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Hi guys,

What a whirlwind it has been. How do I keep it short?

Sold everything in Canada, 2 cars, 2 bikes, big house. Packed our sentimentals into 10 medium sized boxes. Sold every bit of furniture, everything. Moved to the tiniest island in Croatia. I mean 1 store, 1 gas station, and the road that goes around start to finish like 20 min.

Was in major depression for a year (it's been 2 years now). I've already relocated twice. We are off the island now and in a little more comfy spot, people, traffic, malls. It's awesome. In September we hiked down for a swim and I slipped and fell 30 feet (10 meters they said) down a cliff. My leg blew right open from the knee down. My tiny wife carried me up the hill. No pain from the experience, looked down at my leg and it looked like gibs. Huge white calf bone with no meat around it.

Ended up in emergency surgery in the hospital, fever wouldn't go down, a second surgery after the leg went necrotic, then 3 x double skin grafts over the course of a week. It was a mess. 118 staples around the skin graft. 2 months in the hospital (3 square Croatian meals a day), NO painkillers (in the 2 months I got one 'tramadol' which is super light oxy), everything else was Ibuprofen. They are pretty strict about it here. Then another 2-3 months home rest and now I'm up and walking, lost all my muscle up and down my body from atrophy. My leg looks like something out of the thing, I remember the doctor saying '50/50' when I asked if I would lose it. Thank god.

Over the last 2 years I have been working on AI crossovers (Simpsons Sci-Fi and shit like that). I'm a professional artist by trade, but this is entertainment. Now, my socials blew up - I got naturally verified on Instagram which is at 116k followers and climbing, and Tiktok at almost 200k followers.

I don't love it anymore, it was just morbid curiosity with AI, now I am posting just to appease the fans. (I work fulltime for a US Immigration company as a VP of sales), but my side project has blown up into AI and I am starting to hate it.

I'm wondering if anyone has advice on changing a whole social platform to something else after amassing and appeasing so many people.

Sorry for the rant! I'm alive!

Wow!

https://astronomy.com/news/2020/11/sun-like-star-identified-as-the-potential-source-of-the-wow-signal

So some weird news. I just found out I have a 22 yr old son I never knew existed.

EVGA terminates relationship with Nvidia.

https://twitter.com/gamersnexus/status/1570850305071546368?s=46&t=BEpnwP-_5F_j2lAsXuOyyQ

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So yesterday my neighbor burned my house down
https://i.imgur.com/q93k5lc.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/7T58Yhe.jpg

We're all safe. Only the cat was there and she's ok. We're staying at my late grandmother's place on the other side of town.

RIP the 48" LG CX I just got from ar0micgarden and my desktop, all of my tech, all of my clothing which I had just bought because I lost 60lbs when I was hospitalized for 5 months earlier this year.

Luckily after being a hair's width from death losing everything but the shirt on my back is still only the second worst thing to happen this year.

Anyway if anyone is getting rid of any old desktop hardware maybe hit ya boi.

Hug your stuff guys

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I did CPR on a 5 month old baby early this morning for 40 minutes. After transporting the baby to the emergency room, I went outside and cried. I sobbed pretty hard for minute, then picked up the mess of used supplies, and drove the fire truck back to the station pretending like it was just another call.

The baby did not make it. As a father of 3 kids, one of which is also 5 months old, I can't imagine the shattered emotions and crushed dreams that family will endure.

Today was also my 11th anniversary with my wife. What a messed up day.