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[NolaMel]

Agree completely - I have normal vision (for a 45 yo ), normal hands - apart from arthritis and there are still times when I struggle and get frustrated.

I can usually coil and wick a doggy rta in my sleep (not recommended ) but crap happens and if I had less physical ability than I do, I'd look at other options. Especially when you are in your first year smoke-free.

@Fidola13 's magnifying lights look pretty tempting

I have a pair. They’re quite nice. Much lighter and easier to store than my jeweler’s headset. I should have pulled them out the other day when my building was giving me such fits... sometimes a little magnification helps immensely

 

[Skunk!]

I saw those a couple of weeks ago and wished that I was an MTL vaper. They are so pretty. I’d want one of every color!!

Well you're in luck. Not many colors tho...
Wake 24mm RTA by Wake Mod Co. | Rebuildable Tank
Most other sites sold out.

 

[Susaz]

Would love to have a Switch, still a little pricey though and I really don't need more games to play.

I've owned every portable and desktop Nintendo console since the 80. It's my first PS, after my Wii went the way of the dodo. But since I love old game boy games and they're dirt cheap, I have many more things on the 3Ds than the Switch. I bought it when Super Mario Odissey came out, and for the moment I have that and Zelda.

 

[Susaz]

Thankfully I hate Game of Thrones so no need for HBO go. Netflix is fine with me.

Man, yo necissito ayuda alright! THEY hide the days of the week from you for a fair time in Spanish. (It is also, coincidentally about the time Duolingo stops holding your hand and says "Learn, my female dog." LOL) Monday is Lunas. Fine, that makes NO sense but Tuesday is MARTAS? WTH Spanish WTH? That's just obnoxious. Sunday is DoMINGO. Okay, I used to think that was a Spanish male name, but everything's....

I mean I speak French I get the whole male/female thing and whatnot (although I am not f fan of the changing of the adjectives to go along WITH that but freaking FINE.) My Latin helps a lot....

But, these days of the week, it's like a Mexican/Spaniard is just LEERING at you going "Na na na na na." There is no way I can associate these days of the week with a nonmonic or even freaking ANY of the languages I KNOW. You just have to lean them out of sheer irritation. Like, okay "Dios" means God, and Domingo starts with D and Sunday is like, the day God took a little "me" time is like, all I got and frankly... That's not a good nonmonic at ALL except after you create it, you know the word.

Well, mania I can always sit down and create one if I must. Luna. LunaITCS!

LOL I may have spent a little too much time on my Spanish today.

Also, the laminate was a huge FAIL. But not on my end (unless the husband was just being nice.) He says he has to redo it. IDK.I think it looks passable but What do I KNOW other than the Spanish must have all been DRUNK when they sat down to hash out the days of the week, dude.

Anna

I often confuse tuesday and thursday... WTF!!! They're even worse in italian. Domenica (sunday)

 

[Susaz]

Everythign helps some. I just have way too high expectations of myself, but I've only been at it 10 days. I'm pretty far ahead, actually.

I just... I worked too hard today. French is imensily helpful in KNOWING why things do what they do, and etc. but some stuff is just..... So many language you can't mental map anything much.

I have learned a ton of Spanish and even word order crud makes sense. There are just some things that make me want to cry.

I also know some German and yeah, it's like learning instruments each one is easier. Except when it's not.

The medical assistants are all practicing with me, it's been kind of fun. LOL, also has led to some interesting conversations.

ME: Yo tengo un carro

Medical assistant: You bought a car, you didn't have one?
Me: I am using words I know. I have had a car long enough that my car loan is almost paid. My husband want me to get a four wheel drive vehicle, but he says stuff like that every time my car loan is paid off. I think he wants me to have a car LOAN personally.

LOL I am getting to know them all so well! However, I imagine I can convince everyone to have ridiculous convos with me in Douglas too.

I just want to know if the Mexican showing up on my doorstep needs water, or wants me to buy drugs. And also, they have great medical translator, but it slows you down. I assured him that I would be needing his services for some time to come.

Anna

You know, drugs are idiosincracies. Here opiods almost don't exist, doctors don't prescribe them, even in the worst of pain. After my heart attack I was given watered down fentanyl. Dreamed about it for MONTHS. And I don't have opioid receptors, I mean, when prescribed, they do absolutely nothing for me. And I was on pain killers due to my congenital hip luxation most of my life. Shortly before my heart attack I was on an overdose of Diclofenac, so high, no wonder I had a heart attack...
Diclofenac - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How is it called there? Ultram (tramadol) did absolutely nothing except making me sleep all day...
Idiosincracies? Environment? Opiods here aren't an issue at all!

 

[jim_87]

Thankfully I hate Game of Thrones

 

[Eskie]

Good morning shiners! A snowy Sunday awaits. They still can't give an accurate prediction of totals yet, but they did raise it from a watch to a warning, which can't be a good thing.

So playing around yesterday I found two juices never opened I forgot I had. A sorta pleasant surprise as it feels like I just got a fresh order of juice delivered and I didn't have to wait for the mailman.

 

[jim_87]

The Kayfun Lite met it’s match up until the Smuggler comes... EDC

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Are you giving Tralfaz a run for the Matchy-matchy award?

 

[DeloresRose]

Well you're in luck. Not many colors tho...
Wake 24mm RTA by Wake Mod Co. | Rebuildable Tank
Most other sites sold out.

Gold. Hmmm. That’d be great to go with a Thor.

@Eskie you get watches and warnings for snow? We only get warning. I guess they just assume we’re always watching. Proximity to the lake.

Morning all.

 

[Letitia]

Good morning Shiny's
Sleet/snow and freezing temps. Not much accumulation but temp isn't predicted to rise before Wednesday.

 

[stols001]

Burnos dios you lot. Man, tons to do today.

Oh well only 4 more weekends at most Hopefully.

Anna

 

[Eskie]

Gold. Hmmm. That’d be great to go with a Thor.

@Eskie you get watches and warnings for snow? We only get warning. I guess they just assume we’re always watching. Proximity to the lake.

Morning all.

Yeah we get watches as well. Warnings are generally for higher amounts of snow (now 5-8 inches after close to 6 in some areas on Friday night) and regarded as heavy enough to cause travel issues and decreased visibility. Should mess up the airports pretty well, and with delays due to weather in other areas the cascade effect should make flying a nightmare today.

Roads get cleared pretty fast here but they use so much salt that when it melts it gets into all the tunnels of power, gas, and steam lines so there's usually a fire or two every day. You learn not to stand on manhole covers this time of year. It's amazing how high those disks of heavy metal can be propelled up into the air. You also try to not be standing wherever it returns to earth.

 

[DeloresRose]

Yeah we get watches as well. Warnings are generally for higher amounts of snow (now 5-8 inches after close to 6 in some areas on Friday night) and regarded as heavy enough to cause travel issues and decreased visibility. Should mess up the airports pretty well, and with delays due to weather in other areas the cascade effect should make flying a nightmare today.

Roads get cleared pretty fast here but they use so much salt that when it melts it gets into all the tunnels of power, gas, and steam lines so there's usually a fire or two every day. You learn not to stand on manhole covers this time of year. It's amazing how high those disks of heavy metal can be propelled up into the air. You also try to not be standing wherever it returns to earth.

Never heard of that, but then, out here we don’t have manhole covers and tunnels.

We changed from salt to some sort of beet root spray. Seems to do the trick. Too late for my car and truck though, already rusty. Not available for home use yet, but I’m keeping a look out for it. I went through 80lbs of salt so far. And it wasn’t really a bad winter.

 

[KC0YNU]

Morning Shiny Seekers,

Wishing All an easy day.

Woke to 2-3 inches of snow here. UGH! more falling.

 

[chanelvaps]

How is it called there? Ultram (tramadol) did absolutely nothing except making me sleep all day...
Idiosincracies? Environment? Opiods here aren't an issue at all!

USA is in the strong holds of the worst Epidemic of Opioid crisis ever. Much worse than the 60's. It is every where. Small rural towns to big cities.
In the 80's a younger group forward thinking DR's realized that Opiates relieved pain but were not being used due to the addiction factor. Their thoughts were "who cares about the addiction factor if it gives a quality of life to a dying person that would be incapacitated without pain meds." Then they came back on the market to be doled out to anyone that had the slightest pain. In a major way with what they call pain management centers. Money making clinics for DRS that did not care to offer alternatives and just wrote a script every five minutes to some poor soul (self included) that had no idea of the addiction nightmare they were walking into head first.
I had the benefit of having already been an addict and having dealt with it there was no way I was going back so I quit within 2 months and went back to just living with pain. Others not so lucky and fast forward 5-10 years and your every day house wife and construction worker are Opioid addicts and getting it from their DR's so they assume this is alright. Add in the criminal force who realizes they can send their mother, brother and wife to pain management because everyone has a bit of a problem and the bar is so low as to who gets in (are you breathing? OK you are in) and now the opiates are hitting the black market for the construction workers kids to learn to love. Someone realizes a huge mistake was made by these forward thinking DR's of the 80's and the government decides to start scrutinizing the DRS giving it out. "Send these people to surgery they scream" Do more to get them off this scary drug" "Lets tighten up and make them hard to get" forget the pain of real people that might need them and just cut everybody off. Now the construction workers kid turns to ...... because it is easier to get (and cheaper) and he might even take his mom down the ...... road with him because she is an addict too and sees no alternative. The crisis is huge and there is a product of this travesty in every wake of ones life.

 

[Eskie]

Never heard of that, but then, out here we don’t have manhole covers and tunnels.

We changed from salt to some sort of beet root spray. Seems to do the trick. Too late for my car and truck though, already rusty. Not available for home use yet, but I’m keeping a look out for it. I went through 80lbs of salt so far. And it wasn’t really a bad winter.

This was yesterday ( I think, these things sorta blend together) Manhole Fires Burn 9+ Hours in Brooklyn, Knock Out Power

Fun times

 

[stols001]

Tramadol is a synthetic opiate, it's rather similar to kratom actually, but as a synthetic opiate it got to be manufactured as "addiction free" for a while, and I had the distinct misfortunate of being prescribed it for about 18 months for my treatment resistant depression. To be fair, there was some data for it off label, and me and my doc were pretty desperate by then. There's addicted, then there is dead.

It was completely unscheduled Forever, and my first "ultram taper plan" was no fun. Then I relapsed on it a few times (you would be shocked how many internet prescription mills were hocking it at the time) and tapering off that was no fun whatsoever.

My final relapse was pretty epic (previous times were like, I was afraid of seizures so I sort of ceilinged it) and I actually got on Suboxone not because I would not have tapered at home, I would have, but I had no idea how much I was taking, like handfuls.

I came of Suboxone and I'm really glad I did maintenance for a while, because that was.... You aren't going to die during a Suboxone taper but I sure wished I would. I have heard methadone's worse, but Suboxone's combined half-life meant detox lasted 96 days or longer. To be fair, I really only wanted to die consistently for oh about the first 60 days.

The thing that annoyed me? I DID my RESEARCH and so did my doc and EVERYONE was swearing up, down and sideways it was FINE. Totally harmless. Uh huh.

I'm glad it's scheduled and I am glad I did MY research and cleaned out my opiate receptors in a way that is so illegal in the US, I will not list it here.

It worked. I haven't had a craving since, and as far as I'm concerned, I'd rather be put in an artificial coma than like, take an opiate Ever Again.

Of course, you' d be shocked at what you can handle with just Advil, if you decide to. I mean.... Think about it. People used to go to the dentist without Novocain even. They didn't enjoy it but they DID it.

AFAIK, opiates are useful for extremely acute, intense pain for a few days where the person doesn't have an addiction history or it runs in their family.

Otherwise, save it for fatal cancers and the like. If I ever get a fatal cancer I plan to WAFT out of this world in a CLOUD of opiates, but if there is a 1% chance I might recover-- no opiates.

The epidemic is so bad in Baltimore they are handing out free Naltrexone injections to anyone willing to have one. They were, anyway.

Pain clinics (good ones) are great for chronic pain. There are so many things you can do other than opiates. Including teaching the person "how to deal with pain." You have to learn, it's a skill. But, opiates are indeed a cancer across the land.

I hope the mopping up (which to some extent is happening) continues to work, but where there is demand, there will also be supply.

Just like cigarettes, I know each and every way to get my hands on Ultram (and I have). I am quite sure I could obtain some today, and there is in fact some in the house, because we used it on our dog during rattlesnake bites.

I just get to accept (like cigarettes) I am not going to use it. There is one hell I will never voluntarily enter again.

Anna

 

[Skeebo]

Good Sunday morning to the lovers of shiny stuff!

 

[Tralfaz]

AFAIK, opiates are useful for extremely acute, intense pain for a few days where the person doesn't have an addiction history or it runs in their family.

Otherwise, save it for fatal cancers and the like. If I ever get a fatal cancer I plan to WAFT out of this world in a CLOUD of opiates, but if there is a 1% chance I might recover-- no opiates.

I couldn't have said it better. If it's time for me to check out, I can't think of a better way to go but if I have some life left to live and I want to enjoy it, opioids are out. I developed severe nerve pain in my leg after a car accident in the mid 2000s, which caused an inflammation that aggravated multiple stenoses in my L4-5 and S1. The pain was unreal and nothing worked.

Thanks to over prescribing and a much more lax attitude toward pain management back then, I went from 5/325 oxycodone/acetaminophen 4-6 daily to 160mg per day oxycodone extended release in the form of Oxycontin with an additional 60mg immediate release oxycodone for breakthrough in the span of four years. It got pretty bad toward the end and I wouldn't wish the experience on anyone.

You get to the point where your tolerance negates any therapeutic effect but your physical dependence on the opioid makes cessation extremely uncomfortable. It affects you psychologically. Hard to describe it to someone who hasn't experienced it. I was sick for a couple of months when I was finally able to taper off. I doubt it would have turned out well if I hadn't had such great support from my family.

On a much lighter subject, got some shiny arriving tomorrow. Woop!

 

[dom qp]

On a much lighter subject, got some shiny arriving tomorrow. Woop!

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