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[Spluff]

The one with the vibrating horn attachment?

[Lines]

My mother bought me a unicorn.

Um, I'll totally take it if you don't want it. Not that you're saying you don't want it, but still, if you change your mind...

[McTaggart]

I'm surprised yours got infected. When I had mine out they loaded me up with huge amounts of antibiotics, anti-inflammatories and painkillers. The sole purpose of all of that was to fight off any infections.

I hope the doctor you're seeing is able to help and can prescribe something to clear it up. When I had mine out, I had to suffer through the pain, because I'm chemically intolerant to painkillers, so it was a whole different kind of pain to what you're dealing with.

When I first saw the surgeon he told me they were already infected. I only got a script for a five day course afterwards whereas all the other courses of antibiotics I've had have been longer than that. I think I just had a preventative one instead of curative one. I've got more antibiotics now though and I'm sure it'll get cleared up relatively quickly.

[Wasteroo]

A guy called me up at work today and tried to tell me I didn't know what a banjo fingerpick was when I said we were all out, as I was working my way through renting four people instruments at the same time. I kind of wanted to jump up on the counter, strip naked, and run into traffic

[Zingoleb]

Today is the day I start my new position!

Last night was the night I had a bout of insomnia!

[Jimor]

Lot's of cool news all around, and it's good to hear!

Speaking of good news, my uncle that kept falling for internet scams has been accepted at a senior apartment complex in town, so he'll be out of my mother's hair in a few days. I've been keeping tabs on his e-mail account, and while he still talks to at least 3 sets of scammers, he hasn't sent them anything in the past couple months. Probably because he's been saving what little he gets from Social Security for the move. Unfortunately, now that my mother isn't the only thing between him and a homeless shelter, the thin veneer of politeness he had put on lately has worn off. Good riddance.

In personal stuff, TV classes are going well, and I have a regular crew gig this fall for the local high school football broadcasts. I'm also working on learning Flash and Actionscript on my own for a cool video project I want to shoot by the end of the year. Fun stuff!

[David_Dovey]

ATTENTION JERKS: People have been complaining about not hearing enough from me, so I've decided to motivate myself by setting up a newsletter of sorts. If there's a bigger group of folks on my list, I'll probably be more likely to send mails out, right? Maybe? It also saves me having to tell the same story to everybody multiple times. If you're interested, get in contact with me somehow with yr name + e-mail address. Ta.

[Inlander]

Man guys thankyou so much for the birthday picture blog thingy you did for me and Tania. You have no idea surprised and how touched I was by that.

My day was pretty tiring actually because I spent pretty much the entirety of it cleaning my house and preparing food. The reason? My parents flew down from Canberra to stay at my place for a few days (at my invitation), which is really nice! My mum brought a shitload of macarons and tarts that she and my brother make and sell at a market every weekend in Canberra. Also today: I met a cute new girl at the place I volunteer at every weekend (not that I think she's a prospect - but hey, just getting to know a cute girl is a reward in itself), I ate a whole lot of chocolates from this place, and the mighty Canberra Raiders won their finals (that's "post-season" to you Americans) game in the National Rugby League - the first time they've won a finals match in ten years!

[StaedlerMars]

i made motherf-ing bagels.

they are awesome.

[Gemmwah]

my new manager had a word with me after my shift today, and was all 'i had my opinion of you from seeing you around and knowing you, but after working with you today i realised that you are a BEAST at sales'

i don't know if i still enjoy being good at sales. i like my job and i love video games and i'm competitive so working to targets is great for me, but i'm having a moral dilemma in the sense that i know intrinsically that salespeople are evil. almost as evil as estate agents.

[tania]

birthday picture blog thingy you did for me and Tania

i don't know what this is! i hope somebody sends me a link soon though because i really don't want to miss something that you guys took the time to put together for me and harry.
also thanks as always for the birthday wishes guys! as much as i've loved living in vancouver and haven't been able to stop obnoxiously blathering on and on about it, it's also been a bit lonely and difficult at times (as big moves always are) and you guyeses friendships really mean a lot to me.
OKAY TOO SAD i am going to spend the day as a recluse cos i am too behind on my readings and i think i have been drinking a bit too much these last few days. instead i will celebrate by going here and scoffing cupcakes until i die. i'll go back to being healthy eventually, i promise.

[A Wet Helmet]

i know intrinsically that salespeople are evil. almost as evil as estate agents.

There are evil--actually, probably more often, marginally ethical-- sales people.  Goo-gobs of them.  But there are non-evil ones too.   Yeah, the ratio of bad to good is probably 98613451:1, however, the good ones are doing real service for their customers.     Try to be one of those.  Not only do you get to sleep better at night, but you get to feel oh-so-superior to the scumbags when you kick the panties off them in your sales.   What you're really selling is your self, and there are some good books on that subject and on customer-centric selling out there if you're inclined to follow a sales path. 

[Gemmwah]

i don't really want to go into sales as a career path, i'm just in a sales job at the moment to help out my wallet whilst i'm at university. i just happen to be naturally good at sales, i think it's because i'm a good at being manipulative, and nobody expects me to be as hard a seller as i am because

so i guess people believe me when i say things because i look harmless, but really i'm pulling in the best numbers in the store and don't care about selling shit to people that they don't want or need.

[Zingoleb]

I saw a woman with the most fascinatingly squiggly and hirsute eyebrows today. She looked like the Mona Lisa if the Mona Lisa looked like this:

[Cernunnos]

L.H.O.O.Q.

[Liz]

Blog Thread,

On Sunday morning Conservative Christian Boy (Ben) and I set out on a road trip to Yellowstone. We camped at Devil's Tower on Sunday night, took in the sights Monday morning, and headed off to Yellowstone around noon-ish. Our whole time in the park was absolutely fantastic, aside from some small bits of bad weather, which is not really a huge deal.

Friday morning we got up to snow on the ground and our exit from the park was closed. We modified our route to leave by another road, and in the process of leaving Ben's car broke down along the road. $400 later we got towed out of the park to a little town called Gardiner and to the only shop in town. They said it would be done by the next morning, so we booked a hotel room for the night with the intention of being one day behind schedule. When we picked the car up this morning, the mechanic said that it was running a little funny but it would get us home just fine.

$563 in repairs later and sixteen miles out of town the car broke down again. Same as before. We got towed back in and the car is being looked at for a second time. There is a chance that we might be stranded in this overpriced tourist town for a night or two more.

Help.

[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

Might be getting to do a phone interview with Erik Danielsson of Watain next week, am super excited!

[David_Dovey]

So are you planning to obtusely imply he's full of shit, or just flat out state it to his face?

[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

I am mostly wondering how they get the people running the venues to agree to all the animal blood

[Patrick]

Went to a friend's going away party. I've never been to a party that was any less of a sausage fest. Girl to guy ratio was at least 4:1. My friend and I were there to play music for everybody.

You know, for having just gotten back from living almost every male musician's fantasy, it was surprisingly kinda boring.

[Zingoleb]

Man fuck you Walmart, you don't schedule me till 9 PM and then expect me to come back in at 5 AM the next day.

Also fuck you for putting me on the door again. You told me I was going to a different department, then you stuck me back int he same place. Fuck you, I don't care that you're paying me (gasp) fifty cents more per hour for it, I didn't ask for the payraise, I asked so I could maybe work a job that's not so horrendously boring I have nightmares about it.

raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage

And even though this isn't a vitriol thread, fuck you to whoever leaves nails in the road.

Fuck you, too, whoever you are, that decided to walk in front of me, causing me to swerve into the road to refrain from running you over, thus causing me to run over a nail and ruining my only way to get to work.

[october1983]

so on friday i finally handed in my dissertation for my masters, and have spent the last couple of days celebrating! although now i am alone and feeling completely at a loss without anything in particular to do. but i am going to montreal on tuesday! what is good to see and do in montreal?

[Liz]

Update: The shop said the car was fixed, so we took it and headed out. Sixteen miles out of town it died again, so we called the shop and they towed us back. This time it is the entire engine and it is going to take at least a week to fix.

One hotel later, we are catching a ride with a stoner cafe owner to Bozeman to hop on the Greyhound bus back home. Most of my stuff is going to be in Montana for the next two weeks.

What the hell, man. What. The. Hell.

[Lines]

Obviously that mechanic could use a kick in the head.

[Dimmukane]

I went to rennfest yesterday! And discovered Rodrigo y Gabriela!  The Rogues were there! And elephants!

[Liz]

Update: Sitting in a coffee shop in Bozeman, MT. The Greyhound station is closed. The lady on the customer service line says we can give the driver cash and he'll drive us to the next open station. We need $300, have $240.

What ELSE can go wrong.

[jhocking]

$563 in repairs later and sixteen miles out of town the car broke down again.

Update: The shop said the car was fixed, so we took it and headed out. Sixteen miles out of town it died again,

Maybe you guys shouldn't have kept fording that river 16 miles away from the shop.

What ELSE can go wrong.

Careful, I think Fate reads this forum.

[Liz]

Hmm, so I updated twice. I am losing track of all of the things that are going wrong.

[Jimor]

What ELSE can go wrong.

Little Suzy gets cholera, your wagon tongue breaks, and 200 lbs of squirrel meat goes bad.

[Papersatan]

Liz, I am so sorry about your car problmes, and I cannot believe how well they line up with my trip to Yellowstone last summer.  I think maybe Yellowstone is cursed for real.  Let me give you the short version of my story:  My car stalls in South Dakota is towed and "fixed".  Make it to Yellowstone but leaving Yellowstone the car feels funny sometimes, but is fixed right?  In Moab, Utah Car the dies I have to wait 3 days for a new fuel pump.  When I pick it up I am told my tires are bulging.  We head out to Grand Junction instead of waiting 3 more day for a tire that fits.  In Grand junction they tell us the rim is cracked and they don't have one in stock.  It will be 2 days.  We wait.  When we leave Grand Junction we make it 60 miles before we blow a gasket and have to be towed to Rifle, Co.  The car will take 2 weeks to fix.  We take a $100 cab ride back to Grand Junction and fly home.  2 weeks later I fly back to drive my car home.
I felt like I was the unluckiest.  I can't believe your vacation is turning into the sequel. 

[Wasteroo]

About an hour ago I fell off a couch onto a cement floor while trying to reach some microphones, and I think I might have possibly broken something in my thumb! It hurts pretty bad and I'm currently typing one handed with ice on my other hand, but I'm holding off from going to the doctor until I'm sure I'm legitimately damaged and not just being a baby

[Eris]

I wrote a story for the first time in a fair few months. It took forever, ended up different to what I was going to write originally, and now I am super nervous because people I know will be reading this, and maybe some people I don't know. I am such a loser.

[Jace]

I really liked it a lot Hannah! I had a very strong mental picture because of the way you described the mother.
Blog news: Dudes I went to a LARP and had a great time and I can't wait for it to be Saturday again so I can do more fighting. I bought some fabrix to make a shirt and I'm gonna look into making some leather armor and stuff. It is so ridiculously fun.

[Lunchbox]

Last night my boyfriend's mother told me I really need to take my food intolerances seriously. After my boyfriend heartily agreed, I realised that me being sick all of the time isn't just my problem. It must suck for him to have at least part of his life ruled by my faulty stomach.

I've never been to a doctor about it, rather self-diagnosing over the years and not doing a very good job of keeping an eye on what I eat. As a result, what I do eat makes me ill pretty much every single day. I'm so used to it, I just ignore the fact that I've been sick as soon as the pain goes away.
 
So! Today I've started a food diary to make note of things that make me sick (I tried this last year but only managed two weeks) and hopefully I'm going to go to a doctor who can give me a fancy new breath test to determine what intolerances I actually do have. Since I know that tomatoes and tea, two of my favourite things in the whole world, do actually trigger my symptoms, I'm going to do my best to cut down.

This is going to be an absolute bitch.

[jmrz]

Lunchy, if you want any advice, give me a shout and I can probably help a little. Tomatos and tea are two of of my big big things as well as spicy foods and things with lots of spices. I know you are a big tea person and probably can't do without, but see if you can give decaf a try? Tetley is great for decaf and it doesn't taste different, just not as strong perhaps.

Even two weeks of food diary would probably help your doctor. When I had to do mine, I hated it and felt judged every step of the way and I am glad I only had to do it for two weeks. I had to write down everything I ate and how it made me feel and from that my doctor diagnosed me within five minutes. I hope they figure out what it is. If it's not an allergy, the intolerances can get easier. I am a lot better now than I was a year ago because I essentially cut everything out for a few months and introduced things back in moderation and stopped if I felt it made me sick.

Do give me a shout if you want to have a chat or anything!

[jhocking]

as well as spicy foods and things with lots of spices.

Ever since I lived in NYC (so like 3 years now I think?) I've been avoiding spicy foods. There are a number of other foods I tend to avoid because they trigger symptoms (eg. I only recently started drinking beer again, occasionally when hanging out with friends) but spicy foods I miss the most.

I love you so much Indian food why do you treat me like that

(I should probably cut out dairy as well, but I need my ice creams.)

Also

I've never been to a doctor about it, rather self-diagnosing over the years and not doing a very good job of keeping an eye on what I eat. As a result, what I do eat makes me ill pretty much every single day. I'm so used to it, I just ignore the fact that I've been sick as soon as the pain goes away.
 
So! Today I've started a food diary to make note of things that make me sick (I tried this last year but only managed two weeks) and hopefully I'm going to go to a doctor who can give me a fancy new breath test to determine what intolerances I actually do have. Since I know that tomatoes and tea, two of my favourite things in the whole world, do actually trigger my symptoms, I'm going to do my best to cut down.

When I went to doctors because of my stomach issues they were completely useless. Well I suppose not completely useless, in that I know I don't have any of the issues they checked for. I got a bunch of tests done and they failed to find anything. I eventually stopped going to doctors and just stopped eating spicy foods and now I'm better-ish.

I guess my point here is to be hopeful when visiting the doctor but don't be surprised if they are no improvement over self-diagnosing.

[jmrz]

Spicy foods and things with lots of herbs* is what that should have said, but you get the idea.

I went to a doctor, who sent me to an immunologist who then sent me to a dietitian when I didn't react to a single thing on the allergy test. It took me a while but I found my answer (I'm Salicylate Intolerant*) and I found how to fix it (or maybe fix it, which has worked mostly). I can eat pizza again and know how much I can have. I can go out and have a life knowing that I'm not crazy and the constantly feeling sick wasn't just all in my head. It took a while and it took forever to adjust, but I fixed it and I know my limits.

My food intolerance is not just a food intolerance. It's a chemical one. I kind of envy the people who straight up just can't eat a certain food because I constantly have to read the labels on cosmetics and facewashes and soaps. I walk past someone with too much perfume on and I end up with a headache all day. But, knowing is better than not knowing and I know how to cope. The main thing that really really sucks about this, and it's not the food or the cosmetics, it's the medication. I can't take most painkillers and I can't take most cough/cold and flu things without making myself worse. So basically, if this cold and this cough would go away, that would be great, because I can't take anything for it and I'd like my ability to breathe back.

[Patrick]

I was having a shitty night the night before last, and a stranger saw me walk out of a 7/11 with a 4Loko in my hand, said I looked like I was having a terrible night, offered to smoke me out, smoked me out, talked me out of the idea of killing myself, and drove me home.

The kindness of a complete stranger saved my life. I seriously had a huge stash of codeine cough medication that I was going to mix with that 4Loko in my stomach. I threw it all out in a dumpster 5 miles from my apartment. It'll suck if I get sick now because I'll have none of my cough drops, but whatever. I just can't believe that shit happened.

[StaedlerMars]

Yeah I think I suffer from these kind of things too. It's kinda shit. Milk especially is a really hard one to give up, I love milk!

[Liz]

I am HOME.

Minus about 2/3 of the stuff I brought on vacation, but I am HOME.

[Slick]

OK so I am in pastry school.
OK so I drew short straw and ended up on the morning shift for the first two weeks (6:30AM).
OK so the like two shows I was really stoked for seeing are on weeknights and will probably run past last call (2:00AM)
Thought this was a problem until I realized solution: sleep through the day, rock out at night, bake bread in the morning, repeat.
OK so this is going to be the greatest best thing ever.

[snalin]

I was having a shitty night the night before last, and a stranger saw me walk out of a 7/11 with a 4Loko in my hand, said I looked like I was having a terrible night, offered to smoke me out, smoked me out, talked me out of the idea of killing myself, and drove me home.

The kindness of a complete stranger saved my life. I seriously had a huge stash of codeine cough medication that I was going to mix with that 4Loko in my stomach. I threw it all out in a dumpster 5 miles from my apartment. It'll suck if I get sick now because I'll have none of my cough drops, but whatever. I just can't believe that shit happened.

You should probably do something drastic about your situation. Strangers isn't going to be around every night stuff is shitty. I'm not sure why, but you seem like a nice, talented guy, and it's not a good thing when one in every three of your posts lately are about offing yourself. I'm not going to tell you what to do, but something is a pretty good start.

As long as something isn't stronger dope than what you are taking, since having something you can OD on close at hand when depressed is a really fucking bad idea.

[Patrick]

Well it does not help that I don't feel like I can control my own actions

I don't make terrible decisions because I want to, I make terrible decisions because I am not the one in my head anymore. I know that the actions I take aren't even close to the best options, but I'm not even in control of myself anymore

Least, I sure as fuck don't feel like I am

[Lunchbox]

My mother has had food problems for the past 20 years and she's still getting sick, so I have very little faith in doctors finding out what's wrong. Mind you, she refused to cut out tea after she'd been diagnosed (for like the millionth time) with Salicylate intolerance, so maybe that's part of her problem. She is a stubborn woman.
My boyfriend's mum told me of her friend who had the Hydrogen breath test and was diagnosed with Fructose intolerance. I looked it up and the symptoms do seem more like mine than salicylate (which is what I'd sort of been trialling, except I haven't given up tea yet either, although tonight I will buy some decaf.) Anyway I'll talk to her tonight and see if I can book into her doctor.

[Zingoleb]

Today, knowing it was going to be cold, I put on my hoodie and wool trenchcoat and walked to work. It was gloriously beautiful - the clouds were this beautiful pink and orange, and the landscape just glowed, and I felt like I had stepped into this Maxfield Parrish painting. Then I saw a rainbow, stretching from one side of the horizon to the other, just bright neon pink and slowly resolving into colour, and I turned around to look behind me and the sunrise was exploding this fantastic colours and it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, and that's when it started thunderstorming.

When I got home I ate ice cream, read Neverwhere and napped.

Lunchy: The problem with decaffeinated is that they're usually using chemicals that cause other problems to decaffeinate - oddly enough, one of the biggest effects of decaffeination chemicals is an increased heart rate. So much for calming you down, right? (I know that's not what you're thinking about switching for, just saying) Water processed decaffeination is pretty safe, but it seems really rare that anyone actually uses it.

[Lunchbox]

Hm. Maybe I'll stop by the tea shop at lunch and see if they have any looseleaf that's water decaffeinated. Mum gave me a neat little diffuser teapot that I've never got around to using.
The caffeine in tea never really affects me anyway, I just drink tea for something to do and because I like the taste (and now that I don't drink it as much as I did when I was a barista, caffeine from espresso coffee gives me the shakes all day).

[Graphite]

I was having a shitty night the night before last, and a stranger saw me walk out of a 7/11 with a 4Loko in my hand, said I looked like I was having a terrible night, offered to smoke me out, smoked me out, talked me out of the idea of killing myself, and drove me home.

The kindness of a complete stranger saved my life. I seriously had a huge stash of codeine cough medication that I was going to mix with that 4Loko in my stomach. I threw it all out in a dumpster 5 miles from my apartment. It'll suck if I get sick now because I'll have none of my cough drops, but whatever. I just can't believe that shit happened.

You should probably do something drastic about your situation. Strangers isn't going to be around every night stuff is shitty. I'm not sure why, but you seem like a nice, talented guy, and it's not a good thing when one in every three of your posts lately are about offing yourself. I'm not going to tell you what to do, but something is a pretty good start.

As long as something isn't stronger dope than what you are taking, since having something you can OD on close at hand when depressed is a really fucking bad idea.

Yeah man, definitely this - especially if you feel like you're not in control of yourself. Does the place you live have one of those free helplines you can call? They might be able to help you out and direct you to resources where you can get counselling for cheap.

[A Wet Helmet]

So my grandfather died Sunday.   It's not like it wasn't expected, the doctors gave him two months to live well over a year ago.   Almost a month ago they said he wouldn't last two more days.   Despite the fact that I am enormously glad he's not suffering anymore, I am sure going to miss him.   He was the coolest guy ever.   He rode a jet ski every weekend the weather would allow well into his eightees.  In fact, he retired from his third career at age 82 or 83 when the doctors told him he wasn't allowed to stand ten hours a day anymore.   

He taught me to waterski when I was all of five years old.
He once built rubber band guns for every kid in the entire neighborhood.
He was silly in a way that every time I would watch the Cosby Show as a kid, Dr. Huxtable's antics would make me think of him.
He drank and smoked like he was Don Draper from Mad Men, but didn't have the slightest bit of jerk anywhere in him.  The one time  he ever got mad at me, it was because I sank a boat.  I totally deserved it.
He had a huge collection of Playboy's, that me and my cousin used to swipe.
You couldn't go anywhere in town without running into someone who knew him.  Nowhere.

Anyway, I get to pack up my family and fly this weekend so I can bury my grandfather, and it is about the last thing in the world I want to do.

[BeoPuppy]

Sounds like an awesome guy. I'm sorry for your loss.

[StaedlerMars]

oh man we DJed at a silent disco last night against the DJ who does the biggest cheese night in Edinburgh, and we totally kicked his ass. We kept it fairly classy through the night, some good tunes, than at exactly 1 both of us (the other DJ and us) played Don't Stop Believing, and from there on it was just messy. We ended on a 90s pop-punk medley.

woooo fresher's week!