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Great. Now I think crookshanks is mabel from gravity falls.Crookshanks is going on a field trip to the UW and one of the events on the itinerary is to pitch a product at the school of marketing.
Her pitch will be for Kitten Mittens.
I'm so proud!
Ohmigosh. I have a doppleganger! DIPPER! DIPPER COME SEE!
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Just a Mort -- Hi is finalizing his itinerary. Sent you a PM!
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When Crookshanks was two she had a bug bite on her upper leg that had gotten irritated and slightly infected, so the General mentioned it at her appointment.
Immediately, the doctor said "well, we should test her for lupus! It's probably just a bug bite, but your insurance covers it!"
And then, for her bug bite, she prescribed the strongest antibiotic she could find.
We switched doctors immediately afterwards.
Wow... just... wow! Good for you!
With all the publicity about the overuse of antibiotics, doctors who are still prescribing them willy-nilly without cause really should be losing their licenses.
It is... a non-trivial matter, in my opinion.
(Of course, my mother was an M.D./Ph.D., so she had... opinions about such doctors that I likely inherited...)
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When Crookshanks was two she had a bug bite on her upper leg that had gotten irritated and slightly infected, so the General mentioned it at her appointment.
Immediately, the doctor said "well, we should test her for lupus! It's probably just a bug bite, but your insurance covers it!"
And then, for her bug bite, she prescribed the strongest antibiotic she could find.
We switched doctors immediately afterwards.
Wow... just... wow! Good for you!
With all the publicity about the overuse of antibiotics, doctors who are still prescribing them willy-nilly without cause really should be losing their licenses.
It is... a non-trivial matter, in my opinion.
(Of course, my mother was an M.D./Ph.D., so she had... opinions about such doctors that I likely inherited...)
My kid sister was seriously ill for over a year and a half with severe stomach pain, vomiting blood, etc. They suspected cancer, they did colonoscopies either two or three times, all sorts of tests.
Eventually it turned out that she had, at the start, been prescribed an antibiotic for a bad case of poison oak, and then another one when it lingered, and when she started to develop stomach irritation another doctor suspected a gastric infection and prescribed another antibiotic...Finally she found a doctor with a brain who actually read her case file.
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Not true. Whedon took over when Zach had to quit for family.indeed, it is blessedly free of whedon.I'm watching Justice League.
The Avengers it's not.
i remain unsure of just how much he had to do with the film, but you are correct.
As I understand it - and going off my aging memory - When Whedon took over he ended up ordering several reshoots, and pretty much any scene that had any joy or laughter in it was due to Whedon trying to pull it back from being...well...Zack Snyder Grimdark.
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When Crookshanks was two she had a bug bite on her upper leg that had gotten irritated and slightly infected, so the General mentioned it at her appointment.
Immediately, the doctor said "well, we should test her for lupus! It's probably just a bug bite, but your insurance covers it!"
And then, for her bug bite, she prescribed the strongest antibiotic she could find.
We switched doctors immediately afterwards.
Wow... just... wow! Good for you!
With all the publicity about the overuse of antibiotics, doctors who are still prescribing them willy-nilly without cause really should be losing their licenses.
It is... a non-trivial matter, in my opinion.
(Of course, my mother was an M.D./Ph.D., so she had... opinions about such doctors that I likely inherited...)
My kid sister was seriously ill for over a year and a half with severe stomach pain, vomiting blood, etc. They suspected cancer, they did colonoscopies either two or three times, all sorts of tests.
Eventually it turned out that she had, at the start, been prescribed an antibiotic for a bad case of poison oak, and then another one when it lingered, and when she started to develop stomach irritation another doctor suspected a gastric infection and prescribed another antibiotic...Finally she found a doctor with a brain who actually read her case file.
It's amazing what doctors can and do accomplish when they slow down, listen, and read. All too often they simply don't for a variety of reasons, some of them even legitimate.
I have a younger cousin who is a local ER doctor. Whenever I have a horrible experience I go to him, not because I expect him to do something about it, but because I want him to see the patients' side of the experience better to become a better doctor overall. And he's damn good.
Actual statement from an ER doc that is no longer working at my cousin's hospital, after getting the chest x-rays back that I demanded my step-daughter get: "Wow, I've never seen a fall cause pneumonia before..." No trace of irony or sarcasm, but actual wonderment. Took everything I had to not get myself arrested.
When I relayed this story to my cousin he started trying to apologize on behalf of the hospital. No, that's not what I'm looking for. He had just started his first year there and was right out of residency at the time. Learn from this, is all I ask.
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According to the letter I just got from FedEx May 14th is my very last day.
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Well, the good news is that you weren't working a lot of hours there anyway so it shouldn't be terribly hard to replace the income. The bad news is that it's still you losing your job. If you stay on through the liquidation it's likely you'll get asked to pick up more hours as other people jump ship though.
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Yup, no worries!
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I've already gotten one call from a former colleague about working with him when he saw the news this morning.
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When Crookshanks was two she had a bug bite on her upper leg that had gotten irritated and slightly infected, so the General mentioned it at her appointment.
Immediately, the doctor said "well, we should test her for lupus! It's probably just a bug bite, but your insurance covers it!"
And then, for her bug bite, she prescribed the strongest antibiotic she could find.
We switched doctors immediately afterwards.
Wow... just... wow! Good for you!
With all the publicity about the overuse of antibiotics, doctors who are still prescribing them willy-nilly without cause really should be losing their licenses.
It is... a non-trivial matter, in my opinion.
(Of course, my mother was an M.D./Ph.D., so she had... opinions about such doctors that I likely inherited...)
My kid sister was seriously ill for over a year and a half with severe stomach pain, vomiting blood, etc. They suspected cancer, they did colonoscopies either two or three times, all sorts of tests.
Eventually it turned out that she had, at the start, been prescribed an antibiotic for a bad case of poison oak, and then another one when it lingered, and when she started to develop stomach irritation another doctor suspected a gastric infection and prescribed another antibiotic...Finally she found a doctor with a brain who actually read her case file.
I am so very sorry your sister, you and your family went through this.
I would more point an accusatory finger at unnecessary test running in order to turn a profit, but yes, overuse of antibiotics can be truly awful.
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Yeah, I have many doctor and ER horror stories (the current one being the ER taking out NobodysWife's gall bladder without a SINGLE BIT OF ADVICE as to what to expect, what foods to avoid, how long symptoms would last, or whatever; just, "OK, it's out. Go home.").
My "favorite" is NobodysWife's grandmother. She lived a hour or two outside of Boise, Idaho, so we're talking major boondocks. It was big news when a Chinese restaurant opened in their town. And it was NOT a good Chinese restaurant. So she and her husband were living stereotypes. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and NobodysWife's father watched her rapid decline into dementia. Within a year of the initial diagnosis, he was worried she wasn't going to be able to take care of herself so he went up to help her prepare to move into a facility. While cleaning up, he found TEN SEPARATE PRESCRIPTIONS she was taking for mental health! She had gone to FOUR different doctors, NONE of them had asked about her current prescriptions, and all of them had prescribed DIFFERENT medications.
Dad threw them all out. She completely recovered from her dementia within 2 weeks, and lived the last decade of her life as quick-witted and self-reliant as she always had been.
But yeah, a lot of the blame lies on her for going to four different doctors and not telling any of them about her existing prescriptions. But my doctors always ask, "What are you taking right now?", and lying about that would just be... bizarre...
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When Crookshanks was two she had a bug bite on her upper leg that had gotten irritated and slightly infected, so the General mentioned it at her appointment.
Immediately, the doctor said "well, we should test her for lupus! It's probably just a bug bite, but your insurance covers it!"
And then, for her bug bite, she prescribed the strongest antibiotic she could find.
We switched doctors immediately afterwards.
Wow... just... wow! Good for you!
With all the publicity about the overuse of antibiotics, doctors who are still prescribing them willy-nilly without cause really should be losing their licenses.
It is... a non-trivial matter, in my opinion.
(Of course, my mother was an M.D./Ph.D., so she had... opinions about such doctors that I likely inherited...)
My kid sister was seriously ill for over a year and a half with severe stomach pain, vomiting blood, etc. They suspected cancer, they did colonoscopies either two or three times, all sorts of tests.
Eventually it turned out that she had, at the start, been prescribed an antibiotic for a bad case of poison oak, and then another one when it lingered, and when she started to develop stomach irritation another doctor suspected a gastric infection and prescribed another antibiotic...Finally she found a doctor with a brain who actually read her case file.
It's amazing what doctors can and do accomplish when they slow down, listen, and read. All too often they simply don't for a variety of reasons, some of them even legitimate.
I have a younger cousin who is a local ER doctor. Whenever I have a horrible experience I go to him, not because I expect him to do something about it, but because I want him to see the patients' side of the experience better to become a better doctor overall. And he's damn good.
Actual statement from an ER doc that is no longer working at my cousin's hospital, after getting the chest x-rays...
Yikes.
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As I understand it - and going off my aging memory - When Whedon took over he ended up ordering several reshoots, and pretty much any scene that had any joy or laughter in it was due to Whedon trying to pull it back from being...well...Zack Snyder Grimdark.Not true. Whedon took over when Zach had to quit for family.indeed, it is blessedly free of whedon.I'm watching Justice League.
The Avengers it's not.
i remain unsure of just how much he had to do with the film, but you are correct.
I vaguely remember my accusation at first discovering this news- if the movie is terrible, it is all Snyder's fault, even if Whedon reshot every scene. If the movie is good, it is because Whedon is the golden child, even if he did absuloutely nothing but reshoot a single scene.
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Yeah, I have many doctor and ER horror stories (the current one being the ER taking out NobodysWife's gall bladder without a SINGLE BIT OF ADVICE as to what to expect, what foods to avoid, how long symptoms would last, or whatever; just, "OK, it's out. Go home.").
What. The Actual. F*$#.
That is beyond incompetence and goes into genuine maliciousness in my opinion.
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Even better. He still in retail?
Landscaping.
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Even better. He still in retail?Landscaping.
Are you up for returning to landscaping full time?
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My "favorite" is NobodysWife's grandmother. She lived a hour or two outside of Boise, Idaho, so we're talking major boondocks. It was big news when a Chinese restaurant opened in their town. And it was NOT a good Chinese restaurant. So she and her husband were living stereotypes. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and NobodysWife's father watched her rapid decline into dementia. Within a year of the initial diagnosis, he was worried she wasn't going to be able to take care of herself so he went up to help her prepare to move into a facility. While cleaning up, he found TEN SEPARATE PRESCRIPTIONS she was taking for mental health! She had gone to FOUR different doctors, NONE of them had asked about her current prescriptions, and all of them had prescribed DIFFERENT medications.Dad threw them all out. She completely recovered from her dementia within 2 weeks, and lived the last decade of her life as quick-witted and self-reliant as she always had been.
But yeah, a lot of the blame lies on her for going to four different doctors and not telling any of them about her existing prescriptions. But my doctors always ask, "What are you taking right now?", and lying about that would just be... bizarre...
I deal with this a lot professionally. It is very rarely dishonesty or maliciousness on anyone's part, but poor memory and increasingly complicated names for psychotropic medications(I remember someone putting forth an idea for a limit on syllabyls for psychotropic meds- especially if it is a med that results in tardive dyskinesia as a side effect). I have gotten quite good at detangling poorly pronounced medication names, and always ask people if they are actually taking [insert name brand here] when they are having trouble prounoucing the name of the generic. Add to this HILARIOUS COINCIDENCES in naming(depakote and depakene are two different things), and there's alot of misunderstandings and errors.
Ego plays a role professionally too. Where I work has gone down to one psychiatrist on staff to one, but when we had two on staff, there was a lot of confusion on that side of the building if one doctor had to see another doctor's patient in an emergency. Lots of "why are they taking x? They should be taking y. Here's a prescription for y." When asked why they were switching meds, the doctor would usually laugh off such concerns with a "I'm the doctor here" kind of attitude that resulted in more problems. And this is in a facility that shares files and patient histories- it would be worse if someone was seeing 4 different doctors who did not share information.
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I think it would be good to teach the people to note all the prescriptions they are taking (or take the fliers from them) with them to the doctor.
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Are you up for returning to landscaping full time?Even better. He still in retail?Landscaping.
It wouldn't be full time as I'm still responsible for the kids and all, but yes.
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OK, I've reached the point of, "Seriously, Amazon? Why can't a SINGLE other food service be even remotely competitive with you?"
NobodysWife is home sick, and wanted sizzling rice soup from Kirin. I checked Amazon, and the price to get it home-delivered was right ($3.99 delivery and $5 driver tip), so I went ahead and ordered lunch and dinner.
For the third time in a row, the order was delivered:
So what the heck, other food delivery services? Amazon's really making you look bad here...
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Perhaps because Amazon is a global Megacorporation with a reputation to maintain?
Trust me -- I WORK for a Global Megacorporation. Quality is the first thing to go!
So I'm still impressed.
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It's the long con, they're only doing it to get close to your safe.
You saw it all the time on Burn Notice and Alias.
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You know, I wasn't really excited at all about Luigi's Balloon World. It just sounded kinda dumb.
If I wasn't busy procrastinating writing that essay I need to turn in tonight before leaving town tomorrow, I'd go play it right now.
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Kitten mittens is from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
I thought it was from the webcomic Something Positive?
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When Crookshanks was two she had a bug bite on her upper leg that had gotten irritated and slightly infected, so the General mentioned it at her appointment.
Immediately, the doctor said "well, we should test her for lupus! It's probably just a bug bite, but your insurance covers it!"
And then, for her bug bite, she prescribed the strongest antibiotic she could find.
We switched doctors immediately afterwards.
Wow... just... wow! Good for you!
With all the publicity about the overuse of antibiotics, doctors who are still prescribing them willy-nilly without cause really should be losing their licenses.
It is... a non-trivial matter, in my opinion.
(Of course, my mother was an M.D./Ph.D., so she had... opinions about such doctors that I likely inherited...)
It's not just antibiotics. There's now a vaccine-resistant type of polio.
Because, apparently, the entirety of medicine failed to pay attention when evolution was explained.
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According to the letter I just got from FedEx May 14th is my very last day.
The Ides of May hopefully bring you a new job.
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Yeah, I have many doctor and ER horror stories (the current one being the ER taking out NobodysWife's gall bladder without a SINGLE BIT OF ADVICE as to what to expect, what foods to avoid, how long symptoms would last, or whatever; just, "OK, it's out. Go home.").
My "favorite" is NobodysWife's grandmother. She lived a hour or two outside of Boise, Idaho, so we're talking major boondocks. It was big news when a Chinese restaurant opened in their town. And it was NOT a good Chinese restaurant. So she and her husband were living stereotypes. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and NobodysWife's father watched her rapid decline into dementia. Within a year of the initial diagnosis, he was worried she wasn't going to be able to take care of herself so he went up to help her prepare to move into a facility. While cleaning up, he found TEN SEPARATE PRESCRIPTIONS she was taking for mental health! She had gone to FOUR different doctors, NONE of them had asked about her current prescriptions, and all of them had prescribed DIFFERENT medications.
Dad threw them all out. She completely recovered from her dementia within 2 weeks, and lived the last decade of her life as quick-witted and self-reliant as she always had been.
But yeah, a lot of the blame lies on her for going to four different doctors and not telling any of them about her existing prescriptions. But my doctors always ask, "What are you taking right now?", and lying about that would just be... bizarre...
Not every doctor I have had has asked, and I noticed mental health doctors tend to be less likely to ask.
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All I know is people are going to be disappointed if they rummage through our medicine cabinet.
Unless band aids and all natural bug repellent are your thing.
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According to the letter I just got from FedEx May 14th is my very last day.The Ides of May hopefully bring you a new job.
Hopefully it doesn't take that long.
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I've set Hi some suggestions on what to do in Singapore. Will look up more, he seems to be a nature Rambling type. The problem is nature rambles in Singapore are best conducted in the morning or evenings(I discourage it since as night falls you can't really see where you're going - my night vision really isn't any good).
Will start looking for more nature rambles. Maybe St John's island, or a trip to Singapore hydroponics farms. It's nature+tech. I figure you have Traditional farms in USA, right?
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Good luck on the job hunt, cap.
My life is sucktastic atm. In addition to the lung infection I've been fighting for weeks, I'm back to square one with insomnia. Can't sleep without heavy heavy meds -- it's as if I never got my APAP machine. I figured out how to adjust it though, no thanks to the clinic who sold it to me, so maybe some extra pressure will help me sleep tonight. And if not, maybe they'll be helpful when I go in to the clinic tomoro. *Maybe, maybe, maybe...* I feel like I haven't been living in 2018, just stumbling from one crisis state to the next, and I'm sick of it.
On the topic of antibiotics, I get it and I don't badger my doc for them. But when I was a kid my doc put me on an antibiotic every 3 months like clockwork, depending on what was growing in my lungs, and I got sick less than my parents did. Now I get sick several times a year, at least once bad enough to spend a week in the hospital, and when I call my doc to tell her I have an infection she says "Eh, give it a few days." And it always gets worse. It's never just an allergy, it's never the flu because I get my shot every year -- it's always some festering bacteria that turns me into a coughy wheezy mess for at least a week.
Which, again I get it, it's not just about me. But I miss having just a minor bug once a year.
/vent
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I've decided since everyone says to me conspiratorially "Hey man, I heard you were closing, is that true?" I'm going to react every time as if that's the first I'm hearing about it.
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The adult (collectible) toys collectors look the most lost.
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Good luck on the job hunt, cap.
My life is sucktastic atm. In addition to the lung infection I've been fighting for weeks, I'm back to square one with insomnia. Can't sleep without heavy heavy meds -- it's as if I never got my APAP machine. I figured out how to adjust it though, no thanks to the clinic who sold it to me, so maybe some extra pressure will help me sleep tonight. And if not, maybe they'll be helpful when I go in to the clinic tomoro. *Maybe, maybe, maybe...* I feel like I haven't been living in 2018, just stumbling from one crisis state to the next, and I'm sick of it.
On the topic of antibiotics, I get it and I don't badger my doc for them. But when I was a kid my doc put me on an antibiotic every 3 months like clockwork, depending on what was growing in my lungs, and I got sick less than my parents did. Now I get sick several times a year, at least once bad enough to spend a week in the hospital, and when I call my doc to tell her I have an infection she says "Eh, give it a few days." And it always gets worse. It's never just an allergy, it's never the flu because I get my shot every year -- it's always some festering bacteria that turns me into a coughy wheezy mess for at least a week.
Which, again I get it, it's not just about me. But I miss having just a minor bug once a year.
/vent
Well, it's the usual frustration about... er... pretty much everything:
(1) You leave people alone to use their own common sense. So doctors can prescribe antibiotics and other medications as they see fit.(2) You learn how rare common sense is, and you have to clamp down on people because they're idiots. So doctors are no longer allowed to prescribe antibiotics unless they've actually done a bacterial culture on the patient and proved concretely that they have a bacterial illness. (I kid you not -- our pediatrician is extremely close to this. Basically, if you're not in mortal danger and you have insurance, you're getting cultured before you get antibiotics.)
(3) People who are more naturally prone to bacterial infections (such as yourself, I'm sorry to say it looks like) get hosed.
And the cycle repeats in every area ad infinitum.
But now I'm risking flaming bikes.
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When Crookshanks was two she had a bug bite on her upper leg that had gotten irritated and slightly infected, so the General mentioned it at her appointment.
Immediately, the doctor said "well, we should test her for lupus! It's probably just a bug bite, but your insurance covers it!"
And then, for her bug bite, she prescribed the strongest antibiotic she could find.
We switched doctors immediately afterwards.
Wow... just... wow! Good for you!
With all the publicity about the overuse of antibiotics, doctors who are still prescribing them willy-nilly without cause really should be losing their licenses.
It is... a non-trivial matter, in my opinion.
(Of course, my mother was an M.D./Ph.D., so she had... opinions about such doctors that I likely inherited...)
It's not just antibiotics. There's now a vaccine-resistant type of polio.
Because, apparently, the entirety of medicine failed to pay attention when evolution was explained.
evolution/mutations vs. individual strains is still hotly contested to my knowledge.
Remember when the superflu/swine flu/bird flu/spanish flu/(insert natiionality you dont care for here) flu killed us all?
Yeah, me neither.
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I've set Hi some suggestions on what to do in Singapore. Will look up more, he seems to be a nature Rambling type. The problem is nature rambles in Singapore are best conducted in the morning or evenings(I discourage it since as night falls you can't really see where you're going - my night vision really isn't any good).
Will start looking for more nature rambles. Maybe St John's island, or a trip to Singapore hydroponics farms. It's nature+tech. I figure you have Traditional farms in USA, right?
Hi is such a cheerful "whatever man" that he'll vastly enjoy anything you suggest he do. He loves having people tell him, "Oh, go check out this place!"
15 years later, he still speaks fondly of his trips to Brazil, and the locals telling him where to go and what to see.
He is definitely Chaotic Rambling.
And yes, we have both traditional and hydroponic farms here, but I absolutely, positively guarantee he'd love to tour a hydroponic farm!
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I'm trying to aim for things that you don't usually get in the states. Or maybe sky greens, though I've never been there personally. Of course I am a lawful so I will try to plan out everything in advance. I'm not going around on nature rambles in wet weather though - wet weather just gets me down.
Then there's lightning risks for wet weather as well.
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I've set Hi some suggestions on what to do in Singapore. Will look up more, he seems to be a nature Rambling type. The problem is nature rambles in Singapore are best conducted in the morning or evenings(I discourage it since as night falls you can't really see where you're going - my night vision really isn't any good).
Will start looking for more nature rambles. Maybe St John's island, or a trip to Singapore hydroponics farms. It's nature+tech. I figure you have Traditional farms in USA, right?
Hi is such a cheerful "whatever man" that he'll vastly enjoy anything you suggest he do. He loves having people tell him, "Oh, go check out this place!"
15 years later, he still speaks fondly of his trips to Brazil, and the locals telling him where to go and what to see.
He is definitely Chaotic Rambling.
And yes, we have both traditional and hydroponic farms here, but I absolutely, positively guarantee he'd love to tour a hydroponic farm!
i like this guy!
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Final space is a f&$#ton deeper than I thought. Liking this show.