Lol, you must be a cousin too.We have that too, and I normally win that one actually...
Short barreled mosin FTW!!
Lol, you must be a cousin too.We have that too, and I normally win that one actually...
Short barreled mosin FTW!!
Lol.Lol, you must be a cousin too.
It's funny. I have a hard time sleeping in the country. I have a messed up schedule right now but usually I can sleep pretty well. In the country the darkness and silence is too much. I need some background noise and a little bit of light to help me fall asleep.Lol.
I was raised on a 255 acre farm over 15 miles from civilization. I picked up some hobbies to entertain myself. I can't live anywhere near a town or city because it drives me absolutely nuts from extreme social anxiety so I have kept some of these hobbies through my adult life.
Cool! I'll check it outProbably not, but of course you kinda do don't you?
Did you know Pure Coils, Crazy Chef, has a forum? I didn't have a clue, a few from VU are over there. I'll take a closer look tomorrow.
It's funny. I have a hard time sleeping in the country. I have a messed up schedule right now but usually I can sleep pretty well. In the country the darkness and silence is too much. I need some background noise and a little bit of light to help me fall asleep.
LOL Crickets, toads, locus, and whippoorwills aren't enough ambient noise for you? I miss when I lived on the outskirts of town the whippoorwills lullabies.Our neighborhood hawk is back so not much bird song in town either.It's funny. I have a hard time sleeping in the country. I have a messed up schedule right now but usually I can sleep pretty well. In the country the darkness and silence is too much. I need some background noise and a little bit of light to help me fall asleep.
We have a lot of dogs sround here too. They are mostly ankle biters. My dog' Pepper is a Beagle. Her Bark/howl is unbelievable. She loves being outside She can stay out there until she starts yelling at the other dogs, which usually doesn't take long. I find her noise cute. I don't think others feel rhe same.
The Cicadas are back this year here. We have all those noises except the toads and whippoorwills. There are frogs on the golf courses but that's about it. A lot of migratory birds Winter down here . There is something soothing about the static sound of traffic. Not horns and sirens just distant traffic. I have a friend who lives in the shadow of the 5 and 91 interchange in Anaheim. When I stayed at his place I got the best night of sleep ever.lol The humidity in CA usually makes it tough to sleep but that's another story.LOL Crickets, toads, locus, and whippoorwills aren't enough ambient noise for you? I miss when I lived on the outskirts of town the whippoorwills lullabies.Our neighborhood hawk is back so not much bird song in town either.
I had a little tuxedo cat a few years back. She was a sweet kitty once she got settled in. I had an apartment on the 6th floor and she would sit at the window and watch the birds fly by the window. We ended up giving her to my friend wghen my Wife got pregnant with our son. I miss that cat. I love my dog, bit she is a bit extra sometimes. The cat was so mellow.The noise that dogs make is why I've switched to being a cat person. Cats are (mostly) just about silent. Even their loudest fights aren't as noisy as dogs' barking. My son said we should get a Basenji, but they apparently won't get along with cats, so that's out.
Letitia -- I miss the sound of cicadas, being shut off by air conditioning... but i'd rather a) breathe, and b) be cool, than hear cicadas.
Andria
I had a little tuxedo cat a few years back. She was a sweet kitty once she got settled in. I had an apartment on the 6th floor and she would sit at the window and watch the birds fly by the window. We ended up giving her to my friend wghen my Wife got pregnant with our son. I miss that cat. I love my dog, bit she is a bit extra sometimes. The cat was so mellow.
Sorry to hear about your sleep troubles. That sounds awful. I found some relief in Advil PM. I had my first good solid 8 hours of sleep in years last week. It says it's non addictive but we'll see. I felt good for a change. Tomorrow I am back to work on graveyard... I hate my schedule.
That's just diphenhydramine, same as benadryl or sominex. I can't take that shit, except for allergy; it gives me a little "fogginess", but also makes me hyper, and that's not a comfortable combination. What I take instead of that is Dramamine, dimenhydrinate; it actually gives me the "heavy eyelids" sensation, which is a lot more helpful than just fogginess. I take 3-4 a night, which is 150-200mg. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I also take about 40mg of melatonin about an hour earlier than the dramamine -- again, sometimes useful, sometimes not. I also take a zyrtec at night, to keep from waking up with allergy, and that might increase the sleepy effect of the dramamine. Sometimes also throw in half a benadryl if I'm experiencing allergy at the time I take my pills, and that does seem to increase the dramamine's effect, and is a low enough dose of that drug that it doesn't give me the hyper effect.
When I take the later set of pills, I also make a cup of cocoa with warm milk instead of water; last night, I had 2 cups -- and made sure to hit my "dry leaf" vaporizer pretty heavily. Whether it was that 2nd cup, or (mostly) resisting a nap (I did snooze for about an hour in the afternoon, but made myself get up after that single hour), I did get to sleep by a decent time last night; went to bed about 1:45, and I don't recall anything after going to the bathroom around 2:45. I woke up fairly early, about 9, and though I had my clock set for 10:30, 30 mins earlier than the 11 I got up yesterday, I decided to go ahead and get up, and try to keep better hours all week, so that Saturday isn't such a rude shock.
Hopefully I can resist the siren lure of a nap all day today, since I feel fairly rested.
Andria
ETA: all drugs like diphenhydramine and dimenhydrinate are non-addictive, but they do have a fairly rapid build of tolerance -- hence the 3-4 pills of Dramamine. I used to take just 1 or 2, but now my body laughs at that low dosage.
Goddamn. Andria.
That sounds like a liivng hell.
How 'bout you try this:
Goddamn Girl. That is some fucked-up shiite.
Get your shit together! There are three drug groups:
Alcohol
Speed
Downers
**other**
Lay off that shit, Eat a good meal.
ECF refugee there Andria. Guess why...Mind your own, you know nothing about me, and stop spamming this thread! I'm sure the others don't appreciate it either!
Andria
ECF refugee there Andria. Guess why...
Unfortunately true, but they (ecf) seem to have relaxed a bit here lately. I see comments posted that would have brought a mod running a year ago being ignored.
Maybe the asshole mods are on vacation? There's really just 2 mods over there that are intolerable. The others seemed like fairly normal humans, except for that asinine rule about not criticizing nor even DISCUSSING the moderation. Only those with pitiful little egos can't take criticism, and censorship is the first mark of FASCISM.
Andria
I always oppose censorship in any form you want to say fuck every other word fine, you want to say Nazis where right okay good for you, you want to tell me the Indians started it great I may not agree with you or think you are a dumb ass but I will support your right to say and think it. I understand that if I use a website then I have to follow the rules set by the owner of that site, but I also have the right to think some of those rules are dumb as hell I mean the reason on ECF for some of the censorship is keep it so if kids see it or someone's work won't have a problem with the content blah blah blah, the site is for Adults, kids should not be on it, as for work if your job does not want you going to sites that have this or that then that is on you not me hell last job I had there was an email war going on about who could find the most fucked up porn (I will never ever unsee those 90-year-old, women and that cucumber)
But no matter what kind of site and who runs it you will always run into ass hats on both sides but looking above and seeing infowars.com in the siggy well that says it all to me.