Posted in crank, meta on May 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I knew I shouldn’t have posted about working on my site. My power cord finally crapped out on me, leaving with with a crap cord and a beat battery, and no laptop. They’re not just resting, they’re dead.
Off to MicroCenter I go. And if I come home with a new laptop, well, who could blame [...]
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An assortment of things in my head right now…
I am enjoying the new/old chair with the fancy upholstered seat my friend L. re-cycled to me after getting a new dining set. It’s just the right height and depth for sitting at the table with my legs up on the chair across from me, while [...]
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Posted in bipolar, crank, meds on May 8, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Depakote? Trileptal? If you’ve had an experience you’re willing to share, I’d appreciate any info you’d be willing to give, either in comments or at bipolarlawyercook @ gmail.com.
Thanks. I swear I’m just going to get certified in Traditional Chinese Medicine and be done with it. (Don’t laugh. I actually find massage and acupuncture healing. TCM’s [...]
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I swear, I post about all the side effects mostly so that it pops up in layperson’s terms when someone’s having weird side effects to particular medications. Which is my way of justifying that I am also whining a little. OK, a lot, but I think I am justified, since I am turning into the [...]
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Yesterday morning on my way in to work…
Oh my God, WHY is it taking so long for this line to get to the front? All I want is a dozen doughnuts! I swear they’re conspiring against me. This always happens! I hate this, I am never shopping here again, I should totally leave. But I [...]
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Posted in crank, meta on May 1, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Ok, I’ll be damned if I can figure out how to tweet someone. If I am in the direct message screen on the web interface and want to tweet someone, would you PLEASE for the LOVE OF GOD tell me how to do it? I get a no such user message when I put the @twittername [...]
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It wasn’t my thyroid. It was interstitial nephritis, an allergic kidney inflammation. Lucky, ducky, cold-turkey off my lithium me. But, it pays to pay attention to your body, too– goodness knows I’m not interested in spending a few days in the hospital on dialysis. And I get to try abilify to [...]
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Posted in crank, links on April 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Dick Cavett wrote a scathing indictment of the “speeches” given by Ambassador Crockett and the very model of a Modern Made-Up General, General Petraeus, appearing in the NYT opinion pages today. The piece is a model of what Satire should be– I can think maybe only John Stewart and Steve Martin could come close [...]
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“That telltale lump in the throat” is up at RealMental.
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Posted in cooking, crank, food, links on April 4, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Why? It makes the meat soggy. It ruins the texture and tone of a properly-raised, wicked expensive piece of swine or fowl. Screw f*ing Cook’s Illustrated and all the gastroporn publishing industry.
“But BLC! (Damn, what did she say her name was again?) How else will we ensure that our flesh of the animals will be [...]
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