| Author | Message | ||
     Ourdee |
Here lately I know I'm blessed. Ain't that the truth. | ||
| Ratbuell |
If they're rare, and you don't have to medicate often...look up a Canadian over the counter pain reliever (Johnson & Johnson, I believe) called 222. I keep a bottle around for when my leg implants start to scream, and one of those fixes it every time. No loopiness, no hangover, no haze, no loss of function, just...no more pain. We had a Canuck here on the board years ago (Hank, I believe) who sent me a bottle in with some S2 parts way back when. Great stuff, but we'll never see it in the States because people are too stupid not to abuse it. | ||
| 86129squids |
Hey! Got green lights? Seriously. Or green glasses. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/ 15/787138928/researchers-explore-a-drug-free-idea- to-relieve-chronic-pain-green-light | ||
| Ourdee |
Thanks Joe, I get them just enough to carry those over the counter meds. It took care of it by 1:30. I will be wiped out as far as energy for the rest of the day. Do the 222s make you feel buzzed, or just get rid of the pain? | ||
| Ourdee |
I went sleuthing to locate the trigger. Boom, there it was. Doritos have monosodium glutamate/MSG. It only took 2 chips. I have thought of trying green light. I do have access to a cold laser. | ||
| Ratbuell |
A single 222 does not make me feel buzzed, it simply mutes the aches so I can continue to be productive. My metal implants are inside my bone marrow - they literally stacked my shattered femur around the titanium rod like a ring toss, and drove the one in my tib-fib down the center of the two broken halves to hold them together. So, when they ache...it's about as deep in my structure as possible and no amount of stretching, massaging, or relaxing will do a damn thing. When it gets to the point that nothing OTC (in America) will touch it - and I refuse to take prescriptions after what they did to me right after the accident and in the hospital - I take a single 222. That does it. | ||
| Ratbuell |
mmm. I love some Doritos...but have lately switched to simple white corn tortilla chips as a snack. Basically empty-activity to sit and munch, very few calories, not too much bad stuff...although I do avoid the no-salt ones. I have to have SOME taste! White corn tortilla, or plain ol' saltines with sliced American on them (cheese, not "cheese product"). | ||
| Ourdee |
Bone pain ain't a joke. I may have to get a hold of some 222s to try. I only like pain med that touches pain and not my mind. I haven't had doritos for years but Tracey asked me if I wanted anything from the store last week and I just had a wild urge. I'd been sick and the gout was nipping at my knee and I thought I needed comfort food. Wrong! My usual snack is Whole Dried Tart Montmorency Cherries. My favorite snack is Welch's grape juice with graham crackers and colby cheese. But no, I had to be a bad boy. I am sucking on some coffee now. Will probably go lay in a warm bath with a little light on in a while. I want to camp out. It should be 36 and foggy tonight. I may put it off till Saturday night when it is 54 and rainy. I try to camp out between Christmas and New Years. Rain makes me sleep like a baby. I'm beat. | ||
| 86129squids |
Hope you get to feeling better, RD. Try some nice essential oils (lavender, tea tree, peppermint, etc.) with that bath. I cripe about my plantar fasciitis, it aint no joke... but there's always gonna be someone who has it worse than me. Good luck, friends. | ||
| Ourdee |
Tis but a flesh wound! | ||
| Ourdee |
I have been blessed with having Lil Red to ride for a while now. I am cleaning up a little dirt and putting a new oil filter on. It requires a little work due to the chin brackets being in the way.  My wife calls before coming home from work. Not to give me a chance to get rid of all the ladies that chase you in retirement, but because she doesn't want to come home and find parts in the sink.  I do put stickers on Lil Red. I put them on the inside of the panels, or they are black on black. I used to peel all the stickers and emblems off a vehicle when I bought it. I now enjoy replacing badges with other badges. My Jeep Renegade has some badging from Fiat Abarths. They have more in common than most realize.  Short lesson for a few: The reason for cleaning is to facilitate inspection. | ||
| Ourdee |
Hey! Got green lights? Seriously. Or green glasses. Hey Brad, What if we just switched to a green background on our computer screens? | ||
| Ourdee |
I am still cleaning up the wiring from extras that have been installed along the way. I should make some good progress this week.  Auxiliary lighting and large right side scoop are coming off. Lil Red has got dirty this year. I'll be wiping for days. Then small scoop and chin fairing will be put back on.  That cylinder behind the air filter is the air horn compressor. A clear hose takes the air to the two horns behind the flyscreen.  | ||
| Ourdee |
This little block will sit under the GPS on the cross bar on the handle bars. It still needs filed and sanded. I hope to press the cross bar through the under sized hole.  | ||
| Ourdee |
The cross bar is pressed in.  Sits up there quite nicely.  I will survive running maps from 2007.  I wanted something cheap enough that I could just leave it on the bars, but more visual than my phone in my pocket talking in my helmet. | ||
| Zacks |
Ourdee/Joe. When I was working in Canada, we always had a bottle of ACCs in the trailer. Same as 222s. Stands for Aspirin Caffeine and Codeine. Which is why we can't get them OTC here in the States. Don't know how it would work on deep bone pain - but can vouch for the effectiveness on hangovers. And no, no loopiness or buzzed. Just felt the headache melt away after about 15 minutes - the same amount of time as the morning meeting. | ||
| Ourdee |
Whoa, Codeine is a no no for me. Makes me want to puke. | ||
| Ourdee |
Now I am wondering if the caffeine would take away the nausea effect. | ||
| Zacks |
Like I tell my wife all the time, I don't have an MD at the end of my name - so can't say. Most of the crew then was younger, stupid and we'd hit it hard many (long) days after work. Troubleshooting code and electrical issues with a hangover is not a lot of fun. These would make you feel human again and willing to hit the cafeteria for breakfast, so? | ||
| Ourdee |
WooHoo. I removed the over size scoop on the right side. Changed the oil filter. Got the chin fairing remounted. Made sure my Georgia flasher permit is up to date. replaced the turn signals with small but brighter units. Wired and mounted the GPS. Re-wired and changed out the switches on my amber flasher on the rear. I got all the plastic and seat back on. The weather today was nice enough for a ride, but I had to get Lil Red buttoned back up. Supposed to be 44 tomorrow I may get a short ride in. | ||
| Crusty |
Ourdee; After I get back, we should meet at Velvet Smoke in Harrison (I-74, Exit 1 in Ohio) for lunch when we get a warm day. | ||
| Ourdee |
I may drive over and pick you up on a cold day. | ||
| 1313 |
And here I've been dining at Skyline Chili when I stop there overnight on my way up to Homecoming... | ||
| Ourdee |
I-74, Exit 1 is where Lil Red stops for fuel when ever I go to John's. I talk him into the mexican place. | ||
| Crusty |
I got your Christmas Card today. Thank you! | ||
| Ourdee |
You are welcome. | ||
| Ourdee |
There were other people that wanted to mail cards. I didn't get the address till after New Years. So, I didn't hand out the address. | ||
| Ratbuell |
R.D. - I love the little Quest2 units. I have three or four of them - you can get them on ebay for 30 or 40 bucks these days. Maps will be outdated, but hey...small, cheap, compact, waterproof, and they have a "route home" function. That's all I need 'em for on the bikes. If I need detailed, up-to-date information, that's what Waze on the phone is for. Waze in a pocket, running instructions through bluetooth to the Scala Rider; Quest2 on the bars for a visual reference. Just about perfect. If you go shopping for used units, make sure to get a Quest2. They have nationwide maps. The original Quest only had regional maps, and you had to reload if you were in a different region. If the seller still has the unlock code, you can still do that...but most folks have lost the code, so unless you live and ride where they did...an original Quest is basically a parts donor if a Q2 loses a screen or gets case damage. | ||
| Ourdee |
Joe - this one is a neat looking little unit. I just put a Garmin DriveSmart-65 with Traffic and a 6.95" screen in my Jeep. WOW! We live in amazing times. I drove delivery trucks for a couple of years back in the day. I had a box of maps in my truck. The biggest thing I use a GPS for is the speedometer, then the compass. I know, odd. Now if I could just get it all heads-up in my helmet. | ||
| Ourdee |
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