So THAT'S What 41 Feels Like. Ugh.

[jamesq]

Things I did yesterday:

• Ran 10k.
• Walked from Bunny and Badger's place to the Lilac Festival.
• Wandered around the crowds of the Lilac Festival for three hours
• Went back to Bunny and Badger's place.
• Went to Banff.
• Walked up and down Banff avenue.
• Soaked in the hot springs for over an hour (damn near passing out multiple times).
• Got home and crashed hard.

Today:

• Woke up to discover that every muscle and joint in my body hurts.

Thank god for drugs.

And now, off to work.

(Thanks to thebrucie for doing the Lion's share of the driving and "organizing", conejita_diabla and sagaciouslu for providing their home as a staging area, thekillerb69, naughtynat07, devoidofthought, CG, M, CC, MT and Baby Nora for the pleasure of their company at the festival, wild_wanderer for joining us in Banff and nosarious for keeping him entertained until we got home)

Comments

[rato-do-perigo.livejournal.com]

is it a good sore?

[jamesq]

Not really as it made me feel like an old man and I came very close to a groin pull. Two Robax have taken the edge off it.

[oblivions.livejournal.com]

Two?! Oie...

[mallt.livejournal.com]

ummm... I always take two... then I wait 30 mins - hour for them to kick in.

[jamesq]

And if that doesn't work, take two long gulps of Bacardi 151.

Or is that just me?

[mallt.livejournal.com]

I've never been "brave" enough to mix them with alcohol! If they don't kick in I just crawl somewhere & hope to die!

[jamesq]

I had a couple of beers once with my prescription back meds and muscle relaxants, just to see why they said "no alcohol". It was an interesting experiment.

1. The back pain was still there if I thought about it, I just didn't care.
2. The drugs multiplied the effects of the alcohol by at least a factor of magnitude.
3. My extremities went all tingly.
4. Mentally, I didn't feel impaired at all, though objectively I was very impaired.

As a short one-off experiment is was entertaining, though I wouldn't repeat it since I'm not interested in finding out what the long term effects would be.

[mallt.livejournal.com]

After seeing Mum turn into a space cadet from mixing antibiotics & wine I decided I never wanted the same happening to me! She drank less than 1/2 glass of wine before she remembered she was on meds.

[oblivions.livejournal.com]

A half is all i need to fight, one makes me too slow and two would have me on the floor drooling.

I dig being a midget sometimes with low tolerance for those things.

[mallt.livejournal.com]

Wow! I've never had a painkiller strong enough to knock me down!

[oblivions.livejournal.com]

Depends on a) how much I've eaten but two would do me in pretty good. The first half of the squires tourney was interesting... I had one and until it worked through my system a bit it felt like swinging through molasses.

I've never braved two at one time. At that point it means I have to be at the bone breaker's because it's not a fixable problem with drugs.

[jamesq]

I am twice your mass and I metabolize drugs quickly. Doesn't stop me from being a lightweight with the booze though.