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21 Feb 2022, 12:41 pm

I’m curious if anyone’s planning to blow any significant chunks of change on anything now that things are opening up more ?

Any wild parties planned ? Or vacations in lieu of ? Or ??

I’d imagine most ppl on this forum don’t tend to spend a lot of money on social outings normally anyways, but c’mon, we’re not all hermits. Surely many of you would have been going out for meals or beers or to the odd movie, play, art show or concert etc. And if life where you are paused as hard as it did here And you still had your source of income, then chances are you have a couple bucks you could choose to blow.

So, anyone gonna do it ? Gonna pull the trigger and hop a plane to somewhere warm? Or meet up with friends and family for a nice meal ? Or buy yourself something nice you’ve wanted for a while?

Alternatively, if you don’t have the $ to spend BUT would if you could after all of this - what would you blow it on?

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21 Feb 2022, 1:18 pm

This reminds me of why BLM seems a potential problem. Neither cops or entry level security will bother you over weed or liquor unless you do something dumb along with it, but I could see the cops getting defended and more of these yellow jackets appearing everywhere shortly after.

Next thing you know weed is legal, but you have to hide it more than you did in 1985, and you cant pick cans on sunset beach cuz the hundreds or thousands of human fish have to go to the bar now.

what and ass! :jester:

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21 Feb 2022, 1:38 pm

The_Znof wrote:

Umm, okay ? I know this is the Random forum.. but this post is pretty random.

Cans will always be available for collecting on Wreck Beach - my friends will see to that. Some people make $100-200+/day collecting cans there on the busiest summer days when there are 10-15k people there drinking in the sunshine.

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21 Feb 2022, 5:57 pm

I haven't been doing anything different (outside of wearing a mask when needing to go out for supplies and medical). I was already in "lockdown", which made me amused when someone asked (because I'm apparently sensitive or something), 'How is Dill handling the lockdowns?'

I have some money saved up, but I consider that emergency funds because you never know. I might get bushwhacked by evil ninjas or something and lose an arm.

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21 Feb 2022, 6:38 pm

If I had any extra funds there would be a small fireplace in the living room ,a kitchen remodel and part of the front porch would be a sun room.
And more garden plants.

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21 Feb 2022, 7:08 pm

The missus and I are currently staying in a cozy B&B near Tagaytay, Cavite, Philippines.

We will be back sometime in March . . . maybe April . . .

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21 Feb 2022, 7:11 pm

If I had the extra money to spare for an expensive social outing(expensive for me & my girlfriend cuz we have alot more debt than money) I would buy two VIP tickets for a Weird Al Yankovic concert that's supposed to be coming near us in a couple months. VIP tickets include a meet & greet & other things & cost $330 per person I'm not into concerts & never really went to one but there is no famous person I'd rather meet than Al except one & the odds of me ever getting an opportunity to meet her would be limited to my dreams or in an alternate dimension :cry: I'd very likely never have another opportunity to meet Al but I have to be somewhat practical & prioritize my spending. About the only way I could afford that in a couple months would be if I get a part time job now. I have other things I really should be spending more of my money on 1st like starting to pay some of my debt that I haven't been paying & slowly putting money aside to buy some needed things that keep getting put off. My Verizon bill is $80 less this month cuz the phones me & Cass got two years ago are finally paid off but my Xfinity/Cr@pcast bill went up a bit due to my contract ending & their rates going up like every year. Plus prices for lots of things have been increasing at a much faster rate than Social Security considers the cost of living increase to be so our financial situation is not any better than last year.

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21 Feb 2022, 8:55 pm

My disability is right at the amount the Department of Health and Human Services says is poverty level income for a household of 1 - what money did I save, COULD I save because of Covid?

Sure, you can say I saved $20 a month by not buying snacks at Saturday morning meetings of creative writers group at a local bake shop.

But ...

How much does a month's supply of decent masks cost?

How much did food prices drop during the pandemic?

How much did household supply prices drop during the pandemic?

Also ...

Didn't cut back on cable TV because I don't have a television.

Didn't cut back on smartphone data plan because I don't have a smartphone.

Didn't cut back on gasoline because my disability keeps me at home about 6.5 days a week.

(Lockdown? WHAT lockdown? Nothing in my life has changed, what alternate reality are you living in?) :wink:
(and, yes, that really was a meme in online disability communities)
(wait a minute, wasn't it just two months ago that you were telling me how soft and easy my life is because I stay home all the time? how come it is so soft and easy for me and yet you just went on psych meds because of how soft and easy staying home all the time is for you?)
(yes, disabled people can be snarky little snots)

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21 Feb 2022, 11:49 pm

After Being Shut-in for 66 Months, With Type Two Trigeminal Neuralgia,
Assessed As the Worst Pain Known to Humankind, Sub-Clinically Named
The "Suicide Disease;" Literally, Yes, From Wake to Sleep Hours of my Life;

Mostly in my Bedroom in a Usual Uniform of Underwear, With 18 Other Medical
Disorders, All Generally Associated With "General Adaptation Syndrome" And Yes,

What is Actually Scientifically Studied As "Autism Burn-Out;" Yep, If You Do A Google
Search on This User Name, "Aghogday," First Page Results Come Up With Peer Reviewed Studies
That Reference A Blog Post, i Wrote on the Experience in 2013, Some Months Before Recovering

on July 19, 2013; Yes, You Remember The Day That all the Pain And Numb in the World Coming From
11 Years of Chronic to Acute Fight or Flight (In The Last 2 Years of the 11) Work-Related Stress Goes

(The Whole Declining Experience From 1996 Thru
2013, 17 Years, As Long As A Locust Hibernates)

Away; And True, Even Though The Doctor's
Say We were one of the First (Me and my Wife)
To Acquire Covid-19, In January of 2020, That Lasted
Around 2 Months of Coughing for me, Starting Off the
First 54 Of 72 Hours in Bed, Just Knocked Out with "A Ton
of Bricks," Eventually Coughing Up Blood, Going to the Doctor for
What i Never Experienced in my Whole Life Before; Before they Realized
Covid-19 Was

Already

In Our Locality;

Anyway, Even though
i Experienced Tachardia, Unexplained,
And Likely Part of 'Long Haul Syndrome'
From Covid-19 After that For Over A Year; Life is Also A

Matter of Perspective; Not able to remember the Feeling of
A Smile for 66 Months; Much More Challenging to Me, Second
to Second, Even More Challenging than the so-Called "Suicide Disease"

As When in the Very Rare Case Humans Lose Their Emotions; The Living

Dead is
The Living
Dead For Real;

Just A Ghost Wandering
A Bedroom, Not Realizing They are
Dead; Yet It is what it is, When You Are Really in HeLL ON EartH;

i Tend to Celebrate Every Second Now; Yep, Not Even So-Called
Covid-19, Stopped me from Writing Tens of Thousands of Words About
The Experience, as Long as i could Lift my Fingers to the Keyboard or iPhone

in Bed; i had

Already Been
through Un-imaginable DiSEaSE
to Most Folks Worse in Life Before that;

The Saddest Part of Covid-19 to me was Losing
Young Vibrant Indian Women Poet's, Who Had Every
Thing to Live for in Life, Except for Availability of a Vaccine
That Would Have Likely Saved Their Life From the Delta Variant.

My Definite Advantage Working for the Federal Government For A Quarter
of A Century on the Active Payroll is Retiring Early on Disability And Getting
Social Security Disability, on the First Try With 100 Pages of Medical Documentation

That i Completed Through
All That Life Threat of
Pain And Numb; Yes,

Before the Type-Two
Trigeminal Neuralgia,
Also Known as Atypical Facial
Pain Was Diagnosed About Two
Years Into Hell; They Wanted to
Block a Nerve; Yet i Already Couldn't
Remember A Smile; i Was More afraid
of Potential Paralysis of my Face That already
Felt Dead of Emotions Worse Than the Worst Pain Known to Humankind;

And to Be Clear, Then, it Wasn't A Real Feeling of Fear; As Fear
Was Gone too; Just A Logical Decision in Hell Back Then for Real,

For Which
Hell Would
Be More Numb
Or Painful As Such;

Anyway, Again, Recovering
From That Enough, Happy Enough,
'Deliriously Happy' Enough to Still Be

Assessed With Bi-Polar Non-Specified as
Obviously it Was Quite Euphoric to Finally
Leave All the Pain and Numb Behind; Ironically,
A New Diagnosis, A Symptom of the Recovery;

Along With Asperger's Syndrome As Such Still As Well...

Gratitude Stimulates Serotonin; And i Had A WHOLE

LOT OF LUVIN' GRATITUDE WHERE THE PERSPECTIVE

MADE 'NORMAL'

LIFE HEAVEN WITHIN
FOR REAL; YEP IT'S ALL RELATIVE;

ALL ABOUT PERSPECTIVE OF WHERE
YOU'VE BEEN AND WHere We aRe Now...

In the Lockdown, i Adapted to the Challenge Easy;
And Predictable to me, Darkness Brings Light And the Online
Poetry Circles i Hung around Before Became Explosive in Creativity,

in Response to the Darkness Globally-Wide; And As Part of that i've Made

What Will Likely Be Many More Life-Long DEEP FRiEnDShips; Score One For the Challenge;

Yes, my Sister Has Asperger's Syndrome; the Introverted Version; Not the Extroverted Version
i Fully Enjoy; The Lockdown Motivated Her to Wanna Walk Daily With Us And Socialize Around our
Neighborhood Block; Score One For the Challenge; Yet Sadly, One Million US Citizens Approaching Dead,

In Many Ways, for Ignorance and Believing False Anti-Science Opinions in Conspiratorial Ways; My Wife is
Also Permanently Disabled With Partial-Complex Epileptic Seizures; With 3 Checks Coming in, Money Hasn't

Been An Issue for me ever Since i Left Work at Age 47, Still on Annual And Sick Leave Until age 49; So All the
Savings From the Many Extroverted Social Activities i Did; And 'The Ton' of 'the Money Showered' on the Populace;

For Both the Have's And Have Not's, It Went to A Brand New Board-On-Board Privacy Fence, New Door and Storm
Door; And New Five Foot By Eight Foot Picture View, Sliding Hurricane Glass Window, to View the Paradise Garden

of Eden That Our
Backyard Forest Has
Become; a Much Better
Purchase than An even
Bigger HDTV; As i Rather
Look to Eternity Now of the Forest
And the 'Garden of Eden' For Real than

Turn the HDTV on in the Morning; Bathing
in the Forest Peace From Within my HoMe Within...

i Understand What it Feels Like to Be in REAL HeLL ON EartH
And Heaven; Yet It's True, Hell Prepared me For Everything in

Life,

Including

Death; The Rest of
Life is Just Icing Now
on an Easy Bake Cake

Out of 'Hells Bells' For Real...

Been Receiving 40 Percent of my
Federal Retirement From my Government
Job And That Moves to 100 Percent in June

And Yes, Approaching 62 Years then; i am Three Times
Empirically Measurable as Stronger than i've Ever Been in my

Life and Every Second is Just a New Flavor As Hey, i Made the Best
i Could Out of Hell; Just to Survive; i Would Be A TOTAL FOOL Not to

Make
the
Best
of Heaven
in Thriving Now;

So i Do Create Heaven
in A New Color Every Second
of the Day As Opposed to the
DarK Days, WHeRE i Didn't KNoW if i could

Ever Survive the Next Second For 66 Whole Months...

On 'This Internet Site', Plenty of People Have Tried to Drag
Me Down for my Freedom of Expression; Yet 'They' Don't Realize

"You Don't Step on

Superman's Cape;"

And Or You Don't Phase
"A Devil" Who Escaped Hell For Real...

Meh, Some Folks, Say i have Angel or
Devil Wings Still; Depends on Who One
Asks; Yet the Reality of Heaven is Still My

Cup of Tea to
slowly sip...

NAKED
ENOUGH
WHOLE
COMPLETE;
BOTH METAPHORICALLY
AND LITERALLY TRUE AND REAL...

i'm As Happy Dancing Solo in a College Crowd
of Hundreds of Drunk Students When Pre-Covid-19
Days Brought That Experience for 6 years; Yep, Writing

Each Word, Each Letter
Is Just Another

Color

of Heaven to me,
Always New And Exciting...

100 Percent Introvert or
100 Percent Extrovert;

Just Labels to
me; i Don't

Live By Labels Alone, Anymore...
i'm Free Now, Shut-in or "on the Road;"

Still Public Dancing 16,221 Miles Since August 2013...

Yes As Random And Poetic in Meaning Eternally Now
And Purpose As A "Forrest Gump Feather," i am Wind;

Ya

Can't
Trap
Wind in a Jar...

Yet Wind Still Exists...

My Wife Wants A New SUV
With Even So Much More Money

Coming in; i Realize our Honda
2014, Blue EX Civic Coupe, Will Last
Many More Years in Ease; Hehe, probably

like me, if Heaven Ever Since July 2013, Continues to Exist;

There Aren't Any SUV's, She Wants for Sell in the Dealership
Lots, Due to Covid-19 Related Shortages; Since i Don't Need

A New Car,

Personally,

to Me, Another
Advantage of 'the Challenge'...

i Tend to See Silver to Golden Linings
For Free In All Parts Existence Whole...

And On Top of All of that i Felt the Rainy
Day (CAT-66 Month HURRICANE) Coming For 11 Years; i Had Enough
Money Saved to Last For Years, With or Without Any Retirement Pay...

(Credit: the Strict 75 Dollar A Week Budget, i Put my Wife On; She
Didn't Like me Nearly As Much As When She Inherited all the Still

Living Money,
Hehe)

Ya Either
Adapt, Survive,
And Perhaps Thrive
Or Ya Do Not; That's Life;

i Surely Ain't Gonna Say It's Fair;
Yet This is my Life for Real; Heaven
is Flavored Better

Than Hell

For
Damned Sure...

Moral oF A STory for
Real; Inhale Peace, Exhale
Love to the Best of Your Ability;

Meditate in Autotelic Flow, Every Chance Ya

Get; As Unresolved Stress; Leads to All Kinds of
Real HeLL ON EartH...

Autism Burn-out is
Real, And So is

'General
Adaptation
Syndrome'; 'my
Cape' Only Grows
As Long As my Balance Stays;

And Generally SPeaKinG, FREE Play Slays Fear;

That Yes, NoW, i Am Fully Responsible to Co-Create;
And Obviously, Some Environmental Circumstances
Make That Almost Impossible As We aRe Only 'Little Humans'

AND
WE CAN
AND WILL
MOST DEFINITELY BREAK DOWN...

Of Course, Many Folks Understand that Here, Already...

And Yes, Those Who Do, Often Have REAL Empathy
AND Compassion For Those in HeLL ON EartH too...

Yep And Real
No SH8T

MERCY;

i Surely
Wouldn't
Send Anyone
to WHere i've Been;

Yet of Course, "A REAL Devil'
Has "LoVE Advantage" Now over

A So-Called Trademark 'Christian God,'
"Literally Taken" As They've (Devil(s)) Really Been to HeLL ON EartH
More Now Than Just a Story Book Version, STiLL CenturieS Old, Dusty...

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22 Feb 2022, 1:20 am

aghogday wrote:

Trigeminal Neuralgia

Yeah, it's not really a fun condition. I developed it early last year from trauma. Touching my face or smiling sets mine off the most. The intense stabbing pain, followed by burning, then a prolonged dull ache afterwards. Medication can drop the pain from 10/10 to around 7-8/10 if I remember to take it (I quickly realize when I forget to take it).

I just chalk this one up to life throwing something else I have to deal with at me for whatever reason.

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22 Feb 2022, 2:30 am

Dillogic wrote:

aghogday wrote:

Trigeminal Neuralgia

No Drug Would Help me;

Only Escape Was Sleep; And
That Was Extremely hard to

Do; Just Bits And Pieces of
Sleep Relief All the Way Through...

Such A Damned Nightmare Waking Up...

Pain Just
Never Ending;
Yep, A Pain i
Never imagined

Was Even Possible
Making A Migraine
Feel Like Heaven Then...

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22 Feb 2022, 3:12 am

Gabapentin takes a little off for me, and some of the other stuff I'm on likely helps too. I can function with it, albeit I can be "shocked" into something akin to paralysis for that initial burst of pain if it's a bad one, then I'll get by with the after-effects (which tend to last most of the day and yeah, a migraine is absolutely nothing, even to the dull ache phase I have). Daily. My eye tends to tear from it. Yeah, sleep provides relief if you can get to sleep (for whatever reason). I kept on going to the dentist and they kept on telling me it's all good, which is apparently how it often goes, then the doctor tells you what it is (it was likely obvious in my case due to my slightly sunken left cheek). I thought it was TMJ.

A small amount of left facial atrophy led to nerve compression for me, from long ago physical trauma (kick to the face did that one).

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22 Feb 2022, 3:24 am

kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:

How much does a month's supply of decent masks cost?

How much did food prices drop during the pandemic?

How much did household supply prices drop during the pandemic?

Also ...

Didn't cut back on cable TV because I don't have a television.

Didn't cut back on smartphone data plan because I don't have a smartphone.

Didn't cut back on gasoline because my disability keeps me at home about 6.5 days a week.

(Lockdown? WHAT lockdown? Nothing in my life has changed, what alternate reality are you living in?) :wink:

Yeah, my life didn't change much either. Lockdown didn't change my life much at all, but prices went up on everything, so I was able to spend less on my interests than normal, but thankfully I could get a couple of books, from time to time. but extra money? Nope. Rhetorical question: Are we the only people with interests/ hobbies?

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22 Feb 2022, 3:27 am

covid only changed what i do outside the house. before i die, i want as a bucket list item, the following in order of priority if not practicality or realism-

*a good wife or husband
*a mint-condition '93 cadillac sedan de ville with cloth interior, pref. mary kay edition pink
*a bona-fide set of high frame-rate VR goggles and natural world software for them
*a house high atop a cliff overlooking the pacific ocean

seems to me that the 2nd item has the best chance of manifesting in reality, the first item is basically the ship that left shore leaving me behind on the deserted island, have not found anymore ships leaving. i may or may not live long enough to experience the 3rd and 4th items.

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22 Feb 2022, 4:05 am

I'll take a good wife and call it a day.

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22 Feb 2022, 8:05 am

I'm staying put in my little hermit hovel.

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