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Unfortunately, I can relate to this one.. not as bad, I just tore the meniscus (the cartilage between your knee bones) a few years ago, and it's mostly better now, but DAMN, knee injuries suck.Three years into a five year rehabilitation program to rebuild your damaged left upper hamstring tendon, you blow out your left knee - the pain from which causes you to limp in a way that aggravates the hamstring injury.
Never had a knee injury. However, four of my fingers are pretty f~!*ed (hockey, slammed in a car door, basketball), and I think I may have damaged my elbow at some point in the past, because every time I lift weights, it makes a rather obscene popping noise.
"Ja, Lebowski. Tomorrow we will cut off your JOHNSON."Nah, you know, your little man, Beeler junior, your old fella, Big Al, John Thompson... (I'm running out of poilte euphemisms)Before I remembered you had kids, I thought you meant something else.
"...F~*!ing Nazis."
"They were Nazis, Walter?"
"They were threatening castration! Are we gonna split hairs here..."
"Well, I..."
"...am I wrong?"
"They weren't Nazis, Walter. They were Nihilists."
"What?"
"They were Nihilists, they kept saying they believed in nothing."
"Nihilists. F&&% me. I mean, say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos. And let's not forget, let's NOT forget that, uh, keeping an amphibious rodent within, ah, within the city for...domestic purposes....that ain't legal either."
"What are you, a f+@$ing park ranger now?! Who gives a F!#@ about the f%#&ing marmot?!"
"We are sympathizing here, Dude..."
"F%&# sympathy. I don't need your f@+$ing sympathy. I need my f&*#ing Johnson."
"What do you need that for, Dude?"
"You have got to BUCK UP, Dude. You cannot drag this negative energy into the tournament!"
"F&#@ the tournament. F%*@ you, Walter."
"...'F!&@ the tournament'? Well, I can see you don't want to be cheered up here, Dude. Come on, Donny, let's get us a lane."
I'm glad I'm not the only Lebowski devotee. That movie is firmly lodged in my all-time top ten.
Absolutely. So well-written (the stutters and pauses are in the script!), well directed and perfectly cast. I can't think of a single actor that isn't great for the role they were given in that movie.
Plus, Gutterballs.
Absolutely. So well-written (the stutters and pauses are in the script!), well directed and perfectly cast. I can't think of a single actor that isn't great for the role they were given in that movie.
Plus, Gutterballs.
It really was a perfect storm of talent. It was indeed my favorite role for each of its actors.
Goodman BRILLIANT
Bridges BRILLIANT
Moore BRILLIANT
Buscemi BRILLIANT
Hoffman BRILLIANT
Turturro BRILLIANT
Huddleston BRILLIANT
Stormare BRILLIANT
Reid NOT HATEABLE (and that's really saying something)
Unfortunately, I can relate to this one.. not as bad, I just tore the meniscus (the cartilage between your knee bones) a few years ago, and it's mostly better now, but DAMN, knee injuries suck.Three years into a five year rehabilitation program to rebuild your damaged left upper hamstring tendon, you blow out your left knee - the pain from which causes you to limp in a way that aggravates the hamstring injury.
I tore my meniscus about a year ago, and I still don't have the full range of motion back. Can you bend you're knee all the way? I can't, and I'm wondering how long it will be until I can.
sheesh; broke up with my girlfriend Friday; she calls and says she still loves me and wants me and misses me; but is still seeing the other guy; man this sucks seriously! well; if I could find the vent thread I might post there, but am just to worn out. sigh.
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What sucks? The ridiculously angry people on these boards arguing about how much new fighters suck, or how rope trick needs to be nerfed or no, it doesn't need to be nerfed but we should have unlimited spells per day because everyone uses wands with Use Magic Device. I leave these boards for a few days and it seems the caustic natures of posters have multiplied tenfold. Man, let's all just hug it out and get back to being relatively nice to one another.
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sheesh; broke up with my girlfriend Friday; she calls and says she still loves me and wants me and misses me; but is still seeing the other guy; man this sucks seriously! well; if I could find the vent thread I might post there, but am just to worn out. sigh.
Bummer, Val. Still, on the plus side, she was a two-timing b+~$~ so you are best off out of it. And this "I love you, but I'm seeing him" is pure prick-tease - ignore her, and don't let her near you again.
Here, dude, have a hug.
Getting to the point where I'm considering starting smoking again.
Do it.
I'm glad I'm not the only Lebowski devotee. That movie is firmly lodged in my all-time top ten.
Absolutely unsinkably in my top ten.
hehe thanks
women must have like shark nose or something; I have only been broken up since Friday and already have a date for Thursday; and am getting lots of calls for yet other women; is wierd; do they have some secret network or something. where is my conspiracy thread.... hehe
still hurts though; had such hopes
thanks for the hug.
sheesh; broke up with my girlfriend Friday; she calls and says she still loves me and wants me and misses me; but is still seeing the other guy; man this sucks seriously! well; if I could find the vent thread I might post there, but am just to worn out. sigh.Bummer, Val. Still, on the plus side, she was a two-timing b&!~& so you are best off out of it. And this "I love you, but I'm seeing him" is pure prick-tease - ignore her, and don't let her near you again.
Here, dude, have a hug.
My best friend failed one of his tests to join the NYPD. I think it was for (in my opinion) silly reasons, like his blood pressure being too high and poor eyesight without contact lenses. He's taking it pretty hard and I'm trying to convince him it isn't the end of the world. I honestly don't even think he would like it all that much; it's a thankless job, you have to clean up after/deal with a lot homeless schizophrenics cut loose onto the street during the Reagan administration and sometimes people throw eggs at you. I don't think going into law enforcement solely in the interest of eventually getting into the CIA so you can be Brock Samson from the Venture Brothers is a great plan, to be honest, but I've said as much to him. Now he's talking about his other option, which was to join the Army and (nothing against our friends in the armed services ) I seriously hope he doesn't do that. He wants to bust down doors and shoot terrorists and drug dealers and that's hunky dory but I just don't want to lose my best friend.
Totally unrelated, I think the place I ordered pasta with vodka sauce from put meat in it and then lied to me when I asked what the heck that stuff that had a meatlike texture and tasted like what I remember ground beef tasting like was. Herbs and spices my ass.
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Two local girls were killed in a car crash last week. The other three passengers were seriously injured. I knew all of them.
The scary thing is, the police didn't know who exactly had been in the car, so for a couple of days, there were people being reported as dead that were perfectly fine. A young woman I know was woken up at 6:00 AM by the police coming to tell her mother that she was dead. What the f$$+?
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It has grown apparent to me that most music promoters are clinically brain-dead. The old fart in charge of scheduling the Ticonderoga Open Mic Night -oops- forgot to book crappy venue #1, forcing my #3 source of income to move to even crappier venue #2. Venue #2 (a s&!+ehole bar in the seedy downtown area) will attract less customers, and while it does look cooler than venue #1, has crappier facilities for actual bands to play on the little linoleum patch that passes for a stage.
In short, I'm going to be playing in a place that Black Flag would have passed by. And we don't even have any punk acts. We're screwed.
I have to cut ~200 words written for me by RA Salvatore. I feel like I'm murdering kittens with a rusty hatchet. :(
RA Salvatore words...
Written for me...
*cries*
What if I bought you one extra page?
Out of how many? If we're talking say...202 words, then I can see a problem. :)
R.A. Salvatore had this to say about Mr. McArtor:
...Mike...good.
I have to cut ~200 words written for me by RA Salvatore. I feel like I'm murdering kittens with a rusty hatchet. :(
RA Salvatore words...
Written for me...
*cries*
You are not worthy.
Mike... unclean.
Foot, hand, and mouth disease. Epidemic in China. 21 children dead.
F$$$. Maybe I'm gonna take my girl out of kindergarten for a while.
It's not being very well reported here, I found out from the great text message common man media.
Foot, hand, and mouth disease. Epidemic in China. 21 children dead.
f!~%. Maybe I'm gonna take my girl out of kindergarten for a while.
It's not being very well reported here, I found out from the great text message common man media.
Very sad and terrifying, Kruelaid. I hope your daughter, your wife, and you stay well and happy.
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Why is it that whenever I have a bad day, someone else is having a worse day, which merely serves to make my day even worse? *sigh*
Anyway, I wasn't able to put my band together today. And to top it all off, I have to go to another funeral, so I had to buy a frikkin' suit. Luckily, my father lent me some cash, but still... Mr. Shiny does not do suits.
Combined with lack of sleep, the succession of s&%@ty days/weeks/months is making me unbearable to other people. It's like a double vicious cycle.
I've been sick the last few weeks, so I went to the doctor's for the third time this morning at 8am, and after spending 1/2 an hour waiting, I was given prescriptions for another two courses of antibiotics, and a recommendation for the local medical imaging place.
Apparently I needed a chest x-ray to see whether I have pneumonia. So I get there, and they've had renovations all weekend, which still aren't finished, and the waiting room is full of dust and a gladwrapped x-ray machine which has just been delivered or something. I spend another 45 minutes waiting there, get x-rayed, get my shirt back on, and have to do it all again because the machine wasn't working properly. Then I get my prints, go fill my prescriptions, and head back to the doctor's (at this point, I'm really freaking out... I don't have a job at the moment, and my wife and I couldn't afford for me to get that sick right now).
So I wait another half hour at the doctor's again, and he looks at the x-rays and says "Are you sure you've never smoked?" "Yeah, never ever smoked." "Oh, OK, well you seem to have some sort of lung infection...uh, stay on the antibiotics and I'll call you when I hear back from the radiologist."
So I've spent three hours chasing my results around, I'm still coughing, and I can't go out and do interviews to get a job. Awesome.
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I've been sick the last few weeks, so I went to the doctor's for the third time this morning at 8am, and after spending 1/2 an hour waiting, I was given prescriptions for another two courses of antibiotics, and a recommendation for the local medical imaging place.
Apparently I needed a chest x-ray to see whether I have pneumonia. So I get there, and they've had renovations all weekend, which still aren't finished, and the waiting room is full of dust and a gladwrapped x-ray machine which has just been delivered or something. I spend another 45 minutes waiting there, get x-rayed, get my shirt back on, and have to do it all again because the machine wasn't working properly. Then I get my prints, go fill my prescriptions, and head back to the doctor's (at this point, I'm really freaking out... I don't have a job at the moment, and my wife and I couldn't afford for me to get that sick right now).
So I wait another half hour at the doctor's again, and he looks at the x-rays and says "Are you sure you've never smoked?" "Yeah, never ever smoked." "Oh, OK, well you seem to have some sort of lung infection...uh, stay on the antibiotics and I'll call you when I hear back from the radiologist."
So I've spent three hours chasing my results around, I'm still coughing, and I can't go out and do interviews to get a job. Awesome.
Don't you love the modern healthcare system?
RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32
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Alright, I apologize to the people here with real tragedy in their lives, so take this as the half-rant, half-humorous tirade that it was meant to be. I just need to vent.
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OH MY GOD. WORST MORNING EVER.
My dog apparently had an upset stomach last night. He didn't bother to wake me, even though I sleep with the door open and he could have easily roused me. No. That would have been considerate.
Instead, guess what he does? No, better yet, guess what the hardest thing in the world is to clean once your dog has s&+! on it?
You might be thinking "leather couch" or "expensive rug" - but you'd be wrong. The correct answer children is WHEN YOUR DOG S!@+S INTO THE AIR VENT IN THE FLOOR. THAT'S THE HARDEST THING IN THE WORLD TO CLEAN.
As if that weren't bad enough, he pulled a little canine hat trick on me. He somehow managed to s&#~ on the rug, the hardwood floor, and down into the air register, all in one expert fecal move. (We have an older home, with registers cut into the floor that lead to duct work beneath the house.)
Status?
Carpet - Stained. Will probably have to be burned. There was nothing solid about this one - pure hershey's syrup my friends. Like a f$*%ing volcano full of hot mud exploded in my living room.
Hardwood floor - Slimy sheen. Unnatural brown tint.
Vent - God only knows. I had to pull up the vent, wipe s#@* out of the slots, then dig into the register opening and scoop diarrhea out. By the handful. Several times. Didn't get it all. I will now have to crawl under the house after work and clean up what fell down there.
Wait! It gets better - it's getting really hot where I live, so that will all smell really nice when I get home. Also - added bonus, all the registers are connected, so the lovely scent of dog bombs now permeates the house.
I spent an hour and a half cleaning s~*+ off of, and out of, various things this morning. I was then late to work.
Result? I'm selling my dog to science.
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Foot, hand, and mouth disease. Epidemic in China. 21 children dead.
f~~~. Maybe I'm gonna take my girl out of kindergarten for a while.
It's not being very well reported here, I found out from the great text message common man media.
Is that the EV71 BBC World Service keeps talking about, something like 8,500 reported cases now? Scary stuff; IIRC, Taiwan had it 16 years ago.
Mr. Shiny does not do suits.
We’re simpatico here. I took a 10 grand / year pay cut so I could work a job where I wore jeans. I purchased one suit for my stepfather’s funeral (because he was worth it). I had planned to wear it next when I’m cremated in it, but decided against it, as I want to be wearing jeans then too. Nice pinstripe suit, so I will probably hand it down to Drew as he inherited my olive skin tone (SWEET). Magically, I discovered a second suit about my size in the closet one day (I seriously have zero clue how it got there), so I did wear that to a wedding, but I’m not counting the magical suit among my wardrobe…
"Are you sure you've never smoked?"
That’s really what you want to hear from a medical professional. Yeesh! Not to freak you out or anything, but you might want to consider getting a TB test and a Leukocyte count (just to be safe). What do you call a doctor who got all C’s in medical school? Doctor.
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Oh..my..Lord. Torch the house, and move far, far, away.
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My 2 yr old son had his heart biopsy today. Done in about 3-4 hours. But, just as we got the clearance to be discharged, he went from OK to high fever, elevated heartrate, and fast breathing. Eight hours of waiting later, he was admitted for at least the night.
Pretty much a repeat of last year's biopsy. The thing that really sucked was being SO CLOSE to going home.
Oh, and once his fever started, the doctors THEN mention to us that during the biopsy, part of his left lung collapsed, and they had to inflate it again. Uh....and why didn't they mention that immediately to us when he came out?? Don't get me wrong...I love the doctors at this hospital. I just can't understand how that is something that wouldn't be told to me right away.
A very, very long and stressful day.
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My 2 yr old son had his heart biopsy today. Done in about 3-4 hours. But, just as we got the clearance to be discharged, he went from OK to high fever, elevated heartrate, and fast breathing. Eight hours of waiting later, he was admitted for at least the night.
Pretty much a repeat of last year's biopsy. The thing that really sucked was being SO CLOSE to going home.
Oh, and once his fever started, the doctors THEN mention to us that during the biopsy, part of his left lung collapsed, and they had to inflate it again. Uh....and why didn't they mention that immediately to us when he came out?? Don't get me wrong...I love the doctors at this hospital. I just can't understand how that is something that wouldn't be told to me right away.
A very, very long and stressful day.
Man, my thoughts are with you and your family.
A very, very long and stressful day.
Dude. *hugs, cookies*
Here's hoping for good things tomorrow.
Glad to hear he is ok now, must have been terrifying then. The lung thing…oiy.
What was the biopsy for, SVT?
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It sucks that Frank was banned, because he got this whole thread devoted to his banishment and then it became an incomprehensible argument about programming and logic and non sequiturs and comminution (and how pulverizing bones came into it all I'll never understand); and play-testing communities, and governance, and collaborative methodologies and...
...my head hurts. Does anyone have an aspirin?
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...umm...who's Frank?
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Glad to hear he is ok now, must have been terrifying then. The lung thing…oiy.
What was the biopsy for, SVT?
Biopsy was to check his heart for signs of rejection. He had a heart transplant at 12 days old. Now that we are 2.5 yrs out from that, he's doing great, but the biopsy is the definitive procedure to confirm that everything is A-OK. Unfortunately, he needs a biopsy on an annual basis (hopefully, this gets changes to one every two years). We'll find out the results today.