My brother (younger older one) and his wife got Covid after his high school reunion, and they visited a bunch of our family on the East Coast, before they found out. They both had symptoms and were feeling pretty lousy, but seem to be getting better.
Not sure if any one else in the family got it from them.
Next Friday I will be en route back to NY. Prepare for a meet up reprobates. I'll also be going to the ALA conference in DC in late June. Do we have any commenters there?
3: Unfortunately, no. Even if I went to conferences, that wouldn't be a conference my employer would send me to.
I asked my doctor for a hip replacement and he's sending me to PT. I guess the patient isn't always right.
I guess you have to rate your pain higher than 4.
7: Rate your pain? How can you tell if it's rating pain or whininess? But they always ask that -- even after I tell them my stepdaughter doesn't get numbers they insist on asking her.
I said other people aren't in more pain than me, I'm just less of a whiner. Still, PT and pain medication (but no morphine).
I might try a second opinion, if hip pain is keeping you from doing things you want to do. Not that I know anything, but I have an impression of hip replacements as one of the surgeries that does actually improve your life if you need it.
I'm mostly joking. I don't think anyone would give someone my age a hip replacement without trying a few other things first.
I'm looking forward to my first big trip since 2020; my wife and I are headed to Columbus, OH for a gaming convention. She's working the retailer track, but my time is mostly gaming. Work's being pretty supportive about picking up my responsibilities and getting people to step up and answer questions in my absence... I guess I'll see how it went when I return.
For whatever it's worth (I have hypermobile joints and am a human slug in terrible shape), I had pretty sharp pain in my right hip that went away after I started sleeping on the other side of the bed. I think I tended to bend my outside leg up at the hip while lying on my stomach, and five years of doing that every night fucked it up.
12: https://www.thegdex.com/ You'll be a couple of blocks from where I work!
Surgery is probably easier than switching which side of the bed I sleep on.
You could have the surgeons swap your left and right.
Also your front and back. It evens out the wear.
That's why dancers rotate their hips.
16, 17: That sounds like David Cronenburg's latest film. I just saw the trailer, but that was probably enough.
The front of the Columbus Convention Center is fucked up too.
20: Are you referring to the design or the recent incident when a Tesla crashed into it?
2. There are a few that live around DC, I do.
20: The video is kind of amazing if you're into that kind of thing
https://www.kcra.com/article/tesla-crash-convention-center-ohio/39995837#
23: No one was seriously hurt which was more amazing.
I'll be in DC from June 22 to the 28th
I was referring to the design, but that is indeed amazing no one got hurt.
23: Holy shit.
We had a recent one where a big pickup smashed into a restaurant that sits at the head of a T intersection. If not for the restaurant, the truck probably goes down a 300 foot hillside. You know the iconic Pittsburgh image with the red funicular car in front and the city down below? This was about 100' west of that.
That's the restaurant where we have the work Christmas dinner.
It's a nice one, although I thought it was maybe trying a bit too hard. But of course you have to if you want to pay that rent.
You need to match the food to the level of the view.
20: Maybe it needs a hip replacement, too?
At the 2022 kick off event, parked between a Tesla and a Bolt. No one else has a Jeep Commander.
I feel like Halo isn't staying faithful to the Chekov play.
I'm in Cambridge, MA for a conference, but haven't advertised this fact for possible meetups because I'm completely unprepared for my talk,* so I'm in panic mode trying to get shit done.
However, I might be around at some point in the next couple of days, if I get my shit together.
* software issues
Campaign launch is Thursday at lunchtime. Various people will be showing up to tell the media how awesome I am. It seems I'm going to need to make a speech.
In related news, my successor as Young Dems president is now running for state House and has a good chance of winning. The seats are all changed by redistricting and the incumbent House member is running for the new state Senate seat. There's one other Democrat running for the House seat and no Republicans, but we have jungle primaries now so the general will just be a rematch of the primary.
36: I am very much enjoying these updates.
I met the other candidate over the weekend. One concern is that I am a short guy and he is like 8 feet tall.
If we have debate, I'm going to have to stand on a box or something.
Find a sloped stage. Or better yet, one of those optical illusion rooms where you look like you're barely contained by the furniture in the tiny room, and he looks like Lily Tomlin in the giant chair.
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I often do. I do enough of these kinds of talks that I can normally just talk as long as I have a couple of key slides. In this case, though, the software that I am there to talk about is (was) broken. Luckily, as of about 30 minutes ago, it's fixed, and I can do the talk tomorrow without too much hassle.
There's some 80s sidekick who I always thought was lily Tomlin, but now that I'm looking at Tomlin, I think I'm thinking of someone else. (Also both of these women look like Carrie Brownstein to me, but I'm entirely clear that Carrie Brownstein is a very different person.)
OH! She was in Mystic Pizza! So it's Lili Taylor. So you all are telling me that Lily Tomlin and Lili Taylor are different people? Huh. And neither is Carrie Brownstein's mother?
In images on google, the three don't look that much alike, but somehow my brain codes their faces the same. Something about the high eyes, the eye shape, and the longer nose.
Lili Taylor is terrific, but Lily Tomlin is the best. I wish I had been able to see The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, but the written play is marvelous, and was very easy for me to read in her voice.
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I'm going to NYC for three days in July. How do people look up theater listings these days? Like plays, not Broadway. Problems are (a) that distinction is hard to google because it's all apparently called theater; and (b) most of the sites I've found just have a bunch of reviews to read through, no proper calendar. Ticketmaster has some stuff but I don't know if it's complete, or just what they get a cut of.
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Do you still go to the TIKS (sp?) booth for cheap tickets? There's like a line and the next thing you know, you've decided to go see Bernadette Peters.
I've been assuming that's my backup. But so far advance tickets seem not ridiculously priced.
If Gypsy is still running, Bernadette Peters was very good as the stage mom
If anyone is asking, I also have no confidence in Boris Johnson.
I bought a venus flytrap at Trader Joe's, and it's doing an absolutely garbage job at pest control.
Hah. We have chickens, thus flies, and I bought a venus flytrap to remedy the flies and every last one of the traps caught a fly within a day. But that made no appreciable difference to the flies and then the flytrap died. In the meantime, my ex downstairs bought some chemical trap attractant and it immediately caught hundreds if not thousands of flies (we now go by inches of piled carcasses). Better living through chemistry won the day.
If this is the pest removal thread, we now have two crows that I would like to not have.
We have starlings nesting in our roof. I found a company to get rid of them that's supposed to be coming by today.
My venus flytrap is way too small to fit a crow.
I'm not planning to attend any conferences on any subject in any location until 2023, maybe.
We finally settled on the new house, which has bees in the roof.
And, soon, puppies in the basement (Crom is due for pupsplosion later this year).
Puppies are kind of a mess. We had a Cocker Spaniel who had a batch.
Yay, puppies! What's the plan -- owning multiple dogs yourselves, or do you have people who want them lined up?
Or just release them to roam the moor eating sheep and stranded hikers.
The dog market over here is red hot so the plan is to sell them, less a couple that are going as presents. (The timing works out that they should be ready to leave their mother just before Christmas.)
We may also separately acquire another rather larger dog which would be quite appropriate for duties specified in 65.
The Selkie previously owned two enormous dogs which would from time to time break loose and eat (or at any rate kill) sheep or deer. In the former case she had to go over to the relevant farmhouse and pay for the sheep. In the latter case she just let them lie and hastily washed the evidence off the dog in question.
She didn't by any chance live near a town with a pub by the name of The Slaughtered Lamb?