[18hammers]

I thought I would start a thread different from my accident and the Kratom that was previously recommended to me......So I took my first hit of red Kratom minutes ago. I thought I was ready to try it, read up on it the types, dose size and such, then found a problem, I have a scale that I went to use but turns out I cant trust the damn thing. It has worked fine for measuring cooking ingredients but at the couple gram size it just isn't trust worthy, so I am just going by volume, started with a level teaspoon, will wait a hour then maybe bump up with 1/2 teaspoon more. Pain in that right foot is becoming a killer the more I walk on it, so I hope this stuff can become another tool for pain relief.
Since the accident I had to spend so much time healing that I started looking around on the net for other types of pain relief, (legal stuff only) I had not heard of Kratom until it was recommend to me so I thought maybe there are other products as well and sure enough I have been able to find a few other things that I am going to order in and try. (side note, just noticed my foot is not throbbing like it was when I started this post). Even if this Kratom works for me I would like more options outside doctor prescribed items. So expect me to post further on my findings as I test them out.

[RE]

This stuff is advertised on TV all the time for joint pain relief.

https://www.omegaxl.com/

I have never tried it so I can't tell you if it works.  Plenty of testimonials on the website though.



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[RE]

For all you Doomers who believe in the magical properties of Ganja to cure all human maladies, there is a Pain Relief Cream made from the multi-purpose Hemp plant.

https://hempvana.com/

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[K-Dog]

I don't understand the logic.    'You can read about its effects elsewhere.'

This is a forum where your personal experience is VALUABLE.

Last time I tried Kratom I got sick to my stomach and the 'effects' were minimal.

Rumor has it that K-Dog is a pothead.

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The dogs are OK ?

* You and Moniker each have modified Default Avatars now.  If you go to your profile page and then select 'Forum Profile' on the 'Forum Profile' dropdown.  (yes you read that right) you are on a page where you can modify default Avatars. 

There is a new radio button in the list; Customize default avatar'.  This radio button exists ONLY AT THE DOOMSTEAD DINER.  Because I wrote the code for it is why. 

I will publish 'the plugin' at the SMF Forum Website and suggest people come here to see the results.  Play with the color options, but don't forget to click the 'SAVE AVATAR' button or your changes won't save to your profile.  You can have one or two characters in the circle.

I will polish the color selections before another forum gets to have 'default avatars'.  So what we have here will become version 1.1 soon, because of course it comes here first.

[K-Dog]

File sizes matter.  I found the function that SMF (what we have) uses when it loads an Avatar and I use the same function.  In the process I discovered that our Avatar settings made Avatars 65 by 65 pixels wide and I changed the setting to 72 x 72.

That made old Avatars lower in resolution so I rebuilt RE's Avatar from an original photo, made is square and gave it a background color.  That was no problem.  Surly1's avatar was also a bit funky from the change so I rebuilt it from the original Banksy photo which is a few thousand pixels wide.  The function choked.

I scaled the image down to 1000 pixels by 1000 pixels, but still had a problem.  500 x 500 worked fine.

It is easy to change the resolution of a photo online.  Find a place and scale the image you like to a 500 x 500 pixel square.  Download it and When you load it up to the forum software it should convert to 72 x 72.

In time I plan on improving photo upload and such.  I only realized I had the skills to customize this place not so long ago.  I had the idea that it was too complicated and avoided the idea.  I was wrong.  Working on my own website gave me the skills.  I was able to add my custom avatar function to a code file that was over 3000 lines long without fucking things up! 

The total length of the code base for this place is between 100,000 and 300,000 lines of code.  Messing with it requires a bit of attention to detail and when I first started I was to too quick to make 'a small change' and loaded up a file without testing it on my local copy of the software first.

We had a 'white screen' for a few hours.  I am more careful now. 

Periodically I back up the website.  I could have it done once a day but that would cost a couple of bucks a month so I just do it when I make a significant change.