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  1. Really never heard of that. Maybe if your including Indians and the turmeric smell in the curry but idk never smelled bad to me.

    My buddy, a South Alabama Redneck* is married to a FOTB** Korean woman. He says, "When one of us eats the kimchi***, we'd better all be eatin' the kimchi!"

     

    He says if he doesn't eat kimchi when she does, he can't stand to be around her for about 2 days.

     

    *South Alabama Redneck, it's so systemic it's endemic.

    ** FTOB = Fresh Off The Boat - i.e. she was born in Korea, raised in Korea, then moved here.

    ***Kimchi = fermented cabbage.

  2. When I started hormone replacement therapy in the mid-1990's, the only effective treatment was to fully replace testosterone was through IM injection of testosterone cypionate. Overtime, a patch was released that required shaving your scrotum, and wearing the patch glued to your balls. I stayed with the injection. Now with the gels and creams, my endocrinologist says they are not nearly as effective as the injection and he prefers I continue injecting.

     

    On my own, I discovered I preferred injecting 100 mg weekly versus 200 mg bi-weekly. As I have aged, we've cut the dosage to 80 mg weekly. I didn't care for the highs and lows of the 200 mg biweekly injections, so with my endocrinologist's permission, I went to the weekly injections.

     

    I still prefer weekly IM injections over the other therapies simply because I only need to worry with it weekly, not daily.

  3. I take prescribed testosterone injections at home. I cap the syringe and I often throw it in the trash and don't think twice about it. Testosterone is a steroid but body builders just take more than a normal patient would. The syringe and needle are larger than the insulin syringes and I think addicts use insulin syringes.

    I'd suggest you separate the needle from the syringe and toss the needle into an empty bleach bottle. You can dispose of the used needles by handing the full bleach bottle over to a hospital/doctor's office/community medical waste disposal facility. In Los Angeles, the county has regional haz-mat/electronic/medical waste disposal facilities where you drive-thru, pop your trunk and the workers remove the waste. This is much safer than disposing of your syringes in the household trash. I find a quart bleach bottle will hold over 2 years of #23 1" needles and I need to make the trip more often than that with used electronics, left-over paint and used motor oil.

  4. Doesn't it affect the flavor of the wine?

    Exposing the wine to oxygen, shaking the oxygenated wine to vigorous shaking EFFECTS the wine, NEGATIVELY.

     

    I don’t drink wine that hasn’t been properly cellared for at least 2 weeks, then properly decanted, and served in the proper Riedel glass, but I’m a wino connoisseur, not an alcoholic.

     

    What’s the difference between a wino and a wine connoisseur?

     

    a) Economics

    b) The Paper Sack, one drinks it out of the sacked bottle the other admires the label while sipping.

    c) The vessel, one requires no more than the bottle itself while the other needs a $45 crystal glass

    d) The Volume consumed -there is no difference

    e) all of the above

  5. Saving and investing is so simple most people out think it:

    1. Never buy any investment you don't understand. Never buy from investment counselor who isn't a teacher only a pusher. The teacher wants you to succeed, the pusher wants him to succeed.
    2. No one ever gets hurt on the roller-coaster unless they jump off. Ride the market - it will go down - 12 years of the last 80? I think is the current stat.
    3. Learn to live on 1/2 of what you earn, NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU EARN, Taxes and Savings will take the other half automatically.
    4. Live like no one else, so that in the future, you can live and give like no one else. Larry Burkett before Dave Ramsey.
    5. The rule of compounding works the same for everyone, you spend more than you make by borrowing, you'll make the banks rich. You save more than you spend you make yourself rich.

    Somebody hear owes ME a steak dinner.

  6. I get these invitations regularly, even though I have been retired for seventeen years, so it's a little too late to start "planning" now.

     

    My spouse has had the same investment manager for thirty-five years, and the retirement account has more money in it now than it did when my spouse retired back in the last century; we are praying that he doesn't die before we do.

    Aren't you the beneficiary to his retirement account? Signed spousal permission is required to name any other beneficiary.

  7. When I got into my mid-50s, I suddenly got all of these invitations to these large dinners in which financial planners talk about their investment strategies, ostensibly to help get me into retirement. I've been to a few. At the last dinner, I helped one of the attendees when he started choking on his food. Asking his wife, I found out he's 82. I looked around the large room, and it seemed as if I was, indeed, one of the youngest attendees. Isn't 82 too late to be thinking about a retirement strategy? I wonder how they pick people they invite to these dinners. Do you guys get invited? Any of you younger people get invited?
    These retirement plan hucksters are buying lists of high net worth individuals and inviting them to dinner.

     

    What high net worth individual DOESNT HAVE their retirement planned?

     

    but the hucksters don’t want to start with 20 somethings or 30 somethings because most of them have no money.

    Wasn’t it Willie Sutton reputed to have answered the question, “Why do you only rob banks?” Sutton replied, “Cuz that’s where the money is!”

     

    High net worth individuals won’t listen to a sales pitch but they will eat dinner for free.

  8. ”A parlay, accumulator, combo bet or multi is a single bet that links together two or more individual wagers and is dependent on all of those wagers winning together. The benefit of the parlay is that there are much higher payoffs than placing each individual bet separately, since the difficulty of hitting all of them is much higher. If any of the bets in the parlay lose, the entire parlay loses. If any of the plays in the parlay ties, or "pushes", the parlay reverts to a lower number of teams with the odds reducing accordingly.”

     

    irony of ironies...

  9. I always admire guys with light hair on forearms and thighs and legs. Is testosterone expensive?

    A 10ml vial of 200 mg T costs about $70 with a ‘script and no insurance.

     

    It’s sterile cottonseed oil with the testosterone mixed in. I use a 23 gauge needle 1” long into my quads.

  10. When my pituitary adenoma was discovered at 37, I started full hormone replacement therapy including injecting 200 mg of testosterone biweekly. My voice finished changing, my public hair both genitalia and pits filled out, my beard changed and grew full, my arms and legs developed adult male hair.

     

    Prior to HRT, I used shaving cream to know where I had shaved.

     

    My libido went up, too.

  11. What did the directions on the bottle say? This is a medication which shouldn't be taken near bedtime. I'm surprised at how some doctors don't put specific directions on the label when medications need to be taken a certain way. If the medication should be taken every morning, that's what the label should say. If the label said "Take one a day," then that was a lousy way to write the prescription. On the other hand, I'm often surprised at how often patients don't bother to read the directions on the label. Its' not that complicated.

    Once she went into assisted living she never wet the bed again. I’m not sure about the label directions but I’m sure Mom did what she decided was right.

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