What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[elmagicochrisg]

Calf muscle cramps. I wish there was a way to stop them when I feel them coming on as the pain is debilitating.

There is. Wriggle like an idiot until you find the right position to make the damned muscle relax...

Also: more magnesium in your diet...

[Luke]

Calf muscle cramps. I wish there was a way to stop them when I feel them coming on as the pain is debilitating.

There is. Wriggle like an idiot until you find the right position to make the damned muscle relax...

If only that would work for me. In three seconds my calf turns from muscle to rock. A painful, painful rock. I used to date a ballerina (shush) and when her calf muscle would cramp up she would walk it off like it was nothing. If I would have tried to even stand this morning I would have fallen over Chevy Chase style.

I've tried stretching, rubbing, punching, shaking...to no avail.

That's going to be taken out of context, isn't it?

[elmagicochrisg]

In that case, protip 2, higher magnesium intake to (hopefully) avoid cramps altogether...

[Luke]

^Hey, it's worth a shot. Not sure how much magnesium is in my daily multivitamin, I could always double up.

[elmagicochrisg]

^Hey, it's worth a shot. Not sure how much magnesium is in my daily multivitamin, I could always double up.

Buy pure Magnesium and make your own custom caps. Cheaper, and you know what's in them for sure...

Take one as soon as you get up. That's when you need it most...

Maybe 1 x 500mg with breakfast and 1 x 500mg with dinner works best for you. Or maybe 1g with breakfast works best. Experiment...

Avoid taking too much magnesium before going to bed...

If you get them (cramps) as soon as you get up, maybe you can also take one cap of calcium before going to bed. Again, make your own caps and experiment. Just keep in mind: magnesium in the morning, calcium in the evening...

[harper]

: Girlfriend's going out of town tonight and won't be back until Sunday.

: Guess I'll have lots of time for some vidja games this weekend.

[Luke]

Smile/laughing out loud: A good friend of mine and recent Mother stormed onto Facebook complaining that her free app also contained advertisements.

Uh, duh.


She downloaded a free "baby flash card" app (her kids is weeks old, way overdoing it) and one of the ads had a half naked lady on it. "This disgusts me that an app would have any advertisements". Don't think she quite gets how free apps work.

[Flake]

Smile/laughing out loud: A good friend of mine and recent Mother stormed onto Facebook complaining that her free app also contained advertisements.

Uh, duh.


She downloaded a free "baby flash card" app (her kids is weeks old, way overdoing it) and one of the ads had a half naked lady on it. "This disgusts me that an app would have any advertisements". Don't think she quite gets how free apps work.

That's the kind of attitude that makes going to city council meetings fun.

"I want more roads, police, and better trash service!"

City Council: "Great idea. We'll need some more tax money though."

"...I don't want to pay higher taxes."

Some people just don't understand how the world works.

[Luke]

Some people just don't understand how the world works.

And it is only going to get worse. The sense of entitlement gets worse with every generation.

"I had to wait in line for two minutes, and you call this fast food?"

"Demo? Fucking tease. Turns out they want me to actually buy the entire game."


Not sure if I already mentioned this, but while at a grocery store I avoided a cart collision with an elderly man. We got to chatting and I mentioned "They say youth is wasted on the young, but retirement is wasted on the old".

He replied, "I've never heard a bigger pile of bullshit". I instantly loved that guy. He also called college "an expensive daycare for people who should be but aren't adults". He did everything but yell at a cloud, but I loved every second of our exchange.

[prfsnl_gmr]

- The pawn shop closest to my house just marked all of their GBA and PS2 games down to one dollar, and there are very few games that I will not buy for a dollar. ("I'd buy that for a dollar!!")

- The only games left are games that I would not buy for a dollar...

- I went to the pawn shop's other location today, and they had the same sale.

"I'd buy that for a dollar!!"

(I will list my mini-haul in the "Look What I Found!" thread.)