4/8/2024
While things are getting better a lot of things are still a trainwreck on my end.
While my cat has responded to the thyroid medication, she can’t take it as a pill which is the prime reason for all of her side effects (including being vomity as all hell)
So the mighty 15 year old furball is going to be getting a topical gel in her ears, and is on anti-nausea medication and a reduced dose of the pills until she can get on the gel.
That’s one thing that’s getting better…on the other hand, the day after I posted my message about things going on pause, an elderly family member banged themselves up in a fall and is still recovering.
So we are still in wait and see mode over here. When we know more, you’ll know more. 🙁
House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
Ive had conversations like this with my ex-girlfriend. When we got together she was 23 and I was 40 and had experienced events she had heard about in history class or took for granted. Like the end of the Vietnam War, the speeches from Nixon during the Watergate Scandal, the first microwaves, birth of the PC, betamax then videotapes, cable tv, the migration of popular radio from AM to FM, etc.
When you start talking about something and she says “I wasn’t even born yet”, the weight of your years hits you like a ton of bricks and makes you feel old and question whether or not being with someone so much younger is really right or not.
We lived together for almost 8 years and when we broke up, one of the barbs she slung at me in our last argument was, “You stole my 20’s from me.” To which I responded, “No, you willingly gave them to me.”
I’ve done it both ways:
1 my 1st wife was a few years older
2 my 2d wide was 3 weeks younger
3 my 3d and current wife is 14 years younger.
In all prior cases the common factor was divorce, there is no way that you can play that right except to survive it. Whatever you do going in, will be wrong going out. Accept that and move on.
Close in age works better than large gap, although less relevant as the percentage vs your actual age gets smaller. 5 years at age 20 is a lot more serious than 5 at 80.
We are six months apart, whic means lots of common cultural bg (“do you remember X? I loved that” “me too”). And occasional bit of odd dissonance (“you watched way more tv than me and you never heard of this?”)
When you start talking about something and she says “I wasn’t even born yet”, the weight of your years hits you like a ton of bricks and makes you feel old and question whether or not being with someone so much younger is really right or not.
1 my 1st wife was a few years older
2 my 2d wide was 3 weeks younger
3 my 3d and current wife is 14 years younger.
In all prior cases the common factor was divorce, there is no way that you can play that right except to survive it. Whatever you do going in, will be wrong going out. Accept that and move on.
We are six months apart, whic means lots of common cultural bg (“do you remember X? I loved that” “me too”). And occasional bit of odd dissonance (“you watched way more tv than me and you never heard of this?”)