Malcador Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 Glad to hear you didn't die, Guard Dog. 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Good to hear from you, @Guard Dog, and that things are going loverly. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CopingMarlinsFan Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 Getting ready for tomorrow to talk to my priest about seminary. Finally gonna be a guy with less time on his hands. I also joined this server because well. Was thinking about some of my old times as a teen on some forums and decided to check up on where people went to. Shall be interesting to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 Hubby's been pretty depressed off and on. Goes up and down, he's trying to stay positive etc. But took a few long weekends, kinda mopes around the house or sits silent in my room on weekends, watching me PC for hours since he doesn't feel like doing anything else. >.> His sister will be moving back to the Bay Area soon - they plan to stay a while, then sell that house and retire in far south California. I really think we should go with them. It's sad tho, when 50% of why hubby doesn't want to retire is because ... his work's health insurance. Ours is currently so good (cost wise - pretty much zero for everything) that it feels like it'd be a mistake to not have it available as long as possible. Gotta look at things again, maybe there's ways around it. 2 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionavar Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 Went for a run, removed some ticks from the hound, vacuuming, and some MYSTARY gaming ... so far a nice way to slide into a Canadian long weekend 1 The universe is change; your life is what our thoughts make it - Marcus Aurelius (161) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 Houston got ravaged by a storm and my parents electricity went out, so I've spent the last 24 hours scrambling to set them up somewhere with electricity to run my dad's oxygen concentrators. So far everything has settled, but I'm damn tired. 7 "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarex Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 Glad everything worked out in the end KP. 1 "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 Watched some homeless guy challenge a building to fight. The building won. This city has a certain charm, I have to say. 2 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CopingMarlinsFan Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 Thinking about adopting a dog named Popcorn. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkathi Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 I have not committed murder today. Heading to an art fair and apparently the company the art gallery had transport the artwork, managed to break the glass on all frames. It looks like a €450 damage. Obviously they hadn't insured it. There is a slight chance the person who made the frame had left a slightly too large gap for the glass, allowing it to vibrate too much. My experience with transport companies is though that if in doubt, it is they who messed up. After all, when I moved to the new apartment, the company my parents had hired then, snapped the legs of my desk in half, wrapped them together with tape, to better fit in the truck... 1 Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 I just came back from the hospital, they did a cat-scan on my feet, and yeah, it's still broken. Yay. 1 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 Why is it still broken since early November? "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 1 hour ago, Gfted1 said: Why is it still broken since early November? Excellent question! The doc is going to talk to a specialist and then get back to me, even though I was curious they have a tonne of work so I didn't ask many questions. The xray I saw it looked like the two pieces hadn't touched and healed together but went their separate ways. I'll be asking more over the phone when they call. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 So maybe a year ago one of my upper back molars broke in half/off. But since I'm silly/stupid and almost never do the dentist thing, and there was no pain (I assume it "died" at some point, so it cracked), I didn't do anything about it. Then a lower back molar started to shift rotation and wiggle a bit. Then this week the gum above the broken upper molar finally had an infection. So today I had both removed. Dentistry has improved a lot in 17 years. No pain, fast. Those 3d images of your teeth they can do etc are pretty neat too. Other than those two teeth, everything else looked pretty good, weirdly enough. They have no idea why the one started wiggling. Per usual I'm complimented on having a mouth that never seems to produce tartar even after decades. After healing months I may get some implants. I explain all that because like many before me, as I lie half asleep in a chair as my jaw is tugged and pulled around, I kept asking myself: WHY do dentists/cleaners always yap at you and ask chatty questions while they have tools/fingers in your mouth - it's not like you can answer. 1 1 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkathi Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 Azdeus, make sure they aren't just victims of budget cuts, using the same x-ray since November for all patients. LC, I take post-its with me to dentists, with pre written answers that I can hold up. It totally breaks their chattyness flow. 1 Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVC Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 8 hours ago, LadyCrimson said: So maybe a year ago one of my upper back molars broke in half/off. But since I'm silly/stupid and almost never do the dentist thing, and there was no pain (I assume it "died" at some point, so it cracked), I didn't do anything about it. Then a lower back molar started to shift rotation and wiggle a bit. Then this week the gum above the broken upper molar finally had an infection. So today I had both removed. Dentistry has improved a lot in 17 years. No pain, fast. Those 3d images of your teeth they can do etc are pretty neat too. Other than those two teeth, everything else looked pretty good, weirdly enough. They have no idea why the one started wiggling. Per usual I'm complimented on having a mouth that never seems to produce tartar even after decades. After healing months I may get some implants. I explain all that because like many before me, as I lie half asleep in a chair as my jaw is tugged and pulled around, I kept asking myself: WHY do dentists/cleaners always yap at you and ask chatty questions while they have tools/fingers in your mouth - it's not like you can answer. Do you consider yourself a chatty person in RL? Do you enjoy chatting to strangers in supermarket lines or striking up a conversation with someone on a plane Im generally very chatty. I talk all the time if people want to engage and most of the time they do but I can read signs if someone doesnt want to chat and thats fine, I find women are generally much friendlier with random conversation Its funny because on planes I have occasions where someone has said " sorry Im not being rude but I dont want to talk " and I say something like " no problem, I completely understand. I prefer people being honest and not feeling obliged to have a conversation on a flight " and they say " yes, I can tell you like to talk which is why Im telling you " And thats perfectly fine, especially on a plane. You have every right to not engage in random conversation if you dont want to "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 8 hours ago, melkathi said: Azdeus, make sure they aren't just victims of budget cuts, using the same x-ray since November for all patients. The x-rays were dated and I saw them side by side so there were minor differences in angle. And, while they are victims of budget cuts, it manifests in lengthy queues for non-emergency surgeries. Which means that I'll likely have to wait a loooong time for surgery 1 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 (edited) Told dentist I'm supposedly allergic to penicillin but don't really know how severe (it was on my adoption forms, mom always took it seriously, I've been trained to say it). He kept pushing an antibiotic with a name that started with A, asking if I was ok with that. I kept saying I have no idea. I guess he prescribed one called Clindamycin. I can't recall what doctors in the past used to frequently give me, but it wasn't that one. Took 4 doses. Felt a little weird after a while, as if I was abdomen-back tension-stressed. Ate some broth with tiny bits of pork/spinach (so I don't have to chew). Felt worse and worse. Six hours later I threw it all up. The notes for the antibiotic mention nausea and vomiting as possible "side effects". Yeah, I think I won't take any more. First time an antibiotic made me toss my cookies. >.> At least I've had almost no after-extracion swelling/pain. I was expecting worse. Only needed one of the codeine-Tylenol pills, haven't taken any more. Edited May 25 by LadyCrimson 1 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 23 minutes ago, LadyCrimson said: Told dentist I'm supposedly allergic to penicillin but don't really know how severe (it was on my adoption forms, mom always took it seriously, I've been trained to say it). He kept pushing an antibiotic with a name that started with A, asking if I was ok with that. I kept saying I have no idea. I guess he prescribed one called Clindamycin. I can't recall what doctors in the past used to frequently give me, but it wasn't that one. Took 4 doses. Felt a little weird after a while, as if I was abdomen-back tension-stressed. Ate some broth with tiny bits of pork/spinach (so I don't have to chew). Felt worse and worse. Six hours later I threw it all up. The notes for the antibiotic mention nausea and vomiting as possible "side effects". Yeah, I think I won't take any more. First time an antibiotic made me toss my cookies. >.> At least I've had almost no after-extracion swelling/pain. I was expecting worse. Only needed one of the codeine-Tylenol pills, haven't taken any more. The pharmacist couldn't help you with finding out more? Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 1 hour ago, Azdeus said: The pharmacist couldn't help you with finding out more? I didn't ask. I'm sure they would have knowledge if you insist on asking questions but in my life most pharmacists act mostly like store cashiers. Stand in line like you're at the dept. of motor vehicles, pick up your bag/pay, shuffle out so someone else can do the same. It's not really conducive to info gathering if you know what I mean. Looking up antibiotics, I think in the past it was the Tetracycline broad spectrum family that I was usually given, and the one the dentist kept pushing/asking about was Amoxicillin, which is penicillin based. I guess that's why he kept asking how bad my penicillin allergy was. I honestly don't think I seriously needed an antibiotic to begin with, for this case, it's more that precaution/preventive concept. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 41 minutes ago, LadyCrimson said: I didn't ask. I'm sure they would have knowledge if you insist on asking questions but in my life most pharmacists act mostly like store cashiers. Stand in line like you're at the dept. of motor vehicles, pick up your bag/pay, shuffle out so someone else can do the same. It's not really conducive to info gathering if you know what I mean. Looking up antibiotics, I think in the past it was the Tetracycline broad spectrum family that I was usually given, and the one the dentist kept pushing/asking about was Amoxicillin, which is penicillin based. I guess that's why he kept asking how bad my penicillin allergy was. I honestly don't think I seriously needed an antibiotic to begin with, for this case, it's more that precaution/preventive concept. Huh, over here it's a 5 year university college education with 6 months of internship and a licence to be allowed to work at pharmacists. They're the ones that keep the doctors in check when it comes to medicines afterall. They will educate you on the medicine you're taking unless you tell them you've been on them for a while, especially antibiotics. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 (edited) 2 hours ago, Azdeus said: Huh, over here it's a 5 year university college education with 6 months of internship and a licence to be allowed to work at pharmacists. They're the ones that keep the doctors in check when it comes to medicines afterall. They will educate you on the medicine you're taking unless you tell them you've been on them for a while, especially antibiotics. Oh, no, don't get me wrong. I think it's pretty similar here in the US too, re: education requirements. I just mean the ... retail? customer service? ... aspect of pharmacy/prescription pick-up for many hospitals or retail outlets (a pharmacy can be put into/offered in a Wal-Mart) has turned into a cattle-drive retail line system, which generally doesn't encourage people to hangout and try to get lots of info at those places specifically. I'd guess most people spend more time talking to doctors and online research then talking to pharmacists - who are more likely to be viewed as a sort of cashier (just someone you hand a prescription to/or give your name to and they fill it). Don't quote me tho - just what I think while standing/watching in lines. Edited May 25 by LadyCrimson “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 45 minutes ago, LadyCrimson said: Oh, no, don't get me wrong. I think it's pretty similar here in the US too, re: education requirements. I just mean the ... retail? customer service? ... aspect of pharmacy/prescription pick-up for many hospitals or retail outlets (a pharmacy can be put into/offered in a Wal-Mart) has turned into a cattle-drive retail line system, which generally doesn't encourage people to hangout and try to get lots of info at those places specifically. I'd guess most people spend more time talking to doctors and online research then talking to pharmacists - who are more likely to be viewed as a sort of cashier (just someone you hand a prescription to/or give your name to and they fill it). Don't quote me tho - just what I think while standing/watching in lines. We have commercial pharmacies here too, but they're following the same principles of always educating the patients of what they are taking, wether the 20 people waiting for the single cashier want to or not I've waited a bit over two hours once to get my things, which kind of sucked when it was pain medicine for my foot. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkathi Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 Art Fair was a disaster. Embarrassingly few visitors. For me it went well on the networking side. A number of people from the art scene now know my face. And at least one person, influential in the local art scene made a point of telling everyone that my art is what they should be checking out. Also, I think a lady may have been flirting with me. But I am slow on the uptake so I am not certain. She said we'll go for coffee though once I am back in Athens so I guess we'll find out. 4 1 Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uuuhhii Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 (edited) panic attack are extra annoying in summer one would assume cold shiver can fight off some heat but couldn't use ac because it make the cold shiver worse doesn't use ac means sweating while feeling cold in limbs and back Edited May 29 by uuuhhii 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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