you know, weird thing is I am not a dem or repub, indep...

both sides have positive point and negative potins about them, but for the last 15 years it has been getting harder and harder to tell the difference between the two other than the domga they spew come election time...

dun no maybe a third party has been needed for a while now?

always used to hate that , up meds or a change...
I've been off them for almost two years now, and I do see a difference, much of it not bad, though some is...

I was active in the Bipolar Support group in Tacoma for a couple years there. I was knocked all the way from being a successful small business owner to delivering pizza as my sole income for years. In that group i was a major success, just being able to work and spend so much time around "normies". But the change in the effects on the poor over the last 15 years is all too apparent to me. Bush is ruthless on the poor. Clinton was too idealistic. For the middle class and higher I know very little anymore. The largest public mental health organization in Tacoma WA had to lay off thirty case workers. The Western State mental hospital shut down 2 wards and kicked the some of the oldest long term patients out and a alchahol and drug reabilitation ward in another hospital was closed. This cost every one. There are selfish B2345678s in demacrats too. But this didn't happen.

here in FLoida its the same, except they privatized a lot of the state run programs and such, so that they are ripping off the insurance companies, defrauding the govenrment and medicade, providing sub-standard treatment and programs building larger bank accounts with retun, revolving door clientel... It isn't about helping someone become sefl sufficiant, cured, or able to live as normal a life as possible, it is filling beds...

NAMI is scary, they want to get federal laws passed stating that if a person refuses meds they can be arrested and force fed them until such time as they decide they will take them...


blows me away

Its not even close to good business sence. These people end up in crisis. In emergency room racking up expotential cost to what it would take to provide health care for them. A lot of them turn to crime and self medicating with street drugs and there is no end to. it. It's crazy what these sane people are doing.

business sense? hey how about the settlements the states got from Tabbaco?

Why isn't it that the money was not used to setup up prgrams to quit smoking and why isn't it that Tabbaco and the Insurance companies can not get together and work out a deal for the same purpose?

seems to me, as long as they got their, they feel it is ok to say screw everyone else..

They have privatized prision her ein florida, so now we have these privatly owned prision all crying about needing tax dollors to expand and stuff or they will have to close down.. it's seems to all be a scam, oh and the prision owners are backed by investors, judges, laywers, politicians, go figure

I haddn't heard about NAMI trying for that. I have been issolating a lot the last six months. I'm not surprised about Florida. July 1st I will have zero insurance for my medication. Even buying from Canada it would cost me at least another $600.00 a month. With my strokes and all. I have been living off $792 a month SSDI, and about $50.00 pizza. Because I qualify for Medicare that mays zero medicine. I do not qualify for Washington States Basic Helth plan. And with Bushes tax cuts our govener has axed the Health Care For Workers With Disabilities program. It was one of the few federally mandatedhealth care things Clinton passed. I'm screwed.

If I take this new experimental blood thinner they may be able to lower my psyc medicines enough so i can drive again and work. There is the little matter that the blood thinner may trigger a massive stroke instead. Hey everybody has problems. At least my ex-wife loves me.

yes everyone does have their problems, and they do not have to face them alone, well, they shouldn't at least. Sounds like your X is a good person, I've a friend who is best friends with his ex, they were fantastic friends all throughout school got married and you would have thought one day one of them would have killed the other after about 4 years of marriage. Then they got divorced after another 7 years, and now they are like they used to be, and they do not date because they really honestly enjoy each other over anyone else, kinda weird, but also special and neat

Well I have just taken my night dose, all eleven pills. I will be melting soon. I have helped some locally fine tune thier medicinal regemin toward calm. If you ever decide to travel that road again I might be of some use. Sleep in the most powerful influence on a mind that i know of. And the abuse of too much or too little can be devistating not only on the individual but also on those that love him. Good night my friend.

thats a hard choice to make, I wa sgetting the nerve blocks trying to avoid surgery on my lower spin because of what they want to do. my spinal cord is compressed at four and possibly a fith location in my lower back because the canal is too small and there is arthritis there also from the car wreck I was in along with herniated disks. So they wanted to cut the back of four vertibra out to open it up to take the compresion away. but structually speaking that ins;t good so I m trying this pain management stuff..

They would work up to a theraputic level on the thinner right? I mean not all at once and cross your fingers kind of thing?

sleep well and I hope you have a great day ah, today

ah, back again on here, funny that JM started this treath...
YOu've already done some drawings IP+?

Hi Styl, yes this thread took a completely different turn didn't it?
As it turns out, I shouldn't have bothered starting this one.

ah hell no I feel bad about your thread

ummm, no no drawing yet, been working getting some client stations ready to ship..
one more and then it's all me and my tablet

ah Jam, do you know of a good site with info on using tablets in different applications like, Painter and or Photoshop?

How do you mean 'using' them IP+, all you do is plug them in and start drawing and stuff...
What type of tablet did you get? I'll look up information about it on the 'net and get back to you.

Rusty, there are a few problems with that:
1) we are in metro Detroit (no high rises, we're in a one story building))
2) there are no cubicles
3) "I" am the one who tackles people for not making more coffee


IPlural, I hope that you are feeling better. The story of your daughter made me smile. Sounds like something my daughter would do. Except, she would blame it on one of the dogs

(I was referring to the clip on GalCiv in the above comment......forgot to specify that..)

Aiptek 12000u 12 inch x 9 inch active area. Its a large one but it only cost 160.00 after taxes. What I ment about using it, was setting up the pressure for the pen and also should I use the pen outside of art programs or use the mouse that came with it?

The reason I ask is both of them shoot across the screen and bounc around a bit, so I am wondering if I need to tweak the port settings or something?

Karmagirl they are a gas aren't they? I'm putting together a collage for my wall paper on this system and will post it as my screen shot. It has me at different stages of life and also when different one(s) are out and I am not, and my children and wife also

There is even one of me in a 3 piece suit with red tie

it's a long story, but I screwed up when younger and did it more than once with stupid human tricks, now they are wanting to operate again. The nerve blocks did not work because the spinal canal starting at t12 and running down to L5 is way too small and I loose use of my legs at times, and at other times I am in so much pain I have to leave the room so my daughter doesn't see me cry. I was heading in for Fusion in two places in my neck and then delamonectomy at four and maybe a fith location in my lower back (cutting out the back side of the vertibra to make room in spinal canal) but I backed out because the doctor is a kook. I went to this new guy and he said we try pain management before anything so he set me up for nerve blocks. Well the steroids seem to have interacted wrong with my system and my potasium levels are way below normal, so all my muscle are cramping up so much I can not move at times. Also my kidneys swelled up and I am now retaining loads of water, so they are going to let things get back to noirmal such as it was, and then they are going to decide where and what they are going to cut out of me

then my neck and then my left hip...

anyway...

Hello KarmaGirl. Well I said it was a training exorcise. See? Now your even whereing shoulder pads.

Well IP, my Wacom Intuos tablet has a cordless stylus that is pressure sensitive.
It doesn't need any special settings that I am aware of. I also use it in conjunction with my regular mouse for selecting menu items and such. The pen is difficult for making menu choices so I use my regular mouse for that. I only use the stylus when I am actually drawing something with it. Don't know if that helps you any because you have a different tablet.

ok, thats what I am running into, have to hook up my wireless marbleman
yes it does, I know it sounds silly asking those questions, but I wasn't sure if it was my ignoance of them or if it actually was that fraked out inside of windows...

what pressure setting you have your pen set to normally?


OHHHH

I was playing around with a Dual 1gtz G4 with 1 gig of ram last night at CompUSA.. It loaded a 65 meg Photoshop file click *BANG*, freaking sweet...

LPlural. My previous roomate of three years had severe neck damage do to a sexual assault, as well as MD. You are in a boat that makes even someone like myself a novice and back seat driver as to what steps you should take. Sleep or otherwise. I didn't, no I guess I did mean to preach a bit about sleep. It's just when you empathize with some one you just want them to feel better. At least your mind is clear from what I can tell so I have faith you will take knowledgable steps.

As for the tablet. I would like to see anything you produce on this 160.00 wonder.

lol me too !!

this is totally new to me and kinda odd, because I am so used to looking down where my pencil is and not up at the screen. Going to take a bit I think. I'd of bought the Wacom Intuos 2 but for the price of this one, others this resolution and size are priced 400.00 and up so I grabbed it. It is way to large for my laptop though. hell it is bigger than my laptop !!!



the Wacom has some good write up's on it also so I know I'll pick one up in the future. Fit into my laptop bag just right too

IP, you're like a kid that got a new bike