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Daily Discussion & Free Talk Friday - 7 July 2023

How have your weeks been?

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I finally got myself a library card. I brought home two books and started one of them. Can’t wait to restart reading as a hobby.
The two books for anyone interested are I, Robot by Isaac Asimov and The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin.
- Very nice! I sometimes find it difficult to stick to reading regularly (like currently...). But, I mostly read of a night time before sleep, since I find that the most convenient time.
  I've been currently reading through The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and illustrated by Chris Riddell
  Do you mostly read scifi books or a bit of everything? The Lathe of Heaven sounds interesting.
  One of may favourites is Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
  
  If you haven't seen them, yet. Chris Riddell's illustrations of Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass are beautiful. Just reread both books with my 5 year old for the first time in years.
  
  I read a little of everything to be honest, and right now I’m making an active effort to read more sci-fi/fantasy because I love the genre.
  I haven’t read those yet. I will!
  
  Neverwhere is awesome. I’m a huge fan of Gaiman. American Gods may be one of the best books I’ve ever read.
- Libraries are one of the greatest things in the world. A free hub of knowledge and entertainment and so much more.
  If you're looking at science fiction, might I recommend 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson?
  
  Oooh thanks for the suggestion! I will look it up.

First week in a new role at work, birthday this weekend, going on a holiday soon, Arsenal having all the important business done before the start of preseason? It's a good week!
- Happy birthday!
- Happy birthday!
- Happy birthday
- Sounds exciting! Best of luck for your new role and happy birthday!!!
- Happy birthday (if it's still the same day xD). Hope you had/have a wonderful day :)
  Also all the best qith your job and enjoy your holiday! I'm enjoying mine so far

If rumours are right, today's a big day for our club... I hope it is actually going down.
- Yeah I hope it’s all three. Starting with Saliba’s extension.
- ...I'm yelling timber!

I'm heading to the Emirates for the first time next month for the stadium tour. Although I'm super excited, I also have horrible travel anxiety and I'm really worried that I'm going to be a nervous wreck during my short time in London so I won't be able to enjoy myself.
It's a really shitty thing to have, everything that should be an enjoyable leisure trip becomes a frightening challenge. Nonetheless, I need to face my fears and maybe things will turn out okay and I'll have a blast.
- The stadium tour is a religious experience. Have fun!!
- Hey mate, I live in North London, not too far from the Emirates. London can be an overwhelming place for everyone, and if you need any help with traveling from a to b, advice, or just someone to catch a drink with and chill for a while let me know
  
  Your kindness makes me want to come to London to just hang and see the Emirates as well.
  
  Thank you, I really appreciate that!!
- Great job facing your fears! The Emirates is beautiful, you will definitely enjoy it.
- Good luck my man. The Ashburton Grove is magnificent in person and the tour is definitely worth it.
- That sounds quite debilitating. But, I really hope you manage to push through and have some fun on your trip!
  Maybe focus on how much you are looking forward to the tour? :D
  (Have some fun for me while you're there too, please 😁)

So now that we've got the generally known targets done and key players mostly tied down, who do you think we'll be going for next if we are doing more spending this summer?
- @MHPengwingz @throbbingpens a midfielder (Lavia or fofana) and an opportunistic winger (diaby)
  
  If we got Lavia and Diaby on top of the signings we have already made I think I'd have a fucking heart attack. That's not the arsenal I know.
- Mbappe.
  Okay I couldn’t even type that without laughing.
  
  Lmaooooo heck no

Fucking hell every time I load up Fabrizio’s twitter and see a tweet with a red picture I get my hopes up. The one I saw just now was Enzo Le Fee moving from Lorient to Rennes.

Loss my sense of smell the last two days and just finally started to smell hints of stuff today...sinusitis is unreal.
- @MHPengwingz @throbbingpens I get it a lot. Nasal Salt wash and/or steam help soothe it for me.
  
  I've been doing the nasal rinse but I don't think it was helping much. Did get an insane amount of mucus out. I think what did work to get the smells going again was trying to get a whiff of eucalyptus and camphor. Could also be the sinusitis was already running its course. It's pretty freaky because I've never had it this bad before.
- Least it ain't covid?
  
  True. I think it was compounded with inhaling the wildfire smoke that came down over the weekend and I was outside for a bulk of it. So just insanely inflammed in my sinuses.

@throbbingpens After deciding to start maintaining a full head shave and buying two different head shavers, I've realized that the best results come from my existing Oneblade and regular rotary shaver. Oh well.
- Uh oh. Can you return them? I’m guessing no because they’re used.
  
  @throbbingpens no but I'll keep them for backup or worst case a gently used gift/donation

@little_niggle@lemmy.world no daily discussion today?
- We've not been doing Daily Discussions when there's Free Talk lol
  
  Didn't really notice. I guess this thread becomes kinda like a 2-in-1 then

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