It’s been a while.
I’ve been taking time off from the blog for as I try to deal with an assortment of health issues that have been hitting me especially hard in recent weeks. This year has been a tough one for me, health-wise, as I’ve continued to deal with seemingly unending chronic migraines as well as worsening sleep problems that have seriously derailed my life and my work.
Progress in dealing with these issues — and several others I’d rather not go into right now — has been frustratingly slow, in part because my particular problems have proven rather resistant to treatment and in part because, well, let’s just say our healthcare system here in the US isn’t what you’d call perfect.
But things have been getting a little better in recent days and I’m hoping I can get back to regular posting shortly.
Thanks for your patience. I very much appreciate your support.
— David
@Numerobis
‘Dormouse’ has been my spouse’s nickname for me for decades now. I suppose it’s due to my small stature, and the fact that I’m a night person who struggles to get up for a workday beginning at 8:30 AM.
I guess it’s preferable to ‘Space Chipmunk’. When I was a teenager in the 80s, I was attempting to scrounge up some booze for my younger sister and her friends, trying to convince some over-21 buddies into making straw purchases of alcohol, and one girl happened to mention that I drove like a chipmunk on acid. Thanks, dumbass! I did pull through eventually, and I was the hero of the day:)
@PreuxFox
I’ve been studiously ignoring Sassy for a few days now.
Hope you feel better soon.
It’s been a rough summer here. Struggling with anxiety and depression through the spring, laid off end of June, found a new job around the second week of September, and just finished moving to Vancouver to start it tomorrow.
On the plus side, the shake-up seems to have dispelled my depression, at least temporarily.
Unfortunately, my cats are with my folks right now and have been stressing out. Hope they’ll be ok to join me at our new apartment next week.
Dormousing_it:
Since I was reading the comments from latest to earliest, I thought for a moment you were referring to Sassy Trump, and I sympathised.
((David))
Sorry to hear about your health issues. Hope you take as much rest as you need to get better. Take care of yourself. We need your voice. I love your focus on exposing the garbage spewed by MRAs/MGTOWs in a thorough and hilarious fashion.
Sending positive vibes your way.
I hope things resolve quickly for you David, managing chronic conditions is awful, and mine doesn’t even cause me significant pain… It sucks having to battle with the health system while feeling crap.
Quick question out of frustration: Why the fuck do printers never work? We’re on our third printer and I don’t think we’ve ever managed to print a single legible page of anything. Our first printer turned out to be not compatible with any ink cartridge sold anywhere in the world. Other than that, I always get just a blank page every time I try to print a normal page of black text on white background. And if I ever do get anything other than a blank page, it’s always barely visible text, white lines or bars running through all images and text. Fuck this, I’m going back to hand written everything.
Beware. Canada’s New Democratic Party just chose Jagmeet Singh as its new leader, the first time a visible minority Canadian has led a major Canadian political party. But since he’s Sikh you can expect some clueless yahoos will be claiming Canada is about to be taken over by Sharia law.
@Weird Eddie
Been there, done that.
Besides, the story about the creator of Hamilton saying that Trump is going straight to hell for ignoring the plight of Puerto Rico — a commonsense kind of theology — bears repeating.
@Ooglyboggles
Yay for positive news!
Now is definitely the time to have a philosophical discussion with a Puerto Rican public official: What is life? What is death? It’s also the time to have a political discussion: What is the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico?
Defending Trump, Geraldo Rivera debates the meaning of ‘dying’ with San Juan’s mayor
If she didn’t loathe him before, she does now!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/10/01/defending-trump-geraldo-rivera-debates-the-meaning-of-dying-with-san-juans-mayor/?utm_
Anybody with a sense of morality and empathy loathes Donald Trump, you putz. (IRT Geraldo Riviera)
@Petal
Does your printer have a cleaning cycle you can run? That can help.
There are a couple of reasons printers do this: less frequent use, which is common in home printers, causes the ink to dry, which can clog the head, and if your cats like to sleep on it the hair and skin cells can clog it up.
The other reason is, of course, cheaply made crap designed to maximize cost at the expense of reliability.
Might be better off going to a print shop.
Random question, but if an anthropomorphic lioness was a hijabi, what would she do with her tail? It’s for a drawing.
Kupo-
What is it with cats and printers? Our cat likes to sleep on our printer all the time. ?
The terrible Tumblr troll known as “cantfightnature” has hit a new low:
http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=132408
When you’re feeling better, maybe you should do a post about him.
@MissEB47
I don’t know, but I select my printers now based on whether cats will fit on them, and, if they can, whether there’s a way for the hair to get inside.
I don’t know. What’s she doing with the rest of her body? I can see the tail trailing over the woman’s shoulder or maybe wrapped with the lower body around the woman’s neck.
@Pagan: Well, the usual tradition is a head covering, not a “any hair, anywhere” covering, so I’m gonna say probably nothing.
I’m so stressed out. I can’t keep current with my class work to save my life and it’s eating up my sleep which makes it harder to work which makes it harder to sleep which makes me despair of doing anything else important (like, really important deadline things) besides trying not to drown in my work and anxiety. And the grad student counselor’s been…of the expected level of help, which is to say, almost no help whatsoever. I resent the fact that I’m going to waste an hour in her office not getting any immediate help (plus another half hour getting my stuff, walking, and settling in at the library) rather than trying to work on my projects. /rant
@PaganReader
Whatever any other anthropomorphic lion does with it. A hijab is a head garment and unrelated to the lower body.
I suppose that pants would probably have a hole for it, as would closer fitted skirts, robes or dresses. Looser ones wouldn’t need one.
@tim gueguen Someone already did. 😛
@Dave Best wishes and healing for you! Take all the time you need. <3
Glad to see you back, David. Take it easy though!
@kupo
I have no clue about the cleaning cycle. Maybe I should try to look into it. It’s definitely not dried ink. The printer is placed in a high up spot where cats normally understand they shouldn’t be able to reach it. Even if it were har and dust, I still doubt it would print entirely blank pages. 🙁
@Jules I sympathise. I’ve usually been good with academic stuff, but at the moment I’m really struggling with a short online course in accounting for small businesses. I really need it for my tiny, tiny publishing house to make sure I stay legal, but it’s so amazingly boring that my brain freezes at the sight of it. Plus it’s in Spanish so I have to learn all the specialist vocabulary instead of about half of it. (And what the hell is passive about debts? I really don’t think the tax office will be passive if I don’t pay up!) And I only have to keep going for 9 weeks. All I can suggest is that you remember self care, and I think you knew that.
@Pagan I think you could plausibly say that it depends on local custom. Someone once told me that Turkish girls nearly always have a little hair peeping out of the hijab, which is considered “fast” in other countries. So it seems quite plausible to me that some hijab-wearing lionesses would cover their tails and some wouldn’t, but I suspect tails would be considered sexy.
She could also tuck her tail down one leg of her harem pants.
Does she need to hunt in that hijab? Or does she have an office job?
Mass shooting situation in Las Vegas. Gunman opened fire with a fully automatic weapon with at least 60 odd rounds per drum/mag, into a crowded plaza.
Hundred plus injured, twenty dead at last count. I don’t know if we have any vegas members, but stay safe.
This has now changed to be over 50 dead, 200 wounded.
Deadliest mass shooting in US history. The last time that record was broken was almost exactly a year ago.
Has anyone said “now is not the right time to talk about gun control” yet?