The quality of my sleep reminded me strongly of my experiences the first few days after I got my wisdom teeth removed, while I was still on the good painkillers >.>
I just kept waking up, being aware that I had been asleep and was awake, shifting position, and going back to sleep
At one point when falling asleep I suddenly was aware that my hand was not under the blanket, which startled me back into waking. It was pretty much like that all night.
yeah. I got home around 6pm, had a small nap, ate food, called my husband, and he sent me right to bed as soon as video kicked in >.> laid down around 6:45, kept waking up in between vivid dreams, and felt like I could use another 6 hours when I woke up at 5:30am with the alarm
I'm still yawning 4.5 hours later after 12oz of tea
oh dude! I just looked into my sock drawer and all of my condoms are out of their packages. They smell like wasabi so I think my gf opened them, smothered them in wasabi and neatly rolled them back up thinking I wouldn't notice -_-
@Yamikuronue I think what I really have to do is stop watching Japanese game shows.
Isn't that the-- oh, nevermind, that's the thing with alcohol isn't it? I was trying to remember what the spicy sweat thing is called
There's some gene that makes you go bright red when you have just a little bit of alcohol, it's fascinating to watch but otherwise has little correlation with ability to metabolise it
I never have enough spicy food to have any other symptom because even a little causes literal pain on my tongue so I can't eat it
I agree! I can't even have jalapenos on a subway sandwich or a pizza, but ... strangely... I can eat my best friend's mom's spicy Indian home-cooked food.
I've found I can handle a lot more cumin than red pepper, and often sub cumin in recipes calling for pepper. It's a different kind of heat, more mellow, I find
I currently live with three people who do not eat pork so I've gone without for a few months. A former co-worker of mine has not eaten beef in a few years and thinks he may have a violent enough reaction that he'll puke if he did try eating it again.
The TDD experiment is going well and someone asked me to consult on how long it'd take to make one of our sites cross-browser, a client finally requested moving away from IE
I used to work for the City of San Diego. They are firmly entrenched in Internet Explorer. I once upgraded IE7 to IE8 on one of the machines and it broke the time card software -_- @Yamikuronue
heck, big huge not quite gov't orgs are like that. One of our biggest clients still uses IE6...and they're um...probably one of the largest power producers in the US :(
@rfusca, your profile picture is best described as you having a 'wry' smile. Like you're having a private laugh and no one else gets the joke.
For utilities I understand sticking to older hardware and software. NASA uses a lot of super old hardware because it is more reliable and it takes a long time to test new hardware for different environment scenarios.
Our clients are generally car companies and groups of dealerships. I'm surprised one of them is moving away from IE, but I suspect it has to do with not wanting to upgrade out of XP
I guess the idea is that if the car company is going to update their web-based software to be cross-browser, and tell all the dealerships they can go cross-browser, they want their vendors to do the same
I work at one of those places you've never heard of unless you work in a dealership, we always sell things branded to our client's brands instead of our own
My boss' boss, who pulled me in to consult, mentioned wanting to write up test cases and automate them as a way to verify that we're cross-browser compatible. I could have cried with joy :)
@Yamikuronue CDrs are also manufactured for multiple brands. There is also a company in Italy called Luxottica that manufacturers over 70% of the world's glasses brands.
@Matthew Oh yeah, there's a ton of things out there that's like that. Routers, for example, often branded with the cable company's logo but are big-name underneath
20 minutes of manual testing per page (per browser? he didn't specify), which is unrealistic and assumes they're going to catch everything without guidance
Same thing happened with my friend and his son. He used the DVD as a way to keep his 2 year old occupied.
Every concept, even the lessons that the producers tried hard to spoon feed to the young audience, was lost on the kid. I really think children are attracted to children's entertainment because of the songs and colors. I do not see kids learning anything from children's entertainment.
I find it terrible that there are societies on earth where your best course of action is to saddle the (in my view innocent) producer of the peas with your dental bills, and it is the company's best course of action to pay them.
I don't blame you for doing it, I would probably do it too in your situation. I just wish it could be some other way.
One of the few dentists in town that accepts medicaid is having their office manager call me back.
I'm still waiting on the insurance company, so it's not a completely done deal yet. They may yet refuse, but the person at Roland seems to think they will pay the bill.
Sometimes dentists can be very reasonable. 5-6 years ago, my then-boyfriend had a nasty dental problem, but he was longterm unemployed and the insurance would only pay for him to have metal fillings, the ones with mercury. The dentist told him the price for plastic ones and agreed on a payment in multiple rates afterwards. There was never talk of upfront payment, he'd just have sent a bill if my boyfriend hadn't told first he can't afford it at once.
@Jolenealaska Are dental bills also less covered than medical bills in the USA? Here, most procedures at a physician's (even at a specialist) are covered without copayments, but dental coverage is quite limited.
@Jolenealaska Yes, I imagine this has to do with attitudes.
Germany is one of the rare countries where people really pay debts in general, I believe.
Two weeks ago, I was at a career building event. One of the speakers was a freelancer. He said that in Spain or Italy, he always requires part of the money up front, and that he is much more lenient in Germany.
He also said that once a customer of his went bankrupt in Germany, but he still got the money from them later. Without suing or such, they felt obligated to scrape it together to pay.
It wasn't MS that almost killed me. It was a side effect of a drug used to treat it. It killed my hips, the pain was unbearable. The VA replaced both of my hips. I would not have survived much longer.
It was pretty damn bad. Thankfully, it's over. One great thing about MS compared to other chronic diseases is that it's rarely painful. I have decided that I don't like pain.
I always thought it was painful. I was more surprised to learn that it has the funny symptoms (although it is somehow logical, seeing that it is a nerve problem, that your perception will suffer), but I would have imagined it being painful.
Still, just for living on your own and moving around with MS and synthetic hips, I see you as a hero.
I recently read a book by an MS patient, she described painful cramps which kept her awake for weeks. And also a bouquet of other stuff, starting with the feeling of "champagne bubbles popping in her head". It was fascinating, but also totally unnerving to read, even for a healthy person.
But you at least didn't have symptoms when you were in the army, right? Or did you have to fight while suffering?
I just realized I don't even know if you ever fought a battle.
By the way, please tell if this conversation is becoming too personal for you. It is hard for me to judge social limits sometimes, and when it comes to health, different people have totally different comfort levels of sharing anyway
Haha, a spook! I would have thought that one grows into this kind of job somehow (if I ever thought about it), and that it is the guys with the guns who sign up impulsively.
So, what did the spook job posting look like? "Come to a comfy job where you visit foreign lands! You can while your days away by listening to gossip, and get paid for it!"
> Nederland: € 16 per persoon per jaar (AIVD, MIVD) Engeland: € 48 (MI5, MI6, GCHQ, DI) America: € 129 (de IC, de "Intelligence Community", bestaande uit 16 (sub-)organisaties)
I thought I should say that we have less wars too, but I think Europe has sent forces to each American war at least since Kosovo. I didn't even notice the existence of news before that, so I can't tell for earlier.
