I'm pretty sure Naproxen is the same medication that's in Aleve, just at a higher dose.

Yup, and Aleve will fuck my shit up if I'm not careful. I end up feeling like I'm high sometimes, which is why I rarely take it.

I have a hard time thinking that you could parry a claymore with a rapier, but it would depend on the angles, I guess.

I'm not seeing it at all. The rapier is too flexible, isn't it?

I'm not seeing it at all. The rapier is too flexible, isn't it?

Rapiers are not as flexible as foils, but they do have some bend. The claymores could easily break a rapier or at least bend it so that it isn't effective.

The only parrys I could see working are when you push a blade to the side with your own blade.

Andi, that's a silly sword fight that the Claymore wins if its weilder is even remotely compotent. If the rapier wielder was a master, and the claymore weilder a novice, maybe.

See the sword fight at the end of the otherwise silly Rob Roy.

Well, Ailleann's links gave me a much better mental image of the respective weapons. My original, flawed, thinking was making the rapier into something more like a foil. But still, the bits of actual knowledge I had were telling me it was a silly match. I would guess the opponents were, if not perfectly matched in skill, at least in the same order of magnitude - it was Duncan after seven years studying with Connor (and finally besting him) against a female Immortal of indeterminate age who had a male partner for centuries, if not millenia. Telling against her ages of experience would be that she and her partner believed themselves gods rather than Immortals and said they did not care about The Game.

The claymores could easily break a rapier or at least bend it so that it isn't effective.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to get at.

Since I'm single, I just got a packet from work telling me how to sign up for same sex partner benefits, the result of a recent court case. Kind of makes me wish I had a same sex partner to take advantage of them. I believe in benefits for same sex partners, but I also believe in benefits for others with non-traditional arrangements (like two divorced sisters living together with one working outside of the home and the other taking care of all of the kids). I hope that's next.

Hell, I'd go beyond that and support "Health Care for All". But as long as all sorts of benefits are tied to marriage it makes sense that there should be equality of rights. I don't think it would be any fair to suggest that same sex couples wait for those benefits until other non-traditional couples (and why stop with couples) get them. For that matter it would not be fair to suggest that other non-traditional couples wait until we had universal health car e. (Mind you, right to share health insurance is only one legal benefit of marriage. Pension benefits, joint custody of children, hospital visitation, etc. Didn't someone count more than 150 benefits in legal status offered to married people?

So. In the further adventures of EM and the Psycho Ex...

She took the day off from work and went to the county courthouse to pick up her temporary restraining order (after Psycho Ex had slashed her tires two nights in a row). Because he's in a different county she needs to find a Marshall in that county to serve it. She goes to see her therapist. Comes home about 7:30 to find three cops at her door and her next door neighbor on the landing outside her apartment.

Neighbor heard somebody pounding on the door and walls of the apartment. EM had told her that she was seeking a restraining order, so neighbor had a notion of what was going on. When she heard the glass break she called the cops.

Psycho Ex punched his fist through her kitchen window.

I'm so glad that she and Emmett weren't there when he came by.

Cops ask her if she's served the Restraining Order yet. She says, No, but I've got it in the car. One cop goes off to serve it while the others stay with her. EM spends the night with friends.

Cop comes back and says Psycho Ex was very drunk and denied coming by. Cops say it's classic stalker behavior and call them anytime at the slightest provocation. They'd rather have it be nothing a hundred times.

I met her at the apartment today and waited with her until she could get a glass repair place to come out and fix her window.

So I've got Emmett for the rest of the week. And she's staying with friends.

There's a hearing at the end of the month to determine whether the temporary restraining order needs to be made into a permanent one.

Oh, Hec. Much safety and peace of mind to EM (and you and JZ, and Emmett), and a huge dose of sanity with a side order of clue to that ex. I'm so glad you have Emmett and that she's staying with friends.

Damn, Hec. Just... damn.

Her ex needs to seek therapy ASAP. Poor EM.

What Cindy and Plei said. I am so glad Emmett and EM are in safe places.