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

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Hi, Rieka! Have you seen any noticeable climate changes there?

The only thing I'v actually noticed personally is that the snow on the tops of the Chugach Mountains seems to melt off considerably earlier than it used to in the summer. And we seem to be getting a little longer of a "Fall" season than in recent years. Alaska is going to be the temperate zone eventually.

I rode the Rail-Trail today, I might get some shut-eye tonight.

Hi everyone. I'm down at the Jersey shore. Weather is beautiful here. Supposed to get up in the 90's the rest of the week. Just me and my husband. Very quiet. Staying at my daughter's house and she doesn't have internet hookup here, so I just lucked out and picked up a signal. Very surprised and delighted. Husband will fish all week, I'll stay here and read and write. Have to go back and see what you all have been up to. Feel like I've been away for a long time.

Merle, is that beautiful child you? Or, are you that beautiful child?

The best all-natural cure for insomnia I know is Jewel Quest, a game on my cell phone. Couple rounds of that, and I re-achieve a bleary semiconsciousness a couple of hours later and switch the phone off. H swears by Casablanca, though - she's never actually seen it, because she keeps falling asleep near the beginning.

Funny the mention of good loud music, too - one of H's friends (now ex-friend) had really pissed me off (responded to H's suicidal depression with "Just do it, then!"), so I had a lot of negative energy to get rid of. Tried "Def Jam: Fight For NY" (a videogame in which your character is fighting his way through the underworld of New York's fight clubs) - no help. Tried meditation, but I couldn't calm down enough to start. Finally, I put on one of my favorite CDs, Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose[i], and cranked up the volume. After running through "The Monster Is Loose", followed by the cheerful raunchiness of "Bad For Good", I was finally able to calm down again. (I then put in "Grand Theft Auto San Andreas" on my XBox, to pass some time, and went to the user-defined soundtrack. I'd burned [i]The Monster Is Loose to the hard drive not long after I got the disc, and that was the soundtrack that came up. Most appropriately for the game's setting, the song that came on was "In the Land Of the Pig, the Butcher Is King".)

Driving with the top down, over the hills and valleys and down the long valley of the Applegate and up to the hill side with the Pinot noir and Chardonnay grapes fragrancing in the early autumn sunlight.

working hard all day helping a friend get her house together for fall.

listening to the quadraphonic speakers in my little red convertible. . .


You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side, yeah

We chased our pleasures here
Dug our treasures there
But can you still recall
The time we cried
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side

Yeah!
C'mon, yeah

Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
She get(s high)
She get(s high)
She get(s high)
She get(s high)

I found an island in your arms
Country in your eyes
Arms that chain
Eyes that lie
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, oww*!
Oh, yeah!

Made the scene
Week to week
Day to day
Hour to hour
The gate is straight
Deep and wide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side

* arguably the most visceral 'feel good' sound recorded.

Back when I used to do a lot work related driving, the fail safe music that kept me awake was Prodigy's "Fat O' The Land." It's what I call kick butt music. .

Cosmiccat, and Merle sounds like you are in a lovely space, both physically and mentally. Have a great time!

Once in a great while I would load a "shooter" on. Some days I get into a "I need to kill a small furry woodland creature, to feel better" mood. It was one of the Doom or Quake games and I would load in Nine Inch Nails to play as I attempted to murder and pillage my way through more then one level into the game. Unfortunately those things take reflexes to do. Something that has gone down hill with me, to the point of frustration. Soo, the furry woodland creatures more often kill me then me them. It was in one of the later games that NIN just plain fit and I suspect it was on purpose. As I recall their band symbol appeared on various crates that you could see in the game. Almost any game I play now takes a least a little thought and the less amount of reflexes it takes, the better. It's why I did and do enjoy EverQuest and WoW as much as I do, they take teamwork, some planning and it's more of an auto deal when it comes to reflexes. I like the fact that mortal combat isn't needed to have fun in the games, well, it can be lessened to a big degree. This might be a bit surprising to some, although I can't imagine too many care as my observations of Meerkats and Camels didn't seem to incite a riot. I saw Elvis at the Tastie Freeze the other day, does anybody really care? Ah well, maybe I can find a game where I can shoot Elvis.

And Merle thanks a lot for burning the image of a Christ figure into my brain. It still hasn't gone away. Humm maybe that wasn't Elvis. I owe you one for that and pay backs are a b*tch. I'll get you my pretty and your little cat too. But I could read everyone of those words, mostly, it was an amazing video. I owe you for that one too and sometimes pay backs are rather nice.

(Sorry, I'd post the link for her vid, but I don't know where it is. Storm her castle for it.)

WOOHOO!! YIPPEEE!! Another 2000 poster!! Congratulations, Postie!! Looking forward to many more interesting "posts that make you go , HHHMMMMMMMMMM"!

I wondered if you had watched it. It was mind tripping with the optical and you had expressed some displeasure with certain things because they screwed with being able to look at. But wow, when they did all the reversing of letters in the middle of a word, I could read it. But I also noticed I still was skipping words and had to go back. We call it reading gobbidy guuk, when we type in hurry in an online game.

Yeah I just noticed the 2000 mark. I'm a little worried about cosmic events when it hits 2008. Does that mean I'll be in the future?

I've survived another day. I love this place. The traffic is absolutely chaotic. The road is used by motor bikes, bicycles, carts, cars, pedestrians! The footpaths are crammed with stalls, families, a dog or two.

Good to hear that you're having a great time, Nannarob!

I'm going to put on some quiet music and relax in my tree. I don't feel like writing and I have lost my voice. A nap sounds like a fabulous idea.

i'm going into the future (2008)

hi everyone!
not a job yet, but i'm painting, that usually makes me very calm