Well, waiting at the dentist for Angus to have a filling, there's no wifi, and I've forgotten to save something I was going to work on while I'm here out of an email, so I'll try to fill in one of those empty topic entries I put up for myself a while ago (Cheezus, that was in January!  What have I been doing?)  Providing I haven't completely ( Read more... )

Ok, so what just happened to my eyes? I was sitting here at work reading on my screen and I started noticing this little distortion in the middle of my viewing area. At first I thought it was some kind of floater, because I have some permanent ones that never go away - my optometrist told me as you get older you lose fluid inside the membrane in ( Read more... )

So glad runsamuck has that job now. Apparently they're very impressed with him as he does good customer service (used to win Secret Shopper awards when he was a meat-cutter), and have offered him another day a week if he wants it, but the other night guy is senior and he doesn't want to step on any toes when he hasn't even been there two weeks . They did ( Read more... )

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Dad's been put in ICU again. I have not been able to to talk to his doctor, but it seems while the CHF cleared up, his COPD complicates things. He's got pneumonia again and his oxygen levels are not improving, so they putting him where they can keep a closer eye on him. He is stable and the nurse who called me said he was alert and joking ( ( Read more... )

I stopped by to see my dad in the hospital after work yesterday - stressful enough in itself as I'd forgotten to get back to someone who'd requested a data summary of me, I couldn't get hold of my boss all afternoon, and had a newspaper call about shark populations - I hate media calls, and oh btw, must remember to submit a media contact form! :p ( Read more... )

Looking for depictions of Native Americans swordfishing for a presentation for work and came upon this story, which is based on the Chumash legend, namely that the swordfish speared whales and threw them on the beach, thus providing people with food.

Swordfish StorySwordfish seem to be a bit cruel, but then so do a lot of large predators ( Read more... )

Well, I have a cough I believe my dear offspring or possibly my spouse passed on to me, thank you so much. Chest congestion mostly - thank goodness for no stuffy head, although head hurts when coughing. Mostly scratchy throat and lung boogers. Yuck ( Read more... )

After his surgery on a Wednesday, Dad spent through the weekend in the surgical ICU because he still had some fluid in his lungs that they wanted to be sure was cleared up, so it didn't turn into pneumonia. Then he spent two days in DOU, and another couple back on the Telemetry floor, waiting for a bed in a convalescent home to open. On Friday ( Read more... )