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Wellness Wednesday for September 27, 2023

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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WTF is the Hock? Every time you mention it here, I google it and only learn about horse legs.

He explained in the Small Scale Questions thread that it's slang for being thrown/cast, in this case being cast into the wilderness.

Thank you! And here I thought it was some sort of official event like the Iditarod.

The guy is categorically opposed to explaining.

This is funny to me because every time I read it, I thought it was referring to something being "in hock," as in pawned as collateral for a loan but neither yet redeemed nor lost.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/in-hock

The reference being that the lives of the youth can be either redeemed by their struggle or lost because they cannot pay for the loan they received.

As far as I understand SkookumTree, he wants to climb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hock_Mountain.

He mentioned the Brooks Range in the OP, which is in Alaska/Yukon.

Oh. That makes my McCandless reference much more appropriate.

Oh I thought he had mentioned Alaska. Climbing a mountain in Washington doesn't seem quite so treacherous.