What I did today -instead- of Rocketry.

[OverTheTop]

"Cane toads are poisonous at all stages of their life cycle, including the egg and tadpole stage. The toxin is secreted and possibly squirted when the animal is roughly handled or feels threatened. The toxin is produced on the toad's shoulder glands and is present on the skin of its back."

Some people actively lick the toads for an induced high. If you can find it, the documentary "Cane Toads: an Unnatural History" check it out. Very entertaining.

 

[Hobie1dog]

Some people actively lick the toads for an induced high.

And that's why my signature line has: Earth, the insane asylum of the universe

 

[rocket_troy]

"Cane toads are poisonous at all stages of their life cycle, including the egg and tadpole stage. The toxin is secreted and possibly squirted when the animal is roughly handled or feels threatened. The toxin is produced on the toad's shoulder glands and is present on the skin of its back."

The foreign introduced cane toads have been the killer of many native species because of this. However, I hear the really clever ones have worked out methods of eating them eg. the crows/ravens have learned to flip them over on their backs and eat the guts and whatever parts that are non toxic.

TP

 

[Cape Byron]

"Cane toads are poisonous at all stages of their life cycle, including the egg and tadpole stage. The toxin is secreted and possibly squirted when the animal is roughly handled or feels threatened. The toxin is produced on the toad's shoulder glands and is present on the skin of its back."

Yep. A size 9 steel capped boot sorts them right out.

 

[Cape Byron]

Some people actively lick the toads for an induced high. If you can find it, the documentary "Cane Toads: an Unnatural History" check it out. Very entertaining.

MIL’s dog became addicted to licking them and getting spaced. Fun dog.

 

[Hobie1dog]

Yep. A size 9 steel capped boot sorts them right out.

I guess that's what those 30 ft long venom spitting, anaconda squeezing, striking cobras that you have around house feed on

 

[Cape Byron]

I guess that's what those 30 ft long venom spitting, anaconda squeezing, striking cobras that you have around house feed on

Nope. Toxic to pythons. Common Keelback snakes (non-venomous) snack on them quite happily.

 

[gdjsky01]

Day 35 I think... not sure. All I know is 7 weeks ago on April 6th 2023 was the last time I got to speak to and hear from the one person in my life who I can not live without. Or I guess more to the point DON'T want to live without. Yet here I am. Living without. No worries. I am on it. Just is what it is. She'd want me to get on with it... and I will... however:

Wednesdays and Thursdays PST/PDT will alway be painful anniversaries. I think maybe Sundays should start being a joyous ones. February 24th 1999. A Sunday. The day of our marriage. Or Tuesdays. October 29th 1996. The day I met Kim Leanne.

You'll see this post many more times. Because I guess it helps... I guess.

 

[gdjsky01]

Day 35 I think... no 36... not sure. All I know is 7 weeks ago on April 6th 2023 was the last time I got to speak to and hear from the one person in my life who I can not live without. Or I guess more to the point DON'T want to live without. Yet here I am. Living without. No worries. I am on it. Just is what it is. She'd want me to get on with it... and I will... however:

Wednesdays and Thursdays PST/PDT will alway be painful anniversaries. I think maybe Sundays should start being a joyous ones. February 24th 1999. A Sunday. The day of our marriage. Or Tuesdays. October 29th 1996. The day I met Kim Leanne.

You'll see this post many more times. Because I guess it helps... I guess.

 

[rharshberger]

Went clam digging this morning and all 13 of us got our limit (20 clams each), spent 2.5 hours cleaning said clams (meat filled 3 quart size bags). Our family visited the Tillamook Air Museum in the old Tillamook Naval Station Hanger B (airship hanger), then off to get ice cream at the Tillamook Creamery visitors center. Finally its bed time.

 

[Hobie1dog]

breathing AM treatment, I think the lung infection is over, finally after 10 weeks.

 

[John Kemker]

It's not the same; keep looking. All Mucinex is guaifenesin, an expectorant. The D means it has a Decongestant (probably pseudoephedrine) which is what you need. The DM is for DextroMethorphan, a cough suppressant. I don't know how much good the expectorant is going to do you, but if the doc says use it then who am I to question?

I suspect I'll have to go to another pharmacy to buy the Mucinex D, not DM. /sigh

 

[John Kemker]

Day 35 I think... not sure. All I know is 7 weeks ago on April 6th 2023 was the last time I got to speak to and hear from the one person in my life who I can not live without. Or I guess more to the point DON'T want to live without. Yet here I am. Living without. No worries. I am on it. Just is what it is. She'd want me to get on with it... and I will... however:

Wednesdays and Thursdays PST/PDT will alway be painful anniversaries. I think maybe Sundays should start being a joyous ones. February 24th 1999. A Sunday. The day of our marriage. Or Tuesdays. October 29th 1996. The day I met Kim Leanne.

You'll see this post many more times. Because I guess it helps... I guess.

Keep posting all you like. I may not be able to give any good advice, but know that I support you, as do a lot of other folks on here. Do what you gotta do.

 

[prfesser]

Went back to the Dr. Ear hasn't gotten any better, despite four days on Augmentin. He prescribed Clindamycin and more prednisone. Told me to get Mucinex D and take that. Found Mucinex DM, don't know if it's the same. Didn't see any Mucinex D.

The Decongestant you want is the (restricted) pseudoephedrine AKA Sudafed. The unrestricted phenylephrine may be completely ineffective; Wikipedia says "The Food and Drug Administration withdrew the indication "for the temporary relief of nasal congestion associated with sinusitis" in 2007.[2]"

If the pharmacy doesn't have Mucinex D, you should be able to buy Sudafed separately as long as you haven't bought it lately; check with the pharmacist. The generic version is quite the same as the name brand. Then just add it to plain Mucinex.

 

[jqavins]

Or any other brand or generic, pill or liquid. Robitussin and its copies are the same stuff plus water and sweetener. As long as you're getting guaifenesin and pseudoephedrine, it doesn't matter what brand, combined or separate, liquid or solid. Just read the label for the active ingredients.

When you get into the habit of reading OTC drug labels, you'll be amazed at how many of them are exactly the same. Even items from the same brand with different names, e.g. "<brand name> Sinus" and "<brand name> Cold and Flu" are likely to be absolutely identical.

Virtually all OTC cold medicines are some combination of:

• Acetaminophen or ibuprofen;
• Pseudoephedrine or phenylephrine*;
• Guaifenesin; and/or
• Dextromethorphan

* As Prfesser stated, if it's got phenylephrine you might as well put it back on the shelf. Products with pseudoephedrine are behind the counter but don't need a prescription. (They're restricted because it can be used as a precursor to make meth.)

 

[dhbarr]

Or any other brand or generic, pill or liquid. Robitussin and its copies are the same stuff plus water and sweetener. As long as you're getting guaifenesin and pseudoephedrine, it doesn't matter what brand, combined or separate, liquid or solid. Just read the label for the active ingredients.

When you get into the habit of reading OTC drug labels, you'll be amazed at how many of them are exactly the same. Even items from the same brand with different names, e.g. "<brand name> Sinus" and "<brand name> Cold and Flu" are likely to be absolutely identical.

Virtually all OTC cold medicines are some combination of:

• Acetaminophen or ibuprofen;
• Pseudoephedrine or phenylephrine*;
• Guaifenesin; and/or
• Dextromethorphan

* As Prfesser stated, if it's got phenylephrine you might as well put it back on the shelf. Products with pseudoephedrine are behind the counter but don't need a prescription. (They're restricted because it can be used as a precursor to make meth.)

If they make a less-drowsy version, the original is a sleeping pill. doxylamine, diphenhydramine, dimenhydrinate . I'm not a doctor, and this is not advice.

 

[Hobie1dog]

I went to the cigar/pipe shop and there were lots of friends there today, as usual on Friday, and got to meet some new people as well that were in town visiting friends. I got one of them from up in the Northeast to buy a pipe and some pipe tobacco and smoke a pipe for the first time in 50 years.

 

[John Kemker]

I just bought some generic pseudephedrine and I'll take it and the generic Mucinex DM. So, I'll get some extra dextromethorphan. Meh.

 

[jqavins]

If they make a less-drowsy version, the original is a sleeping pill. doxylamine, diphenhydramine, dimenhydrinate . I'm not a doctor, and this is not advice.

Original what?

Actifed is doxylamine and pseudoephedrine, but I haven't seen doxylamine in anything else is a coon's age so I left it out of my bullet list. I've also never seen a product with both doxylamine and diphenhydramine, as they are both antihistamines (and thus also both sedatives). To my knowledge, neither of those antihistamines are in any of the Mucinex or Robitussin versions, but I could easily be wrong. If you take one from each of the bullet list list lines - acetaminophen, pseudoephedrine, diphenhydramine, and dextromethorphan - you get Nyquil (since they took the alcohol out a couple three decades ago).

Anyone remember Contac? That one was different; it had belladonna.

 

[Hobie1dog]

Doing the nightly breathing treatment, now they're putting me on a new 30 day antibiotic, as the lung dr. wants to be sure it gets taken care of finally.

 

[tsmith1315]

Some people actively lick the toads for an induced high. If you can find it, the documentary "Cane Toads: an Unnatural History" check it out. Very entertaining.

And that's why my signature line has: Earth, the insane asylum of the universe

MIL’s dog became addicted to licking them and getting spaced. Fun dog.

Where's @frogglicker when you need him?

 

[Cape Byron]

Where's @frogglicker when you need him?

Duh, licking frogs.

 

[frogglicker]

My wife calls me a "Frog-licking Saxon" like it's an insult. bwaaaahahahahaha

...and for the record, I was fixing a door that one of my kids pulled off the hinges (and licking frogs).

 

[Hobie1dog]

My wife calls me a "Frog-licking Saxon" like it's an insult. bwaaaahahahahaha

...and for the record, I was fixing a door that one of my kids pulled off the hinges (and licking frogs).

I'm assuming you're not talking about a full sized door If so, we want to see what that kid looks like

 

[rharshberger]

Dug Razor clams, then cleaned them, what I got filled a quart freezer bag about 3/4 full.

 

[Cape Byron]

Went bed shopping.

 

[n3tjm]

Tonight I did my first "successful" print using PETG. Looks better in person because the black shiny plastic does not photograph well. Hardest part to figure out was how to get it to stick to the bed. First, I learned, clean the bed. A go-over with alcohol made an obvious difference. Second thought, since I am printing at higher temp for both bed and nozzle, I have to relevel the bed. Also I decided to print a raft. This is the result after a relevel. It had some strings, so my next print in dropped the temp a little to see if that helps.

 

[teepot]

First a story/reason why I have been absent a few days. Sunday I was very sleepy. Went to bed early at ten. Woke up Tuesday. felt like crap Tuesday. Wednesday wasn't much better. Had to take my wife to a doctors appointment Wednesday in Vegas. Came home a napped for hours. Thursday was better. Today, so far ok. Today I had a doctors appointment. I'm watering the grass with a sprinkler since my irrigation system has developed a leak. I have fixed the manifold for that bank of sprinklers about 3 times over the last few years. I give up. I'm calling in the big guns and am going to hire a professional. About sunset I'll mow the grass. Now that all the brush piles are gone I'm going to make more. I need to prune some Chaste bushes/trees. They grow like weeds. The carpet of flowers that covered the desert are all brown now. Still some green on the bigger things and still green in other parts of the desert. The talk of Ammonium Nitrate in another thread has me wanting to go blow up some targets but it's a little too windy to go shooting. Yesterday I tried putting my Uzi together. Got started and realized I had a full auto bolt instead of a semi-auto bolt. Trying to find a semi-auto bolt. Turns out they are pretty rare and expensive. I found one and the guy wants $500 for it. At this rate I should have just bought the gun rather than trying to save some money and build it myself. Cuts from the falling knives are healing nicely. Because of all the rain we had this spring we have a bumper crop of bugs. The front of the Explorer looks like I drove through a cloud of Locusts. I sprayed bug remover on the front and ran the car through a car wash. Didn't touch the bugs. Tried some straight orange soap and that took some off. It's still bad. Bug guts would make a good substitute for CA. Going to have to break out the pressure washer and try blowing them off without taking the paint off.

 

[Hobie1dog]

laundry

 

[frogglicker]

Bug guts would make a good substitute for CA.

Yeah, they stick like they were applied with CA... but then, they act like little packets of acid. Love Bugs and Motorcycle rides in May do NOT mix. #FloridaBugs