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Back Pain
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And I have absolutely no idea what I've done - last week, my lower left back, then it got better and then started up in my lower right back. Making getting in and out of chairs absolute hell - once standing I'm fine, but getting to standing...
Anyways, it will pass, just an odd thing as that's never been a problem, and I've not been doing any heavy lifting, so whatever it is that's causing this...
Rating Woo
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Selling off, camera gone, cufflinks gone, Navaho Bracelet, sold, electric acupuncture needle, gone, (to a chiropractor, of course, who pays me in quarters), a big bag of books, gone.
Now I have a lot of this quack medical shit, a surprising amount of it contemporary. The electric acupuncture needle, for instance, and another piece which has garnered a lot of attention - Peter Mandel's Crystal Light Therapy kit, which I could have sold 3 times over but unfortunately the batteries leaked and are cemented in the flashlight portion of the kit.
This is very annoying. The kit, a bunch of covered lenses, sells for over a thousand new. Well over. And it's really just a flashlight, only I need to clean the batteries out of the flashlight and get it saleable. 1 day it took to get the end off, soaking the rest in Vinegar & WD-40, I might have to fix something up with a mag-light.
Now while clearly I have a taste for some of this stuff, clearly, time for it to go - the Violet ray, too cool to let that go (But I haven't yet found it in the locker); it's time for me to come up with my own bullshit quack medical device...
And the enquiries have dropped off so I need to go to the locker, find some boxes and get more stuff listed, only my place is full and the books can only be disposed of in a trickle, 2, 3 bags a week, the apartment is full of them, no room to turn around, and there's still more in the locker and my goal to "clear the kitchen counter" - itself a reasonable chore made daunting by the sheer amount of garbage I have...
Cross Pens
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I see these around a fair bit, used to find them in bags of pens & pencils for $1, they are collectable - expensive, after a fashion, although not to my taste. A little too slim and dainty.
My preference, of course, is Mont Blanc.
But I was reminiscing the other day about when I first heard of them - at an overstuffed nightclub in Edmonton, somewhere towards White Avenue, there was a bunch of older women flirting with me - by flirting I mean out-and-out lewd and lascivious, and there was a man with them, kept talking to me and telling me that I needed a Cross Pen so that all the women would know I had a big gold dick.
I didn't particularly care, but it made an impression and the image stuck, and so whenever I see a Cross pen I imagine the kind of guy that wants to show off his big gold dick, and I buy it and pass it on...
Diesel the Donkey
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"Not my monkey..."
This is my feel-good story of the decade (well, no, maybe week but still) - Diesel the Donkey escapes from his owners. Maybe not "escapes" but somehow gets lost. And is spotted a few years later living with a bunch of Elk. And, as noted, appears to be their leader....
"Heart of Darkness" or "Apocalypse Now" anyone?
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