Any DU night owls up?

[Aristus]

I'm a little baked, but not sleepy at all, in case anyone wants to hang out.

[PoliticAverse]

1. Is there free food involved? n/t

[Aristus]

3. Sure.

Enjoy.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Party at Aristus'!! n/t

[Aristus]

6. It's a hotel room!

We're going to party till they throw us out!...

[PoliticAverse]

7. Cool, we won't have to clean up then. n/t

[Aristus]

8. Yeah!

[Lunabell]

2. I'm up, but not for long.

My wife is in the hospital. She is having a cholecystectomy in the morning. I'm having a beer trying to chill and get some sleep.

[Aristus]

4. All right.

Relax.

I know everything will go well...

[Lunabell]

11. Thanks.

I'm not too terribly worried. It's laproscopic, so less chance of things to go wrong. She has a great day nurse who will be there again tomorrow 7am to 7pm.

The wonderful nurse and I just happened to talk about chocolate today, so I got lots of her favorite, butterfingers, a bag of assorted chocolate fun bars, some smarties and a fun size bag of skittles and a big Halloween bowl. I'm going to give it to her to share with her co-workers tomorrow.

[Aristus]

13. Nurses rock!

The medical profession would be nothing without them...

[Lunabell]

15. Well thank you!

I am a thirty year nurse. I'm happily working private duty with a 2 year old. I worked about 25 years on the floor. My job now is wonderful. I just adore my little patient.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. Nice! Several years ago my sister had a hospital stay right before Thanksgiving.

Actually, she got out Thanksgiving Day, I made the dinner, and all was well. I made sure to purchase a couple of boxes of Godiva chocolates for the nurses and anyone else working on her ward.

I know all too well what it's like to work weekends and holidays.

[cilla4progress]

9. Howdy!

We are on a road trip with our popup camper and our dog through southern Oregon, northern Idaho, to SW Montana. Just following where the road takes us.

We found a spot up on Lolo Pass with internet! Weird!

Goddamn beautiful country out here!

[Aristus]

10. I'm just a stone's throw from the Idaho border.

That's as close as I want to get.

I drove through Trump-Country Eastern Washington this afternoon. Far fewer Trump signs standing out in the farm fields this time. Kind of nice to see.

Or not see, at least...

[cilla4progress]

16. Oh!

Traveling? You reside further west, I believe?

Every drumpf sign we see gets a big bird from us both.

But enjoying the local yokels. We have so much in common. Just don't bring up politics!

[Aristus]

17. Yeah, I'm in Spokane for a continuing education conference.

This is the farthest I've been from home since COVID-19 started. I'm isolating, wearing a mask in the public areas of the hotel, and so on...

[Anon-C]

12. ...

hey

[Aristus]

14. Hey.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

19. I'm up but it is only 10:30pm where I am at.

[Aristus]

20. Same here.

Conference starts at 8:30 tomorrow morning, so I'm having some and to relax until then...

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

21. Sounds like an excellent plan.

[Aristus]

23. It's working out all right so far...

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

25. If anything seems unclear about your plan just keep drinking.

[Aristus]

27. Good scheme.

Got a nice bottle of Smirnoff here. I'm going to try to make it last until Friday night, though. That's when I post my weekly drinking thread...

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

30. Well, depends on how clear or unclear things become until then.

Tuck a couple travel size bottles in a sack for your meeting just in case.

[Aristus]

32. Nah. I'll stay sober for the continuing education.

It's how I get better at what I do.

Drinking and baking is how I relax afterward...

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

34. The baking sound the best.

Well, depends on the type of baking.

[Aristus]

35. Got some Chill Indica right here.

Sublingual tincture.

Takes forever to get going, but no tell-tale whiff of marijuana to upset people...

[ailsagirl]

39. Does it give you "the munchies?"

Just wondered

[Aristus]

40. I had a large dinner, so not yet...

[ailsagirl]

41. Ahhh... there it is

My beautiful Craig

Thank you ☺️

[Aristus]

43. I try to find a distinctive pic every time.

Nothing can quite substitute for seeing Ailsa Craig for the first time.

And for me, so far, the only time...

[ailsagirl]

47. I've been to Scotland twice but never saw her

I fact, I didn’t know Ailsa Craig even existed. Thanks for introducing me to her.

[Aristus]

49. I saw her from the ferry across the Irish Sea from Ayre to Larne, Northern Ireland.

They discontinued that ferry, so seeing her as close as I did might be more difficult now...

[vercetti2021]

22. I'm here

I'm eating some oreos but not posting about it since last time I got ridiculed for giving my money to them since they were striking. Very alone on this place sadly nowadays

[Aristus]

24. DU DOES get quieter in a non-election year when a Dem is President.

That's when the in-fighting starts...

[vercetti2021]

26. Yeah I see it everywhere now

Tiring and the doom is depressing. But here I be reading more than posting now.

[Aristus]

28. For me, the plusses outweigh the minuses, otherwise, I wouldn't have been here twenty years.

DU is the one site I can't stay away from, no matter how bad things are going for us politically.

[vercetti2021]

29. Neither can I

Only place I feel semi safe

[jpak]

31. I'm here

Flame on

[Aristus]

33. It's clobberin' time!

[jpak]

36. Hee hee !

It's the vodka speaking

[Aristus]

37. That's what gets Ben "The Thing" Richards into smashing mood?

I thought it was space radiation...

[ailsagirl]

38. What does being baked mean?

[Aristus]

42. High on cannabis.

Light-headed like being drunk, but without a belly full of booze and a slightly sick feeling...

[ailsagirl]

45. Oh really!

We used to say wasted, stoned, loaded, etc.

Now I use it if I can’t sleep. I know— boring!!
🙄

[Aristus]

46. No, I use it to be able to sleep, too.

It's not boring if one had had insomnia since sixth grade...

It really helps...

[ailsagirl]

48. That's awful-- since you were 11?

[Aristus]

51. More or less.

The only times I've had more than six hours of sleep in a row since then have been when I was under the influence of one drug or another, prescription, OTC, or recreational.

[ailsagirl]

53. My insomnia didn't kick in until my 30s

But I think I’ll try to get some sleep now. Sweet dreams to you. 😴

[DFW]

44. Too bad for the time difference.

I got back late from Paris (1:00 instead of 11:00), and then had 2 hours of paperwork to plough through. Woke up about 20 minutes ago (now about 8:20), made myself some hot tea, and will find out shortly if I have to rush out of bed to run down to Frankfurt or not. If not, I may have to run over to the Netherlands instead. They are journeys of about equal length, but Frankfurt is easier because the trains from Düsseldorf leave about every half hour, and to Holland only once every two hours.

[edbermac]

50. I'm up.

[littlemissmartypants]

52. Me too, edbermac. And I love your graphic. ❤

[a kennedy]

54. I just got up, come here, and will be going back to try and sleep in awhile......

Love this picture too.

[sarge43]

55. Can't sleep; so hanging out with the other owls sounds good. n/t

[hlthe2b]

56. Well, this guy (one like him) was outside my window at 3AM. So, WE BOTH are now up!