Kevin's Watch

sgt.null wrote:We got a hotel room in nearby
[About an hour out] Sugarland
First Valentine's Day. Plus I have
A pain management doctor
Appointment here in the morning.
So life is really good.

I hope you get to feeling a lot better with that ankle of yours, Sarge! Sounds to me like you have had to put up with enough from it for far too long.

deer of the dawn wrote:On the upside, I am getting so much reading in! Right now I have this amazing book called Highlife Giants: West African Dance Band Pioneers by John Collins. As I read I can listen to songs on YouTube, where there is all this great old palmwine, asiko, and goombay music. I didn't know what all that was, either. I especially enjoyed the asiko clips. There is basically one dance move, and these people don't get tired of it and neither did I.

I also learned that there was waaaayyyy more cultural crossover between Africa and North and South America and the Caribbean than I had realized. As early as the 1830s, freed slaves returned to Africa from Brazil and brought guitars and cowbells with them. So cool!

So that's what's keeping my mind off of how boring it is to be sick and resting, and how bad my head hurts.

I admire the constructive approach you have taken in dealing with your convalescence. Speedy recovery to you, deer!

Sorus wrote:That sucks. I was going to bitch about having to work tomorrow and next weekend and the weekend after, but malaria is definitely worse.

Wishing you lots of strength and positive energy, Sorus! I don't give you props enough for your tenacity, I think, but you seem like a really great person, and I hope your spirits get lifted more!

deer of the dawn wrote: I have a serious case of malaria as it turns out.

The gift that keeps on giving... Wishing you a speedy recovery Deer. (Weren't you taking your anti-malaria meds?)

As for me, well, it's Monday. I think that says it all...

--A

Cord Hurn wrote:

sgt.null wrote:We got a hotel room in nearby
[About an hour out] Sugarland
First Valentine's Day. Plus I have
A pain management doctor
Appointment here in the morning.
So life is really good.

I hope you get to feeling a lot better with that ankle of yours, Sarge! Sounds to me like you have had to put up with enough from it for far too long.

Thanks. Looked at how much time I need off [up to 4 months]
And am planning to wait to Januarys from now. Sucks.

Everybody who's sick or hurting -- get well, darn it!

So Batty and MagickMarker are home. Turns out Batty is not the only person on the staff who is sick of the department chair's crap. There's a movement afoot to collect all the staffers' complaints against him and pass them up to the DC's supervisor, who is also apparently sick of his crap. Batty may end up as DC herself...and if that happens, she'd bring MagickMarker in as her 2nd in command.

Cord Hurn wrote:

Sorus wrote:That sucks. I was going to bitch about having to work tomorrow and next weekend and the weekend after, but malaria is definitely worse.

Wishing you lots of strength and positive energy, Sorus! I don't give you props enough for your tenacity, I think, but you seem like a really great person, and I hope your spirits get lifted more!

Aww, thanks. Though perhaps tenacity may be a polite way of saying that I keep banging my head against the wall long past the point where wiser folks would have had sense knocked into them. January is historically my time to have an existential crisis, and January's influence is still going strong this year.

Ah, you'll be fine.

Ali, I coulda sworn it was MagicMaker...just saying...

--A

Best vibes for Deer... I hope they can cure it soon.


Lets see.. me.
Two heart attacks. 1999 & 2002
Six stents in heart. Don't know if I should start seeing a plumber.
Take heart med, 2 cholesterol drugs, blood thinner, Asprin, along with 1000MG Vit C and two 1000 mg fish oil, take 1 iron tablert once per week been doing the daily meds for 20 years

Ringing of the ears since 97.
(Found out the frequency is around 8.8kHz. Sounds like a stainless
steel ball circling around a stainless steel bowl.


Suffer gout in the worse place. Between the Heel bone and Tallis (ankle bone). When it flares ankle swells on upper outer side then
progresses to entire ankle, then foot starts to swell out to toes. Then
recedes slowly.
When first flare pain is so great that if I had a chainsaw I would cut off ankle and foot because that wouldn't hurt so much.
Drag foot around like I'm a zombie while in painful mode.
That joint is the only one that keeps you level on uneven ground.
Shots are hard to put in because joint is at the deepest and most
covered part of the foot. Fusing the two bones would cause me to
constantly fall over on uneven ground because no other joint can do
that job. Suffer that for 30 years now.

Recently when I use my right hand I get a muscle spasms which locks the Thumb in a folded condition. Have to pry it straight.

Eight years ago I pulled the sciatic nerve in my right leg.(talk about
24 hours of pain) Left me with occasional cramping in the right leg
and a numb like feeling on the bottom of the right foot.
Year later pulled the left side but got to a bone cruncher in time so little if no effects.

Plus the usual older age sharp pains that run for a few days then go quiet.

Evey morning if I don't smell and see flowers, I get out of bed to see what going to happen next and start the day with a cup of coffee and
tell them durn kids to stay out of my yard...

Lucky I havn't gotten the flu or a bad cold in many years.

Oh fuck Urdead thats a shit ton of no good

Heres hoping you dont get a cold or flu .. youd need that like a hole in the head.

I feel pretty awesome today .. even healthier after reading all of your conditions, medications etc.

Does bathing .. warm baths help with the ankle pain .. slash gout?

Until recently I thought gout was a medieval condition that didnt exist any more .. till I found a friend of mine had it .. also male .. wonder if it effects more males than females

Anyway with Deers malaria, Sorus existential crisis and your long list of ailments .. I have nothing to moan or bitch about lol

get better one and all

Sheesh, sounds rough Ur-Dead. (Now the name makes sense. )

Me, I, uh, I feel fine.

--A

Avatar wrote:Ali, I coulda sworn it was MagicMaker...just saying...

--A

She can get her own ass here to correct me.

Ur-Dead, that's quite a list. I have a bunch of chronic issues, but nothing that physically painful.

Sky, I'm not sure whether gout is more of a male thing or not. Somebody could ask Mama Google, I guess...

I'm doing pretty well today, but it's Saturday -- didn't have to work today. Been doing a lot of knitting. I should get out for a walk tomorrow -- the high's supposed to be 60+ F. That's not unheard of for late February here, but when it happens, carpe diem, y'know?

So, I had a nasty experience on Friday afternoon...just sitting in my armchair in the study, reading with my PC on next to me, when suddenly there's an acrid smell and the room starts filling up with the bad kind of smoke.

Obviously this is concerning in a room full of books, so I killed all the power in the room immediately and started looking for the source.

Quickly narrowed it down to the PC, which I took out, and the smell was coming from the power supply fan vent.

So I hopped online on the GF's machine, ordered a new power supply for priority delivery, and went on with my life.

The next day I started disassembling the PC while I waited for the delivery, and discovered it wasn't the PSU at all. The SATA adapter that I was using to power my main hard drive had burst into flames.

Sorta like this:



Turns out a certain type of adapter is apparently prone to this.

(So now I had a new PSU coming that I didn't need, but I thought "what the hell, it's an upgrade from my current one." Then they delivered it, and they'd sent one that was actually less powerful so I returned that, and re-installed the old one.)

All working fine, no real harm done, but was very lucky that I was sitting right there when it happened, or could have lost my drive and who knows what else.

Anyway, in this thread I've linked to a video that shows how to spot the type prone to fiery failure.

Suggest checking your HDD connectors just in case.

--A

That's horrifying. Fire has always been one of my big fears.

Thinking maybe getting my ankle
Refixed in one year. Today sucked
At work. Thursday or Friday I get
My shoulders looked at.

Sorus wrote:That's horrifying. Fire has always been one of my big fears.

Yeah, just glad I was sitting right there when it happened, otherwise could have been much worse...

--A

I feel lucky today.
Early morning on my way into work I asked a friend, who being much younger with presumably better eyesight, to tell me if there were two moons in the sky. He actually had to agree with me that there were two moons in the sky.
Obviously it was a trick of the light.
The-almost-perfect-perpendicular-to-a-degree half-moon had a blur around the arc of the curved side, making it appear like a second moon was slightly hidden behind.

However, we had to agree that technically, being two half moons, made one full moon - appearing as a half moon ...
if you see what I'm getting at.

Very cool

They announced the winner of the presidential election today (the incumbent, Buhari, won another term).

Lunchtime at school, kids are all over the playground and courts, doing stuff kids do, when there was a series of bangs. After a few seconds, another teacher yelled for the kids to run to their classrooms for a lockdown.

Cue the running, and the screaming. Me among them, herding children toward the classrooms. We get inside and I start closing the doors and curtains. Before I finish, though, we got the word that it was firecrackers from people "celebrating" as they rode by the school in their cars.

I told the kids how great a job they did coming to the classroom and sitting on the carpeted corner, just the way they are trained to do. Then we prayed and thanked God it was nothing. The kids went back to play, while I held the girl with emotional trauma who by then was literally tears and snot from the waist up. And of course, I'm coming down off the adrenalin rush and crying myself.

Five minutes later, the same thing, only nobody ran or screamed, just lots of yelling.

People are seriously IDIOTS. How could they think throwing firecrackers near a school is a good idea? #WTAF #PeopleSuck #FTS

(Sorry for the "French". I am seriously pissed off.)

Hahaha, Deer, you should know by now that that's just not the type of thing people take into consideration in Africa.

--A