I Am So Tired But There's So Much To Do Complaint Thread

LeatherGryphon

Last minute panic:   I almost forgot to vote today.  I usually vote about 10:00 in the morning when everybody younger than 65 is working and the place is practically empty.  I rushed downtown and got in line to vote.  Didn't take too long but there were perhaps 30 or so people in the building, most of them just standing around jabbering at each other.  I bumped into a couple of my closer distant relatives (everybody in town is related to everybody else somehow, it's just a matter of degrees).  Did my voting and got out of there and finshed up the evening with a few things from the grocery store.  Deli fresh baked (this morning) doughnuts were on sale 2 for 1 so I grabbed a couple.  Yum, for snack tonight and breakfast tomorrow.

TSasha Smith

Vote?  Oops I forgot!  Oops!

NVIATWAS

DanaTA said:

NVIATWAS said:

New complaints!

- Left foot hurts, but I have no left foot

- Left eye blurry from doc sticking needles into it

- Cold diet soda is now warm diet soda (yecch)

- No DEAD FISH ON A TRAY waaahhhhh

- No money left from doctor bills to buy Vicky, or a temple, or forgawdssake a frickin' sword

- Dana is smarter than I am :p

 

 

I just pay attention to details, and there were too many of them piling up to ignore!

Welcome back!  We've missed you!

Dana

Awwww thanks!  You'll be sick of me soon enough!

NVIATWAS

Tjohn said:

Miss Bad Wolf said:

Chohole said:

Mistara said:

 

buffalo don't have wings, why do they call it buffalo wings?

Cos they were first served as a dish in a place called Buffalo     http://time.com/3957370/buffalo-wings/

I thought it had something more to do with Bills not the animals.  Anyway what's a Bill as in Buffalo Bills?

It's the monthly rent you pay on your buffalo in some parts of the world.

I was sure it's what you paid for Buffalo wings... hmmph.

Mistara

Miss Bad Wolf said:

Chohole said:

Mistara said:

 

buffalo don't have wings, why do they call it buffalo wings?

Cos they were first served as a dish in a place called Buffalo     http://time.com/3957370/buffalo-wings/

I thought it had something more to do with Bills not the animals.  Anyway what's a Bill as in Buffalo Bills?

 

oh buffalo, 

shuffle off to buffalo 

Mistara

Broncos dont have a wings named after them

Mistara

what do you put in your homemade pot pie?

peas, carrots, 

i cant eat the frozen ones, the sodium 

sheperds pie with masha tatoes on top 

 

The Squirrels ate my pumpkin Complaint Thread

fixmypcmike

Mistara said:

Broncos dont have a wings named after them

They don't need wings, they're already a mile high

NVIATWAS

Mistara said:

Broncos dont have a wings named after them

Denver Horse Feathers?  Dunno...

 

NVIATWAS

Mistara said:

what do you put in your homemade pot pie?

peas, carrots, 

i cant eat the frozen ones, the sodium 

sheperds pie with masha tatoes on top 

 

The Squirrels ate my pumpkin Complaint Thread

I normally use low-sodium shepherd, but Whole Foods stopped carrying them.  Now all I can get is cowboy roast.. tough as leather.. barf!

 

NVIATWAS

Fixmypcmike said:

Mistara said:

Broncos dont have a wings named after them

They don't need wings, they're already a mile high

Excellent point!

 

Petercat

Mistara said:

complaint - the starbucks was so backed up by mobile orders, i had to leave without my cappuccino this morning or be extra late for work.

anyway, went back at lunch time and explained to the supervisor, they made me a fresh one. 

i've lost track of my retirement countdown. somethin like 5 years.  my left hand doesn't have the squeeze strength it used to have, trouble squeezing the standup toothpaste. trouble squeezing the nail trimmers in my left.  right hand is fine.

buffalo don't have wings, why do they call it buffalo wings?

perfect chill out weather for the crockpot this weekend. potato stew i think, mm mmm.  i call it klah stew. klah was the drink in the Pern novels, telepathic dragons bonded to their riders. fire lizards.

 

It could have been worse. Many years before buffalo wings were popular, I was in
a buffet where one of the entrees was Buffalo meatballs.
If the manager had accepted my suggestion, we'd be eating Buffalo Balls today.

Petercat

Not complaining, happy!

Beautiful weather, perfect temperature, everyone else was at work so I had the roads to myself and my motorcycle.
New Mustang seat arrived today, installed in ten minutes. Very comfortable!
Bike was running perfectly, and since I mounted a camera to my helmet people don't get stupid near me.
Found an unknown little restaurant out in the sticks, almost couldn't get back on bike after eating. Wonderful meal!
Nothing like a clear, cool day, a smooth road, an empty schedule, and the rumble of a Harley to make life worth living.

 

kyoto kid

NVIATWAS said:

BIG PILE OF TEXT ALERT!!!

Ok, I have tea, lunch is down, and I put my magic drops into my left eye.  900MB of stuff is uploading to the office server, so things are quiet for a while.

Where to begin?  Ah, the foot saga.  A little over a year ago, a dangerous strep infection got into the toe bones on my left foot.  After 24 hours on two different antibiotics at once !! the main doc brought in an orthopedic surgeon.  He wanted to saw my foot off above the ankle and put me into physical therapy for six months.  I told him no thanks, well, I was less polite about it.  The main doc got a new guy, Dr. Stockton, who is a rock star - he said noooo, onlly cut off the bad part.  An MRI later and I was in surgery.  After many weeks in 2 different casts I was free to walk again, but the doc ordered me to get a prothesis (fake foot).  Right about that time the company I was contracting to had a mass layoff and I was out of work.

To make a long story short, 5 months later I had a new contract with a medical device startup in San Antonio.  After a few months they offered me insurance, and I picked the best coverage which ends up costing me around 500 a month.  Ths turns out to have really paid off.  I developed a diabetic ulcer on the underside of my right foot, ended up in the hospital, and they called Dr. Stockton on me.  I ended up in surgery, getting some problematic toe bone spurs filed off, toe bones shaved, and a tendon snipped to make it stretch and remove pressure from the front of my foot.  5 more weeks in a cast and POOF, no more ulcer and it hasn't even threatened to come back.    As part of all this he re-prescribed the fake foot with new technology and a special shoe insert for my right foot to keep me the Hell out of his office.

 

So, the prosthetics place built me a carbon fiber prosthesis - it's totally cyberpunk!  It's paintable, and according  to the prosthetics doc most of her clients have theirs painted (welcome to Austin).  I also have shoes specially made to hold inserts and prosthetics, someone else ordered them and never picked them up, so I scored big.  So now, for I think the 4th time, I'm re-learning to walk.  Between my custom-made leather wrapped hardwood walking cane and my carbon fiber foot, I can get around fine - I just need to rebuild all the muscles I've lost.

 

I think a big feathered serpent painted on the shin... hee hee hee heeeeeeeeeeee!!!

 

Next up, tomorrow.. the eye saga.

 

Oh, and I quit keyboard and am back to guitar - bought myself a Fender Telecaster Plus and had a local guitar-maker replace the pickups with special ones I bought.  Her name is Christine, and I'll try to post a pic of her this week sometime!

 

...cool about the paintable"cyber foot" and guitar. Yeah had to give up keyboards as well however still have dexterity in my left hand so considering picking up the fiddle again. Studied it back in college. Won't be able to do much of the fancy classical stuff any more but could still probably slam a good breakdown.

kyoto kid

Mistara said:

Broncos dont have a wings named after them

...there's a place here that is a Green Bay Packer hangout here in Portland that serves "Packer Fries" which are covered in cheese and jalepenos ("green & gold").

DanaTA

NVIATWAS said:

BIG PILE OF TEXT ALERT!!!

Ok, I have tea, lunch is down, and I put my magic drops into my left eye.  900MB of stuff is uploading to the office server, so things are quiet for a while.

Where to begin?  Ah, the foot saga.  A little over a year ago, a dangerous strep infection got into the toe bones on my left foot.  After 24 hours on two different antibiotics at once !! the main doc brought in an orthopedic surgeon.  He wanted to saw my foot off above the ankle and put me into physical therapy for six months.  I told him no thanks, well, I was less polite about it.  The main doc got a new guy, Dr. Stockton, who is a rock star - he said noooo, onlly cut off the bad part.  An MRI later and I was in surgery.  After many weeks in 2 different casts I was free to walk again, but the doc ordered me to get a prothesis (fake foot).  Right about that time the company I was contracting to had a mass layoff and I was out of work.

To make a long story short, 5 months later I had a new contract with a medical device startup in San Antonio.  After a few months they offered me insurance, and I picked the best coverage which ends up costing me around 500 a month.  Ths turns out to have really paid off.  I developed a diabetic ulcer on the underside of my right foot, ended up in the hospital, and they called Dr. Stockton on me.  I ended up in surgery, getting some problematic toe bone spurs filed off, toe bones shaved, and a tendon snipped to make it stretch and remove pressure from the front of my foot.  5 more weeks in a cast and POOF, no more ulcer and it hasn't even threatened to come back.    As part of all this he re-prescribed the fake foot with new technology and a special shoe insert for my right foot to keep me the Hell out of his office.

 

So, the prosthetics place built me a carbon fiber prosthesis - it's totally cyberpunk!  It's paintable, and according  to the prosthetics doc most of her clients have theirs painted (welcome to Austin).  I also have shoes specially made to hold inserts and prosthetics, someone else ordered them and never picked them up, so I scored big.  So now, for I think the 4th time, I'm re-learning to walk.  Between my custom-made leather wrapped hardwood walking cane and my carbon fiber foot, I can get around fine - I just need to rebuild all the muscles I've lost.

 

I think a big feathered serpent painted on the shin... hee hee hee heeeeeeeeeeee!!!

 

Next up, tomorrow.. the eye saga.

 

Oh, and I quit keyboard and am back to guitar - bought myself a Fender Telecaster Plus and had a local guitar-maker replace the pickups with special ones I bought.  Her name is Christine, and I'll try to post a pic of her this week sometime!

 

Wow!  That's a lot to happen in a year or so!  I'm glad you're doing well now and in good spirits about it.

Dana

ps1borg

Chohole said:

NVIATWAS said:

ps1borg said:

Morning. Slate grey sky giving up some sweet smelling rain. Day off today, is big horse race day so we get a holiday locally, seems to be a peculiar Melbourne thing the rest of the country complains about.Guess they could have the day off as well if they want :)

Nice!  I want a day off for armadillo races!

 

Do we get a poem about the armadillo races as well?

Too much depends upon

A red armadillo 

Rnning and passing and

Beating

A white pillow

:)

 

ps1borg

...

NVIATWAS said:

ps1borg said:

Morning. Still a little cool a while after dawn and hungover quiet in the big city, must be a post big horse race lull can hear songbirds chorusing a couple of blocks away :)

Chirp tweet warble CCCCHHHHIIIIRRRRPPPP! :-o

 

hospital is major suckage *hugs*

ps1borg

Mistara said:

Broncos dont have a wings named after them

Buffalo wings sound kind of romantic, trying not to let the romance go *pooof* :o

ps1borg

Mistara said:

Pumpkin!what do you put in your homemade pot pie?

peas, carrots, 

i cant eat the frozen ones, the sodium 

sheperds pie with masha tatoes on top 

 

The Squirrels ate my pumpkin Complaint Thread

pumpkin!

ps1borg

Tough day complaint, thought it was never going to end :o

ps1borg

NVIATWAS said:

Fixmypcmike said:

Mistara said:

Broncos dont have a wings named after them

They don't need wings, they're already a mile high

Excellent point!

 

And yay for Stratocasters :)

Chohole

ps1borg said:

Chohole said:

NVIATWAS said:

ps1borg said:

Morning. Slate grey sky giving up some sweet smelling rain. Day off today, is big horse race day so we get a holiday locally, seems to be a peculiar Melbourne thing the rest of the country complains about.Guess they could have the day off as well if they want :)

Nice!  I want a day off for armadillo races!

 

Do we get a poem about the armadillo races as well?

Too much depends upon

A red armadillo 

Rnning and passing and

Beating

A white pillow

:)

 

Thank you   

TSasha Smith

kyoto kid said:

Mistara said:

Broncos dont have a wings named after them

 

...there's a place here that is a Green Bay Packer hangout here in Portland that serves "Packer Fries" which are covered in cheese and jalepenos ("green & gold").

Sounds great except for the jalapeños which from past experience gives more trouble than they are worth.  It might be against TOS to go into detail.

NVIATWAS

Petercat said:

Mistara said:

complaint - the starbucks was so backed up by mobile orders, i had to leave without my cappuccino this morning or be extra late for work.

anyway, went back at lunch time and explained to the supervisor, they made me a fresh one. 

i've lost track of my retirement countdown. somethin like 5 years.  my left hand doesn't have the squeeze strength it used to have, trouble squeezing the standup toothpaste. trouble squeezing the nail trimmers in my left.  right hand is fine.

buffalo don't have wings, why do they call it buffalo wings?

perfect chill out weather for the crockpot this weekend. potato stew i think, mm mmm.  i call it klah stew. klah was the drink in the Pern novels, telepathic dragons bonded to their riders. fire lizards.

 

It could have been worse. Many years before buffalo wings were popular, I was in
a buffet where one of the entrees was Buffalo meatballs.
If the manager had accepted my suggestion, we'd be eating Buffalo Balls today.

Mmmmmm, Buffalo balls... :-}
 

NVIATWAS

Petercat said:

Not complaining, happy!

Beautiful weather, perfect temperature, everyone else was at work so I had the roads to myself and my motorcycle.
New Mustang seat arrived today, installed in ten minutes. Very comfortable!
Bike was running perfectly, and since I mounted a camera to my helmet people don't get stupid near me.
Found an unknown little restaurant out in the sticks, almost couldn't get back on bike after eating. Wonderful meal!
Nothing like a clear, cool day, a smooth road, an empty schedule, and the rumble of a Harley to make life worth living.

 

Schweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!  Sounds like a blast!

 

NVIATWAS

kyoto kid said:

NVIATWAS said:

BIG PILE OF TEXT ALERT!!!

Ok, I have tea, lunch is down, and I put my magic drops into my left eye.  900MB of stuff is uploading to the office server, so things are quiet for a while.

Where to begin?  Ah, the foot saga.  A little over a year ago, a dangerous strep infection got into the toe bones on my left foot.  After 24 hours on two different antibiotics at once !! the main doc brought in an orthopedic surgeon.  He wanted to saw my foot off above the ankle and put me into physical therapy for six months.  I told him no thanks, well, I was less polite about it.  The main doc got a new guy, Dr. Stockton, who is a rock star - he said noooo, onlly cut off the bad part.  An MRI later and I was in surgery.  After many weeks in 2 different casts I was free to walk again, but the doc ordered me to get a prothesis (fake foot).  Right about that time the company I was contracting to had a mass layoff and I was out of work.

To make a long story short, 5 months later I had a new contract with a medical device startup in San Antonio.  After a few months they offered me insurance, and I picked the best coverage which ends up costing me around 500 a month.  Ths turns out to have really paid off.  I developed a diabetic ulcer on the underside of my right foot, ended up in the hospital, and they called Dr. Stockton on me.  I ended up in surgery, getting some problematic toe bone spurs filed off, toe bones shaved, and a tendon snipped to make it stretch and remove pressure from the front of my foot.  5 more weeks in a cast and POOF, no more ulcer and it hasn't even threatened to come back.    As part of all this he re-prescribed the fake foot with new technology and a special shoe insert for my right foot to keep me the Hell out of his office.

 

So, the prosthetics place built me a carbon fiber prosthesis - it's totally cyberpunk!  It's paintable, and according  to the prosthetics doc most of her clients have theirs painted (welcome to Austin).  I also have shoes specially made to hold inserts and prosthetics, someone else ordered them and never picked them up, so I scored big.  So now, for I think the 4th time, I'm re-learning to walk.  Between my custom-made leather wrapped hardwood walking cane and my carbon fiber foot, I can get around fine - I just need to rebuild all the muscles I've lost.

 

I think a big feathered serpent painted on the shin... hee hee hee heeeeeeeeeeee!!!

 

Next up, tomorrow.. the eye saga.

 

Oh, and I quit keyboard and am back to guitar - bought myself a Fender Telecaster Plus and had a local guitar-maker replace the pickups with special ones I bought.  Her name is Christine, and I'll try to post a pic of her this week sometime!

 

 

...cool about the paintable"cyber foot" and guitar. Yeah had to give up keyboards as well however still have dexterity in my left hand so considering picking up the fiddle again. Studied it back in college. Won't be able to do much of the fancy classical stuff any more but could still probably slam a good breakdown.

A fiddle sounds like fun, but OMG no frets!  I'd be lost...

NVIATWAS

kyoto kid said:

Mistara said:

Broncos dont have a wings named after them

 

...there's a place here that is a Green Bay Packer hangout here in Portland that serves "Packer Fries" which are covered in cheese and jalepenos ("green & gold").

I was good until the jalapenos.  For me, those would be "Pooper Fries"...!

 

NVIATWAS

DanaTA said:

NVIATWAS said:

BIG PILE OF TEXT ALERT!!!

Ok, I have tea, lunch is down, and I put my magic drops into my left eye.  900MB of stuff is uploading to the office server, so things are quiet for a while.

Where to begin?  Ah, the foot saga.  A little over a year ago, a dangerous strep infection got into the toe bones on my left foot.  After 24 hours on two different antibiotics at once !! the main doc brought in an orthopedic surgeon.  He wanted to saw my foot off above the ankle and put me into physical therapy for six months.  I told him no thanks, well, I was less polite about it.  The main doc got a new guy, Dr. Stockton, who is a rock star - he said noooo, onlly cut off the bad part.  An MRI later and I was in surgery.  After many weeks in 2 different casts I was free to walk again, but the doc ordered me to get a prothesis (fake foot).  Right about that time the company I was contracting to had a mass layoff and I was out of work.

To make a long story short, 5 months later I had a new contract with a medical device startup in San Antonio.  After a few months they offered me insurance, and I picked the best coverage which ends up costing me around 500 a month.  Ths turns out to have really paid off.  I developed a diabetic ulcer on the underside of my right foot, ended up in the hospital, and they called Dr. Stockton on me.  I ended up in surgery, getting some problematic toe bone spurs filed off, toe bones shaved, and a tendon snipped to make it stretch and remove pressure from the front of my foot.  5 more weeks in a cast and POOF, no more ulcer and it hasn't even threatened to come back.    As part of all this he re-prescribed the fake foot with new technology and a special shoe insert for my right foot to keep me the Hell out of his office.

 

So, the prosthetics place built me a carbon fiber prosthesis - it's totally cyberpunk!  It's paintable, and according  to the prosthetics doc most of her clients have theirs painted (welcome to Austin).  I also have shoes specially made to hold inserts and prosthetics, someone else ordered them and never picked them up, so I scored big.  So now, for I think the 4th time, I'm re-learning to walk.  Between my custom-made leather wrapped hardwood walking cane and my carbon fiber foot, I can get around fine - I just need to rebuild all the muscles I've lost.

 

I think a big feathered serpent painted on the shin... hee hee hee heeeeeeeeeeee!!!

 

Next up, tomorrow.. the eye saga.

 

Oh, and I quit keyboard and am back to guitar - bought myself a Fender Telecaster Plus and had a local guitar-maker replace the pickups with special ones I bought.  Her name is Christine, and I'll try to post a pic of her this week sometime!

 

Wow!  That's a lot to happen in a year or so!  I'm glad you're doing well now and in good spirits about it.

Dana

The hardest part of all this has been keeping my sense of humor.  This is one reason I'm taking December off, I need to re-group.  It's not been fun...

NVIATWAS

ps1borg said:

Chohole said:

NVIATWAS said:

ps1borg said:

Morning. Slate grey sky giving up some sweet smelling rain. Day off today, is big horse race day so we get a holiday locally, seems to be a peculiar Melbourne thing the rest of the country complains about.Guess they could have the day off as well if they want :)

Nice!  I want a day off for armadillo races!

 

Do we get a poem about the armadillo races as well?

Too much depends upon

A red armadillo 

Rnning and passing and

Beating

A white pillow

:)

 

Nice!