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Thanks Mick!

ha hahahaaa...

Now how did that happen Richard? I thought you had your own place but then you decided to move but why are you living in a motel now? I know you were talking about moving to California, why was you doing that? I know you decided against it, have you changed your mind again? I hope you're doing alright.

I stayed in a nice motel briefly before I found this place and moved into this apartment and it was alright. It had been remodeled and it had a small kitchenette and dining table and separate sitting area. It was very expensive but it was better than where I was living in this huge house with a lot of people. That was too much, I had no privacy, they would just walk in on me like it was nothing, wake me up, take my things and use them without asking, I had to get out of there and get some peace. I had never lived in a situation like that before and I never will again. I wasn't told about the living situation before I moved back here, infact I was told something altogether different. I'm too use to having my very own place and space and not having so many people up my @ss.

You're welcome.

I must get some sleep if I want to get better.

Kaybee really needs someone with strong thumbs to fix the relentless knot in her back. If only she weren't so averse to most people touching her.

I'm thinking about going to bed soon. Miranda Cosgrove's going to be on the Today Show tomorrow & that comes on at 7am & it's close to 2am now. Show's 3 hours long thou & I don't want to wake up 2 hours earlier than I need to thou. Or I could try to find it online instead. Damn OCD Screw-it I'm not going to set my alarm. I know I could use help for OCD but psychs & meds never helped me with that

(Appears) Good morning, WrongPlanet! This is your Friendly Resident Ghost saying: "Willa Wonka's chocolate must be untouched my human hands!"

We got our new toy, and it makes such pretty sounds.

how very interesting. but....insects have to breathe and they have a tracheal system that is in contact with the outside world that infuses oxygen via tracheoles to their "blood" stream, so why does bacteria not use it as a portal for infection and subsequent instillation of putrefaction?

and why does not the internal bacteria that is suppressed by the living insects immune system not suddenly flourish when they die like they do in all other forms of life?

i know that insects become dessicated due to evaporation of their hydrated tissues when they die, and that their weight after a long time is the weight of the matter of their bodies minus the water, but why do they not become consumed totally?

i know that the shells of their exoskeleton are indigestible, as are fingernails and horns etc, but there remains a small amount of dried powder inside their abdomens which is the entire matter of their soft tissues when dessicated and "shaken" by some sort of miniscule displacement event. it seemingly can not be transported back into the external environment until some external force ruptures the casing of the exoskeleton which is a closed system (when it is considered as a closed conduit to internal exhaustion).

i guess if i had a dead fly in a bottle for 500 years, that there would inevitably come a time when gravity exceeds the bonds of the completely dehydrated and feeble tissues of the insects exoskeletal joint bonding integrity, so that some part falls off like the head, and then the outside world has ingress to the internal spaces within the insect, and with it's humidity, will hydrate and make digestible, the exoskeleton.

thanks for your answer.

but of course this post will slide under the rolling sands of random contemplation in the tidal face of thousands of people who want to say random things.
see ya and thanks.

Basically, i dont have enough money saved (well I do but its for my fire agate ring) and is completely off limits. i'm never spending that money, So i wont have enough for a security deposit and first months rent so i cant get a apartment. The reason i'm leaving my current residence is the paint or somethign is comming off of my walls and i dont want to grow a third arm

More than likely i wont like it but then again, living in a beautiful place does come with sacrifices

This is true, and putrefaction must occur - but the soft tissues are of such small quantities that they appear to "dry up" more than "putrefy" (as compared, say, to a rabbit carcass which would have a much more significant putrefaction cycle).

They quite probably do but again, because of the tiny amount of matter available for decay the effects would barely be visible without some close, long-term study of the event, and I suspect the Chitin parts remain largely unaffected because the bacterial activity simply doesn't last long enough.

Given time, the breakdown must become total. Even man-made plastics break down eventually but the time this takes depends on the chemical make-up. So, for example, a plate of iron will eventually crumble completely if left exposed to air.

The head and other parts would have been held in place by the insect equivalent of muscles - or at the least, something containing much less Chitin than a hard shell so that they would remain flexible - and so various bit would eventually start dropping off. Even a hard shell is only an arrangement of Chitin plates and that too would eventually fall apart into its individual plates.
I don't think the ingress of air that this process allows would make too much difference overall though, because it seems to be in the nature of Chitin (and Keratin) that it is chemically very stable and like the iron plate, it just takes much longer to decompose. Of course the presence of water is likely to accelerate this process in both cases but with Chitin, it's evidently much less susceptible to the effects of this than the soft tissues. Some insect collections are over 100 years old but the Chitin is still intact.
There are interesting Wikipedia pages for Keratin here and Chitin here.

Small details are fun

"All things pass".

I'm back to being the jolly Cockney that we all know.

Damn. is it still safe to eat the 7 layer burrito at taco bell without eating beach sand?

I've decided to join the gang and have fun, after the pity party I have two days ago.

The end of the month really cant get here fast enough. i need to get this move out of the way, its stressing me out!

Stayne: (Sees giant Alice) "And who is this lovely creature?"

The Red Queen: "Um, my new favorite."

Stayne: (to Alice) "What is your name?"

The Red Queen: "Um."

Stayne: (to Alice) "I believe your name has slipped the Queen's mind."

The Red Queen: "Her name is Um, IDIOT!"

Me: "Um, no? It's Alice. I thought she said she would recognize that 'tangled mess of hair' anywhere?"