It's Sunday and I have no migraine. Not even a headache, not even a slight twinge of preasure that will develop into one later tonight…
I didn't have one yesterday either. Even though I didn't go to bed till 6am and I got up at 11am!
I went to the Doctor on Thursday to ask about migraine medication for my trip overseas because I didn't want to suffer like I did when I was in the US last time. I came back with may types of pills, but the ones that appear to be doing the work are the beta blockers. …which I now have to take every day forever. I have normal blood preasure, but apparently that prevent spikes which can trigger migraine. They appear to be working.
This is the first weekend I can recall for a loooooong time where it hasn't been fucked by headache. Which is amazing considering my shit weekend sleep habbits.
It's too early to say, but I hold out hope. No migraine weekends! Yayyy!!!! :D
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So update to the mysterious fire; my uncle has found weird stuff in the canyon around where the fire started. Our well is down there and someone has modded a faucet/hose into it to dispense water. There's also turned over rocks on the ground. :/ Dad and him looked around but found no one. My uncle is buying a motion sensor cam to mount in the trees right now.
Skullbie–
Sounds like you have a squatter. Just be careful in that area, especially at night. I once did a major service project while cleaning the LA river and some of my colleagues discovered an abandoned tent filled with large metal weapons. So who knows if this stranger is armed and dangerous!! Maybe the fire started because of a campfire that went out of control.
Skullbie, your new avatar is freaking me out!
I woke up with a splitting headache this morning. I took Tylenol and laid in bed, massaging my skull, until noon.
Gosh, I don't know how people live with regularly occuring migraines. They're damn heroes in my book, those folks are. I get headaches maybe twice a year (though they seem to hit 3 or 4 in a row during their biannual appearance.
It did seem I was tensing my neck/shoulders a lot. Been forcing myself to relax them whenever it occurs to me.
I got a part time job! Really need this. Was very relieved to get it. I'm gonna have to work extra hard on the weekends to keep my comic schedule up. It's been slack lately WITHOUT the extra job hours. But lowered stress will equal more and better comicking. I hope.
kawaiidaigakusei wrote:Yeah, I just want to put a lock on the well and put up a shitton of 'no tresspassing' signs, but whoever is down there could just migrate up the canyon and make camp. If a fire starts up there we're all screwed. He's in a protected forest so we could likely just ask the rangers to trek up and remove him - get some proof first, i guess.
Skullbie–
Sounds like you have a squatter. Just be careful in that area, especially at night. I once did a major service project while cleaning the LA river and some of my colleagues discovered an abandoned tent filled with large metal weapons. So who knows if this stranger is armed and dangerous!! Maybe the fire started because of a campfire that went out of control.
Banes wrote:Don't worry she's just vomiting on comicfury. Congrats on the job! Part-time jobs are great, I wish they paid better and i didn't have to do full-time.
Skullbie, your new avatar is freaking me out!
I
got a part time job! Really need this. Was very relieved to get it. I'm
gonna have to work extra hard on the weekends to keep my comic schedule
up. It's been slack lately WITHOUT the extra job hours. But lowered
stress will equal more and better comicking. I hope.
Congrats banes!
And finally a Skull for Skulbie! ^_^
I'm flying off to Europe tomorrow night for my month long sojourn…
So you guys better be good stewards of this place!!!!
I expect you to be nice and busy in the forums while I'm away and not looking over your shoulders being a crotechety old dick!
^____^
I really like your new avatar Skullbie. Shocking and stark.
And another one from the "When you thought your're wrong file" I decided to take a vacation day for my mom's birthday only to discover I don't have any. Seems they count the hours from January until October and not a full calendar year. You can't have a single week without 40 hours during all that time. I missed it by a handful of hours. Just like the Army would routinely screw reservists out of veteran status by shorting deployments of one or two days.
Inspired by the most recent Quackcast on Kuller, I have designed a new flag for all Canadians who like to spell "COLOR" and for all Americans who like to spell "COLOUR". This also applies to HONOR/HONOUR, FAVORITE/FAVOURITE, and GRAY/GREY.
"You want to decorate that Maple Leaf with some stars and some stripes."
-ozoneocean
This is a direct response from the cold open during the discussion with Banes on spelling preferences for certain words.
The English versus American spelling already has its own flag. But it doesn't have any Maple leaves because the whole phenomenon goes back to before there was any specific Canadian flag. The Cambridge flag of 1776, the flag of the United Colonies before independence when Americans still spelled color with a "u" Back when the Continental Congress extended an invite to their neighbors to the north.
Maybe screw the stars and throw a maple leaf in there.
Or we should all just hang loose, aloha.
Well I feel like a moron. I'd been excited all day to finally finish telltales walking dead finale, but the PSN store is down, i'm presuming because "hurr lets make our download only game available the same time madden 15 gets a midnight release!!!".
Well whatever. The game is so linear i'm pretty sure I can pick a random lets play and just watch it, since none of your choices matter in telltale games.
What is up with all this ice bucket challenge nonsense?
An ice bucket is an important element in any cocktail enthusiasts armoury. I see no amusement in my ice bucket being snatched by a smirking wag who proceeds to ditch the contents over a (usually) female victim, forced to play along because it's "all in a good cause".
Mix the lady a drink. That is what the bucket is for.
You know that saying: When it rains, it pours.? Well I believe it has been a constant drizzle since I woke up this morning, yet it is still sunny outside.
The Infiniti SUV (not mine) drove through the garage door and ended up dragging it until it plowed through the drywall of the room behind it, damaging the house and all the furniture in that room. The reason was because of a mix up of the brake and gas pedal. It happened while I was asleep and it is surprising that I did not hear it as my room is right above the garage.
Obviously, the garage door needs to be replaced, as does the drywall connecting the garage to the house. Unfortunately the plumbing from upstairs was rammed into as well, so I will have to make adjustments.
Let me asses this situation:
The Good
-I can finally throw away all sorts of clutter and cardboard boxes that were packed in the garage because the "waste not" generation (born around the 1930s) has a very difficult time throwing anything away.
-the wall did not completely fall down so my room is still in one piece.
-No one died or was seriously hurt from the crash.
The Bad
-I was in the middle of doing my laundry and the dryer connector was also destroyed from the impact. So I have hung up all my clothes. If there is anything that living abroad in Portugal and Asia taught me is that many people around the world do not use dryers and hanging clothes is not the end of the world. I might have wrinkles in my shirts this month, but I will get over it.
-I have been in the process of moving the contents of the garage to the backyard and there is a lot of stuff. By stuff, I mean junk, of course. The good news is, it is a beautiful day out and not raining!
-The neighbors decided that today was the day to cover their whole lawn with manure so that cow poop smell has been wafting into my open window on this warm summer day.
@kawaii - Sheez, I'm glad you're all right! That sounds scary - I have a recurring, well, not a FEAR, exactly, but a recurring thought before going to sleep that a car might ram through the wall of my bedroom, or a plane might fall through the roof (my place is under the flight path to the airport so I hear planes regularly).
Second job is going okay. I haven't been a beginner at something in a long time. Actually that's not true; I have hobbies and I'm still a quasi-beginner at drawing and writing a comic and animation and so on.
But aside from a few stalwart readers, nobody's watching me do those things. It's interesting to be a beginner at this job.
The upshot (or is that "up side"?) is that the people seem quite cool so far. There's not that frenetic anxiety/immaturity/dickishness that can be common in certain types of businesses. So far so good!
I had my last day at my summer job on Friday. They didn't make a big deal about it this year because I'll be going back one day a week, but then my boss felt bad about it and promised to take me to lunch in a couple weeks. It's been a long couple of months at that job just because the work isn't very exciting, but I'm grateful that almost everyone I work with is pleasant and helpful. My boss in particular is pretty great; he doesn't much care what I'm up to as long as my work gets done, which makes my life a lot easier. I've had hover-bosses before and I don't think they're ever helpful. He also sings in his cubicle sometimes when he's in a particularly good mood. ^_^
Although I was in another department for a bit last week chatting with some other students and I was a bit jealous that I somehow landed in the only department with just a single student. They seemed to be having a lot of fun.
Also, I had really awesome ice cream today. It was half a fresh, delicious pineapple filled with ice cream (I was sharing with others!), with the contents of the fruit scooped out and mixed in with the ice cream and other fruits. So good. They had a cantelope one which I think I'll have to try one day.
I've been having a rough time lately. I'm going to try to keep this from interfering with the awards. The entire summer, my husband was unsucessful at finding a teaching position in our area. Three weeks ago, in a surge of despiration, he started looking further out. Almost immediately a school district snapped him up.
However, this district that he got a job in, is a 5 hour drive away from home. He will be living away for a year. Since I have a job here, I haven't decided if I will be taking a job out there to join him, or just wait.
Either way it has been rough adapting to this since we haven't been separated long term ever. We went to school together and to college in the same town before getting married. Our longest sepparation was a week. (the week before we were married).
Ow… That's gotta hurt. I hope it's not something that will test your marriage too much…
So trying to upload some Firefall videos to Youtube. I figure "why not?"… right?
Uploads take so long, and when it's done there's the chance that the audio will be out of sync. It's quite the headache…
Gotta love elections. We have a former governor who is running for office again. Two terms wasn't enough for this guy. He's also full of controversy. For the election we had a few days ago he's raising a stink this time because of 20 misprinted ballots… out of thousands.
He's also been accused of winning the governorship before by using "dead people ballots", having people double vote for him, etc… It doesn't help that at that time the government was overspending quite a bit and that it took up to four years to get your tax refunds. It doesn't help that his campaign is one that inspires fear and uses misinformation. For example… he claims the current governor passed a law that will raise our mininmum wage up to $8.25 because HE said something about it. I never heard that guy say anything about raising the minimum wage until he said that…
So it looks like the current governor will win this next election. What he's done so far is to bring the government into the "black"… It's no longer overspending, but rather is paying off debt. Tax refunds are being paid on time, there's more police on the streets… I guess running the government like a business does work (he was a businessman before becoming governor).
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Either way it has been rough adapting to this since we haven't been separated long term ever. We went to school together and to college in the same town before getting married. Our longest sepparation was a week. (the week before we were married).
Me and my wife were seperated for a year when I first moved to London. We weren't married then - only been together 3 years at the time, but we didn't have social networking or phones you could carry about without a seperate handcart in those days. Very tough.
My best advice would be to use those mod cons for all their worth and use the inevitable extra time to do something you always wanted to do but never had the time. Think how much your relationship will be enhanced in a years time when he discovers you're now a captivating flamenco dancer, for example.
I'm running a fever. First time in a long time. I felt so bad I actually called out of work. Of course that means I won't have the required number of hours to earn any days off next year but there was no way I was going to work considering I could barely navigate a room. Smacked my toe, face and knee going around the house as my head swum.
I've never had a huge problem getting interviews, but god, playing phone tag is more infuriating that some of those quizzes i see on online forms. I think I called six times for my last interview somehow just always missing the manager(got the job, but still) and now the same shit is happening with this new one. I get put on hold forever and then it just cuts off. WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME.
Whatever. Squeaky wheel gets the grease. Guess i'll squeak squeak squeak til they pick up the goddamn phone.
Skullbie wrote:Great saying, i must borrow that!
Squeaky wheel gets the grease. Guess i'll squeak squeak squeak til they pick up the goddamn phone.
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Goddamn house is full of spiders. Always get one or two this time of year, but this is ridiculous. I thought the one crawling up my shirt was big until I took him outside and saw the critter on the step, waiting to come in.
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