family rent there for I don't know, something like 25 years!! They paid all the rent, power and water etc, and if there were repairs to be done they told us, got the repairs to come and mum reimbursed the sum or something like that. The house is like...60 years old. So definitely not brand new anymore.
If anyone wanted to buy it they'd need to do a lot of work on it, rewire it, do all the carpets, flooring, wallpaper or paint all over again, replace the cupboards, redo the kitchen and fix the holes in some of the walls. I looked at it and thought, that's gonna be a lot of work! And unless I do it myself, I will need to pay someone else to do it.
But I suppose at one point in your life you've got to do an extreme makeover of a house, its the privelige of being a homeowner /landlord. I'm not that interested in the house but I'd definitely dream of doing something with the front and backyard. Not put two more houses on it though.
I look at new homes and open homes being staged and they all look the same. White and boring. White and boring. The kitchens all look the same too. White and boring. At least Ikea has some personality, but this 'designer' industrial arctic blinding snow look does not really inspire me, nor landscaper done gardens. They just use the same plants over and over.
Am not sure how that works, as homes here are rented out by the dwelling not the room, if its a family. If it's just a room and the landlady/lord owns the house, and they live in the same house, wouldn't that be more of a boarding situation?
I kind of don't know much about leases and tenancy agreements though mum did all that, but it also meant that if there was a long term tenant she didn't get much updating or renovating done at all. Like we could paint the outside of the house, but not evict the tenant so we can redo the inside while they living there.
Some people though, just rent and then move on to another rental when their lease is up. But mum had a family rent there for I don't know, something like 25 years!! They paid all the rent, power and water etc, and if there were repairs to be done they told us, got the repairs to come and mum reimbursed the sum or something like that. The house is like...60 years old. So definitely not brand new anymore.
If anyone wanted to buy it they'd need to do a lot of work on it, rewire it, do all the carpets, flooring, wallpaper or paint all over again, replace the cupboards, redo the kitchen and fix the holes in some of the walls. I looked at it and thought, that's gonna be a lot of work! And unless I do it myself, I will need to pay someone else to do it.
But I suppose at one point in your life you've got to do an extreme makeover of a house, its the privelige of being a homeowner /landlord. I'm not that interested in the house but I'd definitely dream of doing something with the front and backyard. Not put two more houses on it though.
I look at new homes and open homes being staged and they all look the same. White and boring. White and boring. The kitchens all look the same too. White and boring. At least Ikea has some personality, but this 'designer' industrial arctic blinding snow look does not really inspire me, nor landscaper done gardens. They just use the same plants over and over.
Last month I happened to come across one of the properties I used to clean house when i was a student...in the homes for sale section of the newspaper. I remember the lady's kitchen I cleaned for had a beautiful mosaic floor, and her walls were orange, and she had a lovely big wooden kitchen table that I had to wax so the honey coloured wood glowed.
But when I saw the picture in the paper, the new owners had 'updated' the kitchen and they ugly-ised it! They just painted everything white, had the same mixer taps and handle-less cupboards that every other new kitchen on the planet has, and they put veneer plastic wood all over the beautiful mosaic floor.
It was like they had bought a beautiful sparkly multi faceted diamond with rainbow colours, and just cut it so it became this dull hard edged cubic zirconia.
huh I am ranting. Again.
The daily grind...cutting diamonds??
But when I saw the picture in the paper, the new owners had 'updated' the kitchen and they ugly-ised it! They just painted everything white, had the same mixer taps and handle-less cupboards that every other new kitchen on the planet has, and they put veneer plastic wood all over the beautiful mosaic floor.
It was like they had bought a beautiful sparkly multi faceted diamond with rainbow colours, and just cut it so it became this dull hard edged cubic zirconia.
huh I am ranting. Again.
The daily grind...cutting diamonds??
My mother had one well into 1950s. We were smart enough to correlate smashed clothes with smashed fingers. No one in our family ever smashed a finger.
i remember my grandmother had one. she had long quit using it, it just sat in a corner.
looked like no fun to use..