I didn’t get diagnosed with bipolar disorder until later in life. My lumbar spine is riddled with disc ruptures from physically overextending myself to the point of collapse during manic periods.
it isn’t so bad on the day to day but i can’t sit at bar stools without lumbar support or upright in the bed/on the ground for more than about 5 minutes without pain. No bicycles or lifting anything much.
If i could do it over i would know my human limits!!!
when i was 12 my father drunkenly told me that he had planned out a rape. learned the woman’s habits and stalked her and chickened out at the last minute. the wistfulness in his voice as he slurred out this confession makes my skin crawl to this day.
My childhood was really fucked up but that one stands out.
strikes me as more of simple stubbornness to be honest
i’m telling you as a gay queer person that you’ve got it a bit old fashioned. like referring to Ukraine as The Ukraine. you can take it or leave it :)
if you refer to it as ‘gay pride month’ you are leaving behind the many queer people who celebrate pride and aren’t gay. Most folks just call it pride now to be inclusive.
it’s just pride month; you don’t have to be gay to be queer!
How is it unfortunate?
i’m older than most of you but i just got my favorite present ever this year. My girlfriend got me a moonstone necklace and (even though she’s not really a believer) she took it out on a full moon and bathed it in moonlight and asked Hecate to bless it for me by way of a beautiful poem that she wrote that i can’t read without sobbing.
It’s the only thing i own that I consider treasure and I rarely take it off.
Forums and blogs mostly; at the end of the day there’s a lot of similarity between fermenting and brewing and they are both really basic. If you use a search engine good keywords for alcohol are ‘hooch’ and ‘pruno’ and for vegetables ‘lacto ferment’ and then add in whatever you are trying to ferment and you’ll usually find lots of other people who have been doing it and love sharing their techniques.
My favorite right now is the Ginger Bug because i can’t quite seem to get it right and carbonate tea with it and that makes it interesting as the rest were very simple.
been fermenting everything! Juice, onions, cucumbers, peppers, ginger. Make it fizz baby!
It’s astounding…
i’m fermenting some hooch. due to some errors on my part we are currently in a state of extremely vigorous fermentation so, good problems to have.
right now it tastes like someone poured a sip of Olde English malt liquor into pineapple juice and left it in the sun all day but that should improve.
it depends on the food. you can’t really cut the mold off bread but you can definitely cut the mold off cheese.
in a restaurant kitchen i think it should be tossed but at home some stuff can be worth saving.
stacks of diskettes, for every operating system.
would routinely spend hours doing an install only to hit a block and have to reinstall DOS to have modem access to get help on usenet. Then hours of reinstalling to move forward and repeat on another issue.
I really loved it though, it was a massive upgrade over DOS and windows on a 286.
Ginger (the segway) was supposed to change the way cities were made
oh dear that sounds so stressful