If it goes well (and indications are that I'm an ideal candidate) we'll do the same kind of thing with fine motor stuff, like typing:) They won't turn me into a great typist (there's an old joke in there somewhere), but it would be cool to have knife skills again.
I have a window of opportunity to shower now, while my bread is rising (I'm bringing a loaf to my therapist :) So...I have to go ATK for a bit, but I'll be back at least until the bread is out of the oven. So CYA in a bit.
@ElendilTheTall Ahh...I smell good, I'm a little dopey....warm water does that, I have a few minutes left on my bread before it can go in the oven. I've got time to mess with my hair, time to chat with you...my laundry is done...I've got a really fun sandwich in the works, and I'm looking forward to tomorrow. Life is good.
They're are other, more extreme, I hate going to the dentist, measures. But the lidocaine (and adequate TIME), is pretty standard. Wow...your medical care is so neat.
I don't know where I'd be if I hadn't made the rather impulsive choice to raise my right hand all those years ago. I was uninsured the day I was diagnosed with MS.
you should move to Britain. My case: 1. prevalent secularism 2. free healthcare 3. massive variety of cheese both domestic and foreign 4. you need more reasons?
Can it possibly be true that half of Americans believe in Creationism as opposed to evolution, and the majority of the other half believe in some kind of intelligent design??
My last bout of internet dating was kind of fun...there were a couple of potentials in there, but nothing that stuck. I'm going to throw myself into this physical therapy thing, I need to feel good. THEN I'm going to do it again, only grow-ups need apply. It's getting too late to weed through the 46 and 32 percent.
I'm probably looking at this physical therapy thing all wrong. I'm hoping that it's really cutting edge medical science, and if nothing else it's going to be 3 90 minute work-outs a week with a personal trainer.
Maybe I should instead be searching for God's plan...
I fail to see how it could be a part of a great cosmic plan that my father (truly a fine man), watched his first-born die after about a year of nothing but pain. Then his second child dies in diving accident at 21. Then I have the pleasure of telling him that I have a debilitating disease. How does one First World man get chosen for that plan?
There is one that starts like that, then at the very, very end...last nanosecond (exaggeration obviously) , super-fast caveman to space shuttle. It's partly so good because of the gorgeous animation, also the music is phenomenal. It's been years since I've seen the one I'm thinking of.
I make all of my own bread. For just everyday use my go-to recipe is as follows:
Honey-Oat Pain de Mie
255g lukewarm water
361g AP Flour
85g old-fashioned rolled oats (not quick oats)
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
64g honey
57g melted butter
2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
I use a Pain de Mie pan like ...
@rumtscho Nice response. If he wasn't rude about it, I'd want to lead him to the IMDb Food and Drink board, which is much more of a free for all. But I wouldn't unleash an ass like that on my IMDb friends.
Hi rumi! I've just had a very frustrating day, and I had such high hopes.
My car (the one I share with my neighbor) started for a nanosecond as I was leaving for my new and exciting physical therapy. My second appt, I was late for my first one too for different reasons.
I kind of panicked, because this is a hard to get into program...
They can and do dump no-shows.
I called a cab (which I couldn't afford)
stressed the whole way there...
turned out I made it (close enough) 5 min late...
but my blood pressure was through the roof.
Al I did was sit there, as she kept checking my pressure....
It was a wasted trip and a wasted $60 cab fare...which I can't afford.
Could you get some of your neighbours to drive you to the bus stop? If you can tell them the schedule well in advance and they know it's for a good cause, they may agree.
There is a thing I'm looking into now that may help. The VA may help too, so some way it's going to happen. I'm just extremely frustrated and upset right now.
Is there some social help available for transporting patients with lowered mobility? I think such services are available here, maybe you can get some of these too.
It's weird though. I've never really considered it (the rides for broke handicapped people), because I've never really thought of myself in that category.
My days of being able to drive are limited. This PT may help, but I am right on the cusp. I have to use my hand behind my knee to get from the gas to the brake. Damn it! I don't want to squander this time!
It's hard to stomach up a loss, sure. But I think the practical consequences won't be all that bad. It's possible to live a happy life without driving. It's probably a bit like a relationship going bad - while you're still in it, you are afraid to end it, thinking "what I will do when I'm alone". But once it's over, you get accustomed to be single and notice it's not so hard after all.
So when it's over, it's not really so bad. But going through it, through the negative anticipation, is an awful experience. I can imagine how upset you are.
But I also recently came upon some quote - I don't remember where - which said that having it hard is not a competition. It is just hard, and different for everybody, but there is no need to think you don't have the right to feel bad just because others have it worse.
@CaptainGiraffe The "other continent" part can make the alignment rather hard to get right.
Something that I've gotten out of this site is pretty cool. Even though my knife skills suck and I'm forever dropping things; I am a much better cook than I was a year ago.
@Jolenealaska I also improved a lot in the year after I discovered the site, but lots of it came from other sources. Of course, maybe I wouldn't have read them in the first place if it wasn't for being exposed to the topics all the time.
@CaptainGiraffe I have a vague memory of you being in South Africa? Or maybe I got something wrong. Anyway, Jolene is on another continent, so it's a very long throw.
In fact, she is about as far away from me as possible to be and still live on a continent. It's the other side of the world.
@Jolenealaska they should know better than keeping you in such suspense.
See, today I graded a student not having my subject as his primary. I gave him a passing grade in an advanced programming course. I'm not sure either of us expected it. Not sure how that relates though =)
@CaptainGiraffe Oh, you teach both programming and puns? Or are you the teacher of the kind of people who do Code golf, teaching how to write programs which are also puns?
Well, I'm always extraordinary happy when I get a pun in English. It is a little bit due to my literal way of thinking, but mostly I believe because the way I "pronounce" words in my head when reading is not too similar to the way native speakers do. I also read very quickly, without paying attention to the mental pronunication of the words, although it's there, I can't say I read without the imagined sound.
@Jolenealaska A very American view of things.
In case you noticed something is missing from the convoluted explanation above: I'm always happy when I get a pun, because 95% of the time I don't get the puns, just can't seem to notice them. And the next sentence explains why I think I'm so bad at them.
@Jolenealaska still here? Or did you go to make yourself a sandwich?
The last 10 years I've read about 97% English texts and about 3% Swedish. I don't read anything else. The 3% is poetry. 10% of the English texts is work related.
I don't even know how much of the stuff I read is work-related, and probably shouldn't try to calculate it. I have the feeling that the number will be depressing - and the worst part is that I don't know if it will depress me because it seems too high or too low.
I mean, the literal idea of you standing inside the fridge and grazing like an antelope :) I know it didn't happen this way, but it is amusing to imagine it.
I had a spoon, some cottage cheese, some Mezzetta peppers! (I really do love them), and the dregs of a carton of potato salad..munch munch munch...Oh, and a slice of turkey. All consumed sans plate, in the open fridge. That was lunch. I also drank some milk from the carton.
@Jolenealaska The required high inner temperature is unreal. 80C that has to be at least 780F, or at the very least about 170F. It stays tender. Slow cook it. Make love to it =)
I make all of my own bread. For just everyday use my go-to recipe is as follows:
Honey-Oat Pain de Mie
255g lukewarm water
361g AP Flour
85g old-fashioned rolled oats (not quick oats)
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
64g honey
57g melted butter
2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
I use a Pain de Mie pan like ...
