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

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Mistara said:
    Tjohn said:

    Complaint:  Went to the doctor a few days ago.  Everything mostly OK or at least not worse, but while there I got a flu shot.  And wouldn't you know it, I got the flu! sad  Happens everytime I get a flu shot.  Aches, pains, lethargy, loss of weight, general ugness.  The only solice is that I may not get a really bad case of the flu later on in the season.  But upon reflection, even when I didn't get flu shots I never got a flu much worse that the one the flu shot gives me. surprise

    PS:  I don't mind the loss of weight symptom.  It makes me think I'm making progress.  But then I get well and it all comes right back. frown

     

    +1 smiley

     

    flu shot season already?surprise

     

    It's like Christmas.  It gets earlier and earlier each year until you unknowingly go frantically shopping twice in a year.  Much to the delight of the stores. 

    Last year I avoided getting a flu shot until way after my birthday and I was miserable around Christmas.  This year my doctor nagged me nicely and promised that my insurance would cover it so I got it done way before my birthday.  But I guess it's close enough to October to fit in with my automobile annual fees like license registration and inspection.  So, perhaps October is my new official month to get painful annual things done. 

    Oh, and Tjohn, thanks for the card.  Is that bean soup or mustard soup?  surprise

    real bad flu season here tho all I seemed to get was a head cold, had the shot but everyone is saying it didn't work this year so hopefully next year's shot will :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    where the fahrenheits goin?  needing an extra blanket tnite 

    we haz pwnd all your hot today :0

    It got at least up to 79F here today...not bad.  And I'm in Massachusetts.  Misty is further south.

    Of course, right now it's only 60F.

    Dana

     

    Very very dry here this year, with all the heat still to come creeping southward toward us :)

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,335
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    where the fahrenheits goin?  needing an extra blanket tnite 

    we haz pwnd all your hot today :0

    It got at least up to 79F here today...not bad.  And I'm in Massachusetts.  Misty is further south.

    Of course, right now it's only 60F.

    Dana

     

    Very very dry here this year, with all the heat still to come creeping southward toward us :)

    I hope the fires aren't too bad there this year!

    Dana

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321
    Stryder87 said:
     
    Stryder87 said:
    kyoto kid said:

    However, is stopping for an extra ten to fifteen seconds to allow someone who "commutes" by walking to cross a street that much of an inconvenience?  So not looking forward to having to deal with this when the rainy season hits.

    I've found where I live that even waiting 3 seconds has gotten to be too much for most people.  It drives me crazy.  I can be driving along and a car wants to pull into my lane.  There's no one behind me, and I'm going along at a good clip.  Do they wait the 3 seconds it would take for me to go by and then safely pull onto the street?  Nope.  Every time they pull out in front of me and make me smack my brakes so they can 'be ahead'.  Three lousy seconds and no one EVER can wait that long for safety-sake.  There's a real closed, self-absorbed mentallity these days that everyone has to be 'ahead' of everyone else.

    Honestly, the flow of traffic is whatever it is.  Aggressively lane-hopping puts everyone at risks and only gains you about 5 seconds on your trip.  People are nuts.

     

    Try riding a motorcycle. They will make eye contact, grin, and pull out in front of you!
    Forcing you to leave a wavy black skidmark on the road. Or a brown one on the seat...
    Funny, it doesn't happen as much since I got a GoPro camera.
    They'll claim that they didn't see the motorcycle, high beam on, orange safety vest.
    But apparently they see the tiny camera on my helmet.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,854
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    where the fahrenheits goin?  needing an extra blanket tnite 

    we haz pwnd all your hot today :0

    It got at least up to 79F here today...not bad.  And I'm in Massachusetts.  Misty is further south.

    Of course, right now it's only 60F.

    Dana

    ...87° here today but a big change tomorrow 20° colder and more water from the sky.  Now I am certain the switch for summer has been turned off for the rest of the year as it isn't supposed to get above the mid 60s for the next week and a half with lows down in the mid 40s. Yep, time to pull the extra blankies out all right.

    Thinking of getting a monthy transit pass as I find I will be using the bus and tram more as the weather gets worse. The good part, for me it cots only 28$.

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,854
    edited September 2017

    ...had a pretty nice day today.  Attended to a friend's retirement party had a few drinkies. and watched  Green Bay throttle Chicago on Thursday Night Football.

    Everything was fine until I headed home.  While waiting for the bus a large group of cyclists rode by taking up both lanes.  Must have been some kind of night ride or something like that.  Seemed pretty cool at first until one idiot with no lights (it was already dark) on a mountain bike peeled off from the group, jumped the curb at a fairly decent clip, and came right at me forcing me to jump back out of his way.  Normally making such an evasive move is difficult enough for me with my stifff achy joints and bones, but dealing with this pinched nerve on top of it made it all the more worse.  It wasn't that he couldn't see me as I was standing right under a street light wearing light clothing and a fiarly vibrant Hawai'ian shirt, so it made me feel his action was deliberate.

    He probably thought it was some kind of joke to terrorise a senior citizen.

    If I had a cane I would have jammed it in his spokes and given him a pavement facial.

     

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited September 2017
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    where the fahrenheits goin?  needing an extra blanket tnite 

    we haz pwnd all your hot today :0

    It got at least up to 79F here today...not bad.  And I'm in Massachusetts.  Misty is further south.

    Of course, right now it's only 60F.

    Dana

     

    Very very dry here this year, with all the heat still to come creeping southward toward us :)

    I hope the fires aren't too bad there this year!

    Dana

    Well, fingers crossed, not as dry as it was at the end of 2008 so that's hopeful ;)

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited September 2017
    kyoto kid said:

    ...had a pretty nice day today.  Attended to a friend's retirement party had a few drinkies. and watched  Green Bay throttle Chicago on Thursday Night Football.

    Everything was fine until I headed home.  While waiting for the bus a large group of cyclists rode by taking up both lanes.  Must have been some kind of night ride or something like that.  Seemed pretty cool at first until one idiot with no lights (it was already dark) on a mountain bike peeled off from the group, jumped the curb at a fairly decent clip, and came right at me forcing me to jump back out of his way.  Normally making such an evasive move is difficult enough for me with my stifff achy joints and bones, but dealing with this pinched nerve on top of it made it all the more worse.  It wasn't that he couldn't see me as I was standing right under a street light wearing light clothing and a fiarly vibrant Hawai'ian shirt, so it made me feel his action was deliberate.

    He probably thought it was some kind of joke to terrorise a senior citizen.

    If I had a cane I would have jammed it in his spokes and given him a pavement facial.

     

     

     

    Is football final time here, the local team is playing and the 'hood is jammed with helicopters gawking at us locals :)

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sun hasnt cracked the horizon yet, but is time to start journey to day job,  - big complaint 

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited September 2017
    kyoto kid said:

    ...had a pretty nice day today.  Attended to a friend's retirement party had a few drinkies. and watched  Green Bay throttle Chicago on Thursday Night Football.

    Everything was fine until I headed home.  While waiting for the bus a large group of cyclists rode by taking up both lanes.  Must have been some kind of night ride or something like that.  Seemed pretty cool at first until one idiot with no lights (it was already dark) on a mountain bike peeled off from the group, jumped the curb at a fairly decent clip, and came right at me forcing me to jump back out of his way.  Normally making such an evasive move is difficult enough for me with my stifff achy joints and bones, but dealing with this pinched nerve on top of it made it all the more worse.  It wasn't that he couldn't see me as I was standing right under a street light wearing light clothing and a fiarly vibrant Hawai'ian shirt, so it made me feel his action was deliberate.

    He probably thought it was some kind of joke to terrorise a senior citizen.

    If I had a cane I would have jammed it in his spokes and given him a pavement facial.

     

    Canes and walking sticks can be very useful. And if you get the urge to grow old disgracefully you can annoy the neighbours by running the tip along iron railings,  like kids do with sticks.

    Also if you get the right sort of walking stick they can be very sartorially elegant.   I have a friend who collects walking stick, and uses the one that fits the situation.   So attending himself's funeral he carried a natty ebony and silver one.

    Also you can get walking sticks with concealled flasks, so if you feel in the need for a little tipple after nearly getting run down by a yobbo on a bike it is there to hand.

    https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/hidden-flask-walking-cane/

    A walking stick can be a good Fashion Accessory ,  and Fred Astaire's dancing wouldn't have been the same without one.

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,090
    edited September 2017

    I like my cane.  It's the one my father and grandfather had (the men in this family apparently all end up about the same height).  It's just a simple wooden cane with a crook at the top.  It's been modernized with a rubber foot on the bottom but otherwise is just a well worn sturdy stick.  I contemplate its use as a weapon now and then.  Spoke spearing,   Shin whacking,  Toe mashing.  And when in Universal Studios piloting a "Personal Transport Vehicle" zipping from attraction to attraction, I contemplate its use as a back poker for the crowds of arm-to-arm gawkers blocking my way.  Also, it's good for garnering sympathy now and then.  Yes, I play the decrepit ancient person game now and then.  Why not?  I've paid my dues and look the part. devil

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sometimes i think i'm happy.  sometimes not.

    dayjob has a policy about not providing aspirin. 
    they sent us to cpr training, so we know how to use the AED.
    but we can't give the baby aspirin recommended by the cpr trainer.
    baby aspirin works quicker for chest pain, could save your life.
     

    avenger's 2, "we're fighting an army of robots. i have a bow and arrow, it doesn't make sense."
     

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Mistara said:

    sometimes i think i'm happy.  sometimes not.

    dayjob has a policy about not providing aspirin. 
    they sent us to cpr training, so we know how to use the AED.
    but we can't give the baby aspirin recommended by the cpr trainer.
    baby aspirin works quicker for chest pain, could save your life.
     

    avenger's 2, "we're fighting an army of robots. i have a bow and arrow, it doesn't make sense."
     

    Could also kill someone      First aiders, no matter how well trained are not trained to administer medications.  aspirin thins blood. For someone like my Late partner (himself) or Leather Gryphon an aspirin on top of the prescribed amount of blood thinners could be fatal by causing internal bleeding.  only trained parmedics are allowed to use medications, however mild.
    My Playground attendants were all trained first aiders but were not even allowed to use lemon juice or vinegar to neutralise and reduce the pain of wasp stings, because if the sting happened to be a bee sting rather than a wasp sting, then that treatment would worsen the effect of the original sting.

  • Petercat said:
    Try riding a motorcycle. They will make eye contact, grin, and pull out in front of you!

    Forcing you to leave a wavy black skidmark on the road. Or a brown one on the seat...
    Funny, it doesn't happen as much since I got a GoPro camera.
    They'll claim that they didn't see the motorcycle, high beam on, orange safety vest.
    But apparently they see the tiny camera on my helmet.

    *evil cackle*

    Imagine that!

    Love it!

    Seriously though, after my car accident where the guy rear-ended me and totalled both our vehicles, a bus driver (I bussed everywhere for a month until I got a new car) suggested getting a bicycle.  I told him I wasn't crazy!  It's horrendous around here for vehicles, I honestly don't know why people want to ride bikes.  Man that would be scary!

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Chohole said:
    Mistara said:

    sometimes i think i'm happy.  sometimes not.

    dayjob has a policy about not providing aspirin. 
    they sent us to cpr training, so we know how to use the AED.
    but we can't give the baby aspirin recommended by the cpr trainer.
    baby aspirin works quicker for chest pain, could save your life.
     

    avenger's 2, "we're fighting an army of robots. i have a bow and arrow, it doesn't make sense."
     

    Could also kill someone      First aiders, no matter how well trained are not trained to administer medications.  aspirin thins blood. For someone like my Late partner (himself) or Leather Gryphon an aspirin on top of the prescribed amount of blood thinners could be fatal by causing internal bleeding.  only trained parmedics are allowed to use medications, however mild.
    My Playground attendants were all trained first aiders but were not even allowed to use lemon juice or vinegar to neutralise and reduce the pain of wasp stings, because if the sting happened to be a bee sting rather than a wasp sting, then that treatment would worsen the effect of the original sting.

     

    if someone is at risk for cardiac arrest, hopefully, they have the pace maker/defribulator already installed.
    actually, if they have a pace maker, hopefully they are home on disability and not at a dayjob.
    with today's economy, who knows though. 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    13 minutes to TGIF

    chilled Pinot Noir waiting for me at home. is gonna be soo good

    last week TGIF, bus was 90 minutes late.  was too tired for TGIF

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,335
    Mistara said:
    Chohole said:
    Mistara said:

    sometimes i think i'm happy.  sometimes not.

    dayjob has a policy about not providing aspirin. 
    they sent us to cpr training, so we know how to use the AED.
    but we can't give the baby aspirin recommended by the cpr trainer.
    baby aspirin works quicker for chest pain, could save your life.
     

    avenger's 2, "we're fighting an army of robots. i have a bow and arrow, it doesn't make sense."
     

    Could also kill someone      First aiders, no matter how well trained are not trained to administer medications.  aspirin thins blood. For someone like my Late partner (himself) or Leather Gryphon an aspirin on top of the prescribed amount of blood thinners could be fatal by causing internal bleeding.  only trained parmedics are allowed to use medications, however mild.
    My Playground attendants were all trained first aiders but were not even allowed to use lemon juice or vinegar to neutralise and reduce the pain of wasp stings, because if the sting happened to be a bee sting rather than a wasp sting, then that treatment would worsen the effect of the original sting.

     

    if someone is at risk for cardiac arrest, hopefully, they have the pace maker/defribulator already installed.
    actually, if they have a pace maker, hopefully they are home on disability and not at a dayjob.
    with today's economy, who knows though. 

    My best friend had a pacemaker and worked as a network administrator!  Having a pacemaker doesn't make you inelligible for work.  You just can't do certain things.  And the ones they have these days can adjust to a workload.  So if you are exerting yourself, it will adjust and give you more beats per minute.

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,854
    edited September 2017
    Stryder87 said:
    Petercat said:
    Try riding a motorcycle. They will make eye contact, grin, and pull out in front of you!

    Forcing you to leave a wavy black skidmark on the road. Or a brown one on the seat...
    Funny, it doesn't happen as much since I got a GoPro camera.
    They'll claim that they didn't see the motorcycle, high beam on, orange safety vest.
    But apparently they see the tiny camera on my helmet.

    *evil cackle*

    Imagine that!

    Love it!

    Seriously though, after my car accident where the guy rear-ended me and totalled both our vehicles, a bus driver (I bussed everywhere for a month until I got a new car) suggested getting a bicycle.  I told him I wasn't crazy!  It's horrendous around here for vehicles, I honestly don't know why people want to ride bikes.  Man that would be scary!

     

    ...I've ridden a bike on the streets since well before my teen years.  I knew how to watch out for myself, stay off of busy streets, as well as what the rules of the road were (helped tremendously when in passing Drivers Ed) which I still follow to this day (probably why I am still around).  I have mirrors, lights, I signal turns, stop for stop signs and stoplights. yield to pedestrians in crosswalks, and even know how to deal with four way stop signs (there are times I actually have to "educate" motorists on this last one).   I even refrain from riding on sidewalks and will get off to walk my bike to where I can lock it up.  Basically I treat my bike as a vehicle and not a toy, something most cyclists here seem to completely ignore. Their funeral I guess.

    Unfortunately, Portland OR in it's desire to be the most "bike friendly city in the nation" permits adult cyclists to ride on the sidewalks (something most other sensible cities prohibit).  Yes, there are specific rules and regulations but nobody bothers to follow them.  This is where things can get ugly, particularly since many cyclists here feel they are the gift to the world of whatever higher being they believe in.  It isn't unusual that when I get buzzed or nearly clipped by someone from behind with no warning and I ask to please next time let me know they are back there (required by city ordinance) I either get the middle finger salute or an obscenity laden tirade about my genetic heritage.  Even with my tinnitus I can here a skatebaorder or a jogger in plenty of time (and they even let me know which side they are passing on). Someone on a bike on the other hand is pretty much dead silent. in all manners of the word including verbally (again unless you point out their mistake).

    Getting hit by someone on a bike may not be fatal, but it still can result serious injury, especially to us older folks. The sad part about it, unlike motorists, adult cyclists don't, and are not required to carry liability insurance.  So if you are injured by one of these "devil may care" cyclists as happened to me several years ago), you are the one who ends up eating the medical costs alomng with all the pain an suffering. Personally, as bike rider myself, I would have no issue paying for insurance to have the satisfaction that if one of these scofflaw two wheelers injures me by their stupidity and carelessness, they will be the ones to pay and I have the right to take them to court.

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  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587
    kyoto kid said:

    People have been making the same complaint since, like forever - even before Americaland was a blip on Columbus's radar . . .

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    kyoto kid said:

    People have been making the same complaint since, like forever - even before Americaland was a blip on Columbus's radar . . .

      aye tis all then gret useless spawny-eyed parrot-faced wazzocks as does it

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,854

    ...laughyes

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    TGIF!  

    CHEERS

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,854
    edited September 2017

    ...happy Friday all

     

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited September 2017
    Mistara said:

    TGIF!  

    CHEERS

     

    Suffering from a football grand final day here

    that was yesterday, seems more organised on the streets today :0

     

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Chohole said:
    kyoto kid said:

    People have been making the same complaint since, like forever - even before Americaland was a blip on Columbus's radar . . .

      aye tis all then gret useless spawny-eyed parrot-faced wazzocks as does it

    Welsh is the oldest remnant of the older English languages?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited September 2017
    ps1borg said:
    Chohole said:
    kyoto kid said:

    People have been making the same complaint since, like forever - even before Americaland was a blip on Columbus's radar . . .

      aye tis all then gret useless spawny-eyed parrot-faced wazzocks as does it

    Welsh is the oldest remnant of the older English languages?

    NO .........  Welsh is one of the Brythonic languages. It has nothing to do with those English invaders and their mongrel language.

    Welsh legend has it that the reason the Wales is so full of hills and mountains is that when those pesky Angles and Saxons (Anglo-saxons. English) kept pusing westwards the welsh all got together and pushed wales up into the hills and mountains and further away from the invaders.    If yoou had a powerful enough and big enough steam roller you could roll Wales out and see how big a country it really is.

     

    Just for a laugh

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    culling cart d'ketchup sale.  must toss stuff. crying  i forked my rent over this morning - a day early surprise, was afraid of spending it

    last chance for gas
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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    omg, scrape me off the floor, rofl

     

     

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670
    edited September 2017

    I did not notice that Genesis 8 male is avaliable now until today.  I should download him soon.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,854
    Chohole said:
    ps1borg said:
    Chohole said:
    kyoto kid said:

    People have been making the same complaint since, like forever - even before Americaland was a blip on Columbus's radar . . .

      aye tis all then gret useless spawny-eyed parrot-faced wazzocks as does it

    Welsh is the oldest remnant of the older English languages?

    NO .........  Welsh is one of the Brythonic languages. It has nothing to do with those English invaders and their mongrel language.

    Welsh legend has it that the reason the Wales is so full of hills and mountains is that when those pesky Angles and Saxons (Anglo-saxons. English) kept pusing westwards the welsh all got together and pushed wales up into the hills and mountains and further away from the invaders.    If yoou had a powerful enough and big enough steam roller you could roll Wales out and see how big a country it really is.

     

    Just for a laugh

    ....yes

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