So, about The City...

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Holy fuck TGRR, glad to hear you survived that! Mixed meds are nothing to play with...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Ill is all.  Long term heart problem, short term mixed medications causing problems.  Am now under "observation" for the night.

Interesting note:  a few years ago, you couldn't bring a cell phone into a hospital.  Now you can run a laptop, and they even provide the comcast.

It appears that I have made it through another doctor's incompetence with all my bits still attached and functional.  It seems that the 4 different medications I was taking (2 normal ones, 2 for the bronchitis) mix into some horrible hellish toxic death ball.  But I made it, and you are all stuck with me for at least the immediate future.

Also, apparently Khara and I spoke for a while, while I foolishly drove myself to the hospital.  I don't remember that, but my cell log indicates that I was on the phone with her for some time.   Also, I spoke to Nigel.  I do remember that.  Thanks to both of you for keeping me conscious on the drive.  Next time, I shall demonstrate a minimum level of intelligence and call a damn ambulance.

No worries, that's what we're here for!!!   

I'm really glad you are feeling better and that everything is ok!!! 

You have to remind me, I want to google that guy about the constitution. 

Lysander Spooner "No Treason".

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Holy fuck TGRR, glad to hear you survived that! Mixed meds are nothing to play with...

Fucking lazy ass doctor. 

[Jenne]

Holy fuck TGRR, glad to hear you survived that! Mixed meds are nothing to play with...

Fucking lazy ass doctor. 

So is that it?  Because this doctor needs sued, or written up, or something, if he didn't look up contraindications.  Shit, the PHARMACIST should be written up.  Pharmacists often CATCH the contraindications someone else misses.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Lysander Spooner "No Treason".

Thank you!!

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Ill is all.  Long term heart problem, short term mixed medications causing problems.  Am now under "observation" for the night.

Interesting note:  a few years ago, you couldn't bring a cell phone into a hospital.  Now you can run a laptop, and they even provide the comcast.

It appears that I have made it through another doctor's incompetence with all my bits still attached and functional.  It seems that the 4 different medications I was taking (2 normal ones, 2 for the bronchitis) mix into some horrible hellish toxic death ball.  But I made it, and you are all stuck with me for at least the immediate future.

Also, apparently Khara and I spoke for a while, while I foolishly drove myself to the hospital.  I don't remember that, but my cell log indicates that I was on the phone with her for some time.   Also, I spoke to Nigel.  I do remember that.  Thanks to both of you for keeping me conscious on the drive.  Next time, I shall demonstrate a minimum level of intelligence and call a damn ambulance.

No worries, that's what we're here for!!!   

I'm really glad you are feeling better and that everything is ok!!! 

You have to remind me, I want to google that guy about the constitution. 

Lysander Spooner "No Treason".

http://www.lysanderspooner.org/

[Richter]

The City is not FOR people.   Not like a politician is not "For" a certain cause (in ony the vaugest, prono fluffling, shitconing way), the city was made with the intention of, but developed beyond being a place people should ever be.  At best, people are the blood to a city.  The gore that pumps in an engorges it during the day, increasiing the frenetic activity, and leaving interesting secretions.  At night, they mostly leave, but some remain, and everything hums along in a self maintaining cycle of restoration and maintenance until it all swell with activity again.  Like some sort of solar sex ritual, it all rises to arousal and compeltion with the sun, then languidly deflates at night, contracting it's people back out, heaving and spasming with end of day crises and traffic jams.  

For all the hard corners, toxic fumes, unrelenting rush and crush of bodies, people lee returnign to this icon of aceivement, this massed creation and work in through it despite it's flaws.  Every day they rush in to play their infentessimal part on the massed altar.

[P3nT4gR4m]

OP didn't worry me at all. I figured Rog was just waxing morbid. Happens occasionally when you get to our age - death is close enough you start to actually see it, now and again, standing just up ahead.

Stupid fucking me! Glad to hear you're still in one piece big guy

Yeah, well, it was a strange day, and I died.  But I have been reborn.  Which, IIRC, means I get birthday haggis.  Hand it over.

Just scrape some mud off your boots and deep fry it. Tastes the same, saves me the postage.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

OP didn't worry me at all. I figured Rog was just waxing morbid. Happens occasionally when you get to our age - death is close enough you start to actually see it, now and again, standing just up ahead.

Stupid fucking me! Glad to hear you're still in one piece big guy

Yeah, well, it was a strange day, and I died.  But I have been reborn.  Which, IIRC, means I get birthday haggis.  Hand it over.

Just scrape some mud off your boots and deep fry it. Tastes the same, saves me the postage.

We don't have mud.  I live in a desert, like all proper Holy Men.

[Hangshai]

The City is done.  Its too late for it to be fixed, because the people that live there have already forgotten what it takes to keep it going.  Kind of like when Cortes found the Aztecs, and they had all these great pyramids built by their ancestors, but the Aztecs they found didn't even have the wheel yet(some say this is because they just didnt have the livestock to pull carts, but I just think its because of the same reason the general pop. is pretty out of it now.  TOO MUCH FREE TIME).

Too much free time.  When you dont have to spend 16 hours a day worrying about feeding yourself and your family, you have a lot more free time to sit around and fuck shit up.  Just think about what happens when you are unemployed.  You think, "Oh, Ill get to work on all the little projects I NEVER get to work on,' but that never really happens.

I hate to be downer, but I have to agree with Roger on this one.  I think its pretty much hopeless.  I mean, if someone outright stealing an election 8 years ago isn't going to cause a peep(people are STILL protesting and getting killed in Iran over their last election), then I doubt ANYTHING will 'wake the people up'.

Roger, I dont know what ails you, but if its a lung/respitory disease, then the high desert is probably the best place for you.  But Im sure you already knew that.  Although I dont know what you do for work, you mentioned wearing a resperator, I just hope this isn't a side-affect from being a working stiff.  Also, have you thought about Marijuana?  I know that that such an ultra-hippy dippy shithead thing to say, but, it is a pretty fucking amazing plant.  It could help relieve some of the pain and act as an expectorant if you have bronchitis/lung fluid.  I have about as much medical knowledge as it takes to open a bottle of Advil when I geta headache, so, theres a good chance Im full of shit when I say that, though.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The City is done.  Its too late for it to be fixed, because the people that live there have already forgotten what it takes to keep it going.  Kind of like when Cortes found the Aztecs, and they had all these great pyramids built by their ancestors, but the Aztecs they found didn't even have the wheel yet(some say this is because they just didnt have the livestock to pull carts, but I just think its because of the same reason the general pop. is pretty out of it now.  TOO MUCH FREE TIME).

Too much free time.  When you dont have to spend 16 hours a day worrying about feeding yourself and your family, you have a lot more free time to sit around and fuck shit up.  Just think about what happens when you are unemployed.  You think, "Oh, Ill get to work on all the little projects I NEVER get to work on,' but that never really happens.

I hate to be downer, but I have to agree with Roger on this one.  I think its pretty much hopeless.  I mean, if someone outright stealing an election 8 years ago isn't going to cause a peep(people are STILL protesting and getting killed in Iran over their last election), then I doubt ANYTHING will 'wake the people up'.

Roger, I dont know what ails you, but if its a lung/respitory disease, then the high desert is probably the best place for you.  But Im sure you already knew that.  Although I dont know what you do for work, you mentioned wearing a resperator, I just hope this isn't a side-affect from being a working stiff.  Also, have you thought about Marijuana?  I know that that such an ultra-hippy dippy shithead thing to say, but, it is a pretty fucking amazing plant.  It could help relieve some of the pain and act as an expectorant if you have bronchitis/lung fluid.  I have about as much medical knowledge as it takes to open a bottle of Advil when I geta headache, so, theres a good chance Im full of shit when I say that, though.

1.  My job piss tests.  My job pays me an enormous sack of cash on a regular basis, and I buy STUFF with it.  I like stuff.

2.  If I get high, I stop hating everyone.  Then the machine breaks down and it never stops raining.  Trust me on this, the last time I got high, Chicago flooded.  '96, I believe.

3.  My problems are two-fold:  Blood issues and insomnia.  Not "I only got two hours of sleep last night", but "I haven't slept in 60 hours and I just remembered I'm the Tucson Strangler".  Pot would probably solve the latter, but would almost certainly kill me due to the former.