Gearhead

I wore something similar, made by a company called Zio. It monitors your heart rate and looks for arrhythmias. If you only have to wear it for 24 hours, rejoice. I wore mine for two weeks, by the end of which my skin was going nuts from the adhesive, and I wanted to chew off my left pec.

SAD: Snow Ain’t Depressing. Yeah. Summers are bad for me, too. There’s too much light and I can’t sleep, and in very short order that turns into a mixed episode, and then into depression. Typically July is the worst month for me. Bleak and wrung-out and alone. It’ll pass. Eventually.

Hey, guess what? We care. We don’t allow misogyny, or people being, in general, fucking pricks. You’ve set off my prick-o-meter. If this is your attitude towards women, I bet they can’t stand being around you, either. This is your only warning. Can it with that shit, or you’re getting banned. Gearhead (admin)

I worked as a jeweler for six years. If crystals and/or gemstones had any medicinal properties, jewelers would be the healthiest, most well-balanced people on the planet. Let me assure that they are not.

Have you tried going for a walk? Maybe doing yoga?

I’m sitting in The Comfy Chair in my back yard. It’s cool enough that I might want to put on some socks. This time last week it was so hot there were heat advisories. I kept the dogs in because I was worried about their health.

I don’t mean to say that everyone shouldn’t get vaccinated. It’s our best protection, short-term and long term.

By all means, get vaccinated. It’s the best way to deal with uncertainty about who else may be vaccinated, or not. It’s the best way to prevent mutations. It protects people who can’t get the vaccine.

As I’ve heard it explained, the WHO is looking at the problem globally, whereas the CDC is only thinking about the U.S. The WHO is looking at the planet as if it’s one entity, and saying “Given the overall low vaccination rate of the population (the human race), we think it’s smart to keep masking.” The CDC is only looking at the U.S., and they’re concluding that enough people have been vaccinated that it’s ok to go unmasked. Here’s a handy graphic: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html I have no remaining faith in the CDC, and will continue masking indefinitely.

Well. Dang. Whether you want to abandon him at this point or not, I hope you can read back over your post and see exactly how much grief he’s causing you. He hasn’t got the right to tell you how to do your job, or to snap at you when you do it to the best of your ability. He hasn’t got the right to dictate what you talk about on the phone, or with whom. Going off a med because you can’t afford it is a special kind of hellish. Have you tried https://www.goodrx.com ? Maybe they can help you.

I have no phobias, but I have so many issues with the smells, textures, flavors, and sometimes the mere idea of foods that I might be able to fool a casual observer.

Yup, that was the intent. But sometimes punctuation can save lives. One colon and that sentence could go from macabre to merely awkward.

To me it’s like a combination of interpretive dance and and sibling rivalry gone vigorously awry.

The other night I was watching rugby with a friend (it was three a.m. Drinks had been had) and one of the announcers yelled “What the fuck?!” and it was the best sports commentary ever. Rugby is the only sport I will watch, full stop; and if you try to explain the rules to me I will physically prevent you from doing so. Don’t you dare spoil this for me.