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

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My tribe is awesome. I can't think of anything, except the pleasure of checking in and seeing you all cutting up. I feel useful when I see that. Thank you for your concern, Lupine. I am really alone, right now.

Someone pour me a few shots of vodka, neat, and line 'em up. I am ready!

Wanders back to the Spam and Kipper and collects the shotglasses, looks at the well Vodka and then turns to the back of the bar near the pickled eggs and gets down the Kamchatka and takes them into the Muffin Shoppe

Here 'ya go, Yowler!

sets up the shots in front of you and pours generously into each one.

You sound a lot like me, you know? I can make the worst thing out of something NTs wouldn't think twice about.

But I loves ya, sweetie.

be a good girl and down those before they evaporate!

Merle

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"There's no shame in being a social pariah!"
Marge Simpson

Hello Lupine! Hello YowlingCat!

Here's hoping YowlingCat can start over fresh in the morning with her landlord. Maybe they didn't quite understand the reason for the delay in payment: it being the first check from your new job and therefore delayed (a little mercy here please!), or perhaps they will be more reasonable tomorrow after a night of fitful sleep (due to the visitations of 3 spirits who will pester them tonight in their dreams) and realize that they've been a little too hard and fast in their rules.

Perhaps they would accept a 4 day's delay in payment if you'll pay an agreed upon penalty payment - say $50.00 - in lieu of eviction.

Or maybe you could bake them a batch of cookies for tomorrow, whereupon they will realize that they are dealing with a human being here - not a number.

If none of this works, you can always go to Plan IKAFUSMCBTMADEWA,SYHBNFWM!

Anyhoo, sorry that you are going thru this stressful period!

Here's a poem (I think) in honor of the name SinsBoldly, a moniker Merle has chosen wisely and which amuses me:

So here goes er, Ahem... a tribute to Merle:

SinsBoldly

Hesitation thrown aside
expression freely flowing
fully potent spontaneity
truly uninhibited
a rare grace.

You wear your moniker well.

Hi all,

Oh, sigh- Thanks again for your concern...

Yeah, in my neck of the woods, corporations do have the legal right to boot me. The process was started on the 8th, with a 72 hour eviction notice, then on Sunday I signed a partial-payment agreement (which could be written no later than 8 0'clock Monday morning, but I'm at work) to supplant the eviction notice temporarily, giving me no later than the 15th to provide final payment. According to local tenant law, they are totally within their rights.

I already called the main office to speak to an officer of the corporation in the middle last week, but she wouldn't return my call. The manager of this complex refuses to speak with me face-to-face, and only through her leasing agents or assistant manager, and just cites the company's legal rights to evict me. She even refused to write a letter stating stating what it would take to bring my account to a zero balance to an online charity, "Modest Needs," citing company policy. This complex is one of many own by this company, and it has hundreds of units. They are profitable, and they don't care and don't give an inch.

I've been through this before, in 2000, and even went before a judge, and ended up evicted and paying the the landlord's filing fees (brain tumor and couldn't work any longer - ended up homeless.) The law it quite strict about this, here. The sheriff even came to the door to deliver the eviction notice - and I'd lived there nearly five years, as well, and that time it was a private landlord. I'm neat, clean and quiet; what do they want? I don't think I'm making a big thing out of nothing; it is quite serious.

Screwed. Refills, please. Thanks for letting me be an Aspie an get this off my head, in detail. I'll probably sleep better, now.

Oh well.

Go team go!

Dear YowlingCat:

If eviction has become inevitable, instead of entrenching, concentrate on launching. New locations and adventures await you! Take 10 deep slow breaths, then look with clear mind for obscured doors and paths. Perhaps there is a pearl in this oyster!

You are in a room of doors. Some closing, others opening. Change is scary - but you're here now after all these years and therefore play the game with much skill. Trust yourself to get through this!

Hands are here willing to steady you as you leap from stepping stone to stepping stone. Let us know your thoughts.

Good luck and best wishes!

Only for officially being able to join the thread

On the birthday front - gave up on those years ago. I just don't get the whole birthday deal ... strange but true! I'm not big on presents and hate parties with a vengeance. I don't mind a quiet evening out with immediate family, but nothing beyond that. I'm just hoping that my work colleagues don't make a big issue out of it, having worked out I'm hitting 40 this year

if you aren't real popular you shouldn't have a problem. i turned 40 here at work and no one noticed.
the boss' secretary turned 40 and everyone made a big deal...

Very true, sun_rat. In reality I don't expect any surprise parties or anything to that extent. However, there is one person who knows who is the type who thinks that everyone has to have some sort of fuss made for the "milestone" birthdays. I really don't even want a card from my colleagues - rightly or wrongly, I would just think that they were going through the motions.

It's Catch 22 - part of me wants to be noticed or even popular, but the rest of me screams out that I don't want the attention. The not wanting attention part wins every time these days.

I feel like I'm contradicting myself here, but it probably shows how contrary my mind really is.

that's ok. i feel that way, with the contradictory parts.

High all, bye all, can't resist watching the second part of the "tall ship" episode of "Due South" again, on ITV3.

Anyone notice my poll on "flickery" images - under "General Autism" (go vote - I need the support!).

And... Cernunnos, you keep coming in and out of focus. (No one that quibbly about age, here).

And... happy last of about 184 unbirthdays before the boringly pointless real birthday.

YowlingCat: Did you say "brain tumor"? And you still got evicted? That's the kind of crap that makes me want to ditch this planet.

I would offer to let you be a tenant but it looks like we're selling the farm and moving to a relative's house in order to save money/not have to work at crap jobs for crap money. We're looking at moving into a homebuilt house with no indoor toilet or bathroom (outside shower and crapper), no dishwasher. There will be hot running water though, which is nice. We'll be adding our newborn chicks to their flock, so we look forward to many fresh eggs. I'm hoping that bowing out of the rat race will decrease my stress to the point where I actually care about the future, and I also hope that the lack of common luxuries will not be a problem. Can anybody say "Frontier House?"

Lau - I too have complained about flickering ads, both on your thread and elsewhere. Alex doesn't care. He just wants the money. But it really galls me that he can't get ads that don't flicker. It's like having a Budweiser ad at a 12-step meeting. Everybody says "turn off your pop-ups" or "use Firefox". I've done both but that doesn't seem to work for me.

Anybody here notice that if you don't log out before you close the WP browser window, you stay logged in? I wish it weren't set up that way. I think Alex does this on purpose because he wants to see as many online people as possible, even if half those people are in reality at work and haven't been to the site for days or weeks or, in my case, months. Does the fact that I even think about things like this make me an aspie? Should I care? Probably not. Sigh.

In the top right corner of the text box there's a button that says "Quote". I'll let you figure it out from there...

Quoting is harder on this forum than most though - you can only quote one poster at a time. Plus, I'm having some serious issues with my browser compatabiliy.

Better than buying it.

After the siezure I open write mail, and put it over the flashey thing. Sometimes for decency I cover the top half of the girl in her underwear.

All of the controls are intuative, I lack intuition.