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	<description>Writings about my life that I hope others learn from.</description>
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		<title>I hab a code</title>
		<link>http://randolph-garrett.com/blog/?p=138</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 07:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Translated: &#8220;I have a cold&#8221;.  All the classic symptoms. So that feeling of &#8220;dying&#8221; probably was the usual classic &#8220;you feel like your going to die&#8221; when you are sick when usually it isn&#8217;t true.  Your just miserable. And doubly so in my case.  The cold on top of severe depression. Everything furry has been [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Translated: &#8220;I have a cold&#8221;.  All the classic symptoms.</p>
<p>So that feeling of &#8220;dying&#8221; probably was the usual classic &#8220;you feel like your going to die&#8221; when you are sick when usually it isn&#8217;t true.  Your just miserable.</p>
<p>And doubly so in my case.  The cold on top of severe depression.</p>
<p>Everything furry has been put away.  And I am in a lot of pain from it.  But the damned cold is confusing things! <img src='http://randolph-garrett.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Ooops, forgot status report / log</title>
		<link>http://randolph-garrett.com/blog/?p=134</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 18:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should have been reporting here about things.  I forgot. I&#8217;m trying to keep myself off of FaceBook and FurAffinity as those are my main online furry sites I go to and are part of the addiction issue. The hiatus means I should not really do much furry anything for a while.  And it isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I should have been reporting here about things.  I forgot.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m trying to keep myself off of FaceBook and FurAffinity as those are my main online furry sites I go to and are part of the addiction issue.</p>
<p>The hiatus means I should not really do much furry anything for a while.  And it isn&#8217;t easy since it&#8217;s going &#8220;cold turkey&#8221; (furry pun not intended).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s left me in severe depression.  Not only have I packed away the fursuits and stuff in the shed, but I&#8217;m packing up my plushies.  Gong back to so called &#8220;normal&#8221;.</p>
<p>But I cannot and will not leave the furry fandom.  I may stay out of touch with the bay area furry community, but not fully give up.  It&#8217;s not possible or I hope it isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>So today was packing the plushies, feeding my roommate who is back from the hospital, and playing computer games and watch some TV shows.  I just can&#8217;t do much of anything else anymore.  I&#8217;m in very bad shape.</p>
<p>The past several weeks now my therapist has been absent and right during  a full crisis on my part.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure what to say to catch up after the last posting on what&#8217;s been happening.</p>
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		<title>He&#8217;s back</title>
		<link>http://randolph-garrett.com/blog/?p=132</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 00:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the guy who owns the mobile home I live in has come home yesterday.  So we&#8217;re back to the routine of my feeding him (he&#8217;s bed bound) and dealing with frequent interruptions by him. And I&#8217;m on a &#8216;furry hiatus&#8217; due to apparent addiction issues. And my therapist again could not make the appointment [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well the guy who owns the mobile home I live in has come home yesterday.  So we&#8217;re back to the routine of my feeding him (he&#8217;s bed bound) and dealing with frequent interruptions by him.</p>
<p>And I&#8217;m on a &#8216;furry hiatus&#8217; due to apparent addiction issues.</p>
<p>And my therapist again could not make the appointment when I&#8217;m in a crisis.</p>
<p>So, I just can&#8217;t do anything.  Way too depressed.  I really feel horrible.</p>
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		<title>A day so far</title>
		<link>http://randolph-garrett.com/blog/?p=129</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glad to know no one misses me in the furry community.  That&#8217;s sarcasm BTW.  I undid the site blocks to look for urgent messages &#8211; none.  I have such an empty feeling inside.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Glad to know no one misses me in the furry community.  That&#8217;s sarcasm BTW.  I undid the site blocks to look for urgent messages &#8211; none.  I have such an empty feeling inside.</p>
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		<title>No longer a furry?</title>
		<link>http://randolph-garrett.com/blog/?p=126</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Goodwill today for probably the first time since June 22, 2011 I&#8217;ve felt ashamed to call myself a furry. Now on top of that I don&#8217;t feel like a furry anymore. On person says it&#8217;s an expensive luxury (so I should not have fursuits or go fursuiting).  Others say that fursuiting is perceived as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At Goodwill today for probably the first time since June 22, 2011 I&#8217;ve felt ashamed to call myself a furry.</p>
<p>Now on top of that I don&#8217;t feel like a furry anymore.</p>
<p>On person says it&#8217;s an expensive luxury (so I should not have fursuits or go fursuiting).  Others say that fursuiting is perceived as creepy by a lot of folks, especially the police.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;m both on hiatus and not a furry for the next week.  I won&#8217;t even wear the tail anymore.</p>
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		<title>Hiatus</title>
		<link>http://randolph-garrett.com/blog/?p=120</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m staying out of the furry activities and will post my journal here. Therapist suggested I stop doing furry stuff. So sites are now blocked on my browsers and notifications turned off.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m staying out of the furry activities and will post my journal here.</p>
<p>Therapist suggested I stop doing furry stuff. So sites are now blocked on my browsers and notifications turned off.</p>
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		<title>Frozen</title>
		<link>http://randolph-garrett.com/blog/?p=117</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stuck in a infinite loop of pain and suffering. Dax, again, has a thing, they tweet the great time they had. I&#8217;m never invited, never included, nothing. I need to stay off twitter. It&#8217;s a source of nothing but pain.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stuck in a infinite loop of pain and suffering.<br />
Dax, again, has a thing, they tweet the great time they had. I&#8217;m never invited, never included, nothing.<br />
I need to stay off twitter. It&#8217;s a source of nothing but pain.</p>
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		<title>Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://randolph-garrett.com/blog/?p=112</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the reply on the Thanksgiving invite for furries sounded like a brush off so I won&#8217;t be going and just stay at home alone again. I just wish I could do more with fellow furries but &#8220;I&#8217;m not their type&#8221; or whatever the problem is. Miserable life. I keep being told that I have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, the reply on the Thanksgiving invite for furries sounded like a brush off so I won&#8217;t be going and just stay at home alone again.</p>
<p>I just wish I could do more with fellow furries but &#8220;I&#8217;m not their type&#8221; or whatever the problem is.</p>
<p>Miserable life. I keep being told that I have to have a &#8220;handler&#8221; in order to fursuit and since I have no one to ask I cannot go fursuiting even with the others on the rare occasion there is something I could go to. I&#8217;m way out of luck.</p>
<p>I wish the local furries were more inviting rather than intolerant of those who are different. I am not exactly their &#8220;worst friend&#8221; when I&#8217;m a friend. I feel as if most furries would risk being friends with drug addicts, drunks, theives, etc. than with someone with mental health and poverty issues. And that is why I have mental health issues.</p>
<p>If I was allowed and able to fursuit often I&#8217;d feel a whole lot better. If I had friends to do things with it would be even better but so far all attempts have resulted in nothing. Dead zero. And it&#8217;s been YEARS of effort.</p>
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		<title>Bad Medicine</title>
		<link>http://randolph-garrett.com/blog/?p=113</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I could put this journal on FurAffinity but the Trolls will show up in hordes and talking about it I might upset someone.  Dax un-followed me on FA for that reason. I&#8217;ve put in a call to the doctor that I DO have &#8220;crying fits&#8221; from for example reading about Dogbombs yet another [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wish I could put this journal on FurAffinity but the Trolls will show up in hordes and talking about it I might upset someone.  Dax un-followed me on FA for that reason.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve put in a call to the doctor that I DO have &#8220;crying fits&#8221; from for example reading about Dogbombs yet another fursuit outing.  And Dax had reminded me that I should not fursuit without a hearing ear person (aka: escort or handler).</p>
<p>So my anxiety disorder flares up and despite needing to do a fursuit walk, etc.  I just can&#8217;t at all.  Too scared to fursuit.  To scared to ask about for local furs to befriend to do so.</p>
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		<title>Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr</title>
		<link>http://randolph-garrett.com/blog/?p=110</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, my fursuit head I paid for with my grocery money and was anxiously waiting was damaged by UPS.  It&#8217;ll be a LONG wait. But I have a burning jealousy.  And I found out in part why.  First it was Dogbomb.  Fantastic fursuit, and he got to do things I&#8217;m not allowed.  I was reminded [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, my fursuit head I paid for with my grocery money and was anxiously waiting was damaged by UPS.  It&#8217;ll be a LONG wait.</p>
<p>But I have a burning jealousy.  And I found out in part why.  First it was Dogbomb.  Fantastic fursuit, and he got to do things I&#8217;m not allowed.  I was reminded by a guy I know that because of my hearing impairment I have to have an escort when others can get away without.</p>
<p>And now Palomino Pony and his new fursuit.  Which I thought was supposed to be a quad BTW.</p>
<p>Both fursuits were made by Beastcub.</p>
<p>Perfection in fur but only for the skinny.  I doubt they can do fat folks like me.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s her damned outstanding work that is what sparks my jealousy in part.  I have no idea how many good looking fursuits are done by them that I will never have as employers are free to discriminate and I am at a severe disadvantage as it is from the results of being disabled.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;ll never look good, I&#8217;ll never have a decent fursuit, I&#8217;ll never get to go fursuiting, especially when I make arrangements as I need an escort.  I&#8217;ll never have friends as most folk don&#8217;t like us old hard of hearing guys unless we&#8217;re stinking rich.</p>
<p>So I sit here fuming.</p>
<p>Life sucks.</p>
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