didn't really want to put this in the post, but the bf of my sponsee who died last year is in jail in thailand and is thinking of coming back here when he gets out. suicide by cop I've heard of, but suicide by entire judicial system? narnia executes people right and left, by hanging. the amount of drugs in possession that triggers the automatic death penalty is not very high. I was talking to a friend whose friend was recently executed, and all the death row prisoners are next to each other, with the hall in the center leading to the gallows. the doomed prisoner walks past everyone else, like in a fucking country song from 1935, and then they hear the whole thing. straight fucked up. a fat indian guy does the hanging, and he's apparently very good. snick-snack, and you're done. he holds the record for executing the most people in a single day, 18 people. none of this even addresses whether I'm going to punch the boyfriend in the face. I won't, though, I feel sorry for him, poor dumb motherfucker
thanks moby, and also prospective congratulators!
Congratulations on the discovery at Sutter's Mill.
my mother has suggested that when we're at martha's vineyard this summer we should spend lots of time visiting the homes of our mayhew ancestors in small island towns. I'm kind of thinking we'll stick more with picnics. because, duh, cthulu.
Congratulations on 5 years and getting the V chip.
Good luck with the toilet squids, alameida.
my femur was touching my patella when I tried to bend my left knee with weight on it
Gah. I don't know what part of the concoction is helping (maybe just placebo effect), but since I started having trouble with my knees, I've been taking glucosamine/chondroitin/MSM, fish oil, and vitamin D. The one knee still makes an unsettling Velcro-ish noise, but I can jog up and down stairs again without any pain. Which is a massive improvelence.
The Amish would not be able to describe that symptom measly so well.
The velcro noise is probably crepitus. Mine do that, too. So far glucosamine (et al) have done nothing for it, but making sure I don't spend too long sitting down helps the most of all the things I've tried.
Four Lyrica to summon a jellysquid monster? Seems like it was a lot more difficult for those cults, what with the chanting, the sacrifices, and the gibbering madness. Thanks, science.
I'm taking little sachets of glucosamine that dissolve in water. plus running in the pool (more tiring than you think). I always knew it wasn't supposed to sound like someone was frying a panful of bacon in my knees when I went up and down the stairs, but I ignored it till it got horribly painful, like any sensible person.
11: I know, right? I'll join the fucking hellfire club or something if I want that, thank you very much. I'll probably have to read back issues of hellboy to figure out what to do.
13: Well I'm no expert, but what about pan-frying with a buttermilk based batter?
I ignored it till it got horribly painful, like any sensible person apostropher.
Are there sounds in the liked-by-Cthulhu dreams? Anything like this, perhaps?
More seriously: hooray for sobriety!
Congratulations on five years! Keep on not doin what you're not doin. But maybe no more self-prescribed dosage adjustments for a while. That sounds really unpleasant.
yeah, probably following the doctor's instructions would have been the right move there.
Congratulations, Alameida!
My friend is coming up on 1 month of sobriety, I think. Haven't been talking to him, as per this extremely dubious pact his wife and friends and I made, that I'm still very ambivalent about. But other people have seen him, and he seems to be doing well on the sobriety front, if not on the dealing-with-all-his-other-shit front. Oh well.
Sorry about the knee stuff. My pain has recently migrated down to my feet, which is really annoying. It's not excruciating, but it feels like I've just come off a 6 mile hike -- ALL THE TIME. Can't get in to the doctor for a couple more weeks.
This blog is going to be SO FUN when we're all in our seventies an eighties. Probably have RFID chips in the colostomy bags by then.
Huzzah, al!
Only vaguely related to the talk of knee pain, I just got a coffee and the barista whom I see several times a week told me she saw me running yesterday. I responded, "I'm sorry. No one should have to see that."
She cracked up for a long time. Like, long enough that I'm now concerned it might be true. Oh well! Sorry, world.
Congrats Alameida - awesome.
One of my friends just reached 24 years. His sister has gotten him a chip every year but one (got lost in the mail - Chipotle would never let that happen).
Chipotle has never made anybody wait a whole year to get a chip either.
It's made of real...some sort of cheap brass or something
That's to ensure you don't pawn it for drug money.
Wizard cocksucker, alameida. Coming up on a couple years, myself. I started having fucked up dreams when I quit drinking, including the meta-nightmares and dreams that subjectively lasted days. Anyway, if you'd followed the doctor's instructions, how would you know you'd better follow the doctor's instructions?
Congratulations on the five years!
Could the 'shrooms be of use to banish Cthulhu to qliphoth?
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/06/magic-mushrooms-safe-still-illegal
Congrats, alameida! Apparently the jellyfish squid monster, after leaving your company, decided to menace Argentina.
congrats, Al! 5 years is a big fucking deal.
Vitamin D hasn't fixed my knees with the patella with the wanderlust. Maybe I'll try fish oil next.
Mazel tov, alameida. And sympathies on the arthritis; it's a bitch.
Woo sobriety! My knees have been helped quite a bit by, oddly, weightlifting--squats and deadlifts. But that may be because my issues were fat-guy out-of-shapeness rather than some sort of RSI/arthritis. I think arthritis will show up first in my hands--washing my hands in warm water sometimes feels disconcertingly good.
28: people have been offering me shrooms all the time on the beach in lombok. would be hard to explain the science at an NA mtg though. maybe with powerpoint slides...
"Gah. I don't know what part of the concoction is helping (maybe just placebo effect), but since I started having trouble with my knees, I've been taking glucosamine/chondroitin/MSM, fish oil, and vitamin D. The one knee still makes an unsettling Velcro-ish noise, but I can jog up and down stairs again without any pain. Which is a massive improvelence.
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curcumin (turmeric) is probably worth tryingt oo
0/ alamaedia
Turmeric is supposed to work as an anti-inflammatory and to help digestion. Capsaicin (hot pepper) is also helpful. And ginger too. I took boatloads of turmeric when I was skiing and having trouble, but I still found myself reaching for the ibuprofen.
Maybe you were liked, not by Cthulhu, but by Princess Stephanie's Hat. After all, it too is "full of cold black hatred, not just for me, but for everything alive".
33: That hand in hot water thing I have and it is skin, not joint, related.
33/39: You should have someone immerse your hand in warm water while you're asleep. It's the best!
40: I tried that, but then when I woke up, my pillow was gone.
That means Heebie has been kicking around here for five years also.
Hooray for my yearly noting that your sobriety was what got me reading this place! And congratulations on the underlying condition.
Congrats! 5 years was a bitch - hope yours has been better than mine was... but that was 19 yrs ago.. it DOES get better, I promise...
That is the most impressive spam I've seen yet.
I've seen a fair amount of spam that has to be human. I don't understand how it's cost effective, but it's got to be human.
It has to be sentient, at least. Maybe SETI should check into stuff more mundane.