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

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Oh it's so good to come here and laugh! I had a 3 hour faculty meeting today in which I had my version of a meltdown (my palms still bear fingernail impressions) and needed to come home, cocoon, and have a drink. And you guys have made me laugh to boot.

To Postpaleo and Sinsbadly: I too apologize to you about my references to alcohol. I am very proud to say that as of today, I have not smoked a cigarette for 5 days, although I was so pissed after the aforementioned meeting I did think about it. I tried NicAnon - the 12 step program for nicotine addicts, but couldn't get past the "Turned my will over to God as I understood him/her/it". This time I got a prescription for Chantix - and am proud to say I've been smober (LOL) for five whole days - woo hoo!

And Sinsbadly, whyever did you leave the beautiful Kona coast for ...the Pacific Northwest? I shouldn't talk though, I'm thinking of moving from Hilo to Honolulu because...that's a really long story.

Lau, even though we're ages apart time-zone wise, I'm catching up to you slurring-wise. I hope to be good and slurred by the time my bedmate gets home. You even managed to slur my name! ha ha

Mozart: you do know you run the risk of people thinking you're Jerry Newport's wife, right? (Search 'Mozart and the Whale')

Postpaleo: Sorry to hear about your crap school experiences. Ahh the glorious 50's, when women wore corsets (edit: I meant girdles although for all intents and purposes they're the same thing) and men drank whiskey and the kids hid upstairs and there were harnesses...hmm... I can't believe language is recently come to you - your writing doesn't reflect that. My senior daughter is also a brilliant reader and writer, yet on her last report card, she got all A's and B's except for D in 11th grade English. Says she doesn't like the teacher. She has to correct his spelling - which I guess he doesn't like. I like that sentence especially that you wrote about the mosquitoes in the swamp. That's a keeper.

Dogdancer - where did you get that name? Sorry to hear about the job thing - I suffered something very similar last month, it still curdles my insides to think of - but the silver lining: the woman who interviewed me would have been my boss, and she's a b***h. So I'm glad I don't have to work for her.

Kaleido - I don't yet know you, glad to make your acquaintance here at the Spam and Kipper (cough, cough)

-Lissa

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To postpaleo and sinsbadly, here's an archeological/geological pic you might find interesting:
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/a ... -TRO_L.jpg

looks like where I lived near Honaunau down the Momaloha Hwy on the Big Island

and I moved because after three years I had 'rock fever' and got the worst case of claustrophobia I have ever experienced.
I had to live somewhere I could walk out of.

but I would kill to go back!
Merle

Bah, I don't worry bout no stinkin alcohol. It's a past thing. I just keep my eye pealed for setting myself up. It's my problem, not anybody elses. I don't even choose to look at it as a problem, I look at it as another lesson and I learned a few things from it. So if you head to a bar and I'm in a mood where I can stand a crowd, I'll go right along with you. Ya the whole god concept turned me off too. I look at it differently now and I'm still on some deeply AA sites. Those that I do go to are fairly new at the recovery thing and have much of the same issues we did. So I go there to try and show alittle bit better how to deal with some of the cult. That there really are other ways to approch it and still make it work. Higher power, I think it's within us all. So unless i think I'm god...well you catch the drift.

Woman and corsets? Yikes I must have been asleep.

Naw, language is fine, well I swear like a trooper. I find it so much faster then prayer Writing has been hard because of all the brain race. I'd like to be able to spell better and get comas in the right place and do paragraphs right. I'm not holding my breath on those happening

I think lau passed out. Was looking at the news and see where England thinking about electing part or all of the House of Lords, again. he might be sleeping through a revolution. Wonder what Guy Hawks would be thinking.

aylissa

I'd be into that place like a rabid pink bunny if I was sure there was obsidian to be had for the taking. I would love to just sit in a field of it and make things from it. It knaps like butter. It's a son of a gun when you make a oopsie and get a sliver in a finger, hard to see and get out. I was given a bucket of it years ago, still have some left, made a little "arrowhead" for my wife on a necklace.

Lol, my wife could tell you more then a couple of stories about me and places that have materials the Native Americans used for tool making. Some of the spots are just staggering to see. She just ends up in the car reading while I run madly around. Ah yes she has some stories, guess I do too, way to many.

Out on the Hanley farm near Jacksonville, OR USA about 7 miles from where I am sitting right now, we dug in an ancient site of the ancestors of the Modoc and Shasta peoples. There was a long gone creek there and on the bend was a midden of toolmakers. We dug for two weeks and came across bits and blades and arrow heads and a piece of chevroned pipestone that our professor wet his pants over (literally) he was so damned excited.


I am sweating bullets here trying to figure out how to upload a pic of me and I have to tell you, it has been about 5 years since I was online other than at work and I am clueless.
Any ideas?
Merle

Check out where pipe stone comes from and you'll understand his excitement. Might have to recheck this spelling, but it is most likely something close to this Catlinite. That would be the most common to fit "pipe Stone" which is kind of a genaric term. If it was redish in color then catlinite would most likely be it. PS the spelling is correct.

Middens are great. I'll tell you a story about a midden an important site and kids someday. What I was more refering to was the Quarry sites. The debitage was just so freaking thick you stood on top of it and then many many feet below you. bad wordage ment meters

Yeah, make the sure the picture is in a spot where you know it is on your harddrive. Go to your account, then your profile, way at the bottom you see a link to upload a picture( avatar) from your hard drive. It has to be 140x140 and 16k or under in size, I think. might need to do some editing (croping and saving it to a certian quility) to get it to those dimensions. Not sure what you might have for editing. I have adobe, if push comes to shove send it to me and I'll see if I can get it to the size you might need.

That link I sent - it is brand-new lava. I never did take any earth sciences, despite having a minor in biology, so I'm not too sure, but is lava obsidian? And the reason I said it was partly archeological is because you can see the streets that the lava has not yet destroyed. So it is an example of a 10 to 15 year old civilization (aka subdivision) that is being slowly overrun by lava. Thus the geology and archeology. Half hour from my home, it is, yet I am in no danger of lava, because of the amazing characteristics of Kilauea Volcano, which has been erupting (I think more of the term 'vomiting') lava continuously for 30 years, and is known as the safest volcano on earth. I'm fortunately upstream, gravity-wise.

It's an off shoot of valcanic action. It's more of a glass. If you look under a microscope at the edge of a fresh flake of obsidian, the edge it's just so unblemished, so regular. Metal and I don't care how good it is, you would see it as more irregular, little dips and ridges along the main line of the edge. They were using it for things like heart surgery or were playing with it, no idea if they do it or just wasn't practical. It's so easy to work, very predictable, most times, how the flakes will come off. Couldn't tell you where it would be in relation to lava, in it or in another spot away from it. Glass actually can be used to make tools, using the old ways. Another good thing to practice on is what we call John Stone. Don't look for it on the web.

The best examples of the knapping art, I have ever seen, were the sacrifacil knives from the Americas. That includes other parts of the world and some of the Jutland things I handled were incredibaly good. Aztecs for sure and I beleive other too, although the ones I saw were Aztec, about mid 1400's probably some predate on that as well. They were certianly using them when Cortez met up with them. Not only were they doing wild things with the knapping and intricate designs. They also formed it around the color verations in the stone itself. They could make say a facial design in the out line of the knife form and do another facial form in the coloration with in the stone. I only got to see a few of them. I don't think too many even exist. Just mind blowing.

I don't know why it never caught my eye. I just noticed the adult aspie forum. It said you needed to get hold of a moderater to post, give them your age. That's like going to a porn site and clicking yes on the "are you 21" button. What a freakin mess that place is. It only took a second to catch the drift of that place. Somehow I found it hard to get aspie out of "do you masterbate with music". I like it here, much better. Too bad about that place though.

This didn't really sting. I actually spewed my pepsi and laughed very hard. Some one didn't care for a comment I made, came back with this last statement "Give me a hypothesis and repeatable test and or your just another nut". Told him to look for it in a history text he hasn't read yet. Ahh, maybe I'm just cranky tonight. Kids, can't beat em and tie em to tree, anymore. What's a parent to do? You would think they would know better here though. /sigh

Groan.

is that just another way of saying "What is your point?"

I always answer "you missed the point" simply because, Aspie that I am, living in the NT world I don't believe ANYTHING has a point.

(except you, dear Post Paleo, you make your own 'points')

Merle

Nice pun. And I'm the type of aspie who thinks everything has a point, and why can't people just cut through the crap and get to it? But I can see your way of thinking.

I too was excitedly expectant of a place where the younguns didn't hang out when I first saw the Adult Asperger's forum. I have to admit, even after being here all this time, it still surprises me when I go in there and remember "Oh THIS is why they call it adult". Sigh.

I go to http://asdgestalt.com/ when I want to escape from the teenage mentality here on WP. It is not as hectic, and has a slower pace.
Some of the folks on WP are there, as well, however it is self selecting.

Merle

I've just discovered that today is "International Women's Day". Now why didn't anyone tell me that? (Checks... Ah! Maybe that's why?).

Why isn't there an "International Something Day"? A catch-all for those few things that you can't find which day you're supposed to do them on.

I've tried Googling for "International Bath Day" and "International Shower Day". People want them, but no one knows when they are. "International Wash Day" and "International Sauna Day" got me no hits at all. The single hit on "International Sauna Day" seemed to be out of date, and gave me no clue when it was supposed to be.

"International Door Day" was celebrated on 3rd May, last year. (I got offered that one when trying for "Odour" spelt in US pidgin English.

I have found International ________ Day which seems to cover April to September, inclusive, so at least I know that "International "Whatever" Day" is September 7th., but it doesn't quite match up to what I want, although it does sound as it it's worth celebrating.

"International Be Nice to French People Day" cracked me up. (Now you'll have to look it up).

oh, oh, when is International Wash Day?
I HAVE to do my laundry sometime!
Merle