Among Friends

[just bee]

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@geezerette wrote:

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@just bee wrote:

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@aprilskies wrote:

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@geezerette wrote:

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@aprilskies wrote:

Also, just want to let you all know @rnmom may not be around as much and she didnt want you to worry.  She and her family are okay.  She may take a break from posting. She let me know on her decluttering thread.  I think it has to do with the fact that yesterday morning I came to catch up with you all and I didnt find our thread. Not sure why. I hope she sees this and sticks around. We all enjoy and value her friendship.  

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@aprilskies 

As for the thread being gone, I think it was just a glitch yesterday morning.  I keep it 'floated' and when I came into "Among Friends" it wasn't at the top like usual.  That was weird because my other floated threads were there.  I had just updated my iPad and initially thought that was why, but  I did find ours farther down the page and "re-floated" it.  I don't know if somebody deleted it on purpose or by accident but it's back and I don't notice any posts missing.🤔

So, @rnmom:  Please come back!😢

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@geezerette,

The thread for me yesterday was gone completely. The only one I found was the Autumn thread.  I looked through my own history to find it because there is only so much patience I have surfing through all the threads.  I am glad it was only a glitch.  

I am only assuming that was the reason @rnmom was taking a break.  I know I was taken back when I didnt see it. 

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@aprilskies 

@geezerette 

I didn't notice that it had vanished but, when I click on it, it doesn't open to the most recent post for some reason.

Well, you know what they say.  When the bees go, we all go.

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@just bee 

I think when you go, we all will scatter in the wind.😢❤️

I don't think anything that happens in this place is strange anymore.  So many weird things happen to me on this forum that don't happen anywhere else on other websites for me.  My iPad doesn't even work half the time in here, and when it does, it does weird and wonky things that take me three times longer to correct before I can post.

And my autocorrect is really going wonky recently.  Almost got me in trouble with what it "corrected" itself to the other day.  If I didn't know better, I'd think it was a conspiracy...🤐

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@geezerette 

I'd like to think that it's because they're doing some annual maintenance.  But this always makes people nervous because they remember what happened the last time there was a big revision on the forums.  Everyone lost their history.  Thousands of posts disappeared.

It's funny (well, maybe funny isn't the right word), but so many of my paranoid, psychotic patients are paranoid and psychotic over technology.  They come in and shove their phones under my nose and ask

DO YOU SEE THAT???

I don't but they do.  Someone is always tampering with their phones and computers.  One guy last week told me he's changed all his passwords.  Seven times in one week.  That's like once a day.  I'd be out of passwords by now.

It seems like more and more of my patients are in the hospital because of their devices.

Whether it's paranoia and conspiracy or something as simple as mom said I couldn't have my phone, my patients are being hospitalized because of Big Tech.

Big Tech would say no, they're being hospitalized because they have psychiatric issues.

But why do they have psychiatric issues?

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

[geezerette]

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@just bee wrote:

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@just bee 

Now you're talkin' cute...🥰

[geezerette]

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@just bee wrote:

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@geezerette wrote:

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@just bee wrote:

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@aprilskies wrote:

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@geezerette wrote:

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@aprilskies wrote:

Also, just want to let you all know @rnmom may not be around as much and she didnt want you to worry.  She and her family are okay.  She may take a break from posting. She let me know on her decluttering thread.  I think it has to do with the fact that yesterday morning I came to catch up with you all and I didnt find our thread. Not sure why. I hope she sees this and sticks around. We all enjoy and value her friendship.  

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@aprilskies 

As for the thread being gone, I think it was just a glitch yesterday morning.  I keep it 'floated' and when I came into "Among Friends" it wasn't at the top like usual.  That was weird because my other floated threads were there.  I had just updated my iPad and initially thought that was why, but  I did find ours farther down the page and "re-floated" it.  I don't know if somebody deleted it on purpose or by accident but it's back and I don't notice any posts missing.🤔

So, @rnmom:  Please come back!😢

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@geezerette,

The thread for me yesterday was gone completely. The only one I found was the Autumn thread.  I looked through my own history to find it because there is only so much patience I have surfing through all the threads.  I am glad it was only a glitch.  

I am only assuming that was the reason @rnmom was taking a break.  I know I was taken back when I didnt see it. 

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@aprilskies 

@geezerette 

I didn't notice that it had vanished but, when I click on it, it doesn't open to the most recent post for some reason.

Well, you know what they say.  When the bees go, we all go.

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@just bee 

I think when you go, we all will scatter in the wind.😢❤️

I don't think anything that happens in this place is strange anymore.  So many weird things happen to me on this forum that don't happen anywhere else on other websites for me.  My iPad doesn't even work half the time in here, and when it does, it does weird and wonky things that take me three times longer to correct before I can post.

And my autocorrect is really going wonky recently.  Almost got me in trouble with what it "corrected" itself to the other day.  If I didn't know better, I'd think it was a conspiracy...🤐

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@geezerette 

I'd like to think that it's because they're doing some annual maintenance.  But this always makes people nervous because they remember what happened the last time there was a big revision on the forums.  Everyone lost their history.  Thousands of posts disappeared.

It's funny (well, maybe funny isn't the right word), but so many of my paranoid, psychotic patients are paranoid and psychotic over technology.  They come in and shove their phones under my nose and ask

DO YOU SEE THAT???

I don't but they do.  Someone is always tampering with their phones and computers.  One guy last week told me he's changed all his passwords.  Seven times in one week.  That's like once a day.  I'd be out of passwords by now.

It seems like more and more of my patients are in the hospital because of their devices.

Whether it's paranoia and conspiracy or something as simple as mom said I couldn't have my phone, my patients are being hospitalized because of Big Tech.

Big Tech would say no, they're being hospitalized because they have psychiatric issues.

But why do they have psychiatric issues?

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

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@just bee 

Wow!

This really makes me feel better.

Now I know it's just not me.

It really is a conspiracy...😳

[just bee]

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@geezerette wrote:

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@just bee wrote:

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@aprilskies wrote:

Lately, I have been waking up and just feeling extremely cloudy, fuzzy, headachy and just terrible and it wasnt due to the weather. It dawned on me that I have been sleeping watching youtube at night and the iPad is literally right next to my face. At times it has helped me sleep, but I just realized all of that light right next to my eyes and face cant be good and lately the podcasts start to keep me up or wake me up. The last two nights I put the iPad to the side and sure enough, I feel better. Not bright eyed and bushy tailed but clearer.  It has started me thinking about other habits that just dont serve me that I keep doing.  Why is it so hard to keep doing the bad habits instead of the good?

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@aprilskies 

Blue light messes with our circadian rhythms and disrupts sleep.  We don't have a TV in the bedroom anymore, but I spend half the week sleeping on the couch in a room with a TV and a PC.  And they're on all night while I'm sleeping.

But what messes me up more is sleeping in the bedroom on the days I work nights.  I am a lark on an owl's schedule and sleeping -- or trying to sleep -- when it's light outside is always difficult.

It's normal to sleep in a dark room.  Do we do anything normal anymore?

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@just bee 

I have a lot of trouble sleeping for any length of time in a room that isn't dark.  

Maybe that's why I like winter so much.  It's dark more then.  That, and everything's dormant so there's no pollen.

I used to be a lark.  Now I'm just a slug.

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@geezerette 

That's the hard thing about this time of year.  I can't sleep when it's light, but when it starts getting dim in the late afternoon, that's when my body and mind start to relax and fall asleep.  And that's precisely when I have to get up and start my day.

I could stay in bed longer and try to take advantage, but I get up three hours before I have to be at work because I want to ease into my day with tea and my local talk radio show.  Right now that's the only sane thing in my life.

No, wait.  The dog is the other sane thing.

[just bee]

[just bee]

[just bee]

Human evolution.

[geezerette]

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@just bee 

A slug-doodle?  Doodle-slug?  Sloogle?

[rnmom]

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@rnmom 

I've decided to watch ER reruns this morning.  Am I the only person who had a soft spot for Dr. Romano?

Last week at work I mentioned to a coworker that he had all the best lines.

 I'm beginning to think that "ER" stands for "everyone's retarded".

Yes, he was abrupt and insulting, but there was just something about him that was appealing.  He said what other people were thinking but were afraid to say.

And then the writers killed him off by dropping a helicopter on him.

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@just bee - OMG, I used to love ER! Because it was on too late I used to record it on an old VHS tape and watch it the next day. 

It's been so many years, Dr. Romano, he was the bald headed chief, right? The one everyone loved to hate? 

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@rnmom 

Dr. Robert "Rocket" Romano (Paul McCrane)

Came home from work this morning and watched a few episodes.  One was "Time of Death" with Ray Liotta (Season 11, Episode 6).  Good one.

Pop TV is airing the series again...

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Yep, that's the guy!

[just bee]

@rnmom 

Good to see you this morning.  I see both our states have declared a state of emergency.

Wish my state would see that the emergency here is meth.