(Part 3) Top products from r/rva

Yo /u/drycounty, next selection is Bohemian Love Diaries: A Memoir by Slash Coleman.

> Infused with southern charm, this irresistibly weird and wonderful story chronicles Slash Coleman’s upbringing in a warped but warm-hearted household of eccentric artists. Descended from a posse of off-beat immigrants--including a grandfather who danced at the Moulin Rouge--and raised near the capital of the Confederacy during the 1970s and ’80s, young Slash sets out to find true love. Unfortunately, he’s his own worst enemy. Obsessions with Evel Knievel, rock band KISS, and crisscrossing the country to find the girl of his dreams set his quest for happiness on a hapless course.

>Hilarious and profound, Coleman slowly comes to terms with his father, a genius sculptor and volatile alcoholic, and his mother, a Holocaust survivor who makes him promise never to reveal that he’s Jewish. A touching portrait emerges of a young artist whose passionate spirit refuses to be suppressed. A swift kick to the funny bone, The Bohemian Love Diaries and its laugh-out-loud perversity conjure Jonathan Ames and Augusten Burroughs with a tender edge, revealing what might have happened if John Hodgman raised Holden Caulfield in Chuck Palahniuk’s attic. It will leave you howling.

Just an FYI, I found this book really helpful, and wished I'd read it a bit sooner than I did. It's now the one I recommend to friends when they start getting the "oh jeez, my parents are getting old" feeling.

Good luck!

We used "Barrons e-z american sign language" as our textbook its is structured well and really cheap online. I never really used Youtube so nothing I can recommend, I would say the other resources posted should be better then youtube. ASL is really something you'll pick up and do better with others face to face.
Best of luck.

https://www.amazon.com/Z-American-Sign-Language-Barrons/dp/0764144588/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518295242&sr=8-1&keywords=barrons+e-z+american+sign+language

I would probably talk to your GP and get a recommendation. There's two factors at play here, what is the therapist's specialty and how do they treat you. Examples of specialities:

1. Therapists who deal with trauma (PTSD, rape, exposure to violence)
   
2. Relationship councilling
   
3. Chronic depression, OCD, Panic attacks, Agoraphobia (which often tend to co-morbid with at least one of another)
   etc.
   
   Then what is their treatment approach?
   
4. Talk Therapy
   
5. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
   
6. Mindfulness
   
   etc.
   Just something to think about, within the past 10 years CBT is increasingly becoming more popular versus talk therapy as it has in many cases proved to be more effective especially with people with OCD. However recently many are adopting CBT but also mindfulness.
   
   So in summary, if I were you:
   
7. Go to your GP explain what you are suffering, get a referral to a therapist that deals with that
   
8. Get on google and do some research on CBT, Talk Therapy, Mindfulness etc. and start thinking about what you think would work for you, although you many not know that and would rather have the therapist design a course for you, but hey at least you are now educated.
   
   Lastly if what you are suffering is anxiety, depression, negative thoughts, literally the holy bible of many who suffer this is the "feeling good workbook" which is CBT based. It's an actual work book you work through and do exercises and the internet is full of people talking about it:
   
   http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Handbook-David-Burns-Paperback/dp/B00IGYUG60/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1427559920&sr=8-3&keywords=Feeling+good+handbook
   
   Give this a read about Corey Doctorow a fairly well known writer and how this book took him out of depression:
   
   http://boingboing.net/2008/11/30/cognitive-therapy-is.html
   
   Lastly I have a lot of friends who have had a lot of success with NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), the inventor of this is Richard Bandler and this is a very good book:
   
   http://www.amazon.com/Get-Life-You-Want-Neuro-Linguistic/dp/0757307760/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
   
   A lot of NLP is based on success, sales, influence etc., but this book specifically deals with negative thoughts and behaviours. An example would be that you get flash backs from a painful incident in your past, an exercise is to pretend that you're watching this on a tv screen and what you do is turn up the volume on it, make it bigger and brighter, then turn down the volume on it, make it small, make it silent and black and white until it disapears. You do the opposite with positive events in your life, you make them louder and bigger and brighter. It teaches you to control negative and positive thoughts.
   
   Fun fact - Anthony Robbins the self help guru with tons of books out there, started out in NLP and now practices a modified form of it.
   
   Good luck OP and keep seeking out what will work for you.

Thanks! I went with Baby Animals and Sea Life Stained Glass.

Even if I can't make it on Sunday, these seem like they could be a fun time.

I'm a big fan of the books produced by Dover. They've been around forever and were making adult coloring books long before the latest craze kicked in so they have a huge selection to choose from and are relatively inexpensive. They also have every kind of style, pattern or theme you could imagine so it's easy to find something that lines up with your interests.



I like their National Parks and Dragon books.

I'd recommend getting a repair/service manual or a book on scooter repair. Even a basic small engine manual would be helpful. Here are a few examples:

How to Repair Your Scooter (Motorbooks Workshop)

2002-2009 Honda CHF50 Metropolitan Service Manual

Scooters,Automatic Transmission 50 to 250cc (Hayne's Automotive Repair Manual)

Honda 125 Scooters Service and Repair Manual: 2000 to 2010 (Haynes Motorcycle Manuals)

https://www.amazon.com/Cow-Parking-Lot-Approach-Overcoming/dp/0761158154

This actually helped me. It gets a little overly Buddhist at points, but it's a good read and premise.

Show Your Work by Austin Kleon is a quick, engaging read that deals with this exact question.

Well whaddya know.

https://www.amazon.com/Florence-Arabia-Novel-Christopher-Buckley/dp/0812972260

Read
https://www.amazon.com/Inquiry-Nature-Causes-Wealth-Nations/dp/0226763749

Essentially allow the laws of supply and demand work. I constantly hear on this community that all people want are bike/ mass transit centric housing. Let the government get out of the way of making that a reality.

Read https://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Europe-Between-Hitler-Stalin/dp/0465031471/

The crop-demands of the soviets were absurd. They literally exceeded the most optimistic yields in any nation by several magnitudes.

The USSR famines go beyond simple droughts/natural-disasters/etc. It was deliberate and the consequence of millions starving was simply an acceptable price to pay to urbanize the nation.


There are many incidents in history of short-sighted policies having unintended consequences (e.g. The Four Pests Campaign). But this isn't the case for millions of the victims under the USSR rule.

Install a bypass

One part wires up to your ground, the other to the blue wire / amp, and the last wire to the parking brake wire on your head unit.

It will essentially trick the head unit into thinking that the brake is engaged at all times, so you don't have to mess with or splice your brake wire. Better to ruin your aftermarket radio harness than your brake circuitry. Accidentally grounding the wrong wire will cause you to get issues / burned bulbs, etc.

I am Murdered
http://www.amazon.com/Am-Murdered-Jefferson-Killing-Shocked/dp/0470185511