Greetings and Salutations!
Sorry that tonight is going to be a short one. My nugget is throbbing like a bass-box in the back of a wannabe rapper’s ride. I’ve had a couple or three things that’ve come up and have me irrationally pissed off and the stress has my skull screaming.
Thank God for Xanax
Or I should say “Gretchen’s Xanax”
One of the docs she has hooked her up during the Cancer Scare so plenty of anti-anxieties around. Hopefully it mellows me out. I mean I just did have a minor issue coming back from the store.
I literally just had this happened so I’m a bit amped.
I went to the store to get some beer and energy drinks, as well as a thing/box/bag of Reese’s Pieces for Gretchen as she had a craving. Everything was fine until I tried to cross the street to get home. The main drag here in town is two-lanes, each way, with a crossover in an island. Pretty standard stuff.
Now I had a car in front of me.
Usually no issue.
Tonight?
Well traffic on BOTH sides of the road are clear AF.
ZERO traffic.
The clown in front of me pulls out, gets into the middle crossing section of the island, and just stops
No one coming.
Not for a few.
Either direction.
This asshole stops for whatever reason.
Not sure if he was checking his fon or WTF???
Since I was on his tail, I’m stuck with the ass end of my car ‘hanging out’ in the far left lane that I just tried to cross, as the middle section isn’t wide enough for two vehicles, and there’s cars coming up… if this fucker doesn’t move, I might get creamed by an unobservant retard.
Not for nothing, I don’t worry about laying on the horn.
So I do.
GTFO of my way you fucktard!
So he pulls out, then hard brakes, and cuts in, and aggressively gets behind me as I’m gunning around. This was a bad idea on his part. Not sure if I bruised his ego or what? but man… wrong night for some asshole to pull this shit. He hits his hi-beams and starts following me back to the Casa. Like riding my ass like a bumper sticker. When I took the turn to go onto my street, he was still there, so I hammered the brakes, threw it in park, and jumped out.
No idea what this individual was expecting, but it was obviously NOT a 330 pound pissed off gorilla who’s off his meds and been in a seriously bad mood all day.
I didn’t get to see who was behind the wheel because of the hi-beams, but maaan. Male OR Female or “whatever” realized their mistake, and jumped on their brakes and dialed around so fucking quickly they were squealing the tires to get the fuck out of dodge. Like smoked them skins to go… they got back on the main drag and fled.
Mind you I was NOT holding any traditional weapon.
Just what I call my “John Wick” pencil.
Sapper got it for me a few years back as a stocking stuffer:
It’s a synthetic material that’s hard AF
It doesn’t write and theoretically can’t be detected by backscatter or xrays like at the airport. It is OMFG pointy, theoretically unbreakable, and hence why I call it my “John Wick Pencil” as yeah, I could jam this fucker in an ocular cavity, nasal passage… hell I think it’d punch through the occipital bone/temple without too much effort.
I carry it in my tri-fold wallet
Last ditch weapon amiright?
But either way, I think the vision of a 6’4/330lb Angry ANGRY (and possibly grinning like a fool) Man holding what appeared to be just a Number Two Pencil warned he/she/it off completely.
Too bad.
I’m needing an serious outlet.
Think I’m going to punch out early tomorrow and go shoot.
I need to vent some anger.
I mean it wasn’t an all bad day.
Just exceptionally frustrating and anger inducing.
I mean the dinner I made for everyone fucking rocked.
That’s homemade Texas Toast Fried French Toast Sticks, with Xtra Thikk Cut Bacon, Pork Sausage and scrambled eggs made out of the French Toast ‘batter’ that wasn’t used up. Smothered and covered in a generous amount of real Vermont Maple Syrup.
Breakfast: It makes one Hell of a Dinner.
I won’t need to eat until 13:00 in the afternoon I’d wager.
Sapper and Gretchen are in the same boat.
So that was my shitty day.
How was yours?
More Later
Big Country
2-3 ibuprofen liquigels and 2-3 acetaminophen tabs all at the same time.
Near oxycodone levels of pain control for about 5 hours and no addictive potential.
What I used after I had both my knees replaced at the same time.
Coelacanth
The long-term use problem of using acetaminophen and ibuprofen involves something called NAPQI that’s produced by interactions with cytochrome P450 2E1 (aka CYP2E1).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP2E1
“CYP2E1 is expressed in high levels in the liver, where it works to clear toxins from the body. In doing so, CYP2E1 bioactivates a variety of common anesthetics, including paracetamol (acetaminophen), halothane, enflurane, and isoflurane. The oxidation of these molecules by CYP2E1 can produce harmful substances such as trifluoroacetic acid chloride from halothane or NAPQI from paracetamol (acetaminophen) and is a major reason for their observed hepatotoxicity in patients.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAPQI
“… under some conditions in which NAPQI is not effectively detoxified (usually in the case of paracetamol overdose), it causes severe damage to the liver.”
So that’s what causes that.
As for this: “Near oxycodone levels of pain control …”
There are people who have different CYP450 genetics, and for them oxycodone doesn’t work well or at all, with the same thing going for Tramadol.
If they’re lucky, hydrocodone and hydromorphone still work, but if they have full gene deletions (especially on CYP2D6), those don’t work either.
So if you’re going to be going down the CYP2E1 metabolic pathway with potentially dangerous results, it’d be worth picking up a bottle of n-acetylcysteine (NAC) and perhaps also a bottle of glutathione, which NAC gets converted to within the body.
The liver you save may be your own.
Watched a video on YouTube “Backyard Ballistics” channel. He is a guy in Italy who does gun restorations. Side note: Italy has pretty good gun laws, not as good as Switzerland, but good for EU. He was doing a restoration on a WW2 BAR that he got with two Thompsons (different video). The rifle may have been in a fire as well as stored haphazardly. His restoration game is good, but not as good as yours. The reason you might be interested in this video is that he does a lot of what appears to be TIG welding to fill in large pits in the barrel exterior. He was not able to do the receiver since that (particular one) was made of cast iron. Later versions were made of steel. He did some repair welds on the magazine because BAR magazines are pricey. He ends the video with test firing. The BAR worked, but did not eject as he was using low power rounds due to the age and condition.
You can weld cast iron, just takes special welding rod and is usually done as SMAW(stick) not GTAW (tig), you can do it as tig but its tricky.
BCE, I won’t say anything about your personal business but just to let you know, I understand and I’m sorry.
My Ex and I adopted 3 kids then she left me for another guy she was cheating on me with and took the kids in the divorce. Thus started the brainwashing the kids by my Ex and it was 13 years ago. I only have contact and a relationship with my one daughter who is not bad per se just a drama factory.
She’s 1200 miles and we talk and visit but that’s it.
I’ll tell you that the Ex turning my kids on me ate at my gut like battery acid. Finally I met my now wife and she she loves me, is good as gold to me and everyone in her family has been wonderful to me.
I came to the realization that I am not wasting any time, tears or anguish on those who obviously don’t love or give a shit about me. I put my energy, love and time into those who DO.
Gretchen and the Grands are your family, Sapper is like a brother to you. They all love and care about you. I know you have a Christian background like I do, read the book of Job sometime.
I think like Job both of us were tested, lost everything yet because we did the right thing God rewarded us and we regained more than we lost. I thank God every day for the people who care about me and those who don’t I wish well but want nothing to do with them.
I dunno shit about your lot or circumstances either Tiny but when ya start flipping out and it surprises everyone including yourself… It’s time to do something and make some changes.
I seem to be having the same trouble as you with people just stopping their cars for no apparent reason (honest to God) . It seems to be happening now more than before November 5. I guarantee that they are not people who voted for Trump.
As that “Jim” guy said… “People are strange”.
And yes, it does seem to be getting worse, quickly.
Little while ago I “brake checked” a tailgater on a narrow two lane, tree covered winding road. My favorite pickup truck, (He was riding my tail so close I couldn’t see their headlights over my tailgate, I’d slow and pull to the right to “invite” them to pass, didn’t take the hint. Tap the breaks… nope, unaware… was like I was towing them with a 6′ chain, wouldn’t back off, (yes I was doing the speed limit or more).
“Here Goes!” brace and slam on the breaks… There’s that screech and thud, knocked my lunch box to the floorboard. Wait, wait, pull forward a bit see one headlight, Wait, wait… well I ‘m not “confronting” anyone on this road. So I drive 1/4 mile to the hotel parking lot and wait for a half hour… Waited, then continued on to work. No damage to the truck.
Be careful, BCE, Tampa area diversity might be dumb and cowardly but are more than likely to escalate if they feel “disrespected” to firing off their illegal glock with their even more illegal switch: their hold-it-sideways-and-jerk-it-while-firing aim is pretty much worthless, but if even one of those pseudo-machine gun rounds catches you you’re gonna be looking at AT LEAST some serious medical bills and a hell of a lot of heartache for Gretch, Sapper, and your two grans.
Had a guy cut me off on the four lane highway coming into the city. I was doing the speed limit. Behaving myself. I took the off ramp to my exit and he stopped on the curve ahead of me and jumped out. I pulled way over and gently passed him. He jumps in and followed me to the city. He had a woman in the car too. I watched him for a while and determined he was going to see where I lived. Fat chance. Didn’t live in the city. I took him for a wild goose chase all over the west end, which I knew like the back of my hand. He eventually gave up. and I drove on to my destination.
So my take? I think he had been fighting with the woman, and wanting to take it up a notch or had high blood pressure, or some other mental issue. Maybe even a spiritual influence. I.e.: unclean spirit. Yes, it still happens once in a while. Shows up more often in drug users. Funny that.
I’m prone to headaches from atmospheric pressure changes. So I take an Aleve NSAI.
Lot of asshole wankers on the road now, no doubt. I see it constantly since I do service and repair work, and do 3-4 service calls a day in different locations. Jacking around with phones is a big issue, but so is general inattentiveness, and being and idiot (or a prick) and intentionally causing problems just because they can.
I’ve had some very close calls due to these morons. Have had no one following me yet, but I had a couple of morons in a car piss me off by nearly hitting me while doing twice the posted speed limit. So I followed them for about 15 mins (had nowhere special to be that evening), just to intimidate a bit and hope they got the point to stop fuckin’ around.
Every time I fly out for work, it’s from West Palm Beach airport to somewhere in the northeast, usually NY. So it’s hard to leave my wife and kid and the sun to go to fuckin’ NY.
So I’m a square peg I guess ‘cus I got no particular beef with the heebs, but EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I fly, there’s an old Jewish couple who shove their way to the front of the line despite buying tickets to sit in the back with the cattle, chickens and the Irish, bring 6 bags on the plane, fight with the gate agents, stand in the aisle to stop the boarding, sit in first class, get kicked out when the argue thst the guys who paid for those seats show up, argue with a steward or stewardess and accuse them of racism, get sent to their real seats, and then take 10-12 mins to stand in the aisles again and call someone on speakerphone to arrange their pickup from the airport. As soon as the doors close the wife walks to the front of the plane, ignores the stewardess, and goes in the head and takes a 15 minute shit, causing the plane to sit- no taxiing with people in the can, after all. It’s a good flight if the delay is less than 30 mins.
When we finally take off, as soon as the roll starts, the husband calls someone on his phone, on speakerphone of course, and then yells and gets surprised when the call starts breaking up as we climb out. He then spends 10 mins trying to call back, complaining to everyone around him the whole while. I can hear him from the bsck row and I usually sit in business class or just behind first class, anyhow, with the Quality, you know, Protestents and people who have nice shoes on when they could be wearing sneakers.
Every time I fly out of PBI it’s Jews Behaving Badly. You hear stories about feral blacks on Sprit, but the difference is that people are deathly afraid of pissing off old Jews when they act up. As a result, at least on airplanes, they’re untouchable and entitled, because they know it.
I take a double dose of my blood pressure meds on fly-out day. They say not to because it can interact weirdly with other things when you’re hung over, which I usually am on fly-out day, but I mean I’m going to work for a month. If I die, I don’t have to deal with NY at least.
Sounds like fairly standard entitled behavior from the Juice. I just flew in and out of PBI a few weeks back and there were plenty of The Chosen People. It was a shame I was wearing a t-shirt with a prominent totenkopf…
“I got no particular beef with the heebs”
Sorry, Paul, but you do. Noticing is Hate Think. Noticing out loud is anti-Semitic Hate Crime.
Not saying I agree with that, but them’s the rules, and I don’t make the rules.
That’s a normal day in Albuquerque. Often accompanied with gunfire. Some dude had to shoot a couple 14 yr. olds not too long ago after they shot at him while he was sitting in a parking lot.
I NEED to know where to get one of those pencils!! I’ve never had any trouble carrying a Zebra pen, but a No. 2 pencil would be awesome.
https://www.amazon.com/VZ-TACTICAL-PENCIL-Yellow-Leather-Sheath/dp/B094RH6YYH?th=1
Or you can get usable heavy duty Carpenters Pencil (come in round or rectangular).
Since Covid people have been driving like absolute fucking retards, I should do a post about it because the average motorist is a fatal accident waiting to happen.
I’m sure it’s the vax. Causes dementia and brain lock. I’ve seen people cruise right thru a red light, blank look on their face, totally unaware they have just risked life and limb. The other effect seems to be hair trigger unprovoked aggressiveness.