estutweh @ DirigibleProtein @aussie.zone

Posts

14

Comments

1,093

Joined

2 yr. ago

When I was young and regularly drank to excess, they used to last until mid afternoon.

No surgery, I have incurable blood cancer (multiple myeloma). I spent a year not responding to several different flavours of chemo. After “getting my affairs in order” and saying goodbye, they decided to do a stem cell (“bone marrow”) transplant, then another. Two more years of chemo, and now I’m in “myeloma remission” — cancer levels are too low to detect, but it always comes back…

vim with appropriate syntax highlighting, or kate

The sign says “gates will open automatically”, so I assume they will (Coles wouldn’t lie to their customers), and go through them at speed. Sometimes they don’t open and they get slammed with a trolley. Too bad, so sad. Sometimes they don’t open and I have to push them open with my hand or more usually kick them. On the rare occasion that a staff member notices or even gives a shit, I tell them to log a fault because the gates are broken.

Same, but chemotherapy was my trigger. Some doctors tell me “that never happens”; others say “yea, that’s common”.

I used to be able to speak five languages fluently, now three of them have almost completely disappeared. I can’t watch movies because I can’t keep track of who’s who and why they’re doing that. Same with reading books.

I pick up my iPad and can’t remember why. I read something and get stuck on words, I recognise a word and I know that I know what it means, but can’t remember. I’ll be speaking, get halfway through a sentence, and can’t remember what I was talking about.

I feel like the guy in Flowers for Algernon, who had it all and then lost it; and he knows it.

I always thought that fire is “just” plasma, but it’s more complicated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire

How about “dodgy”, so that describes the department and their behaviour?

The article says “the weight of a plastic spoon”; odd that they didn’t use a standard unit of measurement.

Maria End

thank you. It was long ago and far away.

Clean clear cold mountain water. Beginning of spring, snow was starting to melt. There was a settlement out of court. I’m almost 60 now and my ankles still click and hurt.

Three and a half weeks, 25 days.

More than forty years ago I was lost in the wilderness on a school camp. Broke both ankles and couldn’t walk. Drank water from a stream and waited.

Log out, clear cookies, never log in again.

• Flat out like a lizard drinking
• We’re not here to fuck spiders
• As dry as a dead dingo’s donger
• Forty cents short of a shout
• A few kangaroos loose in the top paddock

Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Device Based on Heim’s Quantum Theory

I thought it sounded interesting, but the mathematics was beyond me.

None sound correct to me. Sounds like you’re trying to describe a specific situation.

Do any of these help:

• “I’m wondering if the monkey can see my ears”
• ”I’m wondering if that monkey can see my ears”
• ”I’ve been wondering about that monkey and whether it can see my ears”

vim

My partner’s grandmother lived to 104.

https://youtu.be/nf0oXY4nDxE