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13 Sep 2007, 12:39 pm

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


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.


That is a good story! And I am a fan of Jung so I agree with him!



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13 Sep 2007, 12:43 pm

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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. :roll: I noticed that you mentioned a ways back that you thought it might be Aaron. Do you still think it may be?



Yes!


I'm sorry I didn't mention it when you posted about it. I was a little concerned about how I would be percieved if anyone knew I am a firm believer in the spirit world. For some reason I don't care anymore. From what you wrote I think you are probably right. Why do you think that may be?



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13 Sep 2007, 12:44 pm

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...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.


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. :)


And for some of us we would be free of pain thanks to the swollen airway and subsequent lack of oxygen. Pain no more!!



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13 Sep 2007, 12:50 pm

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...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... :roll: ) and am intrigued by the "alchemy" of it... rare and interesting metals.


I bought a small amount of wire of each metal type, about the thickness of a thick pencil lead, had the wire annealed (heated), then I shaped the end with a grinder to a point (but not too sharp - didn't want it digging into the paper). (Use safety glasses!) Then I put the wire into a mechanical pencil like I would with pencil lead. A 1/2 inch piece lasts forever. You just draw like you would with a pencil. It wasn't expensive - about $7.00.

Michaelangelo's drawings were done in this manner (hence the brown ink look) with silver, and 500 years later the pictures are still in fine shape. I wanted to make artwork that would last a thousand years. Depends on the "paper". He used rabbit skin glue, so that's what I used. There's probably glue available today that would work better. But I know his stuff did last.



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13 Sep 2007, 12:50 pm

Chuck wrote:
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...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.


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. :)


Chuck, that "bee-sting-therapy" fellow used an old trick: he put a queen in a little cage and attached it to his chin. The worker bees create a swarm around the caged queen. Swarming bees are not at all inclined to sting. This is called making a "bee beard"... I kid you not! Your desert bees were totally focused on recovering the valuable water on your shirt, and had no interest in stinging you. If they were wild honeybees, then a sting results in the death of the bee... not something they want to do unless they are either fighting for their (individual) lives or defending the hive.



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13 Sep 2007, 12:51 pm

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...Yeah, I like KUH-razee!! :lol: 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!! ! :lol:


(Chuck starts dreaming .... what a swimming pool I could make!! ! With a 200ft deep end...)



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13 Sep 2007, 1:00 pm

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...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.


:lol: Don't worry I wasn't very good, really, so they never let me progress to actual explosives. I only got to use sparklers.

But you ask important questions. Even the wrong use of a sparkler can affect the landscape shape to devastating result. 8O Could even effect the flow of time!! ! I shall consult my master, Martha Stewart, and get back to you.



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13 Sep 2007, 1:04 pm

Chuck wrote:
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...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.


:lol: Don't worry I wasn't very good, really, so they never let me progress to actual explosives. I only got to use sparklers.

But you ask important questions. Even the wrong use of a sparkler can affect the landscape shape to devastating result. 8O Could even effect the flow of time!! ! I shall consult my master, Martha Stewart, and get back to you.

8O Martha Stewart??? Oh Chuck, Chuck, Chuck. I'm afraid there is no hope for you!! Nope, none at all!! ! :roll:



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13 Sep 2007, 1:11 pm

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...Chuck, that "bee-sting-therapy" fellow used an old trick: he put a queen in a little cage and attached it to his chin. The worker bees create a swarm around the caged queen. Swarming bees are not at all inclined to sting. This is called making a "bee beard"... I kid you not! Your desert bees were totally focused on recovering the valuable water on your shirt, and had no interest in stinging you. If they were wild honeybees, then a sting results in the death of the bee... not something they want to do unless they are either fighting for their (individual) lives or defending the hive.


"Bee-beard"?!? Caged bee queens?!? Lupine, Lupine, Lupine. Trying to use the logic of science on me ,eh?! One day I shall have to tell you how the universe REALLY works. It's all too complicated to list here in one gulp, what with technical terms like elvin magic, sparklers, Feng Shui, hocus pocus and such. But don't you worry! :wink: A year from now, listening to me every day, it will all become clear. And then you shall look back on this post with a mixture of shame and embarrassment. But don't! We are all novices at one time in our lives. Postie will assist you on your re-education as well. It's good that you opened up and revealed your *a-hem* science.



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13 Sep 2007, 1:14 pm

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And for some of us we would be free of pain thanks to the swollen airway and subsequent lack of oxygen. Pain no more!!


:lol: Laughing at your wit only Laurie, not the message it conveys in this instance.



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13 Sep 2007, 1:19 pm

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... 8O Martha Stewart??? Oh Chuck, Chuck, Chuck. I'm afraid there is no hope for you!! Nope, none at all!! ! :roll:


Lauri, Lauri, Lauri! (This is the series of three name posts. :lol: )
I shall not permit the bad-mouthing of my master by a
Feng Shui bomb-blaster wanna-bee beard ex-pyrotechnician dater knitter!
:P



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13 Sep 2007, 1:22 pm

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And for some of us we would be free of pain thanks to the swollen airway and subsequent lack of oxygen. Pain no more!!


:lol: Laughing at your wit only Laurie, not the message it conveys in this instance.

Cosmiccat, cosmiccat, cosmiccat!
You are only encouraging her. And YOU! With beliefs in dreams and cosmic art forces, and help from the heavens on your exams! 8O I need to assign you to helping Lupine toute de suite.



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13 Sep 2007, 1:22 pm

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... 8O Martha Stewart??? Oh Chuck, Chuck, Chuck. I'm afraid there is no hope for you!! Nope, none at all!! ! :roll:


Lauri, Lauri, Lauri! (This is the series of three name posts. :lol: )
I shall not permit the bad-mouthing of my master by a
Feng Shui bomb-blaster wanna-bee beard ex-pyrotechnician dater knitter!
:P


Chuck :lol: :lol: :lol: Chuck :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Chuck :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:



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13 Sep 2007, 1:24 pm

:lol: I have to go make lunch!! :lol: (Martha Stewart ain't got nothin' on me, baby!!) :lol: (Blessedmom puts on the famous Martha Stewart poncho that she just had to make! :roll:)



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13 Sep 2007, 1:27 pm

Chuck wrote:
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...Chuck, that "bee-sting-therapy" fellow used an old trick: he put a queen in a little cage and attached it to his chin. The worker bees create a swarm around the caged queen. Swarming bees are not at all inclined to sting. This is called making a "bee beard"... I kid you not! Your desert bees were totally focused on recovering the valuable water on your shirt, and had no interest in stinging you. If they were wild honeybees, then a sting results in the death of the bee... not something they want to do unless they are either fighting for their (individual) lives or defending the hive.


"Bee-beard"?!? Caged bee queens?!? Lupine, Lupine, Lupine. Trying to use the logic of science on me ,eh?! One day I shall have to tell you how the universe REALLY works. It's all too complicated to list here in one gulp, what with technical terms like elvin magic, sparklers, Feng Shui, hocus pocus and such. But don't you worry! :wink: A year from now, listening to me every day, it will all become clear. And then you shall look back on this post with a mixture of shame and embarrassment. But don't! We are all novices at one time in our lives. Postie will assist you on your re-education as well. It's good that you opened up and revealed your *a-hem* science.


Chuck Chuck Chuck... I NEED the "logic of science". It's my Brain Anchor. Without science, my head might just float away like an untethered hot-air balloon. :wink:



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13 Sep 2007, 1:43 pm

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...Chuck Chuck Chuck... I NEED the "logic of science". It's my Brain Anchor. Without science, my head might just float away like an untethered hot-air balloon. :wink:


8O THAT'S GOOD!! ! You've progressed far already! Now let's examine the truths you have discovered in your statement:

"logic of science" : always put it in quotations as you have done here. It's all unproven drivel. Good!! :D

Brain Anchor: this actually IS what keeps your head from floating away like an untethered hot-air balloon!! ! Mine is shaped like the anchors on Popeye's forearms. Female Brain Anchors are shaped like the female sex symbol. That's how you can tell male heads from female heads if they float off from their bodies.