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ProfessorTomoe
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Things That Are Just Annoying
ProfessorTomoe replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I'd give the edge to the whacked knee in the pain expectation department. -
loving language The Grammar Thread
ProfessorTomoe replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
No apologies necessary, my good friend. I'd let you misspell my daughter's name, if I had a daughter.- 132 replies
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loving language The Grammar Thread
ProfessorTomoe replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
@The Old Hack : Extremely sorry, but I had to put this here—it's a pet peeve of mine. There is no tilde in the word habanero. From Dictionary.com: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/habanero Wikipedia calls the tilde "a hyperforeignism patterned after jalapeño." My apologies for the rant.- 132 replies
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Things That Are Just Annoying
ProfessorTomoe replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I ... think my supply is considerably more potent.- 1,922 replies
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Mrs. Prof brought home a Monterrey Melt from Whataburger. I managed to get half of it down without getting sick.
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Now digesting evening pills. With tea. Mrs. Prof hasn't come home yet from her tasks at the Garland Pet Adoption Center. She usually brings something, so I wait.
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I think the coffee is fighting an uphill battle against both our medications. One cup has little chance of winning with my pill menagerie.
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Yeah, that's what my cardiologist told me. They ran a 24-hour Holter monitor test on me in 2012, after a particularly nasty bout put me in the emergency room. The monitor showed that I threw thousands of PVCs during the test. What's weird is that the EKGs they run when I go in for a checkup never show any PVCs. They only run it for a minute or less, though. I'm tempted to get him to run the Holter monitor again, just to see if the PVCs are really gone. Until then, I'm taking 15mg of clorazepate twice a day to try and calm things down. -
Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I can't do that, unfortunately. Tried to back in the 1980s, with Vivarin. Extended exposure (once daily for a few weeks) gave me vasospasms and turned my left hand blue-ish. I wound up leaving work and going to the doctor's office. I'm not doing that again. Especially not with the other drugs I'm taking (including one to keep my heart from throwing PVCs). -
Well, the coffee went down and didn't make me nauseous. It made me sleepy. Maybe more accurately, it didn't keep me awake. Might have something to do with the fact that I only got under 6 hours of sleep overnight. That, plus all of my morning pills ... gah. In any case, I crashed out for about 2 hours. I'm up now. I think I need more coffee.
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Things That Are Just Annoying
ProfessorTomoe replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
It takes a lot to knock me out for more than four hours. The non-prescriptions that I take (and my doctor hasn't jumped on me about) are melatonin (10mg) and L-Tryptophan (500mg x 2 = 1000mg). L-Tryptophan developed a nasty reputation about 30 years ago after a contaminated batch hit the shelves, but that's ancient history. You can get it at a reasonable price from PipingRock.com . -
You know, the local Garland brewery I keep talking about released a version of their "Temptress" Imperial Milk Stout that had Thin Mint flavor added. Called it "Sin Mint Temptress," they did. I called it "bleh." The first thing of theirs that I really didn't like.
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Gonna try a cup of Haitian Blue coffee. Tea on standby.
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Yeah, it's a vicious cycle (or circle, depending on how you implement the phrase). Timing has a lot to do with it. I usually need some food before I can stomach coffee, but I can't have food with or near coffee. Only tea works there. After some digestion, I can start considering coffee, but if I drink too much my stomach gets out of balance and starts to rebel. It's been worse recently. My gastric-bypassed stomach used to be able to handle a double-Keurig cup with Equal, creamer, and a couple of SToK black coffee booster shots (a.k.a. "WTFU Coffee"). Now, I can only handle a single Keurig cup with creamer and Equal. Anything more and I run the risk of getting nausea from quantity. I don't know what's changed to cause this. Maybe it's my Trintellix prescription. Maybe my stomach just got tired of abuse. Not even my doctor knows. I suspect I'll be sent to a gastroenterologist if I go back to the doctor with the symptoms I had last time. I hate barium milkshakes. -
Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Damn. I started off the day feeling somewhat better than Monday, but now my coffee has given me nausea. Phenergan to the rescue. /* brain starts fogging over */ Lousy side effects. I had stuff to do today. Now I can't drive without getting pulled over for a pharmaceutical DUI. -
/* PlotHole opens */ ProfessorTomoe: "I'll take that off your hands. It will be right at home with us, yes?" /* ProfessorTomoe takes the glass+coaster and withdraws */ /* PlotHole closes */
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Thin mints. With tea.
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Don't you mean hydrogenated? It'd be a shame if he went rancid too soon ...
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BTW, to rub salt into the wound of the Cowboys losing to Green Bay on a last-second field goal, stadium officials told people to stay in their seats and shelter in place after the game due to a severe weather warning. Imagine that—your team gets knocked out of the playoffs, and you've got to stay in the stadium against your will afterward until a farking storm passes.
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One passed over Grand Prairie up here and hit their municipal airport. Property damage only, no injuries. BTW, Grand Prairie is just east of Arlington, where JerryWorld (a.k.a. the Dallas Cowboys' stadium) is located. The tornado traveled between the stadium and the western edge of Dallas. Nowhere near where Mrs. Prof and I live—a little close to where my son & his wife live, though. Still missed all of us.
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I thought the clotted cream reference would be the worse of the two.
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Commiserations. My tramadol does that to me sometimes. -
Are there any Canadian single malt whisky products, or is it all blended?
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I'd like to know if Sarah is capable of passing through walls, floors, et cetera in her SimWorld state. She should be, since everything is taking place in her head.
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Mrs. Prof has a Samsung Galaxy Edge 7. It has yet to gain the explosive reputation its sibling did. Me, I hardly ever use my phone anyway, so I'm still using my Nokia Lumia 1020 (a Windows 8.1 phone). It gets the job done and takes great pictures, but it's boring. (I'll wager that's a good thing, based on how addicted Mrs. Prof is to her fancy phone.)