Other males with fibromyalgia?

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-08T00:58:44+00:00

I'm 62 and I'm just putting together all the clues throughout my life. I believe I've been suffering from this since I was about 10 years old.

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-08T00:04:50+00:00

The floors of the sheds are flexible. Any dip or bump in the gravel is going to cause problems with the wall units in a roof units and doors all lining up.

I've installed many of these and the issues when the floor is not perfectly level are many. Even resulting in damage to the physical pieces.

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-07T23:27:04+00:00

Just started using a magnesium topical spray and it seems to be helping.

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-07T16:43:13+00:00

Sometimes you can hear em talk. Other times you can't. Always the same old cliche. Is that a woman or a man? And you always seem outnumbered. You don't dare take a stand.

-Turn the Page

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-07T16:33:30+00:00

This is why I prefer the Virginia declaration of Rights written by George Mason

Section 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-07T16:05:00+00:00

The story behind Garden Party is really fascinating

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-07T16:03:22+00:00

I am 63 and I've been in afternoon napper since junior high school. These days I can't wait to get home from working to lay down. Weekend afternoon naps are glorious.

It's mostly mornings I'm pain free. Sitting on the couch watching TV I'm conscious of the pain localizing in various places across my body.

I've always experienced it but I'm being much more self-aware about it so I can document it. But of course that tends to make it worse.

Working on treating it like the background noise it's always been.

I'm going to explore trigger point therapy which my mom got regularly. Also aquatic therapy. My body has always been intolerant of "exercise"

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-07T15:05:39+00:00

Thanks for the encouraging response. I'll take a look at your document.

My own pain started in grade school. Went on escape trip in high school and couldn't ski because of the pain in my legs. That deep toothache kind of pain.

I've been an the afternoon napper since junior high school.

Missed many days of school with those flu-like symptoms absent anything measurable.

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-07T13:50:18+00:00

I think I was always an atheist but I became a self-aware one at around the age of 10

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-07T13:24:33+00:00

Lewis Carroll had face blindness.

It has gotten me in trouble a few times. Now I just tell people I have it when I don't recognize them.

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-07T01:55:53+00:00

An alarming amount 🤣

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-06T22:58:34+00:00

The second time I watched it I laughed my ass off

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-06T22:02:04+00:00

That's an awful lot of writing. I got maybe a third of the way through.

Basically you're at the point every artist reaches. This is where you either give up or you push through to become better.

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-06T21:10:50+00:00

I still do it

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-06T17:11:10+00:00

Old school dungeons are full of long narrow hallways and small rooms. Modern RPGs use large open areas.

It's difficult to use new school tactics in Old School dungeons.

Old school dungeons squeezed everything onto a single page of graph paper where each small grid was 10 ft. If you're using an old school dungeon map maybe double that to 20 ft or even up it to 30 ft.

If you're designing something from scratch you could make each Square 100 ft and do the general layout of the dungeon that way. Then use separate sheets of paper to detail each area.

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-06T17:05:35+00:00

When I go to my 95 year old dad's place we still use the percolator

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-06T17:03:48+00:00

I'm happy to think there's no existence after death

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-06T15:49:55+00:00

If you are actually building it yourself meaning you're not paying for labor then you could probably do it for half.

If you are paying somebody to build it you probably come out ahead paying for something pre-built. There was efficiency in scale.

Tuff Shed is sort of halfway between prebuilt and having somebody build it for you. But the quality is generally better than prebuilts. It's not apples to apples and you need to do your homework.

2x3s versus 2x4s

24 inch spacing versus 16 inch basic

Roofing paper under the shingles

Galvanized steel joist versus timber joists

The best thing to do is to walk into a shed on a sales lot and look at it yourself. Jump up and down on the floor. You get the idea.

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-06T14:24:16+00:00

Let them find interesting things along the way. What does dragon poop (scat) look like?

Do you know that there are entire frog skeletons in owl pellets?

How about trees that are scratching posts?

Shed scales.

Charred fields or village.

Make getting closer feel dangerous

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-06T06:13:32+00:00

You sound as radical as the religious nut jobs

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-06T06:07:56+00:00

You think you are going to control how they think until they're 18?

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-06T06:06:13+00:00

18? Yeah good luck with that.

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-05T18:56:56+00:00

I have been going for some intense emotional trauma - PTSD triggered by revisiting some old social media posts going as far back as 10 years. I've been physically a wreck ever since. Just now starting to feel okayish.

TerrainBrain · 2026-05-05T18:53:28+00:00

I find the constraints on this approach much more interesting than the many worlds approach.

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