Okay, here's the present-day scoop in a nutshell:  laboring to finish Shadowmarch and ignore various soft-tissue infirmities, waiting for DC comic contracts to sign for The Next (unrelated to OTHERLAND 'Next's) stuck partway through a remodel with a gutted house, my wife has committed poodle -- yes, we got another damned puppy this summer -- the kids are psycho (but reasonably cute) and Daddy's on Paxil.

Any questions?

Some call him Oscar.  Some call him Satan.

I try not to call him at all.

(Actually, he's hideously cute, as befits a tool of the infernal powers.)

Oscar the fallen angel, I must have been sick that day at RE.

[ January 09, 2004: Message edited by: Stuart ]

my cousins (who i rent from) sister has a small dustratty named dog named jiminy,.. the cutiness is a problrm, i am firmly in the big dog camp, however his rumming yipping cathumping, i am the badass of the universe act is funny, almost as funny as watching shana the lab whackl him round when he get's too cocky..

Tad wrote:

It's in the New Testament -- the Book of Sherman and His Pal, if I remember correctly.  Or maybe it's in Wagviticus.

Was Oscar's mother featured at all? What good is religion without a Dogma?

[ January 09, 2004: Message edited by: Stuart ]

Tad wrote:

Any questions?

yes. how's the paxil working for you? :)

Today was my first day.  I'm taking it primarily to see if it helps with hypertension (and tension in general.)  The one thing I don't tend to be is depressed, but I'm definitely feeling a bit hyper-stressed.

So I'm still in the slightly-dopey stage.  I'll let you know what it feels like when it gets a bit more normal.  It's a very low dose.

I'm taking so much medicine these days for joint problems and hypertension and whatnot that I feel quite senior-ish.  On the other hand (as I was just telling someone) I was driving around blasting Outkast with the windows on my van down yesterday, and all the normal people were looking at me in great annoyance, so I guess I'm kind of a middle-aged delinquent.

they gave me paxil for depression after the drug episode in 9th grade, and when i was tossed into rehab, they prohibited any non-mandatory prescription drug usage, so 2 weeks into it, i was shut off cold turkey. i still don't know if it helped or not. [tangent] but i have learned that slight mental illnesses can be treated by meditation, firm denial, and mental distraction. i think psychologists call this suppression, which is ultimately harmful, but hey! it works for me. [/tangent]

There's medication for general tension and stress?

Had a period of my life when I was so stressed, my neck muscles were permanently tense, to a point where I never didn't have a screaming migraine.  They gave me stuff that more or less knocked me out for half the day.  Wasn't super productive in that time.

Hope it works well for you, Dogly One, even with the green and purple minions.

Tad - The other day I found a radio station down here that plays hard rock from the 70s and 80s, and I had a fine time for a few minutes, driving around in the Z with the windows rolled down blasting "Free Bird" at top volume.

How's it going there, big fella? Been a few years since we've spoken. We're still in San Diego, household still consists of me, Julie, two useless cats.

Julie says, "Hello, hawaii, howz bayou?"

re: pills - I was diagnosed with diabetes in August, and now I get to take five pills a day and test my own blood twice a day. Doc says I have to EXERCISE -- and I have to PAY to be told this.

Shadows and Ice:

There's medication for general tension and stress? 

There is indeed, and I prefer mine to be made with Beefeater, two olives, extremely cold.

Beefeater?  *insert 'what the...?' noises here*

Getting images of some mythical Chupacabra-esque beastie who likes 'em mooing.

Shadows and Ice wrote:

Beefeater?  *insert 'what the...?' noises here*

Getting images of some mythical Chupacabra-esque beastie who likes 'em mooing.

GIN!  Sorry, got a bit excited there, though I'm more of the tonic and a slice of lime type.  ;o)

(haven't stopped laughing at that image yet)

(and I'm still trying to work out what the beastie was going with the olives)

[ January 11, 2004: Message edited by: Arvhot ]