That's wild that they can do that. I hope it's super easy on you!
I am backing down on buying the plane ticket. There's other more responsible things I should be spending money on, I feel like I need to at least think about that a little more
Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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.
-t - Aug 21, 2026 10:10:28 am PDT #13644 of 14045
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dana - Aug 21, 2026 10:20:34 am PDT #13645 of 14045
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Is that the same kind of surgery you had before, Steph?
Steph L. - Aug 21, 2026 10:30:14 am PDT #13646 of 14045
That which does not kill you should RUN
Is that the same kind of surgery you had before, Steph?
Really similar, except when I had it done for my lumbar vertebrae, they didn't put in a spacer thingie to prevent the narrowing from reoccurring. I don't know if they were doing that in 2003.
The only thing I really dislike is I'll have to wear a neck brace for at least 2 weeks, and that's going to be super annoying. But my brother wisely said "You'll be stoned on pain meds and rewatching Moon Knight and that alien show you like,* so that'll take your attention off the neck brace." Which, fair point.
*(He forgot about the gay hockey show. And maybe I'll do my annual pre-Christmas Hawkeye rewatch early.)
-t - Aug 21, 2026 10:34:07 am PDT #13647 of 14045
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't know whether to hope you get put on a billboard again or not...the plan for coping with the neck brace sounds excellent!
Dana - Aug 21, 2026 10:39:07 am PDT #13648 of 14045
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
The alien show is Roswell, right?
I didn't get a spacer put in when I had surgery in 2017.
Steph L. - Aug 21, 2026 10:39:21 am PDT #13649 of 14045
That which does not kill you should RUN
I don't know whether to hope you get put on a billboard again or not...
If anyone deserves to be on a billboard, it's Tim. His recovery from that surgery—and the massive amount of curvature/structural correction the surgeons were able to do—was rock star caliber. I just have a cranky neck that needs some stabbing to get it to fall in line.
Steph L. - Aug 21, 2026 10:41:36 am PDT #13650 of 14045
That which does not kill you should RUN
The alien show is Roswell, right?
Yes, and I know he knows its name; he just likes to be a dick. Plus it's his actual birthday* today, so he has free rein to be even more of a dick.
*My little brother is fucking 50 today. Nothing makes me feel older. My own age doesn't actually make me feel as old as my baby brother turning half a century. Jesus.
Dana - Aug 21, 2026 10:58:44 am PDT #13651 of 14045
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I wish I was stoned on pain meds and watching Roswell.
I am not prepared for my brother to turn 50, which is thankfully a ways off.
-t - Aug 21, 2026 12:31:10 pm PDT #13652 of 14045
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Happy actual birthday to your brother, Tep, although it is pretty rude of him to go and turn 50. When my little sister turned 50 she kept it quiet.
-t - Aug 21, 2026 12:33:41 pm PDT #13653 of 14045
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
OK, I have made appointments for a flu shot and to get my car's oil changed. Way less than I hoped to accomplish today, but not nothing.