Conquest of the Planet of the Bride of the Son of the Return of the Open Bar

[navkat]

I learned a valuable lesson yesterday.

No matter who you are, no matter how talented you are or how much you've accomplished in the culinary world...

you are NEVER too good to jam the blade of a mandolin slicer 3/4 of an inch into the fat pad of your thumb.

I'm terrified of those things, for that reason.

Onions have it in for me. Plastic guard like a mothafucka. Lots of discarded onion ends.

[navkat]

My neck hurts and I've been unreasonably tired for the last two weeks. I have lortab and a bottle of wine. I'ma fix this shit myself.

[navkat]

Also: I take it as a sign we're fucked when mainstream pop/rock starts trying to sound like christian rock instead of the other way 'round.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Well, two days in a row now I have watched what happens when the sun sets in Scottsdale, and it isn't pretty. All the lights turn on and go blinky, and the elevator music is replaced with the soundtrack to hunting for herpes. Ick. The whole place goes berserk with leathery 43-year-olds acting like teenagers while pretending to be sophisticated. It's like Weekend at Bernie's, except everybody's the dead guy.

[navkat]

Well, two days in a row now I have watched what happens when the sun sets in Scottsdale, and it isn't pretty. All the lights turn on and go blinky, and the elevator music is replaced with the soundtrack to hunting for herpes. Ick. The whole place goes berserk with leathery 43-year-olds acting like teenagers while pretending to be sophisticated. It's like Weekend at Bernie's, except everybody's the dead guy.

I actually *liked* Scottsdale when I lived there. But I was an upwardly-mobile yuppie at that point.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

My neck hurts and I've been unreasonably tired for the last two weeks. I have lortab and a bottle of wine. I'ma fix this shit myself.

Ummmm if I may

I suggest starting every morning with a dose of Vitamin C and calcium with magnesium for the neck pain. It's really the calcium and magnesium you want for muscle pain, the Vitamin C helps you absorb it. And you should seriously look into the "tired blood" thing, anemia is a real bitch. If you like liver pate, working it into your snacks (I am fond of it on toast for breakfast) is a great way to boost dietary iron, as are oysters. I love tinned smoked oysters on crackers. Iron supplements are also an option, but can cause constipation and nausea.

Good luck!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Well, two days in a row now I have watched what happens when the sun sets in Scottsdale, and it isn't pretty. All the lights turn on and go blinky, and the elevator music is replaced with the soundtrack to hunting for herpes. Ick. The whole place goes berserk with leathery 43-year-olds acting like teenagers while pretending to be sophisticated. It's like Weekend at Bernie's, except everybody's the dead guy.

I have spent many an evening sipping cocktails in Scottsdale

I don't want to talk about it.

[navkat]

My neck hurts and I've been unreasonably tired for the last two weeks. I have lortab and a bottle of wine. I'ma fix this shit myself.

Ummmm if I may

I suggest starting every morning with a dose of Vitamin C and calcium with magnesium for the neck pain. It's really the calcium and magnesium you want for muscle pain, the Vitamin C helps you absorb it. And you should seriously look into the "tired blood" thing, anemia is a real bitch. If you like liver pate, working it into your snacks (I am fond of it on toast for breakfast) is a great way to boost dietary iron, as are oysters. I love tinned smoked oysters on crackers. Iron supplements are also an option, but can cause constipation and nausea.

Good luck!

I love your sciency-ass, Nigel. I'll get some Boar's Head Liverwurst at Publix on my way home from school Thursday.

[navkat]

This shit just confirms for me that I really don't find anything fun anymore about most intoxicants. Pain is gone but the opiate side-effects are just annoying. Stop the ride.

[Cain]

Interview this morning.  Work on Uni application this afternoon.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Bank account is exactly $0.00. Found some charges I don't recognize when I was trying to figure out why I couldn't afford a $3 lunch. Gotta call bank tomorrow. Yet one more fun-filled adventure for 2013.

[Cain]

I'd throw you some money, CPD, but I'm having account issues of my own right now.

I have real money, but I understand posting that is not a secure delivery method.  And then you have to pay for it to be changed into pounds and so on...

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

My neck hurts and I've been unreasonably tired for the last two weeks. I have lortab and a bottle of wine. I'ma fix this shit myself.

Ummmm if I may

I suggest starting every morning with a dose of Vitamin C and calcium with magnesium for the neck pain. It's really the calcium and magnesium you want for muscle pain, the Vitamin C helps you absorb it. And you should seriously look into the "tired blood" thing, anemia is a real bitch. If you like liver pate, working it into your snacks (I am fond of it on toast for breakfast) is a great way to boost dietary iron, as are oysters. I love tinned smoked oysters on crackers. Iron supplements are also an option, but can cause constipation and nausea.

Good luck!

I love your sciency-ass, Nigel. I'll get some Boar's Head Liverwurst at Publix on my way home from school Thursday.

You're welcome, dahling. I hope it works for you; you should notice a difference after three-four days, unless you're severely deficient. Check into vitamin D as well (if you start taking calcium, try one that contains it; most do nowadays).

I take an absurd regimen of supplements every day, including shit to help my blood pressure and shit to regulate my heart and shit to help me sleep, but it really does help, considering that for as much as a trainwreck as I should be I'm fairly bulletproof.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I'd throw you some money, CPD, but I'm having account issues of my own right now.

I have real money, but I understand posting that is not a secure delivery method.  And then you have to pay for it to be changed into pounds and so on...

I appreciate the sentiment, Cain. I've contacted my bank and AAA, which is what someone used my account to buy. They're going to refund my money if I send them a fax showing it came from my account - in theory. My bank froze my card and is sending me a new one. Today is payday so I'll have money again at some point.

I heard back from someone buying some of my yarn, so I got paid for that today, too. Things are going to work out if I have to jigzaw-ersize the pieces MY OWN GOD DAMN SELF.

[Cain]

So fucking pissed off right now.

Tired of entitled little shits who think they can do what they want, when they want and can't be spoken to like the little shits they are because it hurts their precious feelings, that they can argue back, that they can repeat themselves over 10 minutes, drowing out my any response, and that they can disturb who the fuck they want in the process.

I was undecided about Switzerland today.  Tomorrow, if I was offered it, I'd take the job in a heartbeat.