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27 Aug 2011, 2:54 pm

Been here before but not much, very hard to figure out my way around this maze w/.o a map. I've been a member on here for years but rarely visited once i realized most ppl were younger than my kids.
I got a link and message in my email to this site but am wondering why. I'm friendly on line , have adhd plus AS, willing to chat w/ppl my age if any are interested.


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28 Aug 2011, 1:51 pm

hartz of space glad your headache is better. :) hello timidme. I am here mainly to moderate my complete isolation so I am glad to chat, commiserate, share , and glad for the interaction. I'm not so good at manners, appropriate social responses, or jokes, and any advice I dish out, well considering the source one should beware though I certainly mean well. I am a basically nice person except for my dry and sometimes dark humor and I find any in- person type socializing next to impossible. :oops: I am struggling to maintain postive relationships with my grown daughter and my 11 yr old son. I am struggling to not get too far into depression. And I'm an artist. This is what I guess I was going to say a few days ago when I was afraid to say too much. :roll:



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28 Aug 2011, 4:00 pm

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hartz of space glad your headache is better. :)

Thanks! I discovered that part of the reason for the persistence of this darned headache, was that I needed to do some trigger point work with my tens unit.


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28 Aug 2011, 4:03 pm

Hi mntn13, thanks for saying hi.
Don't worry about your social awkwards, I think we all have them
or we wouldnt be here. And I want to tell everyone that i don't mind talking to younger ppl I just want to try it with ppl my age too,
When I figured out I was weird I knew I couldnt do anything about it so I decided I might as well be good at it. I think we all should try to. and as far as free advice, I tell ppl mine is worth what they paid for it, lol,

Good luck with your kids, mine are grown and we still have our issues but we know we love each other. That's the important stuff.

I will be glad to converse with you, depression sucks literally, it sucks us down into a hole, We just try not to get trapped down there.
I am a writer, sort of artist, so please don't be hesitant and feel safe enough to talk to me, ok? I don't judge, and am in need of friends too. I will be glad to be your friend or anyones. ok?


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28 Aug 2011, 5:55 pm

What medians are our artists working in? Pictures of your work(s)?

Hi Oren :wink:

Translation puleeze Hartz... "that I needed to do some trigger point work with my tens unit". If I were to figure that out on my own, well you really don't want to know what I would have come up with. :wink:

I couldn't write if it weren't for my google bar's spelling button, well I could but... :oops: I need to get rid of the translate button, because it sits right next to the spelling button and I keep hitting it, thinking I hit the spelling. It doesn't work. I don't think google will ever be able to translate my stuff.


In the mean time, no I'm not over my music crap I keep putting up. I don't feel too bad, they'll never translate Chris's stuff either. we move on



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29 Aug 2011, 3:13 am

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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.


first, crumple the paper
second, sprinkle the shaved candle wax on the paper
third make a little tee pee with small twigs around the paper
fourth make sure there is plenty of space between each twig and
fifth put larger sticks, hopefully split from the dry wood that will eventually be burning
sixth light the paper and wax, watch the smaller wood start to burn, sprinkle more wax if necessary
as it all starts to burn, make sure the vents in the chimniny are drawing the smoke straight up the flue
keep adding larger and larger sticks of split wood to the conflagration
eventually add the larger logs.

optional: shake on some "Gypsy Flames" fire granules for awesome colors but don't inhale the smoke.

and Nan? You need a fire in AUGUST in SOUTHERN CALI?
all my best,

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29 Aug 2011, 1:50 pm

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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 :roll: 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 :lol: 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 sh**, 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.


lever attached to chain opens the flu at the top of the chimney. chimney belongs to the university, they actually do take care of them (amazingly). smoke goes up nicely. have a set of chain mail in front the keeps the logs from exploding onto the hearth, and glass doors for when it's not lit.

will try to find kindling, but they don't sell much of that in the grocery store. am thinking i could use some of the smaller fir logs, put the hardwood on top. only burning at night or on weekends (and not for a while now since we're just starting to get the heat of summer here).



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29 Aug 2011, 1:51 pm

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Nan wrote:
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.


You want to build a fire in August? Where do you live? Antarctica? :) But seriously, are you using kindling?



We are near the beach, it was in the 50s the other evening, and I wanted to see if I could do it. Too warm now, will be for the next two months. No kindling available, used commercially made fire-starter blocks that burned for like 20 minutes each. Burned TWO directly under an avacado log that was supposedly dried out for two years. The firestarters each burned 20 minutes, nice flames shooting directly onto log. Part of log directly over them charred and looks like it burned a little, but the rest of the wood did not. Basically it all went out at the same time.

We now live about a mile from the beach, so in the evenings on a lot of days we have the marine layer come in and it's lovely and cool. It's still hotter'n'hell farther inland, where we used to live, but we don't live there anymore. Can't find kindling anywhere. Tried a whole newspaper, crumpled up, one time, did not work. When it's cool again I will get some of the supermarket bundled pine/fir, which is in smaller log pieces, and start one with that - assuming that the oils, etc., in them will ignite more quickly - and then put the hardwood on when it's all burning well. It's not a huge fireplace, just an apartment sized one, so I'm kind of limited in what I can put in there. It will be a while, though. It's back in the 70s in the daytimes again this week, but it will get hotter and probably won't cool off properly (for a fire) until Halloween.

Kid's surgery is after Thanksgiving, so she can still do her Halloween decorating extravaganza and host her friends at our "Day After" Thanksgiving dinner, when the kids all come over and eat without having to put up with extended family. December won't be much fun, though.



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29 Aug 2011, 3:28 pm

I work in pencil on paper - people and cats, ink pen on paper - fantasy and sketching in general, watercolor abstracts, alternating with landscapes, acrylic on canvas abstract alternating with still life. That is when I'm not fatigued or depressed into a place where I can't reach my supplies or my brain.
any ahem, advice on putting pictures of my paintings & drawings on the internet would be appreciated - I am not familiar with this process yet because sometimes in the past I reacted rather badly to the word "should".



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30 Aug 2011, 6:29 pm

Ah the dreaded SHOULD, its been chasing me for years.
caught me a couple of times too and s**t on me.

the first trick will be to take photos of them
then you could consider any number of sites
flickr.com is free and you could post there
though they are primarily a photo site but you could link to them
photobucket is another there are many.

As for my work current photographs used in self help books

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website is odatbooks.com



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30 Aug 2011, 9:29 pm

Pine and fir will burn much more easily than avocado - it's a classic hardwood, and is hard to start. (On the plus side, once you get it started, it burns forever.) If you can find cedar, that makes great kindling - it catches very easily, and it's also very easy to split down. Never used a firestarter block, so I can't speak to those, but the pressed-wood logs (Duraflame and their ilk) are also pretty good for evening fires - they burn for a while, so might be usable for fire-starting, and you start one by setting fire to the end.


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31 Aug 2011, 8:40 am

thanks. guess i've got to buy a camera. :) I still have one but it's from 1973. (!) Don't think one can even get film for it anymore.
slipacre that is a beautiful photograph. that's great that your own words and images are together.



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31 Aug 2011, 9:21 pm

I guess I create in lives. I have had several lifetimes in this one body, and it looks like I am going to have time for several more. I am an actor and a dramaturge (deals mainly with research and development of plays for theatre companies) for my lives. I do it to cope, isn't that why other artists do their art?


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31 Aug 2011, 10:02 pm

Hi, I'm another new creaker. I meant to post in here, but accidentally wrote a new post. Typical confusion. Just found out and am still kind of in shock. Really glad you guys are here, though.



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31 Aug 2011, 11:18 pm

hi blueper, welcome - from another new older person. does creaker mean oldster?
sinsboldly that is cool, what research are you doing?



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01 Sep 2011, 8:05 am

blueper wrote:
Hi, I'm another new creaker. I meant to post in here, but accidentally wrote a new post. Typical confusion. Just found out and am still kind of in shock. Really glad you guys are here, though.


hey, blueper! come on in and have a muffin or two.

I always thought to myself "when I die, I am gonna have a little sit down with G-d and find out just what the heck was going on in my life! When I finally discovered I was AS and learned all about it, I felt like I had had that "little talk"! Shock and Awe, is right! Glad you are here!

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