D&D fans...My Condolences.

First Gary Gygax, and now David Arneson.

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Sheesh.

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omnis- if you want to try my amateur dream analysis: What was the overwhelming emotion you felt during the dream? Lately, during your waking life, have you been experiencing that emotion, possibly on a smaller scale?

Confusion, frustration. Then despair that this wasn't a good alternate profession. I've had a fair amount of frustration at work. But it's theater during a recession, budgets getting cut is always frustrating, so, nothing all that new.

and then my friends started ignorng me.

Pix! Bad dream! no cookies for your dreams. We wouldn't ignore you. You are far too loved.

Wind. um. Ouch! I hope it's nothing costly, but I would think a dentist is in order.

Spent the afternoon at bosses place for dinner and Wii'ing. Food was good! I won at golf, and lost at bowling. Ironic, as I am the one who owns bowling equipment, and two bosses are the golfers. Go figure.

um. not bragging. But. I did the clicky clicks, and when the bank transfers go through on Tuesday, I'll be debt free!¡!¡ My move to Texas is officially paid off. So, to celebrate, I got the MLB package on cable. Anyone wanna come over and watch baseball? Also, I'm going to F2F!!!!

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Anyone here ever used Ambien CR? I'd really like to stop waking up in the wee-est hours of the morning, and as whined previously, Lunesta isn't performing as advertised. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, and I'd like to suggest something to him that may work better than vanilla Ambien.

There's no generic for CR, but given I've tried Ambien and Lunesta (for which there isn't a generic either), I hope it won't be a problem.

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3rd date? You put out. Or is that me?

Hee, Vortex! It is not you. And strangely enough, I now have 3rd date! And an impressive post-date email with gallantry and a bit o' naughty flirt.

I think we're going to get our geek on and see the new Wolverine movie. And then he puts out. Right!?

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And then he puts out. Right!?

If he's not as clueless as me. Don't be too subtle if he's not picking up the vibes.

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Yay for debt-free, omnis!

I just paid my credit card bill, but I'm going tomorrow to talk to the financial people about getting a student loan. Really don't want to, but I don't really have any other choice. Stupid money, having to be paid for goods and services.

I think I'm going to the F2F this year. I need to look into flight prices and stuff.

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Yes I use ambien CR. I sleep better than most of the people with insomnia here -- but It I wake up between 2 and 3 I will be up until half an hour before the alarm goes off. I don't take it all the time - mostly when I haven't slept well for a number of days in a row. I always wake up groggy the next am -- but I'm not sure it isn't because I haven't slept enough for a few days. It is the most amazing thing to wake up and realize it is morning and I wasn't awake 6 times at night. Knowing it is there - even thought I can't take it until the next night -- is sometimes enough to calm my brain and let me go back to sleep.

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and yay for no debt. I wish I had understood debt better when I was younger. I went from only cash to CC debt with out much in between. I needed debt at an earlier age to learn how to pay a little debt off before getting big debt

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Yet another Elsie-related question. (This seemed like a better place for it than literary, since it's really more about cigars than anything else.) In this book, a 12-year-old boy smokes a cigar, because his older cousin offers it to him and pretty much implies that he's a baby if he doesn't take it. He smokes about half of one cigar. "But it was not many minutes before he began to feel sick and faint, then to find himself trembling and feeling giddy." He staggers to the window for some air, barely able to walk, and says, "I'm half blind and awfully sick." He can't get down a flight of stairs, even with someone's arm to lean on, and a servant comments that his eyes look like glass, and his heart is racing. A doctor says that he won't be well enough to go home (about a 15-minute ride) until the next morning.

Were cigars back then much stronger than now? Filled with something other than tobacco? Or is that reaction possible from just tobacco? Or is this just the author exaggerating the effects for a "smoking bad" message?

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I think we're going to get our geek on and see the new Wolverine movie. And then he puts out. Right!?

yep. and he should pay for dinner to get some of your sweet stuff.

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