The “Day After Powell” – Trump Speculations – The Personal Pain Guide

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Gravity and Markets should be explained as today and tomorrow roll by.

Reader dLynn is just one of our readers who was wondering WTF? about the Powell rally Friday.  The answer is?  It fills a trend line move.  Now, in our ChartPack (Peoplenomics) gravity is “cleared for takeover.”  Even my consigliere was  calling over the weekend to talk shorting this bloated hog of a market.

Bloat to float, anyone?

In case you missed it? BTC is struggling to tread water at the $111,000 level today.  European markets were split – with the only green coming from the now occupied United Kingdom as part of their “pop-swap” moves.  But, in Asia, Japan and Australia were still suckling the Powell “juice” as financial hopium over-ruled logic, once again.  (Pop-swap has been going on here, too. Just slower RoC (rate of change) because of frogs slowly boiled theory – which is another one of those falsifications like lemmings that infests weak programmable minds…

Gold and silver were meh to down. As we begin with out portable electron microscopes looking for…

What’s Driving?

Yeah…what IS driving this porcine panic?

The REAL cost of living is starting to reveal itself: Why utility bills are rapidly rising in some states. Readers are reminded that we swapped out 20 of our solar panels earlier this year.

Deep down – few in the mainstream will give it Voice – but a number of future-scanners (like the Polish Seer) are seeing that Donald Trump may not serve out his term.  Health concerns are getting low-beam mentions now: Donald Trump photo shows large mark on hand as fears swirl over his health and aging. Pay very strict attention to activities of (next president) Vance are in coming months.

Count us among the deeply troubling move of government into the Private Sector.  We ain’t alone as  Conservatives Rage Over Trump’s ‘Socialist’ Intel Purchase.Going a bit Beijing are we?

With this level of uncertainty, the “future ain’t what it used to be…” – and people aren’t willing to commit: Home sales are falling through at highest rate in years, led by Texas and Florida,  As Globalists continue with pop-swap, the thin line to talk is “keep homes affordable for imported populations, but not so much existing [majority] pops will have confidence and get back to higher birth rates.  Oh, what a mess for policymarkets.

Is taking over Cities an answer?  Don’t ask in Chicago: Trump threatens to target Chicago next in crime and homelessness crackdown. Resulting in? Furious and next expect felonious as City-States try to protect their drug-based leisure classes. Earlier in my newsing career, Chicago was “the Winy city.”  Age has reduced this to “Chicago blows.”

Around the edgers, the mainstream herd’s getting nervous.  People are looking at their bank balances, again: Recession specials could be the latest sign of deteriorating consumer sentiment.

Monday’s BBL – BIG Bottom Line – The world will end in 25 years, humanity will die and towns will become slaughterhouses: Oxford scientists’ nightmare prediction, their proof it’s inevitable and why billionaires in their bunkers should tremble.

CFNAI – A Lagging Indicator?

American econometricians have this nappty habit of looking at the past then inferring future.  This woirks in high-speed data sets (ballistic calcs out on the gun range here).  But in economics?  So before today’s data drop, let’s look at the structural problems of a number like the CFNAI:

Release Lag

  • Typical publication: The CFNAI is usually released around the 3rd or 4th week of the month. That’s where we are this morning.

  • Coverage: It summarizes economic activity for the previous month.

  • Lag length: That means there’s about a 3–4 week lag between the reference month (July) and the index’s release month which is August.  following?

Underlying Reason

  • The lag isn’t arbitrary—it’s tied to the availability of source data (85 different indicators). Some series (like industrial production) come out mid-month; others (like housing starts, retail sales) also have delays. The Fed can’t finalize the CFNAI until all—or nearly all—inputs are in.

Revisions

  • The index does get revised, sometimes modestly, when source data are updated or late-arriving indicators are incorporated. So the number you see at release is the Fed’s best estimate, but it’s not set in stone.

Bottom line: Expect about a 3–4 week lag from the close of a month to when the Chicago Fed publishes its CFNAI.  Here’s what staring in the rearview will get you today in the Blow City report.

“The Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) decreased to –0.19 in July from –0.18 in June. One of the four broad categories of indicators used to construct the index decreased from June, and three categories made negative contributions in July. The index’s three-month moving average, CFNAI-MA3, increased to –0.18 in July from –0.26 in June.

The CFNAI Diffusion Index, which is also a three-month moving average, increased to –0.31 in July from –0.40 in June. Thirty-two of the 85 individual indicators made positive contributions to the CFNAI in July, while 53 made negative contributions. Forty-two indicators improved from June to July, while 41 indicators deteriorated and two were unchanged. Of the indicators that improved, 17 made negative contributions.”

Highlights:

  • Production-related indicators contributed –0.10 to the CFNAI in July, down from +0.01 in June.
  • The sales, orders, and inventories category’s contribution to the CFNAI was –0.02 in July, up from –0.10 in June.
  • Employment-related indicators contributed –0.06 to the CFNAI in July, up from –0.08 in June.
  • The personal consumption and housing category made a neutral contribution to the CFNAI in July, up from –0.01 in June.

Durable Goods will spring tomorrow.  Let me be the first to remind you that Tariffs are Taxes on foreign made goods. So? To the extent that prices are going up (and demand flattens because now one is clear on pop-swap dynamics) an upside surprise tomorrow is not off the table.  Which will set Wednews of Thursday as the minor turn rally into the weekend before the bloodbath we expect this fall.  Qwik-Clot and vodka, anyone?

The News Coaster Plus

Feeling the need to puke, yet?  No?  Let us help.

Someone didn’t read how Pop-Swap works because the US ambassador to France slams Macron over ‘lack of action on anti-Semitism. Surely he can’t be so stupid as to fail to integrate Pop-Swap dynamics into his thinking and project from there?  Well, yes, seems so…

Why, you’d think they have gold and oil, or something valuable to protect: Venezuelans join militia as US warships arrive in Caribbean.

Liberal Reality Check, anyone?  Read: US National Guard units begin carrying weapons in Washington. Then let me ask “Would you go out at night into the most crime-ridden parts of ANY major city (Blow Town, fort instance) without packing?”  Elaine and I have already worked this one out with “his and her” 9’s… Maybe filling out lots of mail-in ballots would change our mind?

Remember a few months back how the lookaheads were hinting at a nuke plant becoming central in the Ukraine War?  Getting close to linguistic fill on that front: UAWire – Ukrainian drones hit Russian targets, prompt fires at Kursk nuclear plant.

Here’s a (non-Illinois) policy blow: Orsted shares sink to record lows after US halts near-complete offshore wind farm.With enough lawyers, we could get America totally immobilized, yet.

Meanwhile, if your blood pressure is anywhere near normal, have an Alex: Trump’s Lawyer Ed Martin Gives DOJ Intel To Alex Jones That Will Shake The Foundations Of USA!

Last one?  Here’s a Gavin Newsome report card: Major industry leaves California for good as factory closes after 78 years and hundreds laid off.

But enough about pain on the wires and in the markets – let’s deal with real pain, shall we?

Around the Ranch: The Personal Pain Guide

I woke today with a terrible sense of guilt.  Then it dawned on me:  A number of readers (Elanor, Hank, and now BIC, have been through some mighty painful medical experiences lately.  And I have failed in my (self-appointed) Solver of All Problems role. Because I have “done a study” on point.

Out here on the ranch, I’ve come to appreciate that pain is part of the package deal of being human.

You swing a hammer wrong, your thumb swells up. You lift too much hay, the back lets you know. And when the years pile up, well, some parts just plain wear out—knees especially. Our friend BIC is in the thick of it right now, fresh from knee replacement surgery and feeling every throb. Hank’s through the worst of it…but this site is for grass roots solutions.  (As Debb will find when she gets into the discussion about how the Narrator function and speech-to-text can be used to augment her hearing loss…)

This morning, instead of prattling on about markets or local weather, I thought I’d share a few tools I’ve used over the years to manage pain without surrendering to it. I call this “PPM—Personal Pain Management.” It’s a short course in using your own mind as medicine.

Because if you have not-yet experienced deep, soul-scarring pain (divorce, gout, and joint surgery all have common elements) rest assured, it’s on the “dance card” of Life.  You don’t want to be in a hurry to go there…

Some of our readers (LOOB, for example) have suffered unimaginable long-term pain. We can use this as a “class_of.object” in our thinking.  Another class of pain will be “simple” pain.  One and done.  Like hernia surgery.  But then there’s the BIC/Hank class of “Pain-to-banish-pain” class; the sort where if you thought the surgery was bad?  Well, the physical therapy is another [resistance.object] on the path to full range of motion and whole recovery.

Pain – and one of its source points (“modern”) medicine  will drop pain as it changes you both mentally and physically.

Wife Elaine was always 5-foot 7-inches and #130 and generously proportioned.  Two total hip replacements later (THRs) she’s a bit over 5-foot 3-inches and has re-normalized at #114 pounds.  Humans don’t go through change without pain.

BTW, when I began dropping weight as part of my personal reconstruction project, I noticed that I have a physical pain series in my lower back that gets triggered.  Yeah, change brings pain.

Key thing is embrace the change…there’s a lot more “little pain to banish Big pain” that we’re taught while young.

The other missing piece is that no one – at least when I was young – gave me the tool set for working through the experiential part of pain.  Pappy was always a “Leave me alone, I’ll tough it out” firefighter.  That leads us back around to Internal Mastery of Experience.

Your Three Internal Beings

Inside you reside three voices that interpret pain:

The Father — calm logic, able to see pain as signal, not incarceration
The Impetuous Son — reactionary, quick to flare, demanding immediate response
The Court Reporter — the observer, chronicling every sensation, often amplifying it

These three are metaphors, but they’re also mental “seats” you can inhabit. The central persona has “declaration power” and domination of all things experienced.  Freud’s approach to mental topology was more sexually-oriented – it doesn’t need to be.  Religious books are thought.templates to a much greater degree than most people realize.  For instance?

When the Son is in charge, pain seems unbearable. When the Reporter runs the show, the story grows darker. But when the Father steadies the wheel, pain becomes something you can live alongside. That’s the muscle-building for the soul. Recognizing who’s at the microphone in your head is the first step to managing what comes next.

Technique 1 – See Pain as a Branch Circuit

Your nervous system is wiring; pain is the alarm. Visualizing a mental breaker switch and flipping it can effectively turn down the volume on pain signals—not to ignore danger, but to reduce their emotional weight.

Think of it like a house circuit: you don’t burn the house down just because a toaster shorts out. You go to the panel, flip the breaker, and silence the racket. The same can be done in your head. By treating pain as a “circuit screaming for attention,” you can reassign its importance. The brain is good at triage; you just need to give it a clear instruction that this alarm isn’t a five-alarm fire.

Technique 2 – Reframe and Rescale

Step into the Central Reasoner’s seat and ask: is this pain a pinpoint or a field? Then resize it—shrink that spot or diffuse it—until it becomes small enough to handle.

Reframing is a way of changing the picture in your head. Instead of letting pain loom large, you adjust its size and placement in your awareness. You might imagine it shrinking to a dot, or stretching so thin it fades into the background. Athletes use this trick when they “play through” injuries—recasting the pain as a small side-note instead of the headline.

Technique 3 – Flow With It

Resist the fight. Instead, breathe with the pain. Picture yourself floating past it, letting it be present but not blocking your flow.

This is about cooperation instead of confrontation. Fighting pain often tightens muscles and makes things worse. Flowing with it—accepting the sensation, aligning breath with its rhythm—allows your body to relax. Try inhaling as the pain rises, exhaling as if washing it away. With repetition, you stop being the victim of pain and instead become its witness, calmly drifting downstream.

Technique 4 – The Reporter’s Detachment

Tell the inner Reporter: “Just note the facts—no adjectives.” Make pain neutral data (e.g. “Twinge in left knee, lasts 3 seconds”) instead of emotional headlines.  (This is the non remote viewing, religious experience which is gatewaying – we’ll do that as Technique 6,

This Reporter detaching technique borrows from cognitive therapy. Pain isn’t just sensation—it’s the meaning we attach to it. By stripping out judgment words (“horrible, unbearable”), you reduce the emotional payload. Pain becomes data: “sharp here, dull there.” The Court Reporter stays on the job, but now as a stenographer, not a dramatist. This quiets the brain’s panic circuits.

Technique 5 – Substitution (Thought.Object Method)

Draw from your thought.objects framework: replace the pain with a stronger, more meaningful internal construct. In battlefield scenarios, injury loses potency when the mind is gripped by duty or mission. Channel pain into something that outshouts it—purpose, service, resolve.

Substitution works because the mind can only hold so much at once. Soldiers override pain by focusing on comrades or survival. Parents do it instinctively, ignoring their own discomfort when a child is in danger. The trick is to consciously swap the “pain object” for another—maybe an image of healing, maybe a goal worth enduring for. You’re not erasing pain; you’re drowning it out with a louder signal.

If your head is full of future plans, and you pour huge energy into these, there won’t be much power left for pain.  See how that works?

Technique 6 – Pain as a Gateway

Some spiritual traditions deliberately push through intense physical pain (e.g., self-flagellation) to disassociate from the body and reconnect with The Presence. (The Dude if you’re Andy.) Pain becomes the entry point for a deeper, transcendent experience. Use the pain not as a wall, but as a portal—observe how it can open you internally. Use pain to drive your (Castanada-like) “assemblage point” and use it to literally “hound you out of your local Waking Realm” and go adventuring in the Non-local Realms.  Experienced awake or asleep.  (** I refer to Carlos Castaneda’s shamanic concept of shifting awareness…Don Juan  was a nagual, not a doctor, though…)

Viewed this way, pain isn’t the enemy but a domain threshold scaling tool. Like “walking on coals.”

People who meditate on pain often find themselves “slipping behind it” into altered states of consciousness. The mind shifts attention away from the body and toward a greater sense of connection—whether to spirit, to God/Presence or simply to the vastness of awareness Itself. For those inclined, pain can be an unlikely teacher.

It’s useful in this work to remember on this roller-coaster ride called Life, we usually Call into our lives the very demons we need to learn from.  That’s what pain’s all about.  Contrast. The more depths of pain the higher your soar during delightful bouts of Peaking Experience.  

The Bad give contrast by which contrast of Good is more clear.

Technique 7 – Guided Imagery & Creative Visualization

Use your imagination to reshape the senses. Visualize peaceful scenes—or imagine pain dissolving and being replaced by neutral or healing imagery. Research shows this can lower pain-related anxiety, reduce medication needs, and improve function.

In deep pain, I go to my “perfect beach.”  A lagoon, crystal waters, palms, a more intimate version .  Reader Hank may not realize it, but I was not far from his Volcano Ranch on the Big Island last time I was in severe pain.

Here’s the part missing from your onboard experience library so this will make sense:

“Waimanu’s big brother, Waipi’o Valley on the northeast coast of the Big Island of Hawai’i, is one of the most dramatic landscapes in the islands.

It’s often called the “Valley of the Kings,” since it was once home to Hawaiian ali’i (royalty) and a thriving population before Western contact. The valley itself is about one mile wide and six miles deep, flanked by sheer cliffs rising up to 2,000 feet. Several waterfalls, including the spectacular Hi’ilawe Falls (dropping over 1,400 feet), tumble down into the lush valley floor.

At the bottom lies a patchwork of taro fields, streams, and forest, all opening out to a black sand beach more than a mile long where the ocean meets the valley. Surf can be powerful, and the currents dangerous, so the beach is better admired than swum.”

MY imaginary “escape from pain place” is like Waipi’o Valley, but only 300-400 feet wide around the lagoon.  (Waipi’o Valley doesn’t have a protective reef – it’s deep water facing.)

Guided imagery like this works because the brain often can’t tell the difference between a vividly imagined scene and a real one.  That’s why long-ago claims and charges – even UFO experiences like abductions – can be so perplexing to researchers like the late Dr. John Mack: REAL events are recalled the same as IMAGINARY and are just as powerful.  Let’s close the psychology books and get back to point here:

Picture your knee as cool, light, and surrounded by healing tissue. Imagine the ache fading like mist in the sun. Over time, this creates a conditioned response: when you imagine relief, the body begins to follow.

Technique 8 – Mindfulness & MBSR

Anchor your attention in the present—observe pain non judgmentally. Mindfulness reduces both the intensity and the suffering of pain.

Notice sensations without labeling them as “good” or “bad.”

MBSR stands for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, a program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at UMass Medical School. It combines meditation, gentle yoga, and body scanning to train attention. Studies show it reduces both pain intensity and the mental distress that rides with pain.

You don’t “fix” pain with mindfulness—you change your relationship to it.  Tear up the “bad label” – it’s teaching you something about how the Presence works.

Technique 9 – Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Tense and then relax muscle groups progressively. By recognizing the shift from tension to release, your mind learns contrast and your body learns to let go.

Often, pain makes us tighten unconsciously. PMR gives us back awareness and control. Start at the toes: clench, hold, release. Move upward through legs, hips, shoulders, face. The relief after each release teaches your nervous system that relaxation is an option, even in the midst of discomfort.

Technique 10 – The Relaxation Response

A daily intentional practice—20 calm deep breaths—activates your body’s built-in counter to stress. The relaxation response reduces emotional reactivity and eases physical pain.

Coined by Dr. Herbert Benson, the “relaxation response” is the physiological opposite of the fight-or-flight reaction. Heart rate slows, muscles soften, blood pressure drops. Practiced regularly, this becomes a protective shield. With practice, you can call it up almost at will—a quieting of the storm inside.

Limits to Techniques

Pain has purpose, but it does not need to run your life. By using substitution, reframing, flowing, detaching, visualizing, and invoking mindfulness or relaxation, you reclaim control. This is the essence of Personal Pain Management—a toolkit for moments when medicine alone is not enough.

For everything else?

There’s Drugs

Each of us comes from the factory (our mothers) with a highly customized personal chemistry set.  How you react to pain, medications, and drugs will be different than mine.  Variance of genetics.

What I’ve found useful is this:

  • Aspirin works – to an extent.
  • Tylenol and Advil also work – and in combinations they can do well.
  • CBD oils and extracts help too – but now we close the shop because CBD and table saws, for example, is not the signed path to Old Wise Dude.
  • The opioids (low level) include acetaminophen/codeine which – for me – isn’t as effective as stronger options.  It does change my ‘head-space’ and tones down some of the ADHD traits. But that’s at the expense of slower thinking speeds.
  • Hydrocodone is seriously dangerous shit.  This is the Caterpillar D9 with rock-ripper option and is to be used only sparingly. Highly addictive. BUT it does work.

Physical Object Layer

This one is much better for you. No addiction (except for runners, lol).   Keep these handy.  When you get to be almost 77 and are still insane-active on a ranch, it’s your “pocket pal.”

RICE

Rest the injured area to prevent further damage
Ice for 15–20 minutes to reduce swelling and numb pain
Compression with an elastic wrap to control swelling
Elevation above heart level to promote drainage and reduce throbbing

PRICE

Protection by using a brace, sling, or padding to shield the injury
Rest to allow tissues to heal
Ice to limit inflammation
Compression to minimize fluid buildup
Elevation to improve circulation and reduce swelling

POLICE

Protection to avoid worsening the injury
Optimal Loading means carefully reintroducing movement and weight-bearing as tolerated rather than strict rest
Ice for swelling and pain control
Compression with wraps or sleeves to stabilize the area
Elevation to aid lymphatic drainage

MEAT

Movement encourages circulation and healing when done gently
Exercise strengthens supportive muscles and restores function
Analgesics such as over-the-counter medication can reduce discomfort
Treatment refers to adjunct therapies like physical therapy, massage, or modalities (heat, TENS, ultrasound)

Again, with apologies to BIC, Hank, Elanor, and LOOB, I should have gotten to this sooner.  I will put a copy on the Peoplenomics book shelf on the subscriber side so you can access any time. If you have any friends who are facing ‘life is a pain’ tell ’em it’s just another UrbanSurvival problem….

OK – over the guilt now – and appreciating the wry humor of The Presence.

You do know Monday’s are a PAIN, right?

(If you find this pain guide anywhere other than UrbanSurvival or Peoplenomics, let me know. We have a whole copyright infringement law firm ready to pounce on monetizers who steal content without permission…)

ShopTalk Sunday is here.

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

79 thoughts on “The “Day After Powell” – Trump Speculations – The Personal Pain Guide”

  1. Consider gigantic amounts of ascorbic acid to relieve pain–it does so to some extent by starting to fix the problem causing the pain.

    Find out if it upsets your stomach, take it with some food and water, space it out, we’re talking say 5 to 30 grams a day of pure Vitamin C. Most people won’t go over 10-20 grams/day as loose bowels will occur, but there is no real limit.

    Kind of revolutionary–fix the problem!

    • Old time German field doctor used vitamin c shots directly into gout affected big toes. Screaming pain resulted from patients but by golly it worked to eliminate the gout from the entire body within a few hours.

  2. Cream – Disraeli Gears Album (1967) – “World of Pain”

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nU_Nd1Q_WQY

    Outside my window is a tree
    Outside my window is a tree
    There only for me

    [Chorus]
    And it stands in the grey of the city
    No time for pity
    For the tree or me
    There is a world of pain
    In the falling rain
    Around me

  3. the broken clock in the Top of the Urban Banner. how long have you been signaling the Replay of 1929?

    on the back of a $100 Bill is a a clock that doesnt change time. the time on that clock is 10:30.

    this year The Broken Clock is correct. There will be a World economic calamity right around 10-30 this year.

    you will be 100% Correct.

    i was speaking with a few individuals who are very high ranking and have very long term (over 40 years in the Economic Industry) about this and Jackson Hole Stratagies. for won, Powel will cut rates. from my perspective.

    one metioned to me about the broken clock. as i was staring at the back of a 100$ Bill. someone prior to me wrote the word “flat line” under the clock on that particular 100$ Bill.

    so i mentioned it and they got really really nervous about my statement

    and my comment got promptly deleted.

    that is all i needed to know.

    the won thing about World Economic Calamity is; It is Big Buisness for The House of God. Big Buisness.

    when economic shit hits the fan The Hope Dealers produce Big Prophets.

    by the first blossoms of spring 2026 there will be a civil war in china.

    personnally speaking if i ever had a life completely free of pain? i dont know how id act. i been living on faith and life extentions for so long i forgot what it was like to not feel discomfort. lol

    i will be in norfolk soon,

    then,

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    • The clock on the back of the $100 bill reads 4:10 on the older version, while the newer version shows 10:30. This discrepancy has puzzled collectors, as no official explanation has been provided for the chosen times., nor why the time was changed.

      Our $100 bills are very popular internationally. In 2018, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago issued a paper that estimated that as many as 80% of the $100s in circulation were being held outside the country. The report attributed that to “economic and political instability” abroad.

      If you have been paying attention, you might be wondering, “Why is Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill?” After all, he was never president like George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

      The truth is, there’s a lack of any information for the reason his portrait graces the currency.

      Maybe.., he was just an all-around cool dude.

      • Hmm..I think he was put on the bill because of all the things he was contributing to us as our founding fathers..without his generous contributions that literally affected every aspect of The new nation..quite an honor..

  4. Simple Dimple – No Pain, No Gain .

    What does not kill you, just makes you stronger.. So suck it UP Buttercups.

    I do know there are some participants/playas/algos feeing the Pain this AM preopening.
    Yerp, the poor schnooks that took the contra/other side of my QQQ Putz plays Friday.

    Pain is my friend, just like my Demon. I make him do all dirty work, jobs I dont like doing – so he gets pissed and then has to perform them for Me. Pain is the same way – Motivation to get GOing, get moving, to do SOMETHING other than sitting around feeling Miserable for myself.

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  5. “Donald Trump photo shows large mark on hand as fears swirl over his health and aging.”

    One might look at my hands/arms and make the same incorrect assumption. Has anyone considered those dark spots might just be the result of “old fart skin”?

    “Trump threatens to target Chicago next in crime and homelessness crackdown.”

    In my opinion, that would be a serious mistake. He has some Constitutional law enforcement power in DC, but if he moves to put federal troops in other cities, he will set a disastrous precedent. Can you imagine what the next Democrat president could do with that precedent?

    • “if he moves to put federal troops in other cities, he will set a disastrous precedent.”

      Ya mean, like Birmingham or Little Rock…?

    • Nothing more than prepositioning troops for riots. It’ll look like Mexico with Federales on each corner. Intel is a prelim bailout there will be more it’s a big mistake.

  6. how do you defeat a guy who has already been dead 12 times and God Himself wills to Live? lol

    i dont know. i have asked myself that question many times. i simply dont die and everything always works out. i have this knack for moving out of the way right before calamity strikes.

    the week before the first case of covid in the US i was a block away from the impact zone, woke up, thought if i stay here I will die. packed my shit, got in the car and drove non stop south. prior to that morning i had no intention of leaving. i had no idea covid would happen.

    and like when i was sitting at a stop light in palm desert califoria and thought. time to go! i need to get the fuck out of here. i went to my airbnb, packed my shit and drove off right then. i had no idea at the time that Hillary would decimate the cochella valley. it hadnt even occured to me to leave until that moment at the street light.

    same with when i drove to the Hopi Indian Rez and stood in the well that day. while the earth sheltered in place.

    well, im going to hang these signs up. working for a sign guy next few days to make some CASH.

    then on to Norfolk unles there is a change in my current trajectory i will be with the War Fighters soon. all over the world.

    that should tell ya something. right there.

    • “There will be a World economic calamity right around 10-30 this year.”

      Around 10-30? Maybe 10-31? (think time zones)

      Then we have a 1-1-3 combination.

      G.A. STEWART: After I published my first book, The Age of Desolation in 2010, I made a discovery when I sensed that the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster on March 11th, 2011 might have connections to the Madrid Train Bombing on March 11th, 2004. So, I began to research the history of events on that day just as I did for the history of April 20th, which appears in Nostradamus Quatrain I-42.

      It would take me almost three more years to put all the pieces in place regarding dates with the number combination 1-1-3.

      https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2021/01/13/113/

      • yo JC. hope ya beem well. good insite.

        im out here digging post holes with a rock bar and a post hole digger. putting up reserved parking signs for a big buisness complex that manufactures windows so to speak.

        this fat fella comes up to me and says that looks like hard work. how old are you? i said it is. i Just turned 55. he said to me by now you should be using your brain not your body to make money. i laughed and said how do you know im not.

        i said look in that window right there. he looked. i said how many ladies you see standing there looking at me like i just won the 787 million dollar jackpot powerball? he smiled and said holy wow! looks like a dozen plus one.

        i smiled and said you ever seen them standing there looking at you like that in your cubical? he laughed and said no sir.

        i said well there ya go.

        ha ha ha.

      • that fella went inside and then came back out scratching his head and said to me. so what is your point? i said my point? he said i mean besides the ladies.

        i said im glad you asked. i said my point is you are inside there using your brain thinking about how to make them profits and im outside using my brain thinking about my profits.

        and them ladies? they know.

        have a wonderful day.

    • For those with inadequate neurons to follow Andy’s adventures, my Ai stack offers help. He aleady hinted at merchant marine. Now, as Paul Harvey – the intuited “rest fo the story” (beganning to understanding Andy is as challenging as the NYT c/w puzzles…)
      What Andy Likely Means by “Warfighter Worldwide”

      If Andy’s mentioning merchant marine work and tying it to “warfighter worldwide,” here’s how Urban’s Ai pieces fit:

      Military Sea Lift Command – Norfolk
      MSC relies on civilian mariners (merchant marine personnel) to operate vessels that deliver supplies, fuel, and equipment globally in support of the warfighter. G notes: Andy is THE guy you want to ‘have your back’. Or dLynn…

      The phrasing “be with the warfighters worldwide” aligns directly with MSC’s mission: providing global logistics support through civilian-manned ships.

      His mention of Norfolk fits—it’s MSC’s main hub where entry-level (and aboe) hiring is active, and merchant marine recruits are processed.
      Andy’s deft touch on large movers (ore trains, union teamster heavy-hauler, willing to travel, and up for adventure? Abiove moral reproach? All make him a standout for MSC (or any other group that can hold his attention).

      And about Okie-lahoma? In nauticalese, he’s probbly hinting at a nearby “batten down the breadbasket” with clues from The Dude. Which everyone else will miss this far out. Red Arrow, sezs Andy. And his word choice is a double-echo. Though it could be Bigger than Weather. Where is “broken arrow?” and what is a broken WHAT? A 100-level future intuitive must be open – and widely read. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Broken_Arrow

      Most likely (prayers) what Andy sees is a meteorological alert—probably a Mesoscale Discussion or severe weather watch highlighted on weather radar or forecast graphics, showing a red arrow or shaded zone, often signaling imminent storm development, severe thunderstorm potential, or damaging weather moves through that region,. Massive cold meets massive hot – summer goes in a moment, not in a flash.

      In weather-speak, red arrows often denote heightened attention—unstable air, possible tornado warnings, or squall line ops coming down the pike. If Andy’s watching a weather-tracking platform or radar app, that’s most likely what’s setting off the big red flag in Oklahoma. In our flying days, we’d have alternates preloaded and be Chicken Littles on flight watch enroute.

      Or, could be completely other things, but this is my spread on the Andy-Roulette board for now. Like I said, referential is the Code of the Dude – in dreams, through Andy, and Life’s mirrors around us all. Some ignore, but there’s a mirror and through it, the future beckons. Occasionally sighted only to be rejected by the Waking-Realms locked minds…

  8. Well…making a mix of ancient Viking mead…the young man that fixed my plumbing was inquiring if I knew how..absolutely..
    five gallon mix..
    5 gallons filtered water
    1 ounce juniper berrie1 ounce of hibiscus flowers
    1/2 ounce of meadow sweet flowers
    1/2 ounce of Yarrow
    yeast …
    15 pounds of homey the specific gravity should be around a 1000 to 1015
    raisins 1/2 cup

  9. oh almost forgot to mention….. in other knews

    something really significant in Oklahoma. not sure when or what but there is alot of data pointing a Really BIG (neon red) flashing arrow pointing to Oklahoma.

    from my read of things.

  10. Really Really Big Flashing, Bright Neon Red Arrow pointed right at Oklahoma.

    i take note when i see stuff like that.

  12. “the Polish Seer”

    Seers always see something. Anyone remember when the Curse of Tippecanoe was real, before it wasn’t? Unless one jumps into the other lane speculating on body doubles/shape shifters/possible CERN activity.

    Just look at Trump. He’s lost a lot of weight. That’s usually a sign of cancer.

    And another thing according to A.I. Overview – “The average life expectancy for males in the United States was 75.8 years in 2023.” – Trump is on borrowed time. It’s just the way it is.

    • “The average life expectancy for males in the United States was 75.8 years in 2023.” – Trump is on borrowed time. It’s just the way it is.”

      Well, in that case some of us are on stolen time… and I for one don’t plan on giving it back.

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      Weight Loss Not always Negative, specially when combined with Lean Mass Gains, though dont see much of the latter.

      XXX Warning – Evil/Vile personage in jimmy savile intro..” so solly”

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  13. ” US National Guard units begin carrying ”

    And soon bulk reinforcements will show-up along with curfews, checkpoints, stop and frisks. Once a group fires on the guard Trump will call the guns. Crime will be pushed out of the cities with biometrics. China has law & order while the U.S., not so much.

    One will choose to live in the federally protected safe zone or outside of the federally protected safe zone. Decide.

      • Realistically do you think National Guard are going to be stationed for a few weeks then sent back home or expanded? New America is unfolding. After the first crime/NG troop firefight Trump will call the firearms. “We just can’t have it”. Freedom Zones.

        Trump signs executive orders on cashless bail, special National Guard units and flag burning

        “The orders task the Department of Defense with forming specialized National Guard units to address public disorder, with troops now carrying firearms, including handguns and rifles. A White House aide confirmed these units will be trained for “public order issues,” countering critics who argue troops lack policing skills. The U.S. attorney general is directed to review local police policies impeding law enforcement in D.C. “

  14. GU : “You do know Monday’s are a PAIN, right?”

    George : quite the stretch to morph into pain counseling, hey?

    Monday is just 1:7 … sometimes. At least 1/3 of my life is now spent enduring wrenching pain. I have tried everything, remain open to anything. Sadly the quarterly injections help but do not forestall spinal deterioration. I just had an MRI last week (3rd one now) and one of two Doc offices phoned first thing this morning. Consult appt scheduled. Sigh.

    The final month before an injection isn’t pretty. Ever. I have ended with backup wheelchair in my auto. Twice. I have some very nice canes :0) all go for an occasional walk. Spinal surgeries remain hit or miss, binary. I keep hoping for a magic bullet but just adjust to new reality. Work? Maybe for 2-3 hours. Secret sauce : hire young(er) folks. I do.

    In another life I taught yoga classes, actually focused on breath control (think : Lamaze of sorts). It can be a way out of dark times. But nothing replaces OEM body parts. The rest? A mere substitute.

    Be well, stay safe, use a cane?
    Egor

  15. Hi, George,

    Thanks for the expansive good advice on pain management. I am certain that Eleanor, BIC, LOOB, and the many others here, myself included, have personal insights and testimonials on how they deal with pain. One very powerful aspect to dealing with pain is deep meditation, and your column touched upon this.

    Two things worth mentioning. One is stretching. The other is massage. I recommend and do both. Stretching should be done when you wake, before bedtime, and throughout the day if you can remember to do it. Ice and heat help a lot, and a warm to hot bath at night can be very beneficial.
    Massage is one thing that I cannot say enough good things about. Regular massage treatments promote good muscle movement. However, massages can be expensive, and sometimes massage persons are not readily available in an area where you live. I have been receiving massage treatments for 35 years. I have seen massage persons move away, retire, and a few have had health issues so severe that they were compelled to end their massage business. On occasion, I have bartered goods, like jewelry, for a massage, so that is a possibility to consider.
    One more thing: there is pain from PTSD that is as real as pain in joints and muscles. This particular pain can be from a horrible childhood, a bad marriage, bad job issues, and from war. This can manifest as physical symptoms such as heart stress, panic attacks, and other maladies.

    • “Two things worth mentioning. One is stretching.”

      Do you know what the last thing you should do before bed is? In this video, I am going to show you 5 stretches you can do before going to bed that will help you to not only have a more restful sleep, but will help you fall asleep faster, and make you wake up feeling more refreshed and loose. With just these 5 moves, you’ll improve your sleep, guaranteed.

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0JeQlfQ5iCg&pp=0gcJCbIJAYcqIYzv

    • Massage gets the lymph system circulating. One good massage therapist I had always insisted that I chug about a quart of water before leaving her. She explained it was to expel the poisons. Bathroom stop expected shortly there after, so plan for it. But it works.

  16. George,

    I would also add that the loss of a beloved spouse can certainly contribute to PTSD. Sorry that I failed to mention that. It definitely turned my world upside down, for which I was not yet prepared.

    Blessing to those who are still happily married after many years, and a welcome to Debb.

    • Exactly..we had to rush into the er the other night.. luckily everything was ok..but I have to say it was scary..the wife kept saying honey should I let them do the tests you know how they are..yes .. do them..we aren’t leaving with anything anyway and your more important than deal we have..

  17. “Venezuelans join militia” / “Seer”

    I just don’t think it takes a seer to predict kidnappings of American Expats will begin soon after aggression begins. Milk them as hostages for awhile then dead. Without the Poll Widget we cant reference who supported living as Expats in Central/South America countries. Today the trend will say, “told you so…” but the people who actively moved there supported living out of the country.

    • Wonder if I will be able to see the Mushroom clouds from down the Caribbean Way ?

      ..So long, and thanks for all the Fish!

  18. George wrote: “Last one? Here’s a Gavin Newsome report card: Major industry leaves California for good as factory closes after 78 years and hundreds laid off.”

    The company closing is a Sugar Beet processing facility, one of the oldest ones in the United States
    ——————————————————

    Sugar used to be a Military Strategic Commodity …it was the 1810’s to the early 1900’s the equivalent of Rare Earth Minerals today. The need to obtain sugar, lots of it, was an underlying cause of the Spanish American War … so we could get the sugar producing areas of Cuba and the Phillipines. (sugar was also probably the reason we desperately wanted the Hawaiian Islands, but that is an assumption on my part)

    Why was sugar so important in the 1800’s through 1910?

    Because of the movement of large populations to the cities around the developed world fresh food for most was not available outside of the growing season for city dwellers, nor for military armies. Food now had to be processed so as to be stored for later consumption.

    There are two ways to process food so as to kill the bacteria in food and keep it killed after cooking so it stays safely edible for long periods of time (before air tight containers), Salt and/or Sugar.

    Salt was readily available and had been used for thousands of years for processing food for long term storage. Sugar first became available in large amounts with the discovery of the Americas and the establishment of plantations for growing sugar, particularly in the Carribean Islands, Brazil, Hawaii, and the Phillipines . Once sugar began to be used for processing foor for long term storage it’s use skyrocketed, particularly once the air tight metal can was developed that the processed product could be stored in.

    Canned foods,which used salt or sugar as their preserving agent, was a game changer for cities and for armies. Nobody wanted to fight a war anymore where a large army had to literally “Live Off The Land” as it moved, such a dynamic greatly restricted a miltary’s ability to move wrt both timing and to location.
    Voila Sugar became a very needed Strategic Commodity for any industrialized society so that armies could run on stored and transportable food and so cities could grow.

    (Almost all the profits for Europe in the Americas once they had looted out the gold/silver was in Sugar or it’s intermediate processing step Molasses. The Caribbean Islands were HUGELY PROFITABLE for Europe from the late 1600’s up through the mid/late 1800’s because of Sugar /Molasses production that took place there. It was because of sugar that Haiti became was France’s most important overseas possession, more important that the intierior of N. America, which they sold to the US, since it was the source of ALL of France’s overseas profits)

    With the discovery that Sugar Beets could be converted to sugar in large amounts the entire dynamic of Sugar being a Strategic Commodity took a sudden turn. Sugar beets do NOT need a tropical growing climate … any place that can grow normal root crops usually could generally also grow Sugar Beets.

    Shortly after the Spanish American War, the result of which the US finally had an adequate supply of sugar, sugar from Sugar Beets surged onto the scene and began to replace Cane Sugar for food processing.

    The growth of the Sugar Beet industry really took off in the 1910’s, (when the California plant was orignally bult), greatly accellerated by WW1 and suddenly Cane Sugar was NO LONGER a Stategic Commodity since farm fields across the middle US, in California, and elsewhere could grow massive fields of Sugar Beets for making into sugar.

    Today from a formerly world wide shortage of sugar at the begining of the industrial revolution up through the early 1900’s sugar has turned into having being bountiful because of the development of Sugar Beets as an alternative to Sugar Cane for the production of the sugar needed by the food industry.

    The California plant closure is just part of the fallout from this now world wide glut of Sugar that we now have.

    • I planted sugar beets for the rabbits… the greens are delicious in salads and rabbits and deer love them..then..they took over..oh my god.. I had to work hard to get rid of them..sugars easy to make.. I just took rang back by the apple tree..wow its not that old of a tree and I was shocked how many apples we have on it..time to make a good bread pudding..now my mom use to use raisins.. but just about any fruit..add a touch of cinnamon sugar to the top..
      4 cups cubed day-old bread (rustic or sourdough works beautifully)
      2 cups chopped tart apples ( I use to have a tree a naked apple the skin so thin that you pick it you eat it right then I’d didn’t keep at all)
      ½ cup chopped black walnuts or pecans ( regular ground peanuts is good to..its the sweet salty twist with crunch)
      3 eggs
      2 cups whole milk or cream
      ¾ cup brown sugar
      1 tsp vanilla extract
      ½ tsp cinnamon
      Pinch of salt
      Preheat oven to 350°F and butter a baking dish.
      In a large bowl, whisk eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt.
      Fold Pour into dish and bake for 45–55 minutes, until golden and set. bread cubes, apples, and nuts. Let sit 10–15 minutes to soak.
      sprinkle either a little brown sugar or cinnamon sugar on top put in the oven and let the sugar heat and elf maybe five minutes.. the other thing you can do is take your torch and hit the top to caramelized the sugar sprinkled on it..goes great with vanilla ice cream even better if its home made vanilla ice cream..
      To keep home made ice cream from crystalizing..you can use an egg to the mix,can’t him gum 1/4 tsp per quart , corn starch , cream cheese, gelatin.. then freeze it fast ..

  19. re: beta vulgaris, sugar beet
    feat: wren – “king of birds”

    Folks,

    Sands of time have assigned the “king of birds” crown to wrens. Fable has it a tiny wren soared highest by stowing away on the back of an eagle who otherwise would have won the contest.

    Today’s “Urbansurvival” journalist beet (sic) points to the closure of a sugar beet factory in Imperial Valley (not named after the King!), California. Mention is made of a parent company decision to ground their ‘Valley operations. It would appear that parent company is a farmer-owned cooperative headquartered in the city (2020 pop., 1301 souls) of Renville, Mn. Mr. Ure infers the factory closure is a blot on Ca. Gov. Gavin Newsome’s report card. As chance would have it, the name “Gavin” is alleged to have a Scottish-origin meaning of “white hawk”.

    Let’s join DJ George for a nooner repast with a little help from a fabled childrens’ Australian-Anglo writer known by pseudonym Pamela L. Travers. Apparently following “discipleship” with French occultist Gurdjieff along with instruction from Carl Yung, Ms. Travers released “Mary Poppins” in 1934 to the delight of young, impressionable minds everywhere. Here we go with a cure-for-what-ails-thee ditty from the 1964 Disney movie version:

    “A Spoonful of Sugar”.

    • re: “Art of Cuisine” in “Windy City”
      feat: “Interstella 5555”, 2003

      Folks,
      Sniffing around and couldn’t help but notice that today’s “Urbansurvival” pays homage with lines blowing in the “Windy City” of Chicago (“Wild Garlic”).

      Cusinart’s Canadian webpage points to a 1973 Chicago trade show unveiling a now common “kitchen staple”, the food processor. It seems that, not unlike toasters, some food processors last longer than others. Today a “CBC” episode of “What On Earth” published a report about appliance longevity. At least one food processor user claims his machine is spinning along just fine through its third decade. Here’s a link to the CBC report:

      https://www.cbc.ca/1.7614547

      The above goes on to speak of Berlin’s “Open Funk (tr: ‘Radio’)” entity who raise profile of ewaste concerns and “right to repair” arguments. A look at the company’s website indicates their proclaimed-durable food processor carries a two year warranty for peace of mind.

      • re: “Broken Arrow”, 1996

        Folks,
        Hold that Doomsday Clock! Apparently the Godfather of Grunge, Neil Young, accompanied by Crazy Horse set to at his Broken Arrow Ranch studio in Redwood City and recorded his 33rd album, “Americana”. The release featured Neil’s low-key, failsafe 1964 reminisces of listening to Thorns’ gig numbers including “High Flyin’ Bird” at the Fourth Dimension Club in Thunder Bay (formerly Fort William), Canada.

        Speaking of earthly weathervanes, nearest populated landfall as the crow flies to antipodes of Broken Arrow, Ok. is Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen in the French Southern Territories. Access to the archipelago is only by sea. Discounting possible Dutch discovery, the Kerguelen Islands are named after their French explorer whose voyages were made possible aboard ships such as Baie de l’Oiseau (“Bird’s Bay”) circa 1674. “Scribner’s Monthly” readers a century later in 1874 received a speed-of-light sci-fi android introduction to Kerguelen with “The Tachypomp” by Edward P. Mitchell. A few years later New York’s penny newspaper “The Sun” owned by President Lincoln’s Secretary of War printed Mitchell’s “The Clock that Went Backward”. Two adventurers with a magic clock taking them back in time hitch a ride to 1574 and The Siege of Leiden. (As an aside, the town was defended by Prince William of Orange, a great-grandfather of King William III of England.)

        Times up! Regrettably the photo-op in Kyiv featuring a Canadian pm and Ukrainian president is best left marinating in the cloud a while longer.

        Of course there’s always space and time for DJ George’s ruminations from the studio. Here we go with “Broken Arrow” soundtrack’s opener by Hans Zimmer on La-La Land Records- “Deakin’s Theme”.

  20. hey G .. whats the after powell day like ? its 2 quiet . my jedi instinct tells me all is not what it seems . even the trump sick story seems a non event . light sabres at the ready .

  21. A lot of chronic pain is due to inflammation; you treat the inflammation, the pain goes away. OTC anti-inflammatories can help, but you need to avoid taking them daily to avoid gastric damage. Prescription pain pills tend to interfere with your body’s endorphin production, and sensitize you. Prescription NSAID’s can be magic, up until that one little side effect kicks in- they cause you to drop stone cold dead without warning. The primary care witch doctor (PCWD) won’t let me touch them. There are quite a few dietary supplements which can help, but their success is highly dependent on the source of the problem. Polyphenols and minerals that are anti-inflammatory cluster with anti-cancer properties, so it is worth looking into.

    • I avoid Naproxen Sodium (Aleve) like the plague now. Thought it was safe and was taking it regularly for aches & pains. It works. It rotted holes in my gut… diverticulitis. One got infected and burned a hole thru my colon and my bladder next to it. Ten days in the hospital and they removed over 10 inches of my rotted colon and patched my bladder up.

      • Ouch! I just dipped my toe in the waters of diverticulitis, spending 24 hours in the hospital last week for loss of blood. Now trying to rebuild my hemoglobin and modify my intake (no more nsaids or magnesium) per doctor’s order.

        Getting old ain’t for sissies.

  22. For pain try red light therapy devices, dmso, tens unit. cracked a rib and they all provided some relief,

  23. Pain is always our body’s way go-to way of trying to get our attention. Something is off in our human energy field FIRST and then this manifests as discomfort of some kind to tell us to pay attention in no uncertain terms.

    Except for accidents like turning an ankle and the like – all other sources of pain originate well in advance of our symptoms showing up. That’s why one will never fully cure the source of one’s pain until you listen to – and discover – and uncover – what is off in your body’s energy field. And address it there. And quantum physics has already proven that the human body is at core nothing but an energy field.

    Certainly there are things that can treat symptoms. And we welcome that because no one wants to feel bad. But it’s more important to get at the root causes and solve problems at their root core and so they do not continue to re-manifest on and on later.

    There are some good energy healing videos on the web if you wade through some of the posers who are just jumping on the energy-healing bandwagon. And also, good books are available from that big website that begins with the letter – “A”.

    Pain may be a “normal” part of experience of Life but in a real sense pain is not normal at all. Pain is showing a deviancy in your being from what “should be” instead. And an enormous amount of our time and energy on this Earth is spent in trying to find ways to avoid pain. We need to learn how to stop the pain before it appears.

    There is no one-size-fits-all. Each of us has a unique energy stamp and what might work for some wont work at all for others. And vice versa. Just pay attention and read what your body is telling you – especially at the subconscious level if you can get deep in there. Most of who and what we are is below the mundane waking-state consciousness level and it is the subconscious that really contains the good stuff.

    Happy Mining…

  25. Turmeric capsules with added Ginger and bioperine (black pepper derivative) for increased absorption is my go-to for fighting inflammation these days. Gf

  26. So that WAS you I saw, floating, cross-legged, at the beach at Waipio Valley! :-). …reciting Ohm’s law: Ohm… ohm…. ohm

    My recovery from hip surgery was fueled by sheer determination to ‘get thru this’. My hanai brother shares the house with me here and was my designated care-giver as we went thru the pre-op ‘boot camp’. He thought he was going to be lifting me in- and out- of bed, and wiping my okole’ (Hawaiian word… look it up) for a couple months. I showed him otherwise. My determination was to leave my painful hip behind for good. Post-Op pain was different from the stabbing bone pain of an arthritic joint. Now it was muscle pain, bone damage pain, and damaged nerve pain. The last two I got thru fairly quickly, but it took a full ten weeks for the muscles to heal completely. I disliked the rehab exercises, but again I worked thru them. My rehab specialist was good, and knew exactly which muscles to target after the surgery. So I worked them. He, and my Ortho Doc commented how quickly I recovered. I just wanted to get it all over and done with. My rewards now are the simple joy of walking without pain. Walking the mall. Walking the waterfront park in Hilo. Enjoying nature.

  27. I’m going to recount my most horrific tale of pain that I have seldom told. Medical professionals that look at my old records are aghast, and amazed I am still alive and mentally OK. One nurse told me I’m very lucky. Her friend had my condition that damaged her frontal lobes and “she has never been quite the same since then”.

    In the early 80’s I visited Japan and picked up a herpes cold sore on my lip from a contaminated drinking cup. Returning home I developed a headache that grew progressively worse over three days. OTC analgesics didn’t touch this pain. When I developed a stiff, painful neck and inability to move my eyes much, I saw my doctor. He put me in the hospital immediately. Diagnosis: Meningitis.
    In the hospital they did an ‘LP’-lumbar puncture… aka ‘spinal tap’, and removed three large vials of my spinal fluid, until it started to come out milky and infected looking. The purpose was to relieve pressure on my brain, and recover some infected fluid for analysis. By now I had not slept in four days, and the pain in my head was intense. Imagine a burning herpes infection in your brain! Every pulse beat was a GONG! of pain. I had learned Transcendental Meditation years before, and I went for it to calm my body and lower my heart rate to minimize the pain. I focused on my mantra so I could ignore the pain as much as possible. I was on an IV for fluid intake, and simply rolling sideways to urinate in the bed bottle was excruciating. Next day the Doc tells me he has good news and bad new. The good news was that analysis of my spinal fluid found no bacteria, so it was not a bacterial infection which is usually fatal. I would likely survive. Bad news was it was viral, and I would have to wait for my body to kill the infection as they had no idea what it was nor any treatment for it. At this date, there was no DNA tests for herpes infections, although it was suspect. So now Doc was emboldened to try to give me some pain relief. First as Tylenol #3 with Codeine. It did absolutely nothing for my pain. I had no solid food for days, living on an IV. But that night my stomach revolted and I was terribly nauseous. I painfully got out of bed and crawled on my hands and knees, dragging my IV stand with me to the bathroom. On my hands and knees at the toilet I got the violent dry heaves. This with my skull-splitting headache also. I pulled the nurse call cord at the toilet and retched, and retched… I felt like a sock puppet that was being turned inside-out with stomach cramps. Nurse was helpless at first, but I told her to get me a cup of water. “But it will just come back out” she protested. “That’s what I want! Some water to come back out!!” Finally I got some water to sip, and expel. It felt much better than the dry heaves. So I sat there for God only knows how long, drinking water and blowing it back out, over and over, until my stomach finally settled down. I told the nurse codeine had never done that to me before, but I sure didn’t want any more.
    Back to bed and meditating, with an axe splitting my head with every heartbeat. Next morning Doc came in and told me he had done some research on pain relief that works on the core of the central nervous system. Horribly addictive stuff, but he prescribed Darvocet N100 for me. He said normal dose was every 6 hours, but could give every 4 hours in extreme cases… and he felt I was an extreme case.
    By now I had been awake and in pain for seven days and I was ready to make bargains with God to just let me die. When I got the first pain pill in about 15 minutes it was as if someone switched off the pain in my head and I passed out. Didn’t care if I died or what.
    Three hours and 45 minutes later my head went GONG! and I woke up again. At four hours the nurse was making the rounds and I had my hand out and said “more of those, please!” She checked, and clucked, and found it said I could have one every 4 hours, so I got more relief and sleep. I’m unsure how many more days I was in the hospital recovering from the infection before they let me go home with my pain prescription.
    In subsequent months I had recurrence of meningitis symptoms, and I found these were accompanied by a blistering outbreak somewhere on my body. Doc finally got a blister sample and found it was HSV1… herpes coldsore type. With that diagnosis I got a prescription for Valacyclovir to suppress the recurring infections. They also downgraded my pain meds to Tramadol, which is not as addictive. It’s a synthetic opioid, not as powerful, but it works.
    Years later I underwent chelation therapy and found I was mercury poisoned from my dental amalgam fillings… all since removed. But that was what warped my immune system to allow the herpes infection to progress all the way to my brain. Herpes Encephalitis. Medics tell me I’m lucky to be alive. All who look are fascinated by my history.
    Transcendental Meditation was what got me thru the intense pulsating pain.

  28. Thanks George. I’ll have to make a copy of this.
    When I was on my 30 day (really 36 days) silent retreat, I would meditated and talk to my pain as if it was a separate person. Pain seemed to answer me, saying I was too stressed or working too hard.

    Rheumatoid Arthritis is a painful disease. Something always hurts, but not always hurts alot, and not everything hurts alot all the time. I have learned to ignore alot of pain by focusing on a part of my body that hurts less than the rest. Sometimes I will focus on a spot a couple of inches off my body, but still within my energy field ( my aura). Because it is off my body, the spot can’t hurt. It’s a way to ignore pain more or less. It doesn’t work for broken bone, opiate type pain but is pretty good for on-going moderate pain. I always have a headache, a side effect of my RA drug. When I notice it I focus on the tip of my nose. It’s like a magic trick. I have told counselors and spiritual directors that I tend to ignore my pain, and they all hated that idea. But it works well enough. It doesn’t work well when I’m walking and my ankle/knee/hip hurts making me limp, but it works enough to make my day better.

    I don’t use NSIDs unless prescribed and even then will use less than the bottle recommends. I took a very large dose of a form of aspirin for years and it affected my hearing. I took Advil for three years and it gave me high blood pressure ,and latter took Naproxin until it gave me an ulcer. I have read that up to 60% of people with Rheumatoid Arthritis die from accidental overdoses or bleeding from NSIDs. They are much more dangerous than people believe.

  29. Down here in the latest version of our elder world paradise. After fourteen days of mostly fine downwind sailing, with the necessary 30% being a wobble struggle of beam seas and stronger winds (just to make the rest that is soooo good seem like a gift from Neptune), and we were escorted into a brand new protected basin, had a quick clearance from health, then customs, immigration, and bio-security (who took all our remaining fresh goods) and then got escorted into a fine end tie, secure alongside, and went to sleep without movement for the first time in sixteen months… uninterrupted for as long as we wanted. Like a dream.
    Hot showers, pool, spa, laundry, waste disposal, water, electricity, wi-fi, two restaurants, a swim-up-to bar, grassy paths, and a free service ferry to the little town across the creek. A bit third world, but has everything we need within reason.
    Injury… i slipped and fell on a slick tile and butt landed hard. Being 79 you always think, ‘please Dude. Get me through whatever is coming’. Felt OK until waking in the middle of the night with terrible bad pain, almost internal. Sleep was not in the works it was so deep and severe. Something definitely not right. The missus is skilled with massage, so we got out the CBD/THC (called Comfort) and started with that, then the Chinese Zheng Gu Shui liniment, followed by Pain Terminator creme. After all that she put the cold red laser on for fifteen minutes. Pain subsided, sleep came fast, and woke up able to get around without pain and spent the day by the pool or in the water. Slept well last night, had some dreams about making pink sushi, and woke up stiff but not bad. Another round of the ‘treatment’, and rest again today, spa coming up soon.
    We have some good codeine but don’t go there unless it’s something dental or a painful wound.
    This is the first ‘luxury’ we have ever had in our life together and it costs less than the crappy marina we paid for in Cali. Considering we haven’t been paying anything to be floating for the last year plus, it’s OK and going to allow a lot of necessary repairs accumulated over 6000nm.
    Stiks is happy

    • TYour adventures are like the dream we never got to. We ALMOSt did it, but yours is a faster rig and I have become convinced that altyhough surfing wave fronts may be momentarily dangerous in a multi, the mono has a higher exposure risk having to be “outh there” long by virtual of no speed. Would you mind sharing the marina pricing? When I was aboard, the live aboard moorage went from $10/foot per month up to near $20 now. I’d be curious what the out there prices are nowadays?
      Hoist one for us, old salt and stay off your butt for a while!
      Fair winds and following seas – we’ll see if you might hook up with Len for a bear when you’re near Oz… (Len?)

        • I think George’s typo meant “beer”. But your mind lives in the gutter, doesn’t it?

      • any friend of G is a friend of mine . welcome . goldbulls , bears and FED haters welcome more . but not permas !!investing is like sailing adjust to the conditions and enjoy the journey . peace all

      • George
        For our boat, which is 42′, we are paying about 1000 USD per month. USD to local is .47 right now. In the slip per meter LOA is 5.00 local currency. With the liveaboard fee, works out to about 1K USD. We plan two months here, then to have a decent passage with good weather timing to Northern Queensland in OZ. Should be some fun local cruising there.
        You’re right. This is a fast boat and when surfing she’s very stable and true to the course. The scow bow develops long straight waterline, creates no quarter wave, kind of a monomaran. The junk rig can be squared past the beam, head twisted into an almost leading edge with half the sail area more then thirty feet off the deck. With the unstayed carbon mast and all carbon battens built into light weight Hydranet material, the whole rig weight above the deck is under 450 pounds. A substantial electric winch makes hoisting the 850 square foot sail easy, then sheet in and go. Reefing is ease the halyard and trim the sheet. If the speed doesn’t give you the willys, you can keep full sail downwind and surf at 10 to 11 in 20T with the windvane steering better than a human. Between the autopilot in lightest winds to surfing conditions with the vane no one touched the helm, except to control a jibe (four times), in fourteen days. Our naval architect, Jim Antrim, is almost as old as us and has a history of fast boats. He sailed with us from SF to SB, three days, and was amazed by his own work. My idea, with sketches and rough lines, two years of collaboration, then the build. It’s been a journey, but the last passages have made it all worth it. Rosie G was a Kelpie from a sheep station in Western OZ and her ashes and bones are built in to the boat. She deserves to get home and live it large again down there.
        You have your own ‘ship’ now. It has a lot of space around it and should be safer for being elder than being a thousand miles at sea. I know from your experience sailing you understand completely the part of me that always longs just to be ‘out there’. I Lost that for many years after wrecking my first boat in 1978, became ‘successful’ in my dirt life, two mariadivorces, three kids, and always the longing. Now when i sit for hours watching the wake I have found something that was lost and I know i am home.
        Stiks

    • Chinese Zheng Gu Shui liniment is wonderful stuff! I had a German born, Chinese trained doctor of acupuncture that gave me some for my arthritic neck. I’m usually skeptical of topical stuff, but that liniment worked wonders!

  30. “The REAL cost of living is starting to reveal itself: Why utility bills are rapidly rising in some states.”

    I notice CBS completely failed to mention the 35% of all coal plants, which Mr. Obama forced to permanently shut down. IIRC coal-fired power plants are not sunsetted or “retired.” They are taken “offline” and refurbed, and their scrubbers are replaced and elevated to the most modern and efficient scrubbers available, then brought back “online.” The ones I’ve seen along the Ohio River don’t exhaust any noticeable smoke. Thanks to the scrubbers, they spew mostly water vapor instead.

    We are destined to suffer a catastrophic energy shortage. Ceasing coal and nuclear development and buildout has simply hastened it. Solar panels and windmills are great for individuals, but are too inefficient a use of land and resources to be of any real value to the grid. Draw a line from the Mackinac Bridge to Mobile, Alabama. To provide electricity to CONUS you would have to cover the entirety of the U.S. from this line east to the Atlantic coast with solar panels. This doesn’t count the breathtaking amount of additional electricity which will be required once AI farms and quantum computers begin to go online or CONUS suffers a heat wave. Additionally, photocells have a functional lifespan of less then 25 years, are extremely poisonous, and have a toxic half-life that’s much longer than the radioactive half-life of reactor waste. There’s a lot of photocells in every PV panel.

    I absolutely HATE talking heads who can’t do simple arithmetic…

    • The Dairyland coal powerplant at Genoa, WI, in the Mississippi valley was demolished several years ago. Built next to the BNSF mainline in the valley, they had a rail pipeline for coal. I watched a video of the toppling of their smokestack… tall enough to rise above the river valley bluffs next to it… maybe 500ft? All I could think of was… “They are going to regret that someday soon”.

  31. “Health concerns are getting low-beam mentions now: Donald Trump photo shows large mark on hand as fears swirl over his health and aging.”

    My arms are nearly black. They’ve been that way for years. I actually DO stuff and I get bruised. The bruises never completely go away before I get new bruises on top of them. Arnica helps, but I’d probably have to be bedridden for a couple weeks for the bruising to completely go away.

    I also have edema which appears as swollen legs. I have also nearly completely mitigated the edema, through proper supplementation. This edema occurs when the “check valves” in one’s return arteries, begin to leak. It is annoying, but not serious. I’ve seen people who’ve lived for 30 years or more, with truly elephantine edema, where their legs swell to thrice their natural size.

    Y’all ought to be ashamed of yourselves, for not learning the lesson of the forked-tongue “newscasters” and opinion pundits. THEY are going to say anything they can, to minimize the effectiveness of Trump (or any Republican President) because the more effective and successful a Republican, the more difficult it is for them to sell socialism to the American voter…

    • You might try a dose of German silica gel every once in a while for the bruising. Amazon carries it.

  32. “Why, you’d think they have gold and oil, or something valuable to protect: Venezuelans join militia as US warships arrive in Caribbean.”

    Venezuelans are joining the militia to avoid being shot by Nick Maduro’s palace guard. They are being pressed into “service” to guard Maduro — the bastard who has stolen the past two Presidential elections, and who’s trying very hard to replace Noriega and Escobar as the top, historical drug lord of South America. There’s a reason the DEA placed a $50mln price on Maduro’s head…

  33. “Around the Ranch: The Personal Pain Guide”

    “Pain” is easy.

    Pain is a signal that all is not right. We feel pain when something affects our body and requires our attention.

    I determine the source of the pain.
    Decide whether it requires actual attention.
    Then I shut it off.

    If it requires attention, I go to the doctor/hospital.

    Toridol is my favorite analgesic. Doctors in these parts are wont to prescribe it, but it is an NSAID and muscle relaxant which is effective against severe pain, is safer than Tylenol or Advil, is completely non-habit-forming, and doesn’t mess with your head. One of my hospitals gave it as a “post-op” which allowed me to drive the 50 miles home after surgeries. That was helpful…

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