Two by two, hands of blue. Two by two, hands of blue.

River ,'Ariel'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


NoiseDesign - Sep 25, 2022 1:17:49 am PDT #17657 of 30000
Our wings are not tired

Does Diablo Sound do the Universal Halloween Night sound?

We do the Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood.


JenP - Sep 25, 2022 6:29:40 am PDT #17658 of 30000

Ah, OK. Well, so I wasn't close. Still thought of you though!

Heading home, yay.


Steph L. - Sep 25, 2022 7:57:38 am PDT #17659 of 30000
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

Then I came home and there was awesome mail from David-- I have all kinds of cool stickers- an Edward Gorey sticker book, pens, washi tape, Spririted Away pencils. It's awesome!

Fun!

Dad is not hospitalized -- here's the text from my brother about the mental health crisis team's visit with Dad: "They were not concerned enough to hospitalize him, hut they said that he doesn’t seem to know what meds he’s supposed to be taking. They’re going back over tomorrow to set up his meds for the next few weeks so he’s taking what he needs to take. They said that calling the cops nine times in three months doesn’t come close to their threshold for concern."

What the fuck is this nonsense? Granted, if he hasn't been consistently taking his antipsychotic medication, maybe taking it consistently will actually help him. But it's so goddamn frustrating. My brother is still going to follow up tomorrow with the geriatrician's NP to get a referral for a psychiatrist. Maybe that'll help.

The worst part is that I *know* this is a mental illness and he's not having hallucinations *at* us, so I'm really trying to have compassion for that aspect of all this, BUT alongside the mental illness he's also still just a giant asshole, and talking to him on the phone is legitimately awful.


dcp - Sep 25, 2022 8:02:10 am PDT #17660 of 30000
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

...he doesn’t seem to know what meds he’s supposed to be taking.

I have found the Medisafe app on my phone to be really helpful at keeping me on track with my daily medications. [link]


Steph L. - Sep 25, 2022 8:06:25 am PDT #17661 of 30000
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

I have found the Medisafe app on my phone to be really helpful at keeping me on track with my daily medications. [link]

My dad will only use a flip phone, even after I showed him how cool the weather apps are (he is legit obsessed with the weather, so I thought that would be a big draw for him).


sj - Sep 25, 2022 8:12:25 am PDT #17662 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

WTF? is right, Teppy. That is terrible. I can't believe they think he is capable of taking his meds, even with them setting them up for him, in his current state.


DavidS - Sep 25, 2022 11:25:39 am PDT #17663 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I can't believe they think he is capable of taking his meds, even with them setting them up for him, in his current state.

That was my thought too. He's not going to stay on schedule with his meds in his current state.

Then I thought, "This is why we need to replace the internet with a pneumatic tube system, because then he could just be prompted to the appropriate tube and they could shoot the meds into his mouth."

So, you can see I'm always innovating.


Steph L. - Sep 25, 2022 3:28:18 pm PDT #17664 of 30000
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

Then I thought, "This is why we need to replace the internet with a pneumatic tube system, because then he could just be prompted to the appropriate tube and they could shoot the meds into his mouth."

If the meds were followed by cheesecake or a chocolate chip cookie delivered via pneumatic tube, that would definitely incentivize him to line up at the tube.


-t - Sep 25, 2022 8:24:37 pm PDT #17665 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

alongside the mental illness he's also still just a giant asshole, and talking to him on the phone is legitimately awful.

I hear you on that. That’s hard. Your resentments are valid. Pneumatic tubes for meds and cheesecake sounds pretty good, though!


Steph L. - Sep 25, 2022 8:26:35 pm PDT #17666 of 30000
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

Pneumatic tubes for meds and cheesecake sounds pretty good, though!

I would not say no to cheesecake with Valium sprinkles right now.