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Speaking of, any recs? I could redo my broth diet from a few months ago, but maybe something with substance would be nice or more productive. Bananas are good, right? Rice is a no, unfortunately. :(
I recommend both bananas and broth. I wouldn't worry too much about nutrition at the moment as much as being able to get hydrated and raise your blood sugar levels.
 
Whenever the subject of vomiting comes up, I'm always quick to mention that I rarely vomit. It's not a boast, it's more a desperate plea to the universe to keep it that way.

Isn't rarely vomiting fairly standard for most people? I can't remember the last time I did, but it must be well over a decade ago now.
 
Isn't rarely vomiting fairly standard for most people? I can't remember the last time I did, but it must be well over a decade ago now.
Most people in my life it's a yearly affair, at least. Perhaps we both exist on extreme ends of the spectrum in terms of anecdote. Going 10+ years without a single heave seems lengthy. And also something that causes jealousy in me. :P
 
Most people in my life it's a yearly affair, at least. Perhaps we both exist on extreme ends of the spectrum in terms of anecdote. Going 10+ years without a single heave seems lengthy. And also something that causes jealousy in me. :p

Well pretty much every (if not genuinely every) incident outside of childhood has been alcohol-related, so it's pretty much just a choice if I want to vomit or not. I choose not to these days.
 
I easily get motion sick, so the feeling is waaaay more common for me.
So... get well Synsensa.

Be a lot of work for not much money.

Just sell the whole bunch of cables at once?

She made her own decisions too and there's no small chance that her feelings toward you are heavily influenced by the bad husband situation. If that situation changes, you two may find the longing for each other to have been sort of delusional and you might realize you were right to have broken up in the first place. Or maybe you live happily ever after. Who knows? My main point was just to help you see there are other perspectives than the one you are currently fixated on.

Be well dude. :)

Thanks man.
Yeah, the issue is that I can't know what's true, and what's not :/.
 
Well pretty much every (if not genuinely every) incident outside of childhood has been alcohol-related, so it's pretty much just a choice if I want to vomit or not. I choose not to these days.

I'm pretty much in this same boat, but I know that at some point my mother passed a threshold of age/infirmity where it became pretty common for her. I'm not looking forward to that, if it happens to me. Back when I was a drinking puker I considered myself to be highly skilled. I knew how to just relax and let it flow and really wasn't bothered by it at all. But at this point I am sorely out of practice and it could be traumatic.
 
In my case, there was one, tiny little cookie left in the package. Since the doctor told me I could eat solid foods after a few days, I thought I'd be fine.

Whoops.

Speaking of, any recs? I could redo my broth diet from a few months ago, but maybe something with substance would be nice or more productive. Bananas are good, right? Rice is a no, unfortunately. :(

I've mostly been having jello and saltine crackers.
 
Honestly I'm getting a little sick of the stuff at this point.
 
Que? Dumping it all in a garbage can IS an ecological value. Alternative: dump it all in a steel drum, add a little bit of diesel fuel and a splash of gasoline to get things started and light on fire. Stay well clear of toxic smoke as rubber and vinyl burn away. Add water and stir with paddle to break up toxic combustion product (char) and flush through into convenient public sewer. Reclaim copper. Profit.
Shipping a piece of garbage across the country instead of binning it isn't a net win for the environment. Even the gas someone burns to come pick it up would probably be a net loss compared to saving some cables.
Yes, I went to thinking about that alter in the night: how, given the ridiculous distances in the US, the cost of fuel and electricity for the shipping might cancel out the benefits of recycling the cables or giving them a good use instead of just putting them into landfill. :(
Here it'd just entail me taking a bus or the tube to wherever the purchaser lived, collecting on the price, and that'd be it. Since the bus/tube circulates anyway there's no added cost in terms of transportation.
wasn't this thread about ranting on postcounts ?
It was, but that rant is no longer valid.
 
Whenever the subject of vomiting comes up, I'm always quick to mention that I rarely vomit. It's not a boast, it's more a desperate plea to the universe to keep it that way. My ribs are exceptionally weak, as is my back now, and stuff like coughing and vomiting is devastating. So I've always been rather pleased that all my woes tend to resolve with intestinal distress, because even if that's completely miserable and painful, it's a lot easier to bounce back from than agitating the inflammation in my chest, especially now with a bidet (absolute lifesaver, y'all).

Not so this time, lads. I think over the course of four hours I dispelled around five liters of fluid, combined, from both exit points. Genuinely felt like my ribs were on the verge of simply yeeting themselves off into the horizon and becoming pilgrims in a brave new world. I think this may have been the worst food poisoning I've ever had in my life. It got bad enough that I hallucinated for a few hours, and then I spent almost an entire day in a fugue state. I don't know what I would have done if I didn't still have two bottles of Gatorade laying around. I sipped at them over the course of ~30 hours, not nearly enough, but it was the absolute best I could manage. Even with that, I had a horrifyingly awful headache and could barely remain upright during the hourly visits to the bathroom.

I still can't eat anything. :( And while the water park in Synland has closed down, everything is cramping up something fierce. Luckily, I've managed to wrestle down the headache.

Thankfully I've improved enough to do some work so I can get paid, and then maybe I can get some bland foods ordered from the grocery store. What I have right now won't do it, and toast isn't winning my stomach over at all. I ate a bagel and a half yesterday but I think there's too much fiber. So I thawed out some bread, but it's fiber-reinforced and almost identical to the bagels. :mad: I have some probiotic yogurt but I feel that may be risky. I also hard-boiled some eggs that are in the fridge right now, and I'll probably give one of those a try when the hunger pains overwhelm the cramping/nausea pains. Although at a certain point I imagine I won't be able to tell the difference between them.

Speaking of, any recs? I could redo my broth diet from a few months ago, but maybe something with substance would be nice or more productive. Bananas are good, right? Rice is a no, unfortunately. :(
Banans and broth sound good for now.
 
Don't risk the yoghurt, Syn! I've recently experienced its effects myself, and I wasn't even in your situation.
 
Another update on the mess...so I talked with my ex for 1.5h. She's not good. I am okay though.
Just talked to her housemate, if coming over would help, and she thinks so. If my boss doesn't raise major objections, then I will fly back for a couple of days.
Only on Wednesday though, hope to fix the bureaucracy for the apartment I would like to take, and need to finish some urgent work. Also need to warn her with enough time :lol:.
 
Where will you be when the yogurt hits?
It already has. This was a couple of days ago; since I didn't have this food poisoning of yours then I have already recovered.
 
Yes, I went to thinking about that alter in the night: how, given the ridiculous distances in the US, the cost of fuel and electricity for the shipping might cancel out the benefits of recycling the cables or giving them a good use instead of just putting them into landfill. :(
Here it'd just entail me taking a bus or the tube to wherever the purchaser lived, collecting on the price, and that'd be it. Since the bus/tube circulates anyway there's no added cost in terms of transportation.

It was, but that rant is no longer valid.


Just sell the whole bunch of cables at once?


Recycling them, and finding someone who actually wants them for use purposes, is 2 different stories. It's a fair amount of work to recycle them. It would be a lot more effort to find someone who wanted them for use purposes. There's a scrap yard 2 miles from here that will pay me for them. But in order to get any decent money per pound, e-waste has to be disassembled and separated by type. Which can be a non-trivial amount of work. Most people don't bother.

At the moment, I have a non-trivial amount of e-waste disassembled. But there's a fair number of hours of work into doing so. Pro tip: It's hard to disassemble a microwave oven. But a scrap yard will pay you more for the same circuit board, electric motors, wiring, and case, then they will for a whole microwave. And the reason for that is that it is hard to disassemble a microwave oven! And some e-waste is assembled with specialty fasteners. Many people don't even have the tools, other than to brute force it.

This is what I've got so far.

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And I'm not down the the bottom of the pile of stuff I'm trying to get rid of.
 
If it's going to recycling anyway the best tool for disassembling things is a drill. Don't care about the fasteners, just drill the heads off and pull stuff apart.
 
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