In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Well, Climate Stations still hasn't put up their pretty graphic, but I did find a website that reports season rain total at USC (which is where the Climate Stations graphic is based - plus the website also includes other SoCal places). https://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we13a.php It indicates that through November we're at almost exactly normal.
The US Drought Monitor indicates that most of the west coast is 'abnormally dry' since (according to an article I read yesterday but didn't save the link to) everyplace from mid-California on up is at half normal rainfall.
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Word to the wise...
Clorox bleach spray is not "safe".
I've been cleaning my basement with it today since it has been absolutely gross down there for years. It looks and smells great, but I've got some mild bleach toxicity going on now. I should have done this during the nice weather with all of the windows open. I've been at this for hours without any windows open because it's too cold outside.
My lungs aren't on fire like they were last time when I cleaned the visqueen in the crawl space with undiluted bleach and a mask, and until very late into the game I didn't even notice that I was suffering from any irritation until my eyes started bothering me.
I went to grab a cup of coffee and realized that I was in trouble when the coffee smelled like bleach. Everything tastes like bleach now too. I'm not having any problems smoking a cigarette, but even the cigarette tastes like bleach.
Read the labels.
Clorox bleach spray is not "safe".
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Ouch. 
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That alone wouldn't be so terrible, but I'm suffering pretty badly today from a lower back pain that is becoming worrisome to me. I don't think it's a muscle pain. I'm wondering if I have an internal infection of some sort... possibly a kidney infection.
It's been bothering me on and off for about 10 days now, although I haven't mentioned it before. All the way back when I had first started working on my computer. It got pretty bad there one night that I had stayed up particularly late and I think sitting in the same position was really effecting it.
I've been loading up on vitamin C for about a week now and getting more sleep than usual. For the most part it has seemed to work and it wasn't feeling as bad as it had before. Today though it's on fire. I've got a few more things I would like to get done tonight before I call it quits until tomorrow. Hopefully a good night sleep and I'll feel better.
Do you know if I would be feeling feverish or sick if I had a kidney infection, Kiki?
Maybe it's not as bad as I'm imagining it is. It hasn't effected my appetite or made me feel sick. It's just really painful and it feels different than any pulled muscle I've ever had before. Risking some TMI factor here, I'm also pretty gassy as well.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Oh dear. Jack, do you have a local Urgent Care (Doc in a Box) you could run off to? They are the people you need to see to say either 'OMG !!' or 'you're OK'. At least you know they're not attached to a hospital ! 
I also PM'd you.
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Yeah. I've got something like that.
Got a deal with the city tomorrow that needs to be taken care of though, and Tuesday I start my dental project. I think I'll just take it easy the next few days and keep loading up on the vitamin C and see how it feels. The more I think about it, the more it seems like terrible gassyness than anything else. It's just that it's been like this for a pretty long time now and it seems rather concentrated on that one spot. I'm no stranger to the occasional gas issue, even when I'm on a good diet like I am these days, but if that's all this is it's certainly behaving differently than it ever has before. Usually it's up front and more spread out all over the place. After working all day long it is a project just bending down to get something right now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I would really love to unload all my tips and tidbits of info. As you know, I do tips and tidbits of info quite a bit ! This just doesn't seem the time. I'm really, really sorry. I truly am.
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I'm good. No worries. Feeling better today, but it's still a problem.
Better that you don't give advise and tell me 10 things that it probably isn't that would make me freak out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I'm glad you're doing better! But if that should change, I hope you skedaddle on over to a doc.
FWIW I always tell everyone I know irl - did you / will you see a doctor? It's my standard answer. I'm a big fan of people seeing a doctor for things that are troubling them.
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I don't know if I can say that I'm doing "better" just yet.
As bad as it felt a week or so ago, it had pretty much gone away or at least become minimal enough that I was easily able to ignore it. That's about where I'm at right now, but I haven't been all that active today compared to yesterday. It doesn't hurt to sit still or to lay down. It doesn't even really hurt when I'm moving around much either. But it is hard for me to get up from a sitting or lying position without pain.
I'll keep an eye on it. Might go to that clinic if it's still bothering me next week. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I think that's a good idea. There are sort of levels of pain, and the trigger as to what could use a professional visit is if it affects your normal functioning - ie you either have to do things differently than normal, or you've given up doing them at all.
How's the bleach taste/smell doing, by the way?
And I know you said you had some stuff to do today, and your mouth project starts tomorrow - how was today? Everything go smoothly? And good luck tomorrow with your mouth!
BTW, this isn't an entirely random question - did you have chickenpox as a kid, or did you get the vaccine?
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The pain has never been bad enough that I haven't been able to do things. It was really annoying last night though, even though I did manage to work hours after the sun had set.
I'm just a worrier by nature though, and over the years and all the abuse I've become pretty in tune with my body and what it's trying to tell me. Especially now that I'm sober. This just doesn't seem like something run of the mill is all.
I did have that terrible fall down the stairs while I was drinking heavily all those years ago, and come to think of it, I have been sneezing quite a lot lately. It was a sneeze back then that made the pain about 10 times as bad a week or so after the fall that pretty much kept me bed ridden for about a month. Maybe the fact that I'm not as physically active as I was at the old job combined with a few bad sneezes did it to me now? It certainly does hurt when I sneeze right now, and it's in the very same spot that I had fallen back then.
The bleach thing is done. It went away pretty much before I went to sleep last night. I wasn't really worried about it after I was able to smoke without any ill effects. I don't think that it was good that I got to that point last night, but it was nowhere near the level of toxicity I had subjected myself to the last time years ago.
Today went great. 
Hopefully tomorrow goes well...
Yeah. I had chicken pox and the vaccine. If you're wondering if I'm suffering from shingles, nope. I've had those before, and they're not fun. That is not what this is.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Yeah, I WAS wondering about shingles. I've had them too, more than once, and sometimes it's just this subterranean pain that runs along a nerve tract, that never quite gets to the blister stage, except maybe a leeeetle one or two you wouldn't really notice.
I think it's really hard to evaluate oneself medically. Either you're in denial out of fear, or you're hyper-worried out of fear. Besides knowledgeable, you have to be pretty cold-blooded and unreactive to do it right.
Anyway, I'm glad you have a trigger level and a plan to see someone !!! That seems like a good place to be ! 
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Sorry to hear that you've had them too. :(
Yeah. Those subdermal ones are the ones that I've had before. Left a few hardly noticeable "tracks" on my back while they were there, but were annoying as hell as I suffered through them.
You know I didn't see a doctor for that either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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The worst shingles I had I did have a HUGE, +1' wide swathe of deep, deep blisters from my spine to my sternum. And I DID go to a doctor when it started not because it hurt, but because I felt so allover crappy. They very quickly determined I was allergic to Zovirax which would have knocked to virus out. (My neighbor took Zovirax for her shingles that ran down her sciatic nerve from her butt to her heel, and from start to finish it lasted about a week.) Anyway, they did give me codeine/Tylenol, and though I was actively weaning myself off them the whole time, the pills ran about the same time the shingles did about 6 weeks later. It was gnarly. I'm just glad it wasn't anywhere near my eye.
Given that I know I can't take the anti-virals, I did get the shingles vaccine, (I paid for it myself because it wasn't covered and it was well over $200 at the time. I have no idea what it would be now.) and plan on getting the newer one, now that it'll be covered.
This might be TMI, but generally shingles heals well, although up to 15% can have chronic pain as a residual. Mine seems to have destroyed a patch of subcutaneous tissue, because while I have normal skin I do have a rather large deep divot in my back.
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Geez... Sorry to hear that.
Mine was mild by comparison. Quite a bit of pain and a general not good feeling, but it only lasted a few weeks and didn't leave any permanent pain or cosmetic problems behind.
I've read that if you get them once, you're pretty much bound to get them again though. Hopefully I'm as lucky the next time they pop up.
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Hey all, hd a service outage that lasted quite a long time! No phone, no inet, no TV. Good thing we have a different mobile service provider otherwise we might have been sol. I noticed a couple Spectrum trucks while walking the dog so being a nosy person I asked them what happened. Apparently our local power company cut the power to THEIR service, and Spectrum had a generator in one of those trucks, powering their service until our electrical utility could turn the juice back on.
With the service back on I called a Habitat and St Vincent de Paul for donation pickup. But in looking at the garage door, which we will have to open so they can have access, hubby noticed that ... aside from having a metric crap-ton of wood piled against it, one of the springs had broken. So dd and I did the monthly recycling and boogied down to HD to get replacment springs and "C" clips, and now I know more about garage door srpings than I ever thought possible, including the fact that there is no way in hell I could ever stretch one out by myself to pull over the C clip!
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SIX ... when evaulating pain, aside from figuring out EXACTLY where it is and whether it inteferes with daily activities and/or sleep, there is the "what makes it worse/ what makes it better" metric. I have never had kidney pain, but it seems to me that if the pain gets better with rest and worse with motion, then it's probably not kidney or any internal organ.
Here is a back pain v kidney pain website
https://www.healthline.com/health/kidney-pain-vs-back-pain
Most likely you're dealing with a muscle spasm. Another possibility is that one of the nerves that emerges directly from your spine (they ennervate your arms and wrap around your torso) could be pinched.
I've had ongoing muscle spasms that have lasted for weeks, and one thing that has alwasy set them right - much better than ibuprofen/tylenol, stretching, warm showers or oointment are those chemical heating pads .... essentially iron powder which warms as it turns to rust. Put one on directly over the pain on clean skin just before bed, wear a tight-fitting Tshirt to help hold it in place, and you should feel better ... not completely well, but better ... 12 hours later. Another heating pad the next night should do the trick.
If it's a pinched nerve (radiculopathy) it's usually positional ... something you're doing while sitting at the computer, sleeping, or standing. Having had a couple of rounds of radiculopathy I can tell you that the pain is grinding, and nothing ... and I mean nothing ... not ibuprofen or tylenol or hydrocodone or heating pads or oinment .... made it better except 150 mg of Lyrica (specifically Rx'd for nerve-based pain).
In my case, it was related to bad glasses ... I had to crane my neck towards the paper because the focal length was too short. If you've been sitting awkwardly at the computer, that could really do a number on your nerves! The fix for that is to adjust your seating/sleeping/standing situation/posture.
I hope that helps!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Glad you're back up and running.
I dunno. It could be one of those things. Admittedly, my current setup with that all-in-one computer is not ideal for long times sitting down in front of it. And I did spend the better part of a week doing exactly just that.
Maybe it didn't bother me while I was working the old job because I was getting such a great workout all the time and was in better shape. This would mark the first time since my unemployment where I spent so many hours just sitting on a futon with a computer on a coffee table in front of me.
I dunno though. It just seems "deeper" than muscular to me. I'll just have to keep an eye on it for now and maybe try to take better care of myself.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Don't forget the pinched nerve scenario!
I'd try the heat pads anyway. One of the things I like to do is try different common remedies and add that to the list of "what makes it worse/better" because that itself can be diagnostic. Does it respond to ibuprofen? Heat? Rest? Gentle motion? Ice? Change position? More water?
DD had an unusual persistent deep "pinpoint" ache in her calf, and one thing that sprang to my mind was deep vein thrombosis, but I tried the heat pads anyway and it went away, so I could safely rule out that scary possibility!
Just a thought.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Rain, rain, rain.
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Brag all you want, Brenda !!!
Just teasing a bit. Could you please send it south of the border? Thanks! in advance.
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Brag all you want, Brenda !!!
Just teasing a bit. Could you please send it south of the border? Thanks! in advance.
Hey Kiki. I would soo love to send this wet stuff south of the border. And the fog as well.
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Geez...
The pain took a serious downturn today. Wasn't that bad while I got my molds for my teeth, but I didn't sleep well last night... I turned out I wasn't actually getting teeth pulled today and we're doing them all next month, and even though it's old hat for me now just the littlest thing can screw with my sleep these days...
After I took a nap it's been bad. The worst it's been so far. I have to roll out of bed and get down on my knees and brace myself to get up. I can't get to a sitting position from lying down without an extreme amount of pain. Once I'm up and moving around it's not too bad. It's also hardly notible while I'm laying down. It's just the act of trying to get up that makes it flare up.
Not noticing any discoloration on the surface or any puffed out tissue down there, and I still don't feel sick.
I'm wondering if maybe I have a stone.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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SIX, apparently you didn't check out the link that I posted on back pain v kidney pain, so I thought I'd bring that here
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Kidney pain ... won't get worse with movement ... it usually won't change with movement
https://www.healthline.com/health/kidney-pain-vs-back-pain
I passed a kidney stone once. It was right up there with giving birth in terms of pain; blessedly it was much shorter than labor! It hurt so bad, I could barely breathe, and lying down didn't help. Neither did sitting up or writhing in pain. All I could do was sit and pant until it went away ... after four hours.
Given that the pain is really associated with movement, it might be a muscle spasm, a slipped disc, or a severely pinched nerve. Does the pain radiate down your leg? Is it associated with numbness or inability to hold urine or stool?
Seriously SIX, try a heating pad, try ibuprofen, try rest ... try all of the above. Try to move the situation in a direction and see what helps and what doesn't. If aggressively treating it like a back spasm doesn't help in a couple of days you really should see a doctor.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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I've been using a heating pad while de-hoarding for the last 4 or so hours now.
It's gotten even worse now. It's almost as bad as it was after I fell on it years ago, and it hurts no matter what I'm doing... even lying down. Once I'm up it still hurts quite a bit, but it's manageable. It's actually better when I'm standing than while I'm lying down. Trying to get up it feels like I just don't have any strength because the pain is so bad.
I don't exactly know what it is I did to my back all that time ago since I never went to the doctor. I'm thinking at this point the sneezing that I've been doing since the weather turned might have thrown something out of alignment or something.
I can't afford a doctor. I'm putting $4,000 on dental work right now. I'll just have to rest and hope it goes away soon because I need to be working soon with the unemployment almost out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Well I'm really worried about you SIX. Don't you have any friends or family to appeal to? Someone who can check on you to make sure you just haven't curled up on the floor of an unheated house and died?
I'm still going with something muscle-related, maybe even a muscle tear. People have a lot of small muscles attached to their ribs and spine.
So REST, damnit. Stop trying to power your way thru this, whatever it is. Do whatever you need to do to make it better, even if it means grabbing a bunch of pillows and sleeping semi-reclining on a couch, or propped up against a wall on a futon on the floor, and popping the maximum recommended dosage of ibuprofen and tylenol for several days. (There's a problem with muscles: pain begets spasm begets pain. so just easing the pain can speed you on the road to recovery) Hot pad helps but be aware that you can get a significant burn when lying on one, pressing against even a low-heat hot pad. (Ask me how I know) That's why I like the chemical heating pads: the heat is so mild it will absolutely not burn. Stay warm enough so that you don't bunch up from the cold. Keep a bottle of water nearby, and an empty bottle or bucket to pee in. You shouldn't have to do this for more than three days.
But just on case, who is your emergency contact? Who can boogey over to help in case some new sympom appears? Please, give it some thought!!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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I've got family. They're in the know about it today. Unless this is something really serious that I haven't considered, I doubt it will ever get to the point that I couldn't at least crawl over to the phone to make a call.
If that were to happen, somebody would probably come check up if they couldn't get a hold of me. Back in my drinking days I sometimes went weeks or months without being in contact with anybody. I talk to everybody 3 or 4 times a week now that I'm sober. It's very unusual for me to get a call that isn't returned within 8 hours, and since they know of my back issue I'd like to think that they've got my back.
I think I know why I thought it was an infection of some sort though. You don't really notice chronic gas issues when you live alone. You just don't. But I have them. And when my back is screaming at me I have to imagine whatever is going on is causing some swelling, and that swelling is not playing nice at all with the gas. Risking TMI again, it's like opening a valve and relieving pressure when I can let one go or I go to the bathroom. It doesn't make the pain go away completely, but it immediately feels better afterward. I think I'm going to try to go a day or two without eating anything while using the heat pad and see how that goes.
That won't be easy, because my appetite hasn't been effected. I still show zero signs of being feverish or otherwise ill.
Maybe I'll set up my new firestick and see if there's anything worth watching on Netflix. The political stuff has been agitating me more than usual because of the back pain. I think I need to shut the brain off for a while.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Running though your list of symptoms, I can't imagine what it could be. Some of your symptoms point in one direction, but other symptoms point in the opposite direction. Some of the possibilities could be very serious.
Do you have a county hospital nearby? I don't know about Indiana, but here if you arrive at an ER by yourself they have to take you. If you arrive by ambulance they might wave you off, on the excuse that you're being medically stabilized. Can you drive yourself at this point?
BTW, when I woke up with some serious pain that was causing me to start to black out every time I picked my head up off the pillow, there were 2 things I couldn't imagine doing - getting to the phone to call 911, or getting to the door to unlock it for them. If you can, as a backup plan, keep a phone literally at hand - and I do mean AT HAND very literally - at all times, and leave at least one door unlocked while you're going through this.
And try to determine a crisis point at which you'll definitely call family and/or 911. Try to VERY SPECIFICALLY come up with contingency plans.
I hope you come out of this OK on your own Jack !! But don't be afraid get help if you need it.
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If I can't get into a standing position at any point I think I'll consider that my crisis point.
It actually feels somewhat better right now. I'm not eating or drinking anything and mostly just laying down on the heating pad. Feels a lot better than it did last night and earlier this morning when I woke up. We'll see how it goes.
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I'm glad it feels a bit better! And I'm glad you have a trigger point! Sometimes you can 'slow walk' yourself into a bad situation step by step because you don't have a point that you won't go past, and every little step seems not too bad by itself.
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Felt a lot better again today. Still not close to 100%, but as the day went on for the most part it wasn't near crippling anymore. I've been trying to move around and do some stretches, but I think I still need a few more days of R&R and time with the heating pad.
At least at this point I don't think it's an infection or a stone anymore. That wouldn't really fit any of the symptoms.
Who knows what I did to my back when I fell on it though. Being no stranger to giving it a workout, it's been years without any back problems and then out of nowhere I almost can't even get out of bed for a few days after a week or so of it progressively getting worse.
Maybe I pinched a nerve? I don't think it would be a slipped disk because it's doubtful that would straighten itself out by just laying down on a heating pad and taking it easy.
Hopefully it's even better tomorrow. I really want to get started on putting up that trim soon.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Good for you SIX! I think most of us here are no strangers to back pain, and it can come on suddenly for almost no apparent reason. Back when I was a smokestack climber, I recall letting down a piece of catwalk hatchway somewhat awkwardly. I felt a twinge but was good enough to go bowling that evening, but next morning my back was so bad I couldn't bend down to put on my pants and shoes, I had to have hubby do that for me. It took a half week of R&R before I could really function again. bTW, that tweak has never come back to haunt me, it was just a strained muscle.
So take it easy! Your #1 priority for the next few days is getting better!
And take a break from arguing with idiots, too. I'm sure there's something more enjoyable you can do with your time.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Splurged on a Christmas present for myself.
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Nice, Brenda. What did you get?
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Good for you SIX! I think most of us here are no strangers to back pain, and it can come on suddenly for almost no apparent reason. Back when I was a smokestack climber, I recall letting down a piece of catwalk hatchway somewhat awkwardly. I felt a twinge but was good enough to go bowling that evening, but next morning my back was so bad I couldn't bend down to put on my pants and shoes, I had to have hubby do that for me. It took a half week of R&R before I could really function again. bTW, that tweak has never come back to haunt me, it was just a strained muscle.
Yeah... Until that fall I've never really suffered from any back pain in my life. I had a very active youth, and I think that helped out many years later, even when I was doing a lot of bad things to myself.
I'm just a little concerned right now that this could end up being a chronic issue after the fall. If memory serves, the fall happened sometime late summer in 2015. By early 2016 I was 100% again, and until the last few weeks it's never once bothered me at all.
But it got really bad, and for no real apparent reasons. Is it cold in my house? Sure... somewhat. I have the thermostat at 65 on the 2nd floor though, just like I did last year, which is much higher than I ever put it before last year. Was I working too many hours on the futon hunched over the computer on my coffee table? Sure... but that's the same computer that I put a ton of hours into my project on... although I did have a more comfortable L-shaped couch there before I did the de-hoarding. Have I been sneezing a lot? Sure... but people sneeze. I'd like to think that I don't have to worry for the rest of my life that a stray sneeze is going to snap something in my back. Relatively speaking, my sneezes aren't very violent, and most people probably wouldn't even notice I was sneezing. I sneeze like a mouse compared to my brother who seems to make a good show of it and you could hear him sneeze from a block away.
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So take it easy! Your #1 priority for the next few days is getting better!
Will do.
Feels even better today. I'm much more mobile than I've been in days. I can still tell that it's there though, so I'm still taking it easy. No point in rushing anything and regressing back to where I was 2 days ago.
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And take a break from arguing with idiots, too. I'm sure there's something more enjoyable you can do with your time.
lol. Having nothing else really to occupy my time and the fact that I really just can't be bothered with getting interested in watching any TV shows or movies, arguing with idiots is a good distraction from the boredom.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Nice, Brenda. What did you get?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Went into a local electronics store and bought myself one of those all in one numbers. They have a record player, tape deck, cd player, radio and Bluetooth in it.
Got it on sale and my boss' husband helped me pick it up last night after work.
I've been eye balling these things since they came out a couple of years ago but they were expensive and where I was living I couldn't do it.
So, I managed to save up some money over the summer being in this new place and bought one.
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Things to do. Later peeps.
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Nice. With that bluetooth I bet you could back up your records to mp3 files and listen to them on the go too.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Nice. With that bluetooth I bet you could back up your records to mp3 files and listen to them on the go too.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Guess so. But I don't have an mp3 player and I would need some help to do that if I decide to.
But it will be nice to see what kind of shape my records are in for sure.
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Bah... MP3 players are a dime a dozen used these days now that everyone with a smart phone has one built in.
If you ever go that route, it's a lot easier ripping the mp3's off of youtube videos for anything that's on there, but I'm willing to bet you've got some more obscure stuff that you might only be able to get off of your record collection.
If you ever want to do any of that once you're all set up, let me know and we can figure it out.
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Bah... MP3 players are a dime a dozen used these days now that everyone with a smart phone has one built in.
If you ever go that route, it's a lot easier ripping the mp3's off of youtube videos for anything that's on there, but I'm willing to bet you've got some more obscure stuff that you might only be able to get off of your record collection.
If you ever want to do any of that once you're all set up, let me know and we can figure it out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I've got a few Bay City Rollers records that someone I used to know called "Bubblegum music". Jerry Reed albums, at least one Cher album. Haven't been through them in years so I've forgotten.
Don't have a smartphone. So, I would need something to record my stuff on to.
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I bet a lot of that stuff would be on youtube. It gets kind of sketchy with older performers though since they had a lot more control over the rights of their stuff than the last 20 or 25 years. But if it's up there, there are a few sites that you can use to easily convert the video to an mp3 online and download it. It's a lot easier than converting a record to mp3, but with your new hi-tech player it might be a lot easier than it was back in the day.
I knew you didn't have a phone. I was just saying that you could pick up an old mp3 player dirt cheap these days since most people are walking around with mp3 players on their phones.
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I bet a lot of that stuff would be on youtube. It gets kind of sketchy with older performers though since they had a lot more control over the rights of their stuff than the last 20 or 25 years. But if it's up there, there are a few sites that you can use to easily convert the video to an mp3 online and download it. It's a lot easier than converting a record to mp3, but with your new hi-tech player it might be a lot easier than it was back in the day.
I knew you didn't have a phone. I was just saying that you could pick up an old mp3 player dirt cheap these days since most people are walking around with mp3 players on their phones.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Ah, I see what you are saying. My apologizes Jack. Think I forget all these cell phones can do nowadays.
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I bet a lot of that stuff would be on youtube. It gets kind of sketchy with older performers though since they had a lot more control over the rights of their stuff than the last 20 or 25 years. But if it's up there, there are a few sites that you can use to easily convert the video to an mp3 online and download it. It's a lot easier than converting a record to mp3, but with your new hi-tech player it might be a lot easier than it was back in the day.
I knew you didn't have a phone. I was just saying that you could pick up an old mp3 player dirt cheap these days since most people are walking around with mp3 players on their phones.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Ah, I see what you are saying. My apologizes Jack. Think I forget all these cell phones can do nowadays.
No need to apologize.
I'm only vaguely aware of what they can do, having only ever owned an early one for a few months before I got rid of a cell phone service entirely and lived without it.
MP3 players are really cool though, if you put the time into getting your music put together. Over the years, I'd only owned some crappy off brand ones that are a huge pain in the ass to set up and maintain, and have crappy little screens that don't allow you much freedom in how you want to listen to it.
Two years ago though, while helping my parents move, we dug out an old iPod that had hardly ever been used. It's a bright purple color that wouldn't have been my first choice, but it still had the receipt inside the box and it cost nearly $200 when they bought it!
I haven't done anything with it yet since my life has been so disorganized and I lost a network storage hard drive that apparently had my only backup of the tens of thousands of mp3's I'd collected over the years.
I'm slowly re-building my collection and organizing it. It will be nice to listen to music when I'm out doing yard work or working on the house in the spring.
If you'd like to get started, let me know. You can probably find a really good mp3 player for pennies on the dollar if you ask around. I've got a few websites that will rip the audio to a folder you specify on your computer hard drive with the exact name it was given on youtube. The names are easy enough to change however you'd like too. As long as you get a decent mp3 player it should be easy to transfer the music and (more importantly) it should be very easy to set up playlists or easily get to a specific song that you want to listen to.
BTW... a cursory search on youtube has a lot of results for the performers you mentioned earlier. A lot of it is live stuff, which usually is never removed for copyright violations, but there are quite a few studio versions of tracks too. It just might be hard to get some of your favorite "B Side" material in this fashion from that long ago. But you never know. You might be surprised.
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I bet a lot of that stuff would be on youtube. It gets kind of sketchy with older performers though since they had a lot more control over the rights of their stuff than the last 20 or 25 years. But if it's up there, there are a few sites that you can use to easily convert the video to an mp3 online and download it. It's a lot easier than converting a record to mp3, but with your new hi-tech player it might be a lot easier than it was back in the day.
I knew you didn't have a phone. I was just saying that you could pick up an old mp3 player dirt cheap these days since most people are walking around with mp3 players on their phones.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Ah, I see what you are saying. My apologizes Jack. Think I forget all these cell phones can do nowadays.
No need to apologize.
I'm only vaguely aware of what they can do, having only ever owned an early one for a few months before I got rid of a cell phone service entirely and lived without it.
MP3 players are really cool though, if you put the time into getting your music put together. Over the years, I'd only owned some crappy off brand ones that are a huge pain in the ass to set up and maintain, and have crappy little screens that don't allow you much freedom in how you want to listen to it.
Two years ago though, while helping my parents move, we dug out an old iPod that had hardly ever been used. It's a bright purple color that wouldn't have been my first choice, but it still had the receipt inside the box and it cost nearly $200 when they bought it!
I haven't done anything with it yet since my life has been so disorganized and I lost a network storage hard drive that apparently had my only backup of the tens of thousands of mp3's I'd collected over the years.
I'm slowly re-building my collection and organizing it. It will be nice to listen to music when I'm out doing yard work or working on the house in the spring.
If you'd like to get started, let me know. You can probably find a really good mp3 player for pennies on the dollar if you ask around. I've got a few websites that will rip the audio to a folder you specify on your computer hard drive with the exact name it was given on youtube. The names are easy enough to change however you'd like too. As long as you get a decent mp3 player it should be easy to transfer the music and (more importantly) it should be very easy to set up playlists or easily get to a specific song that you want to listen to.
BTW... a cursory search on youtube has a lot of results for the performers you mentioned earlier. A lot of it is live stuff, which usually is never removed for copyright violations, but there are quite a few studio versions of tracks too. It just might be hard to get some of your favorite "B Side" material in this fashion from that long ago. But you never know. You might be surprised.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I actually did own an mp3 player a few years ago but gave it away as I couldn't do anything with it at the time.
I know I can find Cher on YouTube. Songs like "Halfbreed" and some of her later stuff from the late 80s and 90s. Think I found some Bay City Rollers. Might find some Jerry Reed too.
Never know Jack. For now I just like listening to my music sometimes during the week in the afternoon and on Sunday afternoon. And now I have a choice of what I can listen too.
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Yeah...
I forgot to install an alternate browser when I did my PC setup initially and I used my own youtube account to listen to some music the other day.
That's always a huge mistake. I don't usually ever listen to music through youtube and I have very specific videos that I like coming up in my feed based off of my tastes. All it takes is a few hours of straying off of those subjects with other things like music and now my Recommended feed is 50% music videos that I have no interest in watching.
OPPS
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Hey Brenda - that sounds really enjoyable.
Just to share some humor - and don't take this the wrong way - I enjoy Cher's stuff and I like the persona she projects ... but some time ago I stumbled into an obscure website called 'misheard lyrics' (or something like that). Anyway, one of the misheard lyrics was ...
... but every night all the men would come around
And lay the monkey down.
Another one I remember - not Cher - was ...
dirty deeds, dunder sheep
I wish I could remember more. I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe.
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My favorite video for misheard lyrics on a song that I believe to this day has never actually been translated by Eddie Vedder.
One of my all time favorite songs, although I only have a vague idea of what it's about.
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Back is a ton better today, BTW. Still a minor tweak in it, so I'm not going to do anything crazy, but hopefully this week it's as if it never happened.
Dodged another bullet.
Thanks for the heating pad suggestion, Sigs. It completely slipped my mind that I found one during the de-hoard and had the foresight to stick it in the linen closet even though it's missing the cover. I wrapped it with a towel and it seems to have done the trick.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Hey Jack
I'm glad you're feeling better!
However ... and not to be a Debbie Downer but ... if you caused actual injury to your back the first time (and it sounds like you might have) you are likely to have the issue return ... again ... and again ... in one form or another. And what worked the first time might not work the second time.
I'll give you some examples ... when I was in my early 20's (I believe) I tore a few small muscles - like perhaps part of the pyriformis near the sacroiliac joint - and the pain was excruciating. And I never had it looked at. Fortunately, after I took WAY too much aspirin (salicylate toxicity induced permanent tinnitus which I have to this day) and tylenol for a few days, I remembered I had some co-tylenol from a wisdom tooth extraction that I never took. Ahhh ... blessed relief. Anyway, a few years later I was awkwardly trying to put a desk drawer on its tracks, and the pain in 'that spot' came back. Fortunately it was at work, and it was all part of a big move we made from one city to another, so they sent me to a work-rehab place they had a contract with. That place did heat (didn't help) but also TENS - which was like magic. To the point I actually ordered one. So I used that on and off whenever I had pain, but after a couple of years it stopped working. I just kind of learned to live with pain. Then one day I was at work and I awkwardly stood up. I felt something in 'that spot' subtly go bonk. And within a few minutes I was literally on the floor writhing in pain and groaning out loud and completely unable to move in any meaningful way - not to turn over, or sit up, or anything. They were going to call 911 for the reason that there was no other way to help me up. But FORTUNATELY one of the people at work also with back pain had some serious (darvon?) pain meds. I remember he looked at me and said 'you're going to need two'. Well, I tried just one just to see, and nothing much happened but the second one did the trick. I went home and went to bed with significant apprehension I wouldn't be able to get back up again when the meds wore off. But the next day, which happened to be a weekend, while I was pretty sore, I wasn't incapacitated. So I thought I'd pull some weeds. I was thinking 'this could really put me in a lot of trouble' but oddly enough the rocking back and forth on my knees and stretching and relaxing helped a lot. After a few hours, I was all better. But a few weeks later I was outside my car door and knelt on the driver's seat to reach over to the passenger side and grab a really small grocery bag and BAM. I tweaked 'that spot' all over again. Fortunately I wasn't incapacitated, so I prescribed for myself some more weed pulling, thinking that since it helped that last time, it would help again. That was a mistake. I couldn't stand up straight for weeks. I ended up getting myself a cane so I could push myself upright when I walked.
And so on. I've had many, many adventures with that spot in my back that I injured many decades ago.
ETA: you might think of me as a dumpy old decrepit woman - and you'd be right! But as recently as 15 years ago I was pulling wiring, installing drywall, taping and mudding and sanding, painting etc. And when I was younger I was extraordinarily fit and athletic. It was pain that ground me down over the years.
And I think the lesson I learned - from seeing myself and other people age - is that the injuries you get when you're younger don't -really- go away. I believe that when you're younger relatively high levels of 'human growth hormone' aka HGH allow you to carry them. But as you age the HGH level drops severely, and that scar tissue you have ends up hurting. (The same is true of bad diet, lack of exercise, bad genetics, and so on. High levels of HGH are protective in earlier years, but HGH drops with age.)(BTW, AFAIK the ONLY tissue that heals by making more of itself is bone. Everything else is knit together wi
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I guess I'll just have to play it by ear.
It's really strange that it came out of nowhere like that. I think while I was working that job for a year and a half I could easily say that I lifted 15 to 20 lbs easily a half million times, and by the time I was laid off I could pull 20 pallets of water hundreds of feet without breaking a sweat. And this summer and fall I did a lot of very strenuous jobs on my back without any issues out of regular soreness and muscle cramps.
But even before I had that job it never bothered me... and I was 60 lbs heavier and extremely out of shape. I'm not in excellent shape now for sure, but nowhere near as bad as I was before I worked there.
I'm just going to have to face the fact that I'm 4 years older now. If I'm not currently working a physical job that's going to keep me in shape, I'm going to at least have to do some stretching and light back exercises.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Eh - it doesn't take much to create a problem, it just has to be the exact combination of 'wrong'.
Anyway - see above. I'm hoping to pass along some helpful information to someone a few decades my junior. Don't trod the path of most youth (even me) ! You can lay in a good course for a healthful and reasonably pain-free older age.
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Yeah...
I forgot to install an alternate browser when I did my PC setup initially and I used my own youtube account to listen to some music the other day.
That's always a huge mistake. I don't usually ever listen to music through youtube and I have very specific videos that I like coming up in my feed based off of my tastes. All it takes is a few hours of straying off of those subjects with other things like music and now my Recommended feed is 50% music videos that I have no interest in watching.
OPPS
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I like listening to music through YouTube because I can see the video as well. Specially since I don't watch the music channels on tv anymore.
Guess in that regard you would call me an old "fuddie-duddie".
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Hey Brenda - that sounds really enjoyable.
Just to share some humor - and don't take this the wrong way - I enjoy Cher's stuff and I like the persona she projects ... but some time ago I stumbled into an obscure website called 'misheard lyrics' (or something like that). Anyway, one of the misheard lyrics was ...
... but every night all the men would come around
And lay the monkey down.
Another one I remember - not Cher - was ...
dirty deeds, dunder sheep
I wish I could remember more. I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe.
It will be nice.
No worries Kiki. That sounds like a hilarious site. Might have to go and have a look for it just to see how they can "monkey" around with lyrics.
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Sunday, Sunday
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I should put this in the recipe thread, but I'm too inert at the moment to look for it. My next recipe I hope will be a rich, hearty marinara that I intend to have by itself (no pasta or rice) - full of tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, herbs and spices and other aromatics, and of course, ground beef. We'll see how it goes.
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Hubby has been on a house fixit jag, and dd and I (mostly dd) have been his trusty helpers, so thinking about this in reverse order
Yesterday we changed out six doorknobs because he realized that they were lockable ... and we didn't have the keys to any of them.
The day before, he completed a modification to our bed's headboard, which meant adding a "bumper" and rim to headboard shelf so that the headboard wouldn't get in the way of the drapes and things wouldn't fall down between the headboard and the wall.
Before that, it was putting up the curtain rods and curtains in our bedroom.
Before that, it was fixing the garage door springs. Just as an expreiment, both dd and I tried extending the springs to hook it onto the C clip. No way, Jose!
Before that, it was trimming the bottoms of some doors so we could stil get airflow with the doors shut. That's when we discovered that these doors were HEAVY ... they have some kind of metal reinforcement in the solid (wood) core. This is another thing that dd and I tried carrying. It's a good thing hubby has got more muscle than both of us combined!
Before that, it was putting up dd's curtains and rod.
In the very near future I've got a bunch of items to collect up for donation because two different organizations will be here on Thursday, plus we are selling a car to our (formerly homeless) sometime gardener for a buck, but I have to get it smogged first b4 we can xfer title.
I've been taking care of year-end financial things ... but I have had seven large and supposedly reliable institutions (including a bank, credit union, and Medicare) fuck up something simple but important which has taken me multiple steps to get fixed because they were dragging their feet or providing me with moving targets for a solution. Kinda frustrating and scary at the same time because they have the power to make these problems entirely unfixable. Fortunately I have only one last problem to tackle... So far... I'm just waiting for another fuckup.
I have finally developed a partial solution for this continuing stuffy nose/infection?/allergy?/lack of sense of smell, and I'm sure my doctors would be horrified if they knew. I'm continuing my allergy shots and nose rinses as Rx'd, I tried the antihistamine nasal spray (so far not helping) but I've added one twist of my own: I've added a little bit (about 1 teaspoon) of vodka to my saline rinse. I don't know if I'm denaturing allergens in my nose or killing germs or just bitch-slapping my mucus membranes (" Stop being so sensitive! "smack*) but it really seems to be dialing down that blockage, allowing things to drain, and letting me dial back on the decongestant, so I feel like I'm making progress.
*****
SIX, how's the back? On the way to being fully mended?
BRENDA, all set for Xmas?
KIKI, I'm sure you'll figure out that recipe! when you do, pleae post it online!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Hubby has been on a house fixit jag, and dd and I (mostly dd) have been his trusty helpers, so thinking about this in reverse order
Yesterday we changed out six doorknobs because he realized that they were lockable ... and we didn't have the keys to any of them.
The day before, he completed a modification to our bed's headboard, which meant adding a "bumper" and rim to headboard shelf so that the headboard wouldn't get in the way of the drapes and things wouldn't fall down between the headboard and the wall.
Before that, it was putting up the curtain rods and curtains in our bedroom.
Before that, it was fixing the garage door springs. Just as an expreiment, both dd and I tried extending the springs to hook it onto the C clip. No way, Jose!
Before that, it was trimming the bottoms of some doors so we could stil get airflow with the doors shut. That's when we discovered that these doors were HEAVY ... they have some kind of metal reinforcement in the solid (wood) core. This is another thing that dd and I tried carrying. It's a good thing hubby has got more muscle than both of us combined!
Before that, it was putting up dd's curtains and rod.
In the very near future I've got a bunch of items to collect up for donation because two different organizations will be here on Thursday, plus we are selling a car to our (formerly homeless) sometime gardener for a buck, but I have to get it smogged first b4 we can xfer title.
I've been taking care of year-end financial things ... but I have had seven large and supposedly reliable institutions (including a bank, credit union, and Medicare) fuck up something simple but important which has taken me multiple steps to get fixed because they were dragging their feet or providing me with moving targets for a solution. Kinda frustrating and scary at the same time because they have the power to make these problems entirely unfixable. Fortunately I have only one last problem to tackle... So far... I'm just waiting for another fuckup.
I have finally developed a partial solution for this continuing stuffy nose/infection?/allergy?/lack of sense of smell, and I'm sure my doctors would be horrified if they knew. I'm continuing my allergy shots and nose rinses as Rx'd, I tried the antihistamine nasal spray (so far not helping) but I've added one twist of my own: I've added a little bit (about 1 teaspoon) of vodka to my saline rinse. I don't know if I'm denaturing allergens in my nose or killing germs or just bitch-slapping my mucus membranes (" Stop being so sensitive! "smack*) but it really seems to be dialing down that blockage, allowing things to drain, and letting me dial back on the decongestant, so I feel like I'm making progress.
*****
SIX, how's the back? On the way to being fully mended?
BRENDA, all set for Xmas?
KIKI, I'm sure you'll figure out that recipe! when you do, pleae post it online!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
SIG, I intend to decorate on the 20th. Christmas shopping is finished just have to get a hold of a friend to find out when she wants to meet up. Found a place for my nesting dolls. Maaaaaaaay put them up tonight.
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Nice Sigs. Sounds like you all are getting a ton of work done.
I've got to get back on the ball. Between the back being hurt and just overall winter blues I haven't done much of late.
The back is a lot better. Barely hurts at all right now. Still afraid that one wrong move could bring me back down, but at least I'm not worried about the need to pass a stone or even have to go to the clinic for some antibiotics. You were probably right about the pinched nerve thing.
I was actually playing around with the small guitar that I'm giving my niece for Christmas last night for around an hour and a half. I'm trying to re-teach myself at least one song that I was pretty good at so I can play it with her in hopes it generates interest for her to pick it up. But when I was done my elbow and my shoulder hurt pretty bad. It went away quickly, but I can tell that I'm far to sedentary right now and pains like that are things I hadn't felt since before I was working the old job.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Hey Jack - if you didn't get the message, I was just trying to let you know that at your age, whatever is going on with your back is (probably) completely repairable. But it would take some time, possibly a good diagnosis, and some therapy. But also, in general - unless you have some bad genetics (genetically high cholesterol comes to mind, but there are other things) or earlier bad misfortune (that left you with a permanent ding), seeing your way to future good health is less of matter of Herculaneum effort, and more a matter of persistence. As long as you do more that's right for your health more often than you do bad.
My particular problem is that when I got injured in my early 20's, I was really poor and had no insurance. (I didn't have insurance till I was in my 30's.) And no one told me it was important to get things looked after. I thought I could just push through. On top of that, over the decades, Kaiser was VERY reluctant to either diagnose or treat persistent pain. In fact, I got the brush-off from a series of doctors. And then, life was pretty chaotic for a number of years what with all sorts of things going on. So one thing and another ... putting myself possibly too low on my priority list of all that needed doing, having the medical profession put barriers in front of me, it ended up the way it did.
But if somebody had told me it was important to get treated, that it would have future consequences - I might have done differently.
So I'm just suggesting it to you. Try to treat yourself with normal, routine, habitual care.
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Hey Brenda - it sounds like things are very pleasant.
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Hey Signy - WOW. That's a lot done!!!
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Yeah. I had a great doctor's visit at the beginning of the year, after I'd been working that job for over a year. Been eating right still, but I just can't get into working out if it's not at a job anymore. Because I smoke and I wasn't great to myself earlier in life it seems like it doesn't take very long for me to regress a bit if I'm not working. I just need to get another job and it should be alright. It was cool when I was keeping myself busy working on the house, but once it got cold that was it...
Put another hour or so into the guitar again tonight. Had to quit because of the pain, but it's pretty cool how quick I'm picking it up again after all of these years. The song I'm trying to teach myself again is something that I never mastered. It's pretty tricky. About 80% of it I've got down perfect, but there are a few really crazy parts that I'm going to have to try to get down in the next week before I give the guitar to her. I think I can do it though.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Rain
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No snow yet Brenda?
I'll trade you.
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I have a better deal for Brenda !! No rain, no snow, and temps above freezing (even if only by a few degrees at night on occasion) !!
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Well, this map is real-time so it'll change, but as of now you can see Brenda's rain and our offshore wind pattern.
https://earth.nullschool.net/
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No snow yet Brenda?
I'll trade you.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Not by me Jack. Middle of the province and other areas of it have the white stuff. But for where I am it will be a green Christmas.
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Hey, Kiki. It will be very pleasant once I get going. In another day or so.
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Watched a movie (fictional) last night with the family called "Brother's Keeper" about a group of linemen in Texas, and darn if it didn't set me to reminiscing.
I wasn't a lineman (or lineperson or whatever) but I WAS a stack tester for a while, a real hardhat/ climbing occupation. I had forgotten what it felt like.
Tallest stack I ever climbed was 200 ft. (They usually have ladders with safety cages around them, interruptions and catwalks every 30-40 feet or so, best as I recall.)
Scariest place I ever tested was at the very top of a vacuum distillation unit. I mean the VERY top. The refinery wanted to know if there was a leak in their unit, and there was a big nut at the very top that allowed us to access the gases inside, but we had to crawl out on a gangplank-type thing (no railing, fifty feet off the ground) with the damn unit shaking like crazy.
The hottest place I ever tested was on top of a fume incinerator of a "can and coil" coating operation, underneath a metal shed roof on a hot summer day in the Sacto Valley. The reason why I got that spot was because I happened to be wearing lineman's boots ... leather soled with steel shanks (for motorcycle riding while standing on pegs) while everyone else had Vibram soles, and standing on the fume incinerator was melting their soles. All I had to do was watch the flow gage and crack open a sampling valve whenever the flow dropped off, and do that for 20 minutes. It wasn't much, but I was EXHAUSTED.
I've been to all of the major refineries in the area and some of the minor ones (including spending a pleasant afternoon on top of a electrostatic precipitator of an FCCU, with the rappers and buzzers going off at regular intervals, checking out the view from 70 feet.
Been to a coke calcining kiln, all of the "boiler" type power plants in the area as well as some of the smaller turbine-type "peaker" units, resin manufacturing plants, cement kilns, spray booth operations, printing operations and plating operations.
I'm going to continue with this for a while because I learned a LOT about industry at that time, and want to pass along how things were done "back then". It was fascinating and impressive.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Damn.
Bout 12 feet high is as high as I'm willing to go these days.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I have a fear of heights, but I was Ok as long as there was a railing or safety cage. I hated working on roofs, even tho they were only 15-20 ft off the ground. No idea how I would fare now- probably not anywhere near as well!!
I kinda feel like I learned a lot everywhere I worked. When I worked at a pharma I learned about FDA GLPs (Good Lab Practices) and GMPs (Good Manufacturing Processes). When I worked at university biomedical I learned how to fix instruments. When I was a source tester I learned about a lot of industrial processes because I had a phenomenal supervisor who knew everything about everything. When I worked for government I learned about policymaking and regulation and legal requirements for prosecution and all that good stuff.
Every job was a learning experience, but I feel like EVERY job is a learning experience! When I worked telephone sales I saw how donations were divied up among the sales staff, "runners" and managers and how only a little bit went to the cause. I also learned that I sucked at it and hated it, all at the same time!
So I feel that every job is a peek into what makes things work. I hope you all will share your experiences, insight and knowledge!
*****
Power generation plants: Those big hulking things that look like enormous square buildings with pipes running around the outside and giant tall smokestacks ...
Well, their function is quite simple. The big multi-story boxes are "boilers" ... literally, a box with gas (or oil) jets inside, squirting fuel and making flame. All that stuff on the outside are fuel and air lines and catwalks for access ... nothing more. And inside that fiery box are tubes filled with water, which is turned to steam, and the steam goes out and drives a turbine. The rotating turbine turns a generator which creates electricity.
There are a lot of refinements added to those power plants ... for example, they run the incoming air ("combustion air") through a pre-heater before they use the air to burn the fuel in order to maximize the boiler temperature and thus the efficiency. They control the flow of combustion air because there is a fine line between not enough and too much. Not enough creates carbon monoxide - a deadly pollutant. Too much creates nitrogen oxides - another serious pollutant. And waaay too much makes the flame unstable ... the flame actually starts to flutter close to going out. So they want to meter in only just as much air required for complete combustion, plus an extra three percent oxygen ("just in case"). For this reason they monitor the oxygen content of the exhaust gas to make sure that they've got complete combustion plus a little bit leftover O2, but not too much.
The big power plants in southern CA have all been converted from oil to gas many years ago, so now ALL power plants run on nat gas, even the littler ones ("peaker units") that are turned on to supply extra electricty during times of peak demand (hot weather).
One more thing about power plants ... they all have to be "in phase" which means that the cyclical rise and fall of voltage has to line up from all the power plants at the same time. Considering that long power lines introduce a delay, they have to take that into account too.
Did you know that there is a huge DC (direct current, not AC) transmission line from the northwest to the southwest?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Nesting dolls are out and made plans to meet a friend for Christmas exchange over the weekend. Trying to get hold of someone else about something to do with Christmas.
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Im glad you're celebrating the holidays with friends BRENDA!
Me, I'm still not ready. As usual! This year tho I have a legitimate excuse ... too many home repairs bunched up before Xmas!
We were watching one of those home renovation shows ... Love It Or List It Too which takes place in western Canada (Probably Vancouver or nearby but you would have to tell me about it if you recognize landmarks, BRENDA!) and they were talking about the difficulties of renovating a 100-year-old home and all of the problems that can be encountered (settling, rot, undersized utilities, bad pipes etc.) and it suddenly struck me ... OUR home is almost 70 years old! It's not 100 years but definitely qualifies as an "older home" and is showing its age! NO WONDER we've had to make so many repairs! Over the past ten years new roof, new copper water supply, new heat/AC, new flooring, new demand water heater, new waste lines, new irrigation system, replaced most of the windows, moved a door, rewired the garage ... and still have a lot of things to do!
Anyway, now I know that it's not just bad luck with our house, it's normal and expected. When we moved in lo these many years ago the house was not yet "old". Time sure flies!
Anyway BRENDA, MERRY CHRISTMAS IN YOUR NICE COZY FUNCTIONAL HOME! May you create many happy memories there!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I have a fear of heights, but I was Ok as long as there was a railing or safety cage. I hated working on roofs, even tho they were only 15-20 ft off the ground. No idea how I would fare now- probably not anywhere near as well!!
I kinda feel like I learned a lot everywhere I worked. When I worked at a pharma I learned about FDA GLPs (Good Lab Practices) and GMPs (Good Manufacturing Processes). When I worked at university biomedical I learned how to fix instruments. When I was a source tester I learned about a lot of industrial processes because I had a phenomenal supervisor who knew everything about everything. When I worked for government I learned about policymaking and regulation and legal requirements for prosecution and all that good stuff.
Every job was a learning experience, but I feel like EVERY job is a learning experience! When I worked telephone sales I saw how donations were divied up among the sales staff, "runners" and managers and how only a little bit went to the cause. I also learned that I sucked at it and hated it, all at the same time!
So I feel that every job is a peek into what makes things work. I hope you all will share your experiences, insight and knowledge!
*****
Power generation plants: Those big hulking things that look like enormous square buildings with pipes running around the outside and giant tall smokestacks ...
Well, their function is quite simple. The big multi-story boxes are "boilers" ... literally, a box with gas (or oil) jets inside, squirting fuel and making flame. All that stuff on the outside are fuel and air lines and catwalks for access ... nothing more. And inside that fiery box are tubes filled with water, which is turned to steam, and the steam goes out and drives a turbine. The rotating turbine turns a generator which creates electricity.
There are a lot of refinements added to those power plants ... for example, they run the incoming air ("combustion air") through a pre-heater before they use the air to burn the fuel in order to maximize the boiler temperature and thus the efficiency. They control the flow of combustion air because there is a fine line between not enough and too much. Not enough creates carbon monoxide - a deadly pollutant. Too much creates nitrogen oxides - another serious pollutant. And waaay too much makes the flame unstable ... the flame actually starts to flutter close to going out. So they want to meter in only just as much air required for complete combustion, plus an extra three percent oxygen ("just in case"). For this reason they monitor the oxygen content of the exhaust gas to make sure that they've got complete combustion plus a little bit leftover O2, but not too much.
The big power plants in southern CA have all been converted from oil to gas many years ago, so now ALL power plants run on nat gas, even the littler ones ("peaker units") that are turned on to supply extra electricty during times of peak demand (hot weather).
One more thing about power plants ... they all have to be "in phase" which means that the cyclical rise and fall of voltage has to line up from all the power plants at the same time. Considering that long power lines introduce a delay, they have to take that into account too.
Did you know that there is a huge DC (direct current, not AC) transmission line from the northwest to the southwest?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
I haven't learned anything at a job in 12 years other than how to do physical tasks as efficiently as possible and how to manipulate managers into doing what I want them to do.
Any of my interesting stories from good jobs I've probably already talked about here or I've fo
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Quote:Like... how?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I have a fear of heights, but I was Ok as long as there was a railing or safety cage. I hated working on roofs, even tho they were only 15-20 ft off the ground. No idea how I would fare now- probably not anywhere near as well!!
I kinda feel like I learned a lot everywhere I worked. When I worked at a pharma I learned about FDA GLPs (Good Lab Practices) and GMPs (Good Manufacturing Processes). When I worked at university biomedical I learned how to fix instruments. When I was a source tester I learned about a lot of industrial processes because I had a phenomenal supervisor who knew everything about everything. When I worked for government I learned about policymaking and regulation and legal requirements for prosecution and all that good stuff.
Every job was a learning experience, but I feel like EVERY job is a learning experience! When I worked telephone sales I saw how donations were divied up among the sales staff, "runners" and managers and how only a little bit went to the cause. I also learned that I sucked at it and hated it, all at the same time!
So I feel that every job is a peek into what makes things work. I hope you all will share your experiences, insight and knowledge!
*****
Power generation plants: Those big hulking things that look like enormous square buildings with pipes running around the outside and giant tall smokestacks ...
Well, their function is quite simple. The big multi-story boxes are "boilers" ... literally, a box with gas (or oil) jets inside, squirting fuel and making flame. All that stuff on the outside are fuel and air lines and catwalks for access ... nothing more. And inside that fiery box are tubes filled with water, which is turned to steam, and the steam goes out and drives a turbine. The rotating turbine turns a generator which creates electricity.
There are a lot of refinements added to those power plants ... for example, they run the incoming air ("combustion air") through a pre-heater before they use the air to burn the fuel in order to maximize the boiler temperature and thus the efficiency. They control the flow of combustion air because there is a fine line between not enough and too much. Not enough creates carbon monoxide - a deadly pollutant. Too much creates nitrogen oxides - another serious pollutant. And waaay too much makes the flame unstable ... the flame actually starts to flutter close to going out. So they want to meter in only just as much air required for complete combustion, plus an extra three percent oxygen ("just in case"). For this reason they monitor the oxygen content of the exhaust gas to make sure that they've got complete combustion plus a little bit leftover O2, but not too much.
The big power plants in southern CA have all been converted from oil to gas many years ago, so now ALL power plants run on nat gas, even the littler ones ("peaker units") that are turned on to supply extra electricty during times of peak demand (hot weather).
One more thing about power plants ... they all have to be "in phase" which means that the cyclical rise and fall of voltage has to line up from all the power plants at the same time. Considering that long power lines introduce a delay, they have to take that into account too.
Did you know that there is a huge DC (direct current, not AC) transmission line from the northwest to the southwest?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
I haven't learned anything at a job in 12 years other than how to do physical tasks as efficiently as possible
Quote:OMG now THAT is useful
and how to manipulate managers into doing what I want them to do.
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Quote:Damn, that's cold.
]Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Freaking cold here tonight. 22 degrees dipping down to 13 overnight. I didn't think I was imagining that it got colder than usual in my house.
Whatever snow we have will be gone by Christmas though. Looking at 48 degrees on Tuesday.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Rain and cold forecast for here in the foothills on Christmas Eve - and showers and cold for the next 4 days after.
HEY! Climate Stations finally started putting up their chart:
YAY!
To be at normal by the end of December, we need another inch from the last posting of the chart.
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I haven't learned anything at a job in 12 years other than how to do physical tasks as efficiently as possible
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Like... how?
See... That's really, really hard to explain. Couple that fact with having very little patience with other people and you'll know why I did not enjoy having to train other people.
Not to sound like a dick, but being in these low level positions that I've been working, I'm probably among what amounts to an extremely small percentage of people who can actually say that the work they're doing is far beneath their abilities.
But... I enjoy it. And if I'm getting paid while getting a great workout and making something better than anybody else either isn't capable of doing or would never put the effort into it, I'm fine with that as long as you stay the hell away from me and let me do my thing, and you don't expect me to train somebody else who is never going to be half as good at the job as I am.
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and how to manipulate managers into doing what I want them to do.
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OMG now THAT is useful skill!!! Tell me all about it!
Well... the first thing is what I said above. You have to literally be the best there is at something. But you also have to be working for much less money than you're worth.
Now... If you meet those two requirements, it doesn't do any good to complain about the fact that you're not getting paid what you're worth, or the fact that you're the best at what you do is going to be nullified almost immediately when they know that every-time they talk to you it's going to be more complaining.
But I guess the third thing is being set up outside of work where you don't NEED to work there. I may have embellished to them how well off I was and that I was only doing it to work out, but my point is I wouldn't have been able to even pull that off if it weren't at least a half truth. I'm a terrible liar and they'd see right through that.
Make no mistake, when the new guy came in and threw his weight around, nobody was under any illusion that I was going to go back on my word and stick around under the new terms.
But, that's only half of it. I'm a terrible public speaker, and I don't like being in large groups, but I'm excellent in 1-on-1 conversations. It's very rare that I have a manager (at least a direct one) who doesn't love having me around. I've learned how to balance a lot of these things. I know that most companies aren't ever going to give me what I'm worth monitarily speaking, but after a little provisional period where I just keep my mouth shut, learn how they used to do the job and figure out ways to do it better, and I quickly make myself the top performer on a team, I'm usually able to get some other side perks that others aren't going to have offered to them.
I dunno. I don't think I could write a book on it or anything. It's more instinctual at this point than a procedure. I'm pretty unique in a lot of ways... most of them, arguably negative. But I guess you have to just work with what you've got and make that work for you. I'm sure there are plenty of younger, better looking, and more charismatic people who have the gift of gab and can get people to do what they want them to do without having to have the insane performance levels that I do at a job.
If I REALLY had some sort of mind control powers, I wouldn't be looking to start my dozen or so attempt at starting somewhere else at the bottom of the ladder is all I'm sayin'.
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Freaking cold here tonight. 22 degrees dipping down to 13 overnight. I didn't think I was imagining that it got colder than usual in my house.
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Rain and cold (at least by So Cal standards) predicted beginning Sunday and for 5 days. The nights are pretty nippy for these parts.
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Quote:Damn, that's cold.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
]Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Freaking cold here tonight. 22 degrees dipping down to 13 overnight. I didn't think I was imagining that it got colder than usual in my house.
Whatever snow we have will be gone by Christmas though. Looking at 48 degrees on Tuesday.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Yup. :(
Not as cold as it was in early November though. And last year about a week from now was when we had those two nights that were negative 20 with wind chills of 70 below.
Hopefully we stay quite a bit warmer than that this winter. I'm not going to turn my furnace down to save money from where I had it last year, but I had relatively decent income back then compared to now, and I'm looking down the barrel of zero income very soon.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I just want to say that at least you know you've got good airflow through your ducts and registers (that's what we called them) from the work you did. So whatever heat your furnace is generating is going where it needs to go. That's got to be a big improvement! 
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And, though I'll probably be around later, just in case, I wish you all a
Very Merry Christmas
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I guess we'll see when I get my bill. :)
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It's predicted to go down to 40F tonight. Not cold by Midwest standards but cold enuf for So Cal! At that temp the avocado leaves will turn black because they have no natural anti-freeze.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Bummer.
It's funny to hear my parents talk about how "cold" it gets down by them now. "OMG! We had to wear jeans and a sweater last night!"
lol
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Yes I know. Me complaining about the cold ?? falls into what we used to call Cadillac Complaints, as in "My Mercedes is in the shop so I had to take the Caddi".
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Bummer.
It's funny to hear my parents talk about how "cold" it gets down by them now. "OMG! We had to wear jeans and a sweater last night!"
lol
Do Right, Be Right. :)
In fact, even me complaining about the heat can sometimes be a Cadillac Complaint because nothing beats good old Midwest/Southern humidity!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Cadillac Complaints, huh?
I believe the kids on Twatter call those First World Problems today.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Im glad you're celebrating the holidays with friends BRENDA!
Me, I'm still not ready. As usual! This year tho I have a legitimate excuse ... too many home repairs bunched up before Xmas!
We were watching one of those home renovation shows ... Love It Or List It Too which takes place in western Canada (Probably Vancouver or nearby but you would have to tell me about it if you recognize landmarks, BRENDA!) and they were talking about the difficulties of renovating a 100-year-old home and all of the problems that can be encountered (settling, rot, undersized utilities, bad pipes etc.) and it suddenly struck me ... OUR home is almost 70 years old! It's not 100 years but definitely qualifies as an "older home" and is showing its age! NO WONDER we've had to make so many repairs! Over the past ten years new roof, new copper water supply, new heat/AC, new flooring, new demand water heater, new waste lines, new irrigation system, replaced most of the windows, moved a door, rewired the garage ... and still have a lot of things to do!
Anyway, now I know that it's not just bad luck with our house, it's normal and expected. When we moved in lo these many years ago the house was not yet "old". Time sure flies!
Anyway BRENDA, MERRY CHRISTMAS IN YOUR NICE COZY FUNCTIONAL HOME! May you create many happy memories there!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
"Love It or List It" is filmed in Vancouver. I've seen the ads on tv.
My friend and I will meet up on Saturday to exchange gifts, have lunch and talk.
It is niiiice to be warm because of all the rain we are getting.
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BC ferries is cancelling sailings as the winds are whipping up between the mainland and Vancouver Island.
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Christmas tree partially decorated. Will finish tomorrow. Watched news and M*A*S*H and wired ornaments. Now just have to remember where I put my Star Trek and 1 Star Wars ornaments.
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BC ferries is cancelling sailings as the winds are whipping up between the mainland and Vancouver Island.
I see your wind on this real-time globe, but it looks like the state of Washington is getting slammed. https://earth.nullschool.net/
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Quote:OK!
"Love It or List It" is filmed in Vancouver. I've seen the ads on tv.
Maybe you can solve a mystery for me! Here is one of my favorite videos ..
I've spent some time noodling over WHERE it was filmed! Thinking ... maybe on the Hudson River just north of New York City. Maybe some tony place in the Adirondacks, Finger Lakes,or Catskills. But right around 1:10 there is a very characteristic bridge ... same bridge I think I see in Love it or List it Too and it looks exactly like it. Do you recognize the landmarks?
BTW ...all of those people, having more fun than I ever had ... definitely NOT in my experience! But it sure looks nice!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Quote:Oh Jeez. Still have to buy the Christmas tree.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Christmas tree partially decorated. Will finish tomorrow. Watched news and M*A*S*H and wired ornaments. Now just have to remember where I put my Star Trek and 1 Star Wars ornaments.
I get a puny little one ... chin-high ... something dear daughter and I can handle because ... that's all I can manage!!! Fortunately dear daughter is much stronger than I am!
*****
Well, St Vincent de Paul and Habitat for Humanity came by yesterday and picked up some boxes of household items and a bunch of boxes of leftover flooring and a big leftover bookcase. It was hard prying some cherished junk out of dear daughter's hands, but necessary to help organize her room. Better yet, the leftover flooring was taking up a lot of garage space and the leftover bookcase was taking up a lot of office space, and I hope with that experience hubby will get behind the idea of getting rid of even more "big stuff".
Today, I hope I'm going to be able to be entirely domestic and housewifely. No going to chase after insurances (still have one BIG problem to solve) and financial institutions or help with house repair or line up donations or sell our car or honcho the gardening or contemplate geopolitical events or redesign our laundry or manage our prescriptions any of that stuff.
Today, I hope to just make some green chili salsa (several kinds of green peppers, a bunch of cilantro, onion, garlic, lime or lemon juice, and salt; blenderized), cook dinner (baked tofu and stir fry) and have enuf time to do it so we're not eating at 8 or 9PM, and just kind of recoup and regroup from being pulled in a dozen different directions. Oh, and buy that tree! That's the hope, anyway!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Another step forward in the quest for better sleep and better health.
I accidently discovered that dark chocolate helps me sleep better. The reason may be in the theobromine found in chocolate which is very similar to the theophylline in anti-asthma medications.
I'm already on anti asthma meds, I thought it was being well controlled but I may have been having subtle attacks at night which may account for the feelings of breathlessness that I've been having. Also switched from budesonide back to good old-fashioned Flonase, which seems to do a MUCH better job of controlling horrible stuffiness.
This was the second morning in three days that I woke up feeling well rested and ... comfortable! I haven't consistently felt that way in years. Let's see if the trend continues!
*****
My day of simple domesticity went so well today, I think I'll have another! Didn't manage to buy the tree, but I DID manage to make a big bunch of green chili salsa, most of which went into the freezer for later. The recipe is pretty flexible, but today I used 9 anaheim chiles, 6 jalapenos, 1 bell pepper, 1 medium onion, about 8 med cloves garlic, juice of 3 limes, 1 1/2 t salt and an entire big bunch of cilantro, blenderized. Back in the day when I could taste, I thought it was pretty good and hubby likes it a lot. Its a good marinade; it makes a good start for Indian cooking with added spices (vegetable curry, palak paneer), and of course it elevates burritos and nachos with a fresh tangy taste. It's kind of a pain in the neck to make bc it requires so much vegetable prep but is so worth it!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
BC ferries is cancelling sailings as the winds are whipping up between the mainland and Vancouver Island.
I see your wind on this real-time globe, but it looks like the state of Washington is getting slammed. https://earth.nullschool.net/
Washington State and BC share a lot of wind and rain. So if we are taking a wind beating then the coast of Washington is too.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:OK!
"Love It or List It" is filmed in Vancouver. I've seen the ads on tv.
Maybe you can solve a mystery for me! Here is one of my favorite videos ..
I've spent some time noodling over WHERE it was filmed! Thinking ... maybe on the Hudson River just north of New York City. Maybe some tony place in the Adirondacks, Finger Lakes,or Catskills. But right around 1:10 there is a very characteristic bridge ... same bridge I think I see in Love it or List it Too and it looks exactly like it. Do you recognize the landmarks?
BTW ...all of those people, having more fun than I ever had ... definitely NOT in my experience! But it sure looks nice!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
Hi Sig. Looking at the scenery I thought it was one of the lakes here in BC BUT when I saw the bridge I KNEW it wasn't filmed in BC. There are no bridges in BC that look like that. So, I went and looked it up. It was filmed in Washington State and little into Oregon. That bridge is in Washington State.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Oh Jeez. Still have to buy the Christmas tree.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Christmas tree partially decorated. Will finish tomorrow. Watched news and M*A*S*H and wired ornaments. Now just have to remember where I put my Star Trek and 1 Star Wars ornaments.
I get a puny little one ... chin-high ... something dear daughter and I can handle because ... that's all I can manage!!! Fortunately dear daughter is much stronger than I am!
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Well, St Vincent de Paul and Habitat for Humanity came by yesterday and picked up some boxes of household items and a bunch of boxes of leftover flooring and a big leftover bookcase. It was hard prying some cherished junk out of dear daughter's hands, but necessary to help organize her room. Better yet, the leftover flooring was taking up a lot of garage space and the leftover bookcase was taking up a lot of office space, and I hope with that experience hubby will get behind the idea of getting rid of even more "big stuff".
Today, I hope I'm going to be able to be entirely domestic and housewifely. No going to chase after insurances (still have one BIG problem to solve) and financial institutions or help with house repair or line up donations or sell our car or honcho the gardening or contemplate geopolitical events or redesign our laundry or manage our prescriptions any of that stuff.
Today, I hope to just make some green chili salsa (several kinds of green peppers, a bunch of cilantro, onion, garlic, lime or lemon juice, and salt; blenderized), cook dinner (baked tofu and stir fry) and have enuf time to do it so we're not eating at 8 or 9PM, and just kind of recoup and regroup from being pulled in a dozen different directions. Oh, and buy that tree! That's the hope, anyway!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
Tree is now decorated and found my Star Trek and Star Wars ornaments in my storage room. Worf, Captain Sisko and Chewbacca. Also have one of Voyager but I don't know where I put it. Hope I find it again and put it safe somewhere for next year.
My tree is artificial as I have no way of getting rid of a real one.
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BRENDA: "Love It or List It" is filmed in Vancouver. I've seen the ads on tv.
SIGNY: OK!
Maybe you can solve a mystery for me! Here is one of my favorite videos ..
I've spent some time noodling over WHERE it was filmed! Thinking ... maybe on the Hudson River just north of New York City. Maybe some tony place in the Adirondacks, Finger Lakes,or Catskills. But right around 1:10 there is a very characteristic bridge ... same bridge I think I see in Love it or List it Too and it looks exactly like it. Do you recognize the landmarks?
BTW ...all of those people, having more fun than I ever had ... definitely NOT in my experience! But it sure looks nice!
BRENDA: Hi Sig. Looking at the scenery I thought it was one of the lakes here in BC BUT when I saw the bridge I KNEW it wasn't filmed in BC. There are no bridges in BC that look like that. So, I went and looked it up. It was filmed in Washington State and little into Oregon. That bridge is in Washington State.
OH, AWESOME! Mystery solved!! It was just bugging the shit out of me bc I knew it wasn't a So Cal location!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Quote:How often does that happen, canceling the ferries?
BRENDA: BC ferries is cancelling sailings as the winds are whipping up between the mainland and Vancouver Island.
KIKI: I see your wind on this real-time globe, but it looks like the state of Washington is getting slammed. https://earth.nullschool.net/
BRENDA: Washington State and BC share a lot of wind and rain. So if we are taking a wind beating then the coast of Washington is too.
KIKI- fascinating map! What I find really interesting is a north polar view, where you can see "lobes" of air masses extending towards the temperate zones. Quite often five or six lobes.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Hey Brenda
Yeah - I saw some weather-news about your wind - and I looked at the wind-map, and the wind-map doesn't seem to get down to details, like the area between Vancouver Island and the mainland. I guess I'll know now that it's not as particular as I thought.
But it DOES look like your wind has died down, so - good news for that.
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Well, dang. I'm a bit bummed out. I had a Christmas decoration with sentimental value that I can't immediately find. Unfortunately I've spent the last number of years in a haze of pain and fatigue, not really doing anything for Christmas except whatever I could manage with family, and I may have done things in an effort to manage that I don't remember now. I can't imagine that I would have gotten rid of it. But you never know ...
I have a LOT to catch up on now that I'm retired. I'm still working on it (though not nearly with the energy of anybody here, I think!). I have almost everything in the works at this point, with one huge exception that's causing me stress when I consider how things might be wrong, and one more minor but still important exception ... but I'm getting to the end of cleaning up what I call 'disasters', and getting everything current.
I hope by next year, when I'm caught up, and have some time, I'll have found that item, and next year will celebrate Christmas complete, present and past.
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