The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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Well here's what's happening in my neck of the woods starting tomorrow...
Missile Warning Siren Tests to Begin
Missile Warning Siren Tests to Begin
@WasabiPoptart
I recall doing duck and cover siren tests in elementary school in the early 80's. As a child I was worried that war would break out in our own back yard, it caused some anxiety which I never expressed to an adult at the time. I imagine with your connection to the military there may be additional stresses involved.
I'm sure you're going to spend time discussing this with your kids - I don't know what the best advice is for how to reassure them and what mental tools you can give them to help them feel safe and capable of handling likely possibilities, though, but please give it some thought and ask them how they're feeling to make sure they don't store anything unresolved for long.
I recall doing duck and cover siren tests in elementary school in the early 80's. As a child I was worried that war would break out in our own back yard, it caused some anxiety which I never expressed to an adult at the time. I imagine with your connection to the military there may be additional stresses involved.
I'm sure you're going to spend time discussing this with your kids - I don't know what the best advice is for how to reassure them and what mental tools you can give them to help them feel safe and capable of handling likely possibilities, though, but please give it some thought and ask them how they're feeling to make sure they don't store anything unresolved for long.
fade
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You'll be hearing from my lawyer, buddy.
That's my back up thermos.
Huh. I could have sworn this was your backup thermos:
Are the warning stickers no longer necessary for the contents you usually add?
You're a fucking monster. A fridge full of old grocery bags is a HR nightmare.
The fact that that is your take away confirms your children count.
Dave
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So my aunt went into the hospital yesterday with pneumonia. She had the same thing in January and it almost killed her (she went into cardiac arrest but was resuscitated). I went to see her yesterday and while visiting found out that her granddaughter and her family would have to move out because they have a new baby that can't be in the same house as her when she returns. This is a problem because the granddaughter and her husband have been doing all of the housework - cooking, cleaning, etc. - that my elderly aunt & uncle can't do themselves. So I started looking around for a way to help them with meals at the very least.
Holy shit. It's either Meals on Wheel - which is losing out big because of Trump and would not be able to help - or to pay for an elderly person meal service, which the only ones I can find are about $1200 a month. Each. So now we're going to be taking turns making food for them, which will be a huge pain in the ass but it's got to be done.
Holy shit. It's either Meals on Wheel - which is losing out big because of Trump and would not be able to help - or to pay for an elderly person meal service, which the only ones I can find are about $1200 a month. Each. So now we're going to be taking turns making food for them, which will be a huge pain in the ass but it's got to be done.
Am I missing something obvious here? If you can't say because of "family reasons" OK, but I don't instinctively see why this is true.
There are certain illnesses where treatment requires separation from children for typically one of two reasons:
- Immunosuppressants make one particularly vulnerable to colds, flu, pneumonia, and as such living with children may increase risk of receiving such an illness
- Certain types of radiation therapy, usually for cancer, cause the person to emit low levels of radiation, and precautions require that very young children and pregnant mothers do not live with an individual being treated with these therapies.
I'm going through that now to a lesser extent. My kids each brought home several plagues to me in early November and I'm still sick. I'm on two immune suppression drugs and my immune system wasn't awesome to start with.
So this is kind of random but...
I mentioned watching Hidden Figures recently. Excellent movie, I highly recommend it. But interestingly, I found out there's a family connection to it. See, one of the nameless background guys in many of the scenes is my mom's cousin Melvin. Not like he was an extra, I mean Mel worked for NASA at Langley at the time (and still does) and he was literally part of those projects. He had this to say about the movie: "It was good and all but the bathroom thing was nonsense. Kathy used the nearby bathroom because no one cared, she just ignored the 'Whites Only' sign. Also, she was never pretty like that actress."
Melvin has been working for NASA for close to 60 years and is one of the few remaining experts on the characteristics of solid fuel rocket propulsion. He's also currently working on potential manned Mars landing projects, including Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20160010176
I just thought that was cool.
I mentioned watching Hidden Figures recently. Excellent movie, I highly recommend it. But interestingly, I found out there's a family connection to it. See, one of the nameless background guys in many of the scenes is my mom's cousin Melvin. Not like he was an extra, I mean Mel worked for NASA at Langley at the time (and still does) and he was literally part of those projects. He had this to say about the movie: "It was good and all but the bathroom thing was nonsense. Kathy used the nearby bathroom because no one cared, she just ignored the 'Whites Only' sign. Also, she was never pretty like that actress."
Melvin has been working for NASA for close to 60 years and is one of the few remaining experts on the characteristics of solid fuel rocket propulsion. He's also currently working on potential manned Mars landing projects, including Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20160010176
I just thought that was cool.
Dave
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So my father in law had surgery on his hip two days ago. He got out of the hospital either yesterday or this morning. My brother in law (who is unemployed - not really pertinent, just outlining the fact that he's in the perfect position to help out) volunteered to stay with my FIL to help him out until he can do things on his own. This morning my BIL packed up and left and nobody quite knows why. So my FIL is hardly able to move and in great pain...and he's stuck all alone. Oh, and he's the one whose wife died a couple of months ago.
So, Sunday I'm driving to Colorado. I've taken next week off so that I can stay with him and take care of him. Last time I was there he treated me like shit (because he's turned into a Fox News, paranoid, cranky old bastard) so this is NOT going to be fun. A friend of his will be staying the night with him, my OTHER BIL will stay Saturday but has to leave when I get there Sunday. The rental car will cost me anywhere from $250 - 450 (they usually put a $200 hold on the card), but my sister in law is going to help us out with that.
But what the ever-loving fuck, man? He just fucking left him there! Who does that?!?[DOUBLEPOST=1512163538,1512163485][/DOUBLEPOST]I'd be leaving sooner, but I have a gig tomorrow night that I can't get out of so I have to do it.
So, Sunday I'm driving to Colorado. I've taken next week off so that I can stay with him and take care of him. Last time I was there he treated me like shit (because he's turned into a Fox News, paranoid, cranky old bastard) so this is NOT going to be fun. A friend of his will be staying the night with him, my OTHER BIL will stay Saturday but has to leave when I get there Sunday. The rental car will cost me anywhere from $250 - 450 (they usually put a $200 hold on the card), but my sister in law is going to help us out with that.
But what the ever-loving fuck, man? He just fucking left him there! Who does that?!?[DOUBLEPOST=1512163538,1512163485][/DOUBLEPOST]I'd be leaving sooner, but I have a gig tomorrow night that I can't get out of so I have to do it.
Yeah it's volatile but I think it's gonna be good in the long term. However even if it goes to 0 tomorrow, I didn't put an amount in that will hurt me.
Well, if you thought you had originally canned apples, then opening up a can of worms might be problematic.
Canned apples? What kind of podunk hick third world New Jersey wasteland sells apples in a can?
Sell? Just home canning.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31039/how-did-term-open-can-worms-originate
Apparently the trouble isn't what the worms do, it's that they tend to stop being where you want them to be once they're not sealed in the can anymore. You open the can of worms and it causes problems because soon you don't have worms anymore.
What a weird idiom.
Huh. Here I also thought it was that they were going to escape and get into everything.
I assume it's due to the "tradition" of keeping the worms you're going to use for fishing in a can.
(reads article)
Yep. You'll notice in old cartoons that's how a fisherman carries his bait.
--Patrick
I assume it's due to the "tradition" of keeping the worms you're going to use for fishing in a can.
(reads article)
Yep. You'll notice in old cartoons that's how a fisherman carries his bait.
--Patrick