Haha, an old friend sent me a message telling me I needed a kick in the ass and snap out of it. Yeah, you know what — he's totally right. Honestly, it sounds glib, but I actually know the solution to all my problems — exercise. All I have to do is get myself working out regularly and I can almost guarantee that my sleep would improve, which would then cascade out and help with everything else.
I just have to stop being so lazy! (Or at least selectively lazy).
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.
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.
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.
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…
Look what came in the mail today:
This offer is offline for now but will be back soon!
I've also posted an update to BME. It's mostly an experience update — thank you to the writers and review team (which reminds me, I also fixed a Firefox cookie tracking issue on that site) — but there are also new pictures in the ritual, scarification, and culture galleries (I imagine next week's update there might be big with the 6th annual So. Cal BBQ and the Great Lakes BBQ both happening).
Let's see what else… Over the next couple of days you may see images breaking across IAM because I'm working on a fix for the crash issue. The good news is though that once I've done that we should be rock solid with tons of CPU and bandwidth to play with, so I'll finally have a chance to make the messaging and forum functions here able to output an RSS feed for you.
Oh, and thanks to Bellboy for the cover (it's his arm).
So I hadn't been able to find the time to update it for the last month, but I finally had a chance to update my kitcar site again, and for those of you into the subject there are some interesting ones this update (body modification, car modification; there is at least a metaphorical relationship). Oh yeah, and within about two weeks I should finally have my motorcycle license. My father said I could ride his Harley, and I've got my big trike of course too.
Oh snap!
