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

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heycreakyfreakywhatever. welcome, beware of the muffins. they're laced.

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/ ... dex=158551

i do wish those people would just run for the hills. tarps and cardboard houses are not going to keep their possessions safe.... so sad. even why one has so little, fear of losing it takes precedence over saving one's life.

Well, it was my annual visit to the Frocester Beer Festival, on Saturday, and my theme, this year, was alliteration.

Of the 124 beers available, I drank a pint each of:

1. Marston Moor "Matchlock Mild" (Traditional, full-flavoured dark mild) ABV 4.0%
2. Berrow "Best Bitter" (A rich, full tasting, malty beer) ABV 3.9%
3. Burton Bridge "Bitter" (Red-amber, good bitterness) ABV 4.2%
4. Beowulf "Beorma" (A balanced ale with its malty hint of fruit and a delightful lingering bitterness) ABV 3.9%
5. Abbeydale "Absolution" (A rich mellow sweetish taste citrussy with a subtle bitterness in the finish) ABV 5.3%
6. Sharp's "Special" (The mouth-feel is succulent with dried fruit, malt and delicate hop bitterness) ABV 5.2%
7. Burton Bridge "Thomas Sykes" (Tawny/amber a well-balanced barley wine) ABV 10.0%

The alliteration fell apart a little, on that last beer...

... and so did I:

if you hold down the ctrl key and press the + several times, you can see the NAME OF THE BOOK!

3 points for what the name is!!

Merle

oh, that is a NEAT trick, merle.

what's ABV?

alcohol by volume it's how potent a potable it is. Budweiser beer has 5.0% ABV (Alcohol By Volume), for example

ah. proof.


looks like the mexican hurricane is going to veer east before getting to us. that means the zonies (arizona) and new mexicans are gonna get some rain this weekend and I can do my carpets on friday after all. what we've got so far is hot and humid. which is a slight improvement over hot and bone dry. i think. actually, not sure.

the a/c will take care of the carpet moisture issue. but going outside is a little...tropical. kid's lucky, she doesn't feel it other than to say it "feels different" while i stand there and drip. (she doesn't)

the drugs are still working....

speaking of drugs. . .

I am contemplating a bottle of the new SSRI stuff 'Sertraline' my psychologist got his psychatric nurse practioner to proscribe for me. (yeah, I know it is generic for Zoloft)
I am to do a half tab for three days, a full tab for 5 days a tab and a half for 5 days and two tabs for the rest of the bottle (of 60) I get to see her for two hours just when I go onto the two tabs (my psych must have told her that I was pretty bad off and to wait until I got with the program before she sees me. )

anyway, I am not doing it for Asperger's Syndrome. I am doing it for a co-morbid I am embarassed beyond all understanding to even admit, although I am researching it relentlessly (as only an Aspie can ) and now that I am in the mood to work on it, I throughly expect I will speed through the therapy for it with excellent results.

Although as I go thorough the DX and the recommended therapies, I must say, I am simply agog at the identification I am having with the behavior. I want to lie on the floor and die with embarassment at how I treated other people not only in my past, but in my present, because I just didn't know any better

well, I will keep you posted on my SSRI journey. I asked the pharmacist 'how will I know if it working' and he said something like the dark cloud would lift, and he must have noticed the incomprehension on my face. I don't know from dark clouds, I guess. He said I would just feel better, more energy, would want to be with my friends more, appreciate my family, want to be more social. . ."

I started to crack up before I made myself straight face because I thought about the old joke
"Will I ever play the violin again"
"yes, you will
" wow, that's great, I never played the violin before!"

anyway. We shall see.

So are you taking the red pill or the blue pill?

*opens up the bottle nd shakes a couple into her hand*

ah! the blue, apparently.

Ah, no, not quite. "Proof" is more of a variable...

So... my pint of barley wine was 20 proof (USA).

I think it distils down to about a shot glass (1.5oz) of neat alcohol (200 proof)... on top of the proceeding six half-full shot glasses.

PS. And I forgot... 1 Imperial pint = 1.20095042 US pints

math. oy.

speaking of dx, we finally have movement on getting the kid a formal dx. the psychologist is checking with our insurance to see what it will cover, and we're going on from there. the kid is happy about it.

that took a long time ....

day 1, on the blue pill, taking another half tab tonight. It made me a little sleepy last night, but nothing I couldn't shake off until bed time. I learned the hard way I will wake up 7 hours after I go to bed and I didn't want to break my routine.

Red and Blue make Purple, so maybe I should stop taking those little purple pills

and here I was, worried someone would tease me for using the "little blue pills. . ."

Neh, T's and Blues were only a fad...nothing to be ashamed of

"Rock'n'Roll Doctor, you're on the air."

"Hey, Rock'n'Roll Doctor, I was watching this movie called 'Quadrophenia' - have you seen it, man?"

"No, no I haven't."

"Well, you should, man, it's really cool! It's got all this cool Who music in it, man, it's really cool!"

"Yes, sir - do you have a question for me today?"

"Oh, right, man! Well, in the movie, there's these guys, they're called 'mods', man, and they're cool, but they ride around on mopeds, man--"

"Could you get to the point, please, sir?"

"Oh, right. Well, anyway, these mods are always taking these pills, man, they're called 'blues', man - like, what are blues, man?"

"As far as I'm concerned, it's Negro music. Blue is really not a good drug color, sir. I suggest you try reds instead. Look, people, when you call, please try to have a question in mind, it just makes the whole show go a whole lot smoother. Rock'n'Roll Doctor, you're on the air..."

- from "Rock'n'Roll Doctor", by Travesty Ltd.