embalming 101: arterial fluid

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formaldehyde; a simple flat, triangular molecule, that in liquid form love to bind with loose water molecules to form a tree sap like resin...and that's the basis for preserving human remains, lock-up all errant water so decomposing bacterial have no resources. modern fluids are a mixture of the aforementioned formaldehyde, methanol (to stabilize the normally crystal formaldehyde into a liquid), humectants (for adding moisture), surfactants...
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no sin, no rapture, no agony...

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this is my wood pile...and let me tell you 'it's sooo sweet', 'how sweet' you teasingly demure...'like nibbling a melty peanut butter cup off a pretty ladie's tummy...it's sucrose baby!' i built the bugger with my own two hands (gloved, let's be reasonable, the bug situation was a mess), and now i'm basking in my own ridiculous radiance.

i hope everyone out there has a
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an unemployed jester is nobody's fool

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that's me on the netflix series 'chelsea', on a lark (ie. a slow day at work) i joined a dating site for americans fleeing a then potential trump presidency, by finding an amenable canadian to marry them... such an awful idea, like international 'tinder' but with a matrimony money-shot ending...obviously rational thought is not a strong suit of mine. so a month after signing-up and
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william it was really nothing.

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if you've ever listened to 'i bleed' by the Pixies and felt the need to scream the chorus at your ceiling, then we're in common waters. two people as near to me as my own skin are moving far away at 2am this very morning...the parting is bittersweet. i understand how their lives will be improved due wholly to the relocation, but the selfish, human...
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arglebargle or foofahrah?

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pessimism, such a misunderstood creature...in a time and place that aggressively seeks all things 'positive', i feel the malcontents of the world are quite undervalued. fate, destiny, and/or chaos, whatever happens to be in the driver's seat of existence, has little heed for your daily errands, giving us the failure that dogs us throughout our time breathing. but is 'non-success' so wretched? as an all...
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i abandoned this smutty little cyber street several years ago, my life a the time was an orgy of upheaval and poor planning (at one point i moved to northern alberta, tsk tsk), so now armed with a questionable sense of maturity i'm taking another deliberate stroll...