6563

It’s PA state inspection season, and my Mini is costing me north of a kilobuck again. My next car is going to be something easier to maintain.

6564

I don’t miss PA inspections, that’s for sure. CA smog checks can be problematic if you fail, but overall just maintain your car well and you’ll likely pass every other year they want you to take one.

6565

Have to pass an emissions inspection in Allegheny County, too. :P

I mean, it’s probably for the best, given that the mechanic caught one of my brake lines rubbing on a control arm. Having to replace the entire exhaust is a huge pain, though.

6566

Come to Florida, haven’t had emissions testing for 30 years.

::cough cough::

Actually we have winds from the east and west and lots of rain. Depending upon where you live, the air is pretty clean here. We export our pollution to the Atlantic and the Gulf.

Yay us.

6567

I learned a thing recently that had never really occurred to me.

While we are all taught about inertia, and how massive objects tend to stay at rest, or if they are in motion tend to stay in motion… no one really know exactly why this is the case, or what the mechanism is that results in this effect.

6568

I had to execute a rat. I drowned it. I feel bad. I’ve heard quickly stomping on it would be less cruel. Everyone else is happy the rat is gone.

It was a very smart rat. The first time we set the cage it managed to steal the hamburger bits and cracker without setting off the trigger. The second time, I made the trigger much more sensitive and it still managed to escape with the food. The third time, I tied a glue trap on the trigger plate with wiring, and wired up a chicken wing through the bone. It worked this time.

I think I am going to have salad for lunch today.

6569

I have absolutely no interest in Grand Theft Auto

6570

My random thought is, ‘don’t click on links stevevr provides’

6571

I finally found a place that makes really great bagels here. It’s called Bagel King and was opened in 1977. Strangely enough it was recommended to me by another ex-pat NYer who was checking voter registration in my neighborhood. So the wife and I went down there today. They are only open until 3PM, I guess that’s when they usually run out. They have a sit down dining area. They make what I hear is a pretty good matzo ball soup. All kinds of preserved fish salads and the like.

So we get there and I ask for chopped chicken liver. I absolutely adore a good chopped chicken liver. On a fresh, warm bagel? Heaven.

“Sorry we no longer make chopped liver. In fact just last week.”

BASTARDS!

But the bagels are really great. Just like NY.

I really want some chopped liver now…

6572

One of my co-workers is this sweet older lady and my favorite story she tells is the one where they caught a rat in a glue trap a few years back and it was making some terrible noises and she couldn’t stand it so she took it outside and beat it to death with a shovel. The End.

6573

that was just a genuine error - when I saw the commercial it didn’t have all that, I found a clean link with just the video. My thread got deleted before I even got a chance to edit out the link and provide a clean link to vimeo

6574

LOL no worries, I’m an adult. Just giving you some shit. :)

6575

How will qt3 remember the 12-hour stevevr era?

6576

I need to stop watching BoJack Horseman on Netflix. Its kind of depressing, I can’t figure out when I’m expected to laugh, and now I cannot get autoerotic asphyxiation out of my head. God I hope that’s not a pun.

6577

With fond regard compared to the Realmk fiasco.

6578

So what was the nature of the link (out of curiosity)?

6579

A supposed “TV spot” for the Occulus Rift that was an excuse for a bunch of VR porn.

6580

Yeah, here that’s essentially death by admin. He really had to want it.

6581

Well, that and it was pure spam. Guy got his account approved today.

Made 10 one-line reply posts to threads that essentially said nothing.

Then he made a post that was a straight-up porn link.

That thread got deleted.

Then he made a new thread with pixel porn, which actually might’ve been more hardcore and offensive than the first thread.

He gone.

6582

Well. So. Funny thing. We don’t have insurance now. I’m retired and the wife is unemployed. So we’re cutting back on stuff really quickly. OTOH we’re using my credit card to get things that we need. She has options, but they are in the nebulous future. Anyway…

I have stopped taking Paxil. I did a weaning thing with the pills I had left and was able to survive it with minimal head zaps.

So now I am completely off Paxil.

For those of you who don’t know, SSRIs have a particularly nasty withdrawal problem. It won’t kill you. But you might wish for death at the beginning.

This is a good explanation.

[h=2]Frequently Reported Symptoms:[/h]
[ul]
[li] intense insomnia
[/li][li]extraordinarily vivid dreams
[/li][li] extreme confusion during waking hours
[/li][li] intense fear of losing your sanity
[/li][li]steady feeling of existing outside of reality as you know it (referred to as depersonalization at times)
[/li][li]memory and concentration problems
[/li][li] Panic Attacks (even if you never had one before)
[/li][li] severe mood swings, esp. heightened irritability / anger
[/li][li] suicidal thoughts (in extreme cases)
[/li][li]an unconventional dizziness/ vertigo
[/li][li] the feeling of shocks, similar to mild electric one, running the length of your body
[/li][li] an unsteady gait
[/li][li]slurred speech
[/li][li] headaches
[/li][li] profuse sweating, esp. at night
[/li][li] muscle cramps
[/li][li] blurred vision
[/li][li] breaking out in tears.
[/li][li]hypersensitivity to motion, sounds, smells.
[/li][li] decreased appetite
[/li][li] nausea
[/li][li] abdominal cramping, diarrhea
[/li][li] loss of appetite
[/li][li] chills/ hot flashes
[/li][/ul]

       [h=2]Less Frequently Reported Symptoms[/h]

[ul]
[li]fainting
[/li][li]“scratching sound” inside one’s head
[/li][li] constant white noise in the ears
[/li][li] tingling sensation in cheeks, lips, tongue and surrounding areas.
[/li][li] heart palpitations/ chest pain
[/li][li] swollen and sore eyes
[/li][li] fatigue
[/li][li] extremely localized, bursting headaches
[/li][li] lump in throat
[/li][li] rash / dry, flaky and irritated skin
[/li][li] grinding of teeth
[/li][li] difficulty swallowing
[/li][li] itchiness
[/li][/ul]

I had the brain zaps, shocks, and a lot of the other stuff. And now they are pretty much over. OTOH I thought that Paxil wasn’t helping me. Funny that. It was. I just got used to it. I got used to being almost normal.

Now I’m in the place that I forgot completely about. The anger place. The don’t give a shit place. The treat others like crap place. The sinkhole.

I’m thinking of going back to Paxil, because my drug store has an open prescription for it. OTOH, I do not want to get hooked on that shit again. On the third hand, what choice do I have? I am a particularly bad version of me right now. I can be real nice for a while, but I never know what will trigger an outburst of pure vitriol. I do not like me now. Right now I’m drinking a lot. I almost feel like I have multiple people in my head. And I can’t stand most of them.