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Post by whatagain on May 24, 2020 5:45:40 GMT
Feeling sorrybabout your grandson. Seeing our kids getting hurt is harder to us than to them...
My oerry traumas are that i missed the last step of the stairs yeaterday going up. I managed to hit my toes and flattened myself. Toes reminded me of it in the bed. I cou ted several muttons....
And a tick invited itself too. We seem to have gotten along well and i developed an attachment to it. Now that it was removed i am on antibiotics for 2 weeks. And feel like a burn from time to time.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 24, 2020 5:55:00 GMT
Poor Whatagain! Put arnica gel on your toes.
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Post by tod2 on May 24, 2020 8:11:10 GMT
Thank you all for your sympathy, it's much appreciated and reassuring. Unfortunately Kimby, it was his one front tooth. He is 9 so fingers crossed it will grow back. I never knew those two "rabbit" teeth had such long roots! Yesterday was also the birthday of our late daughter Gina. She would have turned 37. Bad day but anniversaries come and go and that's life.
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Post by questa on May 24, 2020 9:29:40 GMT
Hi, Tod. 9 year old kids and bikes have a special relationship. It is all about "how fast can I take that corner, how high can I jump that step?" It is when boys in early times would be practising to be warriors. If they put the same effort into getting their homework done....! Give it a few days and he will be the pride of the group and the story will grow to "OOo, let me see your stitches". Don't forget to check the bike for damage before he rides again.
I have been told by the school dentist that any tooth, not just baby teeth, can be re-implanted. Get child or adult to Gently rinse any dirt out of mouth and put tooth in milk and to a dentist quick smart. It is really a good investment to buy well designed and built helmets that protect across chin and forehead, not to forget the whole skull. Now is the time when your boy may be starting to feel the testosterone waking up. One day he is Rambo and the next your cuddlebunny again. It is a great ride for the whole family.
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Post by whatagain on May 24, 2020 10:34:33 GMT
Happy anniversary to Gina.
Do we ever get used to it ? Do we ever lose that sense of absolute waste and useleness on these days ?
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Post by tod2 on May 24, 2020 14:40:27 GMT
Thank you.
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Post by whatagain on May 24, 2020 19:46:58 GMT
Feeling nauseous. Plus i have a headache. Hardly ate... some calamari a la plancha outside on the terrace with our 3 daughters. Then had a lecture of Chloë about why men moan and complain when mildly ill...
My wife thinks it could the antibiotic i take for the tick . Seems it is a hard one to digest. 9 more days of it though...
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Post by kerouac2 on May 24, 2020 19:59:48 GMT
It is so easy to become paranoid right now whenever one is not feeling well. I hope that everything will have passed by tomorrow.
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Post by Kimby on May 25, 2020 4:52:28 GMT
Bixa said Do you mean one STOP, bixa?
I dont know if there currently IS a one-stop city that each of us can fly to, with the vast reduction in number of flights. No more direct to Minneapolis for me, have to go by way of Salt Lake City. And even if we could do that, it would entail hotels and dining out. Perhaps riskier than flying.
Plus, a major incentive for the trip is to return to my home state, especially now that my sister has moved to Madison, and to see her new digs. And get to know the new man in her life.
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Post by questa on May 25, 2020 6:18:26 GMT
Dear Kimby I am sure that your friends here can understand your many reasons for wanting to be THERE and not HERE. You are being torn between wanting so much to get to your "Safe place" with your family and friends, and the ever present possibility of taking the virus into their home or bringing it back from your travels. You might have to do the 14 days self isolation, at both arrivals (As it is in my city)
Do you have facilities to make video telephone calls. That may be a way to remain safe for you and your loved ones and chat as well.
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Post by Kimby on May 25, 2020 12:45:26 GMT
Montana is among the safest places to be in the US. Only Alaska has fewer cases (but Montana has fewer per capita). So I’m not worried about bringing the virus to my sister, as my self-quarantine from flying on the 20th will have ended. But Wisconsin IS a bit of a hotspot, and flying is beginning to get more crowded, so I would definitely be putting myself, and Mr. Kimby at risk. Though I am very disappointed, of course, my sister took it in stride when I told her I was reconsidering. Though she’d been happily planning activities for my visit, she pivoted gracefully to “later, maybe September”, and announced that she and her new beau (who is newly retired) are planning a camping trip this summer and hope to make it out here, 1500 miles away, to visit us. As they have been social-distancing together in Wisconsin, this should be pretty safe.
Re: phones. I have an aversion to using the telephone under normal circumstances and my internet is spotty enough that I have to drive to a location with a better signal to do a Zoom conference. But we do text frequently and we keep connected by playing Words With Friends, which has a chat feature.
Part of my angst is that I have suddenly realized how easily one can lose a critical family member, and I don’t want to take this sister for granted, for however much time we have left on earth.
Mr. Kimby is a wonderful quarantine partner, and we are getting along better than we have in years, not taking each other for granted anymore. But my sister is my connection to my roots and childhood.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 25, 2020 18:24:04 GMT
It's been 22 hours since you reported nausea. How are you feeling now, whatagain?
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Post by kerouac2 on May 27, 2020 7:26:35 GMT
I'm about to go to the Orange boutique for my covid designated appointment to change my dying television decoder. I'm already afraid that I won't remember how to connect all of the cables by the time I get back home with the new one.
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Post by tod2 on May 27, 2020 9:58:25 GMT
This is what I think you could do: Take a photo of the decoder where the cables are - before you remove the cables. At east its some kind of reference.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 27, 2020 10:11:10 GMT
I was able to connect everything. The new decoder is totally different anyway.
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Post by tod2 on May 27, 2020 13:09:37 GMT
Oh I'm glad. Our days of decoders has passed. All our TV viewing is through our fibre connection to the internet,, called IPTV. We relinquished our MNet TV(South African)viewing because of the innumerable repeats of the programs that they selected for ones viewing. And it was darn expensive if you wanted the entire viewing package. Now we are able to watch all 50,000 channels broadcast from around the world. Naturally we surf the channels that send out TV in English so that would be all British and American stations. The cost is less than half of the fee we were having to pay. I occasionally tune to Greek, Italian, French and other channels just for the hell of it.
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Post by Kimby on May 27, 2020 15:35:26 GMT
Pandemic + Spotty Internet = very frustrating ZOOM conferences!
I have to jump in the car and look for a better signal to get connected to Zoom meetings, and today I couldn’t even get the laptop to connect to email or to the internet via iPhone hotspot, so I had to dial in by phone, with no video. As I’m the secretary-treasurer, taking minutes with no visuals is a bit challenging.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 27, 2020 16:05:16 GMT
If none of those things had ever been invented, none of this would be a problem. You just would not being doing it. As secretary-treasurer, you should suggest that an optic fibre cable be pulled all the way to your house to improve the quality of your services. Or maybe Elon Musk will launch a satellite to give you better service.
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Post by questa on May 28, 2020 1:40:13 GMT
Hi Tod, How is your little bike rider today. The bumps and bruises will have probably reached their worst by now and he will be feeling better. How is the tooth? What's more...how are you? My eldest was 8 and riding his bike at a school holidays day care place as it was just before Christmas. The director phoned me to come and get him...had crashed his bike and torn his ear. I was doing a clinic but collected him and back to my work, dressed the shallow cut and parked him in the waiting area with some books. As I met each mother and baby I noticed the Mums had big smiles. Turns out someone had asked him what he wanted for Christmas and he said "Father Christmas left us a note to say that he hasn't much money this year so I think we will just get something small"
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Post by mossie on May 28, 2020 6:59:27 GMT
I can remember when I was very young leaving a note for Father Christmas wanting something special. When I looked in the stocking next morning the note was still there but no special something, pencilled beside my thing was BLNT. This was explained to me as 'better luck next time'. There was of course the usual orange wrapped in coloured paper and an apple to fill the foot, the top had a rolled up exercise book, the type with times tables on the back etc., and some pencils. Standard fare.
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Post by tod2 on May 28, 2020 8:45:05 GMT
Thanks for asking Questa. I'm glad to report that the bike rider is improving and looks OK apart from the stitches to his lower lip and a plaster on his cheek where it should have been stitched but decided he had enough with the dentist re-applying the broken from tooth. I loved your story about your eldest!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 28, 2020 12:41:26 GMT
I can remember when I was very young leaving a note for Father Christmas wanting something special. When I looked in the stocking next morning the note was still there but no special something, pencilled beside my thing was BLNT. This was explained to me as 'better luck next time'. There was of course the usual orange wrapped in coloured paper and an apple to fill the foot, the top had a rolled up exercise book, the type with times tables on the back etc., and some pencils. Standard fare. We had pillow cases. My parents had 6 children so at Christmas there was a lot of recycling going on. One year I got a 20 year old doll's pram that my Dad had fixed up, Mum made fresh covers out of scraps of old material and dressed one of my older sister's old dolls. I loved it. Dad made me a doll's house too...and a rocking crib...one year I got a doll's wardrobe, Dad had made little hangers too and Mum made dresses and coats for an inexpensive but pretty doll. We did usually get one 'new' (as in bought) present most years...Benjamin bear for example...a magnificent teddy who used to growl. Still got him I used to get one of those exercise books too....usually red, a tangerine and chocolate money. We were very lucky. Jeff got socks every year from the age of around 10, his parents were very strapped for cash. To be fair, growing up xmas was more about food than gifts (except to us kids). I'm pleased to say that you don't seem to have been damaged by your austere stocking Mossie. You've turned out very well x
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Post by lagatta on May 28, 2020 22:32:14 GMT
When did Christmas - or New Year's for some of us - become an orgy of gift-giving. In the 1960s? - though certainly not for everyone.
My parents sent me to a public school in an area close to but much posher than mine; the difference was seething.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 2, 2020 11:36:13 GMT
Tou mean Saint Nicolas for us not Xmas...
My pet peeve is i got sunburnt. Left ear. About 3 mm2.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 2, 2020 13:00:10 GMT
My mother also got her gifts on Saint Nicolas. This was extra special because Saint Nicolas also happened to be her birthday. And in those days, children didn't receive birthday gifts.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 2, 2020 13:46:17 GMT
Yes. Civilised people got theif gifts at St Nicolas. Belgians. Germans. Asatians. Moselle and lorraine ? Spaniards too i think or only Catalonia ? And strangely... the Dutch. The previous generation got an orange...
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Post by whatagain on Jun 2, 2020 13:47:36 GMT
Another pet peeve. Somebody touched my valve oc ghe bathtube. I burnt my feet !!! Next time i ll drop a cat in the water to check temperature.
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 2, 2020 15:22:10 GMT
Yes. Civilised people got theif gifts at St Nicolas. Belgians. Germans. Asatians. Moselle and lorraine ? Spaniards too i think or only Catalonia ? And strangely... the Dutch. The previous generation got an orange... "Civilised people got theif gifts at St Nicolas"......... "And strangely... the Dutch." Relentless, aren't you? Day after day after day. After what has gone before, what has been said before? Yesterday and the day before. I told you about it two days ago, you repeated your bias yesterday, so you were told about it again, and you repeat it again today. You are now deliberately being provocative, taking the piss, "cocking a snook" and thinking we are all twats. What's your excuse this time? Felt it was quite an innocent joining of the words civilised and strangely the Dutch? It is a compulsion with you.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 2, 2020 17:26:28 GMT
Yes. Civilised people got theif gifts at St Nicolas. Belgians. Germans. Asatians. Moselle and lorraine ? Spaniards too i thinkWhen I was a child in Spain the 1950s, my Spanish friends got their gifts on Three Kings day. I don't remember St. Nicholas being celebrated and associate him more with northern Europe. My mother also got her gifts on Saint Nicolas. This was extra special because Saint Nicolas also happened to be her birthday. And in those days, children didn't receive birthday gifts. That is interesting about children not getting birthday gifts. I'm wondering if their birthdays were even particularly acknowledged. I mentioned somewhere on here recently about being back in touch with the people I knew in Madrid when we were all children together. It turned out that one of the boys has the same birthday as mine. At first I was amazed that neither of us knew this, but then I remembered the Spanish kids celebrated their saint's days, not their birthdays.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 2, 2020 17:38:01 GMT
Yes, in days past, the French celebrated their saint's day rather than their birthday. I'm pretty sure that has changed, but people still give others a greeting on their saint's day, since the name is on the calendar every day so you immediately think of anybody you know who has that name.
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