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Originally Posted by UpDownAround
I once planned to sail around the world in a smallish boat. I would stay up all hours arguing with people on the internet about whether boats I was looking at were seaworthy enough or not (spoiler - they weren't).
I was convinced that there was a formula that made music appeal to people and stayed up all hours trying to work it out on MIDI keyboards and composing software. I argued with people on the internet (I think there might be a pattern here  ) about whether or not cheap keyboards and free open source software could produce music on par with high end synthesizers and professional studios.
I had another sailing episode but this time I was going to build a 14' boat and "only" go to the Bahamas from FL. Of course, late night arguments ensued...
These weren't all that recent; I seem to have reigned it in some and was mostly just an arrogant jackass the last few years. Except for a couple of times when I was convinced that I could cure any disease in my body with my mind and I could be immortal if I avoided a violent or accidental death.
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This is great stuff! Your boating stories remind me of old Sam "Mayday" Malone from Cheers. Things didn't end well (fictitiously) for him and his boat adventure either. I'm showing my age with that comment, eh?
Interesting you bring up those grandiose-esque thoughts with the music and disease curing. I've figured out that when I start thinking like this, no matter what the subject or how logical my reasoning may seem at that moment, I am clearly encroaching into hypomanic territory. Most recently for me it was Pi and it's relationship to calculating the circumference of a circle. When I go all Einstein or Hawking, I am sure there's a secret to the universe there.
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