Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world
tomierna
(Admin)
– December 07, 2007 08:50PM
Hell, it was a popular icebreaker on the ancien boards ...
Get up close and personal with excruciating details of your quotidien
existence!
How's your dirty laundry?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/07/2007 09:44PM by tomierna.
Cloudscout
– July 11, 2011 05:36PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
There are days you get paid to get out of bed? Do those days involve Charlie Sheen?
John Willoughby
– July 11, 2011 05:40PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Well, if I don't get out of bed my job won't pay me.
tomierna
(Admin)
– July 11, 2011 05:53PM
Hideously Unnatural
One wonders if your sprinkler problem was responsible for your cable problem.
(In my neighborhood, when I was on cable-modem, if it got damp, the internet spigot turned off.)
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– July 11, 2011 09:06PM
Glad some people are dying in the heat (30 degrees in Helsinki ddt? You big tease...).
I for one, am sick of 5 degree winter mornings in so-called subtropical Brisbane. La nina go away!
John Willoughby
– July 11, 2011 09:09PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
>One wonders if your sprinkler problem was responsible for your cable problem.
That's what I thought, but when I called the cable company, I got a recording telling me that a lot of people in my "region" were suffering an outage. I don't think that my sprinklers could take out a "region," especially as I don't think we'd be a central node of any network. But who knows, maybe I took my city offline. The cable came back a couple of hours after my grouchy post.
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ddt
– July 11, 2011 11:22PM
Ugh, sounds lousy, sorry to hear. On the other hand... need anything/one disappeared? That yard sounds like a commercial opportunity.
ddt
El Jeffe
– July 12, 2011 06:09AM
What a journey.
So, you ruined everyone's cable by flooding it. Way to go J-Will!!!! :) (TIC)
John Willoughby
– July 12, 2011 07:16AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
If I get no internets, then NOBODY gets no internets.
John Willoughby
– July 13, 2011 02:48PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I have four different ways to get in touch with my wife in an instant. None of them work. It might as well be 1811. Two centuries of communications progress is wasted.
(The problem is not technical, just... social.)
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El Jeffe
– July 13, 2011 03:12PM
What a journey.
about same here. But really, what emergency won't eventually be realized?
I shrug.
johnny k
– July 13, 2011 04:17PM
Same here. I have a solution that involves Bluetooth earrings, but it'll have to wait until it takes less power.
Jeff Cooper
– July 14, 2011 10:15AM
I was running along the White River and mentally composing a Facebook post about how glorious I felt, when my right foot, striding forward, hit the raised edge of an uneven paving block. Suddenly I was airborne. Then I wasn't. Landing points; right knee, both hands, front teeth. Seeing no gushing blood (oozing doesn't count) or missing teeth (chips don't count), and after determining that my knee was stable, I ran another mile (I was going to have to walk at least a half mile anyway, so what the heck) before getting cleaned up for an unexpected trip to the dentist.
Several hours later, I've had preliminary work done to stabilize my front teeth, with a follow-up appointment scheduled for next week. My hands are covered with small abrasions. My knee has stiffened, although I remain convinced it's just a bruise and a nice-looking scrape. And I have that slightly off feeling you get when your body has had a mild trauma. Fun day.
John Willoughby
– July 14, 2011 11:02AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Sorry, Jeff, sounds awful. This is why I don't exercise; it's healthier.
El Jeffe
– July 14, 2011 11:37AM
What a journey.
Ouch. Ouch. OUCH!
sorry man.
I am the type of person that cringes when I see anyone fall or get hit on America's Funniest Videos. I can't stand to see people get hurt. Makes me wince.
(never could be a doc)
Cloudscout
– July 14, 2011 12:44PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
I would like to second that. Your description was quite vivid. Glad to hear you're not too badly injured. Hopefully the knee loosens up quickly.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– July 14, 2011 02:30PM
Gotta learn those Commando rolls Jeff...
Sue FaceBook on principle...
ddt
– July 14, 2011 08:00PM
Ouch, Jeff! Remember RICE -- rest, ice, compression, elevation.
And don't be a hero with that knee. Go see a doc if it remains stiff and swollen.
ddt
tliet
– July 14, 2011 08:27PM
Indeed, sounds pretty bad Jeff. Get better soon!
John Willoughby
– July 14, 2011 08:33PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Quote
ddt
Go see a doc if it remains stiff and swollen.
...for more than four hours...
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Jeff Cooper
– July 15, 2011 05:31AM
Thanks, all. Morning after report is good for everything except one of my front teeth. The knee pain at this point is mostly from the abrasion just above the kneecap. Otherwise, no swelling, no more stiffness than I ordinarily have after a run, and no instability. My palms are raw, and my right wrist is a bit sore (but it has a full range of motion and no swelling). I was lucky--it could have been a lot worse. But I'm concerned that I may wind up losing a top front tooth before Samantha does.
(JW: Always good advice!)
