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

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As cold as it may seem up here, our temperatures for January have been at least 10C warmer than they used to be 5 years ago. We generally have -20C temperatures for the entire month, not just 1 or 2 days.

And in the summer, we've seen more and more of these:



That cloud spawned some nasty tornadoe 2 years ago and we had more last year. The inside was spinning one way and the outside was spinning the other. It covered the entire city.

nice wall cloud there. reminds me of texas. it used to be such fun when those rotating blobs would drop out of the sky and start poking down little funnels here and there.

do not miss it at all.

Nan, you need to move and soon. This constant worrying about you is making me old!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX8ML16n-7g[/youtube]

highly unlikely at this point, lauri.

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I knew prices were falling but didn't know they were losing ground that badly. It did that here, too. There are 6 houses for sale within 3 blocks of my house and they won't be selling anytime soon. Rental properties are great if you don't mind the tenants.

And it's good to know you like it there again. It's hard to live somewhere you don't want to be. What is the Kid going to do instead of Uni?

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theoretically, the kid is looking to get a job. the gallery called her and she'll have about 10 hours a week at minimum wage in the evenings for a while. she's looking, and had a couple of interviews, for part time jobs elsewhere, but not a lot of luck so far. at least she's actively looking now.

at least, that's the plan. we'll see how it works out. she's only got a year and a half left that i can carry her on my insurance. she'll have to be in school full-time when she's 23 and later to be able to be carried on a school's health plan for a few years, or be working somewhere that gives her her own coverage. she is uninsurable otherwise. and she has to have coverage.

just shoot me now.

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Hey! Hey! Hey! Our drought has been the longest in living memory. My NT brain isn't in to facts and figures (help, Sleepy!) - so I can't say for how many years. Lots of years! Cities have had less than 20% water capacity.

Now we are experiencing floods over two thirds of Queensland. But it is not yet drought breaking rain. We have a 40% chance of getting enough rain by the end of summer into Autumn. At this time last year we had a !0% chance.

Climate change! What climate change?

happy 2000 sleepydragon !

Congratulations on 2000 posts.

C ngrats!! !

Awww, thanks guys!

@blessedmom: Have the kids settled down any? Maybe you could threaten them with deportation to a different colony!

@nannarob: My old man was saying this morning that the public showers/taps at Gold Coast beaches are going to be turned back on. Apparently the Greenies are all for it, because everyone who visits the beach carries away x millilitres of sand, and this will be reduced if surfers and bathers are given the chance to wash it off. Also people who let holiday accommodation are happy because less sand tracked into their buildings means less wear & tear on their flooring.

Congrats, Sleepy!! I'm really out to lunch and missed it apparently.

I hate to admit that they did get told that they do have 2 parents and if they don't like the rules and parent at this house, they are welcome to go live in the "normal" world with their dad, Mr. Moneypants. I don't like telling them that but it is true.

And the one that had the biggest attitude had to get up bright and early on a day he has no school, had to go out for breakfast with me while we talked about the reality of a 17 year olds life, followed by a 2 hour grocery trip where we walked every aisle and made informed choices. I believe my point was received.

I've been inadvertently drawn into a couple of curebie-style threads here, and they cause me to ask a question, one to which I cannot find an answer:

Why do these people want me to feel bad about who I am?

They keep insisting that if I'm not fully in support of finding a "cure", I must be in denial about how horrible my life, and my daughter's life, are; that we just don't understand what a drag we are on society; that for some reason, the NT who started one of them understands better than I do what hell I must be going through because I'm autistic. Oh, we're also all at least potential perverts and criminals, and only use ASD as an excuse to get away with things.

Why am I not allowed to be perfectly comfortable with who and what I am? Why am I not supposed to help 'Gana find her way in a world that refuses to accommodate her disability? (At her level, it is indeed disabling - she's six, and we're still working on verbal communication. Potty training is a pipe dream, at the moment.) Why am I supposed to be violently in favor of meddling with our neuroanatomy, with (thus far) unpredictable results?

Can anyone help me with these questions?

Hmmm... sorry, DeaconBlue. Can't offer advice based on personal experience, as I never had kids. However, I myself apparently did have a significant delay in speech acquisition as a child (significant to my parents, at any rate... this was in the 1950's). Anecdotally, I know of a couple of very verbal and very smart teenagers who also had a delay in speech acquisition. Is speech therapy an option in your neck of the woods?

Oh... and the -ahem- other issue... I spent rather a lot of time outdoors when I was 'Gana's age. Apparently my preference was to go duck behind a tree rather than to go to all the trouble of seeking out the indoor plumbiing fixture... so much more convenient.

OK, to change the topic entirely - does anyone else here find the "Gawker Artists" advertisements on this website to be over-the-top creepy? I would be so happy to see these go away... (Alex?!)