Posted by Phillip Marx on January 20, 2000, at 2:13:11
In reply to Re: Phillip, posted by Phillip Marx on January 15, 2000, at 10:26:23
Time-out please.
My retirement plan is hogging my attention with 10x normal volume, 3x value swings (up^up^up^), shareholder uproars and company surprise announcements. At just what point does one need to seek help for anxxxxxxxiety?
My tile work needs a stall too. The batchelor balanced washing machine leaked out the bottom hose end and loosened a lot of tile. Is there a reason for such poor catastrophe prevention engineering? Most of the houses I saw on some real estate investment tours had similar or worse internal water damage. Most dishwashers only need the filter cleaned to prevent total replacement and brain damage from detergent water spots. For fun(?): why does there seem to be such an undersight of oversights? Well, my city's public secret is "expansive soil" which means micro-cracks in the foundation slab. Now that I've discovered that my house has a couple of such cracks, now wet, I'll have to delay doing a good job tile job until summer. Those cracks are going to have to be ground out and refilled with admix. Fortunately I have no floor unleveling, a big surprise since my trees were higher than the telephone poles. I'll use a masonry bit to stress relieve the crack ends and this new diamond saw blade to kerf the zig-zags. I will NOT fill my house full of concrete dust during flu and bronchitis season. Concrete dust isn’t biodegradable in the lungs at an easy to tolerate rate, especially, if it is super alkaline from my soil. I'm going to have to use that tacky, cheap and crummy adhesive square tile stuff til summer. The cheapest pattern has flowers I don't recognize since they aren't roses or carnations.
A new shopping center has opened up a mile and a half from my house and it has a brand-spanking-new Home Depot in it. Time to shop. I'm going to run out of time before I run out of projects. They sure stock a way to fix just about anything better even than it needs to be.
I've only got a week and a half til classes start and I need to at least browse the rest of the way through the books before class starts.
Well, I'll just have to indulge in some home-grown antidepressants. My Macadamia nut tree is overloaded and my across-the-street green thumb just told me how to prune it for a double-crop year. I sure hope this Macadamia AD never quits working.
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> Phil(1): (http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/19991212/msgs/17746.html)
> ? I'll respond soon, point by point, to what is already written, in a separate post I have already begun composition of.
>
> Scott(1): (http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/19991212/msgs/17748.html)
> I will not even begin to read beyond the first few sentences before replying.
> This is not a war and I plan not to take part in one.
>
> Phil(2): (http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20000112/msgs/18957.html)
> Terms:
> 1. Civility the rule, not the exception, not a cold war.
> War was never intended, you are the only one who wrote war. Un-civility not accused by me, just a warning only that you will be talking to no-one but yourself if the discussion leads that way.
>
> Scott(2): (http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20000112/msgs/18921.html)
> I know that many people here have "accused" you of being manic or some such thing. That must be very irritating and frustrating, not to mention an unwarranted waste of your time and energies.
> It occurred to me that there is an easy and quick way to put this thing to rest. It would certainly allow you time to pursue other urgent issues. Using the DSM IV (questionable value) create a list all of the the items used as criteria for diagnosing bipolar mania. Next to each item, quickly describe why it does not pertain to you.
> I've been accused of being manic several times in the passed. Believe me, it was a real pain in the ass.
>
> - Scott
>
> Scott(3) (http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20000112/msgs/18972.html)
> Dear Phillip,
> I had a difficult time reading through your reply post. I'm one of the lucky ones for whom dementia is one of the prominent symptoms of depression. That's not to say that I didn't try. You seem to contradict yourself on numerous occasions. Perhaps my cognitive impairments prevent me from putting things together.
> I haven't been reading all of your posts over the past few weeks, so I don't know where you are with things.
> Let us, for a moment, pretent that I am not trying to act as your adversary, but rather as a concerned friend.
> I have only two questions. They each *require* a simple one word reply:
> YES or NO
> ---------------------------------------------
> Q: Are you currently manic?
> Q: Have you ever been manic?
> ---------------------------------------------
> Sincerly,
> Scott
>
> Phil000115 – on way to seminar, no time to deal with bait-and-switch questions, line-by-line or bottom line. Line-by-line is the bottom line.
> 1. What “NON-questionable value” reference are you using that is better than DSM-IV?
> 2. Name the numerous “seeming” contradictions.
> 3.Point detailed previously fails to fully qualify as mania per APA specs, what specs are you using?
> 4. Points to be detailed later will similarly fail to certifiably qualify, perhaps I need to know what criteria you use and how accredited are they? Enlighten me.
> 5. It seems to beget less protest to write on the terse side and get asked for more than to write on the lengthy side and get asked for less. Is that on purpose, how can it be so consistent?
>
> I have always conceded manic-like = almost like manic. Testing by DSM-IV, I am outside even atypical range.
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