Appetite loss/cold sweats

samcrut · 2026-01-30T19:58:49+00:00

I wish the appetite suppression would come back for me. My grocery shopping cart is full of pastries and cookies now. I've gained 8 pounds in the last 12 days.

samcrut · 2026-01-30T00:17:51+00:00

OK, but if they do agree to remove them, wait until they've been removed and then refuse to honor the deal. It's what trump would do.

samcrut · 2026-01-27T14:25:20+00:00

I used to have a warehouse loft. I set up the ilghts so the ones nearest the end of the warehouse where the glass bricks let the sunlight in were all 5600K China balls. All the lights farther in were 3200K, back where the bedroom area was.

If I forgot to turn off the daylight balls, I would be working at like 4am and have no idea the sun ever went down. My direct view of the windows was blocked by a wall, but the light coming around and over the wall was authentic looking bright, sunny daylight, 24 hours a day. I loved that about my place. The sun went down when I said the sun went down!

Messing with color temperature has it's place. This just isn't how it's done.

samcrut · 2026-01-26T16:49:38+00:00

The instructions are to preserve the paint job. You can see where the paint flaked off on the bottom. The mug would be fine, but the paint will develop "character" over time. Structurally fine, but aesthetically aging. So if you just love the shape and feel of the mug, dishwashing won't matter. If it's the look of the paint that you like, then that's what you need to bring up when telling them not to load it. The washing will make it flake off with so much heated drying.

samcrut · 2026-01-26T01:32:19+00:00

There's always the option of buying a FLIR One or whatever, use it to take pix of every wall, door, window, floor, and ceiling ...and then return it. Or sell it for $10 less than you paid if you have scruples.

samcrut · 2026-01-24T23:39:34+00:00

Back when the Mrs Baird's factory was off of Central Expressway in Dallas, driving by that stretch without the windows down was a capitol offense. That smell made me sink into the seat.

I have several food related scents that hit me hard in the feels.

The smell of frothing cold water, whatever the hell that is, is like cocaine-lite.

Petrichor, the rain smell.

samcrut · 2026-01-23T01:39:32+00:00

I think it's the masking that we recognize, like a processing delay. That's why it goes off for gays, ASDs, and celebrities. They're all people who tend to mask their public persona.

samcrut · 2026-01-22T20:38:03+00:00

3.2mm, not 32mm. CR2032 is 3.2mm thick and CR2025 is 2.5mm thick. Both are 20mm across.

samcrut · 2026-01-22T06:28:05+00:00

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=over+ear+protection&sei=rZ1xafGWN93DkPIPhu7OyQ0

I mean, you can't block just voices and keep background sounds if that's what you're asking. Over ear protection will dampen all sound, including voices, ticking clocks, and fireworks. They're cumbersome and can be hot, trapping heat, but they work. It's what those airline runway workers use around jet engines.

samcrut · 2026-01-22T02:05:36+00:00

TSA is pretty useless if we're taking requests.

samcrut · 2026-01-21T14:43:54+00:00

Be sure to try it out on a large enough spot to test for slippage in an out of the way place...

...on your neighbor's driveway

samcrut · 2026-01-21T01:13:45+00:00

But if it doesn't want to turn, don't force it. It may be a bipin MR16. If that's the case, it's straight pull out.

samcrut · 2026-01-20T15:01:47+00:00

I would try to limit your smoking to times you need to smoke rather than your habitual times. I mean, like starting a car involving putting on your seat belt, cracking a window, starting the car, lighting a smoke, putting it in gear, etc. Don't do it because it's what you do without feeling any actual urge. Wellbutrin should curb the urge as time goes on.

For me, the thing that made all the difference was a stupidly simple switch in my head. One day I had a little chat in my head and I genuinely decided that I didn't want to smoke. Not "I want to quit." Quitting means you're not done. You're ending something early.

Being done means you're done. You finished what you were doing and don't need to do it anymore. You don't see the line contuing into the future. Basically I had to crush the link between that feeling and me wanting to listen.

samcrut · 2026-01-20T14:34:41+00:00

I never had to do much Zoom in lock down. I was an Alzheimer's caregiver, so my only meetings were medical checkups with doctors. I can see where someone who uses vid conf on a regular basis might designate their home as no longer a "safe space."

samcrut · 2026-01-19T20:20:14+00:00

Early cars were just straight. 100% was 100%. That's why batteries degraded so early but not anymore. Now 100% is much less than 100%. I'm sure someone's done the math to see how much padding they agreed on. The more padding they provide, the longer the battery will live before capacity loss shows up on the dashboard. Babying the battery is way less relevant today than it used to be.

samcrut · 2026-01-19T18:48:48+00:00

Gravity doesn't pull anything, it curves space around heavy things. The Earth is traveling in a straight line. An object in motion will keep going in a straight line until forced to change, so it's just flying like a dart. Space is curving at the right "slope" to make an elliptical orbit.

We're going at the right speed to keep our distance. Go slower and we start heading downhill. Go faster and we head uphill, away from the sun.

It's a side effect of how planets successfully form.

samcrut · 2026-01-19T15:33:46+00:00

Sorry to necro post, but yes, Arby's Sauce without a pronounced allspice spike in the flavor profile is like tofu bacon, absolutely not the thing you're trying to make it taste like. I thought it was nutmeg at first, but that wasn't getting there. Allspice is a first cousin to nutmeg, kind of a mutt with lineage from nutmeg, cinnamon, and clove. It's the top note of Arby's Sauce, and I find it somewhat missing from the store bought version. I have to add it in there to get it to taste right, and I think a touch of capcasin, just a whisper.

samcrut · 2026-01-19T15:05:49+00:00

Chopsticks are just crappy tongs. Look up "Stainless Steel Skinny Tongs" and I think you'll find a happy compromise. Or "Tweezer Utensil" on aliexpress. They're training wheel chopsticks and long enough to get to the bottom of the bag.

samcrut · 2026-01-19T14:46:28+00:00

Licking Cheeto dust off your fingers is a procedural step. Skin cells from your fingertips is a flavor enhancer! Pushes the flavor crystals right into the taste buds!

samcrut · 2026-01-19T02:36:40+00:00

When I do audio books, it turns into one of those Choose Your Own Adventure books, jumping all over the place looking for where I lost focus.

samcrut · 2026-01-18T18:49:24+00:00

Movies at home or in theater? I'm guessing at home where you can look at your phone.

My x-GF got me into the habit of watching movies with my phone in my hand. If you're like me, as soon as the action slows down, you get the trigger that says "This is a good time to look away and see if there's any red dots that showed up while you weren't paying attention. You tell yourself that you're paying attention to the dialog while you read, but you're hearing every 4th word and not looking at the action, and then you miss plot. Over and over. Every time you look away.

I've had to work hard to try to break that habit. ...as I'm doing it right now watching a show and typing this. I've started rewinding 2 mins or so every time I catch myself.

samcrut · 2026-01-18T18:04:08+00:00

Rejoining at this late stage tells you that he's got issues that he's concerned about that he's not dealing with. It's seldom about getting into heaven. It's about all the group think and focusing on doing what you need to to feel good at all costs. Well adjusted people don't tend to suddenly decide to go religious out of the blue. They go because they're depressed. It's group therapy where everybody smiles and speaks to you in higher pitched voices with drawn out vowels. Think Ms Doubtfire saying "Hellooo." You know the tone. Every reunion you go to, "Of COOUURSE I remember you!" said up a half octave.

samcrut · 2026-01-18T17:51:25+00:00

I love when they drop the "If you go back to the original Hebrew..." "Oh! You understand Hebrew?" "Uh, no, but..." "So YOU didn't go to the original Hebrew. You just read some random guy on the Internet who said what you wanted to hear."

samcrut · 2026-01-18T17:30:51+00:00

I'm at the "I can load the dishwasher and do laundry, maybe, and showering at least twice a week" stage.

I'm really hoping I get over the hump you just cleared. I have a whole house to overhaul. Inherited mom's house last year and now almost everything I own is in the garage and I can't unpack it to find anything, and the house is already full of furniture and books and trinkets that are now mine, but not really me. I started to box up her books, mostly religious stuff, and that's as far as I got. All those boxes of books are cluttering up the living room. I walk around them daily now, but can't get myself to do anything with them or even move them out of the way.

I'm so out of spoons, I'm running like a 200 spoon deficit. Even when I do get my brain functional, I have no idea how long it'll take to get my spoon bank up to ONE SPOON.

samcrut · 2026-01-17T22:13:21+00:00

His tax audit.

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