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

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... Pull up a scone, and have a nice buttered seat.
hmm. a buttered seat? certainly an interesting offer.
currently obsessing about absolutely needing to move out of this [ insert appropriate bad words here] hot desert. other issues: raising a son by with speech/stuttering challenges, trying to not be sad &/or mad about my daughter who moved away to I don't know where, being a hermit with a kid, re-starting my artist business somehow despite the other things noted, taking too long to do anything/everything.

In other words, an interesting life. I'll bet it's more interesting then the highlights of the current Damits!!

Did I say I wanted to be interesting? Interested and interesting are two different things. Sometimes I lack both. Give me a minute, it will change. Not that I'm ever really sure which side the swing happens to be, to others or to me, for that matter. Driverless ride sometimes, ya know.

Today I can write again, I don't know why. An hour from now? I don't know. Six months? I should be so lucky, again.

mntn13 is a mountain of mouth contortion to get lips around, I will try, but ya got another handle?


And you think you get upset? Well hells bells!! I am all upset, in the moment, I taped over my pirated Hindu Love Gods tape, some years ago, in some kind of damn drunk moment. Found one more on YouTube, but, freakin hell... I'll never have that recipe again. (Hindu Love Gods - Warren Zevon and REM)


I'm going to get caught editing this stuff as much as I have been, but, oh well. Really digging Chris Cornell, as I always do, on Youtube. I still love others words, better then my own sometimes, as I find words hard to do. So rewarding when they work, so haunting, when they don't. current song, over and over Just open up the more button if you do, the lyrics are priceless

couple months back here...I never knew trees could do what I saw them do and still stand up afterwards, a lot didn't. Full leaf on tree, not good for high wind anyway. It was like one of those bad bank camera videos of a hurricane in real time. Who the f**k cares in hindsight if it was or wasn't a tornado, I have never seen anything like it and every time the wind blows now, I see that bad bank video camera play over and over in my head. Except I'm looking where I did when it happened. Wild s**t, man.

Drove through my first hurricane in 68, guess I was 17 and not much exp driving. It was like, wow, heavy rain storm, only to find it was a a little more then that. I don't think we would have stopped had we known, youth. Made it to Sanibel Isle in a little over 24 hours from Pa, in a Chevy Corvair Spider, floorboards were so hot you couldn't put your feet down without something under them. Ahh ya, the sweet taste of youth, I did live it and ain't dead. I did earn it and deserve it, some didn't, but will anyway. Is that really fair? I mean really, let's rethink this whole death thing.

Ya know? In the scheme of things, floods, fires, winds, earthquakes and all that s**t, which is the worst? I'm not sure but the Def-Con crap was most interesting, pretty freaky and least happily ending of all of it. I mean that one ended, it could be happening again now and I wouldn't know it. That bugs me, but I don't loose sleep over it. Chalk it up to, stupidity and this time, it isn't mine.

I vote we change the name of this place. New thread. Bold. Never liked Dino, ever, and that includes the first one, the one that no one see's. Creaky, actually put some depth to the place, Dino never did.

Reward system, for the most false starts on a new thread topic heading to go with? Hell I dunno, you want my first born? Done!! Find her, I don't want to know where she is, or which prison.

Ahh damn, if that's the reward, I won't try, let's make it inventive as only this place can, Serious as a can of sardines or spam, which ever weighs more, the people in here rock!! ! Think damn it! Newbies (heart, blood, and soul that you are.), get your feets wet, come on, let us get with it. For the Site as a whole!!

should have burnt the place down at 1k, what ever were we thinking? weren't, well I was, just not here, shame on us. Revolution, think the Beatles said that. Revolver was more right, they said that too. Rubber soul was great too. Bless the English versions of their work, better perspective, by far. Where was I? oh yeah...ummmm Doctor Roberts.

Of course there is the whole other side of this trauma I produce, beat ya all, there too. What's a poor boy to do? John, singing, I'm only sleeping

Good ol' Postie! I have been reading all along. I'm not saying much; I've had a headache for 6 days and it still won't quit.

postie, i can't get the fireplace lit. unless i use pre-made fire logs, which is a bit pricey. have a nice bundle of two-years drying avacado wood. put the fire starter and an entire newspaper crumpled up under it. lit all. burned nicely as long as the fire-starter was burning. log burnt just a bit directly over the fire starter. then all went out.

wah. i mean, how much of a failure is that - cannot manage to set FIREWOOD on fire properly????

it's a small fireplace. maybe do better with what they sell at the grocery store - fir and pine?

ps fire starter burned for 20 minutes. vigorously.
condo is leased, i am now a slum lord.
still don't know when the surgery is.
you better bring the lawn furniture in, it's gonna be windy out up there.

Ok, first thing, get a mirror up that chimney, you probably will and best see daylight (if the smoke from trying to get one going wasn't going out, you might not see daylight, or very little), but... you DO NOT want a chimney fire. Went through one a few years back. I have seen a lot in my life, but house wise? That was about the scariest. Make sure that chimney is clean and in good working order, cracks in the liner and stuff. What you describe from the grocery store is soft wood and it burns pretty, lights easy and burns fast, is very dirty for your chimney. Kindling is key to getting your fire started properly. When I was running wood for full house heat, you start your fire in the Fall and don't shut it down, but rarely, till spring. Nothing like wood heat, very soothing on the bones, pleasant to look at and work. I like thermostats.

Glad you got the place rented, good news.

I dunno what we'll see from Irene, could use the rain here, to be sure. It won't come close to blow we had earlier this year and I finally got the Elm down that was dead (Dutch Elm Disease) and hanging over a good part of the house. Let er rip, I ain't fraid of no damn wind.... now Going to be an interesting week end for New York, damn fools think they got the world by the you know whats, idiots, best get out of Dodge.

Edit: How to get a mirror up a chimney Find the chimney, at the bottom of it should be a little iron door. Open door, this will be dirty and may take a little work getting the crap out so you can get a mirror in there to see up the chimney. Maneuver the mirror around some to get a good idea of how much dangerous stuff is sticking in there. Call a chimney sweep and avoid all of this and they will tell you things about the liner that you can't tell with a mirror anyway. (Yes, call a chimney sweep, I was starting to get turned on describing this stuff. But I know little tricks too, err, never mind, just call.) I used cleaner logs (these you buy at like Lowes and s**t, they burn hot, really really hot, be careful), which worked really well, but only so far up the chimney. Once in awhile burn that fire hot, burns out the crap in the chimney, a too low fire all the time is not good, really will pack up the junk and never use green wood or soft wood. (Soft wood is fine for outside, never inside.) Get a video tape of a fire and put it on the tv and sleep better, cooler, but better.

I'm dumber and feel better. What a wish to have come true.

Of course some of it is they just haven't invented CCleaner for humans yet, but not all of it. Pretty bold step down, I must say.

Ahhh sweet Sanibel Island and 68...see you there

One last one for the night, and if you don't hear a Zep tune in this one, you're tone deaf.

Do you care if Zep ripped it or not? I don't.

Ok, my bad, last one by this band, this did get some air play that year, same album. Some got known later for other stuff, but this was not their best, by far. Worth looking up, if you really like music. I love the hell of out of thier 12 dreams album. (search "spirit 12 dreams" on youtube, you can find all of them, in album order, do it, you won't regret it.)

huh, go figure, nice piano rift, but it figures, they had freakin style

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