Good Night Oh Kee Pa

Non-Phish General
#41

One thing that surprises me is how folks don’t realize that aspirin does the job of basically every painkiller out there and does it better. I’m shocked when people don’t realize that aspirin is good for headaches. Yeah, it hurts your stomach lining but that’s for those weirdos who take it every day.

Heck, I have IBS and they gave me these worthless pills for it. I took a few, they didn’t do anything and they just made me drowsy. I just go without them and get by with the occasional uncomfortable evening. It’s still better than popping pills all day. Plus weed does the job of any of those pills and does it ten times better anyway…go figure that the nice natural solution is illegal.

Well, as one of those “fastfood junkies” I don’t take crap…but then again I don’t have weight issues either. But yeah, I don’t get why people are so quick to blindly believe every “scientific study” that comes out. Don’t they realize who funds these things? Don’t they realize that most aren’t proven and they get on TV because the news needs to fill a timeslot with something interesting. I just saw last Sunday that 60Minutes had some guy telling us that sugar is toxic. And I’ll bet millions of worry-warts are now scrambling to cut sugar out of everything they do. It’s sad. Everyone’s so scared about this food and that germ but aren’t worried about all these pills?

#42

Well… If just smoking all day long was possible, OK. But in my career, which includes traveling, meetings, and having to be very crisp in dealing with million dollar contracts, I cannot walk around baked all day.

Also, the flying/traveling thing hinders normal bed times, pre-bed rituals and all that BS…

I have a career/job which often means nights in different time zones and hotels etc…

The Xanax idea seemed to help, and it also reduced my mind to quit thinking of the next item on my mind, it was nice. I seldom use it, but when I do it helps!

PYK - Yeah, I did not mean 1 gram… Otherwise I might be :open_mouth:

#43

^makes sense, certainly not feasible to quit your job/lifestyle just so you can maintain normal bedtimes haha

guess xanax is the price of the high powered exec :wink:

j/k man, i was curious why u needed it but now i know!

#44

Indeed…pot definitely isn’t helpful on business trips. Even worse if you get random drug testing like my job…I just had to drop it altogether. It sucks but I guess I’d rather earn cash.

#45

:thumbup:

#46

Likewise, if I have a headache I usually say hmm, did I drink enough water today? Have I eaten enough fruits and vegetables lately? Am I lacking vitamins? Did I consume something in excess? Pills that cover up symptoms are silly to me. “if you can heal the symptoms, but not affect the cause…”

Goodnight!

#47

+1 for me too, on the pills thing. I’m beyond skeptical and downright suspicious of anti-anxiety drugs in particular. There’s an obvious joke in there about them making me anxious, somewhere.

#48

Night Pa. Worked a really long day to cap off a pretty long work week.

Taking the morning flight home to NJ, which means I need to wake up around 4:30am xD Well at least I can nap at home in the morning.

What sux the most though is that the work I stayed late for didn’t even get started. The facility I’m at is notoriously … I don’t even know the word … inefficient and everything is always delayed. Almost one of those ‘if it can go wrong, it does go wrong’ type environments. Sigh

Well I still am taking Monday off as compensation. I squared that away with my boss earlier today. Considered for a moment to come back on Monday to wrap this up, but the anticipation of crazy hours again next week, plus thinking about all the hours I’ve already worked this week makes me say “Nah.”

Luckily a nice soul from another group offered to help fill out my paperwork for the testing when it starts back up on Monday. Good to know there are still kind people out there.

Wish I have a nice stash of anti-anxiety pills right about now, ha ha ha.

#49

I had a great time chatting with you too Dustin! And Ollie and Neckaweizen!

#50

Good night OKP. I’ve decided it’s time for bed, after what was overall a glorious day.

I slept an extra hour or so since my kids didn’t have school. I was still exactly five minutes late for work, as per my consistent norm.

I worked hard, yet had coffee, casual convo, occasional OKP blurbing, tunes.

Lunch was a solid perfect Subway Tuna provolone on herb&cheees toasted w/everything; dressing: salt & pepper.

After work I took my son and his buddy out to the disc golf course and golfed a +8. They played eight holes on their own, unsupervised even. Which of course means I was unsupervised.

Came home and ate. Then, delivered automobile to mechanic for maintenance and repair.

Now downing my severaleth Newcastle (spellcheck has no problem w/“severaleth” btw).

Listening to Cavern 7/01/10. Sounded good to me maaaaan.

#51

Both valid points, hope you are doing well!

#52

Good night OKP!

#53

I am still asleep, does this count as “Good night OKP?”

#54

^Sure. It’s night somewhere.

#55

8pm is when night begins.

Mark it dude.

#56

3 MORE HOURS!!!

:shh:

#57

Damn, I have to wait now!

#58

Can’t say I’m sad to see this day end. I worked my ass off today. It was still better than my weekend which I was SO glad to be done with. Things aren’t going so well between Holt and I at the moment. Things have been wonderful with the occasional spat, but the past year and a half has been pretty fucking sweet. He’s very unhappy at work, but can’t quit because of the baby. He’s doing a piss poor job of separating his work anger from our personal life and he’s pretty much being a completely mean and hateful asshole 80% of the time for the past week. I’m so fucking over the way he thinks he can speak to me lately. I’m not sure how much more I can put up with. I knoww he won’t alwys be a dick because it’s not who he is. He’s beyond stressed out right now and my hormones are a hot mess taboot. It makes for some tense moments and harsh words. I wish I could fast forward a few weeks when this will all calm down. It makes me tired!

Anywho, I hope all is well elsewhere for you guys. Goodnight!

#59

I stayed up too late last night watching MN House voting on Minnesota bills, just a sad horrible process…

#60

^Stayed up? That’s funny…I watch that stuff to sleep. It blows me away how much of that stuff involves blustery speeches that NO ONE listens to and which won’t change anyone’s mind since they’ve all made their minds up. Ever see a Congressman say “So, I was leaning one way but then Joe Schmoe made a GREAT speech on the issue and I changed my vote” It’s never happened.