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

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How nice it is to have my first coffee of the day among friends.

That Blessed Mom! What a woman! I could never have done anything like that, and at a such young age too! You go into my hero's gallery!

Hi Robyn.

Yes, I would agree with you. The younger generation of women, our daughters and granddaughters, have got a much better grasp on their lives than I did at their age.

You're having your morning coffee while I'm getting ready to make dinner. Isn't the internet a remarkable thing. We're all up there in the heavens, among the stars, on this amazing planet Earth and able to communicate across the globe and enjoy each others company on a virtual planet. It boggles my mind and I try not to forget how amazing it all is. When I sometimes get overwhelmed or anxious, one of the best exercises I do is to realize that I am UP there on Earth instead of DOWN here on Earth. That does reduce my anxiety, though I'm not really sure why.

Thanks, Richie. Sorry that my response was so long in coming, but my only excuse is feeble mindedness.

This is an interesting observation. I do wonder how it is that a beach could be entirely or largely covered with relatively similar sized pebbles, and have not yet found an answer after some research.

I have never been to Long Island or Fire Island.

Which reminds me, for some reason, that beach access is one of those very touchy subjects in many communities, and I have gotten into trouble for walking along intertidal lands, which are most frequently treated by state and local laws as having public access, because I was neither "fishing" nor "fowling," but merely "observing."

Which reminds me that in many locations, there is increasing intolerance for "beachcombing," for which I have also gotten into trouble, because someone has determined, I gather, that if "everyone" takes rocks and shells from beaches, all the beaches will simply disappear.

I once attempted to calculate how long it would take for North America to disappear beneath the waves of a recreated Panthalassa, if "everyone" collected rocks and shells at the rate that I did, then redistributed all over the place them by giving them away, but was not quite able to pull together all of the data needed to complete the calculation. Math was never my strong point, or logic for that matter.

Which reminds me of one of my favorite bumper stickers:

REUNITE GONDWANALAND!

None of which is relevant to anything, except perhaps the preceding Number Eleven, which is one of my fundamental governing laws.

Have fun tonight, everyone. Someone make Nan laugh if she comes on this evening, please!

Thanks for sharing the pictures and writing godwit.

I have a life-long passion for "rocks".I was sad when we left Missouri,so many wonderful fossils I would never find.Then we moved to Duluth MN,on the North Shore of Lake Superior.I have spent hours and hours combing these rock beaches for "agates"and just the beautiful colors of the rocks,that were buried under glaciers for years,(volcanic activity created agates and other treasures.)I have a bowl full of them for my cats to drink out of and several more "piles" around the house.It is a beautiful place,the North Shore.The waters have receded this year and exposed "new rocks",I am going this fall to pick up my share.

As to the story,really beautiful.I complain about my "family life as a child" and the times that my parents have disowned and abandoned me.Yet,there is a part of my mother who has stuck with me,never completely given up.She doesnt like me but I think she does love me a little?at least to the best of her ability,(battling her own demons).


Godwit,I am hoping you will consider contributing some of your writing for our magazine.It's thoughtful and full of imagery and humor....those are all things I want to see in our magazine.It truly reflects the depth of the aspie thought and spirit.


As to the story9real life)about the psychopathic girl.....they say psychopaths are born but I think some are created.I wonder what happened to this girl as a child.Few "sluts" are not abused as children.Not to justify her behavior but to better explain it?
On a person note....I found out in college,from my mother,that my first psychiatrist had been arrested for having sex with his patients.He was an idiot ,unhelpful and a die-hard Freudian.She was concerned that he might have abused me but I certainly had no memories of it....my only memory of him was that I didn't think he was actually listening to me or gave a s**t what I was saying.In other words,just another adult.


Lau....when I was drinking and the bathroom was busy.....I would either use the "little boys room" or pee in the sink.I had no shame or sense of decorum when I was drunk...think that's why I liked it so much.



Blessedmom,sorry to hear about your "ex-rat" of a husband,it was always one of my fears,never trusted someone would like me enough to stay faithful,so always suspected them of infidility.I feel bad for the stress I put these guys under,in restrospect,I do think they were faithful guys,just my own self-doubts couldnt see it at the time.Took 8 years of being "alone",sans relationships,to realize that my world would not end if I didnt have a BF.This time around,I just stopped worrying about it,odd feeling but I like it.I dont check his computer for secret love affairs or check his pockets for love notes or his bank account for purchases of flowers....maybe I watched to many "talk shows" about cheating men,when I was in my 20's?Now I just focus on having my own life,so if he leaves some day,I will still have a "me".

I might hazard a guess about pebble beaches.

First would be the underlying land that the beach is formed on. And that may well influnce what it off the beach and under water.

Second, I obsevered this while doing field hunting for artifacts. Water as it goes up hill, looses it's carrying power. It drops the heaviest items first and so on up the grade. This is a guess, in a wave it doesn't loose all of it's power, it pulls back. What it returns with would be dependent on the force of the withdrawal. In other words it doesn't have enough power to get the cobbles to the beach, but enough power to pull the sand back, leaving a certian size and wieght pebble. Nature is sorting it.

Glaciers sort things as well. So we have two sorting things that have happened and are happening.

Hell I dunno, all I can think of for this minute.

Please, I don't like competition for density.

Thank you for saying that about my writing.

I have deleted my Blog, as it was spammed twice and don't want to go through the clean-up again, at least for now. Also, it concerns me that I have no idea who owns rights to my words posted here. I presume I retain rights, but don't know. So, as to my writings here, I have not yet been able to determine who will be raking in the millions. However, I do presume that as I near the million mark, significant raking will be necessary. I simply have no idea where the local cyber dump is.

Our daughters are much more aware than we were. I still have to fight my internalisation of "I am a worm and no man." (attributed to Christ). I suppose we were brought up by mothers who believed in the song ...and I can't recall the words very well

"Time to get ready for love"... put on your make up...there are girls at the office...

If you don't know the words you won't get much out of what I've written.

As well as getting the atlas out I'm going to get a world time zone thingy as well. Is it just an aussie thing to talk about gunna ... I'm gunna do this and I'm gunna do that... Nan's not the only gunner!

DAng,as if that post wasnt long enough....

Also meant to say....Chuck I would like some Heath related articles from you.Would also love to see some or your writing and art.You are a very funny guy and humor in AS is one concept I hope to "clear-up" amongst some of the "experts".I think the mag would also be a place to advertise your art and book?Dont have the details but hope to figure out how to get "aspie discount" for ad space(as well as allowing an add to the writers personal web page where they can advertise their art and services.

As far as copy write law goes.....I did check this out.The current law seems to support that if you write something over the internet it is automatically "owned" by you,regaurdless of where you put it(Perhaps there is an exception if the web site specifically states that it owns the writers material???but I dont think that applies here.)Aother option is starting an account at
Deviantart.com.....free accounts and state that everything you write,all pictures and art are owned by YOU.ANyone wishing to use it has to purchase it from you.

As far as the magazine......I have to talk to the publisher but I believe that anything submited is only done so with permission of the author/artist and they still own the rights to it.That is part of the point of the magazine,to gain exposure for the writers.If a paying magazine,company wishes to buy your work they must buy it from you...not us.Not sure how other magazines do it but that is certainly the way I think it should be.We will have to make a business contraact stating the details of this for any submissions.I WANT the authors to be bought by "real" magazines that will inhance their exposure.As far as I'm concerned,that is the whole point of this publication.Make sense?


I have to do be civilized,(shower,wash my uniform for work.)Oh,how I long for a time when I only have to be civilised when I want to(ie,not have to leave the house for weeks at a time).

Wishing you all a wonderful day/night,may chech back for more of your wit and wisdom,when real life is finished.

Bush is over here now. I think we are unofficially the next American state. The sad thing is that our prime minister doesn't see it.

Your welcome. Thank you.



Well, based upon what I've been told by arrea beach monitors irate at my beachcombing, the reason lake Superior is receding is that you are collecting too many rocks from the shoreline and thus expanding the size of the "bowl."



If anyone wishes to discuss this with me, I am interested, but want to discuss it only through private, personal email. Please feel free to pm me to make such arrangements, if you wish to.

Thanks, Alan. I do believe I understand what you're saying.

Now please explain why one beach is sand, another is shingle, and a third is cobble, because I cannot fathom a reason.

Alan

PS

Or, did I not understand at all and you explained that already?

Godwit.....WP blogs are deffinatly a "weak spot" on WP.We seem to attract more then our fair share of losers,psychopaths and bullies(imagine that)who love to mess with us.(What else is new).Unfortuatly,we only have 3 mods now and none of them have access to the blogs to get rid of these spammers.You could try the "deviantart"site I mentioned and just leave us a link...I would personally put it in bookmark or favorites or feed,so I could access it when you add new "stuff".There are a few other aspies on deviant art and I actually found out about it on here...they dont seem to have the spamming issue there,not sure why.It is filled
with a lot of "little kids" and anima,furries and emos but you dont have to be one to open a FREE account.Something to consider.

I didn't just say it, I meant it. You can pretty much count on me to say what I mean. Most blogs I do not read. It would be a waste of time. Yours are riveting.



How is it possible to spam someone's blog? Can some one please explain this to me?

Yes. Thanks. But I'm gunna need more information and time to dwell on this.

OK?

Ok. Thanks. I'm gunna explore that site.