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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of March 12, 2015

One of your important assignments in the coming week is to get high without the use of drugs and alcohol. Let me elaborate. In my oracular opinion, you simply must escape the numbing trance of the daily rhythm. Experiencing altered states of awareness will provide you with crucial benefits. At the same time, you can't afford to risk hurting yourself, and it's essential to avoid stupidly excessive behavior that has negative repercussions. So what do you think? Do you have any methods to get sozzled and squiffed or jiggled and jingled that will also keep you sane and healthy?

I've got some balloons but I need helium gas.  In theory I can get a cheapy tank at WallyWorld...but would it be worth the hassle?

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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of January 16, 2014

The four elements that compose cocaine are the same as those that make up TNT, caffeine, and nylon: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. The combinations and proportions of elements are different in each substance, of course. But the point, for our purposes, is that the same raw materials lead to different results. I foresee a similar drama unfolding in your own life, Sagittarius. How you assemble the ingredients you currently have at your disposal could produce either a rough and ragged high, a volatile risk, a pleasant stimulation, or a useful resource. Which will it be?

"All they had were Earth and Air, Fire and Water."

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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of May 9, 2013

Charlie Parker was a great jazz musician. As a saxophonist and composer, he was an influential innovator. Unfortunately, he also had an expensive heroin addiction. It interfered with his ability to achieve financial stability. There's a famous story about him showing a bystander two veins on his arm as he prepared to shoot up. "This one's my Cadillac," he confessed. "And this one's my house." I'm bringing this up, Sagittarius, in the hope that it will provide a healthy shock. Are you doing anything remotely like Charlie Parker? Are you pouring time and energy and money into an inferior form of pleasure or a trivial distraction that is undermining your ability to accomplish higher goals? If so, fix that glitch, please.


I keep asking myself why I can't get interested in anything that could make me some money. I guess that's a fatal flaw in my character.
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of May 3, 2012

Seventeenth-century physicians sometimes advised their patients to consume tobacco as a way to alleviate a number of different maladies, from toothaches to arthritis. A few doctors continued recommending cigarettes as health aids into the 1950s. This bit of history may be useful to keep in mind, Sagittarius. You're in a phase when you're likely to have success in hunting down remedies for complaints of both a physical and psychological nature. But you should be cautious about relying on conventional wisdom, just in case some of it resembles the idea that cigarettes are good for you. And always double check to make sure that the cures aren't worse than what they are supposed to fix.


Longtime readers here know I hate tobacco. And that I also hate the mass marketing of prescription drugs. I do see modern medicine through at least a little skepticism, if not cynicism.
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My mother had a medical emergency over the last thirty-six hours; she's in a hospital ICU and will have probably had a CT scan by now. This is related to her recovery from cancer surgery two years ago and subsequent complications.

I had a long day today, I'm looking at a longer day overmorrow, and probably a long lost weekend after that.
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* It becomes a fad to get mini refrigerators, mini freezers and mini microwave ovens (all roughly the size of toaster ovens--originally designed for the Asian market) and have them in rooms other than the kitchen. One set for the living room, one for the den, one for the hallway between the bedrooms, one for the office. Of course, this doesn't do the problem of rampant obesity any good.

* Disney adds a new area to Walt Disney World devoted entirely to the studio's horror properties. The Haunted Mansion is moved out of Adventureland and updated to become the centerpiece of this park-let.

* A viral advertising campaign for a synthetic "incense" product gets a lot of notoriety when the people behind the campaign hack local TV stations to air commercials which are banned by the FCC. They ALMOST get away with it. But the phrase "Stoner Taxicab" enters the slang lexicon permanently.
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Ban advertising for prescription medicines from broadcast TV. Cable would be okay, just not broadcast.
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The trojan spammer who has somehow hacked into my mail account struck again this week. I'm still trying to find ways to undo the damage.

In the meantime, I threw a new signature on my account. I repeat my "Dadah Means DEATH" line from my User Info here and go on to say that I don't approve of on-line medicine commerce. Messages that come from me with a sales pitch should be pitched.

I hope this irritates the spammer and he decides to move on to greener pastures.

But I want to counter-attack him more directly. Wish I knew how.
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It was much more frequent to me when I was younger, but I still suffer occasional bouts. Of course, my circadian is really messed up due to my past jobs on third-shift.

You can't fight time with chemicals.
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My friend Stan's brother is an addict, and I don't believe he "struggles" with it so much as uses it as an excuse to enable his horrible behavior. Granted, nobody should have to live through what he had (two debilitating accidents--each awful by itself!) but he's had chance after chance after chance and blown them all. All his example has done is made me all the more against drugs in our society.
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Scientists Announce A Breakthrough In The Search For The Cause Of Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder.

As somebody who was in this condition as a child, and is somewhat still afflicted now (as in, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to motivate myself) I find this development very interesting. Remember, my childhood predates Ritalin. For me, it was either coffee or amphetamines.

The only drawbacks I see are the same drawbacks I see with prescription drugs in general--the out-of-control marketing of drugs by the manufacturers (yes, those fine-print-laden and sappy TV ads on the network evening news and talk shows and soap operas) which then feeds a black market (q.v. e-mail spammers allegedly from Canada) which recreational drug users/abusers will exploit.

But a philosophy question: If a pill gives a kid a happy childhood, is it really a happy childhood?

FP
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The crisis isn't as awful as I'd dreaded, but it is still fairly awful. Nobody should spend a holiday Sunday this way.

PS: Mum and I went back to see Dad around quarter to Ten this evening. He went through his surgery well enough, but is staying at the hospital overnight. And Mum and I will go back tomorrow to (if all goes well), pick him up and take him home to convalesce.
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A House Under "Quarantine" Because of a Meth Lab Explodes, Killing The Occupant.

The woman who had the meth lab is already in custody. The house had been in "lockdown" for three months, since her arrest. The man who died was the owner of the property, who possibly ignored the "lockdown".

Would you add an Involuntary Manslaughter charge to the woman's case, or place a Wrongful Death charge against the local government for not doing enough to protect the public from the hazards at the lab site? Who's responsible? Both? Neither?
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Does anybody else find those "Don't Pay For White Teeth" ads just completely ghastly?
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I think the reason why this virus strain is so dangerous to the young is because it might be a mutated version to a more common variety of the disease. I had a very nasty case of stomach flu about twenty years ago, and between that and other flus I've suffered over the years, I wonder if my body has antibodies that would protect me if I came down with it.

Just the same, I don't have a false sense of security, nor am I getting paranoid about it. The best medical minds in the world are working on this problem, and they'll build a magic bullet for it in good time.
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Whew

Mar. 2nd, 2009 09:43 pm
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I had no idea how prophetic the cutline from my preceding entry was. Arguing With A Crazy Man--Indeed!

PS: I'm glad that nobody has yet made a YouTube video based on the "Sieg Heil!" chorus from Blitzstein's Airborne symphony.

Aleks

Jan. 31st, 2009 06:03 pm
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I'm just venting about this. I doubt this stuff will get back to him because he doesn't have a computer or any of that.

Previous mention of this fellow HERE and HERE.

I went into Knoxville and saw Aleks again today. The houses next door to his were on fire when I came up to his place so I was very concerned to the point of alarm about him. Turned out the places were condemned and the Fire Department firefighters were training on them.

I caught him on the way out the door and gave him stuff I meant to give him and we had about an hour's worth of conversation.

He's still trying to give up booze--but he's started using marijuana. I'm very concerned, to the point of alarm, about him. I don't know what I can really do about his troubles.
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of January 15, 2009

According to expert gerontologists, Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards (a Sagittarius) should have passed on to the next world a decade ago. The man has abused his body so thoroughly, his continued survival is a mystery. You're currently in an excellent position to achieve equally stupendous feats of persistence yourself, Sagittarius. More than ever before, you have a dogged capacity to keep pushing -- even in areas where you've been flighty or sketchy in the past. I'd say this is an excellent time to deepen your commitment to your dreams in very practical ways.


And I have walked before they made me run.

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