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Good luck to NW, NH. And make sure you take the time to get some sleep - you can't be of any good to her if you start acting stupid from lack of sleep. *cracks well-intentioned whip*The closest I've ever been to true insanity was when I was up for 72 hours straight after Impus Major was born. I swear, I'll never forgive Alta Bates for THAT nightmare! "If you don't feed him every 2 hours, he'll DIE! And no, WE won't wake you up! You can either hand him over to us for care or you're SOL!"
Not the best natal care ever offered.
But yeah, going that long without sleep is SERIOUSLY scary stuff. All the stories you hear don't do sleep deprivation justice. It's bad.
I used to hallucinate driving home from my 30-42 hour snow runs.
Do you know how hard it is to concentrate while hallucinating sober.
Quite hard.
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Picking up Tiny T-Rex from school.
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Walking home now, up the hill, through the woods, and across the railroad tracks.
First day back a rousing success!
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Question for today.
How did I get a rusty staple stuck in my hair while walking through the woods.
I'm seriously asking.
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Question for today.
How did I get a rusty staple stuck in my hair while walking through the woods.
I'm seriously asking.
Uh...no idea.
That's really weird man.
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Question for today.
How did I get a rusty staple stuck in my hair while walking through the woods.
I'm seriously asking.
It's one way of making sure your hat won't fall off.
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I don't wear hats...
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Ouch!
I'm sure it'll be a success, but beware of orderlies wearing a mask and asking you if a rag smell like chloroform, you never know if this will force Freehold to ramp up his casually supplanting you plan. :-)
Seriously, we hope she gets well soon!
Dressing up as an orderly? What is this, amateur hour?
Forget that. I'm thinking more like Omar Epps in House.
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I don't wear hats...
You mean I am Groot?
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He has a point.
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Forget that. I'm thinking more like Omar Epps in House.Ouch!
I'm sure it'll be a success, but beware of orderlies wearing a mask and asking you if a rag smell like chloroform, you never know if this will force Freehold to ramp up his casually supplanting you plan. :-)
Seriously, we hope she gets well soon!
Dressing up as an orderly? What is this, amateur hour?
I am only capable of doing Isaiah Mustafa or Cee Lo Green.
*sigh*
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So... total change of topic!
What do you do when you know you're settling in for the long haul at the ER, and you're not one of those guys who can watch random TV or surf the web and be content?
iBooks!
So I have to give Alta Bates props -- they had an open guest wireless network with a download speed of around 30 Mbps, which is pretty sweet when you're downloading 150-200 MB "books".
So it was kind of steep at $6.99 per book, but considering I was in the ER anyway, I just wasn't going to worry about it, so I bought books 1-6 of One Punch Man, the manga.
And oh, my goodness, did it make me squee! Why? Because the anime is almost verbatim what's drawn in the books. There are no weird offshoots, or missing subplots, or anything like that. What's in the manga is what you see in the anime. Even the villains look dead-on like they do in the manga.
It is such a rare thing to find someone willing to bring the author's vision to life without screwing it up. And gee, is it any surprise that One Punch Man is one of my all-time favorite animes?
So, now here's the issue: There are all the books for season 2 (7-12), sitting there, mocking me. Do I read ahead and know what's going to happen, or do I curl up with my friends and watch it when it finally comes out?
I'm leaning towards the latter. And I'm sure Rivoli food will be involved...
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Except that someone messed up the coffee machine by putting the grounds in the water reservoir. So now I have to make my tea another way. G****mn savages.Good news! (For both JN and NH)Thanks. :) It will feel good to be back.
Don't be so hasty to judge your co-workers. We have a really awesome coffee machine (the Remington iCoffee) in that it makes the best "machine coffee" we've ever had. (Yeah, French press is still better.) But it also relies on nothing more than a friction seal to hold the lid on the grounds in place. So every 10 runs or so, the grounds go EVERYWHERE, including into the reservoir.
At which point NobodysWife finds the coffee machine in the shower and yells at me.
But if your office kitchen doesn't have a shower or a really deep sink, it can be nigh-impossible to get those grounds out of there.
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My week of travel insanity is coming up. This Friday we fly out to Charlotte NC for an in-law's wedding. Then, because I'm running low on PT at work and I never know when I might land in the hospital for a week with staph or pneumonia or gods-know-what, I'm flying back to Phoenix to work next week while Ms. TS & kids drive up the coast. The following Friday I fly to Boston, where they pick me up and we continue on to the family reunion! Then we all come back to Phoenix two days later.
I tell ya, nobody I know better die or get hitched next year, 'cause I'm not going. >:|
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Congratulations, TS!
... by which, of course, I mean, "I'm sorry!" and "Good luck!" XD
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We have neither here. And it wasn't just a few grounds from clumsiness. Someone dumped in a full measure of grounds, tried to make coffee, and didn't clean up afterwards. It had to be a while ago, because the used grounds started growing a forest.Except that someone messed up the coffee machine by putting the grounds in the water reservoir. So now I have to make my tea another way. G****mn savages.Good news! (For both JN and NH)Thanks. :) It will feel good to be back.Don't be so hasty to judge your co-workers. We have a really awesome coffee machine (the Remington iCoffee) in that it makes the best "machine coffee" we've ever had. (Yeah, French press is still better.) But it also relies on nothing more than a friction seal to hold the lid on the grounds in place. So every 10 runs or so, the grounds go EVERYWHERE, including into the reservoir.
At which point NobodysWife finds the coffee machine in the shower and yells at me.
But if your office kitchen doesn't have a shower or a really deep sink, it can be nigh-impossible to get those grounds out of there.
I hereby rescind my defense.
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What kind of civilization was growing in the coffee mold.
As one three people in my family that drinks coffee I have pages of rants against those who don't get coffee drinkers and the maintenance of equipment it entails.
But they will, oh yes, they will!
(I don't actually have anything, so I'm always open to ideas)
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Nursery rhymes are so weird.
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What kind of civilization was growing in the coffee mold.
As one three people in my family that drinks coffee I have pages of rants against those who don't get coffee drinkers and the maintenance of equipment it entails.
But they will, oh yes, they will!
(I don't actually have anything, so I'm always open to ideas)
I am always impressed at the amount of effort you people put in to make your wake-up drinky tar.
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MMM wake-up drinky tar *drools*
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Skill Focus Perform Dessert Dance
Mesmerizing.
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OMG that is adorable.
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Wow the France thing (a few others actually too) super messed up.
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I think I remember you posting about that a long time ago on another thread. That sucks.
I recently quit wow. My guild fell apart and I just wasn't enjoying it anymore but I can't say that I got that attached to any NPC.
There is quite a few people I miss.
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I'm pretty sure they're still making Lego City sets.
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I realise it takes all sorts to make a world, etc. etc., but great spangly danglies, £150 for this, even if it is studded with Swarovski crytsals?
'Midnight Romance' indeed. If you saw her looming out of a dark alley at you, you'd run the other way, let me tell you.
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It's funny what triggers some of us:
Not going to get into the "whys", but I am a classic "working mom": I work 40 hours a week, do all the cooking, dishes, cleaning, budget, laundry, and shopping for the family, plus the lion's share of Impus Major's homework, and yet I still find time to run 3 games a week. And I do not feed my kids prefab s**t for dinner!!
I wouldn't be NEARLY so irritated if they just didn't use "busy" as a euphamism for "lazy" or "uninvolved". Yes, a couple of times a month, I'm too exhausted/busy/whatever to cook dinner, so we order out. But if you tell me, "Oh, it's OK, you're a 'busy dad'," you'll get to watch me explode.
I don't know why such commercials tick me off so much, but they really DO.
The reason I thought of that this morning? In an amusing turnabout, I've found that it is faster for me to make the kids waffles or pancakes from scratch than it is to buy pre-made ones. One batch of batter lasts for 2 breakfasts and takes me maybe 20-30 minutes total to cook, while a package of waffles lasts the same amount of time, takes 10-15 minutes total, and involves going to the store far too frequently.
So, what does it say when cooking stuff from scratch is the faster, more efficient way to do things?
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So... total change of topic!
What do you do when you know you're settling in for the long haul at the ER, and you're not one of those guys who can watch random TV or surf the web and be content?
iBooks!
So I have to give Alta Bates props -- they had an open guest wireless network with a download speed of around 30 Mbps, which is pretty sweet when you're downloading 150-200 MB "books".
So it was kind of steep at $6.99 per book, but considering I was in the ER anyway, I just wasn't going to worry about it, so I bought books 1-6 of One Punch Man, the manga.
And oh, my goodness, did it make me squee! Why? Because the anime is almost verbatim what's drawn in the books. There are no weird offshoots, or missing subplots, or anything like that. What's in the manga is what you see in the anime. Even the villains look dead-on like they do in the manga.
It is such a rare thing to find someone willing to bring the author's vision to life without screwing it up. And gee, is it any surprise that One Punch Man is one of my all-time favorite animes?
So, now here's the issue: There are all the books for season 2 (7-12), sitting there, mocking me. Do I read ahead and know what's going to happen, or do I curl up with my friends and watch it when it finally comes out?
I'm leaning towards the latter. And I'm sure Rivoli food will be involved...
I feel the same way about how Mobile Suit Gundam THUNDERBOLT was handled.
Kickass ova.
Cannot wait for more.
FOR SIDE 4 MOORE! DEFEAT ZEON!
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In other news, now that the excitement has finally died down, I'm being reminded that I did fall off a ladder onto concrete just 2 days ago.
Stupid body, reminding me that I have bruises and cuts and scrapes!
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So, what does it say when cooking stuff from scratch is the faster, more efficient way to do things?
"You're quite skilled!"
I <snip> do <snip> the lion's share
Based on the fact that my laundry isn't done and I desperately need to vacuum under my wife's chair and the green one we store swimming stuff on (where the kids hide to eat), I can assure you this isn't true-
of Impus Major's homework
Oh. Nevermind! Carry on!
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In other news, now that the excitement has finally died down, I'm being reminded that I did fall off a ladder onto concrete just 2 days ago.
Stupid body, reminding me that I have bruises and cuts and scrapes!
That's lame! Feel better!
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I <snip> do <snip> the lion's shareBased on the fact that my laundry isn't done and I desperately need to vacuum under my wife's chair and the green one we store swimming stuff on (where the kids hide to eat), I can assure you this isn't true-
of Impus Major's homeworkOh. Nevermind! Carry on!
So... I'd yell at you for not holding up your side of the bargain and doing Impus Major's homework, but apparently flights out of Ocala are over $1000 right now, so I'll give you a pass...
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I'll do it.
You don't mind him failing high school entirely, do you?