Shoutbox Wannabe.

[ChiefD]

There was a little snow on the ground when I woke up this morning. Another very cold day. I will not turn on my heat, I absolutely refuse. Besides, by Saturday, it's supposed to be in the mid 60Fs. Talked to my hubby a few times on the phone. He sounds like he's in good spirits. Got another call from the nurse and she said in addition to the blood in his pee, they did a chest xray after they had to up his oxygen to 3L to get it above 90%. Xray indicated that there is some fluid buildup around his heart and lungs, congestive heart failure (again). Not his first rodeo with this. They have him on a diuretic, and were able to ratchet down the O2 to 2L. Results from the urine still pending. I'm just trying to stay busy to not think too much about this. I've cleaned the house, vacuumed, and dusted, along with two loads of laundry. I worked on my Christmas music for the show our chorus is doing December 3 at EAA in Oshkosh WI. I did about $5 worth of online surveys and my Spanish lesson. 

I know this is just another day in the life. It helps me to think of it this way. I will not call it the new normal as I fucking hate that saying. Now I'm pondering what to have for dinner. Something hot, definitely. Something to use my oven to warm the house up. I have a frozen pizza. That should work.

[Freija]

ChiefD, I am glad you have shared with us and I feel for the things you are dealing with because I can relate to uncertainty and illness in those we love and know how trying it can be. We're here for you fellow politically aligned friend.

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I got my new battery today, yay! Ex-hubby dude came over and took me to get a new battery. He even carried it for me and was his ever charming self with the checkout lady even though by the time we left she was convinced when her shift was over at 4:00 we'd be back and all go have beer and hot wings together. Maybe I haven't mentioned he's quite a character? :)

Being low on cash, I was intending to put this purchase on my credit card but when I pulled my wallet out to pay, I discovered I had left that card on my desk and went grrr and damnit! He started to pull his billfold out but I insisted he not as I did have my debit card with me and used that. Sorry to not live up to helpless female expectations!

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

ChiefD, I am glad you have shared with us and I feel for the things you are dealing with because I can relate to uncertainty and illness in those we love and know how trying it can be. We're here for you fellow politically aligned friend.

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I got my new battery today, yay! Ex-hubby dude came over and took me to get a new battery. He even carried it for me and was his ever charming self with the checkout lady even though by the time we left she was convinced when her shift was over at 4:00 we'd be back and all go have beer and hot wings together. Maybe I haven't mentioned he's quite a character? :)

Being low on cash, I was intending to put this purchase on my credit card but when I pulled my wallet out to pay, I discovered I had left that card on my desk and went grrr and damnit! He started to pull his billfold out but I insisted he not as I did have my debit card with me and used that. Sorry to not live up to helpless female expectations!

You did and @ChiefD did good.

Unfortunately, I did live up to my bitchy Scorpion female exceptions. I just am not one to dance around the truth and while I can be a team player, don't expect me to be the scapegoat for a team that plans to throw me under the bus.

[DuckforcoveR]

@chiefd yup! Wisconsin in October!

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

@chiefd yup! Wisconsin in October!

Reminds me of Minnesota.

It is October, normal day. Minnesota, the State with two seasons. Winter and road repair.

But I still loved Minnesota.

[ChiefD]

@chiefd yup! Wisconsin in October!

Yep! Supposed to get more snow showers tonight and tomorrow, and gale force winds to go with it.

Wisconsin does actually have four seasons: Almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction! :)

[kdog]

I have nothing to vent about, really.

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

I am winding down. My get up and go, got up and went.

All I want to do is nothing.

I remember when I used to think my elderly patients were being ignored and depressed, because all they wanted to do was stay home, and they spent the majority of their day sitting in their favored spot.

Now I know. What I was witnessing was contentment.

So I guess I am having a personal battle with contentment, because I feel guilty as hell, if I am not making busy.

[Sol]

Lots of venting here. Good. So let me get this off my chest.

I HATE growing old. I just fucking hate it.

Up to a few years ago, women still turned when I went by. Loved the feeling. Not that I'm attractive, I'm not but I think I had a little something that women liked. Now, nothing. Fuck all.

My ass is starting to wrinkle. The fuck?!?

I don't have the patience I used to have, nor the empathy. A lot of people get on my nerves and I'm pretty sure that I get on a lot of people's nerves as well. Some people I used to respect I now see as fucking idiots.

My memory isn't what it used to be either and that's gotta be my biggest piss off about growing old. I used to remember movies, characters, actor's names, scenes, now I have to pause and think to remember something and then google it to find it. The hell...

Spoke with an aunt a few years back, telling her that I was terrorized about getting old. She said she hated it as well and said "wait until all your bones start hurting then you let me know how that feels..." Urrggghhh. My bones don't hurt yet, but I'm not 25 years old anymore, that much is for sure.

I just hate it. Period. Oh you get wisdom they say. You get wiser they say. Fuck 'em. Old fucking geezers. Someone actually called me an old geezer this week. Took me everything not to knock his false teeth out.

I'm just 60 for crying out loud. And I absolutely, totally and royally fucking hate it.

/end vent.

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[BIAD]

...I'm just 60 for crying out loud. And I absolutely, totally and royally fucking hate it.

There are some Wednesdays when I'm on my knees with a trowel and digging the earth in the garden
of my 98 year-old mother-in-law. On those days, she hobbles out and tells me to tuck the back of my
shirt in because when I get older, I may suffer with an aching back from the poor English weather

I'm 62 in December and don't have backache yet... age is relative!

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

What do you call it when you don't want to something that you want to do?

Sounds confusing, I guess because it is.

I have a dear friend that I would do almost anything for, and I "know" he would do anything for me. He has gone over the top, beyond the pale, and beyond the beyond, for me on numerous occasions.

He needs a ride to the airport tomorrow. Usually no big deal. But this time he has an early flight. He has to be at the airport by 5:30 am. It will take me 30 minutes to get to his house, get the car packed, and get on the road, and an hour to get to the airport. So I will have to get up around three am. To make sure I get him there on time. 

Again this would be no big deal, if I could just go back home and go back to bed for a couple of hours. By the time I get home it will be about 7am, and I have to be at work by 8am and I am on till midnight.

Again, no big deal, except I have been having a hard time sleeping soundly, which means I wake up three to four times at night, I have Mom on a monitor because she has night terrors and walks in her sleep. 

This has been going on for so long it is starting to wear me down. Being old as dirt is not helping in the least little bit.

Anyway, now that back story is out of the way, I want to take him, I really do, and I would be very much be offended if he did not ask to take him.

Yet, I really don't want to get up at 4am to start a 20 hour day. It could easily bleed into the next day. I am on 16 hour call on Friday, and we have been unusually busy.

This of course is just a lame ass excuse, to assuage my guilt for not being over joyous about helping out a friend.

I guess there are a few names that would be fitting, just wondering what you would call it.

[hounddoghowlie]

What do you call it when you don't want to something that you want to do?

Sounds confusing, I guess because it is.

I have a dear friend that I would do almost anything for, and I "know" he would do anything for me. He has gone over the top, beyond the pale, and beyond the beyond, for me on numerous occasions.

He needs a ride to the airport tomorrow. Usually no big deal. But this time he has an early flight. He has to be at the airport by 5:30 am. It will take me 30 minutes to get to his house, get the car packed, and get on the road, and an hour to get to the airport. So I will have to get up around three am. To make sure I get him there on time. 

Again this would be no big deal, if I could just go back home and go back to bed for a couple of hours. By the time I get home it will be about 7am, and I have to be at work by 8am and I am on till midnight.

Again, no big deal, except I have been having a hard time sleeping soundly, which means I wake up three to four times at night, I have Mom on a monitor because she has night terrors and walks in her sleep. 

This has been going on for so long it is starting to wear me down. Being old as dirt is not helping in the least little bit.

Anyway, now that back story is out of the way, I want to take him, I really do, and I would be very much be offended if he did not ask to take him.

Yet, I really don't want to get up at 4am to start a 20 hour day. It could easily bleed into the next day. I am on 16 hour call on Friday, and we have been unusually busy.

This of course is just a lame ass excuse, to assuage my guilt for not being over joyous about helping out a friend.

I guess there are a few names that would be fitting, just wondering what you would call it.

other than dread, can't think of anything else.

you know like when you say i want to do what he asked me, but i dread all the hasle it gonna be.

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

other than dread, can't think of anything else.

you know like when you say i want to do what he asked me, but i dread all the hassle it gonna be.

I guess dread is a good enough word.

It is fitting with what I am feeling. I know that I am making a mountain out of a mole hill and it will go smoothly, as always.

I really need to stop making my life harder than it needs to be.

[BIAD]

I see the UK's quickest-in-office Prime Minister has called it a day. Liz Truss has announced her resignation from the
poison chalice the position.

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

I see the UK's quickest-in-office Prime Minister has called it a day. Liz Truss has announced her resignation from the

poison chalice the position.

The quickest turn over that I have ever had in a job was three months.

It was all I could take, as it became increasingly obvious that the environment was extremely toxic.

Actually the environment reeked of downright evil. Even more interesting is that on my way home from leaving that job, I was offered another one. I got a call from an agency stating that they had become aware I had left my job at the company. They said they had a Director position they would love for me to consider. One of the people that worked at the agency I left had called and informed them. She worked part time at both agencies. I went over to the company, talked to the CEO, ended taking the job, with a increase in salary.

First time I left a job and had another job before I returned home.

It was a great job, but I had to leave when I moved, several years later.

[Ninurta]

I've got a couple of black rain slickers or dusters - well, one of them calls itself "oilskins",I reckon that's because it comes from from Australia. So anyhow, last night I dug them out of the closet to check on them, and sure enough, mildew had started in them because of the damp environment in the closet. So I threw them in the wash to wash the mildew off.

When they were washed, I hung them to dry, and having a lack of space to hang great big dusters to dry, I hung one of them off the shower rod in the bathroom. Women do that all the time with nylons, right?

About 6 am this morning, I heard a shriek and a woman yelling for me. Grace had gone into the bathroom, and informed me that it just ain't cricket to hang a large black man-shaped thing in a bathroom that might, at some point, house a just awakening lady. All I could do was shrug and say "well, it IS Halloween season..."

But the dusters are drying out nicely.


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[BIAD]

I've got a couple of black rain slickers or dusters - well, one of them calls itself "oilskins",I reckon that's because it comes from from Australia. So anyhow, last night I dug them out of the closet to check on them, and sure enough, mildew had started in them because of the damp environment in the closet. So I threw them in the wash to wash the mildew off.

When they were washed, I hung them to dry, and having a lack of space to hang great big dusters to dry, I hung one of them off the shower rod in the bathroom. Women do that all the time with nylons, right?

About 6 am this morning, I heard a shriek and a woman yelling for me. Grace had gone into the bathroom, and informed me that it just ain't cricket to hang a large black man-shaped thing in a bathroom that might, at some point, house a just awakening lady. All I could do was shrug and say "well, it IS Halloween season..."

But the dusters are drying out nicely.

Are we to take it that your rationalising of the priorities of scaring the cr*p out of her and the drying oilskins is appreciated by Grace?!!!

[Ninurta]

I've got a couple of black rain slickers or dusters - well, one of them calls itself "oilskins",I reckon that's because it comes from from Australia. So anyhow, last night I dug them out of the closet to check on them, and sure enough, mildew had started in them because of the damp environment in the closet. So I threw them in the wash to wash the mildew off.

When they were washed, I hung them to dry, and having a lack of space to hang great big dusters to dry, I hung one of them off the shower rod in the bathroom. Women do that all the time with nylons, right?

About 6 am this morning, I heard a shriek and a woman yelling for me. Grace had gone into the bathroom, and informed me that it just ain't cricket to hang a large black man-shaped thing in a bathroom that might, at some point, house a just awakening lady. All I could do was shrug and say "well, it IS Halloween season..."

But the dusters are drying out nicely.

Are we to take it that your rationalising of the priorities of scaring the cr*p out of her and the drying oilskins is appreciated by Grace?!!!

But of course! She finally saw the humor of it.

After her heart rate slowed back to normal...


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[Ninurta]

Is psychic ability genetically  inheritable?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...0721000501


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[BIAD]

Is psychic ability genetically inheritable?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...0721000501

"Handed down through the generations..." isn't that what we've come to know?

Garry Nolan.

'...In 2012, Nolan began analysis on the Atacama skeleton, a suspected alien corpse from Chile, which he later revealed
to be a mummified human stillbirth with genetic bone defects and gene mutation causing deformity.

He was later approached by officials and an aerospace corporation to "help them understand the medical harm that had come
to some individuals, related to supposed interactions with an anomalous craft." He was chosen primarily for the types of blood
analysis his lab can perform.

Initially via CyTOF blood analysis, he helped investigate the brains of around 100 patients, mostly "defense or governmental
personnel or people working in the aerospace industry", of which a subset claimed to have seen unexplained aerial phenomena
(UAP).

The majority exhibited symptoms that were "basically identical to what's now called Havana syndrome" and had their brains scanned
via MRI. Nolan stated that some of the brains were horribly damaged and that "what we thought was the damage across multiple
individuals" turned out to be a "over-connection of neurons between the head of the caudate and the putamen" which he claims was
disproportionate in this cohort compared to the general population. Others have independently verified the role of the caudate in
intelligence and planning. This brain characteristic was something subjects were born with for multiple individuals in this subset.

Nolan is the lead author of the first study published in a peer-reviewed journal about anomalous materials associated with UFOs.
The article reviews modern analytic procedures, including mass spectrometry, for characterization, analysis, and identification of
unknown materials and how such have been applied thus far to study materials that, according to witnesses, dropped from hovering
UFOs such as materials of the 1977 Council Bluffs incident.

Since the formation of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force in 2020, multiple publications have reported on Nolan's involvement
with The Pentagon and the CIA investigating samples of materials supposedly ejected at purported sites of UFO sightings.
Nolan appeared on Fox News's Tucker Carlson Tonight show on 1 August 2022 where, in an hour long interview, he discussed his UAP
related research...'

Wikipedia:

It'd be interesting to get to meat of this. Edit: Are they still looking for something they failed to find through the coof-scare?