Topic: IN THE THROES OF THE THROES (Read 25946 times)

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #120 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:28:06 AM »

Quote from: FJL on February 06, 2009, 11:24:37 AM

Once vixmom is up to it and also tasting again, we must have a HHW gathering here with vixmom's choice of menu.

Lobster Bisque would be nice.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #121 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:28:24 AM »

Page 5 "Dance of the Boiling Lobsters"

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #122 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:31:02 AM »

DR vixmom - Whine away! -Just don't break that bell!

Ginny · « **Reply #123 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:32:28 AM »

Quote from: FJL on February 06, 2009, 11:24:37 AM

Once vixmom is up to it and also tasting again, we must have a HHW gathering here with vixmom's choice of menu.

Richard and I will definitely fly in for that one!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #124 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:32:53 AM »

Quote from: FJL on February 06, 2009, 11:24:37 AM

Once vixmom is up to it and also tasting again, we must have a HHW gathering here with vixmom's choice of menu.

And the rest of us can feast on "cans".

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #125 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:33:43 AM »

OK. Time to get ready for the afternoon session.

Laters...

Ginny · « **Reply #126 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:37:56 AM »

My trip to Kroger was very strange, starting with my least favorite deli clerk. She barely acknowledges the customer and never, never asks, "Is there anything else you need?" Then an old guy got in the check out line behind me with one item and pushed the clerk to ring him up before my transaction was complete. The coup de grace, though, was finding a hand-written note on my windshield, complimenting me for driving a Pontiac Vibe, voted one of the safest small cars. The note also has some anti-import, buy-American content that I suppose one should expect living in a redneck steel town.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #127 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:40:17 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on February 06, 2009, 11:32:53 AM

Quote from: FJL on February 06, 2009, 11:24:37 AM
Once vixmom is up to it and also tasting again, we must have a HHW gathering here with vixmom's choice of menu.

And the rest of us can feast on "cans".

You feast on "cans", you billy goat! The rest of us will select from a menu!

JMK · « **Reply #128 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:43:28 AM »

I am royally PO'd at DVD Planet, AKA Collector's Choice, AKA Digital Eyes, AKA Deep Discount. They completely screwed up an order back during their 25% off sale and ended up shipping something I had cancelled not once, not twice, but THRICE. So anyhoo I went ahead and accepted the item since it wasn't worth me spending money to send back, and lo and behold I get a PAST DUE NOTICE today, which is incorrect anyway. They are trying to charge me the difference between the sale price and their "regular" price. I just got off about a half hour call with a guy who was at least polite and understood the problem, not that it's fixed yet. Grrrrrrrrrrr.....

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #129 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:44:09 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on February 06, 2009, 11:37:56 AM

...living in a redneck steel town.

Well, you could immigrate to a cosmopolitan bastion like Gary.

der Brucer

JMK · « **Reply #130 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:56:35 AM »

In better news, evidently review copies of CHIPS and YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE are finally Portland bound. Not from DVD Planet, I might add.

JMK · « **Reply #131 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:09:08 PM »

DS Betsy always knows how to cheer me up:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/cheney_dunk_tank_raises_800

Tomovoz · « **Reply #132 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:16:29 PM »

Quote from: JMK on February 06, 2009, 11:56:35 AM

In better news, evidently review copies of CHIPS and YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE are finally Portland bound. Not from DVD Planet, I might add.

Sorry to hear about the delay DR JMK - the Rolls has arrived here and of course like the Brits we have Chips we everything so Rolls was not alone. It will be quite a Madding Crowd here this weekend.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #133 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:18:05 PM »

Today's expected temperature - 44 degrees C. Strong winds - a recipe for bush fires. The state is tinder dry and ready to explode. We are on high alert.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #134 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:19:31 PM »

Most recent viewing here was the excellent "The Lives Of Others"

Listening - thanks to JMK - Jamie Cullem - "Theme from Gran Torino".

Tomovoz · « **Reply #135 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:20:38 PM »

And a big thank you to DR DtM. Yes Dan, no bad news is good news.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #136 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:25:15 PM »

DP Colin's computer is back in the house - less pressure all round! His "F' Drive had been disappearing for no reason that has been identified. It has been replaced with a new cable as well. I have no idea what any of that means of course. I do know his "works in progress" - movies of our journey to France last year - were stored on "F" drive.

Laura · « **Reply #137 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:26:24 PM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on February 06, 2009, 12:18:05 PM

Today's expected temperature - 44 degrees C. Strong winds - a recipe for bush fires. The state is tinder dry and ready to explode. We are on high alert.

Yikes! Good luck to you all! I hope it cools down. No rain in the forecast at all?

George · « **Reply #138 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:28:18 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on February 06, 2009, 08:44:18 AM

We went to see the surgeon yesterday. He thinks they got it all. I have to go for a full body scan in about 3 months time for them to be sure. If anything "lights up" then, we will have to address whether I would need surgery or more chemo, but at the moment he is optomistic so hurray for that.

Great news!!!

George · « **Reply #139 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:28:28 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on February 06, 2009, 08:44:18 AM

I don't mind telling you I am getting very discouraged about the healing process. I do not feel that I have made any progress at all. I have some hearing loss which I was told yesterday may not be reversable.

I have no voice and now I am being told it may be up to a month before I am able to speak.

The pain in my throat and the back of my tongue feel as if I have been gargling shards of glass, again they are telling me it can be a month before I see any changes.

I cannot lie down at all without being strangled by my own thick saliva. So I sleep in a chair.

I vomit at the drop of a hat.

I was hoping that once they stopped putting things in me that I would start to show some signs of improvement. Sorry to be whining but I am feeling a bit sorry for myself today.

~~~Vibes of Comfort and a Much, Much MUCH (that's three Muches) Quicker Recovery!!~~~

Tomovoz · « **Reply #140 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:29:40 PM »

A cool change late in the day Dear Reader Laura - but with no rain. The Cool Changes are welcome but often it means wind from another direction and so often it is not considerate enough to blow the fires back on themselves - but in a new direction.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #141 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:31:11 PM »

Prayers and lots of supportive wishes to the strong and exemplary DR Vixmom.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #142 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:32:07 PM »

Time for a Break of the fast.

Jane · « **Reply #143 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:52:27 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on February 06, 2009, 10:44:57 AM

AOL NEWS

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Jason Bourque, Livescience.com
Fossils found in Colombia reveal an ancient giant snake that stretched 42 to 45 feet long and weighed more than 2,500 pounds. "This thing weighs more than a bison and is longer than a city bus," said Jack Conrad of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Click on the above link for picture!
-except Jane!

der brucer

I'm ok with snakes, not that I would want to be anywhere near the live one

. I saw the article last night & intended to read it today-thanks.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #144 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:52:59 PM »

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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DRUG FROM GENETICALLY ALTERED GOATS APPROVED

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration made history Friday as it approved the first drug made with materials from genetically engineered animals, clearing the way for a new class of medical therapies.

GTC Biotherapeutics said regulators cleared its drug ATryn, which is manufactured using milk from goats that have been scientifically altered to produce extra antithrombin, a protein that acts as a natural blood thinner.
The drug's approval may be the first step toward new kinds of medications made not from chemicals, but from living organisms altered by scientists. Similar drugs could be available in the next few years for a range of human ailments, including hemophilia.
...

So, will vegans refuse to use drugs made from animal milk?

der Brucer

Jane · « **Reply #145 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:53:22 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on February 06, 2009, 10:57:01 AM

Quote from: vixmom on February 06, 2009, 09:46:22 AM
I must go and pour a can down - laters!

I think you ought to spice it up with a few jiggers of whatever makes you HAPPY!!!

Vixmom, are you still taking pain meds with the cans?