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A moment in to say hello and goodnight and I'm back - all at once, all at once. Such is life, though: It happens to us all at once.
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ya know, real web guru's use text editors anyway :P -Gragg
daaaaaaamn straight!
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if you want to join the discussion group, we're online - though we're still trying to peg down a day and time that's good for everyone. great group, too. everyone's very open-minded and thoughtful.
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'twas actually an apache wildcard issue . . . still, you had good points. :)
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. . . and now i've gotten it to do what i want . . . bwahahahahahahahaha!! there's nothing quite like hard code, ol' fashioned, typed out in notepad or in stickies (for mac users) and then placed just right. XD
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ahhh, gragg! having issues with a subdomain i'm trying to build for a philosophical/religious discussion group i'm a member of and it's not playing nice.
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greetings, gragg! 'tis an early mornin' here . . .
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rjupiter, no worries. :) i just disclose the truth about myself and pretty much anything else i know anything else about . . . sometimes too much. o.O
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since getting sober, i've avoided painkillers unless medically absolutely needed or given to me without my knowledge - as in this case - until afterward, though with the amount of pain i was (and since it's wearing off, am) in, i was thankful.
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I used to be a heroin addict, but halloween will make five years' sobriety for me. i wouldn't call them "happy" drugs unless you need them. morphine - with is the medical version - well, oxycontin, really is more toward the medical version of heroin, with morphine being just 'lighter . . . demerol is a bit heavier, but for the pain i'm in, it was a nice bit of relief - especially given that once i got home i had to climb three flights of stairs.
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hello, evilbenhubby - i love you!
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sand, my dear - you are so verrrrrry right. i just got back from the doctor - a specialist at the new clinic i'm going to - as the potential lupis has flared up again and they took rather a lot of blood. he saw that i was in a lot of pain and that my body was not controlling it's internal thermostat correctly. after they drew about fifteen vials and were giving me a small transfusion, he came and whispered to a nurse to infuse something. i later found out it was demerol. :)
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rjuputer, we are never alone. if anything, we always have our own thoughts to keep us company.
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i have a declaration to make. pain is the creation of one who wants us to remember what it feels like so that when we are not in pain we remember what it feels like so that it's absence makes us rejoice for not feeling it.
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I learned several things while there: you can have a stoke due to a blood clot being sent up from the heart to the bran, from the ear to the brain (which is why hearing is lost to a percentage is lost and people list to one sid), didn't know so very, very much . . . like you can have teh m in your twenties due to your own stupidity and as the consequences of one's own actions.
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You are my favorite cup of coffee.
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good morning GC's sunshine, Gragg!
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jebus, sand! i'd have thought they'd have gotten it all done by amount. :P
anyhow, i wish thee and gragg a fond adieu as evilbenhubbyand i go drif.
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GC took the last two posts I submitted and turned them into some kind of effeed-up, scrambled phrase and unparsed word casserole. Oi.
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one's sate of mind will dictate to what level they are able to share. beyond that is where one stretches and grows . . . beyond where they are now. hopefully, not splattering like they've regresses, but more as if they're grasping at something jus
. . . mention this to me.
mention this.
mention anyhing . . .
. . . and watch the weather change . . .
t above then he feral cats and ht
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ahhhhh! sand! i've missed you! my apologies for only seeing and replying to it now, but evilbenhubby ad i were having to speak some terribly difficult words with and at each other. :(
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greetings this dark - and almost seasonable - evening from austin, gragg!
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truth shines through the darkest of lies being said about it.
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pain is part of living. it's what you decide to do with that pain, how you choose to react to it, that makes all the difference in the world.
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the question may be why or what or how or why or when, but the answer may be just another question, one that eventually leads to what one seeks.
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awwww! no, i didn't catch the poems Zeph wrote! i'll have to check his archive!
sad ephemeral . . . that was sweet and i missed it!
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g'mornin' - again, beautiful Butterfly, and t'you as well, Gragg.
there are two things i don't like very much, but, alas . . . one, my system crashing on me like a narcoleptic epileptic (and i can use that term, which some may find offense with, as i AM a narcoleptic epileptic), and, two, not being tired enough to sleep and yet being sleepy enough that you could sleep if you hadn't already passed that point of "tired" that you're wide awake again.
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greeting, Butterfly! how are you this morning - this very early morning?
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have you missed me?
i've missed so many things, but i never knew who or what i was missing until it was gone.
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this was a triumph.
i'm making a note here: huge success.
it's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
aperture science -
we do what we must because we can
for the good of all of us -
except the ones who are dead.
i <3 portal
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hi, karen, kimmy, and zephyrus!
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my dad works for one of the three separations of what used to be Houston Lighting and Power, but his company, which does design and maintenance (he helped design the south texas nuclear plant), so he doesn't have much control over the lines companies. i remember when i was little and a storm would hit, he'd sometimes have to be out there with the line crews. that always scared me.
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. . . and, yes, they are saying that it could be weeks without power. it's a good thing that the texas medical center has independent power generation units or the biggest hospital complex in texas would be . . . fux0r3ed. each lines company - since texas entered deregulation of power companies into three separate sections, the stupidest thing they could've done - is responsible for getting it's lines back up. but, still . . . it could be weeks for some people, while with your neighbors it could simply not.
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sand will be okay. it's now a tropical storm. funny that an old message of mine popped up as i'm writing this one. :)
my dad choose to stay in houston for this, which i think he's a lunatic for, although having lived in puerto rico for so many years and seeing so many storms, well . . . i guess i can understand. he's reported no damage, but he hasn't been outside.
us? we're getting nothing. at first they said we'd be hit. haha. weathermen.
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. . . Ike may just miss us - or, rather, the tropical storm warnings have shifted, although if you look at weather underground's site, check out the houston radar, it's pulling in storms near us and to the north. for a hurricane to do that is . . . rare? freakish? well, they did say this was a freak storm. oi.
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it's good to see you, Hallibut! i've missed you since i've been away!
and, evilbenhubby, the nap-that-wanted-to-be earlier while i was repacking the wound caught up to me and i fell asleep at the keyboard. d'oh!
so i'm off and running now. i'll see y'all after i pick up evilbenhubby from work. :)
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okies, with errands to run and an ike ("kick the baby!" "no, don't kick the baby" - ahhhh, south park) to semi-overly-prepare for, i'm checking out for a little while, but will be back later after i pick up evilbenhubby. :)
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oi . . . i didn't realize just how long it's been since i was taking care of my admin duties on the bipolar support site that i help run. i still have admin status and rights (amazingly! especially since i've been MIA for so long!), which is really cool.
but i have so much else to do! and such little time to do it in! i should get off my duff and start working toward completing the few things i truly need to finish today.
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being narcoleptic, i often want to nap . . . and have to a few times, briefly, though the day. I didn't get my usual mid-morning nap in and while I was changing the packing on a wound I got a few days ago, I found myself drifting off here and there, so it took forever for me to complete what should have only taken a matter of fifteen minutes or so. Blargh.
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sand: amen to that! i *love* it (can you feel the dripping sarcasm?) when someone sinks to below-the-belt verbal punches simply because they have nothing real, nothing solid and can't admit to it.
gragg: and you're right. if we were all agreeable all the time . . . well, i'd not be here. or at least not so often. discussion fosters learning, change, and growth. if something someone says makes you think about your position - or makes you change your views - awesome.
EvilBenHubby: OH, YAY. :P
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bye, zar! hope to see you soon!
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and nothing says you have to be agreeable all the time. that wouldn't be human.
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i trust you, sand. as far as i know, you've never lied to me or posted anything contradictory to something said before - and i don't mean changes in opinion or feelings, we all have that happen as we change and grow. you've never intentionally lashed out - that i've seen - at someone without cause. and "lashing out" is a bad way of putting it. if anything, it's defending yourself from personal attacks and the like. but we all have that right and responsibility, too.
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If you're a Battlestar Gallactica fan, this image will either scare you or make you laugh: http://geektalkstech.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mccain-tigh-palin-roslyn.jpg
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Sand, my lovely, you rawk. ^_^
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