Gary Johnson is here Saturday. t insert weed joke here
You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Oct 25, 2016 6:20:56 pm PDT #132 of 30002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
-t - Oct 25, 2016 6:26:41 pm PDT #133 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm sorry, Kalshane. Good luck with any treatment and the dietary changes and all.
Y'all have covered the horseshoe crabs quite thoroughly! Sorry to bring them up and dash like that.
Zenkitty - Oct 25, 2016 6:58:49 pm PDT #134 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Where's billytea? We need him to tell us about the mating habits of horseshoe crabs.
Connie Neil - Oct 25, 2016 7:00:37 pm PDT #135 of 30002
brillig
Maybe there was an echidna sighting.
Pix - Oct 25, 2016 7:08:48 pm PDT #136 of 30002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
One of my very earliest memories is of watching the horseshoe crabs swimming/mating in the marsh next to my childhood home. No joke.
billytea - Oct 25, 2016 9:11:28 pm PDT #137 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
It looks really strong that we'll flip the Senate. We need to gain four seats and two are definitely going to the Dems. And we just need to win two more out of five close races.
It's looking promising; but the Dems need a big result, not just stumbling over the line. In 2018, there'll be only eight Republican seats up for grabs; the remaining 25 wil all be Democratic or left-leaning independents. Two years of Senate control would be good; they have a very hard climb to make it four.
Where's billytea? We need him to tell us about the mating habits of horseshoe crabs.
Well now. On the whole it's pretty standard behaviour. A female digs a hole in the sand and lays thousands of eggs, one or more males fertilise them while clinging to the female's back. (The males are somewhat smaller.) However, two things are worth noting: first, a male may stay attached to a female for months at a time. Second, it may be that to get crabs to breed, they need sand or mud from the location where they themselves hatched (and to which they return to mate). It's still unclear what they might be sensing that makes the difference.
Horseshoe crabs aren't really crabs, they're more like Jillifonts, and they're really ancient, like cockroaches, unchanged for millions of years
For roughly 450 million years, in fact.
Maybe there was an echidna sighting.
There was! Not by me, it was by Lee and shrift. Still very exciting.
beth b - Oct 25, 2016 9:41:50 pm PDT #138 of 30002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Kalshane - my DH was in a similar place -- he had a halo ablation( I may be using the wrong word. - but basically they used a laser to remove the scar tissue in the esophagus. over all it has reduced the basic pain from a naturally high acid stomach and - by removing the scar tissue the cancer risk is diminished. it is not always covered by insurance ( yes it was expensive) however - despite a minor complication - it seems to have been well worth it.
feel free to email me - I'll have DH talk to you directly - but a good GI - will figure out if now is the time and how to work thee system
shrift - Oct 25, 2016 11:17:51 pm PDT #139 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I am in New Zealand!
Happy belated, brenda.
hippocampus - Oct 25, 2016 11:59:26 pm PDT #140 of 30002
not your mom's socks.
I am jealous of Shrift.
Also it is too damn early and I am on my way to the airport.
Calli - Oct 26, 2016 1:32:32 am PDT #141 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Kalshane, my mom had the same problem. The pain was so intense she went to the hospital thinking it was a heart attack. This was in her 40s. She lived to 78 with minor diet changes and prescription strength antacids, and she died from something completely unrelated. I hope things turn out to be easily manageable for you, too.