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[cellio]

Someday I will figure out how one properly decorates a sukkah; the only decorated ones I've seen have been done up with stuff made by the kids in the family/congregation. If I decorate, I want adult decorations. Whatever those would be. But at least the strands of small white lights (bought on December 26 one year :-) ) are pretty. And, more importantly, provide ample light to see dinner by.

So far it's a one-splinter year for the sukkah. That's pretty good for me. :-)

For bizarre reasons, yesterday I found myself needing to know how to say "purple dinosaur" in Hebrew. My dictionary was of no help on "dinosaur", so I ended up settling for "reptile". Not the same thing, but good enough in context.

I found out recently that my parents have never, in their entire lives, eaten Indian food. Wow. Chinese food was a novelty for me when I was growing up, but I thought that was just due to the local restaurant options. No, my parents just haven't explored a lot of unusual foods. So we're going to take them to an Indian restaurant in a couple weeks. (And no, I haven't asked them about sushi yet.)

I've been getting a lot of spam lately for Vicadin, whatever that is. From googling it appears to be either a painkiller or a psychadelic, but I'm not sure which. (I suppose the latter is a type of the former, for some people.) Did it just come onto the market or something?

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[dglenn.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I knew that it knocked some people out, and made others feel "floaty" and a bit loopy, but hadn't heard that some people find it hallucinogenic. But I probably shouldn't be surprised. For me, all it does is knock the pain down one notch (two if I'm lucky) and I have to pay closer attention to my timing on guitar. Basically it changes "Find me a chainsaw and a tourniquet 'cause I'm going to cut my fucking arm off and see whether that makes it stop hurting" into "Wow, this hurts a lot." It works a lot better for me if I alternate doses of Vicodin with doses of Ultram (a non-narcotic, non-ibuprofen-family pain med).

Anyhow, it's synthetic codeine (hydrocodone), plus acetaminophen. Very similar to Percoset (oxycodone plus acetaminophen). There's also Vicoprofen (ibuprofen instead of acetaminophen). That Oxycontin stuff we keep hearing about being abused is a time-release version -- the abuse involves crushing it so as to get the whole dose all at once.

Percoset, Vicodin, and codeine are all really cheap to obtain legally, they're just in the highly-regulated class in the US (but codeine with caffeine and aspirine or caffeine and acetaminophen is OTC in Canada); I've got no idea how expensive they are to obtain illegally, nor am I sure why they've suddenly become so much more frequent spam subjects. None of them are at all newish.