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

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very good, lemon!

yay

C ngrats!! !

Congratulations lemon!!


Last night I called my mom and found out she bought herself a Dell net-book
computer, unfortunately I was not able to help her set it up because she is in Florida
and unless I have the machine in front of me I will not be able to talk her through
setting everything up. I suggested that she go to Best-Buy and purchase a cable modem
and a WIfi router and ask the people at the store to help her out.

Dear Sir:
I write this note to you to tell you of my plight
For at the time of writing it I'm not a pretty sight
My body is all black and blue, my face a deathly grey
And I write this note to say why I am not at work today

Whilst working on the 14th floor some bricks I had to clear
But tossing them down from such a height was not a good idea
The foreman wasn't very pleased he is an arkward sod
And he said I had to cart them down the ladders in me hod

Clearing all these bricks by hand it was so very slow
So I hoisted up a barrel and secured a rope below
But in me haste to do the job, I was too blind to see
That a barrel full of building bricks was heavier than me

And so when I untied the rope the barrel fell like lead
And clinging tightly to the rope I started up instead
I shot up like a rocket, and to my dismay I found
That halfway up I met the bloody barrel coming down

Well the barrel broke me shoulder as to the ground it sped
And when I reached the top I banged the pulley with me head
But I clung on tightly none with shock from this almighty blow
While the barrel spilled out half its bricks some 14 floors below

When these bricks had fallen from the barrel to the floor
I then outweighed the barrel and so started down once more
But I clung on tightly to the rope my body racked with pain
And halfway down I met the bloody barrel once again

Now the force of this collision halfway down the office block
Caused multiple abrasions and a nasty case of shock
But I clung on tightly to the rope as I fell towards the ground
And I landed on the broken bricks the barrel had scattered round.

Now as I lay there on the ground I thought I'd passed the worst
But the barrel hit the pulley wheel and then the bottom burst
A shower of bricks rained down on me I didn't have a hope
As I lay there bleeding on the ground I let go the bloody rope

The barrel now being heavier so started down once more
It landed right across me as I lay there on the floor
It broke 3 ribs and my left arm and I can only say
I hope you`ll understand why I am not at work today .......

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Congratulations, Lemon!!

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig!!

Ireland's Call - Celtic Thunder

(Welcome to this, my latest perseveration! )

For my birthday, my friend bought tickets to see Celtic Thunder on May 1. I'll be 5 rows from that stage!!

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Little People Cam

Haven't heard that song in years, Postie.


Enjoy your show, Lauri. They put on a decent bit of entertainment.

.....just zipping through....
Hello to all!
Way to go Lemon!! !! Congratulations!

oh my. there's one hell of an international airfare war going on. if we happened to want to go to ireland in late june, with some discount coupons we have, it would cost us each about $650 round trip from home to there. in the high season. on a major carrier.

wow.

hmmmmm. i think i'm getting the wanders again... might as well spend it, so's I have memories while I'm in my wheelchair as an old broad, rather than regretting all the stuff i didnt' get to do..... maybe see about the ferry to wales. i always wanted to see wales. or scotland.

spring fever. just chalk it up to that. and a sore throat, with swollen tongue and lymph nodes again... to be on holiday anywhere else.

Nan, take care of yourself! Don't you go through this every Spring.... the sore throat, etc.?

I've been planning a trip to Ireland with my almost-was-ex-but-went-to-counselling-with-me-and-managed-to-pull-his-head-out-of-his-butt husband for sometime within the next year. As part of our "start over and make it work this time" plan we agreed to take the honeymoon we never had and do other trips, as well. He knows how much I love Ireland so that's where we're going. I was really excited when he was looking into CT jobs over there, but the reality of the world-wide economy wouldn't make running off to Ireland a great idea at the moment. Oh well....... a girl can dream! ((sigh))

(Although they do have far better supports for autism there. And Brainboy could go to Med school over there. And Soccerdude would have a better chance at going somewhere with his soccer..... hmmmmmmm)

Wonderful news, Lemon. Are there plans to publish in more than one language? I would very much like to have a copy or three for my own collection. Your paintings are beautiful.

Blessedmom, very glad to see you.

Yeah, I do. I think I'm allergic to eucalyptus, to tell you the truth. And they are everywhere here. The flowers are all blooming out in the desert, and we've got mild Santa-anas blowing now bringing in all that pollen. SOMETHING in the air is bad for me - my throat is so swelled I can hardly swallow. Antihistamines aren't touching it. Called the doc, they're booked solid until the 23rd. If it gets worse tomorrow, I can go to urgent care to have them tell me to go home and gargle with salt water, have plenty of soup, and rest. In the meantime, I'm gargling with salt water, had plenty of soup. Might take tomorrow off and rest.

I just looked at NorthWest Airlines again. It's down to about $640 round trip. Go while you can, Lauri! Heaven only knows what next year will bring, and my experience is that the memories of having spent a thousand dollars on something magical will last you a lot farther than the thousand dollars ever will.

But that's down the road. Dunno what the damp'd do to me, anyway. They probably have some version of the mystery plant there that will make me just as sick.

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Oh my goodness, I look like a chipmunk today! With a fuzzy white tongue! And had the "I'm drowning" dream last night. (Hard to swallow and gunk in the throat, I guess that got translated in my subconscious to drowning!) I hate that one.

Doctor's office is full, no appointments today (lot of flu going around, apparently). Nurse's office is full, no walk-ins today. If it doesn't get better soon, it's going to cost me $50 to go to urgent care to have them go "oh, you look like a chipmunk, and you have a white fuzzy tongue. Go home and gargle with salt water, take these (the next in the line that we haven't used before) antibiotics and call us back if it gets worse." Now, granted, I've got the kid here so she could call, but how would one who lived alone call if they already can barely talk if it got worse?

Sigh.

I hate Spring and Summer Seasons. And receptionists who take messages and ignore when you give them a phone number other than the one that's in the computer to call so they call the one you are NOT at. And receptionists who take the time at the point when you are too sore to talk much to lecture you about not having had a flu shot. Had to cut her off with "this isn't the flu, honey. I've had the flu before - the real flu - and this ain't it."

Just color me cranky today.

That's why Morse code was invented. It is an interesting fact that Samuel Morse suffered so badly from hay fever that none dared enter his chambers, due to the excessive violence of his sneezing. Limited to communicating by knocking on the wall, he refused to tolerate the low bandwidth of the classic spirit medium "knock once for yes, knock twice for no" code, especially because his family never thought to ask whether he wanted a flamingo. Not many people know that.

The solution is to move to the West of Ireland. Wind blows in from the Atlantic, seaweed has no pollen.

So it would be a medical necessity, huh? For me, and for the kid who can't deal with heat....


On the brighter side, some drug dealers made a run for it down the freeway at rush hour, with the narcs in hot pursuit. So they threw a bunch of money out while on the freeway. Instant gridlock. They're STILL trying to sort the traffic out. In several places!