Thread "Happy 2019! General discussion thread" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 6:04PM, Apr. 4, 2019

Call Me Tom wrote:
Am I a bad person?

Of course not
Stop thinking that you are!
You're a jolly good old sort! A perfect bean. A man of the finest water!

Call Me Tom you are simply one of the best chaps around and I for one would love to have you around a LOT more!!!

You are a cool person, a GOOD person, a kind person, and a smart person.
Certainly NOT a bad person.

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 6, 2019

ozoneocean wrote:
Call Me Tom wrote:
Am I a bad person?
Of course not
Stop thinking that you are!
You're a jolly good old sort! A perfect bean. A man of the finest water!

Call Me Tom you are simply one of the best chaps around and I for one would love to have you around a LOT more!!!

You are a cool person, a GOOD person, a kind person, and a smart person.
Certainly NOT a bad person.

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 6, 2019

ozoneocean wrote:
Call Me Tom wrote:
Am I a bad person?
Of course not
Stop thinking that you are!
You're a jolly good old sort! A perfect bean. A man of the finest water!

Call Me Tom you are simply one of the best chaps around and I for one would love to have you around a LOT more!!!

You are a cool person, a GOOD person, a kind person, and a smart person.
Certainly NOT a bad person.

If you are asking, the answer is most likely no.

Posted at 6:04AM, Apr. 7, 2019

I had a pet rat euthanized Thursday. He was three years old and had a degenerative nerve condition (causing hind leg paralysis). Three is basically the rat equivalent of 100. His elderly son passed away Wednesday.

Anyway, yesterday I decided to adopt a kitten. At three months old, he's past the "baby" stage and already has a personality (which includes a lot of purring, chewing my hands to shreds, and swatting and chewing on the dog). He's also neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped. I named him Zenigata.

Posted at 7:04AM, Apr. 7, 2019

Awe kitty!

I'm in hospital with a spinal injury, waiting to find out if surgery is needed. Apparently I'm at threshold between it'll heal fine with rest or one wrong step and you're paralyzed.
I can't take more than a couple of stops and best case scenario is a few months of physio therapy.
It's proving to be one hell of a few weeks here.

Posted at 2:04AM, Apr. 8, 2019

Genejoke wrote:
Awe kitty!

I'm in hospital with a spinal injury, waiting to find out if surgery is needed. Apparently I'm at threshold between it'll heal fine with rest or one wrong step and you're paralyzed.
I can't take more than a couple of stops and best case scenario is a few months of physio therapy.
It's proving to be one hell of a few weeks here.

What the hell happened? Fall? Car accident? Sat on by an elephant? Inappropriately intimate with a rhinoceros? Attacked by the wee faery people? viciously probed by grey aliens? Fell off the Loch Ness monster while playing polo?

Posted at 4:04AM, Apr. 8, 2019

Genejoke wrote:
Awe kitty!

I'm in hospital with a spinal injury, waiting to find out if surgery is needed. Apparently I'm at threshold between it'll heal fine with rest or one wrong step and you're paralyzed.
I can't take more than a couple of stops and best case scenario is a few months of physio therapy.
It's proving to be one hell of a few weeks here.

Yeesh! Upper spine, lower spine, cervical spine?

That's the kind of news I got when I had my fractured vertebra.

I just got the final verdict on my left eye. The distortion is from the seriousness of the detachment. The surgery was the best that could be done under the circumstances. So I effectively can't read or discern details with my left eye. The headaches and occasional pain are a side effect of the surgery and my brain trying to make the best of it. But I have one good eye, so I can drive and work. An eye patch is too much because I like depth perception and the right eye with my glasses sees so well that it's not too bad.

But centering text in speech balloons is really hard these days.:D

The left eye is like a funhouse mirror. Not quite double vision, like one and a half vision with one side slipping over the other if I try to focus or wear my glasses. And I was just getting used to the wonderful sight my cataracts surgeries had left me.

Posted at 6:04AM, Apr. 8, 2019

Maybe and monocle?

Posted at 6:04AM, Apr. 8, 2019

ozoneocean wrote:
Maybe and monocle?

A monocle, in addition to being an anachronism, is an affectation of a pretentious person. The kind of person I would feel it my duty to ridicule.

Bifocals and squinting will suffice. 😉

Posted at 7:04AM, Apr. 8, 2019

bravo1102 wrote:
ozoneocean wrote:
Maybe and monocle?
A monocle, in addition to being an anachronism, is an affectation of a pretentious person. The kind of person I would feel it my duty to ridicule.

Bifocals and squinting will suffice. 😉

They were actually really useful for vision!
If my eyesight goes bad a monocle will be the first thing I get.
-One that's calibrated to my vision I mean… rather than the useless affectation one that I currently own. XD

Posted at 10:04AM, Apr. 8, 2019

Think it's come from a herniated disc. Currently on bed rest while the doctor establish whether it's cauda equina syndrome.

Posted at 9:04PM, Apr. 8, 2019

Genejoke wrote:
Think it's come from a herniated disc. Currently on bed rest while the doctor establish whether it's cauda equina syndrome.

Viciously probed by grey aliens? Got it XD

I hope it all works out ok!

Posted at 5:04PM, Apr. 11, 2019

Wow, speaking of backs, I accidentally fell on my bum about two months ago when My heel tripped in the gutter while I was holding a box of bagels. I figured it was the best option, but lately I have been having seering lower back pains in times of stress, especially while driving.

So last Friday I decided to get a deep tissue massage with a focus on the most painful spots. In the first ten minutes, I heard the vertebrae on my lower and mid-back spine crack into place followed by the best massage of my life.

@genejoke- sorry to hear you are teeter-tottering on the edge of a spinal injury. Avoiding heavy lifting and rest on it.

@usedbooks- that is a cute kitten! Only three months old? That gives you nearly two decades of friendship ahead of you both.

I am in the middle of Spring Break right now. I am so happy the district spreads out breaks like this, we need pauses in life. I was able to file my five W-2s and state and federal taxes in one hour and now that is one more stress factor in my life that has been lifted.

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 24, 2019

I would love a massage to fix my back but right now I'm not sure it would do the trick. Fortunately most of my back pain has eased up a hell of a lot now, but the nerve related stuff is still being problematic. I can't walk again yet, well not unaided and with aid it's hard. There are aspects of the injury I'm worried might be permanent but time will tell.

Posted at 1:04AM, Apr. 25, 2019

Humans just aren't designed for walking upright. So many problems with the back originate from that simple fact of evolution.

My wife might have another herniated disc like she did 20 years ago. She is having stabbing pains in her leg.

Posted at 12:04PM, Apr. 25, 2019

Are you sure it's not just the cat?

Posted at 6:04PM, Apr. 25, 2019

HOW many years since I got Alexey to fix the forums?
I have only JUST now discovered what that green tick in the top bar does!
It gives you a preview of your forum post! WOW!
*Mind blown*

Posted at 5:05PM, May. 9, 2019

I wasted quite some time looking for that green tick before realizing you were talking about the text compose box.

Posted at 7:05PM, May. 9, 2019

Hahaha, sorry for that. XD

Posted at 2:05AM, May. 10, 2019

Ironscarf wrote:
I wasted quite some time looking for that green tick before realizing you were talking about the text compose box.

Ah! It wasn't just me then B-) …and "Ooh, yeah" it does .

But….it's about as useful as a chocolate fireplace Haha !

Posted at 4:05AM, May. 14, 2019

No worries, I'm grateful for the exercise.

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It feels strange not to be posting comic updates anymore, but I can finally start to contemplate other colours again, rather than seeing the world only in shades of orange and grey. Yesterday's sunset was purple and green.

Posted at 7:05AM, May. 14, 2019

Ironscarf wrote:

It feels strange not to be posting comic updates anymore, but I can finally start to contemplate other colours again, rather than seeing the world only in shades of orange and grey. Yesterday's sunset was purple and green.

That may be due to the medication though… B-)

Posted at 1:05PM, May. 14, 2019

There may be something in that. It's quite orangey looking again tonight though.

Posted at 1:05AM, May. 15, 2019

Ironscarf wrote:
There may be something in that. It's quite orangey looking again tonight though.

You see the rest of the spectrum looking at sunrises rather than sunsets. Before I worked nights never thought much of it. But being up early you see some magnificent skies of color and none of that warm tint of scarlet.

For people who didn't know about oranges, it was not even it's own color but a kind of red.

Posted at 2:05AM, May. 15, 2019

bravo1102 wrote:

For people who didn't know about oranges, it was not even it's own color but a kind of red.

Am I right in thinking the colour was named after the fruit, rather than vice versa?