@kdfrawg I can hardly sleep lying down anymore.
@hybotics I used to take stuff for it but anymore I try to control it with sane eating times and diet. This afternoon's little adventure is abnormal to say the least :)
// @kdfrawg
Been alone here for a little bit. Ought to throw the laptop in the bag and get out of here, myself.
Back from quick trip to store down the road.
In a field next to the store, a tall, thin, mulleted man. Shoulders hunched over. Weaving back and forth. Arms dangling. Staring at the highway.
Boy, if that doesn't scream, "Lock the doors and keep driving", nothing does.
@bazbt3 Patrick Breen's diary entries really tell how dire and disturbing the situation was.
// @jws
@kdfrawg With my acid reflux? Nope. It'll be many many hours before I can lie down.
Composes a "Whatever you are making for dinner, you are dining alone" message to Sidekick
"Days passed. No food in camp except an unsavory beef hide—pinching hunger called for more. Again John Baptiste and Noah James went forth in anxious search for marks of our buried cattle. They made excavations, then forced their hand-poles deep, deeper into the snow, but in vain their efforts—the nail and hook at the points brought up no sign of blood, hair, or hide. In dread unspeakable they returned, and said: "We shall go mad; we shall die! It is useless to hunt for the cattle; but the dead, if they could be reached, their bodies might keep us alive." "No," replied father and mother, speaking for themselves. "No, part of a hide still remains. When it is gone we will perish, if that be the alternative." The fact was, our dead could not have been disturbed even had the attempt been made, for the many snowfalls of winter were banked about them firm as granite walls, and in that camp was neither implement nor arm strong enough to reach their resting-places. It was a long, weary waiting, on starvation rations until the nineteenth of February." from "The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate" by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
My Kindle library is very diverse.
// @bazbt3 @jws
@bazbt3 They were actually the proverbial straw that crippled the proverbial camel.