Lifebandit666

I shall! Gambling has never been my thing anyway, I lucked out finding my Wife at the age of 17. Hypersexuality? Well I may have been with her for over 20 years but she still puts out, so I should be fine with that. Drugs? I have a rule that I don't buy em unless I can afford em after all my bills have gone out, it's a spare change rule.

I think I'll be fine.

Come to the UK, we don't do any of that shit here. In Yorkshire we just nod and say "Alreight?" or "How do?" and that's it, job done.

UK here, I used to smoke Joints with tobacco mixed in. Gave up tobacco but still liked a joint.

I moved to a dry herb vape, and now only smoke a Joint very occasionally when someone offers me a cigarette, which is very rare because of the price.

I go "Yeah thanks" and put it behind my ear and tell em I'll get 2 joints out of that later.

Meh, I spend that on weed, and more on rum

From my reading on Pramipexole it's about 10% of people that have these side effects. It worried me when I started taking the pills.

I read the documentation that came with them and it had in bold DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION WITH ALCOHOL AS THIS CAN MAKE SIDE EFFECTS WORSE so I read the side effects and it was compulsive gambling and hypersexuality.

So I gave up my nightly rum for a few weeks. Then I thought "Meh, let's see what happens" and reintroduced my nightly rum and coke before bed. Honestly I've not had anything noticeable.

Nothing compulsive. But I can spend an hour or more solving Rubik's cubes or playing the guitar without even noticing. I had that before the pills though.

Pramipexole

It's used for Parkinson's and restless legs, I use it for restless legs. I've suffered with this condition as far back as I can remember, I've always referred to myself as a part time insomniac because this would keep me up a lot of the time.

I had a period of mental health problems and was prescribed Metazapine for it, which kicked up the RLS a notch. Despite being off them now for nearly a year, the Restless Legs are still kicked up.

Pramipexole, when taken at the right time, sorts the RLS out, I can finally sleep and when I do sleep I don't kick my wife up the arse.

Side affects include hypersexualality and compulsive gambling, but I haven't experienced this yet. I have warned my workmates that it could come up in the future though so if I ever say "I bet you a fiver you can't wank me off" they know why.

Edited to bold Pramipexole

A shit-fish Randy Bobandy

Sounds like you're a shit Manager to me.

I agree wholeheartedly, and when we got locked down for COVID I learned how to play guitar and automate my house using a raspberry pi. It was a great time, and I look back on it fondly. I finally had time to pursue things that interested me, that I didn't have time for with work.

Nowadays I play guitar and tinker with home automation, and work as well, but back then I had the hours to put in to starting the hobbies.

As someone who has done both I couldn't agree more.

I run Home Assistant and could just pay their subscription to get external access, which also supports development. But I'm a cheap Yorkshireman so I went with DuckDNS, Let's Encrypt, Nginx and all that jazz for a long time. I'm just trying to hook my home up to Google so I can talk to it, I don't wanna pay money!

I had so many bloody glitches! I'd have to sign things in on a weekly basis, Google lost access all the damn time and it was just a nuisance.

I have a rule for hobbies, I do it cheap for at least a few months to see if I lose interest. If I get a bit obsessive, it's worth spending money on the hobby.

So after a year or two of fucking around with Nginx and DuckDNS I found the cloudflare plugin, which worked for free for a while. It was night and day, everything remained connected!

It ultimately bugged out one day and I decided to just bite the bullet and buy a domain. It's a hobby I've invested enough time in that a few quid for a solution that just works is worth it.

I think I dropped £35 for 5 years (I forget, it might be a decade) of owning my own .com domain name, which cloudflare manages for me.

I now have to reconnect my Google home to my home assistant once every couple of months instead of every week.

I haven't missed the money, and I certainly haven't missed the fucking tinkering to get it to work.

Meanwhile I've recently discovered Zombie Claus by Psychostick, a Christmas carol about Santa to the tune of a Rob Zombie song, and I'm gonna mix that into our Christmas day music.

I like to play