I have been having a most interesting time, and seem to have hampered my neurons [but not to the point of not being able to spell neuron, strange spell checker who prefers neurone, ed.] terribly, with the kind assistance of Pfizer. My experience with Lyrica has been a life saving killer over the past oh so many years … hmmnn … but now two weeks have passed and it is a week since I last barfed … the worst seems to be over with the withdrawal but my brain feels like there is a storm inside it and I think my hippocampus is angry with me! I feel like an idiot in many ways, and will write up the whole experience once my brain cools. When you are sick and no one knows why a lot of weird stuff can happen.
But …
The cottage beckons for Easter, we have found a home for the boat here in Ottawa at the Nepean Sailing Club, on the hard as they say, and one way or another the sun is going to shine, at least metaphorically! We still have to go and actually get the boat but it is all beginning to gel …
I hope to be more myself next week as even my camera begins to tempt me … but the thought of leaving the house alone still gives me the willies so something must change first and I am giving myself the benefit of the doubt and not rushing anything.
Oh and rabbits, rabbits, rabbits! Happy April 1st!
searched for “flowers after a rain”. surf dropped me at this site…
http://afremov.com/
i just had to post this somewhere. i still have a little fight left in me. i hope at least one other person reads this. thank you.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2015/04/faux-democracy-and-the-tea-party-how-far-back-does-it-go/
me too.
This is good for a few yuks. I personally have probably 10,000 posts I’d like to take back. You? Well, everybody should just do their own count. And then there’s the people who are pimping a business out of it. Eeek!
http://archive.org/web/
Oh, here’s a good one. But hey, we’re looking forward right? Not dancing on the grave of the past?
http://web.archive.org/web/20110415004051/http://www.zerohedge.com/
Oh, my goodness. Not even the web bots are interesting in monitoring that stinking pile anymore.
One of the things that continues to make my blood boil is the relationship between Ayn Rand and Alan lapdog Greenspan that the article about corporate astroturfing finished up with, and even though I haven’t finished the article yet (poor mum back in hospital and me woggily visiting her) I wanted to link to it. Repellent lizard people who should be exposed. Not to mention that Atlas Shrugged is an appallingly bad novel.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2015/04/ayn-rand-alan-greenspan-and-their-early-corporate-ties/
ugh
i am very pleased that you for posted that. such articles are encouraging. as you likely remember, my Raison d’etre so to speak for posting for at least the last year at the vomit puddle was to do battle with the Tea Party paid shills, and especially the Ayn Rand worshiping mental defectives. anyway, what has happened to “democracy” in the western plutocracies has been no accident, and people are finally, albeit way too slowly waking up. good catch, and thank you.
was wondering where you have been. wishing the best of health to both you and your mom.
Random mumblings from my palace in the southeast:
Starting to enjoy doing some yard work again, the winter was unusually harsh on my 2 gardenias and i’m trying to rescue them. (Super incredibly fragrant when they’re happy).
Dogwoods in full bloom, Japanese Red Maples in brilliant red, Azaleas blooming, cool breeze, no bugs yet…some needed relief.
And my brain won’t settle on which tune it wants.
i’m not sure if it is still winter up here, or if spring and maybe even summer, both admittedly fabulous, have already come and gone. (i vaguely remember smoking a beef brisket all day on Saturday wearing only shorts and a tee shirt.) today i brought my entire garden into the house from the front porch, rather than transferring from the front porch into the ground, like i have risked and pulled off in only a little more than a week from now a few years ago when we had a season in between winter and summer. lows in the 20’s and highs in the 40’s will stunt if not kill my tomatoes and peppers, even on the fully enclosed porch, especially when we are under heavy cloud cover since otherwise the unheated porch warms up quite nicely during the day even if we get only a little sun. anyway, if it sounds like am complaining, make me stop right now, because i suspect that this weather is heading east, and so you are next Xty. and put out some extra suet for the birds.
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If it’s not one thing, it’s another … how’s that for a useless aphorism. But mum didn’t seem fit for this world yesterday and I am apprehensively off to the hospital to see what we can figure out.
Groundhog day. Except I am going to have a shower for variety’s sake.
once is not a trend, nor is correlation the same as causation, but allow me to speculate that when the groundhog actually bites the mayor’s face, one shouldn’t expect to have a spring season at all.
but you were more than likely speaking metaphorically. so hang in there Xty, and the same for your mum.
Mum is as content as one could hope, and they are going to keep her until Monday and the charming night nurse Bob is back on the job so I have come home to get baked and watch the Senators attempt the impossible. But I am a big fan of Montreal when I remember that I like hockey, so all outcomes are fine.
And yes I was being metaphorical, but I think that ground hog knew something and was pissed at being woken up when there were 12 more months of winter coming. Jeff Masters however claims it was the warmest 12 months on record though, so rest assured we are still going to boil to death. No rest for the wicked.
ya mon.
Technically giving your cat shrooms might be frowned upon!
And those paintings are beautiful. And quite inexpensive. There are videos of him painting … wacky fast and with a palette knife. Great colour sense. And DN isn’t here to tell us that he is shadow chasing … which he isn’t, but Eddie Minnis might have been.