Beer/Weed Bong: New Yorkers Try the Knockout Challenge

Music therapy improves behavior in children with autism, study suggests

Music therapy improves behavior in children with autism, study suggests

me

me, a photo by Mr_Heathen on Flickr.

Light Bulb?

Light Bulb?, a photo by Mr_Heathen on Flickr.

Light Bulb?

Cabin in the Woods M.C.Escher style

Cabin in the Woods M.C.Escher style, a photo by Mr_Heathen on Flickr.

Cabin in the Woods M.C.Escher style

Now that you mention it...

Now that you mention it..., a photo by Mr_Heathen on Flickr.

Now that you mention it...

If you only knew how True this is

If you only knew how True this is, a photo by Mr_Heathen on Flickr.

If you only knew how True this is

Why the iPad is on its way to be the Kleenex of computers

Why the iPad is on its way to be the Kleenex of computers

The Walking Cartoon Dead

The Walking Cartoon Dead, a photo by Mr_Heathen on Flickr.

The Walking Cartoon Dead

The Truth Is Out There

The Truth Is Out There, a photo by Mr_Heathen on Flickr.

The Truth Is Out There

Police seize pot vending machine at cannabis club

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On Thursday morning, Auckland Now wrote about the shiny, new marijuana vending machine at the Daktory, a members-only cannabis club. On Thursday night, police raided the property, arresting four people for (SPOILER ALERT!) pot possession and now the Waitemata Police Department is the proud owner of (DOUBLE SPOILER!) a marijuana vending machine. The Daktory installed the DIY-dispenser (which could turn $20 into a one ounce bag of weed) "to avoid any of their members being charged with dealing," a business strategy that may have been designed after they smoked some of their inventory. Club founder Dakta Green hasn't commented; he's already in jail for selling pot the old-fashioned way.

Police seize pot vending machine at cannabis club

It's my favorite day.....National Margarita Day.

Never judge a man till you have walked a mile in his shoes, 'cuz by then, he's a mile away, you've got his shoes, and you can say whatever the hell you want to.

"God is as real as I am." he assured me, and my faith was restored, for I knew Santa would never lie.

Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

Talent does what it can. Genius does what it must. I do what I get paid for.

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It is twice as large as it needs to be.

Not many people know this, but last summer I worked as a bartender at the Betty Ford Clinic.

"People watch fake survival shows and don't realize that they are living in the real one" Dr. Patch Adams

Some people live life in the fast lane - I live in oncoming traffic.

Ignorance killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.

I'm not here, I've gone out to look for myself. If I come back before I return, please tell me to wait.

I'm drunk...I'm armed...I'm off my meds. You had better make your message really, really sweet.

I can't be fired, slaves are sold.

Here are my answers to yesterday's voice messages, in order of their arrival. Yes. Tommorow at 5pm. Duct tape and piano wire. Tonight's safety word will be banana. No. Thank you.

Depression n. - Anger without enthusiasm.

Obstruction of justice? No sir, I prefer to think of it 'avoiding complications'.

Booze is the answer. I don't remember the question.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it :P

If you can't say anything nice, then at least have the decency to be vague.

36 years old is significant, because at 36 you can sleep with someone half your age and not go to jail.

If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.

I've given up the search for reality; now I'm just looking for a good fantasy.

Due to recent cutbacks and until further notice, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

Ignorance

Take responsibility of your own ignorance, do not place blame on others intelligence for your own shortcomings.

Vagenda

Vagenda : A vagina with an agenda.

Content with silence

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~Ansel Adams

Kiss my Ass

"You have ONE advantage over me..... You can kiss my ass and I can't!"

One day closer

One day closer to actually giving a shit, maybe...

"Conscience Off, Dick On!"

Sex on television can't hurt you, unless you fall off.

"You know the way I see it is the more people that hate me, the less I have to get a long with." ;)

money on women

I spent 90% of my money on women & drink. The rest I wasted!!

Shroomy

Shroomy!!! @ Home (via Loopt)

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Gleneden Beach Day

What was i doing again? Aww who cares it is nice out. @ Gleneden Beach (via Loopt) http://loopt.us/OoB_nA.f (PIC)

Tonsils

Two sperm were swimming along number one said "how much longer till we get to the ovaries?" number two said "fucking ages because we just passed the tonsils"

To whom it may concern...

True Sarcasm

“Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.”

I agree

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” Oscar Wilde

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out until the computer says you're out of it.

Small Town

I'm not saying I live in a small town, but if I go out, get wasted and forget everything I did I can be 100% certain every other fucker hasn't forgot!

Nauseous and way too much weight loss

I can’t put on weight no matter how hard I try, I keep losing it. I lost another 5 lbs in a little under a week I am down to 210 now. My doctors are worried but when are they not. I keep losing muscle not fat and that is never good. They say I have to gain at least 15 lbs in about 2 weeks. If I don’t and I continue to lose weight they say it will be an extended stay in the clinic. I am nauseous every day and for the most part the only time I am not is when I am sleeping. I get car sick now every time I go somewhere. I made a mess of mom’s car the other day, just the outside of it but still. I get myself by, I sleep about 18 hrs a day, I just started waking up and having to run to the bathroom before I get sick. Just another issue I have to overcome.
I saw a coworker I used to work with up in Seattle. He didn’t recognize me at all, to use his words I look sickly thin. He said it jokingly but I know it is true. He has known about my health he is just in shock about how I look. Looking into the mirror I look as rail thin as I did in school. Well I still have a little more in the belly area but so much less then I have been in 5 yrs. I don’t want to have to spend more time in the clinic. I need to get a good friend to talk to. That is going to be tough I have pushed away every friend I had. I was so scared in the beginning I pushed everyone away. Now I regret that emotion taking control of me, now I live with it.

More trouble with the meds they gave me

Just great another drug they have had me on is in the papers!!! It happens to coincide with my more recent health problems. UGH!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/20/avandia.study/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_topstories+(RSS:+Top+Stories)

Too much weight loss?

Wow, I am now getting flack from my doctors about loosing too much weight. It seems they are not happy that I have lost 65 pounds in the last 4 months. I am now at 218 lbs I took a peak at the scale while at the clinic. I am so much pain now days it makes it hard to want to work out. They had me on 160 mg of Oxycodone & 20 mg of Roxanol in the morning and in the evenings. Even with all these pain meds the nerve pain is still teeth grating. Though I am not on them now since they have worries about addiction and my weight loss.

In group we all have become close, we are the only ones that truly understand what we all are going through. I have lost three friends from group in the last 3 months. It is so hard not talking about it out side of group. I had a friend I hoped would understand, I don't think they ever did. I don't blame them, I envy them.

National Margarita Day!

Monday, February 22 is National Margarita Day!

Worried?

2007 year of the cow... Mad Cow disease
2008 year of the bird... Avian flu
2009 year of the pig... Swine flu
2010 year of the cock... anyone else worried?

Basis of Life

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day

Dog drifts 75 miles on ice, rescued in Baltic Sea

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ7L0cZ1hZU&feature=player_embedded&hd=1

 A frightened, shivering dog was rescued after floating at least 75 miles (120 kilometers) on an ice floe down Poland's Vistula River and into the Baltic Sea, officials said Thursday. Now his saviors just have to figure out who really owns him.

Four people have already claimed him, but so far rescuers say there's been no wagging tail of joy from the miracle dog they nicknamed "Baltic."

The dog's frozen odyssey came as Poland suffers through a winter cold snap, with temperatures dipping to below minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 20 Celsius).

The thick-furred male dog was found adrift Monday 15 miles (24 kilometers) out in the Baltic Sea by the crew of the Baltica, a Polish ship of ocean scientists carrying out research.

Researcher Natalia Drgas said Thursday the rescue was difficult and at one point it seemed the dog had drowned.

"It was really a tough struggle. It kept slipping into the water and crawling back on top of the ice. At one point it vanished underwater, under the ship and we thought it was the end, but it emerged again and crawled on an ice sheet," Drgas said.

At that point, the crew lowered a pontoon down to the water and a crew member managed to grab the dog by the scruff of his neck and pull him to safety.

Too weak to shake off the frigid water, Baltic was dried and wrapped in blankets. After he warmed up, he was massaged, fed and soon got on his feet to seek company, Drgas said.

A firefighter in Grudziadz, on the Vistula river 60 miles (100 kilometers) inland from the Bay of Gdansk, told The Associated Press the dog was spotted Saturday floating on ice through the city. Firefighters tried to save him but could not approach the dog due to shifting ice sheets, said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Baltica crew, now moored in the port city of Gdynia, have been searching for the dog's owners, ship captain Jerzy Wosachlo said. So far four people have claimed him, but Baltic has not claimed any of them back, Drgas said.

The dog didn't welcome the first two people to come for him, keeping his distance and showing no recognition toward a couple on Wednesday and a woman on Thursday who both said he was theirs. Two other would-be owners were still en route to Gdynia for a possible reunion.

Once in port, the brown-and-black mongrel was taken to a veterinarian, who found him in surprisingly good condition and estimated his age at around 5 or 6 years old. Veterinarian Aleksandra Lawniczak said the 44-pound (20-kilogram) dog was clearly frightened but in strikingly good shape and had suffered no frostbite.

A dog with thick fur and a layer of fat can survive such cold conditions for as long as eight days if it has water to drink, Lawniczak said.

She described Baltic as a friendly dog who was clearly well treated before getting lost.

Wosachlo said the research team is prepared to adopt Baltic if his original owner is never found.

Long Day

So I spent the day with Steph and her family. We are both trying to cope with the loss of our baby. It is hard for us to even talk to each other about it. We are still friends but doubtful it will ever be anything more than that. We both had great times in Vegas and we both had fun with each other and others J The whole time we have been together I have been thinking about someone I have had in my mind for years. I told her about it and she understood but thought I was stupid for it.

In any event we had a great day and wished for each of us to heal quickly and promised to always remain friends. She thinks my decision to stop taking all the medications and to withdraw from the clinic is due to this. I tried to explain to her that this is a part of it but it is not the reason. I am going to live as much as I can and have no regrets as yet. It is rough right now, I have stopped taking my meds, all of them just plain cold turkey. No stepping down for this big boy.

I hope to find the courage to talk to that someone. I really hope that she is well, I hope she understands. I think my emotional state ruined everything we might have had. I have a funeral to attend today, Lisa from my dying with dignity group. I don’t want to go but I think it may be good for me

Ya Ya Ya

OK so with everything I have been going through I can say I think I have kind of gone crazy. I read my post and am shocked by the emotions there. They come in such a flood it is hard to fathom. I cry at just about everything and it is very annoying. I have stopped with my medications; I just want to be normal. Lisa a very sweet 17 yr old girl with lymphoma from my dying with dignity support group died yesterday. She just turned 17; it made me appreciate my time with all my friends and family.

 It made me stop feeling sorry for myself and to start wanting to live everyday for the day. My doctors say at the most I have 5 yrs with continuing treatments. With those treatments my ability to, well life a good life with be very hard. So it was my choice to say, I want to life as best I can and with no nasty side effects from all 16 different medications I am supposed to take every day. I don't know how much longer I will be here, but I am going to be living it up as much as I can.

I give

I can't stand this, I hate being alone and having no one to share with. I hate not being able to get that embrace of love. I have lost my friends & everyone I have loved. I am withdrawing from the clinic next week. The treatments have failed anyways. All they can do for me is try to extend my existence. The depth of my despair is great. I stopped taking all medications a week ago. I hope it has the intended effects because I just wish for this all to end and end now.

It may be I am just meant to fade away....

It may be I am just meant to fade away.... I love my friends (all 2 of them) I love my family. In time you will all understand I was trying to cope with and unmeasurable weight.

I am weaker then I have ever been. The doctors say it is normal; I am trying not to tear up here. They say it is progressing in the direction they hoped it wouldn't. I speak here because in a way I am anonymous. No one reads my thoughts here. If they do they never acknowledge it, I kind of like it. I am sidetracked so easily now I think I just lost myself here for the last ten minutes, wow, anyway...

I have most everything in order. I have some conversations I still have to have before.. I have a few I miss and a few I could really use there strength... I am here but all ready gone...

I hate everyone and everything

So is it right for a child to be taken? Is is right for a child yet born? I have no faith anymore, I was only just starting to have faith. I was so looking forward to becoming a father. It was giving me hope I may get through my health troubles. The fact is I never thought I would be able to feel worse than I did before. I have hit bottom and now I am digging deeper. I hope to find a way out, I hate myself, life, everything and everyone. She should have been allowed to be born, she should have been allowed to know love.

I don't hate people, I just feel better when they are not around.

How I saw Las Vegas

http://s663.photobucket.com/albums/uu360/Mr_Heathen/How%20I%20saw%20Las%20Vegas/

Your reason for being here is currently under review.

After careful consideration, I have decided to renew your friendship contract for 2010. I kinda like your dumb ass, so don't fuck it up.

OK so yes I have checked myself out AMA again, but it is for Vegas!!!! My baby momma and her family are gonna take good care off me. The plane leaves in a few and we are here at the air port enjoying a few, few drinks, Ok I am for Steph, sorry babe

Christmas is Vegas!!!

HELL'S YES!!!! Christmas is Vegas!!! Stephy's family are having us come down!!! Packing now. Don't forget Stephy and I are interested in baby names. I am interested in a girl while she is interested in both!!!

I need of baby names

Stephy and I are interested in baby names. I am interested in a girl while she is interested in both!!!

Help, Love and Understand Without Judging

I really hate spending so much time at the hospital. Looking forward to Christmas here to. I may get out before New Years. I am OK with things I guess but the reminder is, well tiresome. Nothing good to report on the table. Things are still heading towards the inevitable. Group is well the only people on earth I can talk to. No one and I mean no one can understand what I am going through. They are the only exceptions since they are all “living” with it to. Here are to the people that do what they can to help, love and understand without judging.

If you truly love someone, you forgive the unforgivable

If you truly love someone, you forgive the unforgivable

Clancey's in Sherwood 12-19-09

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It is me, if for what ever reason it is. I don't know if I like it but that is that. Make sense?

Where are my Chanukah presents? Hello everyone I know I just had a birthday but common!!!!!

It's My Birthday Bitch!!!!!

It's My Birthday Bitch!!!!! If you ain't putting out don't bother coming out!!!!!!!!

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

I hate the hospital :'( I am getting to used to this, ugh.

I need my friend, wish she would talk to me, rather text since I never was good enough to talk to, so it seems :'(

shitmydadsays 

  

"It's never the right time to have kids, but it's always the right time for screwing. God's not a dumbshit. He knows how it works."

Lingerie model

My gorgeous gal just got a great job as a lingerie model! She just asked me how I feel about dating a model...I didn't think we were dating but she is a model after all!!!

I can get all kinds of treatment for free. but not for my teeth. I have an infection that is causing pain on a scale of 1-10, it is a 9!! can't eat, sleep,I am running a hi fever, my TMJ makes it so much worse, ugh, I pray for a miracle

I knew I was right, I will not be a when you feel like it friend. It is when "I" feel like it, deal with it!!!

I can't take this fucking pain, I cry so much because of it I am getting sick. I just want to die, I want this to end, please!!

All this fun and debauchery and I still miss that special one :-(

Just about to get some & another shows up, now I have to choose which one. I love this awkwardness. Deal with it Angie!!!!

I am thankful for all the sex these beautiful ladies have given me!!!! I love sex, love it, love it, love it. I miss only one thing, her...

I overexerted myself with my "Whoring" around all yesterday and this morning. I refuse to go back to the ER, I am just self medicating. After dinner it is time for more Whoring, Drinking & Smoking & then more Whoring.

Did I mention I LOVE SEX. I am a total Whore but they all know it ;) Time for my other "date" I need to clean up before she gets here.

Awkward...sitting in a room with 3 woman I have had sex with in the last few weeks. Hmm I wonder if i can get them to...

I am a Whore, but I am OK with it because I am so good at it. Scratch that I am great at it, So the ladies tell me ;)

Beth

First night in Eugene was a blast!! Bar's with WiFi is a bad idea!! Drunk bastards tend to have poor judgement. Beth likes my beard, she said it's itchy tho ;)

Packed and ready to go. If you care, remember i won't be on line with any regularity. So text if you want. If you got my letter, you understand, this I just have to do. Those are my wishes, please remember that.

Gone insane be back soon ;)

6 am and no sleep yet, ugh

Ya everything I touch turns to shit, thanks for reminding me. Nice to know I am not someone you could trust anymore, Or someone who could be a friend, yadda, yadda, yadda

2nd time in my life, a threesome! I can die now, OMFG!!! I LOVE SEX!!! Steph that was the best "gift" ever!!!

Sleazy

I WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW!!! I love SEX! I love SEX, not a woman (sleazy at that) just SEX! Thank yooouuuu Steph, I know you understand too! Tonight again please :) No mashing my head in your thighs next time

Saying goodbye today, I won't be back on line anymore starting next week, aside from my phone's web. Gonna be stay'n with friends all over, until it's over. If you have my # you can text me. Let me know now if you don't.

Back in the hospital & not by choice. Freaking woke up here, I guess I wasn't breathing and Steph freaked out. Ugh...

I hate loving someone who doesn't love me back. I will never have her before I go. Ugh

Finished my final wishes and my will today. Talk about morbid, now back to living as much as I can before it is time to leave.

I plan on fucking doing everything before I leave, drinking, smoking, having sex with all the woman who need or want it.

saying goodbye to all, sorry

Morphine, Demerol, Whiskey, keep 'em coming

I am spending more time in the hospital than out. I will not let this end up being my home in the end.

Time to make the donuts

I hate all this dam medication. If I only have about 5 yrs left. I will not do it by keep taking all this crap.

I find that someone I thought I knew, I never really knew at all. Sad to; I mistakenly trusted them. Now I can't believe my ignorance.

"New chapter in my life" Ya what the fuck ever!! It is the final chapter...

It would be easy as 1, 2, 3...

Another day down, another day closer. Pain is so much I have to wear a mouth guard. If I don't I may crack another tooth. Lovely...

Knowing you have a limited amount of time is horrible. How am I to enjoy the time I have left. I wish I didn't know...

Well I am exhausted, in pain & am going to give in for now. I will maybe try again later. Right now, I will try the silence.

You know a Grey Goose Dirty Martini sounds real good!!!

I hate being stuck home with no $ & no transportation. No medical insurance is gonna kill me before my heart gives out.

Ok I need to find something to do tonight. Something to make me forget the pain. Like that is possible but I need to try.

This round of Harvesting is OMG F'n painful. Day 1 back & I feel like I did af the end of the first 2 weeks. Ugh, I have no more tears left.

If you can't be with the one you love. Then love the one you are with.

I just don't have a reason to get out of bed anymore. At least a sleep I don't mind the pain so much.

Phase 1 is not working, no viable stem cells. Have to try again this time is going to be more painful. This time has to work...

I seem to keep getting in a worse mood as I keep hearing health things & reacting poorly. It is just not good to be around me right now.

With good days and bad days, last night & today are just plain worse.

I have two things to say, yet I can't remember what the hell they are.

Dammit being the DD kinda sucks now, everyone is past out drunk. Yet I am sober and wide awake!!!

So much fun & I am the sober one!!!

Clancey's here comes Daisy!!!!!

Fishnets are not very comfy!!!

Ok so I am freezing in my DAISY DUKES!!!!!

Oh my Sherwood has not changed afterall, the costume has though!!!

Wow Halloween is more fun then I remember!!!!!

Wow Sherwood has changed but I still have an attitude when I am here, what's up with that?

In Sherwood heading to Sherwood Plaza. Then out trick or treating in the old home town.

I have gone from being sad to being filled with anger. Funny how this actually feels better.

My boys have been following me everywhere. I just climbed into bed and the had to move, so THEY could get comfy, punks ;)

A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

I am trying to smile, wincing is about all I can muster at the moment.

If a man is talking in the forest, and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?

Muscle relaxers & morphine equal very fuzzy feelings & very heavy eyes.

I have a new who gives a fuck attitude. This applies to just about everything or anyone. No offense intended to anyone in particular ;) ;)

This is stupid I'm home now but can't sleep. Though I need the pain meds, I don't want to keep taking them. They might help me get to sleep.

Going home =)

Ok so the next person to rudely wake me up by doing a poor job at sticking a needle in my arm is gonna get it. Give me a break all ready!!!!

> Insert funny witticism here <
Sorry I got nothin, too much time laying in this dam bed. I think I will just move in here. Ya that's it!

It's 3am & they wake me up, why? Just to tell me I have to stay a day or two more in the hospital. Really it couldn't until the morning?!!!!

Thanks for the singing get well nurse!! I thought she was going go be a stripper by how she was dressed!!!! Thanks again. Chad & Steph =)

Again, can't sleep with the testing every 2 hrs. I wish I could have sleep over guests. Preferably a nice pretty woman to cuddle with :(

So the cute nurse gave me a sponge bath, I am thinking of spilling my jello, just for another one...

So at least I like the hospital food. Getting woken up every two hours for testing makes even the sleeping pills ineffective. Two more days.

Trying to sleep in the hospital is just plain impossible...

The bruise on my side was getting bigger & more painful. A internal suture broke so it's bleeding. Here is to another hospital stay :(

You might think I would be sleeping with all the heavy duty pain meds. Well it is past 4 am and I am still wide awake. This suxxxx

You know it is just too bad I waited so long. Because in the end in it was15yrs only to realize nothing had changed. Life goes on & so will I, it's too bad to.

Ok so no matter what I write, someone thinks the worst of me. I guess I am just a liar and a dishonest person. Whatever she is the one with trust issues not me!

Woke up in agony not because I wanted to. I can do this, I could do w/out the pain. I don't like being drugged up like this, anymore that is ;)

I survived day one, day two is more of the same, tissue harvesting. I know I have always had a high tolerance for pain but this is horrible!

Well gathering of viable tissue for my treatments is very painful. It is going to be a long process.

I'm excited to get my heart treatment I desperately need. The pre-op protocols are hell. I even have to forgo, well ya know. Sorry Steph trust me I'm bummed too

Insomnia has some perks ;) I could go on but... well I would have to censor out the good parts so... Just think on that.

I was just told I am more generous than most. Really? I think I am quite selfish. Thanks Steph, you are so much more than that, prettier to.

I'm so glad that I was treated poorly. If not I would not be here having such a great time. Here is to the one that made it all possible ;)

Ya so back to the having to be a jerk, I am nice and she is a total bitch. Fuck this I am going to just ignore & avoid her. I will be jerk if I see her, ugh!!!!

I hate being jerk but being nice isn't paying off in anyway. I guess I will give being a jackass a try, it works for so many others.

I knew I was going to end up getting hurt. I thought the payoff was worth it. Hindsight is always 20/20, I hope I learned from from this mistake.

If I have done anything I am sorry for, I am willing to be forgiven

It seems I do know how to be uncaring and flippant. I don't really like it but if it stops me from getting hurt, ok. I feel like I'm just the kind of guy I hate

I don't like being alone, I never have. I need someone to share my thoughts with. I guess writing will try to fill the void. It's a temporary fix but might help