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by **LordMortis** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:38 pm

I often aspirate in my sleep. When I wake up coughing and gagging, nothing settles it down but getting up and walking to get a glass of water and taking small sip while being in the upright position seems to help a little. Last night when I woke in a aspiration induced coughing fit, I went on got a glass of water and lied down and taking a few sips half way to being in the upright position. Not paying attention, I fell asleep in that postion with water still in hand for about two hours before I moved to recline to normal sleeping position, I guess. I awoke in a splash to my hand still holding an offending glass of water dumped onto myself and my soaking bed.

Idiot.

by **tjg_marantz** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:53 pm

That's your excuse for the bed being wet then?

by **Tscott** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:05 pm

Although many clouds are shaped like animals, sheep are the only animal that are shaped like a cloud.

by **LordMortis** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:12 am

Concert going must be getting hurt badly. They've been doing "no fee" Wednesdays all summer and now they are doing "all in" seating, where they are just dropping a lot of ticket prices to $24.99. Suddenly many of these mainstream artists that I'd never bother to see become possabilities.

Bands I might break down and see for $25 with no service fee:

Coldplay, Aerosmith, Def Leppard w/Poison & Cheap Trick, 311, The Allman Brothers Band, Crosby Stills & Nash, Depeche Mode, Kid Rock & Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Killers, No Doubt, Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Tour ft. Marilyn Manson & Slayer, Van's Warped Tour

I might have to put out some feelers to see if anyone is interested in any of those bands and if the timing is good for any of them.

The only uck is that every one of those shows is for lawn seating at an outdoor venue and I am generally pretty well past that stage in my life.

Does anyone actually toast their pop tarts?

by **LordMortis** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:49 pm

Spicy Sweet CHILI Doritos are pretty darned good.

by **Tscott** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:31 pm

Um. What's the name of the word for things not being the same always. You know. I'm sure there is one. Isn't there? There must be a word for it... the thing that lets you know that time is happening.

by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:51 pm

Frontier Psychiatrist (YouTube)

by qp » Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:05 am

Tscott wrote:Um. What's the name of the word for things not being the same always. You know. I'm sure there is one. Isn't there? There must be a word for it... the thing that lets you know that time is happening.

Entropy?

Temporal?

Wibbly Wobbly TIme-wimey stuff?

by **LordMortis** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:59 am

qp wrote:
Tscott wrote:Um. What's the name of the word for things not being the same always. You know. I'm sure there is one. Isn't there? There must be a word for it... the thing that lets you know that time is happening.

Entropy?

Temporal?

Wibbly Wobbly TIme-wimey stuff?

I always like kibble as the best expression of inevitability. But I really like JF Sebastian.

by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:32 pm

Things just seem to happen to people who don't drink Wilkins (coffee).

by **Remus West** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:01 am

Anna Friel is very very sexy. I may have to go buy Pushing Daisies just to have an excuse to watch her more. The fact that I have heard good things about the show here just makes it that much more likely.

by **LordMortis** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:04 am

Remus West wrote:Anna Friel is very very sexy. I may have to go buy Pushing Daisies just to have an excuse to watch her more. The fact that I have heard good things about the show here just makes it that much more likely.

I am way hot on Anna Faris. Does that count? I even gave half a thought to seeing that hugely over hyped House Mom flick for a few minutes before figuring it'd be on Comedy Central in a few weeks after the theatre release anyway.

by **Remus West** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:06 pm

LordMortis wrote:
Remus West wrote:Anna Friel is very very sexy. I may have to go buy Pushing Daisies just to have an excuse to watch her more. The fact that I have heard good things about the show here just makes it that much more likely.

I am way hot on Anna Faris. Does that count? I even gave half a thought to seeing that hugely over hyped House Mom flick for a few minutes before figuring it'd be on Comedy Central in a few weeks after the theatre release anyway.

Do not give in to the urge to watch her on the big screen and go see Land of the Lost. :ninja:

by **Tscott** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:03 am

And the signified butt heads with their signifiers, and we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words; while across the sky sheet the impossible birds, in a steady, illiterate movement homewards.

by **dbt1949** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:12 am

Goats, dogs, sticktights. :tjg:

by **LordMortis** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:54 am

Tscott wrote:And the signified butt heads with their signifiers, and we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words; while across the sky sheet the impossible birds, in a steady, illiterate movement homewards.

If they were excellent birds then they could have been Laurie Anderson's.

by **LordMortis** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:57 pm

I may have said this before but the gilled chicken burrito at Taco Belch may be the finest piece of fast food out there. It's even got me liking guac. (When mixed in ranch)

And for two bucks, I am eating more meal than I should eat.

by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:06 pm

LordMortis wrote:I may have said this before but the gilled chicken burrito at Taco Belch may be the finest piece of fast food out there. It's even got me liking guac. (When mixed in ranch)

And for two bucks, I am eating more meal than I should eat.

What sort of odd genetic testing/mutation has generated a gilled chicken? And how the hell did this get past the FDA?

by **LordMortis** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:14 pm

If you decided that you were too old to sleep lieing down, how would you shop for chairs to sleep in? And how do you make sure you don't go fetal in a big ole' lazy boy recliner type chair?

by **Tscott** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:24 pm

The angel lay in a little thicket. It had no need for love; there was nothing anywhere in the world could startle it - we can lie here with the angel if we like; it couldn't have hurt much when they slit its throat.

by **dbt1949** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:25 pm

LordMortis wrote:If you decided that you were too old to sleep lieing down, how would you shop for chairs to sleep in? And how do you make sure you don't go fetal in a big ole' lazy boy recliner type chair?

Find one big enough to hold you in any position you would want to get into. A big Lazy Boy worked for me when I broke my leg.

by **Jaymon** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:33 pm

Your aggitation cannot defeat my apathy.

by **Jaymon** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:36 pm

Your aggitation cannot defeat my apathy.

by **LordMortis** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:54 pm

So I just got back from a few minutes of light reading. The magazine ju jour was the April 2009 edition of Sceintific American, where on the cover it boasts the question "Is Dark Energy Real?" That was good enough to catch my attention for the few minutes I'd have to peruse the magazine.

The article started of by going over some of Copernicus' assumptions and how they may be throwing us off. The big assumption is the Earth is not special... One moment while I google...

Here we go...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/A-Specia ... 5433.shtml

...Actually it's the same sort of article from a year ago...

The problem is that some five centuries ago, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus said that the Earth was by no means a special place in the universe

That statement and assumption seem odd to me. That assuming that the Earth is by not means a special place in the universe don't you naturally close doors on investigation?

If you search for the least special number on 2d6, you'd end up with the number 7. To be the least special is to be 7 and yet if you rolled 7s even 20 times in row you'd be pretty damned special situation of nonspecialness.

While an interesting warning assuming the earth is not special is going to statistically keep you from finding an answer about the universe you are looking for, isn't it? Aren't you bound to base hit a point where the earth does happen to be special and you blow your entire set of observations because you assumed it wasn't?

Looking for what makes stuff special is kinda what it's all about isn't it? If we didn't observe special stuff about black holes then why would be fascinated by them? So now I'm befuddled, bewildered, befogged, confounded and confused. Oh, and vacuated and voided. I feel much better, thank you.

by **The Meal** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:59 pm

Not special is a starting point when making observations. It forces you to make appropriate simplifying assumptions. If you take enough data, you're still allowed to conclude that the situation under investigation turned out to be a special case. But starting from that assumption is somewhat counterproductive.

by **LordMortis** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:48 pm

LordMortis wrote:I think my equilibrium might be broken. You know when you are really tired and start to doze off but you don't actually doze off but rather just go through the motions of almost falling asleep? And you get the not quite bed spinny feel of not quite being high? Since Thursday (I think), that falling asleep, spinny, not quite dizzy, not quite high feeling happens to my head just about every time I turn it. I'm not sure if this is cool or something I should be worried about.

I've come to the conclusion that this is from my taking myself off my headmeds. I've had too many anomolies with body start since I've been on them. That and I've since read that dizzyness, etc... is associated with "antidepressant discontinuation syndrome" (I guess that's the nice way of saying withdrawl from an adictive substance). Anyhoo, I've had this shit going on for like two weeks or more and I'm pretty certain I don't like it and won't be going back on headmeds. I can't find information on how long "antidepressant discontinuation syndrome" is likely to last on someone for which they didn't really do much for someone being on them just shy of a year.

by **Kraken** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:52 pm

LordMortis wrote: I can't find information on how long "antidepressant discontinuation syndrome" is likely to last on someone for which they didn't really do much for someone being on them just shy of a year.

Look up the withdrawal effects from your particular drug. Zoloft has a very short halflife in your body -- you start getting withdrawal after 48 hours or so. For me it was a jangling electrical-shock kind of feeling - just these weird short-circuits that lasted a fraction of a second, brought on by any motion that jarred my spine (like stepping off a curb). I guess it took a month for those to pass. Wellbutrin, OTOH, has a halflife of several days -- you can take short "drug vacations" without ill effect and it fades out more gently. You really ought to taper these drugs off instead of quitting cold, if it's not too late for that.

by **LordMortis** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:33 am

Ironrod wrote:
LordMortis wrote: I can't find information on how long "antidepressant discontinuation syndrome" is likely to last on someone for which they didn't really do much for someone being on them just shy of a year.

Look up the withdrawal effects from your particular drug. Zoloft has a very short halflife in your body -- you start getting withdrawal after 48 hours or so. For me it was a jangling electrical-shock kind of feeling - just these weird short-circuits that lasted a fraction of a second, brought on by any motion that jarred my spine (like stepping off a curb). I guess it took a month for those to pass. Wellbutrin, OTOH, has a halflife of several days -- you can take short "drug vacations" without ill effect and it fades out more gently. You really ought to taper these drugs off instead of quitting cold, if it's not too late for that.

They had me on small doses of Wellbutrin twice daily for about 6 months and larger doses of Celexa once a day for about 6 months which replaced a large dose of Zoloft for about 3 months which replaced a small dose of Zoloft for about 3 months.

I know I should have tapered them slowly but at the very least I am sick of wasted tired and drenched in sweat on sub 70 degree days. While mother's little helpers were supposed to relieve stress and anxiety, a year of experimentation with these drugs hasn't done any of that. Seeing the doctor again to change things up, would have done just that. "Well this isn't working, let's try something else."

by qp » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:38 am

Things not to do in Lake Placid:

- Eat at Tail 'O Pup (seriously just don't go there...)
- Eat at Stephano's (pickled eggs don't belong in your salads!)

by qp » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:41 am

Ducks are really mean! I'll never feel bad eating Duck.

by **dbt1949** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:52 am

qp wrote:Things not to do in Lake Placid:

- Eat at Tail 'O Pup (seriously just don't go there...)
- Eat at Stephano's (pickled eggs don't belong in your salads!)

Or going swimming by Betty White's house.

by **LordMortis** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:15 pm

I've had this song stuck in my head since January or maybe longer and I still don't hate it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YCSJpF4g4

You might just prove me wrong

There'll be lovelovelove
whereever you go there'll be lovelovelove
whereever you go there'll be lovelovelove
whereever you go there'll be lovelovelove

I wonder what the record of losing pens one a time in a week is in my office. It's Tuesday. I had five pens in my desk on Monday. One by one I have claimed each spare. I am now off to the supply cabinet. My memory seems to be crashing worse and worse by the day.

by **Tscott** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:27 pm

I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting, nevertheless extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness.

by **LordMortis** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:51 pm

Aparently I've had a new brew pub next to my work since late last year and I never realized it until to today. I suppose I need to wander in there. If I had know durning playoffs they might have had some of my business.

Not getting a haircut in six months and letting your hair hang over your ears makes for hair going in your ears when you talk on the phone as well as muted hearing.

by **tjg_marantz** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:56 pm

Fuck you

by **Remus West** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:01 pm

tjg_marantz wrote:Fuck you

you should be so lucky.

by **dbt1949** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:11 pm

You weren't that good.

by **Mr Bubbles** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:13 pm

dbt1949 wrote:You weren't that good.

Thats what she said.

by **Remus West** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:32 pm

Mr Bubbles wrote:
dbt1949 wrote:You weren't that good.

Thats what she said.

You've been talking to your mom about me again haven't you. Listen, whether she thinks I was worth the price or not she still needs to pay up.

by **Mr Bubbles** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:35 pm

Remus West wrote:
Mr Bubbles wrote:
dbt1949 wrote:You weren't that good.

Thats what she said.

You've been talking to your mom about me again haven't you. Listen, whether she thinks I was worth the price or not she still needs to pay up.

She told me now only does she feel cheated, but she wants restitution for false advertising.. whatever that means.. I didn't exactly want to press the issue. That was the Long (or short of it) at least.

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