Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Google paid me again. It's less this time because they made me take the ads off Under Mars and I haven't had time to really keep Price Of His Toys up to date. But I'm not complaining — $191.64 is always nice to get in the mail… I just wish they weren't so heavy handed with their censorship of sites that push the borders of what's polite to talk about a little.

On my way to the bank [machine] I stopped and had a pear juice with Blair. He's thinking about doing some cute little scarification miniatures, like little houses, trees, flowers, and stuff like that. If you're interested, contact him via byBlair.com (website by bathory).

At the doctor's office I learned that heroin is a great pain killer. I had no idea that it's actually legal to prescribe in Canada to terminally ill patients (although unlike parts of Europe, it's very rarely done here). So yeah, smoke some heroin if you're worried your tattoo is gonna hurt I guess.

Because of the sleep issues, I got a funny prescription;

Dr: We could try you on this anti-depressant…
Me: OK?
Dr: It's a terrible anti-depressant and doesn't work very well.
Me: Um, alright…?
Dr: But it will help you sleep.

So we'll see how that goes. Apparently one of the (rare) side effects is retrograde ejaculation (oh, and libido increase to match). So I apologize to all the imaginary groupies if my monster facials are not quite so apparently monstrous, ha. What a funny side effect. Seriously though, my only worry about it is that it can also cause complex partial seizures, which I already have very regularly.

When I went to the drugstore to pick it up, their blood pressure machine was broken (it took a couple tries to get a response at all), so I don't think these numbers are accurate. I wouldn't call them “great” or even particularly good, but at least it seems my physical health as measured by these two characteristics is within the norms.

Other than that… It's supposed to be a thunderstorm tomorrow. I sure hope it is. If it is, I'm going to go to the park and walk down to the lake in the rain. The only thing I like about heat is when it rains, nothing beats a walk in hot rain. Although to be honest I'm also perfectly happy to walk in cold rain. I think I'd be happy if it rained every day. Hell, I'd be happy if I could just live under the ocean.

Gotta get me some giils.

I'm looking forward to Thursday. Saira and I are going out to Prince Edward County to visit where Todd and Scott drowned. Next year will be the tenth anniversary of their death. We try and go out there every year (I think we're hitting about 50%, I guess we are bad friends to our ghostly buddies) and go swimming where they drowned. I recall once someone saying something about learning from other people's mistakes, but I'm not a good listener…