The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Just thinking of Postie earlier today . . .

Merle

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-103642

if you had wanted to shake Obama's hand with out being there.

Merle

where IS postie?

He died and went to cat heaven, he wouldn't get his rabies shots. That will learn em.

Okay, so - the MIT mice didn't really have Fragile X Syndrome, as that does not exist in mice, but had been modified to model its symptoms. The researchers then found that they could use medication to ameliorate those symptoms, which they felt gave them a leg up on finding a treatment for Fragile X in humans - not that they had "found a cure".

Then one news agency runs with it as "a cure for Fragile X". Another picks up the story from them, but gets the university wrong.

The line about Fragile X being "the most common cause of autism" comes from the homepage of the Fragile X Research Foundation. I don't know enough about them to assess their reliability, nor do I have the background necessary to judge whether Fragile X is a more common cause than, say, missing data on chromosome 16p11w (which, oddly enough, is also implicated in schizophrenia).

I'd shake my head over this, but Sarah Palin has worn out my headshaking for the week already...

Tsk, tsk. Jon, you appear confused (an admittedly rare event). Merle's post was about hand shaking, not head shaking, and Obama, not Palin. You probably need a vacation from our ubiquitous election coverage. Cat heaven in the Fall is an especially lovely getaway (particularly Ancient Egypt Cat Heaven, where you will be worshiped as a God). (Heck, the souvenir headdress alone makes the trip worthwhile.) It seems they play Cast Out Demon Shuffleboard, the object of which appears to be batting and swatting unwanted politician souls down "netherworld alley". Could be therapeutic. (At least, I think that's what Postie appears to be doing - my view of him through my cheap Other Dimension Viewer 1000 is a bit distorted. Gonna have to get an upgrade one of these days.)

Kinda slow around here. Maybe we are missing BlessedMom. We need her fun and games!. MMmmm .. a spring/fall clean might be in order.

.....Nannarob waves a dusting cloth around, and dust rises in the air, then settles where it will..

Ahhh, Chuck! He has frenetic energy. But he is working all the time. What to do? What to do?

I'll sit on this rock and lurk. Hartzie will have some ideas.

Thinks....

oh....

Thinks some more...

well, aren't ~I~ burning karma points today.

just had someone's car towed outa my parking space a while ago. got home, sick as a dog. someone's in my space. no other spaces available. have seen the car - they park sometimes in the spaces around me when there's nobody in them. and parked in my space more than once, but i could find things to do for a while and when i came back a couple of hours later they'd be gone. they also pulled in really tight several times so I had to climb out my window to get out of the car. and scraped the crap outa my back fender, about 3 ft worth of their paint 8 inches high appeared on my fender one morning, along with a cracked back light. did they leave a note apologizing and offering to pay for repairs, whomever they are? no.

so, today i'm sick as a dog. running a fever. come home. they're in my spot. i honked the horn, to give notice they're in someone's spot. no response. waited a half hour, tried again. (it's close to 100F out there). no response. called for a tow, which took 40 minutes to get there. had 'em towed. about 45 minutes later someone's banging on my front door. woke me up, but by the time i got dressed and got to the door nobody was there. i assume it was them.

their options, if they don't live here or don't have a deeded spot, are to park out on the street and walk in. actually, if they'd even have left a note on their windshield saying which unit they were in i'd have walked down and asked them to move it. but they didn't. i feel like crap, and maybe i've burned some karma points today, but i'll be damned if i'm parking on the street and hiking in in 100F weather, with a fever and feeling like crap, because someone else is inconsiderate.

that's gonna cost them a penny or two, getting their car back. as the kid would say "oh, well." bet whoever they are are going to be damned frosty if we meet in the parking lot anytime soon.

.... sends positive vibes to Nan....

I smell burning. Not Nan! No! It's Lau thinking!

ok, annual perpetual sinus infection kicked in for the fall and winter? check.
doctor who runs down the list of medications you told her don't work at every visit for this before? check.
referral to ENT specialist who can't see you until december 31st? check
work changed medical plans to save them money, but costs you more? check
new plan does not cover the one prescription decongestant that actually works? check
had the same old argument with their rep "if over the freaking counter worked don't you think i'd be taking the freaking over the counter stuff at 1/3rd the price?" until another non-working medication was substituted after they said ok to the one you actually requested? check
does it keep you so buzzed that your eyes won't even blink? check
perpetual kid-won't-clean-up-her stuff? check.
kid's pet rats haven't been cleaned in three weeks and reek? check
kid says "i'll get to it" and never does for just about any request? check
weirdness at work with some of the "clients"? again? check.
outlook deciding to not let me move or save anything at work? check.
102Fever? check
hear anything from petsmart or the bird food company about the problem food? No? check
cat litter box overflowing but the kid's not changing it "because it's not her turn?" check
crazy neighbor lady who can't park in between two lines/her own space? check
cat barfing on the rug? check
cat manage to find the clean laundry basket for a particularly juicy barf? check
did the damned cat eat something that has it barfing a color onto the white laundry that will stain it? check
toilet keep running even though you stuffed a bunch of kleenex under the floaty joint thingy that you know you need to replace but it's midnight now? check
fish doing the backfloat due to the heat in the house? check
elderly rat have a stroke, end up paralyzed, and die? in dramatic fashion? check
kid drink all the milk/soda/juice and leave all their respective cartons in the fridge, empty? check.
what's left... oh,yes...
We're due for a strong Santa Ana later this week and the TV news is all full of "what to do in case of firestorm" again.

i wanna kill something, but spike won't let me.

well, if it burns, i'm out from under it - we're now upside-down in the mortgage. but at least it's ours and we don't have a landlord threatening us for have a small, messy zoo in our home.

on the good side, the irish embassy website says they've approved my passport and that i'll eventually get it. eventually. when they get to the post office. eventually.