@niccea
Sorry about the library. Hope it means a new door can open for you.
@Bravo
Good luck with the physical therapy! Do you have a chiropractor? This year I found one (the fifth I've ever been to) who was Magic! Incorporated soft tissue work with alignment—and made a huge difference in recovery for me.
@aurora
So I'll sound like a chiropractic zealot, but you might want to think about seeing one, too. Pushing that kind of weight around can throw things out of whack.
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My physical therapist is doing all the things my chiropracter used to with the massage but he also gives me tips on proper posture, sleep position and exercises that chiropracters don't. The basis of chiropractic medicine is a total fallacy; subluxations? Read Martin Gardner's classic Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
My comic is updated until the end of the month. I'm always scared that I'll screw up the rewrite and suck out whatever life was in the panel.
@auroraWell, you see, in most cases all you have to do is give the cart the initial push/pull and then you just go along steering it… it's not the weight that is the problem in this case but the mileage. the problem is there should be a second person doing this stuff with me and also the place is being partially rebuilt so the disassembly area (called that cause "depackaging" would probably sound silly) is now much much MUCH further away from the assembly line. Thus four times the walking than it normally would take.
So I'll sound like a chiropractic zealot, but you might want to think about seeing one, too. Pushing that kind of weight around can throw things out of whack.
The good news is today I was on a totally different line doing totally different stuff… and on Monday we'll finally have our own line launch properly, so there's hope for better work.
@aurora
Excellent. Glad it was just temporary misery
@bravo
Glad you like your physical therapist. Too bad your chiro didn't provide that info; my current one does, although the previous ones did not. Re chiropractors, there are the groovy network ones who try to shrink the patients along the way, there are the snap/crackle/pops, and there are others, who, yes, help reposition dislocated joints. Some legwork is necessary to find the right match.
Frankly, any one who suggests that any branch of healing/medicine has reached a point of science is at best an optimist. If you find a good practitioner/healer, hang on to him/her. Medicine is an art and like any discipline, there's a limited number of truly gifted artists. Unless you just need pharmaceuticals. Plenty of pad scribblers about.
Rant be it? Aaarrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I'll give ye a pennorth o, rantin' afore I be hangin' ye' t' the yardarm!
Blaggards? Black 'earted sea devils? Swarthy knaves as'd stab 'e in th' back as soon as th' front an' likely as not both simultaneous like? Aye, fine fettlin' curs all, but can I be findin' a crew o' such seascum? I be scratchin' me tricorn with me one good haaaand an' a searchin' all in vain.
Bahhhh! I be missin' the days o' sailin with Cap'n Ozone, scourge o' th' oceans - keelhaul 'is granny fer a twist o' shag e' would, bless 'is cotton britches!
What I wouldn't give fer a glimpse o' them britches now…aaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! - too long at sea I be!
I had an interesting day. I now have two big bruises and a twisted ankle.
Currently, although in the off-season, I am working at a state park on weekends, and today (as we are trying every other week) I was a guide for a 3 1/2 hour canoe trip down the river. My job is "sweep," which is following the other canoers to make sure they don't fall behind or get lost. One pair was having trouble getting the hang of steering and were going back and forth on the river and in circles, so I paddled near them to demonstrate strokes and how to hold the paddle. Then I fell back and was watching them. I was watching too intently apparently because I didn't notice how close I was getting to a tree in the water (the river was extra low today). When I saw it, I tried to correct myself but I realized it was too close. I thought it was week and would break or I could duck it or lean to the side, but as two (terrified? confused?) goblin spiders clung to the approaching branch, I knew I was going over. My canoe toppled, and I was in the water. Being the "expert" I am, everything was fastened to the canoe, and my glasses were firmly fixed to my face with a dorky safety strap. I stood up in the three foot deep, but fairly rapid, water and started pushing my capsized vessel to the shore. I called ahead to my coworker to come back and help me and we got the canoe right-side up and moving again.
The water was nice, and it was a cool morning. All I lost was a little pride. In the time wasted correcting the situation, our canoe tour participants had waited downstream, and the pair I was concerned about apparently had practiced. They didn't fall behind or lose control for the rest of the trip. Everyone was amused, and no one else tipped their canoes.
However, not too far downstream, I was paddling hard against the wind, and smashed my left hand between the paddle and the gunwhale. I've done it before, but this time, apparently it was worse, because the area between my thumb and forefinger turned red and swelled noticeably. I was sore for the rest of the trip and kept dipping my hand in the river for relief. (Also my legs were sore because I got chiggers last week hiking in the forest and have scratched them red.)
An odd thing about today, the water was crystal clear. It usually looks something like chocolate NesQuick. Anyway, through the clear water we saw things we had never seen before – like a relatively new-looking car resting on the bottom of the river near the park's walking bridge. ?? I am dying to know the story behind that car. There are no roads anywhere close to that stretch of river.
Back to my comedy of errors… We returned to the park, my coworker and I driving the truck with the canoe trailer. When I got out, I started toward the visitor center and tripped over the trailer hitch. Luckily, the pointy end of one of the canoes broke my fall – and very nearly my collar bone. It hit a point about two inches from my left armpit with such force that I'm sure I'll be sore for the rest of the week. My coworker asked if I was okay, and I laughed and said something about being jinxed today. Ten seconds and three steps later, my foot hit a dip in the grass, twisted sideways, and sent me crashing to the earth.
It was a lovely day for a canoe trip.
What I wouldn't give fer a glimpse o' them britches now…aaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! - too long at sea I be!My breeches be the finniest this side 'o the Barbary coast! That they be!
I had an interesting day. I now have two big bruises and a twisted anklePoor wench! Been in the wars have ye?
At least yer no landlubber! Ye injuries were acquired on the water, like a true pirate!
Ye'll be need'n a hook to replace that hand and a peg instead o' that wonky ankle!
Ack! Sunburn! In the dead center of my forehead! I coated myself with sunscreen (even the scalp where my hair is parted) and reapplied every hour!!! How did I miss a spot! :( Why can I not get through a canoe trip without a sunburn!?
Arrr now ye be knowin' why pirates keep thar heads covered! Special me an' my bald head arrrr…
I feel yer pain, bein bald I wear a hat meself err the top'o'me head be burnt up.
I were supposed to attend a show today but ther were no way I could survive the two hour drive up to Wayne NJ with me wound an' tryin' to wake the wife to drive? Might as well an try wake a drownt soul in Davey Jones' locker. arrrr May bee I watch a Robert Newton movie or two…
I would join in this pyratical, salubratorial and fantabulorious celebrativities, but I have done myself and my people a most encumencialistic favor and allowed my locks to be shorn in the traditionalistivic mohawk-manner methods of the fantasticalabrious indiginaceous people of this admirablatious continent.
Here's the fantabulistical new style:
Actual photos of my head shaved into a mohawk may come tomorrow if I get a chance to pull them off my camera.
I won last week's contest at work for selling the most "treats of the month." 20 dollar gift certificate(normally it's 10 but I even outsold the manager). Yay! Haven't decided where I want a gift certificate to yet(any suggestions?). The only problem is that because we sold so many we're completely out of them now, except for one bag of cat treats and two of the dog treats…and they aren't on order for Monday, either. :\
Which is no fun because we're meant to offer them to every customer. "Hello ma'am, have you seen our treat of the month? No? Well, me neither."
Also, we just got the Halloween costumes in. Got a pumpkin for my cats.
As you can tell, they are delighted.
I have the best job. : )
I won last week's contest at work for selling the most "treats of the month." 20 dollar gift certificate(normally it's 10 but I even outsold the manager). Yay! Haven't decided where I want a gift certificate to yet(any suggestions?).
chipotle.
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here i am people. internet explorer would not allow me Drunk duck. anytime i left the current page, i was logged out, and had to log back in. so that's why i can't help us get to page 200.
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I learned an important lesson today, story first:
I've had my cold, but finally with GOOD SLEEP SCHEDULE, AND GOOD FOOD (take note) the cold has lost the battle. So i decided to celebrate with a beautiful 5k run this morning. It was 5 am, and there was a nice breeze, and the temperature was only in the high eighties.
About 2-1/2 miles into my run, the sun peaked it's head over the horizon. beautiful sunrise, (here's where the lesson was learned) the breeze just stopped. not slowed, but stopped. Then the temperature raised 10*f. it took me over 10 minutes to finish. (that's only .6 miles.)
lesson learned? in the desert, the sun does not f*ck around. you gotta start runnin earlier.
here i am people. internet explorer would not allow me Drunk duck. anytime i left the current page, i was logged out, and had to log back in. so that's why i can't help us get to page 200.Microsoft is conspiring against us! Against you! Against Drunduck!
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Man, what an adventurous couple of days. Saturday, a woman suddenly fell at work. She was standing there working and a second later she's down on the ground and you have the leaders and directors etc. running back and forth for the nurse. Finally they carried her away unconcious few minutes later (she was rather "big" so they needed 8 people to do so). I still don't know what happened to her excatly (neither do I know her as I was just filling in on that line and she was working far away enough for me not to see her.
Well… TODAY we had a fire. The SFIS system (which is for scanning all the tv sets on the assembly line as they pass through "checkpoints") went out. Sooo I went to tell that to the leader or the line director. Well, comes out the entire company lost SFIS so they told us to wait on the line cause there was a short circuit somewhere and maybe they'll fix it. Two minutes later they're back telling us to evacuate.
We stood for about 25 minutes outside as the fire department arrived and cleared up the situation. Apparently (if I understood the informaticians standing next to me and if they had accurate informations) the short circuit set the electrolyte on fire in the server room. So no losts lives, no one wounded at all. Who knows whether we'll have any production going on tomorrow though since that might be more difficult to fix than a simple broken lift or a crashed computer.
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In other news: I have finished editing all the pages for my next print book (52 pages, all comics) :D
rant - moan - rave can be replaced with my - sister - again
There's years of baggage here, but just when ya think she's reached peak asinine [note: that word should be spelled with 2 "s"s] , she out does herself. I suspect that there's a realty show involved, a demented mash of survivor, candid camera, world's biggest —– AAAaahh
If there weren't two adorable nephews in the picture, I'd wash my hands and let the voice box handle her.
Welp no more Gaia for me :/ I can't even be that sad because i was so into it i have not accomplished a thing in weeks, just f5'd gaia all day.Draw comics!
…what am i gonna do on weekdays now? =.=
You can draw mine too cause this "trying to draw while having a day job but generally being too tired to raise my arm and grab the paper" thing is not doing my art any favours. No matter, another month or two it'll be done.
Ever since I got my teeth cleaned, they've been hurting terribly. What is this bizarre anti-dentistry…
Witchcraft.
While cleaning teeth it is common for a dental hygenist to steal some hair or fingernail clippings for later use in sympathetic magic, in case you are remiss at paying your bill.
This is one reason why dentists are usually paid on time while other doctors have to suffer the whims of medical insurance companies.
Another secret of the medical community revealed.
People are also more apt to believe their mouths, gums and teeth are so much more sensitive to things.
This should teach you to floss. ;) Floss regularly and your gums will be more accustomed to the lack of all that food debris between your teeth.
I brush savagely and thoroughly and then floss so a teeth cleaning is like being tickled for me.
Now why didn't I have that affair with that beautiful little dental hygenist is the big truck who flirted with me all the time when I pumped gas? That's painful.
Witchcraft.ergh, I knew it…
This should teach you to floss. ;) Floss regularly and your gums will be more accustomed to the lack of all that food debris between your teeth.God, how I miss it! I used to think I'd never go hungry with the equivalent of five meals lodged between my molars, but now I see I took it all for granted…
I'll especially miss the Swedish caviar ;_;
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