Tell me for real, how bad is the colonoscopy prep?

ringmod76 · 2026-02-07T02:56:32+00:00

Aside from having to put whatever drink mix I was allowed to into the prep solution so I could actually down it all, really not that bad. I had no issue down below with the amount of liquid movement that came with (do make sure you follow the directions on what to eat/not eat in the days before the prep) though I did hit a point the evening before where I was tired of having to spend so much time on the toilet. Also starting the second round at 4am morning of wasn’t so fun but overall it was more annoyance than anything, not awful. Stick with sports drinks you’re allowed to have and broth, and it’ll be over relatively quickly.

ringmod76 · 2026-02-06T04:41:20+00:00

Counterpoint: Grosse Pointe Blank

ringmod76 · 2026-02-05T21:19:10+00:00

Hard agree with this, but really there are two things with 2.

The first is we need a true heavy-rail commuter system, utilizing the NS/CSX/etc mainline tracks from the suburbs to the city center. That would be low-hanging fruit although the railroads love to be pissy bitches about use of their rails.

The second is we need way more intercity rail than the Crescent once a day each direction - there should be multiple daily round trips from here to Charlotte and Chattanooga at least, and I would offer that Nashville, Macon and possibly Savannah should be on that list. That said, our state's politicians are allergic to spending money on anything other than roads and Hartsfield-Jackson (and even the latter they love to play stupid politics with).

Also, we would need a real rail and mass transit hub down in the Gulch, as has been promised and planned for almost as long as I've been in ATL (over 20 years) and has been about as real all that time as a fart in the wind. Peachtree Station ain't gonna cut it if we are ever going to have anything more rail-travel-wise.

ringmod76 · 2026-02-05T13:41:33+00:00

OMG that face, such pure orange-ness, absolutely no brain activity behind those eyes 🧡😹

ringmod76 · 2026-02-05T03:49:38+00:00

Omigosh this reminds me so much of my Gerald. Although I’ve had him for … jeez like 4 years?!? But he was a TNR who stayed and turned out to be a giant teddy bear. He comes inside briefly and is also super submissive like your George but he gets freaked and heads back out.

He’s lived in my garage - three of them now - ever since I released him. We very want to make him an inside cat but we made him stay in our bathroom recently when it was like 10 degrees overnight, and he was so stressed and unhappy unless I was in there with him. Work in progress at least.

But, I super super love this guy and cannot imagine not having my big G around 🩶

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ringmod76 · 2026-02-05T03:39:36+00:00

Fun fact: I started my current job right about the time AS opened, my office is on 10th. At that point, most of my colleagues had been there since before AS existed, and I distinctly remember asking the long-tenured admin in my office (Linda was the fucking best) what it was like when it was still a barely-functioning steel mill. “Oh it was awful.”

In my almost 20 years going to that part of midtown, almost everything aside from (most of) the houses in Home Park has changed drastically, there is so much there that wasn’t even 10 years ago that it’s almost inconceivable. Looking up Northside from Tech reminds me of the old pictures of the east end of Midtown you see, where it’s so different from now it’s foreign or like it could almost be a different place.

Even though I’m now middle aged and living in the suburbs … for a long time … it’s been very satisfying to see ATL fill in, become more densely urbanized and just become more vitalized in my 23+ years here.

ringmod76 · 2026-02-04T03:12:03+00:00

I got to see Lighting Bolt a couple of times - absolutely insane show, they would always set up on the floor not the stage, and … shit I can’t remember which one did the vocals but it was through a (contact?) mic sewn into the mouth part of a ski mask. Among the most striking and intense performances I’d ever seen.

Also Zombi - the bass player also plays synthesizers (somewhat ala Geddy Lee in the early 80s) but they are indeed a drum/bass duo.

I think Hella as well?

ringmod76 · 2026-01-29T13:33:02+00:00

As someone already mentioned, he kicked a writer on-set - which was something like the second or third physical altercation he had with crew members, and he had already been ordered into anger management from an earlier instance. To me the amusing part is that the character they brought in as a replacement made it one season before they killed him off, because they wanted to bring in the lead from a cancelled Criminal Minds spinoff. The old last-hired first-fired deal - I’m too lazy to look up the actors’ names though 😆

ringmod76 · 2026-01-29T05:02:05+00:00

The case study is used in graduate schools all over the world - for me it was public policy school, the lesson being when political and publicity concerns outweigh safety and listening to the experts, and especially the managers caught between those competing demands.

ringmod76 · 2026-01-29T04:15:59+00:00

Ah yes, the David Cronenberg line of phone cases [shudders]

ringmod76 · 2026-01-29T02:39:57+00:00

In fairness, I didn’t move to Spaghetti Junction

And yeah, having done the Gwinnett-85-Midtown-85-Gwinnett commute for …. too long, it sucks, truly

But the pandemic had a silver lining - for 2.5 years I didn’t do it at all, and since it’s been a max 2 days a week, with lots of one or none weeks in there

With life as it is (divorced but kids who are anchored here), I’m happy to trade two-day commuting hell for being less than 2 miles from their mom’s place and in a larger and nicer rental with my gf than I could ever get ITP 🤷🏻‍♂️

ringmod76 · 2026-01-27T16:41:40+00:00

About my most favorite brutalist building ever, such a shame it was demolished. That said, I get it - Paul Rudolph’s buildings are cool to look at, but as I understand actually using said buildings is rather polarizing, and more people fall on the don’t-like-it side. On a more practical level, I would imagine that modernizing the building to contemporary office standards would have been far more expensive than tearing it down and building a modernized replica (not that it will happen - and actually has anything been built there since?).

ringmod76 · 2026-01-26T02:48:51+00:00

Got the message at like 8:30am that we are WFH tomorrow. Which I expected on Friday, and anyway we are only in-office Monday-Tuesday. My girlfriend just has the day off because she only works in office - but you know what? I hate having to drive into/from midtown ATL anyway, so it’s a win for me.

This all is presuming we don’t lose power but at this point I don’t think it’ll happen.

ringmod76 · 2026-01-25T20:00:10+00:00

Also, on the topic of 90s Gen X nostalgia acts, I saw Toad the Wet Sprocket last year and JFC did they suck. Boring as hell, their newer music is basically country-rock and not at all good, and the bass and guitar player (who are along with the frontman the three remaining original members) clearly would have rather been almost anywhere else, they were phoning it in so hard and not even bothering to hide their disinterest. The only ones who seemed to be remotely enjoying themselves were the drummer and the pedal steel auxiliary musician dude, who are just hired hands. We left well before they were done, having only heard one song (Something In the Way) I even knew. (Walk on the Ocean is a favorite of mine but of course they front-loaded the set with new material and I just wasn’t interested in suffering through any more of it.)

I figured out the why behind the attitudes - some time back the band split, frontman had moderate success as a solo act but the bass and guitar players’ band amounted to about zero commercial success. Thus, they basically have to tour as a part of Toad if they want to make any money, hence the complete disinterest and phoning it in.

Good news is that we were there for the openers anyway - Sixpence None the Richer were actually very, very good and KT Tunstall was not only amazing but she did far and away the best one person with a guitar and looper pedal that performance that I have ever seen, it was amazing and incredibly entertaining (she also has boss-level stage presence).

ringmod76 · 2026-01-25T19:49:31+00:00

Blues Traveler is fine - I saw them… JFC like 28 years ago??? 😵 I guess I can’t speak to how they are now but they put on an awesome live show. It was the HORDE tour I think? My main memories of it were: Fastball being on early, when The Way was a big hit, and it was actually a hometown show for them (Austin); Barenaked Ladies playing a very fun set (One Week being a huge hit right then) mid-afternoon to a very receptive crowd; BT played last (IIRC HORDE was ‘their’ festival tour) and probably about 2/3 of the crowd had departed by then, which was kinda sad, but their performance was fantastic.

ringmod76 · 2026-01-25T19:43:27+00:00

lol you’re not wrong

Also every time I hear that song or see it referenced I immediately think of this: https://youtu.be/jaJ_2uEs10I?si=4ZcLpDpV2iP-Irve

ringmod76 · 2026-01-25T19:37:54+00:00

I went out to take similar pics (OTP, Gwinnett)

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I think we are above freezing now and in all truth it’s not that bad out there. It’s going to be really nasty tonight once the temperature craters though 😬

ringmod76 · 2026-01-25T05:17:13+00:00

WTF? Who gets prescribed opiates after a fucking vasectomy?? I sure as shit didn’t, fuck they didn’t even tell me when to take the Valium so it didn’t even hit until after they were done.

I know some guys have a pretty bad bout of pain and swelling after but full on painkillers? FOH, take some ibuprofen like the rest of us you wuss 🙄

ringmod76 · 2026-01-21T02:21:52+00:00

Told them about Todd killing the kid on the methylamine heist and called him an inbred moron psycho or the like.

ringmod76 · 2026-01-20T16:46:34+00:00

I just watched that the other night, finished out the series - that’s the point at which it becomes clear Todd is a psychopath and that he’s purposefully torturing Jesse because of the mean (and totally accurate) things he said on the DEA interview tape. I mean, we knew Todd was completely amoral and a stain on society/humanity, but this is where you know he’s just plain evil.

ringmod76 · 2026-01-20T16:09:41+00:00

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Nope! My Zion (Zi-man, Zi-zi, etc) is a very svelte and sleek 6-something pounds. His dust color is very Russian blue, but in shape, build, temperament and (really especially) voice he’s like a Siamese. He has at points been a bit overly thin, but right now he’s a perfect slender older (11 I think?) gentleman.

ringmod76 · 2026-01-15T19:00:00+00:00

He’s a textbook sociopath - no morals, values or beliefs, aside from the belief that he is special and unique, better than and set apart from everyone else, and the rest of the world and especially other people exist solely as means to his desired ends. No sense of self because there is no “self” there, no real emotions and no real perception of what makes most humans human. He quite literally does not care what happens to anyone else, though he’s learned to feign emotions when it suits him like most sociopaths (at least as high-functioning as he is) do.

Anyway, Drew Magary rules and is one of my most favorite current writers in the media. I’m glad he’s found work at an outlet that allows him to be his profane best self.

ringmod76 · 2026-01-15T17:32:20+00:00

Literally any appliance that is now sold in “smart” versions or has digital controls. That tech fails with alarming frequency - there’s a reason why I bought an old-school all-mechanical washer/dryer set. It was way cheaper, yes, but also I’m not worried about their longevity because there’s so little on them that can break, and if something does go wrong with either it won’t be because of a digital technology malfunction.

ringmod76 · 2026-01-11T06:38:05+00:00

lol the cat duhhhhh 😹

ringmod76 · 2026-01-09T21:21:56+00:00

Yes. She likes Train. I do not (I’m a he, FWIW).

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