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

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Lad, ya could get down to the local pub once in awhile ...

It may not be local, but I've spent many a pleasant hour in The Old Spot. Pig's Ear a speciality of the house.
I used to live in Port Isaac, Cornwall, and for a long time The Golden Lion was my local. Hick's Special Draught (HSD, AKA Hick's Sudden Death).

I have a shoulder injury (just got told this week that I need to have another surgery done on it ) Anyway, my delete key is way up at the top of my keyboard and I use it all the time - I'm a crappy typist. Can I assign another key, lower down on the keyboard, the delete function? Lau you'd really be my hero if you know the answer to this one.

Also feeling tempted to smoke cuz life sucks right now. Any of you nonsmokers or exsmokers care to tell me how stupid I'd be if I were to smoke after 12 days of not smoking?

Hi aylissa,
I could tell you how to reassign keys under Linux, but not, offhand, for Windows. There might be a freebie around somewhere that could do it...
This seems to be a place to start.

If you have a typical keyboard, can't you manage with the "Del" key? To do a single character, it is a bit of a pain to have to go "<-" then "Del", but it might help.

More often than not, I use the mouse to delete, anyway. Highlight, then straight overtype, or hit "Del".

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With regard to smoking... I will be entering the danger period soon. In the past, since starting smoking fairly early on, I have given up many times, for hours - or a whole day or two.

Then there's a gap, and I once gave up for about six months.

The longest I've ever given up for was 18 months.

This time, I am at the 16 month point. I have started thinking about smoking again. Not good.

Your twelve days is, in my experience, well past the point where you trivially back-slide. I think it's about a fortnight when there is no longer any trace left in the body (except all the crap in your lungs).

Not to be putting a downer on you, but you now enter the magic world of pure psychological dependence. This will last for approximately the rest of your life. Once a smoker, always a smoker.

My attitude is total honesty with myself. I just think of myself as a smoker who doesn't happen to be indulging his habit at the moment. Sometimes I forget about the whole subject for days, then some b*st*rd like you reminds me.

aylissa, I checked the Windows accessability program, but couldn't find re-assigning keys(?)

Funny, because there used to be 'HotKeys' that you could set, but maybe that was only in Word(?)

Thanks you two. My small laptop has only the one delete key, and it's in upper right corner which is hard for my poor right shoulder. I'll keep working on it.

And thanks for the no smoking reminder. We ex-smokers need to keep each other on the straight and narrow.

Now, postpaleo has not been here since this weekend. I lost his webpage. Anybody still have it or know of a magical way we can lure him back?

I was a smoker, and it has been since 1997 since I have smoked my last cigerette. I smoked the clove ones and I can feel every 'normal' smoker cringe when I say that. I watched this movie called "The Doctor" and he had throat cancer and it wasn't pretty. I had smoked on and off for 30 years and I stopped on Nicorette. What I missed the most was the RITUAL and the LOOKING FORWARD to it. I learned another ritual and started looking forward to other things. I hope that helps.

As for 'feeling creaky' I went to get my cortizone shot in my left knee for ostioarthritis to day. I mentioned how my hips were feeling like my knee feels and they took xrays of them and my back, too.
I can not believe how casual doctors are today. No longer the sit down, the prep for the hard news . . nada, he just said, "yeah, you got a LOT of arthritis in your back, I will get Marge here to make you an appointment with my collegue next month".. And that was IT

Now I am at least looking forward to cortizone shots in my back. My gawd, I will feel so good I might even become sexual again!
My life just keeps going on and on and on and on . . . .
Merle

Looks like the Law Lords in Birmingham England have fined two brothers a couple of thousand pounds apiece. Why? for Room and Board while they were imprisoned on a false charge. They were just released from 18 years in jail.

Merle


PS as I was lying on the slab today, getting xrayed, (practice for that last cold lie, I suppose) I was being appreciative of my health insurance. I want to remember that when I get all in a huff because my work isn't as I would like it. (in the States, if you can't get health insurance yourself, you are **** out of luck)


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Now where the hell did Apatura go? I left her with the Sacred Muffin Recipe and she went where with it? I'll find her.

Yeah I left for a bit. I got beat up out in the other world and was hurtin. Thanks to those that got worried. To the rest of you, well, I never liked you anyways.

What is going on with all the achs and pains, in here? Me too, took a fall on the ice and can only now walk and can semi lift my left arm. We have to stop relating on those terms. Hell, one of us dies, the rest might too.

Been living on jelly beans and turpentine, need something here from the cafe. I need help boping a gopher, need to win a can of spam. Little buggers are fast. Any one got a spare left arm?

Oh cheezus, I just saw I'm a Tucan? Whats that mean? Oh, I know. Tucan bop a gopher better then one. Yeah thats gotta be it.

Tucan is a bird. Big beak. Likes sugary cereal.

Guess you don't know me very well. Not that I know me very well either. You might not want to either

Where do they live? I don't think cereal factories would let big beaked birds fly around. I mean it must be a place where sugary cereal grows on plants or sprouts from the ground. They'd starve other wise. Humm, maybe we could grow some in here. Not a bad idea. Like some coffee and a muffin?

Postpaleo,

Welcome back, been wondering. Ice goes in glasses, with other good stuff. It is not for walking on. Next I will hear you tripped over a twist of lemon and fell on an olive. I was afraid all of those AA war stories were causing flash backs of your time across the Mexican border.

As usual, spending too much time wandering about WP. It is like trying to keep up with what is going on in every room of an office buliding.

What! A light just came on on the sixth floor? By!

Bodies are overrated and have always been a nuisance for me to deal with. It's always something! Feed it, clothe it, bathe it, shelter it, transport it, make sure you can deal with it's waste; injure it, nurse it, deal with colon polops (c'mon, you know you gotta!) the list goes on and on.

My nurse practitioner (as close as I can stand to a Doctor) tells me I talk a lot and sometimes she is going to have to ask me to let her talk. ( I was nervous and tend to take over the show when I am nervous)
Well that sounds good, but by those standards I must be "nervous" a lot!

Sorry for your fall on the ice, I hope Yowling Cat is doing ok. We DID start this cafe because we wanted to care about others and have them care about us, so it looks like we are

your very own Merle


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