I used to get boy flu. It would last about three weeks and I'd be completely knocked sideways. I remember the doctor once trying to tell my dad I must be on drugs because I turned green in his office.
Thankfully, when I became a man I put aside childish things and have not suffered anything like it since, unless you count chicken pox when I was 35. That was a hell of a ride! The doctor called me in and I looked like I had smallpox. I've never seen a waiting room empty so quickly.
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I got chickenpox when I was about 20. That was the sickest I've ever been. It was pretty extreme. Only one other time comes close. I'd been working from home for a good few years and hadn't had contact with any ill people so I hadn't been sick for a very, very long time, no colds, no flu, nothing. I was starting to imagine that I was imune…
So then the healthcare people I was working for called me in for a meeting. Some of the people there were nurses, they work with sick people…
Very shortly afterwards I got sick. Then I got sicker. Then sicker. Pretty soon I couldn't get out of bed during the day, I had constant fevers… but I worked from home so I just did all my work from my bed.
That took weeks to go away. After it was done I'd lost weight, I couldnt walk without shaking, I coughed blood for weeks afterwoods.
Back then I was pig stupid and thought itd be silly to go to a doctor.
Tailbone feeling every so slightly better today, although still can't lie down on my back which suuuuucks. My dad got me an "invalid cushion," but it looks really silly and my feet can't touch the floor when I use it (I'm short). Plus the dog I'm looking after keeps trying to nibble it. :(
You know one way to deal with an injury is to injure something else far worse. So my tailbone stopped bothering me when I tore up my right aductor. And that stopped continuously bothering me after i messed up neck. Only so many nerve endings and pain receptors so if something else is screaming in pain more it cancels out the first one.
I'm only being half facetious here. There have been a few times where my neck or groin hurt so much that I purposely pounded my hand on desk to get that pain to lesson the others. Man flu? Hah! This hurts so bad I want to crawl into bed and die. SNiffles? Mere pittance.
Then i realize I can tolerate so much suffering now only because I have survived so much suffering in the past.
Oh to only have a broken tail bone again. And I had that back in elemnetary school when there were hard wooden chairs. I carried around a pillow from class to class.
So… Five Nights at Freddy's 4… I want this game. :)
Looks pretty scary and challenging to play. No cameras, no doors, no vents, no maintanence panel… This time it's in the main character's house with the main character being a child. The story behind this child is pretty messed up. Let's just say life hasn't treated him well…
Oh, well… I'll be playing the demo until I can actually get the game for my tablet. :)
edit: and I really really REALLY need to stop reading any comments on Youtube videos. Every time I do I find myself wondering how Humanity ever made it past the monkey stage…
Lonnehart wrote:
I hope you have that looked at. Funny thing about dogs is that they can somehow tell something is wrong… like how one dog kept nipping her owner in the chest. That owner had her doctor check that spot… and had a cancerous tumor removed as a result… O_O
I'm definitely going to have it looked at! It's a bit silly really, it's bothered me off and on for ages but I haven't talked to the doctor about it since the original injury. Fingers crossed that I don't have bone spurs or anything.
I think the dog going after my cushion had more to do with it being an inflatable rubber one and so the same material as some of his favourite toys! :P
bravo wrote:
Oh to only have a broken tail bone again. And I had that back in elemnetary school when there were hard wooden chairs. I carried around a pillow from class to class.
Haha, yep, done that before! Back in middle school, when it was super cool to carry a pillow around to every class with me.
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I finished the first paper my prof gave me to edit, but I'm still working my way through the dissertation. It's really tedious correcting the same errors over and over again (it's a paper copy). In addition to some expected grammatical issues and whatnot, they seem to have a hard time using proper academic language. I guess that's a hard thing to learn in a second language! It can be hard sometimes to think of a good academic-sounding replacement. At one point they referred to the government's "diabolical" laws, which I found a bit funny. Usually I try to come up with a replacement word, but I'm getting a bit lazier now and often just circling it and writing "INFORMAL."
It's an interesting dissertation overall though. Just slower going than I expected because of all the language issues.
HippieVan wrote:Diabolical? So the laws were written by the devil? That is a value judgement not a description. Use neutral language when writing academicly. If a modifier is informal usually it's a good idea just to get rid of it. Same thing in business writing. Unless a modifier is descriptive (fast, slow, long, short) get rid of it because you're making a personal judgement about something and this is not what belongs in academic or busniess writing. Personal correspondence go ahead, but not otherwise.
I finished the first paper my prof gave me to edit, but I'm still working my way through the dissertation. It's really tedious correcting the same errors over and over again (it's a paper copy). In addition to some expected grammatical issues and whatnot, they seem to have a hard time using proper academic language. I guess that's a hard thing to learn in a second language! It can be hard sometimes to think of a good academic-sounding replacement. At one point they referred to the government's "diabolical" laws, which I found a bit funny. Usually I try to come up with a replacement word, but I'm getting a bit lazier now and often just circling it and writing "INFORMAL."
It's an interesting dissertation overall though. Just slower going than I expected because of all the language issues.
Hard lesson to learn when we tend to judge and feel about everything and don't even realize we are.
bravo1102 wrote:
Diabolical? So the laws were written by the devil? That is a value judgement not a description. Use neutral language when writing academicly. If a modifier is informal usually it's a good idea just to get rid of it. Same thing in business writing. Unless a modifier is descriptive (fast, slow, long, short) get rid of it because you're making a personal judgement about something and this is not what belongs in academic or busniess writing. Personal correspondence go ahead, but not otherwise.
Hard lesson to learn when we tend to judge and feel about everything and don't even realize we are.
In the context of this particular dissertation a value judgement isn't totally out of place. The author is arguing that the laws were intentionally designed to cause harm, but were masqueraded as benevolent.
I don't agree that history writing should be the same as business writing, but then I'm not one of those people who falls in the "history is objective" camp. Certainly more neutral/academic language is necessary, though. "Diabolical" just sounds like a supervillain's plot for world domination.
So.. yeah…
that happened. Chemical solution s a long term thing but I think it is beginning to have an effect after near six weeks and quadrupling the dose.
I saw Ant-man today, damn good. So muc that I would say it is one of the better Marvel films. Granted most are at least good/enjoyablebut Aman lets the characters breath a little more than most and has a eat supportng cast. Even the villain was pretty good considering.
OK then, we need quotes from programmers to fix specific bugs (doing the whole lot is way too much. I prefer step by step). Then we can set up the money raising efforts.
I'm mostly doin all that myself and it's a lot of work… Thank god I have a lot of great helpers like Hippie, Kawaii, Banes, JNP and irrevenant to handle a lot of the stuff here on DD!
The biggest inovation we had was to make the site self suficcient, which means it can't just all die if some tit forgets to pay a bill or can't be bothered. Instead the bills go straight out of my own bank account every month and NOW the cost of ads more than covers that. Finally.
Unfortunately most of the fixes here have had to be urgent and hard to do stuf behind the scenes, even the managment of the new admin team was pretty major, but it wasn't something that a lot of people would notice in the way the site runs. Things like this are like an iceberg.
Phew, just submitted the final essay for the intensive online course I've been taking. It's been a lot of work, but hopefully worth it to have a lighter courseload in the fall. Tomorrow I take the final exam. Shouldn't be too hard, but somehow exams taken online always feel longer to me.
ozone said:
OK then, we need quotes from programmers to fix specific bugs (doing the whole lot is way too much. I prefer step by step). Then we can set up the money raising efforts.
I'm mostly doin all that myself and it's a lot of work… Thank god I have a lot of great helpers like Hippie, Kawaii, Banes, JNP and irrevenant to handle a lot of the stuff here on DD!
We definitely don't say often enough how much we appreciate you, oz! It's crazy how much you do for the site.
I posted the following on the Help forum a while back, but there's been no reply and I'm not sure anybody noticed it… so apologies for the repost, but I would appreciate a little assistance.
I've been a member for some time, but I've only just begun assisting Ed Kline on Nightshade the Merry Widow.
I'd like this to appear on my Profile where it says Comics Assisted By
Lee M, but I can't find any way to edit that part. On the Help pages it
says "You'll see an "edit" link for these", but I can't for the life of me see where. (Edit) And I don't know why the font changes mid-post.
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