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Now in my old life, when I had horses, and they had babies, we had to save the placenta in a big five gallon bucket for the vet to inspect. Luckily, the babies were born in early spring, and the vet was prompt in arriving for the check up.
Then we buried it.
Well, the SOFA KING made me laugh once more, so nice work and thank you!
Isn't that weird, though? I always think I want to live out in the countryside. In the PNW, it's often the islands, like Whidbey, or some of the little San Juans, that I yearn after. Then I spend some time there and even while loving it, think, "Huh. Do I really want to live in a place with survivalists camping in the backwoods?" I go to the Utah desert to go rock-hunting, and spend half my time thinking how stunning that desert is and the other half downright amazed by the amount of trash, beer cans, broken bottles, and signs full of bullet holes.
Not that the city is any more sane, come to think of it.
I wouldn't go back. At least the view is nice and I can run out to my truck naked if I feel like it. Quicky, though. To get something I forgot.
Yeah, SOFA KING is good!
I was in Jamaica, in a small town on the NE coast, working for about 2 months a few years ago. I was so grateful to get back to Chicago where it's quiet and the streets are clean. Big city life. I couldn't swim in the ocean every day, but neither was I breathing burning garbage and listening to a cacaphony of roosters/raggae/yelling/horns/church services 24/7.
I live in a pretty quiet neighborhood except for the one building across the street. Grrrrr. I wish I had a noise disabler ray gun to turn off their radios/car horns/yelling. No gun shots (I don't think), but they're still blowing up things from the 4th.
The plan today was to swim train. First thought: Ride bike to lake and swim in wet suit. Nixed. Too tired. Second thought: Ride bike to neighborhood park district pool, swim outdoors. Not in wet suit (too wierd). Nixed. Too chilly. Third thought: Ride bike to YMCA, swim indoors. Just nixed that one. I am too danged tired. I've eaten my bowl of cereal, I think I'll watch Napolean Dynamite, and go to bed.
Tomorrow is a longer training run. Then, if I'm feeling energetic, I can pack up the wetsuit and ride down to the lake and give it a shot. No dates, nada this weekend. Fine with me. Got a fundraiser for a sick nurse at work tomorrow night, 3 yr old niece coming over for a playdate Sunday, then start a 24 hr call Sunday night.
Oh well. I'm not much of a triathlete in training, but I'm all I've got! :o :p
Lise - the whole concept of the placenta thing (not mentioning it directly so as to not upset you ;)) came not from me, but from a thread on TE a while back. I think we were trying to flush out male lurkers or something. I don't now, but someone mentioned that and then they discussed it and it grossed me out so bad that any time I here about pl, that's what I think of. Sorry :)
Nanci - that must have been a mess! I just remember the look of the lab tech that came in to check my blood sugar after having FishJr (I had gest. diabetes) and he caught sight of "the tray" at the door. The look on his face was priceless!
What is the CC thing you eat?
Chicken Chow Mein.
http://www.subservientchicken.com/
I actually saw this guy on a recent BK commercial, and thought I was going to die!! He and The King are two of the most remarkable marketing ideas ever.
Oh, fish, I'm sorry. :o I was just playing around. No offense at all! Although I did read an article about eating them many years ago, and still feel pukey at the thought. You know, as I typed that, I thought, "I hope fish knows I'm kidding". See, lacking tone and facial expression...argh. My bad. Now, have all the male lurkers been thoroughly scared away?Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
What's it called when you eat yourself? Is that still cannibalism?
Nope, autophagy. I advise against googling this...
Interesting fact: Endocannibalism is the term for eating someone you know. Exocannibalism is the term for eating a stranger.
Good grief, as I re-read my post about not talking about placentas, I sound downright cranky! Not my intent. Sorry I gave you some bad moments there, fishdr. Some things that sound funny in my head do not translate well to the page. :(
Nanci, that is a good question. And, regarding placentas, of whom is it, really? The mom? The baby? The union of sperm and egg produce both baby and placenta, so it can't really be said to be of the mom alone. Makes me think of some animals who very neatly clean up the scene after the babies are born.
Well whose DNA is in the placenta cells?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
This is really, really, really creepy-wierd. On TV you say? :eek: Between this and the discussions of ____-phagy, I may just turn vegetarian again! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
Baby. Therefore, the placenta isn't "of" the mom any more (or less, I suppose) than the baby is "of" the mom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grog
When Subservient Chicken first came out, several years ago, you could watch the commercials on the Internet. They were _so_ weird, having to do with these two girls making him do things. I never saw him on TV, though, but then, just last week, there he was!!
The whole thought behind the campaign is "Chicken, have it your way."
I'm a bit overly sensitive today - _now_ I see the humor Lise - hee hee :)
That chicken guy is a little freaky.
Whose DNA is in the placenta? Good question. I did not know it was the baby's. I thought it was the mom's. Interesting.
Back to watching the TDF on my TV ;)
Wellll...your DNA is yours, right? But they can tell who your mom and dad are (or aren't) by comparing your DNA with theirs. Sperm + egg = 4 cells that multiply and multiply and multiply...it is fascinating. Embryology is really cool. The whole kit'n'kaboodle of baby, placenta, bag of waters comes from those first 4 cells. Once those two come together, all bets are off. Sperm was dad's, egg was mom's, but now they're a new creation. Any wonder I dig my job? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
Garters on a chicken-man are just wrong. Wrong. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
Thanks Lise!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
Cool new avatar Nanci!
I just overflowed the bathtub while I was googling Peter Reid's wattle...
Serves you right. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
He does NOT have a wattle!
Still. Cool new avatar. :D
This video is for you!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67c_4YZLc04
I was in a bad mood after work, but I just got to learn about aluminum seat posts, cannibalism, pooping on the floor, and placenta.
This thread is great.
In other news, I have finally decided to battle the downstairs neighbors. Last night my apartment was so full of their cigarette smoke that it woke me up at 4am. After being a building manager in college, there is very little that I can't sleep through.
My cats were coughing. So, I called the building manager up to take a whiff, and he agreed that it was excessive. Since this building allows smoking, I don't think he can do anything but ask them to shut their outside door, but that would be a huge help. He said he'd speak to the owner, because there was no reason why it should be that bad. They're also *really* loud (lease has a quiet clause) and have been spoken to at least twice in the last two weeks for noise (I've been gone for half of that) so that might provide some leverage, but...
If they want to smoke, it's their decision, but it's also my decision not to. I would really, really like to not have to move because of them. This isn't healthy for me or my fuzzballs. :(
I used to live in a place where these very loud Brazillian people would stand in the courtyard and talk and smoke all night. I was so glad to buy my own place...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0faKBhHYbHs
Why it's so fun to go hiking with me!!
Yeah...the one thing I hate about the Bay Area...I don't have a spare $600k laying around...Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
Nanci - love the new avatar and ....where did you find that video??? That's great! I was going to guess blue catfish or bullheads. They like to eat! We have a lot of blues at our facility and they go nuts when we feed them.
Good night all (or good morning, depending on where you live).
I made it myself!!
I knew it! Yer nutz woman! :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
the fish..... The Fish.......THE FISH!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D
Oh, good lord.... and the SNAKE!
(Knotted hides under table with dog, who can't understand why she is laughing and snorting at computer.)
Speaking of fish: Salsa, was that a toy rubber puffer-fish I saw on the back of you guys' tandem? I've been meaning to ask....
Isn't my friend Cathy funny? She lives in Georgia. She has some sort of bike- but I've never gone cycling with her. I originally know her from cave diving- there weren't a lot of women back then, and especially not on an exploration team. She's close to the mountains- knows all the great places to hike- never gets tired...
Good morning thread drifters!
Oh, man, the viedos are hilarious! Those fish. What a trip! How long did it take to teach them to line up for their chow?
I'm up at 5:20 AM, eating my bagel with pb, so I can go back to bed and get up at 6:30 to go run. That's the way I like to do it, but I'm seldom in bed on time to stand getting up to eat early.
I don't even know who those people were that had the party across the way last night. I've never seen them in the neighborhood. It was a party in the garage, with the car as their sound system. I just shut all the windows, put on the AC, went to sleep.
I see we're almost on page 100. Party? How about the 2,000th post? :D
How come on HSAI it keeps saying last page, but it isn't? ;)
Go Eden!!:)
I DEFINITELY was not in on it... "You know what annoyes me even more and I think at least one of you has been in on it. Those threads that end up "I'm so thin and scrawny that size 0 and 2 don't fit me.":eek:
Geez, I had to rip up the carpet in my bathroom last night so the floor could try to dry- it's all Peter Turkey Neck Reid's fault. :D
I think I have conquered one of the things that makes me late for group rides: now I put on sunscreen as soon as I get out of bed. Before it was last minute, only it takes longer than a minute!!
A thread I have been avoiding is "Cheat Day" or something. Because I don't want to disclose that I have been on a Cheat All-Inclusive January-July.
Today's ride should be nice- starting out at 75 and only getting to 87F. Doesn't look like much chance of rain. Then lunch at Tim's Fast Nickel, where Tim will be making barbeque. It's this tiny convenience store, made of concrete blocks, with bars in the door and windows. Some of the bars are painted on to make it look like more:eek: Most of the south cycling rides stop there. Before I knew Tim and wife- I thought it looked like and was in the neighborhood of where you'd go to buy crack- but out in the country. You see a lot of guys going and coming out with a beer in a paper sack. I'll take my camera.
Lise, the fish were always like that. My friends bought that house, and they were there. I'm the one who figured out how to get them to come out on land. Because I am an animal trouble maker! I also found out that you can kneel on the bank and they will line up with their mouths open and you just pour the food in. What hogs!! The place I work serves fried catfish for breakfast- can you believe that??I tried it once...um, no. But when I was a kid, at the cabin, sometimes we'd fish really early, then eat friend sunfish or bass for breakfast, so I guess that's kind of the same thing.
Nanci
Sunscreen works better if it's been on a while before you go out in the sun too.
I love TD too. It's kinda like the TE playpen.
OMG - go out to dinner with your tri-girlfriends and go to bed early and then find 5 new pages of TD to catch up on in the morning.
A good friend bought me a first tri/40th birthday gift - a pink running cap and pink ribbon running socks. I would wear them sunday but they would seriously clash with the black and red tri gear that I have planned.
Between real life friends and TE/TD friends it is so awesome how supportive everyone I know has been. I should probably really mention dh in that - he has been great about time for training.
Now I just have to survive the actual event.