I have a neighbor who has a Chihuahua that sits in front of my garage door. When she sits in front of my car, I feel she is telling me not to drive even if my car battery is totally dead right now but the thing still works. I want to rent out my car but I’m pretty much wary of driving it right now, what with a hernia I wasn’t told was inside my body for like 38 years of my existence. So yeah, I’m wary. If she sits on the other side, I know I can drive. I just put my car registration sticker on my car. I didn’t want to deal with the narcissism I know will come at me if I asked family to pay for my registration.
My old dog used to also be good at telling me things. One time I had a low at night and the dog was insisting by scratching the door that I needed help when my mother had just slipped into her bedroom. I was like 50 something, and I had to take care of it before I went to bed. These days I have to treat all forms of chocolate like a controlled substance. It triggers my PK. I would like to adopt a dog or start training dogs to be service animals.
In order to have an insulin pump, you have to be willing to change your infusion set whenever it goes down, you also have to make sure that you do basal rate tests. That insulin pump has to be used every time you eat a carbohydrate. The insulin pump is a useful tool while it works. I always look at mine as the possibility of perfect diabetes. No excuses are left when you infuse, as you have to check the basal rates like I’m going to do this afternoon. I’m headed to the library in the morning, and I’m going to go out to lunch.
Dinner is at 3:00 p.m. so I have to leave for this little adventure by 10:00 a.m. or 11:00 a.m. respectively. My basal rate check starts at 4:00 p.m. The best advice I can give my fellow infusers is, change your set, change your set, change your set. Get it changed, get it done, fix it, do whatever it is you have to do. Checking the basal rates are a part of life as an insulin pumper. My current model of insulin pump is water proof, using AA batteries but I’m terrified of going in the water with it.
Hell, my acne was so bad this year in the summer with my staph infection that I couldn’t go into the pool. But guys, this October in the Bay Area will be cooler than we all are assuming it will be. I’m not looking forward to the hot weather this Wednesday, as I have an appointment that day I need to leave for at 11:30. I may cancel if it gets too hot but I don’t think I’m going to have to cancel that much. Anyway though, sure I’m going despite the heat. Insulin can fry in a pump in that sort of heat. This is why I’m sensitive to heat and have to stay in an air-conditioned environment.
The Dim Mak pressure points are known to cause death, if applied but this knowledge is not meant to be in the wrong hands. I don’t know who remembers the TV show Xena: Warrior Princess but it was one of my favorite tv shows in high school. She knew pressure points. She knew major pressure points and I’ve studied some in my adult life. In my martial arts class, my senior year of college, I was able to learn one dim mak point on your cheek that you put on the upper cheek bone close to the temple. This is to knock someone out not to cause death.
Dim Mak can incapacitate, cause delayed death or cause instant death. Pressure points other than dim mak could be used to incapacitate. A blow to the temple can disorient your opponent, behind and somewhat above the eye. 4 different bones in the skull join together. Your opponent will react by raising their hands to their head, which leaves an opening to go after their body. Keep in mind there is a lot of fictional martial arts information out there that is separate from the real thing.
My article that I somehow lost, went into a point I read was in the back of your head, where your skull meets your spine but on the skull itself. The best way to take out any opponent is to kick them in the gut or in between the legs. Dim Mak is an extremely dangerous knowledge to have but it is helpful. If you know it, you can easily intimidate people.
You do not always have to hit your opponent in the stomach, but rather in the kidney or bladder. Not that hitting someone is fun, it isn’t. You can punch an attacker in the side to incapacitate them. Some points could cause a shutdown of the muscles and nerves, nerves that do not last too long, because striking specific points on the leg could cause muscles to go weak. The leg then cannot support the body, and the person collapses on the ground. Dim mak can certainly cause a lot of pain to the opponent or attacker. Dim mak could cause a delayed death in a matter of days, weeks, or months. Hitting a pressure point is done intentionally to disrupted the physical flow of chi.
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Chi is energy, or prana, or life force. Chi is what keeps the body alive and working. A Dim mak point is able to be disruptive of that point. Pressure points or acupressure points are everywhere on the body and meridians need to have their energy flowing properly in order for your body to function at all. The area below the Adam’s apple causes pain when struck. Pressure points are necessary while fighting if you are smaller than your opponent. Stomach-9 is located near the carotid artery that is located in the neck as it is an anatomical feature that can carry blood to the brain.
When someone is hit to the point of provoking unconsciousness, the results could be that a sudden drop of blood pressure among other factors leads to unconsciousness. The person who practices dim mak may have advance techniques of most pressure points that are useful in a fight situation.
Rather than rounding up the homeless population and putting them into detainment facilities, why not actually try to solve the problem for once? Each homeless person may have untreated mental illnesses that they have struggled to treat for years with alcohol or worse. Santa Clara County alone has many resources to help the homeless. I do not give my money to bums who think, little, push over. This because the second you open your wallet, they’d try to take it from you. Bums are very dangerous people who cannot be trusted, not even female bums.
Social workers are in a field where part of the job involves working with homeless people or other at-risk populations. In Santa Clara County alone, there is the Office of Housing & Homeless Support Services that provides services to the homeless who have decided to change their lifestyle. HomeFirst is a lead provider of services, shelter, and housing opportunities, to the homeless and those at risk of homelessness in Santa Clara County while they serve 4,000 adults, veterans and families as well as young people throughout 7 locations. These organizations are groups I’d like to volunteer for if I have the stamina to.
Income inequality is best resolved by getting the billionaires to pay up. Each billionaire already gives money away to charity, even those who went through a prior experience of not having enough money.
Income inequality is a very real vice in the United States and around the world where there are extreme gaps between rich people and poor people. These problems need to be tackled but the current administration has not done so. The next few administrations have to tackle many problems including climate change. You can’t avoid the homeless problem in the United States let alone climate change.
The homeless problem is not resolved by putting the homeless into camps. Homeless people need to learn how to handle working for a living, even those who spend their lives begging for change, or morsels. They look for scraps. But see, I don’t give my money to them, not even the bum that practically kicked my chair in Berkeley many years ago. Having any sort of job helps a former homeless person orient back into the real world. Homelessness could last a long time for those mentally ill people who sleep on the street every single day of their lives.
I do not believe in giving money to the homeless but I believe in volunteering for organizations that help them. You have to make sure that the organization you work for is genuinely invested in helping the homeless.
Some are not very organized anyway. I’ve been interested in helping the homeless since my senior year of high school when that was my volunteer service project. The homeless who stay homeless are the sorts of people who imagine they are stuck in their present circumstances and cannot see anything better for themselves. They are trying to improve their life circumstances, if they can be provided with the resources to do so.
Rich people have to start opening their purse strings. Companies in general have to be able to pay for a livable wage among other things. Retail does not provide a livable wage for most people but it is income all the same. In San Jose, we have many a strip mall that you can walk to, from home to your job and back again. This is one way to resolve the income inequality problem. Also, taxes do not have to take out so much from our paycheck. Income inequality exists, and we aren’t doing much to address it right now, but it could become worse in the near future.
My mother had to talk a priest into letting me be named Iria when she took me to see the family as a baby. Sure, my name comes from Iria Flavia, which according to their Wikipedia page is an ancient settlement that is currently Catholic. Camilo Jose Cela had the title Marques de Iria Flavia. Yes, it is a very Catholic place name but were it not for me becoming pagan, Buddhist, and Gnostic Christian, I’d have pretty much just said, Catholic stuff got boring for me. Plain and simple, this is why I turned away. I was bored. You can’t risk boring someone with many irons in the fire like me. Iria Flavia was a traditional residence for bishops. So yeah, but the name as I wrote in my other blog post a few days ago may be pagan in origin and means “peace” or according to SeaWorld, Goddess of Peace. My YMCA had another one of me which I found out about because I happened to tell the clerk that I thought I was the only one named Iria. Lol. Imagine that. My mother has people at Google with her name on top of that. Yes, my name is no longer that unique and I know of another Iria Vasquez in New Jersey. Lol.
I didn’t know I had schizophrenia until I was 30. I figured it out in my own psychology class more or less while in high school, the first semester of sophomore year. I wasn’t allowed to take medication until I was 20. Yes, that is a long time to go without knowing what a decent night’s sleep felt like or how being well-rested feels like. Schizophrenia is caused by my 22q genetic deletion disability. I was born with patent ductus asclerosis but that somehow cleared up on its own. Well, there is more than a lot to say about this situation, but it is Not Safe for Zod, and it might sound starseed crazy.
But anyway, yes, I do not feel that disability is part of our life chart. Anybody who says that to a disabled person cheapens the person’s self-respect. Schizophrenia is present in those of us who have it, from birth. The symptoms don’t really kick in until your 20s, but I was having them from childhood. I didn’t sleep well at age 1. I stayed up with my awake mother for goodness sake. There are toddlers out there who need medication. That really does happen, and this is why I want to become a psychiatrist who specializes in children’s medication needs.
My name comes from Iria Flavia, a Spanish town in Galicia. All names have a meaning. Mine means “peace” and is derived from the name Irene coming from Greek mythology, and the Greek Eirene, the daughter of Zeus and Themis. Iria was a 7th century saint also known as Irene from Tomar, Portugal. Iria also means colorful rainbow, peace, and is of Spanish origin. It can also come from the Greek, Iris, or the name Irene. For many years, I got picked on. But then my name in Spanish is actually pronounced iri-ya. In English, its i-ri-a. I should put this pronunciation guide on Facebook.
I have one business idea about book reports. The plan involves setting up a company where people can get paid for writing book reports on current as well as old books. It’d be rather like Textbroker only for literature. I’m not sure if I should let anybody write up reports on any book, multiple times or one book report per book. On Textbroker, you get multiple chances to write one original article on a particular topic or person. Then when you click accept you have to write the article under a deadline. I wonder if this idea will work at all but it is designed for people who want to write online in order to make money.
On the sheer crazy and off-chance that my mother knows about this blog, which she doesn’t, I’m posting my chore chart. Nor does she bother to read this thing, and honestly, I prefer it that way.
Saturday – organize kitchen countertops, stove, and microwave
Treat: Starbucks baked goods, no chocolate in them.
Sunday – take out the garbage. Treat: 7-11 ice cream with Lactaid or slurpee. I need to buy more Lactaid since buying it on eBay is really 50-50 with whether it is expired or not.
Monday – Toilet bowl, tub and sink.
Treat: Ice Cream from Sweet Retreat
Tuesday –Sweeping the floor, and mopping the floor.
Treat: Samosa
Wednesday – Cleaning off my desk in the bedroom and taking out the garbage.
Treat: ice cream sandwich
Thursday – The Sink and the refrigerator and the freezer, which desperately needs cleaning.
Treat: In and Out, when I feel up to hiking all the way there just so I can burn a calorie. Many of these treats will require use of lactose.
Friday – Vacuuming bedroom, carpet and kitchen table cleaning.
Treat: Denny’s
Yes, in fact, all these treats are lactose-ridden in the high-lactose American diet scheme. So far I’ve done two Monday chores on Sunday, and I swept the floor on Sunday too since I found myself with the energy to do all of that.
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