Definitely! It takes much more than thick skin. It also requires full body armor, and your talent has to be your arsenal. You have to be a tank: unstoppable. When I decided I was going to be an “entertainer” instead of an “artist” I had to seriously not care what people thought, or I would have had to remodel a room…

I performed opera for several years a while back. We “throats” don’t really get to see what goes on in the pit. Yes, I’ve heard about this being a real problem in the orchestras, but it’s very eye-opening to hear it from someone who’s actually experienced it. I managed to get myself into the position of being…

yeah, see? total me-fail. Thank you for smacking me in the head with the obvious.

I converted a TruCrypt volume to VeraCrypt, and even tried creating a new VeraCrypt volume (this was a few weeks ago) and mounting the volume was SSSSLLLOOOWWW compared to TruCrypt. I’m a bad LH’er... I’m commenting here about the problem without even Googlging it. I has a ashamed.

Yeah, we go to Aldi and pack a basket for about $30, but then turn around and spend an additional $150 over at Natural Grocers... a week.

:-( I’m sorry to hear that. We’re meant to live life, not be merely kept alive, but business doesn’t care about the difference.

huh, it actually used to NOT work in Chrome.

I still double-click the top left of a window to close it if my mouse cursor is closer to that corner, even though there’s no UI that indicates a menu being there.

Especially when they go public and start having to answer to shareholders... I'm lookin' at you Natural Grocers!

"Health Food Store" products are not immune... "Evaporated Cane Juice" anyone?

Any serious search for truth is only as sincere as your willingness to accept the possibility that you may be wrong.

Had a MRSA knock me out for 4 weeks. Should be able to get back to lifting tomorrow. Sigh.

Yeah, Kale and what other 25 unpronounceable ingredients?!?!?!?

Sorry, Beth... just can't bring myself to put "McDonald's" and "Nutirier... Nootrish,,,, nutrella"... nope, can't put them in the same sentence. Dunno how you did it. Tougher fiber than myself, I suppose :)

and being willing to get over your own assumptions

Thanks a lot, Platy! I'll never be able to sleep again!

I think it helped that I've been a customer in good standing for many many years.

I never have carried a balance on my card (single, one, uno), but very recently we had to do so (single income family of 4, cancer treatment/surgery bills, stuff you wish never had to happen to people). The first thing I did was research 0% APR intro rates from other companies, then called my company and basically…

I just eat right, exercise, wash my hands when they may be dirty, and my immune system (fortunately) does a really good job of handling the rest. If your immune system is weak or compromised in some way, you have to bear a great deal of inconvenience to remain healthy it seems.

I have performed opera professionally (MM vocal performance), been a health and fitness trainer, guitarist, illusionist, actor, web applications programmer at a highly successful dotcom, played ice hockey, tennis, couple of black belts, poet, artist, and yes... the burnout. The pressure of all of that talent has come…