Hotel has terrible internet, but the hospital is great!
(Just in for a wound check with Hawaii, who had to get a giant chigger bite infection lanced and drained our first night here. She thrashed like a wild animal and we had to pin her down against her will, and it was super awful.)
I'm seriously starting to think I'm allergic to my parents.
Almost every time I've seen them for the past five years I've got ill somehow. Most of those visits involve air travel in the winter and you have to expect illness then, but one time they visited me in August or September and I threw up, of all things. I got married in September and was sick then, and they're visiting right now and I've had a runny nose the whole time.
It's probably not related to them, especially since the symptoms aren't consistent, but it's annoying.
Last Friday a train derailed in Plainfield, about six miles from my house, and two or three cars carrying crude oil spilled their contents. Fortunately a nearby gas pipeline project provided some trenches to contain the spill and prevented it from reaching the Dupage River. I haven't seen anything yet as to what caused the derailment.
"we had to pin her down against her will, and it was super awful"
Oh god, the worst experience I had with a kid was when the one who had terrible recurring croup every winter until ~7 (was also a premie, don't know if that's related) was about 3 and was in the hospital overnight for nebulizer treatments and I had to get him to take oral steroids before he could leave. They tasted terrible but he had to take a very specific amount to stabilize him. I tried to get him to take it straight, then mixed with some drink, and eventually was pinning him in my lap trying to force it in his mouth and he got an arm free and smacked the cup onto the floor. Since it was partially consumed I didn't know how much more he had to take and the whole situation was awful and I had been up the entire night, I yelled at him, that was the closest I've come to hitting/shaking a kid. I wanted to signal to the hospital staff to intervene before I did something bad.
I just got a nice email wishing me a happy 4th, and inquiring after my granddaughter, from a former client.
He fled his native Baghdad ahead of the death squads last year and is in an undisclosed location in Kurdistan.
America, hooray!
3: I was just in your general area!
5: Jesus. We are awful.
A sequel to my comment on the SF thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N2ixMUzisc
I got up super early due to an accident making bhang* yesterday, so I went out to see if I could find some coffee. I stumbled across a figure lying in the flower bed of my apartment building. I pretty much shit myself and reached for my phone to call 911 but I wasn't carrying it. I shook the guy. Nothing. Tried for a pulse. Good pulse, breathing fine, just not going to wake up. A couple of guys approached and I asked if one of them had a phone. It turns out they were the companions of my passed- out friend and were looking for him after a night long bender. Their English wasn't great but I established that nobody was going to drive and left them to take care of their buddy. The end.
* Not an exciting accident. Made it too strong, fell asleep at 3 pm woke up at 3 am. Lesson learned.
I'm thinking maybe you don't want to write 8.1 on Jeff Sessions' internet.
Waves hello from the Elmwood district of Berkeley...
I am making my friend Jim's famous recipe for macaroni and cheese for a 4th of July thing. It calls for an insane amount of cheese so I actually used way less, but now I'm having regrets because the way he makes it is justifiably renowned. It also has vast quantities of black pepper. I didn't skimp on that.
Just don't defame Jim by saying you followed his recipe.
12 The ex (#2) and I used to make a macaroni and cheese like that (insane quantities of cheese, beaucoup black pepper) for New Year's Eve.
So it's still Gestalt, right? I wasn't sure given the reveal that it was selected via slip of the mind, NTTAWWT.
gestalt a bit more transit friendly for those coming from outside SF, so I say we stick with gestalt.
gestalt a bit more transit friendly for those coming from outside SF
Than Zeitgeist? Whatever you say, lady.
I hope there'll be some higher quality live-blogging than some of what we've seen lately.
Or higher quality knife fighting, whichever.
??? gestalt right by 16th St bart station, zeitgeist not far from but somewhat awkwardly equidistant to 16th St station and muni van ness station. but obvs I'm missing something!
It's 0.2 vs. 0.5 miles, but it's what we already established anyway, so Gestalt works for me.
That you're debating between gestalt and zeitgeist is wonderful.
Allow me to be the first to suggest Fresh Gestalt.
Allow me to be the first to suggest Fresh Gestalt.
22: it's like five extra minutes of walking, if that? De minimis non curat lex, I thought. Totally negligible.
The idea that the difference is especially relevant for those coming from outside SF is also weird--like, I'm coming from soma; the difference is just as relevant for me. Anyway.
It's probably easier for people coming from out of town to get lost and the odds of getting lost would vary proportional to the distance walked.
As always, Moby, you've opened my eyes to the errors of my ways.
I heard Gestalt and Zeitgeist merged, and now it's called Gesundheit.
Oh hey, the conversation merged over to this page which is still on the front page.
They're playing George Strait now at this coffee shop. Texas and California are such a divorced couple that can't quit peeking at each other's facebook feed.
I'm early! I wasn't as far away as I thought was.
We are discussing whether Finland is Scandinavia. As you might have guessed.
Could you ask if 32 is awful? I can't tell anymore.