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[Polysorbate80]

Beer goggles work on unattractive topics as well as ugly people.  I find I can pay attention to boring shit better when I'm buzzed.

[Merusk]

I'm going to laugh at the statement "most of those people" at an event you're attending for an industry you're in.  So much self-hate.  

I can't pay attention to shit when I'm buzzed or drunk. I have major Drunk-ADD, to the point I walk away mid-conversation sometimes.

[Yegolev]

There's also the lack of speech filter.  No thanks.

[Lucas]

Finally, moved over to a new house with my girlfriend, and got my brand new 50mbps fiber (which is basically considered hyperspace here in Italy :P) connection, after a month without the Net  #detox #neveragain

[Viin]

Nice, I'm jealous. Lucky to get 5-6Mbps here on Comcast. 

[NowhereMan]

So we just had a student finish 3 months of private lessons last week. This student happens to be the ex-Abbott of Monte Cassino. Fun googling him right now, I think he got a Church discount too.

[Ironwood]

Isn't that a Dumas novel ?

[Yegolev]

I think so, or perhaps a direct-to-video movie.

A young woman was joking around in the cafeteria and did an actual elbow-jab to me after cracking a joke.  I later determined that it was Jennifer Delgado, one of the TV people.  Apparently she is also a meteorologist as well as a comic.

[Paelos]

She's pretty hot. Good work.

[Yegolev]

She is, actually.  Too bad none of my problems will be solved by adding a woman.

[Merusk]

Of course not, you'd come up with the wrong solution. You've got to pemDAs.

[Ironwood]

She is, actually.  Too bad none of my problems will be solved by adding a woman.

 

I hear you.

[NowhereMan]

Isn't that a Dumas novel ?

I think this story has more cocaine and ecstasy. Slightly.

[Sky]

Toe pin update you've all been anxiously not giving a shit about.

First five pins came out easy. Big pair of pliers, quick twist and hard yank (is that british porn). Lots of blood, but pain is manageable and fades quick. 6th pin was the long one, across the joint where the toe and foot meet and was slightly bent. Pure son of a bitch as the doc tugged and tugged on it. Instant sweat and nausea, thankfully years of debauchery as a young man trained me to deal with such things, and after 15 mins or so it passed. No more Frankentoe! Now kind of a bloody mess perk.

Two more goddamned weeks before I can even think of going back to work. Thank god I bought FO4.

[Signe]

Going through that without puking makes you a hard yank, Sky, in spite of your girlish good looks and dainty airs.  Good job!

[rattran]

[Hawkbit]

Every. time. with that gif. I lose like five full minutes laughing. It's mesmerizing and hilarious.

[Mandella]

Toe pin update you've all been anxiously not giving a shit about.

First five pins came out easy. Big pair of pliers, quick twist and hard yank (is that british porn). Lots of blood, but pain is manageable and fades quick. 6th pin was the long one, across the joint where the toe and foot meet and was slightly bent. Pure son of a bitch as the doc tugged and tugged on it. Instant sweat and nausea, thankfully years of debauchery as a young man trained me to deal with such things, and after 15 mins or so it passed. No more Frankentoe! Now kind of a bloody mess perk.

Two more goddamned weeks before I can even think of going back to work. Thank god I bought FO4.

I still think your doctor must have an assistant named Igor hidden away in back...

[Hawkbit]

I've been a strong advocate for Rdio for a few years, maybe close to 4 years. I like their service and product over the other companies, but I'm not sure how long they're going to be around. They don't seem to be innovating and there's very little change to the service. Which is great for users, not so great for investors and growth.

Ha. Rdio is going bankrupt, likely selling to Pandora. Two weeks on that    http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/16/confirmed-pandora-buys-key-rdio-assets-for-75m-in-cash-rdio-files-ch-11-to-shut-down/#.hmuvwjx:qg5e

[Morat20]

Just as a random note, I got to experience what getting an epi shot was like today. (Allergy treatment. They pack as much as possible of months of allergy treatments into a day, trying to get you to the maximum dose. When I hit my limit, they couldn't get the reaction to fully subside. Just red-faced and with a headache, but I was on a cocktail of steroids and anti-histamines at the time, so that's where you stop. When more steroids and antihistamines didn't calm me down, they used and epi shot because any reaction through those drugs would be...really, really bad without them and they won't send you home showing any reactions).

Always just thought that made the reaction go away. Glad they warned me because the trembling hands, the jittery feeling, the rapid pounding heartbeat and general feeling of...I don't even know how to explain it. Like you'd just gotten scare shitless, and were coming down, but you never came down. You were always in that post-terrified tremble. \

It was weird.

[01101010]

Just as a random note, I got to experience what getting an epi shot was like today. (Allergy treatment. They pack as much as possible of months of allergy treatments into a day, trying to get you to the maximum dose. When I hit my limit, they couldn't get the reaction to fully subside. Just red-faced and with a headache, but I was on a cocktail of steroids and anti-histamines at the time, so that's where you stop. When more steroids and antihistamines didn't calm me down, they used and epi shot because any reaction through those drugs would be...really, really bad without them and they won't send you home showing any reactions).

Always just thought that made the reaction go away. Glad they warned me because the trembling hands, the jittery feeling, the rapid pounding heartbeat and general feeling of...I don't even know how to explain it. Like you'd just gotten scare shitless, and were coming down, but you never came down. You were always in that post-terrified tremble. \

It was weird.

Sounds like pushing towards an OD on meth. Which I guess it is, only doctor prescribed.

[Morat20]

Yeah. It's a pretty simple process. They find all the things you're allergic too (well, they do environment and foods separately. I did the first). Then they mix all that together into three compounds.(I have no idea how they decide how to divide up all the stuff you're allergic to into three mixtures, I just know all three were clearly different but together summed up the total of "All the stuff Morat is allergic to".

They break it into 7 levels via concentration (I get the impression it's a 10x series, as it was noted that 50ml of Series 6 was functionally equivalent to 5ml of Series 7, which is undiluted and like being injected with something that is only technically liquid and is mostly sludge). 

So they slowly work you up from "Super diluted, tiny amount" to "50ml of undiluted crap right into you" and train your immune system not to react.

Which takes...6 to 8 months of showing up twice a week. Missing doses sets you back to the previous dose, etc.

So they have a handful of 'rush' treatments. I took the one day one. I got pretty far. Maybe 6 weeks of twice a week shots (I could do once a week, but I want to get to the full dose, undiluted, once a month crap ASAP).

Honestly, I only did it because I'm sick of feeling crappy 9 months of the year (my allergies manifest as sinus headaches and that burning, tired eyes feeling. Not sniffles, or itchy eyes. Just headache and fatigue), and because we ran my son through it -- and he had red eyes, eczema, hives, I mean clear and awful allergies. And it worked. I honestly kinda though allergy treatments were a scam prior to that.

So, you know, used the 16 year old as a guinea pig. Plus I hit me deductible this year already, so fuck my insurance company. Give me only HDHP and damn right I'll do everything you'll cover once you're on the hook, just for fucking spite.

[Sky]

I'm quite pleased that my fiancee is turning into a football fan.  She hasn't even pulled the phone out, other than commercial breaks, for several games now. I've also turned her into a Pats fan :)

She sent me a link to an ugly xmas black cat sweater and told me not to buy it for her (riiight). I sent her a link to one with a big black rooster on it. She said I should buy it for my cousin (who is married to a black guy).

I think her journey to the dark side is complete.

[Polysorbate80]

Always just thought that made the reaction go away. Glad they warned me because the trembling hands, the jittery feeling, the rapid pounding heartbeat and general feeling of...I don't even know how to explain it. Like you'd just gotten scare shitless, and were coming down, but you never came down. You were always in that post-terrified tremble. \

It was weird.

I know the exact feeling; I have asthma, and too much albuterol will do that to me.

Exact opposite feeling: I got sedated at the E.R. last week and started feeling slightly groggy.  Then I was feeling slightly groggy, but it was two hours later.  Apparently they even took me out of the room and did x-rays and shit, and I remember absolutely nothing that happened during that time.  I wish I could sleep like that without medication.

[RhyssaFireheart]

To avoid taking the Lesser Celeb death thread off topic, I'll post this here:

Ironically enough, we were talking about the All Blacks on another forum I frequent.  And I ended up spending a bunch of time last night link-hopping around YouTube watching various haka and whatnot and thoroughly enjoying watching the players... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqfHv9FOpXw

Anyways, what set me off on my link-hop was this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ClYFZUQZ1A

The haka is "immortalized" in FFXIV as the Vanu Vanu dance.   

[Morat20]

I went in for my follow-up allergy treatment today. (You do as many of the shots as you can take, then a week later they give you the next dose down from what you started reacting to, split into two doses).

It seemed fine. Itched, no real reactions, even got free nose spray to deal with the godawful headache associated with all the tree sperm in the air or whatever is killing me.

Then over the course of the day, one arm just....swelled. I have a patch about six inches across in my arm that's red, swollen, and generally unpleasant. Imagine a mosquito bite six inches across, and that's what's going on.

It's an experience! :) Benadryl, ice, and ibuprofen is my reaction. Although I plan to call tomorrow with a "WTF, is this normal?" question.

Strangely enough, it was the arm that just got the one shot. They split it up. One shot in one arm, two in the other. Three mixtures. I'm wondering if maybe the one-shot mixture is the stuff I'm most allergic to? They were pretty firm on the day-long treatment to always use the same mixtures and arms. Never varied, even though over the course of the day one arm was getting twice as many shots as the other.

[schild]

I had a massive pin test on my back for allergies once. Came back negative for everything.

I break out in hives about 3 times a year, covering my body below my neck.

It's fucking awful.

[Samwise]

I get that now and then with no obviously physical trigger.  I've concluded it's stress-related so when I feel it coming on I medicate with alcohol.  Seems to work.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Having the flu absolutely fucking sucks.

[WayAbvPar]

Having the flu absolutely fucking sucks.

I had the real influenza flu about 20 years ago. I have diligently gotten a flu shot every year since because it fucking SUCKED.

[Signe]

Feel better soon if not right now!  Immediately!!!  Achtung!   

[RhyssaFireheart]

Having the flu absolutely fucking sucks.

I had the real influenza flu about 20 years ago. I have diligently gotten a flu shot every year since because it fucking SUCKED.

Yeah, it's the real flu too, not the stomach flu imitation.  Highest my fever got was 103.2 yesterday, but we'd fallen off the alternating Tylenol/Advil regime a bit so I hadn't had any meds for most of the day.  Been fighting this since Saturday now, but we really only knew it was flu Sunday.  Right now the worst part is the coughing.  I feel like I can't walk 5 feet with having to cough my head off, and it HURTS.  

Still don't think I'll get a flu shot though.  Of all the people I know who've gotten one, they've all become horribly sick with the flu within two weeks after.  It's too much of a coincidence to me.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Feel better soon if not right now!  Immediately!!!  Achtung!   

Yes, Ma'am!   

[Selby]

I'm just back to work now after 12 days of the flu. Real flu too, crazy hallucinations and being completely beat up combined with nasty sinus and lung problems. I've not had a serious illness in over 10 years and this sidelined me good. Flu shot isn't much help here either... Medical at work cleared me as "you're fine" 2 days ago but the evil stares & comments from coworkers convinced me to go home & stay home another day. Now I just need to avoid the lung issues turning into pneumonia and I'll be in good shape.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Yeah, I've been working from home all this week and plan to go back in on Monday, but I really don't see this cough being gone by then.  Right now it feels like I've been beaten up around the ribs and back, I'm so sore.  I didn't even consider that the lung issues could turn into pneumonia though, that's a scary thought!

No hallucinations, luckily, although I have spent plenty of time shivering under multiple blankets and then two seconds later, practically taking off all my clothes because I'm melting into a puddle of sweat.