Night Sky

Eating dinner with my folks made me happy today. This coffee next to the keyboard makes me happy. My room makes me happy. My dreams this morning made me happy. This question made me happy. I make me happy. You make me happy. Every day is just perfect, as long as it is followed by another one, it kind of what I think. THIS day, that I actually have, (as opposed to not having? which isn't even a thing really) is always worthy of feeling happy about.

A typical day for me begins at dusk. Upon waking up, I either eat in - or I go out and try to connect with other ponies, been doing this more lately. There is a post here in Cloudsdale where the other local Sky Scouts and I check in and find out where our areas of responsibility will be, and any relevant news that's been passed on. Then it's time to take flight. Pegasi have to do everything with the weather during the night that they do during the day. There's always something to do with the weather. We monitor the skies of Equestria and look for emergencies or problems down on the ground. We keep an eye on the border. If trouble arises we either intervene or get help depending. I head back at the first hint of dawn. That's a typical day in Clohdsdale. If I'm in Canterlot, there's never anything typical about a day there. My favorite food is a mix of barley, oats, bran and Captain Crunch.

Welcome from a fellow newbie. I too am in the midst of a total rewatch of FIM and I'm almost through season 4. This is a great place to be, you'll be glad you joined.

Thank you! And I'm glad you asked this, indeed they do, though I myself only remembered them a couple days ago. Being in the human world has resulted in some memory loss of the Pony world, but to address your question: Top to bottom: My mother, the Widow Albeda My father, Aurorus My older Sister, Penumbra My father was the great stallion Aurorus. He led our family kindly and with strength of character. A more loyal servant Princess Celestia never had. He did more to keep the night skies of Equestria safe than any pony, and this is why Princess Celestia appointed him as one of her seniormost Stewards. I follow on in his footsteps under Princess Luna, but I am not my father and that's okay. Few ponies can be his equal. I wish I'd known him better and I miss him. My mother is the Widow Albeda. She served alongside my father in Princess Celestia's service for a number of years, but children were her dearest wish, and my father never once denied her anything that I'm aware of. He left her well provided for too, so now mom serves in a variety of capacities to see to it that every pony in Equestria is given what they need to live a good life. She has the dignity of a Princess, but she feels only compassion and goodwill towards every pony and makes that her focus. Of course, she misses father terribly and in that regard she is a very sad and lonely old Mare. She is intensely private and sometimes I feel like I don't know her terribly well either. But I do not kid myself, I know very well of her love for me and my sister, her pride. Her consolation that perhaps some part of what she and father shared lives on in my sister and I. My big sister is Penumbra. Like my parents and I (still do), she too served Princess Celestia as a Sky Scout for a good number of years. Almost everyone in our clan does, at some point in their lives. When Princess Luna returned, Penumbra declined to directly renew her oath of fealty, and retired from being a Sky Scout. She has returned to Cloudsdale and is known locally as something of a recluse. My big sister practically raised me and even now the bond we share is unbreakable. Still, I can't understand why she has chosen the path that she has. She won't open up. It is a perplexity for me and something of a sticking point. I want to know why. I am also not happy about how matters stand between my mother and my sister. They don't talk much. I suspect my mother expected that Penumbra would be the one to give her grand ponies. Have not I also neglected to do so as well? Our own challenges and losses not withstanding, my family has had an amazing journey, and there is no place I would ever prefer to call my home.

My dreams are sometimes perfectly serene, sometimes terrifying or disgusting, sometimes tragic and sometimes transcendent. Most often though they are bonkers and just quite a trip. They can be short or long, cinematic or fragmented. I am attentive to my dreams and I have been since college. I just began the fifth volume of my dream journal a month ago. I have about 370 dreams I've recorded. So perhaps I've logged the events of an extra year of life. It's not every day you'll meet someone who has a dream that Sybok, the deranged mystic from the awful Star Trek 5 film is invading California but is then stopped by Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart. Analyze that.

Trying to live a spiritual life at least part time. Yoga, several types of meditation, reading books that build me up, getting out into nature, chanting. None of this is nearly so impressive as it sounds, but it keeps me going.

Half-And-Half for my coffee.

The hardest lesson I've ever had to learn was that my marriage was doomed to begin with. It has taken me 7 years to come to grips with it. That's the short version, there's a lot to unpack there, obviously. And obviously, we're not going to go into any of it. This has also involved some more specific hard lessons I've had to learn about myself. Some of them have been bitter pills to swallow indeed, but clearly they would be. It's more a matter of it being very hard to sort this all out and my probability of doing so was never high. And of course, I am still very much a work in progress.

I've written a couple songs, none of which are extant anymore, unfortunately. I've written more poetry, and only a couple of those are still around. They're morose bummers. I wouldn't care to share them. But I've tried my hand at it. Generally, I am a visual artist. I've done a lot more better work there. Several writers have told me that I have talent, but I lack skills. I agree. I do have a fan novel I am VERY SLOWLY writing and I wonder if I will ever finish it.

I put 8 am cause that's when I usually go to bed at this time in my life. When I get to sleep is just a matter of when I get off of work, how long it takes me to get home from work, and how much time I end up needing to unwind. It's totally dictated by work and totally unhealthy.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It depends and it is hard to predict and hard for me to explain why that is.

The last hotel I was at was a mixed experience. The room was perfectly fine, so was the hotel's location. The Price was not quite right and the staff were tricky to communicate with. I like hotels, especially if I'm not traveling alone, but especially if I'm traveling with friends. We can have fun in hotel rooms. I never travel with my folks anymore. Evar.

I get to say three cause I dod my Yoga, drank my tea, sat in meditation, did my self care and chanted my chants. Soon I'm gonna read my books. That's the only reason I get to award myself a 3 today. If I hadn't done ALL of the above my number would have been much higher.

Right now, the only thing I can say that I like about my job is that I get to work alone most of the time, I don't have to give it my entire attention constantly for 8 to 12 to 16 hours as the case may be, and it's a quiet place. The hours, pay and benefits are decent, but we all deserve that from any job. But it's boring, and a dead end. There's nowhere to go. So in three months I am requesting a transfer. I have to feel like I'm doing something, to not hsve a bad conscience.

Vaping. And I have good reason to feel that way beyond what most people might be aware of. Let's leave it at that.

I struggled to learn but my parents stayed on me at a young age, so yes. If they are there I use them. If not, sometimes I ask, but it depends. I don't like to make a big show of asking for them.

[Sighs] 42 [Dives out of sight]

My avatars are always very important to me. Maybe too important. I get picky and perfectionistic. It has to be just right. Once established, I seldom change them, though it can happen. Generally, I try to craft them myself as opposed to using ones someone else made. I imagine that when my first commissions are done I will create a new avatar based on what Night Sky properly looks like. The AI kitsch I have now is just a stop gap measure.

All my walls are decorated with paintings I made specifically for my room. It's kind of a mural in panels.

SNAPS. If you aren't a kid of the 80s and 90s, you won't remember those. They tasted like black licorice with the texture of thin wall brown cardboard. So absolutely delicious. Menards has a big bag of colored licorice bites that taste somewhat like snaps did, but not quite.