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

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Fifty years ago tonight;

Feb. 3, 1959, was the day the music died as Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper perished in a snowy plane crash shortly after performing at the Surf as part of the Winter Dance Party that had crawled through the Upper Midwest in a poorly heated school bus.


Merle

(two days ago, waiting at the bus stop, frost on the ground, time on my hands (I brushed it off) humming to my self "brusha brusha brusha, get the new Ipana, with the brand new flavor, it's yummy for your teeth" then thinking what a dufus I was. . .)

Merle

Happy 2001th post to Chuck.

May your tippy-typing fickle-fingers never flubber-dubber the corky-forky.

Lol, feel better now?

possibly, often I have no idea how I feel until much later, and then I find how I feel about how I felt can also change.

Merle

If I'm really brave and I seldom am, I look in the mirror and check to see if the dark circles under my eye are bigger or smaller.

Swampblossom had to tell me how I felt the other day. She said you're flushed, the circles under your eyes are bigger and you have a fever. I called and canceled my therapist appointment. I told them my wife said I couldn't come today, because I was sick. She tried to muffle her laughter over the phone, but I still heard it.

I felt fine, I just didn't really want to go. But she was right and if you have choice it isn't really nice to go spreading naughty things around. The fever got worse later, but I still felt fine, horny, but that's normal for me when I get sick. I have no idea why. Maybe I should get it checked out? Naw. Thay would just make up another label for me.

I get horny when I lose weight.
I have lost 43 lbs since October
I won't go into detail. . .

Merle

Thanks ya ever'one!
With choppers like mine, it's hard to whistle while I work, but I tried. Time to take my tired toofs to bed. A very good day/night/evening to all!

Me thinks my jesus nut is getting loose, this is always exciting. Thrilling. What a ride, what a ride. Later.

Three or four turns clockwise with a 3/4" christ-almighty wrench should take care of that little problem for you.

a lemon without much word is greeting you

WHOOT! Kid's just got a call for another job interview, a good one. Probably a BETTER one than the last.

Then again, anything would be, really.

Deacon that was precious to me and I won't forget it for as long as I live. Consider it stolen, because I'll use it else where.

It took more then 3 or 4 clockwise motions, one hell of a lot of pacing. And a bit of three hour in the system Valium induced sleep (woke up when it left the sytem, not uncommon at all) when I figured it might stand a chance of working, but it was enough to be able to back track the triggers.

I hate it when I have sit in the muddle of it and try and figure out if I'm serious or not. I know that sounds strange, but it isn't, well not to me. Use to it in a way, in the sense of been there done that, but I'm never really sure sometimes. And I have to stare it in the face and see. I wasn't, I knew I had to try to save the crew and ride it out. To have done it would have been greedy to me.

It seems for about the last week or so my sleep cycle has been trying to change and I let it, but it just didn't want to settle into any kind of routine and still hasn't. That's a big red flag for me. Add in a few triggers, the innocent kind, that I had pulled on myself and of course that ever loving world that occasionally loves to spit in my face, well it reached the point of me thinking the jesus nut had fallen off. Not as bad as I have been through before and I should know when to stay the hell out of the haven when not in any kind of shape, but apparently I don't. Because someones trouble brought back a nightmare, in spades. Anyway, bad night, morning or some combination of time was what it turned out to be, it could have been far worse. At least this one was short.

Christ-almighty wrench. If someone would have said this to shall pass I'd have tried to climb through the damn monitor to strangle them. I laughed my ass off and thanks.

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You can google the phrase "jesus nut" if you can't figure out what the hell we're talking about. I just use it because I know it and unfortantly that's part of the nightmare. Actually surprised me you can even google it.

Good morning! And now for your morning feel good tune:

I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

Nan- YAY on the Kid's job interview!!

Yay on the job interview, hurray for the christ-almighty turning the jesus-nut and lipstick kisses to blessed mom. I notice my compulsive modding just starts to crumble when I get on WP now, it is like it is toooooo difficult to even look at the posts now, I just try to slip into the groove and I gotta tell ya', it is like even the flesh is weak. I can hardly push the little letters on the keyboard. . .

Maybe I should slash and burn and ban right and left. . do you think that would lift my spirits? But nooooo, kindness and patience is the style for me, after all we are all difficult in our own way.

By the way, I want to thank each and every one of you that has never gotten a note from a mod. and if you have, I want to thank you for mending your ways and not being an issue again. WP lives because of you guys and I appreciate you beyond measure.

Merle

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• random, n. As in number, predictable. As in memory access, unpredictable.
• Ray's Rule of Precision Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe.
• real time, adj. Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there and then.
• real world, the, n. (1) In programming, those institutions at which programming may be used in the same sentence as FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG, IBM, etc. (2) To programmers, the location of non-programmers and activities not related to programming. (3) A universe in which the standard dress is shirt and tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5. (4) The location of the status quo. (5) Anywhere outside a university. "Poor fellow, he's left MIT and gone into the real world." Used pejoratively by those not in residence there. In conversation, talking of someone who has entered the real world is not unlike talking about a deceased person.
• reappraisal, n. An abrupt change of mind after being found out.
• reformed, n. A synagogue that closes for the Jewish holidays.
• regression analysis, n. Mathematical techniques for trying to understand why things are getting worse.
• Reichel's Law A body on vacation tends to remain on vacation unless acted upon by an outside force.
• reintarnation, n. Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
• Reisner's Rule of Conceptual Inertia If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
• reliable source, n. The guy you just met.
• Renning's Maxim Man is the highest animal. Man does the classifying.
• reputation, adj. What others are not thinking about you.
• research, n. Consider Columbus: He didn't know where he was going. When he got there he didn't know where he was. When he got back he didn't know where he had been. And he did it all on someone else's money.
• revolution, n. A form of government abroad.
• revolutionary, adj. Repackaged.
• Rhode's Law When any principle, law, tenet, probability, happening, circumstance, or result can in no way be directly, indirectly, empirically, or circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, induced, deducted, estimated, or scientifically guessed, it will always for the purpose of convenience, expediency, political advantage, material gain, or personal comfort, or any combination of the above, or none of the above, be unilaterally and unequivocally assumed, proclaimed, and adhered to as absolute truth to be undeniably, universally, immutably, and infinitely so, until such time as it becomes advantageous to assume otherwise, maybe.
• Ritchie's Rule (1) Everything has some value -- if you use the right currency. (2) Paint splashes last longer than the paint job. (3) Search and ye shall find -- but make sure it was lost.
• robot, n. University administrator.
• robustness, adj. Never having to say you're sorry.
• Rocky's Lemma of Innovation Prevention Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will reject the proposal.
• Rudin's Law If there is a wrong way to do something, most people will do it every time.
• Rudin's Second Law In a crisis that forces a choice to be made among alternative courses of action, people tend to choose the worst possible course.
• rugged, adj. Too heavy to lift.
• Rule #1 The Boss is always right.
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• Rule of Creative Research (1) Never draw what you can copy. (2) Never copy what you can trace. (3) Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.
• Rule of Defactualization Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
• Rule of Feline Frustration When your cat has fallen asleep on your lap and looks utterly content and adorable, you will suddenly have to go to the bathroom.
• Rule of the Great When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.
• Rules for driving in New York (1) Anything done while honking your horn is legal. (2) You may park anywhere if you turn your four-way flashers on. (3) A red light means the next six cars may go through the intersection.
• Rune's Rule If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.
• Ryan's Law Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish yourself as an expert.

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• Don't use no double negatives.
• Use the semicolon properly, always use it where it is appropriate; and never where it isn't.
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• Avoid commas, that are unnecessary.
• Eschew dialect, irregardless.
• And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
• Hyphenate between sy-llables and avoid un-necessary hyphens.
• Write all adverbial forms correct.
• Don't use contractions in formal writing.
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• Steer clear of incorrect forms of verbs that have snuck in the language.
• Never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
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