93 - Audio

[gotgreenmagic]

'Sunshine and merriment'? No way I'm taking that at face value. When have we ever had a 'civilized vacation' kinda port two months in a row?

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[notarrowette]

Well, Salem and Germany were only like one month apart last year? ...Followed by a year of chaos and darkness, sure, but that describes any given Tuesday.

[gotgreenmagic]

Salem was October, Germany was December, so that's not consecutive. Also Germany wound up under like six feet of snow in an unending blizzard.

But I get your point.

[notarrowette]

No, but--one month between them! ...And then another ten before we got Paris. And honestly, I wasn't really a fan of Germany anyway.

I was going to say something about how a little optimism never hurt anyone, but then I realized not being optimistic might have prevented a lot of crap. So... low expectations didn't hurt anyone?

[gotgreenmagic]

I'm a fan of pessimism. Total worst-case scenarios don't usually happen, sooo either every day is a pleasant surprise, or it isn't and you're already braced for it.

[notarrowette]

I really feel like I should argue with you over that, but... it's remarkably sound logic.

[gotgreenmagic]

I did hear that constantly assuming the worst of everything has the side-effect of turning you into a cranky misanthrope, but I haven't seen the statistics to validate that.