i had a great time tonight with some friends from high school i hadnt seen in forever, playing bar trivia. we called ourselves "jet fuel can't melt steel beams but it can melt your mom's heart" and came in third so our beers were paid for. whoo!

you used to have to go for your METHADONE DOSE? for real?
you used to do drugs in the past?

Free beer is always nice......for those who enjoy beer

My LDL went from solidly optimal last summer to borderline high this work, per my blood test. Cause: Last summer we switched from filter-brewed coffee to french press. I've done nothing else differently.

Don't do what I have done, children! Stay away from the french press. It does make damned good coffee though.

We've gone back to the Chemex method.

yes she did. you gotta read her posts more often!


ha ha ha. i ditched my french press for a can of french roast instant. at 8 cents a cup i don't care if it kills me.

sorry about the cholesterol thing. though i don't know which one is which. LDL = bad one, yes?

eat more fish yo. not tilapia.

I dare say slavo was being sarcastic

here is what chatterbox has been mumbling/ranting about in just the past 10 minutes

I wish she would have contacted me
Ha Ha Ha Ha!
Concur is....I'm not happy
I think they bounced Christie....
Arrrggghhhhhhh!
I am not happy....These retired people are more trouble than they are worth
Little quickie-doodle
Allllright, let's see what she's got
I don;t know what the heck she is talking about
OK...
Ok...
he he he STOP IT!
For....
I bet Christie is looking at this
Ogh God
Link, link. link
Goodie!
hey sugarbear
stop it!


all fucking goddamn day..............

lolol. i am sorry man. i'm laughing at this but i'm sorry too. seriously.

have you tried the "music bed" suggestion i proposed? i.e, muzak. of course at the dean's office it can't be skronk, and you don't want some lame-ass easy-listening orchestral versions of old pop, but from palestrina to arvo pärt there is ample fabric to make you some bigass sound curtains.

I wish I could transcribe the random grunts, groans, chortles, squeals, etc.

best fucking luck PLips

i was on it for like six months. clinic was only open from 630 am to noon, and only from 7-8 on sat/sun morning which was awful because i had like an hour-hourish commute each way. so like half my morning was spend for something that takes two minutes. it really is liquid handcuffs. methadone withdrawal was worse than any time i kicked dope. been clean for like, seventy something days now and dude, i do not miss that fucking cherry-flavored prison sentence.

plips- dbt is AWESOME. it really helped a good friend of mine who has borderline. i wish you best of luck.

rob- omg hahahaha. you should play like, bear force one on repeat or something to slowly drive her nuts.

good idea

but do it with pen and paper in the meantime

those beautiful sentences aren't going to put themselves together without your help

yeah, i found a nice left handed notebook the other day so i can finally write in true comfort haha

oh God, I didn't know you used to be on drugs.
I'm really glad you're over it now though!!! you must be a really strong person for being able to kick the habit.
keep it clean.

thanks dude, I really appreciate it! I struggled with opiates for a long ass time. I moved away from it all and finally on the right track.I have a great support system that helps a ton. how's the baby?

really proud of you

thanks!!

its been almost 2 weeks; i have put a huge fat pause to those six months hardcore sadness in hospitals. felt pure happiness the day my father left the hospital. he had survived the surgery and he had shown improvement. that week with him was very hard for me. 2ndly, my friend's chemos have been working. so despite all, the outcomes have been the best possible. and as a third, my mastography is ok and my doctor said i m ok, so as i say in free translation, i have zero-ed for a year.
so i m back to being selfish. trying to make the best of it, until day job starts. plus going to gym. still no desire for nights out, but thats not important atm.

it must be hard but it seems with a strong will it's not impossible to stay off drugs.
I have a friend who used to do meth heavily but one got rid of the habit and now he's been clean for about 2 years. which is great.

the baby is the cutest thing ever. I love her to death. seriously, last night I couldn't sleep so I was thinking of million things and one thing that I realized is that I could die for her if that was necessary.

sinister

Hey Nef, rock on

Damn, reading some of the comments makes me feel bad about putting up my own, comparably petty gripes. Stay strong, everyone!

Anyway, my latest petty gripe:
I'll have to put up with a former friend of mine who's fallen out of favor with me tomorrow. He's attending an event I happen to go to as well. And I'm trying to keep my cool because there's this other friend I really like. She's just happy to see the both of us and I don't want to ruin that for her. It'll involve a lot of pride-swallowing and awkward moments.

My wife and daughter left a couple of hours ago on a Spring Break trip around Texas. We're currently short staffed at work and it wasn't best for me to take off at this time. The Psychedelic Rock and Harsh Electronics will be blasting away for the next five days : )

hey ho, Rob! :)

dont worry and friendship issues arent petty.
- i feel bad for not having read the comments in here.

by no means i want to steal your thunder here; we did have another friendship crisis on top of all. and its still unsolved because he hasnt yet told us what his problem was. he called me and tried to explain but it was too vague he couldnt.
i mean, friendship issues are bad. it is the only stable thing - we think it is!- in our lives and when smth happens we feel very shaken up.

hope it all goes well with you.
dunno, perhaps be honest with the girl at some point?

All is well. I was just stunned by the scope of the issues discussed in the last few pages. Hope everyone's doing fine. Hope you're doing fine. As Rob said: Rock on!

Thanks. Yes, I think at some point it'll be necessary to tell her. But I'm trying to have a nice evening regardless. I'll see if it works out.

truly irrelevant: the two (leading?) candidates in the democratic primary for mayor of chicago are named respectively jesús and emanuel.

that's too perfect

is it just me or is the whole board becoming a bit more active again?

yeah, I think girl in a band helped things

highfive, schizo!

same to you dude!

I'm so stoked for my new job tomorrow. ahh.

what kind of job would that be?

I went out with the baby today for a walk and as I was pushing her around in a stroller, my foot got stuck in some kind of loose wire left on the ground and I fell down like a dumbass. my beloved Beyerdynamic headphones (worth 200$) broke.
a shitty day.

serving/cashier at an asian restaurant here in town. it's a job.

oh yikes :[ i've gone through three pairs of headphones in the past month, breaking or losing them. you didnt get hurt?

Slavo that is why studio monitors are for the studio.. leason learned. Get some earbuds

naaah, just a bruised knee and a bit of blood on my palm. nothing worth bragging about.
I just made a fool of myself (the pedestrians laughed at me quite much) plus the broken headphones.

Asian restaurant sound like a good place. Good luck with the job.

I kind of fixed them, they work again, they just looked scratched.
Btw, if they were gone, I'd buy a new pair in an instant. These headphones are the definition of audio orgasm. (Beyerdynamic dt990)

So I have to reschedule my DJ gig/event in May due to a sudden outbreak of competing mass-event. The very same that devolved into a monotonous borefest for the shallow-minded, prompting me to come up with my own concept. I'd boycott it if it weren't for the social aspect (Too big to fail, people I really like tend to be there as well) and one sole DJ that still gives a fuck. He's probably the reason we keep coming back even though the rest of the event leaves a bitter aftertaste.