h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

err, day before yesterday I think it was... or maybe it was yesterday. or perhaps it was the day before the day before yesterday.
The past. its like one big thing.
Oddly, the future is like just one big thing too.
I don't have any concept of time anymore. which, is, really weird... - its like the only times that exist are very imediate; I get the idea of 'tonight ' in comparason to earlier in teh day, or 'this morning' in comparason to later in the day, but more than a day, back of forward, it is basically all the same... - an ppointment two months way, or two days away; I've no idea of there beign any differnce in that time differnce... and the same kind of goes for past stuff too.

Which. isn't what I ment to say.

but, anyhow, a day or two ago;

we were walking besides a fairly busy road, coming home I think, and a white van was parked up, in the traffic jam; two guys in it.

they looked somewhat confused, and then, one of the two young men, yelled out, towards W and m;

"is that a bloke or a woman?",

I assume, directed at me.

"Which ever you want me to be, darlin" I replied.

Way to go

So now you are both pansexual and pantemporal?

I hope it all pans out for you

pansexual, pantemporal, and totally down the pan IMO

My life just gets increasingly more weird. - I think the weird is the only thing keeping me alive - needless to say, after I replied to the blokes in the van, neither retorted - I still find it odd, I've had so few negative comments, snide remarks etc, since I started cross dressing, now over a year I think, I can only I think think of one other occasion.....

I did supprise a guy in the pub last night... - he tried pushing me out of the way to get to the bar, and I turned to him, and I assume my expression (My hormones mean I can't control the level of my reaction sometimes), terrified him - he was about half a second from getting seriously injured... - my hormoneal stuff means sometimes my reations just fly.... - 0 to 100 in rage terms, instantly... and he was just so damn rude.... - I honestly think were I not holding my cane in one hand, and my beer in the other, a fist would have very instantly made contact with him - I'm useually not an agressive or angry person... but.. he was just so rude...

good evening asides that though, were talking to a totally insane bloke who smoked meat himself at home... - a proper country lad moved to the city... so we shaed a laugh at those 'c city folk' who just don't have a clue about dealing with dead animals and turning them into meat and thence to food

slept fairly well but woke at 7 with burning throat and mouth... - acid reflux... - entirely my own fault, I shouldn't have eaten too much for supper; it just takes some getting used to to have to suddenly realise my body has changed so much, I cna't just take it for granted as once I did... and my cast iron stomach appears to be one thing which has gone luckily the reflux subsided, and I then slept a few more hours before getting up and starting on the drugs and suchlike for the day

Pat yourself on the shoulder every time you resist the urge to be violent.

As for acid reflux I suffered for a couple of decades before my doctors took it seriously, examined me and prescribed medicine against it. Almost no problems since. End of story.

On the guy who smoked his meat at home, hickory smoked salmon is delectable and so are other kinds of meat.

Though hickory bark is most commonly used for the purpose, hickory nuts are better and there are two kinds, one native to the Carolinas, that belongs to the walnut family and has almost meatless hard round nuts just under a centimeter in diameter, another found in Georgia and American gulf states that belongs to the pecan family and has nuts about 4 cm long by 2 or 3 cm diameter with husks that split along the length of the nut.

Both are hickory.

Hickory is most preferred for smoking meat in the USA.

Most of the flavor generated by the smoking process is generated by the husks or the meat of the nut.

That generated by the nut shells is comparatively inconsiderable, same principle as the bark is superior to the wood.

The nut shells do make excellent filtering charcoal and have been used commercially that way.

Walnut and pecan husks can also be used.

The Spanish traditionally use olive pits for smoking meat.

In the Faroes islands, they traditionally use a local variety of moss to produce their smoked mutton.

There are smokers for home use available on the internet.

I'm not sure I'd be allowed to put a smoker on my balcony! - no garden here damnit!

oo... didn't knwo that about the nuts/huscks etc, I think I'd juast asssumed it was the wood - I do like the smoked bacon from the local butchers, they smoke that themselves; sometimes you can smell the smoker in the air, of an evening, round about the road where the butchers is

Luckily, or not, most of my agression is useually self-directed. hmm. which is pretty stupid really - its odd as it works useually the opposite to what I'd imainge; those times when I've been basically zero or really low on testosterone, my rage is palpiable even at rest - when my Testosterone injections put my testosterone range above that of a pubity infused teenager, I'm really relaxed! My T should be ultra low by now, but oddly it doesn't seem to be... so maybe its just not rediculusly high, but about right for once - I was never a well-balanced person at the best of times, but now its a juggling act of IM and subcutanious injections, pus medications/tablets and supplements, and sodium/potassium/water balanceing, that I've got to balance out, 'manually' rather than my body doing it automatically.... - I guess I'm a lot lwess well balanced

ahh, talking of balance, I must go soak myself in boiling hot water; to reset my temperature regulation slightly, so I can cope with going out into cold, then into hot, later; we're off out to a Korian resturant - never eaten Korien err, Korian however its spelt before - thence off to a pub of course, after the mal;with the local LGBT group people, so I have to make myself look extra gorgeous.... - I'm thinking.... leopard print tonight.... or my red beaded 1920s dress, feather boa and elbow length silk gloves (and my pearls of course)

Tried to nap this afternoon, but coudln't.... - noisey outside plus I think maybe I'm a bit hypoglycemic or low on steroids, as I've got the weird internal vibration thing/heart palpitaitons..... - shall have to have a tiny snack before going out to9 the meal, as I can't be bothered to lug all my meds with me to the resturant and pub Ao...... so.... antacid/proton pum inhibitor..... slice of cheese or two... then the prednisolone ... then the calcium, vitamine D, zinc, magnessium, vitamine K, and... err... whatever other ones I've forgotten today ,

I think the leopard print... defiantely, asides anything I just saw the leggings that are leopard print, come out of the tumble dryer, so I know they're there, and the dress is in the wardrobe and I've not worn in ages.... - still need a leopard print handbag, and a leopard print pair of zip up boots.... - I guess its cold tonight, so I'll wear my leopard print scarf too I think

You can get a stovetop smoker for use in the kitchen! It's a bit like a saucepan with a steamer on top. You put it on the hob, with the wood chips in the bottom section and the food in the top section.

Never tried them, but I imagine you'd want to have a good extractor fan!

A good extractor fan or 'hood' over the stove does help.

I need to replace mine.... Maybe sometime next year after a couple of higher priority projects.

we don't even have a working oven, or hob, really, let alone an extractor - we've bipassed the oven so far by just using the grill, which 3/4 works, and buying a cheap electric table top hob, we use, just two rings.... - can't really have gas no more, as I'm guessing the deceased main gas pipe into the kitchen, would not only cost a fotune to replace, but involve taking half the house to bits in the process which,.... just ain't gona happen... can't do anything to kitchen though, until we've done the bathroom, and we can't find a bathroom fitter who doesn't want to charge 10 thousand quid just to do a 6 Ft sq or less bathroom or, just do a part job and then not finishe like last ime this city/town is too expensive to exist in

Ditto.

Both my bathrooms are higher priority than the kitchen, and new shelves in the kitchen a higher priority than the cooking area.

I'm getting by just fine at the moment with a microwave and electric skillet, which between them cover 90% of my cooking needs and an electric toaster oven and a hot plate that cover the remainder.

I've still got a gas range that I can put into service any time simply by means of taking off the cover and attaching a bottle of propane, but I don't really need it for anything.

The hood and the exhaust fan over the range are hopelessly choked with fine wind blown dust from desert sand and dust storms and have got to be replaced eventually.

Next time around I'll putting a lot of attentiom on better dust proofing on that system.

problem is here, I've no idea how to find a decent bathroom, or kitchen fitter... Most just seem rip off merchants, wo don't even do a good job, yet charge a fortune for it - at the moment we've got teh toaster, kettle, a grill, and the hob we put out when we need it, - I can more or less fiddle teh grill to work as an oven, for some things (can get away doing pizza or garlic bread under it, etc), but I don't think its got an even enough spread of temp for say roasting etc... - been using the slow cooker a lot too, as its winter, which is useful

The main concern is to get the bathroom done; as its leaked at various times into the utility room below; the utility room is right nextdoor to the kitchen, and we want to get kitchen and utlilty room done at the same time; once bathroom is done, the utility room cealing can come down, to be replaced, and at the same time probably replace the kitchen cealing too, as its quite disgusting then of course d do the kitchen units at the same time as the utliity room, so units, worktops etc, match at least, then do the flooring and tiling throughout both the same - awkward to put a decent extractor in the kitchen, as there isn't really an outside wall; the actual outside wall is 100% glass, being a glass door, and large window besides that lead out onto the balcony.... - can't really see its affordible to get a new gas pipe fitted in, to service the kitchen, so will have to go for some type of electric hob (which I hate), - really want an induction hob, but its virtually impossible to find one with manual controls, rather than a touch pannel which I cna't use.... - actualy not found a single induction hob yet that I could use as all seem to have the touch/screen controls rather than physical dials/buttons etc... I've always had electric oven/grill so something simular to that again, and, for the first time in my life, a dish washer! - hope to make a lot more use of the utility room, to include some proper storage area for kitchen stuff, dried and tinned foods, etc, so making more space in the kitchen itself and possibly making enough room in the utility room, to have a second, smaller fridge, for keeping all my medical stuff in that needs to be kept cold (OK so maybe some beer in it too.....) - once we've got the bathroom, kitchen and utility room done, we can move on to finish elsewhere; the front room floor and the other flooring on that level/floor can be done once the kitchen's done, and tidy up the remianing paintwork on that floor; plus can finish the remaining bedroom, and landings and stairwell upstairs, once bathroom is done... - which oughta just basically leave the front door to replace, and the downstairs hallway, and staircase, to repair and replace and paint etc and retile/floor - after all of which I'll probably find I can't manage stairs anymore, and so we have to move! typical#!

I've recently learned a counterintuitive method of dealing with nightly acid reflux. I eat a dill pickle spear or jist sip some of the pickle juice before bed if I've eaten late in the evening. The vinegar in the juice tricks your stomach into producing less acid.

the last time I had acid reflux... I might have eaten a pickled gherkin/dill pickle just not tha tlong before bed - I'm not quite sure by the method by which I make too much acid; I know the panhypopituitarism means I don't make the normal gastric lining, so its not necessarily more acidic, but its less protective lining therer to protect from the acid that is there. - I assume my vast distended abdomin doesn't help much, as it puashes all my internal organs in weird direction as it is just so distended and painful all the time, plus I now the steroids mess up ones digestive system, and low, or high on thyroid can do likewise, plus the levothyroxin thyroxin tablets are prety evil things that make me feel ill, so I guess they're doing nasty things to my insides too. The only medacine yet to make me actually feel more well, is the B12 and B-complex I started taking, and the testosteorne injections for the first few months made me feel better too... oh, and the antacid things made me feel better, but the actual meds just give me side effects with no benifit.