What's everyone up to right now?

[Clueless Morgan]

procrastinating starting my busy-ass day.

Thinking about my diagnosis anniversary which I shouldn't be doing.

Wondering how my twitter convo is going (not well because the other person doesn't get why they're being inconsistent) and whether it's worth continuing.

Eating an apple and drinking coffee.

I did not want to get out of bed this morning.

[pocaracas]

Sixty-two hours and counting nicotine free thanks to an anti smoking drug called Champix. The stuff is a godsend and has made this pretty painless so far. I have a very good feeling about this that I'm going to be able to keep it up, and already starting to dream about what I'll do if I do... would like to maybe join a gym... something that always seemed pretty pointless as a smoker.

That's awesome emjay!
Just keep on keeping on!

Have you considered e-cigs with 0% nicotine liquids?

[Anomalocaris]

Just submitted my architect’s plans to the home owner’s association. The local requirements for “livability” of the house is rather intrusive and onerous. I have no problems with requiring subdivisions built by large scale builders to incorporate handicap friendly features. However, when small parts of each subdivision is set aside for small builder custom homes, the handicap requirements on these custom homes ought not to be more onerous than large scale commercially built houses, especially when the small builder has no need for these features.

For example, I must either include a bedroom with a bathroom down stairs, or I must have architectural provision for installing an elevator. Elevator? You kidding me? In a 2500 sq ft house??

[emjay]

Sixty-two hours and counting nicotine free thanks to an anti smoking drug called Champix. The stuff is a godsend and has made this pretty painless so far. I have a very good feeling about this that I'm going to be able to keep it up, and already starting to dream about what I'll do if I do... would like to maybe join a gym... something that always seemed pretty pointless as a smoker.

That's awesome emjay!
Just keep on keeping on!

Have you considered e-cigs with 0% nicotine liquids?

Thanks poca

This is already further than I've gone before... and pretty painlessly... so I do have a good feeling about it

As to vapes, I've never fared very well with them... I've OD'ed on them before... because of smoking at the same time... and had ?allergic reactions to some of their ingredients... so I had to change to a rarer type on that account when I tried them. I've never tried (or seen) nicotine free ones, so thanks for the suggestion, but I think I've explored that avenue as much as I want to; Champix is different... it mimics nicotine on brain receptors and dulls the effect of real nicotine on those same receptors. In real terms what it's done is a) reduce my cravings drastically and... before the quit date... that meant fags much less often... and now, after the quit date, has meant a very consistent and non-wavering feeling of non/low craving... and b) make fags when they are smoked taste bland... so they are far less satisfying. So the two effects together make for both good motivation and help to stop, and is considered by doctors one of the most effective ways of quitting... more so than NRT or the other drug on the market, Zyban. So I'm in good hands I think

[Angrboda]

Just spent an hour watching a video on the supposed star of Bethlehem which GC insisted answered our complaints about the story. As expected, it didn't.

Oh well. It's a slow morning. Nothing more pressing to do except file my taxes.

[robvalue]

I watched Jim Jeffries' new standup on Netflix. Awesome!

[Angrboda]

Loaded up on Amazon movie rentals on sale for Prime day. Rented Annihilation, The Shape Of Water, and Darkest Hour for $3, and Jackie Chan's The Foreigner for $2.

Four movies for $11 and I've got 30 days to watch them. Better than going to the theater!

[Crossless2.0]

Loaded up on Amazon movie rentals on sale for Prime day.  Rented Annihilation, The Shape Of Water, and Darkest Hour for $3, and Jackie Chan's The Foreigner for $2.  

Four movies for $11 and I've got 30 days to watch them.  Better than going to the theater!

You'll miss the $10 popcorn.

And the assholes behind you who won't shut up.

[emjay]

Loaded up on Amazon movie rentals on sale for Prime day. Rented Annihilation, The Shape Of Water, and Darkest Hour for $3, and Jackie Chan's The Foreigner for $2.

Four movies for $11 and I've got 30 days to watch them. Better than going to the theater!

I just joined Prime a couple of days ago... well decided to pay to continue past the free trial... after years of toing and froing over whether I wanted it... trying to find some... any... reason to make it value for money to me (since I don't care about fast delivery etc). In the end what swung it for me is the Twitch Prime and a workaround I've found for the biggest problem I had with Prime Video... it's quality. I buy/rent a fair amount of stuff from Amazon Video but always buy it in SD since that's about all my Internet connection can handle. Prime Video on the other hand doesn't offer the choice between SD and HD and is just automatic, trying to send the best quality your Internet connection can handle... and it thinks my internet can handle a lot more than it can So that's always put me off Prime because every time I've tried a free trial, anything I've watched on Prime has been juddery because of that, with no way to change the settings (ie I'd rather a consistent SD experience than an inconsistent and juddery HD experience)... but I found a workaround... which you might find helpful as well if you have any similar problems... since you mentioned you also have a Roku; anyway from the home screen there's a hack basically that allows you to override the bit rate of the machine... changing it from its default of automatic to whatever manual amount you want to limit it to. So now any time I want to watch a Prime video I just do that before I start... set it to something like 1.5mbps... and I think that's solved the quality problem... but it would be much nicer if amazon would do it themselves... as they do on other prime video apps, just not the Roku's. Anyway, in case you're interested... cos alongside that it might be useful for other things... the hack is; from the home screen press home five times, << three times, then >> two times. Just thought I'd mention all of that cos you and me seem to have a lot in common ... you having a Roku, liking Amazon Video, and I saw you mention Everclear a while back and I didn't think I'd ever find anyone else who'd even heard of them... that was a trip down memory lane... so thanks for that

[Clueless Morgan]

Just submitted my architect’s plans to the home owner’s association.   The local requirements for “livability” of the house is rather intrusive and onerous.   I have no problems with requiring subdivisions built by large scale builders to incorporate handicap friendly features.  However, when small parts of each subdivision is set aside for small builder custom homes, the handicap requirements on these custom homes ought not to be more onerous than large scale commercially built houses, especially when the small builder has no need for these features.

For example, I must either include a bedroom with a bathroom down stairs, or I must have architectural provision for installing an elevator.  Elevator?  You kidding me?   In a 2500 sq ft house??

Is this not acceptable?


And could you post the floor plans??? Me want to see!!

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Sixty-two hours and counting nicotine free thanks to an anti smoking drug called Champix. The stuff is a godsend and has made this pretty painless so far. I have a very good feeling about this that I'm going to be able to keep it up, and already starting to dream about what I'll do if I do... would like to maybe join a gym... something that always seemed pretty pointless as a smoker.

Awesome, emjay! I hope thinks continue to go well for you!

I wish my neighbors would quit.