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| 2008-05-15 07:27 |
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Heading out to PUF in a few... see ya all next week!
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Feeling strangely solid this morning.
There is something so cool about turning off the alarm, rolling over, getting up, getting coffee, smoking a cigarette, and then going downstairs in your pajamas to go to work. My inner FlyLady is hollering, "you haven't brushed your hair or dressed to shoes!!!! You haven't eaten anything!" (unless you count mini marshmellows, because I haven't even bothered to put in my dentures yet.) But you know what? I can't do early shift with my kids AND later shift with my spouse, and still get up at 0-dark-thirty raring to go. And because I took the time to do the training to work from home, I don't HAVE to. I'll grab my teeth and a sandwich when it's time for a coffee break. Me & the house will get cleaned up when I get my 3-HOUR lunch break. The grocery shopping will get done while my spouse cooks dinner.
My brilliant, talented, beautiful daughter just made it into our little local Crepe Myrtle Idol talent contest. She was so nervous last year she flubbed try-outs, but she blew them away this year at auditions. Singing Kelly Clarkson, "Because of You." I am so proud of her I could burst. and jealous, let's not forget jealous. They only let in the 18-25 crowd, dangit.
The privet, clematis, honeysuckle and chinaberry are blooming madly. There are only 2 old blush roses left, the cherokee's way past done, and even Cecile Brunner and Joseph's coat are slowing down a little. But the Parade minis are just kicking in good. The Confederate jasmine just started to bloom. The smell is heavenly between the bunch of them. The chinaberry smells strongest at night when everybody else has cooled down...something like baby powder, expensive soap, I can't qualify it yet. The spiderwort is brilliant blue. The Fairy rose has opened in its pot on the porch. The morning glories are sprouting.
The vetch and wild geranium have gone to seed and had to be pulled, they always look so ratty at this stage. But the pokeweed and sow thistle are up and going. The pokeweed has that beautiful deep red stem, the sow thistle its glaucous grey-blue. My neighbor and my husband were poking fun at me over the back fence about my weeds. "Look at all those aphids!" Amy said of the pokeweed. I smirked. "Yes," I said, "they are on the pokeweed NOT THE ROSEBUSH!" She went away looking thoughtful.
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Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there.
This is truly cool. It’s a limited edition, hand-printed “knitting tarot” deck. I learned about it via new LJ friend ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ciannait.
They aren’t releasing many images, apparently, unless you’re a friend of theirs on Flickr. What I can see looks very clean and simple.</lj>
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The past couple of days have been nonstop. Bunny has been taking me to work, because we've been going to the basic Art of Living course afterward - a course which is down at Georgia Tech. Up at 5, doing stuff all the way through, get home at 11, crash and do it all again. Yesterday, I was CRANKY and tired and generally unhappy with the world. This morning, I'm not entirely sure what to make of the day just yet but I know that I'm tired. Tomorrow morning, I'm expecting that I'll be relatively happy with the world as it is.
It's not taking as long to kick in as it did yesterday, which is a VERY good thing.
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| alobar |
| 2008-05-15 03:54 |
| Rep. Conyers threatens impeachment like a wimp! |
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Below from C_3 list.
I have come to loathe not only Conyers, but *ALL* political action groups which are run by politicians or the DNC, like Move-On. They suck the lifeblood from grass roots organization in order to control dissidents, and the upwelling of alternatives to the two party ruling class parties. I hated Liberals back during the Viet Nam War, and these days the so-called Liberals are to right of the Republican party when Eisenhower was president.
=======================================Our corporatic form of government must be so powerful it can strike fear into even the best of minds. I begin to fear for my own life and sanity. In response to Representative Conyers’ piece below, I have a few words.
I ask why we have to threaten impeachment only if Bush attacks Iran?
There is a resolution of impeachment in Conyers’ office already, based on previously established impeachable offenses.
He has refused to initiate impeachment.
If Conyers initiates impeachment now, he prevents an attack on Iran.
‘’I have become increasingly concerned’’, writes Conyers.
I have been living with anguished concern for years. Where have Conyers and the men and women of Congress been?
‘’Join me in calling on President Bush to respect Congress’ exclusive power to declare war’’, writes Conyers.
Congress gave that right away years ago, and only Congress can take it back. My joining them is ineffective, if they do not act.
Conyers’ piece embarrasses me.
‘’The land of the free and the home of the brave’’?
The land of the slave and the home of the sheep!
ROBERT DESMARAIS SULLIVAN
New Orleans, Louisiana
Conyers Tells Bush Iran Attack = Impeachment Ask Your Representative to Co-Sign http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/33389
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I figured I'd update on the Hildy saga.
After the first "carving", I thought that everything was hunky-dory until I took measurements. Nope....still not right.
So, back to the carving knife.
After a few minutes of happily hacking away, it dawned on me. If I take any more mammary foam off of her, she'll have A-cup tits. I have D's. I'm sensing a sports-bra and padding in her future. The problem is in the back measurement (between the shoulder blades) and NOT with the boobs anymore.
So, I left those alone and took some off of her waist and hips so the measurements were the same there as well, although now it looks like someone Texas Chainsaw Massacre'd all over her ass. I've decided to put away the knife until professional help arrives (AKA Mom). Otherwise, I'm going to end up with the foam equivalent of a Gyro meat skewer.
The Pennsic sewing marathon is still in full-swing. I'm seeing the weeks dwindling away and I'm very afraid that I'm not going to get everything done. And frankly, my sewing room terrifies me. All I seem to be able to concentrate on are the myriad of ways I can fuck-up my projects. But, on a happier note, since I'm not going to D-con this year and Hildy isn't ready...I'll have to postpone my "Devil's Handmaiden" black PVC costume-o-rama until next year. And the Can-Can dress. Must do the Can-Can dress.
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| vidicon |
| 2008-05-15 04:07 |
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One step closer to "speak once, hear everywhere" technology. Thanks, LoudTwitter.
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The Tylenol and coffee seem to be working. I've actually turned up my monitor to 1/3 brightness and resolution now, and I've got the bathroom light on behind me. Not sure if I'll be much good tomorrow. Maybe the kids'll give me a break and actually take naps, but I know as soon as the sun comes up I'll be uselessly falling asleep, and that's when they always make trouble. Maybe I'll take them to Mother's for breakfast first thing and down another pot of coffee to get me through to naptime. I'm supposed to take Isaac up there before lunch for his reading lesson anyway. "Before lunch" can reasonably translate into "after breakfast", right?
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When we lost lordkalkin 's Mom earlier this year, I inherited a copious amount of chainmail supplies and several finished pieces.
I remember several people showing interest in her work when I posted in this community about some things that I was selling for her.
I've now got a little etsy shop up NyteSpryte.etsy.com.
In more poly related news, lordkalkin's Mom was the only family member of his that we were out to, but since we're moving in with a new person who will be doing family holidays with us, we've now come out to his grandmother. She took it really well. She worked out that I was also dating nurodancer all on her own as soon as she understood the situation. I'm currently working up the nerve to explain things to my family. An uncle and his SO that we lived with for a bit and one cousin knows but not my core family.
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| alobar |
| 2008-05-15 01:53 |
| Chicago Citizens Reject Terror Drill Fearmongering |
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Below nipped from Grackle list. Go to website at the end to view clip from the Daily Show.
=============================== Just 350 out of expected 4,000 participate in bio-attack "processing" exercise at Sears Centre Arena Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The latest opportunity for authorities to grandstand, fearmonger and practice processing citizens through a de facto internment camp fell flat on its face yesterday after just 350 out of an expected 4,000 turned up to participate in a mock terror drill at Chicago's Sears Centre Arena. "An elaborate public-health drill Tuesday that organizers had hoped would use thousands of volunteers to help test the Chicago area's response to a possible bioterrorism attack instead drew fewer than 350 people—and one beleaguered Cook County Board president," reports the Chicago Tribune. "The exercise, estimated to cost $80,000, was mandated and funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has called for health departments nationwide to coordinate drills since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001." Authorities practiced processing citizens through the de facto internment camp and giving them mandatory pharmaceutical products.
Perhaps the people of Chicago's lack of enthusiasm for the drill can be explained by them waking up to the fact that these exercises are nothing more than an excuse for fat enforcers to practice shoving people around in internment camps while the local TV news shows images of people being rounded up and processed by men with big guns - all part of the conditioning for an attack we are constantly assured is "inevitable". Or maybe it was because the only "terrorists" found in Chicago were a group out of Miami that supposedly planned to "wage a full ground war against the United States" and bomb the Sears Tower, but who actually turned out to be "a bunch of dipshits living in a warehouse," as The Daily Show's Jon Stewart described them.
As in every other case we have studied, the men turned out to be a semi-retarded street gang that were provocateured by FBI agents into spewing violent rhetoric yet barely had the capability to make a cheese sandwich, never mind bring down the tallest building in America. What they were interested in was a promise of $50,000 in cash from the government informants who were sent in to radicalize them and create a phony victory for Bush's war on terror. As the Miami New Times newspaper described it, the "ragtag group couldn't wage a ground war on a jar of peppercorns." ( Read more... )
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My husband and I have a room at the Sheraton. Unfortunately, we couldn't get them at the con rate since they were all booked up. So what I guess I'm asking is that if for any reason someone has to give up their con rate room, we'd be interested. I'm not picky about which of the three hotels it is, and either a Thurs-Mon or a Fri-Mon would be fine since we're driving in and can be there either day. Thanks.
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| 2008-05-15 00:38 |
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I have a migraine. It started up around four-o'-clock or so: a dull, niggling ache at the base of me skull and a tightness around the hairline on my face. From there it slowly crept up on me, spreading fingers of pain up the back of my head to my eyebrows, and gouging into my eye sockets. I hate the way they always sneak up on me. I know there's pain, but it is mild. I think that maybe if I let my hair down, or take off my bandanna then the absence of the light amount of pressure either of these things creates will ease the pain. It usually does, and then I think that if I just wait the pain will fade again, but it never does. It gets worse, ever so slowly, so that by the time I realize that I'm going to have to do something about it, my eyes are bloodshot and I'm unable to function properly anymore.
I stumbled out of the office after putting the kids to bed tonight, informed Mark that I was going for some Tylenol, and did he want anything. He said no, so I got on my bike and rode to Mother's to raid her medicine cabinet for "Turbo-Tylenol". (She likes the fast-acting stuff for her arthritis.) I'd take some of my own, but my bottle disappeared when I took it to work one day a few weeks ago and I haven't replaced it yet.
She loaded me down with about two-dozen doses more, and a pot of coffee (OTC "Migraine" meds are just a standard pain med + caffeine anyway), and I rode back home. I turned on the ice dispenser light on the fridge and turned off all the other lights. In the office I've got only the light from my monitor screen and that's got the brightness and resolution turned down to about 25%. It's a good thing I learned to touch-type, because I can't even see my keyboard properly.
It's times like this that I really wish I hadn't quit smoking. A cigarette really clears up a migraine fast. In fact, it was times like this that started me back smoking the last two times I quit. I can't start again, though, as much as I miss it. I promised Mark I'd quit. I promised him, and then I broke my promise, and we had a huge fight about it. It wasn't even the fight that hurt the most. We fight all the time. It was the fact that now, a year and a half later, he still doesn't trust me. I found a cigarette in an old pack, leftover from when we both smoked, and I thought it might be good to put in the first-aid kit for stings or bites. He saw it sitting on my desk and the look on his face broke my heart. I did that. I put that look there. The one thing we promised each other we wouldn't ever do is lie to one another, and I did. I don't even care if he sleeps around, really I don't -- It's just sex, after all -- so long as he doesn't lie about it or hide it. Well... and so long as he doesn't bring anything undesirable home with him from the encounter. STD=FTL, plskthxnao.
I need more coffee now, and I've got to switch the laundry. Might as well get something productive done while I'm not sleeping because of the blinding-fucking-spike-driven-through-my-bloody-head pain. At least I have mild migraines. I've known people who (derisively - I thought they were quite rude about it) claimed that I couldn't possibly be having a migraine because I wasn't holed up in a completely dark room, earplugs in, unable to function beyond vomiting in a bucket. I'm sorry for your pain, but yes, I am</> having a migraine, and your migraine doesn't lessen the pain of my migraine simply by being more enthusiastic. I have a high pain threshold, thankyouverymuch. It takes a lot of pain to knock me out of commission. I've been in the sort of pain that makes one vomit from the sheer intensity of it, and I still intended to get up and go to work. Only my mother physically restraining me kept me home. The fact that I'm still functioning doesn't mean I'm not in pain.
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| alobar |
| 2008-05-14 23:49 |
| Is Tyson's Antibiotic-Free Chicken Really Antibiotic-Free? |
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Below from Doc Mercola. URL at end.
====================================A federal judge has ordered Tyson Foods to withdraw advertisements claiming its chickens are “raised without antibiotics that impact antibiotic resistance in humans.” Two competitors said the ads were untrue because Tyson injects it eggs with antibiotics and used antibiotic molecules in its feed. ( Read more... )
Doc Mercola's Comments: Tyson’s claim may be technically true -- which makes it just about the worst kind of deceptive advertising there can be without simply lying. When they say that their eggs come from chickens that are “raised without antibiotics”, they are clearly trying to give the impression that the eggs are antibiotics-free. In fact, this is not the case at all; even if their chickens are “raised” without antibiotics (although that also may be a deceptive claim anyway, since there seems to be some evidence that there are antibiotics in their feed), the eggs still have antibiotics injected into them before they reach the stores. Tyson’s attempt to weasel around that fact is nothing more than semantics. Sad to say, this is nothing but typical behavior when it comes to big business. Whenever a packaged food or a large retailer makes a health claim, your first reaction should be suspicion. The Truth About Splenda Isn’t Sweet Another example of this kind of deception is the marketing campaign of the artificial sweetener Splenda. They would dearly like you to believe that their product is natural because it is “made from sugar”. Well this simply is another “half truth” meant to convince you of a falsehood, and the Sugar Association has sued them for this marketing strategy. Although the process for developing Splenda starts with a sugar molecule, chlorine molecules are added to it. Splenda shares many similar characteristics to pesticides like DDT that can accumulate in your body fat and tissues. It is impossible to predict the long-term consequences of ingesting this substance over many years. Splenda is in fact not natural at all, and it has been linked to a number of toxic side effects including shrunken thymus glands (up to 40 percent shrinkage), enlarged liver and kidneys, reduced growth rate, aborted pregnancy and diarrhea. I encourage you to review my extensive Splenda testimonials pages, which are filled with heartbreaking stories about the toxic effects this artificial sweetener may inflict. Nearly every month, we receive a report from someone who has had an adverse reaction to Splenda, and after reading just a few of the submitted testimonials it's likely you won't ever want to look at it again! 7-Up Isn’t Picked Fresh Off a Tree Meanwhile, 7-Up manufacturer Cadbury Schwepps has begun an ad campaign that promotes the soda as "100 percent natural" and pictures cans of 7-Up being picked from fruit trees. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has threatened to sue Cadbury Schwepps if the all-natural claim is not dropped, calling it a misleading untruth. ( Read more... )
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Dearly beloved,
So here I am, caught between writing a really long, impassioned post - and not taking up too much of your time.
The latter wins. The Totally Normal Event ~ June 28th, noon until next day, the Hanover Marriott, Whippany, New Jersey, Voltaire, Freezepop, Brian from the Dresden Dolls, Isaac Bonewits, and so very much more.
Hope y'all are well!
(I may, with your kind permission, post something longer, behind a cut, later.)
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Batman: The Ace of Detectives, Issue 28 PENDANT PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENTS: 
Original art by Adam Bell for Pendant Productions | Batman: The Ace of Detectives, Issue 28 - "In the Dark" It's late night in Gotham City, and a certain caped hero makes a surprise appearance on the radio. Listen carefully to everything that's said and solve the mystery live on the air... Batman will.
Batman: The Ace of Detectives is a serialized, full-cast audio adventure with one new episode every month! Available for FREE download in .mp3 format or as a Podcast! iTunes link:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207999046 Podcast feed:
http://www.pendantaudio.com/batman_podcast.xml Download link:
http://www.pendantaudio.com/batman.php
Featuring the voice talents of:
Seth Adam Sher as Batman
Scott Vinnacombe as Robin
Steve Anderson as Dane Gilcrist
David Alexander McDonald as Blue Beetle
Chris Brittain as Booster Gold
Alicia Laine Matheson as Martha and Customer 1
Adam Bell as Producer Mike, Benjy and Customer 2
M. Sieiro Garcia as Tammy, Duck and Customer 3
Jerry Crawford as Wally Ledbetter and Bueno Excellente
Jason Hackett as Announcer 1 and Rental Guy
And Marleigh Norton as Announcer 2, Jen and Frances Written and directed by Pete Milan
Cover art by Adam Bell
Continuity Editor Kristen Bays
Produced by Pendant Productions
Executive Producer Jeffrey Bridges http://www.pendantaudio.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pendant
http://justplainruk.deviantart.com
Thanks for listening!
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| alobar |
| 2008-05-14 23:14 |
| Low Sodium??? |
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Below from oxalate list (with personal info removed). My BP is not as low as the person below, but it is on the low side (96/65) after walking a lot. I get tired when I walk a lot, and feel much better after I lay down for a brief nap. I have a feeling my salt intake is nowhere close to 3000 mg a day.
"Sodium may be beneficial for the treatment of diarrhea, leg cramps, dehydration, and fever." (quote from website link below). Hmmm, perhaps not all of my leg cramping is oxalate related.
Seems like I should start experimenting with adding some salt (mixed Sodium and Potassium chlorides) into my whey and my food, several times a day. Not a lot. Maybe less than 1/8 teaspoonful, 3 times a day for a while to see how that goes.
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This explains why I couldn't sit or stand for any length of time and why laying down made me feel so much better. My doc filled me in on this when I was at his office. I can't remember exactly what my BP was but appr. 78/58 when the nurse first took it. I layed down for an hour waiting for my doc. When he first came in I asked him to take my BP. Laying down it was up to 125/90. Which explains why I feel sooooooo much better after laying down. Then he had me stand up for 2 minutes and he took it again. It went down to 90/75 in just 2 minutes. I thought I had plenty of salt in my diet, but evidently not. ( Read more... )
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