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

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Exactly, Bunni. There's nothing you can do but just keep breathing and keep on doing what you have to do every day. Keep your eyes open, by all means, so you can take advantage of any opportunity that might miraculously present, but don't expect one. This, too, shall pass. Even though it kinda feels like a kidneystone.

Cosmic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFIDGAHZNtw
Cope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54bovMpEF0w
Curious Creature:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btkVS7uYNwM
Codzilla Complaint:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALHybzqaWwg

Cookies!! !! "C is for cookie, that's good enough for me! C is for coookie...."

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BovQyphS8kA[/youtube]

well life just keeps getting better and better. camp pendleton is on fire and i now have a weird reaction to the latest drug, septra. seems it's induced some sort of weird arthritis in my hips and knees and feet, and i've been ordered off of them. which won't be too hard to do, really.....

Recently read an online comic in which a character was expressing her outrage that Cookie Monster was being used to push veggies.

"When I was a kid, I ate cookies because they tasted good, not because some cartoon monster told me to! And if I ate too many of 'em, I learned that 'B' was for Barfing, and that was good enough for me!"

Camp Pendleton oh, lord, sorry you are living in the flash fire capitol of the world, Nan.

I am having lots of arthritis pain in my back. When I was 30, I threw myself off my bike while going 30 miles an hour on the bike path. I went through the guardrail and gashed my face, and fell into the creek bed where I cracked my vertebrae on the rocks there. I now have arthritis or rhemutism in all those little fractures and crack and the older I get, the worse the pain gets. At least I think it does, cause it is like the frog that is in the tea pot while the water gets warmer and warmer. . I never notice until it boils (hurts) and then it is too late, because the pain is inconsolable. (is that the right word?)

Merle

I am pretty sure I've been on 'the Wrong Planet' since my 'conception' in 1963

i don't think the pain can be inconsolable, but i bet you are at the time! the dull ache all the time (with the pain meds), not being able to get comfortable no matter how i sit or lay is just maddening. if i do much walking, it's like someone's run me through with a stick through the hip. the advantage i've got is that it most likely will be gone soon, as the drug will be out of my system within a day or so and then this can all heal. sorry to hear about about your bike crash, that sounds incredibly painful. and to keep having to pay for it is just a bummer.

just woke up a bit early, there's a new fire out east of us (by a good distance) at campo and the mental radar picked up "evacuation center, buckman springs road" on the radio and snapped me awake. apparently the border patrol is driving door to door and waking people up to get them out. it started around 3:00am - what a hell of a time for people to have to break an run. sleeping soundly one moment, a banging on the door the next with some guy saying "grab your stuff and run, right now!"....

thankfully the santa anas are not as bad this time as last year, so they won't have the blowtorch situation they had last year. not so far, anyway. but it'll be bad enough for the folks impacted. sad, not allowing people to go in with their horse trailers, but only rescue organizations. people are calling the talk radio asking for ways to get in there, back ways, so they can sneak in and get their livestock. there are so many large animals kept out there, they need to get them out. apparently this one broke out two hours ago and is just growing explosively. it's still dark, and the winds aren't very strong, thankfully. if we're lucky they'll not be too bad when it turns daylight and they'll be able to get the tankers in and hit that one hard - there's a lot of brush that hasn't burned out there, and smaller ranches and things. pendleton is still out of control and heading for oceanside, where they are evacuating like crazy.

ah, the fall. it used to be falling leaves, frost on pumpkins, chilly nights where you put a jacket on to take a walk. in another lifetime.

great, nuther fire being announced, up at fallbrook. still well away from us, but
going to be a fun day kiddies for all here, i think. signing off and going back to bed, so i can sleep while i can in case there are fun and games later. hope your day starts better.


at least i'm not dealing with people like this today!
http://www.10news.com/news/17706572/detail.html

excerpt from Nan's article:
..."Department of Fish and Game warden Daryl Simmons said wardens arrested Chau when they noticed "odd bulges" in his pants."
Are there any other kind?

...speaking of odd bulges, a few have been spotted in Australia's Hawkesbury River, apparently belonging to an animal known as the Mirreeula or Moolyewonk:
http://web.mac.com/rebeccalang/Strange_ ... nster.html
This looks like something Robyn's grandkids need to investigate. Inquiring minds want answers! We can't have plesiosaurs cavorting around unphotographed. Photographs! Stats! Chop chop!! ! Pictures of the hidden portal to prehistoric vistas! The 'Valley of Bones' of missing persons and socks! ASAP! Toot sweet!

well, there are your bulges, and then there are your bulges, ya' know?

Merle

Lurking. Hoping Nan is okay.

lurking and staring and staring and lurking

Merle

thanks. cranky and bitchy and generically achey, but ok.

another funpacked day at home, burning vacation time i'd rather be saving for fun things, to stay off my feet. went to the doc yesterday evening, he said to take it easy but that i can go back to work tomorrow. as long as the motrin holds, i intend to. but i'm not going to walk on these joints today, not while they're still a bit swollen and sore. work can just ... stick it. all i do is push paper around to make it look like we're actually following the myriad of rules we don't actually really follow anyway.


on the good side, the doc decided we didn't need to shove a rather large needle into my hip after all.

To WrongPlanet!! !

And Welcome to the Dino-Café....I myself will be 50 in a couple of weeks...

oh, Richie, our babyfaced boy, fifty years old? How time flies, just that other day you were 47. . .

Merle