So, at the age of 60, I actually found occasion to use the phrase 'obstreperous harridan' (said with some venom) for the first time in a conversation. It just kind of popped out. I've known the words, and been capable of pronouncing such a judgement since pre-teen years, but, had I done so when younger, my friends would have giggled at me, and I' ( Read more... )

So, a friend who had a severe fall Friday (landed on his head, of all things :P) and wasn't expected to live, is now awake and breathing on his own. Ich freude mich!

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Back in mid-February, the artist Likeshine started a "Birds' Family Portrait" project, in which she proposed to draw colour portraits of as many Bird and Bird-related furs as ( Read more... )

A five year-old boy calls the emergency number that's on the side of his toy ambulance when mom is suddenly taken ill. That is seriously quick-thinking and level-headed for a five year old.

I made my first phone call when I was five, under my grandmother's direct supervision. I have no idea who was being called. It sticks strongly in my mind, ( Read more... )

I'm getting very heavily into burning incense again, something that comes upon me every few years. Patchouli (basically Magnolia mixed with Sandalwood), Sandalwood, and Musk are my go-tos. They go along a sort of sliding scale from bright to dark, and which one I favour depends on my mood. Occasionally I want something different, though, and ( Read more... )

So, back in Nov/Dec 2016, I was in St. Ann's, and was getting Vicodin for pain. I asked my nurse if it would be possible to get it every six hours instead of every eight. She said, reasonably enough, that she thought that would be okay, but she'd have to ask the doctor on duty. I heard nothing for almost an hour after that, and figured I'd been ( Read more... )

Woman eaten by hogs. When I was in third grade, that happened to one of my classmates. I think her name may have been Elaine. I barely remember her. Anyway, her dad farmed hogs, and what apparently happened (it was speculated - no witnesses) was that she tried to walk along the top of the fence that divided a feedlot, instead of just going the ( Read more... )

So, doctor's office has two waiting rooms - one with TV, one without. I reflexively took the without, before I realized that the other had... Dinosaur Train!

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Doctor's name is, ominously enough, Dr. Rickets. Yeah.

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I was born in 1961, and grew up in a little farming town in southern Indiana. Southern Indiana is a hilly place, and we were situated pretty much in a bowl. As might be imagined, this resulted in substandard TV reception, and that at a time when reliable access to television was essential to any community that wanted to be modern, and to take ( Read more... )

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