August 30, 2006
Even drugs have their limits
I have spent the day zonked out on pain killers -- floating in and out of sleep, in and out of pain. When not zonked, I read a Clive Cussler book. I picked it up just before V-Day when I figured I needed something mindless to read whilst recovering. Even the Percoset could not make Mr. Cussler's novel readable. It was a disaster. I implore you never to read anything by him, ever again. The only good thing about the book was the picture on the back cover of his pretty classic cars.
On the other hand, I heartily recommend Mr. Fick's book: One Bullet Away, the story of Mr. Fick's time as a Marine officer serving in the Iraqi and Afganhi campaigns. He signed up after graduation from Dartmouth with a degree in classics and ended up a Captain in Force Recon. Well written and very hard to put down.
I will resume my drug induced haze shortly. Thanks for continuing to stop by, check in, and leave your much appreciated comments.
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Sending many positive thoughts & some prayers your way!
Posted by: michele at August 30, 2006 07:35 PM (uqUFi)
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Man I hate to hear you're having such a rough go at it. Get well soon!
Posted by: phin at August 31, 2006 07:24 AM (IxwtQ)
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Full of respects for your uneasy way towards healing. Will, by any chance, the recovery of the stolen paintings by Munch be of any good news?
Posted by: jurate at August 31, 2006 01:59 PM (gN5ED)
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Hope you're staying UPBEAT. But don'rt have too much of a BALL sitting at home. Work will COME back to haunt you soon enough. Then you'll have a HARD time catching up.
Hope you're back in the saddle soon!
Please don't show this to your wife!
Posted by: Mark at August 31, 2006 10:13 PM (ep0GZ)
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I hope your pain has subsided enough for you to enjoy the long weekend.
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August 29, 2006
A short visit to the office
All I'm good for is a quick pop in visit to clear my email and make sure nothing exploded on my desk in the past couple of days. I slept the entire train ride into Grand Central today. Thank you, Codeine! That was the only positive thing I can mention. I am going back to see the doctor again. I am not at all certain that things are progressing as they are supposed to. In fact, as the bruising appears to be getting worse -- darker and more extensive -- I am concerned that I may be bleeding internally still. So, off I go again.
Thanks for all the nice comments y'all have left. Even if I have not replied to them, I have read them all and appreciated each one of them.
U P D A T E
The doctor said that I am in the 5-10% of those who experience these kinds of reactions. Not to worry, he claims. It will all clear up in time. Of course, I have to go back next week. In the meantime, the nice doctor has upped the painkillers from codeine to percoset. Boy oh boy, that percoset is much stronger.
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You know, I've been out of town since last Wednesday with no time to surf, so I had to scroll down to find out why you were on codeine and bruised. Needless to say I was quite surprised, but...WHAT A MAN! Way to take one for the team!
I'm sorry you're feeling awful, but, wow, you have the undying admiration of women everywhere who've undergone tubal ligations---AFTER suffering through the joys of multiple pregnancies---because their men were too chickensh#$ to do the deal. Good on you for being brave!
Posted by: Kathy at August 29, 2006 12:15 PM (NIqTJ)
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Enjoy your hallucinations...
Percoset for me is like an effervescent acid trip....
Posted by: caltechgirl at August 29, 2006 07:30 PM (bM7x1)
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If you start having weird dreams and random bouts of sweating, blame it on your new friend...Percoset.
Time heals, speedy recovery RP.
Posted by: Wicked H at August 30, 2006 06:52 AM (iqFar)
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Yeowwwch! You poor widdle baby. Percocets will *definitely* help.
As I'm sure you know, it went down exactly the same way in my household. . .except we did it while they were pulling my peanut out of the window. I don't think my macho man could have done it. So, see? You ROCK, even while convalescing! (P.S. I absolutely adore the British "fall pregnant." It's so elegant, innit? Much better than "cain't get knocked up no mo," huh? *grin*)
Hope you feel better really, really soon.
(And you have no idea how many off-color remarks I had to backspace over while typing this comment! Sheeszh.)
xoxo
Posted by: Margi at August 30, 2006 12:26 PM (vVuoJ)
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You're a braver man than I, Gunga-Random!
Posted by: Robert the Llama Butcher at August 30, 2006 12:54 PM (IkTb7)
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I second that, cringing. As laughter (or in this case, perhaps, very constrained chuckling) can be the best medicine, a dose of Wodehouse might be just the prescription to go with the percocet. Get well soon!
Posted by: MCNS at August 30, 2006 01:49 PM (7eYDK)
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August 27, 2006
I figured it out
It has all become clear to me now. A vasectomy is reliable contraception because you never, ever want to have anyone (not even yourself) touch your genital area ever again. Oh, and the whole area looks so icky that probably no one ever would want to touch it anyway, even presuming you'd be willing to let them, which you would most emphatically would not.
I spoke to the doctor today. He kindly called me back very quickly at 12:30 after I called him at 8:30. I wanted to know if the debilitating pain I felt between the lowest abs and the genitals was normal and why I was getting this huge black and blue mark pretty much all over the place. Turns out it is. Who knew?
I will be amazed if I feel well enough to return to the office tomorrow.
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Patience my friend, it has to look worse before it looks better. Trust me, I used to assist in the procedure. Rest assured, you will want to use the area again soon.
Hang in there ( no pun intended! - well maybe just a little bit)
Posted by: Wicked H at August 28, 2006 08:49 AM (iqFar)
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Ouch, yeah, it goes away, but I found that the first couple days frozen cooked pasta was my friend. I don't really get it though, I know guys who went back to work the next day.. either they have nuts of steel or their surgery went better than mine.
Tight supportive underwear is the trick with the pain below your lower abs. I bought some tighty whiteys that were black and were too small for me, they seemed to be adequate. I made the mistake of not wearing them soon enough though... don't make that mistake
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Posted by: Tuning Spork at August 29, 2006 02:05 AM (wcXuw)
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I really do hope you feel better soon.
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August 26, 2006
Setting him straight
The kids are at my parents' house for the weekend while I recuperate. My father called me last night to tell me about how the Girl Child set him straight on an issue and I wanted to record it so, here it is.
Grandfather: Boy Child! I need you to sit down right now and finish your dinner.
Girl Child: Grandpa, no, that isn't true. You don't need him to sit down and finish his dinner, you want him to sit down and finish his dinner.
I gather my dad was the tiniest bit flabergasted. As well he should be. I mean, she's only about 5 and a half.
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A vastectomy is a show of true manhood, so much more than flexing one's muscles or jumping on a Harley; it's a sexy, manly, liberated thing, a turn on. Forget the quiche, and here's to the discomfort quickly fading into dim memory and a very quick recovery. (The downside to Cipro is nausea which makes it unpleasant to eat; the upside to Cipro is nausea which may bring about weight loss) ...and as Jewish traditon goes, you may be trend setting an evolving trilogy: bris, bar mitzvah, vasectomy.
Posted by: Naomi at August 27, 2006 03:48 PM (MmWZ1)
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The day after
Ok, briefly, it hurts. And I've learned that there is no way I am ever going to allow myself to be talked into having someone cut my body open to "fix" something that works exactly as it is supposed to be working ever again. The swelling, the continuing to bleed a little bit from one of the incisions, the pain, and the side effects. What side effects? Well, I'm trying to figure this one out but the Cipro apparently can really upset your stomach while the Tylenol with Codeine claims to give you constipation. The two little pills are fighting it out right now, I gather.
Yup, a whole lot of fun here.
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Sweetie I know it hurts BUT you did what had to be done. And yes I am going to pull out the gender card - think back to what your wife has been through and in comparison, your hurt well, it will soon be over.
That all aside - glad your through it ok and hope that you are back on form again soon.
Posted by: Mia at August 26, 2006 06:40 AM (Ryxbd)
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Yikes! So, is it like eating an entire box of spoon-sized shredded wheat with a bottle of prune juice?
Hope the swelling and ouchies pass more (or less?) quicklier.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at August 26, 2006 01:19 PM (hcgbs)
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Oy vey! :-)
Feel better soon, you.
Posted by: Jennifer at August 27, 2006 02:31 PM (CEc5z)
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I will not be letting my husband read any of these recent posts. Four children is my limit and it is now his turn to do something about it.
In fairness to him though, he actually scheduled an appointment with the urologist all on his own for a few months after the newest kidlet arrives.
But I'm still not letting him read any of this.
I hope you start to feel better soon.
Posted by: Jordana at August 28, 2006 03:59 PM (qH5KP)
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August 24, 2006
Today, I am a man
This phrase, in the title, is the phrase commonly uttered by American Jewish boys on the occasion of their bar mitzvah. The bar mitzvah is the traditional manhood test in Judaism. You stand in front of your community and you prove to your community that you are literate and that you either have an understanding of the laws of the community or can acquire such an understanding. It is a literacy test that, when passed, confers the status of adult on the test taker. If you can understand and follow the laws, you are no longer a child and you will be held accountable for your conduct. Hence, the statement, "today, I am a man."
This phrase came back to me today as I await tomorrow when I am scheduled to have a vasectomy. I was wondering, as I kicked the thought around, do I say tomorrow that now that I can no longer father children, "today, I am somewhat less of a man"?
I don't know the answer. The reasons for having this procedure, which I am dreading, having never really had any surgical intervention before, are easily set out: my wife really must not fall pregnant again. And as the urologist and I discussed, we need a foolproof method. Actually, we had the following interchange:
Doc: What kind of birth control are you currently using?
Me: Well, I have been trying to convince my wife of the benefits of "oral contraception", if you know what I mean.
Doc: *Loud Snort* Please. You're married. That's never gonna happen.
I don't personally feel his medical judgment is binding or even ought to be considered by my wife, but just the same, there it is.
So, I await the chop tomorrow with great anxiety and no small amount of unhappiness. I've been very happy over the years with the way my plumbing has been configured. I am struggling to accept the need to re-arrange it. One, I am not big on pain. Two, well, do I need a two beyond pain? If there is a two, it might involve strange, sensitive, and not too deeply examined issues of self-image.
This has been the medical attention week. I saw the urologist on Monday, the annual check up on Wednesday, the dentist on Wednesday, and then I will have the big chop on Friday. In anticipation, I also had a haircut. There were thoughts of Samson, in part. Also, I wanted to have short hair if I was not going to be able to wash it for a day or two. The doctor yesterday, by the way, gave me a nice clean bill of health, subject only to the blood test results. In anticipation of that, I carefully broke my fast after that first Wednesday appointment with a 10:00 a.m. big old serving of onion rings covered in chili and melted cheese. Food of the Gods, my friends, and vouchsafed only to those deserving souls who either have low cholesterol already or those who donÂ’t know what their test results are but want to stock up on the yummy fat, salt, and grease in case of a result that would suggest such happy food is contraindicated.
I do hope tomorrow goes ok and that I do not get any of the complications the urologist described in too gruesome a detail.
But before that, I will be dining with wife and friends tonight at a classic old New York steakhouse where I will prepare for the snipping with rare meat and red wine. However, and I am not saying IÂ’m compensating for anything here, and shame on you if you think that, I am going to hit the gym and lift a lot of weight. At least two of the three sets of chest press with the 75 pound dumb bells. Not compensating at all, ok?
Anyway, have a nice weekend, y'all. If you need me, I'll be the guy on the couch with the icepack. I plan on being whiny, a little bit, too. Just because.
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I'd say I'll be thinking of you, but that, um just doesn't sound right.
So good luck.
Posted by: phin at August 24, 2006 02:25 PM (1IA+t)
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Good luck my friend. I've known several guys who have had it done and all went well.
Posted by: Howard at August 24, 2006 02:39 PM (IB1mQ)
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RP I think this makes you more, not less of a man.
Another blogger friend 'just' went through the big snip and apparently you *have* to have sex as part of the healing process.
At least that's what he told his wife...
Posted by: Jocelyn at August 24, 2006 03:50 PM (jkRb/)
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Hey, so you decided to do it!
You read my story, hopefully that doesn't scare you too much, but take heed: when they say shave, SHAVE!
Oh, and another tip: supportive underwear is not a suggestion, it's a requirement

Sex is definitely part of the healing process, you know... gotta flush the pipes.
Posted by: Oorgo at August 24, 2006 04:28 PM (2uqyw)
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We'll be thinking of you tomorrow. Good luck, and here's to good pain meds!
BTW, I am also a big fan of the chili-cheese onion ring.....
Posted by: caltechgirl at August 24, 2006 07:37 PM (/vgMZ)
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Good luck to you, my friend.
Ouch.
Posted by: Jennifer at August 24, 2006 08:09 PM (CEc5z)
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I know of two guys my age who went through the big cut. Both are free of further offspring.
Some bits of advice:
(1) Shave.
(2) After things heal up a bit, your shaved places will start to itch quite a bit. Try to convince your wife that "oral contraception" would be helpful in your time of need.
(3) Do get your sperm count tested afterwards; confirm that the little boys aren't making a break for freedom.
Posted by: owlish at August 24, 2006 08:30 PM (JS704)
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I'll got no advice to add, just best wishes.
As far as the whole "less of a man" thing, I can understand where you're coming from. The only analogy I seem to keep coming up with is Dave Dravecky. Not sure why...
Posted by: Tuning Spork at August 25, 2006 01:39 AM (a3DAX)
Posted by: Robert the Llama Butcher at August 25, 2006 09:49 AM (IkTb7)
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Good luck; I've been there. The ice pack is your friend. My recovery would have been completely painless if I hadn't had a violent allergic reaction to the opiate-based painkillers (no codeine, morphine, vicodin, or percocet for me,
ever again). Once I got over the chills and dry heaves, I realized it didn't hurt down there at all. Definitely be sure to go in for the post-op counts until the reading is zero. I feel no less manly now than before (it's been 6.5 years).
Posted by: JohnL at August 25, 2006 10:53 AM (Hs4rn)
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Prayers and positive thoughts going your way!
Posted by: michele at August 25, 2006 01:38 PM (DPFIK)
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August 18, 2006
What card do you send?
I'm pretty sure that Hallmark doesn't have a card for this situation. Let's say, hypothetically (or not), you have a friend. You've kind of lost touch. You happen to pick up the paper. You see your friend quoted extensively. You read the article and figure out that he's being quoted because his $430 million hedge fund just blew up (that's business speak for went bust). You want to send him a note, something along the lines of it will all be ok in the end but you're not quite sure what to say. Hallmark is not an alternative.
What would you write? I am curious. I did drop him a note telling him that I expect that this will turn out, in the years to come, to have been simply a hiccup in a successful career.
Man, how do you lose $400 plus million.
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For some reason "Crap Happens" just doesn't seem up to the task.
Posted by: phin at August 18, 2006 01:44 PM (3ZYpu)
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no kidding, phin.
I think you handled it very nicely.
Posted by: caltechgirl at August 18, 2006 02:48 PM (/vgMZ)
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"Man, how do you lose $400 plus million."
What I want to know is, how do I make ONE million? Right now I'd like to lose five digits' worth of debt. THAT would make me happy.
I guess you remind him that he is still very much in the game. I would find it hard to believe that anyone involved in those kinds of numbers would be down for the count any time soon. Speaking from the poorer sector, of course, so what do I really know??
Posted by: Mark at August 19, 2006 08:06 AM (jPfUf)
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I thought about it, and can't come up with anything more tactful than what you already wrote down. On the other hand... would he appreciate the contact at this point? I'd be pretty embarassed ... maybe wait, now that you have his address and send him a note for a slightly more cheerful occasion?
Posted by: Hannah at August 20, 2006 02:06 AM (ImQx2)
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That's absolutely the perfect note. You are very kind to makebsuch an overture & I think it'll be received very well.
In a Hedge Fund your hedging or betting on a commodity or an investment in the hopes that it'll make money. This time around his team just chose the wrong horse.
Posted by: michele at August 21, 2006 12:07 AM (oeZuZ)
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It may be the worst of cliches, but it's really true that you do find out who your real friends are in a time of trouble. People are probably disowning him left and right currently and life is probably pretty lonely. In such a humiliating situation, well, I'm sure he finds it nice to know he still has a friend, no matter how you worded your note. It's that you sent a note at all that counts.
Posted by: Kathy at August 21, 2006 11:45 AM (HiYDm)
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While that's a helluva lotta "money" to lose, I presume his entire worth wasn't in a hedge fund. Unless he's a major league fool he's probably doing just fine. Still, that's a helluva lotta "money" to lose. I lost twenty bucks at the casino once so I know.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at August 21, 2006 05:48 PM (2lV6Z)
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Me, I'd send a note/email saying something like:
"Heard you may have a lot you're dealing with. If you want to vent, I'm around."
Low-key, yet reliable.
And if you do meet? Losing $430million = bring muffins. Chocolate ones.
Posted by: Helen at August 22, 2006 08:31 AM (9iM6u)
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August 17, 2006
How not to have a productive afternoon
Suggestion One: Go to a meeting to plan a dinner for 100 people. Taste the menu. Determine which wines work best with which courses. In doing so, try three whites with the appetizer and two reds with the main course. Go back to work.
I am very tired all of a sudden.
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You're posting sleepily from work while I am commenting from work.
Hey. It's Friday. We showed up. What ELSE can they expect?
Posted by: Margi at August 18, 2006 01:07 PM (GMbAY)
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You poor thing!
Quitcherbitchin' and grab the other end of this cabinet I'm setting!
;o)>
Posted by: Mark at August 19, 2006 08:07 AM (jPfUf)
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A re-discovery
I like it fast and hard. Not a lot of pauses. I like it when you're going so hard that your glasses fog up, when the sweat is dripping down your face. I like it when you have to stretch yourself into positions you never thought you could contort yourself into under the circumstances as you streeeetch. You have to do it with a partner, of course. That's what makes it fun. The sharing of the time and the striving against each other.
I'm talking about squash of course. I played this morning.
Boy have I missed playing squash. I just didn't realize. I took quite a break for several years as I let my elbow heal up. There's just somethinga about the game that is so seductive. The pace is fast, the angles are acute, the shots have to be just so and controlled, all while running around the court, and the reflexes have to be sharp. Oh, and you have to think and react. Damn, but it is fun.
There is another racquet game I would like to play. Ever hear of Court Tennis? Or Real Tennis? It is the game from which regular tennis evolved. There are not a lot of courts in this country. I can think of one in NYC, one in Philly, one in Rhode Island, and one in Tuxedo Park, off the top of my head.
Competition is good. I have been jazzed all day.
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"Squash" huh? Suddenly, I've a mind to call my husband and see if we can take the afternoon off.
Posted by: Margi at August 18, 2006 12:46 PM (xiAI4)
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I've made some great friends playing squash. It is an intense game in an enclosed space and I get more out of a 45 minute match than when I'm working out by some other means. You can tell a lot about someone about how they - and the opponents I like best are like opposing counsel I like best - they play hard, play to win but don't argue lets if you call them. :-)
PS: Haven't posted for ages but have continued to read your blog. Life seems great for you and yours - it has been fun watching and reading.
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I thought squash was only in Europe? You're the first American that I've heard talk about it .... is it hard on the knees and wrists?
Posted by: Hannah at August 20, 2006 02:08 AM (ImQx2)
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August 15, 2006
A Guest Writer: The Viking Bride
What follows is an email I received from my wife which I thought was so funny, I had to share it.
Epistles from Bridgeport
Out getting lunch today, I had the following experiences, which, to me, encapsulate Bridgeport fairly well.
*Overheard from late-20’s woman in jeans, t-shirt, and knit vest while she was chatting on her cell phone: “Well, I’m off to parole and then I’m going home.” Perhaps she was talking with her partner in crime?
*As I continued walking down the block, I saw 2 nubile blondes talking to a middle-aged hispanic man. They were asking, “on a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you love the Lord?” He was looking confused.
*Farther down the block, a mid-50’s woman in a skirt and cardigan made eye contact with me. Sensing she may have some connection to the nubile blondes, I decided that really, I didn’t feel like engaging in conversation about my love of the Lord. So when she volunteers “My name is Claire”, I respond “How nice for you” as I cross to the other side of the street.
She cracks me up, my wife.
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Posted by: Wicked H at August 16, 2006 07:44 AM (iqFar)
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very funy indeed. I can easily see why the children are so mumerous!
;-)
Posted by: michele at August 16, 2006 11:12 PM (k5fMO)
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Yep. That's my hometown.

There are plenty of whackadoodles around, but they're generally really good people.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at August 17, 2006 12:34 AM (dzyCi)
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"How nice for you," indeed! Lovely woman, your wife!
Posted by: Margi at August 18, 2006 01:07 PM (GMbAY)
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Evangelicals, cringe...
Posted by: Andrew Cusack at August 18, 2006 11:50 PM (GfMLg)
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I'm starting to consciously realize that the best way to get around in the city without being asked ...
- For a cigarette/lighter
- Money
- If I want information about being a Christian
- If I want to be a donator for - fill in charitable organisation here -
... is to simply avoid eye contact. But I don't like doing it. So am I rude that I'm avoid eye contact or are these people being rude? Or should I keep working on my fantasy of living somewhere in northern Canada?
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August 14, 2006
Reflections on the weekend
I think that since we've had a third child, my life has narrowed quite a bit. I am less concerned with the outside world since I am just trying to hold it all together, kind of on the fly, at home and at work. No matter how bad I have it, of course, my wife has it way worse. No question about it, she rocks.
But, back to me. Like I was saying, my focus has narrowed. I have less energy to devote to thinking about world affairs, about politics, about international relations, about international and even domestic economics. So, of course, I write less about it here. Instead, the home front, the kids, my wife, my health, working out, my weekends, all of these things take on much greater significance. I think, perhaps, just maybe, I am beginning to entertain the possibility that I am losing my perspective a bit.
Also, I have to say, that whenever I do focus on the news, I am disappointed. Lamont over Lieberman? Really? The idea that Israel should not have the right even to exist? Really? Can you blame me, at some level, for not pushing too hard to escape this narrowing of focus?
Either way, that's where I seem to be right now.
So, the weekend had a lot of highlights and almost no lowlights.
* Seeing old friends for dinner on Friday night and watching the moon rise, fat and orange, over Long Island as we sat out on a terrace on the water.
* Playing with the kids at the pool.
* Sitting outside on the deck with my family and my parents, drinking a bottle of rose prosecco, as we celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary.
* Taking a solitary dip in the ocean while my daughter waited for me, happily ensconced on a towel in the sand on Sunday.
* Taking my non-napping daughter to see some open houses. She insisted on seeing all the bathrooms and closets, objected to the lack of bookshelves in the library, and was concerned about how to fit a kitchen table and chairs in one house. Interesting to see what $3 million can buy, though. Theoretically, that is, since I don't have and don't expect to have that kind of cash to spend on a house.
* Making the baby laugh.
All of the above are high points. There were certainly more. But with the sleep deprivation comes the loss of memory. So, there.
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Is having your perspective change really the same as losing it, though?
I'm not being sarcastic. My focus is very narrow right now, and I feel guilty about my loss of interest in the wilder world. (So I guess I'm looking for corroboration. ;-)
Posted by: nic at August 14, 2006 07:00 PM (l+W8Z)
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Er, I meant "wider," not "wilder." Although I'm not so crazy about the wild world right now either.
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I think you may have a very valid point about not trying to escape the narrow focus. I'm at the point where I'm not sure I want to know, if it doesn't touch me - which I think is a dangerous attitude.
Sounds like fun with the kids - isn't it better to go play in the pool than read about Hezbollah anyway?
Posted by: Hannah at August 15, 2006 01:03 AM (ImQx2)
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A signal
I think that my brain is sending me a signal, a message, a sign. There can be no clearer indication that you want to replace your 1995 Subaru (with 97,000 miles on it) with a new BMW when you find yourself deeply immersed in a dream in which you are, and probably have been for quite some time in the dream, reading the owner's manual on a new BMW 525xi at 4:40 a.m. when your alarm wakes you. And you were jotting down points during your dream so you could follow up on them later.
I'm hoping by noting this here I will purge myself of this. Futile? Perhaps, but one must try.
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After I first bought my new Honda Fit I had a couple of bad dreams, one was there were rock HOLES (not chips) in my windows, one which when straight from front to back. The other dream was that I was at a gig and I came out to the car gone, it was apparently towed for some nonsensical reason.
Yeah, I've been obsessing just a little.
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Perhaps your dream will come true...
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August 10, 2006
The concept is icky
Our trial settled today in the middle of the plaintiff's direct case. The settlement got put on the record, the parties were voir-dired, the case was closed, and we all went to lunch.
At Appleby's.
I approached the front door with some trepidation, having never been inside one of these places before. I am a bit of a snob when it comes to food. I like really fine restaurants or real dives or diners. I don't like places that try to re-create some odd fascimile of a dive bar. Either be a dive bar or don't. Also, I am sceptical of chains, of places where the food is created in some corporate development office, test marketed in Toledo (pace, Toledo, nothing meant by it), and then re-assembled in White Plains. Besides, I wonder how these places contribute to the growing obesity / pre-diabetes problem we're having.
Well, now that I've eaten there, I'd say my snobism is confirmed and I think these places contribute a lot to obesity.
One, the snob thing. I ordered for lunch the grilled salmon caesar salad, one of the healthiest choices I could locate. Fine. Overly dressed, but fine. I was not too surprised to learn that extra anchovies would not be made available to me. I was shocked to learn that the restaurant did not have a pepper mill so that a little fresh ground pepper could liven up the salad. So, they ain't really cooking for someone like me. And I could tell, based on the surprised look on our waitress's face, that people don't really ask for fresh pepper very often.
Two, the obesity thing. I drank diet coke with my repast. My companions, the same. As they finished the overly large drinks, the empties were immediately whisked away to be replaced by new overly large drinks. If my companions were drinking real coke or some other full sugar soda, they would have consumed enough empty calories to account for their entire day's quota. They also would have made the sugar companies wicked happy. If this is how middle America is drinking when they eat at this place, the obesity thing is just gonna keep getting worse and worse.
I think I could do without a return trip. And for the record, my soda was the only one at the table not in need of a refill. I could barely manage the giganto cup they served me the first time.
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That obesity thing is scary, and alongside it diabetes. I've seen ads on tv I see talking about how 1 in 5 people has or will have diabetes, and really, how do you get diabetes? Usually through incorrect diet, constant intake of high sugar and other nasty foods. The food chains are feeding the diabetes machine: bigger portions, bigger drinks, unending pop, etc.
If the environment isn't gonna get us, we will get ourselves in the end. "I'm too tired to make supper/lunch/breakfest" is fine but when we're doing it 5 days a week? That's a problem.
Posted by: Oorgo at August 11, 2006 11:18 AM (2uqyw)
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I'm gonna take umbrage at the "Middle America" business. We do have decent restaurants out here in the hinterlands, so we're not all reduced to eating at Appleby's or TGIFridays.

That said, I agree with your portion size complaints. My theory on it is this: we've shifted from an agrarian/laborer society to one where people sit in chairs all day long, but nowhere along the way did people learn that they should eat less as a result. Your food habits are learned at an early age, and they're very hard to ditch. You should go and eat at my Mother in law's house. Oy. Despite loud protests from everyone in the family, she still thinks everyone needs to eat as if they've had a long day scything wheat behind them. There's so much food it's disgusting. She wouldn't know how to put a salad together if a head of lettuce came up and bit her on the bum. All the vegetables are canned (and it's ALWAYS corn)so there's not a lot of nutrition going on there. Then there's the main course, which is either chicken or hamburger based. Unless it's swiss steak night (shudder) and then flank steak (woo!) has been purchased. And there's the mashed potatoes. At every dinner there's homemade mashed potatoes. With a big puddle of melted margarine in the middle and a dash of paprika for color. And then, just for healthiness' sake, there's some sort of cut up fruit and cottage cheese. It's just WAY too much food, but you can't really blame her too much because that's how she and the father-in-law ate when they were growing up. It's how she was taught to cook. And when they had a farm, well, it made sense to eat like that because of the labor involved with keeping a five hundred acre property up.
Ironically enough, it's turning out to be a big problem. My grandmother-in-law (the MIL's mother)has both Alzheimers and Parkinsons---the double whammy. Her daily state of well-being is very much dependent upon proper nutrition (as in it's the difference between her getting lost in her own hallway or not)and she fed Grandpa like this for years, hence this is what his palate prefers. Grandma, on the other hand, has never been fond of chicken fried steak and the like, but cooked it for him. Now that he's doing the cooking, this is what he makes---and she won't eat it. He's stubborn enough to insist that she not waste perfectly good food and he refuses to cook her anything else. It's sad, I know, but no amount of cajoling Grandpa into cooking something different for Grandma is going to work. He just recovered from his own bout with colon cancer and food finally tastes good to him again. Cross your fingers and hope that they get into assisted living sooner rather than later!
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I've been in and out of trial all week. The first day, sort of, was Monday. We showed up and the court had us hang out for a really long time before telling us he couldn't take us that day. We arranged to come back the next day and to continue on Thursday if need be. This was good. This left me with an entire afternoon all to myself as I had zero intention of driving back to CT from White Plains to then go into the City by train.
So, I met up with Robbo who was on his way to his secret Llama Vacation Destination ("LVD") at a barge/bar on the Saugatuck River. It was really lovely. The meeting, that is, not the bar, although the bar was just fine. We hung out for around 3 hours, drinking beer, eating fried shrimp and chicken wings, and sharing stories and confirming similar outlooks and viewpoints. I hope that we get a chance to hook up again on his way back from the LVD. It would be fun to get the families together and drink a little tequila. Or a lot. Whatever happens.
It was really grand, our afternoon together.
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It was a really long time ago for me, too
So, we're sitting around the dinner table tonight. The Viking Bride, The Girl Child, the Boy Child, the Nanny and me. The following is a snippet of conversation:
GC: So, do you know. . .
Me: Who knows what evil lurks in men's hearts!?!
Total silence, blank looks from everyone but the Viking Bride
Me: The Shadow knows!
Nanny: Is that from a movie?
Me: No, it was from a radio show a long time ago, many moons ago, before they had television.
GC: [tone: genuine puzzlement] Was that the 1980's?
And just like that, your youth is their history book.
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erm, it's "who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men."
not that I'm picky or anything.
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August 09, 2006
Don't cry for me
I won't let you. I don't deserve it. I played hooky for lunch today and took a taxi down to the Village (Laguardia between Bleeker and West 3rd) where I met an old friend for lunch. We sat outside. We watched the fetching young women in their summer dresses parade back and forth in front of the restaurant. We drank a bottle of
Gavi, a happy Italian summer wine. The breezes blew on us gently. The trees shaded our table. The anchovies were strong. The fish was fresh. The espresso was properly bitter. And two hours after arriving, it qualifies as almost the ideal summer hooky day. Tomorrow we are back in trial but today, today I am an escapee.
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sounds like fun. We just got back from a retreat near the beach, and it was so relaxing just to sit out in the sun and wind, even though we were still working.
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That sounds awesome.
I am jealous, the closest thing to a retreat near my office is an empty field with 4 - 5 foot hight weeds. Having your office in an industrial district sucks hard.
I miss the summer dresses.
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August 08, 2006
Off in trial
Silence continues here, more or less unabated. I am in trial in one of the surrounding counties. Off to catch a train in a few moments. Gotta love these intra-family disputes in these close corporations. Vicious.
I'll report back, probably tomorrow. I spent a lovely 2 1/2 hours with Robbo the Llama Butcher yesterday. No full report forthcoming as I fully intend to protect his privacy and secret identity, but perhaps a mini-report.
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August 03, 2006
Are you there, God? Its me, counsel for Margaret
The title illustrates what a lawyer is reduced to when his phone system goes ker-pluff, as mine has. No calls in, no calls out. Kind of peaceful actually and conducive to a rambling post, the likes of which I have not done for a long time. So, if you are interested, here it is, a random walk through my brain:
* The way to beat the heat and humidity is not move too much and drink a lot of gin. I intend to put that into practice at a reception later tonight.
* Last summer the fashion among women was the peasant skirt, which I noted before. This summer, I am happier to report, it appears to be the baby-doll half dress thing. Way more fetching, way more likely to cause a fellow to walk into a lamp post. Not that that happened to me, mind you. I'm just saying it is a possibility. I could see it happening.
* I have hit on a brand new marketing idea for my firm's legal services. I spent the morning writing it up in a memo and have circulated it for comment. Could be a damn fine opportunity.
* Nothing sets a man up for the day more than an early game of squash (RP four games, opponent nil), followed by a breakfast meeting at which a smoked salmon omelet cooked in plenty of butter was consumed, and followed by a lunch meeting during which the main topic of conversation, over lobster bisque, was PG Wodehouse. Yes, indeed. Some days it do pay to arise from the bed.
* The Viking Bride, she of the steely gaze and strong constitution, has returned to the work place after 16 weeks maternity leave. As she told her boss, "I had to come back; I only had $31 left in my checking account". The kinder are taking it well, mostly. They passed a nice Monday together going bowling and then painting pottery before she went back to work on Tuesday. The baby is waking up once a night now, which is still a bit too much for the Viking Bride to fire on all cylinders. Just the same, her firing on 6 is still more than most on 12.
* I have ceased reading all newspapers and watching any news shows at this point. The coverage Israel receives simply depresses me. It is so terribly slanted, so one sided, so grotesque that I am forced to conclude that Israel, with the exception of the United States (the best friend any country can have, in my opinion), for the most part, stands alone. Israel must look to herself for her own defense, for her own protection, for her own success. The international community of nations will not now nor likely ever grant Israel full recognition or treat it fairly. So, if Israel must go it alone (but for the United States), then so it shall. I had a chat with a woman the other day who spent World War II first being hidden and then in a ghetto and then in a camp. She is worried, again. I think she is not wrong to worry. I share her concern even if I lack a similar personal framework of experiences against which I can measure today's events.
* I am seeing an enormous rise in cases involving employee dishonesty. I have two in litigation now and was consulted on two more yesterday. I am wondering if there is a sickness in society that brings these out now. Maybe people see all the fortunes being made so quickly (or they think quickly) and want it for themselves right now. Maybe it is just a translation of immediate gratification through creative embezzlement. Maybe people just suck. Beats me. Or maybe corporate governance has improved and more of these shit is getting flushed out of the system. Either way, I donÂ’t like these people.
* Petunias. Big hanging baskets of pink and purple ones. I have hung them from the pergola over my deck at home and they have made me very happy. I enjoy watering them in the evening, I enjoy gazing at them from the kitchen, I enjoy being out on the deck to look at them as the butterflies buzz all around us. Happiness is a petunia. I will post a picture over the weekend, I think.
* Rosé wines make summer happier, too. This cannot be disputed. I purchased, yesterday, an Italian rosé. It is cooling in my fridge now and awaiting the marinated, boneless leg of lamb I intend to grill for dinner on Friday. I look forward to Friday. I do indeed.
* I reached out today to an old friend, someone I have not spoken to in years. It was gratifying to hear the pleasure in the surprise in his voice. WeÂ’re having lunch in about two weeks. I thought about him because I had been looking into a certain signer of the Declaration of Independence and he is a descendant of that signatory. It is cooler that you have to know him for years and years before you learn that fact.
* I have been asked to hold another lawyerÂ’s hand at trial on Monday. I will read the papers and do what I can to be helpful. It is nice to be asked. I hope I can contribute something worthwhile. I do like trials. Trials are fun.
* I leave you with this thought. It is summer. I hope that you follow my lead and eat as many berries or stone fruits as you can. They all taste better with a tiny bit of heavy cream poured over them, by the way. Just saying.
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Your petuninas will do better if you water them in the morning.
Posted by: George E. Lee at August 05, 2006 06:09 PM (Z4l6Y)
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The fridge is stocked with plums, cherries, peaches, and nectarines. No heavy cream though...just half and half.
Summer fruit and baby-doll half dress things...it doesn't get any better than this. Well, unless she's wearing the baby-doll half dress thing and handing me a piece of fruit. Hey, a man can dream, can't he?
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August 01, 2006
Da heat
It is sucking my will to live out through my pores. Totally enervating.
So, in the meantime, I will post an email exchange I had with my cousin's idiot girlfriend in London. It might further raise the temperature. It started with someone sending around pictures of soldiers in mostly Iraq having kind of touching interactions with the local populace. The idiot girlfriend objected.
First, her email:
I think it more honest to show soldiers killing people. That is, after all, what they are trained to do irrespective of country, politics, race, creed or colour. (or predilection to kittens).
Second, my response:
While I have done my best to stay out of this one, the following from Opinion Journal bears quite a lot on your comment below:
A cartoon that has been making the rounds shows the difference between Israel and its enemies. It shows an Israeli soldier and an Arab terrorist pointing rifles at each other. There is a baby stroller behind the Israeli soldier and another in front of the Arab terrorist.
Here's an anecdote from an Associated Press report that illustrates a similar point:
Sgt. Ron Yehushua, 21, of Jerusalem, said there were moments of beauty in war, too.
Despite the brutal carnage he witnessed, he said the image etched most deeply in his mind was that of the Lebanese family he encountered in the midst of battle. He said he shared some of the little food he had with them and handed a young girl a piece of candy.
"That's the bravest thing I did," he said. "I was afraid that in war people lose their humanity, that they become bad. I will carry that memory with me because it reminded me that I am human, and that I am fighting for peace."
Then her reply:
Fighting for peace? Please......do people really still say things like that?
Well in order to stop the I'm right your wrong thing - I believe it leads to people to kill each other in the end - Here's a thought from John Steinbeck which will I hope stimulate some more thought.
"Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live - for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died. And this you can know - fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe."
Comforting? Impossibly naïve? Think on.
Finally, my response to her reply:
Do people really say things like that? Yes. People who feel threatened, pushed to the wall, confronted by others who wish to push them into the sea. This isn't naïve at all. Instead, it shows, I think, a soldier trying to hang on to his own humanity while protecting those people who he is charged with protecting from showers of rockets. Rockets sent to kill civilians and only civilians. People who are fighting for their very survival do believe they are fighting for peace, fighting for the chance for their grandchildren to take buses free from fear, to play in schoolyards without looking for rockets or men with guns. If you fail to appreciate that, it means simply that you are very fortunate that you live in a place where such fear is not part of your daily existence. To call it naïve is wrong. In fact, I thought it showed a great deal of hope for the future.
Steinback has always been a bit of a hack, in my view.
Where, if anywhere, do you all come out on this?
UPDATE:
Here's the cartoon:
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I'm afraid that the country of Lebanon astounds me, the more I read the more confused I am. How can a country rely on a terrorist group to defend itself against a neighbour? And they are a political party?
Fears of civil war have left a society scared of pissing off the terrorists in the case of starting another war. Terrorists are civilians, some civilians are terrorists, and their friends the Hezbollah use them as meat shields when fighting Israel.
I don't really think I support either side, I hate terrorists and people who kill the innocent for a cause. I also don't like the approach Israel is going at this either, massive bombings of cities where civilians reside and then later dropping letter bombs warning them to leave.
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In brief, I think the cartoon you post pretty well sums up the situation in the Mideast. Andrew Sullivan posts a
letter from a Lebanese Shiite who describes what happened when Hezbollah moved into town:
Received as successful resistance fighters and armed to the teeth, they stored rockets in bunkers in our town as well. The social work of the Party of God consisted in building a school and a residence over these bunkers! A local sheikh explained to me laughing that the Jews would lose in any event because the rockets would either be fired at them or if they attacked the rockets depots, they would be condemned by world opinion on account of the dead civilians. These people do not care about the Lebanese population, they use them as shields, and, once dead, as propaganda. As long as they continue existing there, there will be no tranquility and peace.
Indeed,
photos have been published of Hezbollah militants in civilian clothes manning a rocket launcher in a residential neighborhood.
The state of affairs seems, at least to me, pretty plain. It would seem to me that it should be plain to anyone. So why is it not plain to so many people -- including some in my family, not to mention the media, the UN Diplomatic Corps, and other shapers of world opinion?
PJ O'Rourke was on the mark calling the Holy Land "God's Monkey House." But are the sides of Good and Evil really so difficult to discern here?
Maybe I'm blinded by my own prejudices and preconceptions. And certainly people of good will can and do disagree. But I would ask those who hold Israel culpable, who hold Israel to blame: Do you believe Israel has a right to defend itself? Do you believe Israel even has a right to exist?
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Please realize that Lebanese are not Arabs. They are in fact Phoenicians and were among the very first Christians. Due to the Palestinian refugees and the Syrian invasion, Lebanese are now a minority in our own country. In due time they will cease to exist in the Middle East, and eventually, everywhere. They are a people who have been effectively annihilated. Hezbollah are NOT Lebanese, regardless of where they live or what passports they carry.
Mind you, this is not Israel's fault and the current conflict will not make things better or worse for Lebanese. However, it does get tiresome when the press in the US does not make the distinction.
Posted by: Alice Maalouf at August 02, 2006 10:18 AM (nT9mI)
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You owe it to your cousin to prevent him and his idiot girlfriend from making babies. Furthermore, you owe it to your kin to have him understand that however good the sex and cooking and companionship are, they are not good enough to overcome the sort of dangerously foolish concepts as his idiot girlfriend has expressed.
If he continues along his pubic-blinded path toward destruction, you owe it to him to change his name and dis-own him. Do it now, before it's too late.
Dan Patterson
Arrogant Infidel
Posted by: Dan Patterson at August 04, 2006 03:52 PM (GWOjN)
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"Where...do you come out on this"
I think you know! I have idiot relatives as well!
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I submitted an article on tis site entitled "LIVE from Beirut" to Mary Mitchell from the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
please let me know if it is on your data base for publication.
Regards,
Gus Choueiri
5 Oct. 2006
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Sir, I deleted your comment entirely. You simply re-posted an entire copy-righted article. I do not permit such actions on my comment boards. My blog, my rules.
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Hello There,
Referring to this entry which is accessible on google,
Posted by: Gus Choueiri at October 4, 2006 11:06 PM. Sir, I deleted your comment entirely. You simply re-posted an entire copy-righted article. ...
Could you please remove this entry from your web site, as this is not what actually happened then as I was the Author of that article so I think you misunderstood the situation at the time.
I hope to see it removed soon.
Thanking you in advance.
Gus Choueiri
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