I took Vernon’s advice and got a pretty decent night’s sleep last night (I’m afraid I passed on the not drinking part close to bedtime part; I started way, way, before bedtime, if that counts). We watched a bunch of olde tyme teevee shows (Have Gun, Will Travel and Perry Mason) courtesy of Hulu (it really does help rot your brain faster) via the PlayOn media server through the XBox. With my brain adequately mushified, I was able to sleep fairly well. Then I languished in bed listening to Sedition Radio until after 6:00 (I’d have gotten up sooner, but I was pinned in by a dog, and we were both too damn comfortable to disturb). So, I’m getting a bit of a late start this morning, and have to hurry. Damn neck still hurts though. Sucks to be old.
I listened to Sedition Radio as well overnight. I found out that the inventor of the baby carrot died, which I missed the first time around.
Makes no difference, because the news on the Today Show isn’t any more illuminating, and is less funny.
heh!
been there done that.
muscle relaxers, an oxy (shit painkiller but oh well my doc gets a bonus for proscribing them)
the anti inflammatories are the real fix.
repeat, 3 days of that to be able to comb your hair, sigh…
You need something to let your muscles relax fully as they tend to continue to spasm from the aggravation even while you ‘rest’. Alcohol disrupts sleep and the anti-inflams don’t do it.
That. of course, is just my experience over the past 32 years.
Well, I basically refuse to go to a doctor, and don’t trust the online drug dealers, so prescription meds are impossible for me to obtain. I’d be quite happy to eschew the :40: for the :bong: but I no longer run in the circles where I could obtain any of that. Plus the government has seen fit to outlaw it (while encouraging docs to hand out fistfulls of much more dangerous narcotics; I mean, when’s the last time you heard about somebody going deaf from smoking too much pot?) and with my luck they’d decide to start a random drug testing program. Now, if I lived in California or Canada, I’d definitely drag my ass to a doctor for a prescription for that.
Sad. The government keeps the bad stuff legal, but have a little of the stuff that god put on the earth (and grows everywhere but the poles), and you’re a criminal. Even our godless mooslum raving socialist lefty President laughed at the idea of legalizing it.
Anyhow, I prefer to alter my reality to whatever extent possible, when given the chance, so the only options I’m left with are to have couple of frosty ones when I get home, or start huffing K2R Spot Remover.
Unfortunately, whether I deprive myself or not, I almost always have a hard time sleeping. Started not long after I began staring at a computer for a living. I think it has something to do with looking at what amounts to a flashing light all day long, coupled with a lack of physical activity. I used to have some sleepy stuff from the health food store that worked pretty good, but I ran out.
Problem is, I’m exhausted when I get home, but not in a good way. In a way that makes my want to sit on my ass even more.
Of course, most of my parts were starting to wear out when I worked for a living, too. Too many years of crawling around in confined spaces, having to stand on my head, or craw/lay/kneel across an I-beam in a space too small to stand up in, trying to take shit apart, or solder shit together (w/o burning the building down).
I’m just a whiny miserable old bastid trying to run out the clock, I guess.
Oh well, Montreal’s only about 4 hours from here. Maybe I can brush up on my French, and go see Maron in July.
Barack ObamaDick Cheney endorses gay marriage.(Sen.)Baucus has kept single-payer advocates out of negotiations and has yet to endorse a compromise proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) that would give Americans the option of buying into a publicly run plan that would compete with private insurers.
That stance put his staffers up against a wall, facing angry constituents fed up by what they viewed as a lack of courage in Washington.
“Majority wants single-payer health care,” headlined an account in the Helena Independent Record.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/01/baucus-battered-by-voters_n_209865.html
We went to a ‘demonstration’ for single-payer health care saturday in Denver. Maybe a few hundred people- lot of handicapped who’ve probably lost theirs. Exactly ONE elected official- a city-council member from Aurora. She rattled off a bunch of statistics with no sourcing.
Kind of dispirited as a group. Of course, no media present (even print) and absoloutely NO coverage on television.
The only thing that got the crowds spirits up were the Raging Grannies. :pup:
Our beyond useless congress (rethugs and dems both) will crap out some kind of legislation after much crying and rending of garments by McConnell and Reid (can anyone tell the difference anymore?) and ‘Bama will give it his blessing as “reform ” and will be overwhelmingly reelected as the one who saved the dems from the scary Left. 🙁