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

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Hi Lauri! I love the fall - things have cooled here at night, but it is still in the 80's in the daytime. I need to do some household chores myself. My maid has been slipping. (Oops, that's me!) And my secretary has let the correspondence and bills slide (Oops, me too!) And my mechanic needs to work on my car and mower (Hey! me again!) And I see that laundry needs to be done, and the gutters are full of leaves. And a whole list of other things. Yet here I sit talking to you. I think I need to fire myself.

Wanna' use my French Maid costume? You know inpiration and all.

Oh, spooky! Are you sure you weren't dreaming? That would disturb me to no end!

Laurie wrote:

Absolutely was not dreaming. I thought at first it must have been my little rock collection which sits on the file cabinet next to the TV. I have a rock shaped like a shallow bowl filled with various other smaller rocks. That is still perfectly in place. Don't have a clue yet what crashed. Very spooky, but we have been having some strange occurrences in the middle of the night recently. CD player started playing one night, husband's hunting picture fell off the kitchen wall, now this.

HHMMMM! I have had my unfair share of incidents such as the ones you describe, Carol. Fortunately it has been 3 years since anything too unusual has happened. I noticed that you mentioned a ways back that you thought it might be Aaron. Do you still think it may be?

Your dream crashed. I've heard it can happen. Sonic boom kind of thing.

I think Lau's using it. I'm thinking of taking care of everything in a very fast fashion, so I have donned my explosives gear. In a nannosecond my work should be gone. Now let's see ... red wire to red, black goes here...

You may be onto something there, my friend!! Mind sending some of those explosives my way! I used to date a pyrotechnician and his job looked SSSSSOOOOOO fun!!

Oh, I didn't know poison sumac (at least not the plant identified as "poison sumac" to me when I was a child) fell into the poison oak/poison ivy category. I too don't get a skin reaction to the "poison" plants, but I'm careful not to use up my poison plant tokens... I don't push it. I'll walk gently through a stand of poison oak (prevalent out here in the West) only if I can't avoid it, and try not to crush any leaves or plant parts. I used to keep bees, and used the same principle... I had a very mild response to stings, but I carefully avoided getting stung anyway because I didn't want to challenge my immune system to build up a defense - i.e. anaphylactic shock - and I always had an Epi-Pen nearby just in case.

It's another unforgiving medium I love to work with. You are not allowed to make one single error. You can only make one.

But what's this?!? Dating pyrotechnicians, eh? Wild woman! Don'tcha know they're all KUH-razee?!? (Not me though. Not a pyrotechnician. nuh-uh. I was a Feng Shui landscape re-arranger. Of the highest degree, I might add. Except for adding, I need Lau.)

How do you apply the metal? Is it particulate in some sort of liquid suspension? I work with small amounts of gold and platinum salts (but not as a hobby... ) and am intrigued by the "alchemy" of it... rare and interesting metals.

Chuck wrote:

I was thinking that also. It has happened before to me. Not connected to dreaming though. Once I was taking an astronomy course and was absent from class when we were given a test. When I returned for the next class the teacher took me to an empty room adjacent to our classroom to take the test. I hadn't studied the section on the sun and it's atmosphere which the test was largely about. So - I asked the Holy Spirit to put the correct words and answers into my head so I could write them down on the test. I then just started putting down everything that came into my head about helium and hydrogen and so on and so forth. At one point as I was writing the teacher came running into the room looking very concerned and said "Carol, are you alright?" I said "sure, why shouldn't I be?" He said that he and the class had her a very loud crash and bang and thought I had fallen or something." I laughed and said "It was the Holy Spirit. I just asked him to help me pass this test" He'd had a Jesuit education and enjoyed my answer. I passed the test with flying colors and his comments on my test when he returned it were "Your answers really can not be disputed."

Also, I have read that Freud and Jung were having a heated discussion of sexual energy verses spiritual energy in the home of Jung when a loud bang came from the area of a cabinet. It astounded each of them, but Jung was convinced that it was proof that his theory was superior to that of Freud and therefore the more correct of the two. I love that story.

Yes!

Yeah, I like KUH-razee!! At least there is always an outlet for pent up frustration! BBOOOOMMM!! Feel better? Yep!
Speaking of explosives and Feng Shui landscaping, you have a front yard that could use an explosive touch. It would solve the whole problem! ONE HUGE HOLE!! !

Do you have to use traditional Chinese explosive, i.e. gunpowder, or will modern explosives affect the flow of chi in the same way? Or is it only the final shape that counts? Do you advise the airforce on fortuitous bombing patterns and plane formations? What happens if the other side has its own Feng Shui masters and changes the pattern? A mere firecracker could have devastating effects!

You got me worried now.

I don't think you need to worry about bee stings. They are good for you, see:
http://www.zmail4u.com/Bee_Sting_Therapy.htm

Once in the Mojave desert I spilled water on my shirt, and bees came from nowhere and swarmed me like that on the wet spot. After the water evaporated, the left just as soon as they came. Glad I'm not scared of them - they were packed on me. Of course, had they stung, I'd now be much more youthful.