Scary woman bad.True. And I am well blessed that there are many palces I can go to get away from this over the next few days.
Shower now. Reality much later.
Zoe: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing? Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.
'War Stories'
Spike's Bitches 28: For the Safety of Puppies...and Christmas!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Cass - Feb 13, 2006 1:00:57 pm PST #9079 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
-t - Feb 13, 2006 1:24:08 pm PST #9080 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Take care of yourself, Cass. the stats they were quoting on Numbers last week had me all freaked out, and I'm completely stalker free.
Oh, and, while I've sort of got you, i can give you you my teeny tiny bit of Portland, OR lore! Stumptown coffee (very possibly not spelled like that) is way yummy.
Told you it was teeny tiny.
t waves at everyone else, having far too few brain cells to actually remember anything else I was going to say in the virtual presence of such foaminess
Vortex - Feb 13, 2006 1:30:18 pm PST #9081 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
oh, that ep of numbers creeped me out. One of my worst fears is being attacked in my own home.
Cass - Feb 13, 2006 1:39:05 pm PST #9082 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
the stats they were quoting on Numbers last week had me all freaked out, and I'm completely stalker free.Yeah, I hate that those stats hit home. I feel like they shouldn't be able to... I fear the moment I step out of my house more than anything. It has led me to think about krav or another self defense concept more than once.
Mmm, coffeee...
Off to stay elsewhere for the night... I should be online.
-t - Feb 13, 2006 1:57:07 pm PST #9083 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Some sort of self defense ocncept is probably a good idea for any of us, really.
ICompletelyON, this working thing is for the birds. I don't like it. No sir.
Oh, and IOON, thanks for the birthday wishes! It was a good day, hopefully the start of a good year.
DCJensen - Feb 13, 2006 2:08:53 pm PST #9084 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Thanks for all the job congrats folks. I'll be working on Point Of Sale computer systems, Phone-based and networked troubleshooting them for the manufacturer.
So? Phone stuff, but this time I get to use my brain.
Amy - Feb 13, 2006 2:10:36 pm PST #9085 of 10001
Because books.
Damn, I knew I forgot something! Congratulations on the job, Daniel!
-t - Feb 13, 2006 2:15:39 pm PST #9086 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Damn, I knew I forgot something! Congratulations on the job, Daniel!
Me too! I even tried to calculate if you were coming out ahead with the 8k additional salary and the increased commjute, but I decided I didn't have enough data. But I was totally thinking about you, just not typing. Anyway, congratulations, esp. pon the using your brain part.
Katerina Bee - Feb 13, 2006 2:38:57 pm PST #9087 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
(waves at -t in a belated-birthday sort of way) You are another one with recent job, yes?
Steph L. - Feb 13, 2006 2:48:18 pm PST #9088 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
You know, I am really really really REALLY tired of hospitals.
My Dad isn't in any sort of life-threatening danger, but they're keeping him at least overnight, maybe longer. He's been having what he describes -- and I quote -- as "stomach pains" for 5-6 weeks. Really bad, doubled-over-on-the-floor pains. He's been having a hard time eating and keeping stuff down for almost as long.
Well, in listening to him describe his "stomach" pains to the ER doctor, they're nowhere NEAR his stomach, except in the sense that they're located IN his abdominal cavity and not, say, on MARS.
His "stomach" pains are way way way down in his lower abdomen, pretty much where things hurt if your appendix is misbehaving. I know, I know, I *know* that Dad isn't good with medical stuff, but I'm a big believer in precision in description, especially when it's pains occurring in your damn body.
He's had CT scans and X-rays and ultrasound over the past 4 weeks (and again today), and his appendix is fine. Not enlarged, not kerplooey, just fine. He's had an endoscopy within the last 2-3 weeks, and everything was fine there, too. No tumors or undigested bubble gum in his lower intestines.
His kidneys, they discovered today, aren't functioning as well as they ought, BUT they're also very dehydrated, because Dad hasn't been able to keep food OR water down for a while. But that's easy enough to deal with, and when I left him, there was a nice fat iv bag of saline dripping into his veins.
So -- every fucking test that can be run has been run, and there's nothing turning up. This is maddening. He keeps spiking a fever, which the doctors think actually might be unrelated to the abdominal pain; he just developed a very sore throat in the last 24 hours, and he could have a virus of some sort.
This is maddening. He's in terrible pain, just in that one very specific area, but the doctors can't find the cause.
I'm home now (obviously) and far less stressed, now that I have things straight. I had been assuming it was actual stomach (i.e., upper abdominal) pain, and if that were the case, coupled with a high fever, that spells much much badness. But as things are now, I'm much less worried and more just frustrated b/c of the inability to pin down what in the hell is going on.
My money is on alien baby in GI tract. Only *one* doctor out of the 4 that saw him today thought that was funny.
I'm exhausted, because it's just so fucking *draining* dealing with this. I'm very very seriously considering going to bed in about half an hour.
Thanks to everyone for the unspecified-abdominal-pain~ma.