what does one eat for breakfast on a saturday? i haven't been up this early in ages.
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On Saturday mornings I eat breakfast sandwiches. A slice of toast for the bottom, half a slice of "American" (Dairylea) cheese, a slice of lunchmeat ham (warm), and a scrambled egg (not too scrambled, so it all holds together). Two of those!
why did i purchase a vehicle that's hard to customize the audio?
i've spent my entire birthday cutting my fingers and searching for cables and such just to put an aux cable in. i think i'm just gonna spend the 90 bucks at the dealer and have them install it.
or continue having fun. i seem to need to replace all 10 speakers now as well. apparently. i mean, i can't really tell if they're broken, until i put new ones in…right? it's as good as any excuse i can come up with on my own.
I just found out some bloke I was at art college with is now a shamanic healer?! O:I would feel so guilty to hire such an authentic-looking healer. The entire time he was failing to heal me, I'd just keep thinking nervously that I had clearly fallen prey to stereotypes.
If I need a shaman, I don't want some middle aged, balding fat bloke with a public school accent, I want someone who looks like this:
I just found out some bloke I was at art college with is now a shamanic healer?! O:I would feel so guilty to hire such an authentic-looking healer. The entire time he was failing to heal me, I'd just keep thinking nervously that I had clearly fallen prey to stereotypes.
If I need a shaman, I don't want some middle aged, balding fat bloke with a public school accent, I want someone who looks like this:
True, but since you know a shamanic healer would fail to heal you in the first place, you'd only be hiring him when you required someone who looked like a shamanic healer, to impress your boss who you knew was into new age claptrap for instance, so your adoption of sterotypes could be forgiven, even praiseworthy.
Of course, you could just play Ebeneezer Goode and hope for the best. :)
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Deaf in one ear with a high pitched whistling noise now? What kind of godforsaken virus is this?
Shamanic healer?!Lol. Try sitting on a committee that includes a handful of Druids, a Dianic Wiccan or two, several Gardnerians, and a bunch of eclectics and universalists. Some days I kinda want to say "so… the only thing we have in common is that our religions are based on shoddy anthropology?" Psh. What good is being the co-chair of a planning committee for a fertility celebration if I can't even get a date? Why do I keep doing this year after year? Rhetorical question, because I'm going to do it anyway ._.
I just found out some bloke I was at art college with is now a shamanic healer?! O:
If I need a shaman, I don't want some middle aged, balding fat bloke with a public school accent, I want someone who looks like this:
Or possibly this:
But definitely not some art school chancer. >:(
What good is being the co-chair of a planning committee for a fertility celebration if I can't even get a date?
Heh - a case study in irony! lol!
Genejoke, I hope you've not picked up the same thing as we've got: It's now into week 3, I've got tinnitus in one ear, the strength of a paralysed gnat and the mental focus to draw no more than 3 lines a day. :(
Well, thankfully I seem to have come to the end of a marathon migraine session.
I went to bed early on Friday night and had a beautiful 14 hour sleep. Woke up on Saturday morning nice and refreshed…
…But towards the afternoon the relentless heat started to wear me down. So I had hard pressure on both temples, and pain. I took pills, but it just got worse. So I went to bed to try and sleep it off.
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The pills that are most effective for me have 500mg paracetamol, 8mg Codeine phosphate and about 5mg doxylamine succinate (the Codeine and doxylamine succinate dosages vary by brand). Now the Codeine is the true pain killer here and the doxylamine succinate is there to help you sleep. The paracetamol is very mild painkiller that is extremely toxic to your liver, its only function in the pills is to make it harder for people to extract the Codeine to get a mild buzz.
What this means to ME is that I have to wait through at least 4 hours of agony till I can have another two pills so that the paracetamol is safely metabolised and I don't kill my liver (overdoes are fatal). And if I mistake the time when I took the last dosage I have to play it safe and wait MORE hours till I can take more.
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Anyway, slept for about an hour and woke with a worse headache; it had consolidated itself in the right temple in true common migraine fashion…
The entire afternoon, evening and night was spent in fitful 30 minute dozes, and then waiting out another four hours of worsening agony till I could take some more pills. Later on I couldn't recall whether I'd taken more at 2am or not, I didn't think I had, but I had to wait it out anyway to be safe. And I just got worse.
The next day there was the seasickness nausea, accompanied by vomiting. I took two more pills, a sleep aid pill containing 25mg of doxylamine succinate and an anti-nausea pill they'd given me last time when i was hospitalised in a similar condition… And threw the while lot up 1hour later.
So, another wasted weekend. -_-
The full headache has almost completely burned itself out now, just a small pain in my temple.
God I whish it was cooler here!!!!!!
Anyone else see how quickly this Modest Medusa thing just took off? I've actually never seen someone's comic get that popular that fast. It occasionally happens with features, yes but not usually at this level.
It's interesting to me.
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My mom's a pain by the way. She will drive me insane one day.
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Out of 77 games of solitaire, I won 5.
I hate that game…
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Going over my friend's today. Probably going to play a lot of video games (he wants me to play Marvel vs. Capcom 3) and stuff.
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Being in a band isn't all I wanted it to be. No one wants to screw me cause I'm the lead singer (let alone date me). We don't get respected by other bands, and worst of all the only person who really wants me in the band is distracted because he threw my sister in as bassist and he's DATING my sister.
Wish this was easier and I could just say "We play music Joe likes now."
I don't know…that rant just came…
The best part is that one of the parts I'm heavily involved with are helping find May King and May Queen candidates (for our community, the roles kinda fill a combination of Prom King and Queen, mixed with a rite of passage). So my job description includes actively seeking out young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 and interviewing them. Since I'm only turning 26 this year, you'd think this would work out in my favor…What good is being the co-chair of a planning committee for a fertility celebration if I can't even get a date?
Heh - a case study in irony!
Course, back at the end of my turn in the role as May King in 2008, the committee rejected the only successor candidate. At the celebration, there're three icons of masculine divine- the maypole, the crown's stand, and the king. We'd rejected the king. During the coronation of the queen, the kings stand fell over three times. And, at the end of the day, when someone climbed the may pole, the thing cracked in half.
I can be erudite and skeptical all I want, but after investing yourself in a set of symbols fer a year- watching a 25 foot symbol of yer penis fall in half still gets to you ._.
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Heh. One of the stranger parts of my day job at the public library is that I swear we have a quota for transexual patrons. Some are obvious, but having been raised in the local LGBT community, I'm pretty good at spotting some of the more feminine mtfs and masculine ftms. Every time a new one comes in, I'm bemused at how we have a disproportionate number of 'em from the population. Then I remember the overlap between how much of our patronage are in economically poor situations, and how many transexuals end up in that bracket because of losing support from family and friends (especially mtfs- ftms seem to be able to use the butch lesbian stereotype to find a relatively stable community). And my amusement turns into a sort of depression. Yesterday's transexual didn't seem too bad off.
Edit: mtf is male-to-female, ftm is female-to-male. Silly jargon.
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Today I'm play testing an RPG system I've developed, designed to be a supplement for one of the comics I'm working on ^_^
It's now into week 3, I've got tinnitus in one ear, the strength of a paralysed gnat and the mental focus to draw no more than 3 lines a day. :(I didn't mean to mock your suffering with the fallen microbe bit. I had a nasty one-two virus in January that took me about three weeks to get over — ironic that those in recovery are called "patient" – ha! But combined with your posting re shamanic healing, maybe you're right: this may be a case for spiritual cleansing. Calling Dr. Kyupol . . .
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Seriously, a home remedy that I know has worked for several people when it comes to ear complaints is to put 4-6 drops of garlic oil into your ear and then hold a very warm, moist towel over the ear until the towel returns to room temperature. Two or three treatments during the day.
Garlic is a mild, natural antibiotic, but if there isn't noticeable relief within 24 hours, then you need a stronger antibiotic.
@Ayes- Ironscarf's ear issue sounds like simple wax build-up doe to his virus. In that case garlic oil or any of a number of oils will have some success at helping to dissolve some of the blockage so that it can be lightly syringed out with warm water (Cerumol is a brand name oil that's pretty good).
-Need a rubber ear syringe.
-Be very careful and gentle!!!! Deafness is not something you want to risk.
-It can be very messy and icky depending on what's in there, but if it works the shock of hearing well again is pretty sudden and amazing.
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Course, back at the end of my turn in the role as May King in 2008, the committee rejected the only successor candidate. .The irony here is that any one of the original forms of those groups in their proper temporal and cultural contexts would reject all the others and any rites would be performed following strict rules of tradition or not at all, with no voting or arguing… committees being an anathema to them- such societies tending to be rigid and hierarchical. -at least from what I've gleaned.
But I'm sure you'll all have a fantastic time regardless. Sounds like a hoot really- A good fun thing to be a part off! ^_^
…Grease up that May-pole for added protection and extra lewd sexual conotations!
Anyone else see how quickly this Modest Medusa thing just took off? I've actually never seen someone's comic get that popular that fast. It occasionally happens with features, yes but not usually at this level.It's unheard of for such a small comic to rise so quickly. Googleing the comic I found that the author is a colourist for some other comic, that may have helped. He also seems to be a bit of a manic plugger on various websites, including craigslist.
It's interesting to me.
Also, I WAS READING THIS COMIC BEFORE IT WAS COOL!
And I only clicked on it after the author posted a story in the forums about him pooping his pants.
I had fun last night. Just me the wife, and another couple out at this martini lounge. I had two drinks, we sat around for about 4 hours. It was great. the sad part is we were all old and were ready to leave at 9:30.
one of my best birthdays in a while, but mostly due to work not having me in town on it. and it's one of the first to fall on a weekend in several years.
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@leet, start your own sisterless band.
It's unheard of for such a small comic to rise so quickly. Googleing the comic I found that the author is a colourist for some other comic, that may have helped. He also seems to be a bit of a manic plugger on various websites, including craigslist.
Also, I WAS READING THIS COMIC BEFORE IT WAS COOL!
And I only clicked on it after the author posted a story in the forums about him pooping his pants.
We don't usually see such big jumps unless someone is running a successful ad campaign or has been plugged by someone really big. (Last Place Comics did break the top 10 by having one of his comics made popular on Digg, I think.) I don't know if he's bought any ads, but Googling the comic doesn't turn up any "high traffic" links or reviews that coincide with the jump, so I'd suspect it's ads or a high-profile plug. He's taking advantage of all the social media stuff he can, so that must be paying off in some way, but I admit I'm a little curious about where the sudden traffic came from. It doesn't seem like facebook or anything would quite be responsible for that, not suddenly.
Anyway congrats to him. :] It's nice to see the top 10 get a shakeup, and he's working hard to get the comic noticed.
Well, thankfully I seem to have come to the end of a marathon migraine session.
I went to bed early on Friday night and had a beautiful 14 hour sleep. Woke up on Saturday morning nice and refreshed…
[and then stuff about Nasty migraines!}
not to haha on the headache horrors — horrible stuff — but I'm guessing that I was writing about a very annoying laugh when you were beginning to clock in your 14 hours of sleep. (14?!! You don't go by halves, huh?)
I've had a weekend of irony. Maybe more than "a" weekend.
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