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When DMV asks questions about the change in your eyesight and when and if you had lasik does that violate your hippa rights?
I had a great time mountain biking in Tahoe, and learned when going up a steep hill if you don't sit just right your bike will tip over backward. I know now and have the bruise to prove it. Saw lots and lots of road bikes but no MP. Now I am back home in the lovely 110 degree heat watching wild fires out my window. Cheers, Jones.
Umm jones, how far away are you from the wildfire(s)??? Just want you make sure you're safe & have some things packed for an emergency exit!
Speaking of the capitalize every sentence thread, could someone assist me in locating it or should i bother? I don't pay attention to many of the main threads you see...
Hey if you want to find Mr Thorpie, he has a house in Los Angeles i believe...
For some cute Ozzie/kiwi guys, look up :
Matt Rogers (he;s a wallaby & a warratah) Daniel carter (an all black & a crusader), ruben thorne, richie mccaw(same as dc).Then Justin Marshall & taine randall(kiwis playing in the european league). (They're rugby players).
Oh wait...-douggie howlett (he plays for the blues), byron kelleher & jono gibbes-play for the chiefs-a mooloo man)
crusaders site-www.crusaders.co.nz
blues site-www.theblues.co.nz
the chiefs-www.chiefs.co.nz
or for all the cute guys you want www.planet-rugby.com
For a more muscular man, what about Temuera Morrison (a kiwi actor).....I loved his role in Once were warriors...I know i've mentioned this movie a few times but it's a film one can't miss in thier lifetime...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110729...
Apparently, according to an animal rescuer on my Desert Tortoise list, the fires are VERY bad. Most of the people on the list are out west. She said, if "they" tell you to evacuate, GO NOW, they really aren't kidding. She said there were all kinds of animals running all over the place, but the fires are so bad they won't let rescuers in yet. Poor little (and big) guys.
Nanci
The wildfires are way up in the hills and I live in the depths of well it uh, rhymes with well, AKA central Palm Springs. So that would be about 20 miles or so. The fires are North of me and the wind is blowing North/East so I can see the fires but can't smell them. Las Vegas is at least a 3.5 hour drive and they are getting all the smoke. Thanks for being concerned but I am totally safe. Jones
The areas the fires are in are mostly small ranches/horse property. There are several places to go with your animals for emergency boarding for horses, etc.
I know that last year when the fires started they turned out some horses as a last resort and the horses ended up fine.
The local small zoo has desert tortoise adoptions every fall. I sometimes think about getting one but 100 years of tortoise care is a little daunting.
This was my 5th post today a new PB.
Jones, glad to hear you're in relative safety. Sorry to hear the fires are burning out there.
The look on the woman's face at the DMV was great. I've always had that vision restriction on my license. I imagine their job is pretty rote. My "no" to the contacts question really threw her. :o
CC, thanks for the suggestions on good looking Aussies. It took me a minute to realize you were talking about their team affiliations ("he's a Wallaby"). I thought, "wallaby? That's an animal!" I have strict rules about dating outside my species, you see. ;)
Lise, when I went from restrictions to no restrictions, they just retested my vision, and that was it.
I am not sure how to provide for future care for my DTs in my elderly years- I guess before the time comes I will have to send them out west. I will make sure my family knows how to contact the DT organizations to arrange adoptions.
Come to think of it, they re-tested my vision. It was such a basic test--essentially, "can you see?", that I forgot about it! Of course, in the past, without my lenses, I wouldn't even have been able to see the letters, much less read them. Lasik is a modern miracle.
Morning everyone. I am feeling sleep deprived. I go to bed way too late every night despite saying that I won't (last night it was wine and hot tubbing under a full moon past midnight). Then Erik turns on the TV to watch the TDF as soon as he wakes up (this morning it was 6:30, thankfully not 4:30) so I watch a bit and doze a bit until the last 2 km when he makes sure I'm awake to watch them come in. Then I go back to sleep for about half an hour until Jesse bangs on my door to say "Get up mom, it's 9:00!"... So I get up and sit here reading Thread Drift while he gets to sleep some more...
Lasik - I have really bad eyes too. -10 or -11 I think. I haven't worn contacts since I was single (the first time) about 24 years ago. Maybe I should get some and wear them for awhile to see if can get used to being without glasses.
Wildfires - Aaack. :eek: Too scary. We had a big one here in Kelowna 3 years ago and we were evacuated for a week. My mom's house (and about 250 others houses) burned down. :(
Lise - here's a guy for you. He PM'd me on my diet website at Sparkpeople.... Since I do already have a significant other, and he's apparently looking for a girl who rides a bike, you can have him. I know you'll thank me. ;) I guess I could take it as a compliment at my age but.... ugh....
its great to see u in this picture,nice body,beautiful lady ride a nice bike
i like cycling too, i like u cous u love to ride too
i hope u get ur goal soon.
take care of urself
behrouz (tehran-iran)
behrouz_radfar@yahoo.com
Nanci will be proud of me - I stopped and turned around to shoo a snake off the bike trail yesterday - after narrowly missing decapitating the little guy. I don't know my snakes, but he/she was black with a yellow stripe down the side. Probably garden variety garter snake?
kg, thanks so much. :rolleyes: I got several similar emails when on match.com. The strangest (so far) was the guy from Wichita, KS, who would very much like to meet me when he returned from Africa, where he would be settling his dead wife's affairs. He felt I would be an excellent mother to his 9 year old daughter. Also, I was very pretty. Which, of course, just sealed the deal for me.
My eyes were in the -10 range. Now, it's as if I'd had perfect vision all my life. Open my eyes in the middle of the night and see everything perfectly? Of course! The only thing that hasn't changed is that momentary anxiety when I leave on a trip. Do I have my glasses? Then I remember that I don't wear glasses anymore, and we're off. :D
FishJr went in for her last set of shots this morning. She was doing great right up until the 1st of 3 needles went in. I honestly have never heard her scream like that! It was so sad. She was crying so badly. I had told her we would go for a lemon-berry slush afterwards and told her to focus on that. Afterwards I asked her if she thought about the slush and she said she couldn't. Poor thing! Then as we were walking out, she said that the cotton balls on her arms felt like she was wearing kneepads on her arms. Gotta love her!
Awww.... poor thing. How old is she? When our kids gets shots here, they put everything into one syringe and they only have to get one needle.
Related story about my now 22 yo daughter - she hated needles when she was little. Had to hold her down for every one of them. Got called by the school when she was 12 to come and hold her down. Fast forward a few years - she pierced her own ears, got her belly button pierced, and has the depo shot on a regular basis. I'm sure a tattoo is next...
Awww, little boo boo. I hope the slush was very, very tasty. I hope it was the last of the shots for a long time.
KG - she's 4.
Lise - these were her last shots before school. She starts in a couple of weeks (Aug 14). She's done for now, TG!
Her arms were red where they gave her the shots. It was tough to watch. You should have seen the looks we got as we came back out into the lobby. They were all smiling at her. She was already recovered by the time I left. I bet she'll take a nice long nap today.
Have you heard of this guy? He traded one red paper clip for a house.
He posted a pic of his paper clip on his blog a year ago and asked someone to trade him for something "bigger and better". He kept trading and trading until he got a house (albeit in a tiny town in Saskatchewan...)
http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/
barb
Glad you had fun in Tahoe!! We were in Markleeville most of the time, but while in Tahoe discovered a great hole in the wall BBQ place. And a really good Indian restaurant that serves a great breakfast. Best oatmeal EVER ("Swedish"). And they had Indian omlettes and other fare in addition to typical US stuff.Quote:
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Hello!
Has FishJr recovered??
I think we are getting a gecko. Em's babysitter is going to college and needs someone to take her gecko. Em really lobbied for this one - worked on her argument to present to convince DH that she should get the gecko quite thoroughly. So we get a gecko. I don't even know what it looks like. She's working on names.
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Geckos (Geckoes? Gecko's?) are interesting, but not exactly cuddly which I happen to think is an important factor in choosing a pet. My daugher has one (named Jade). Make sure you feed it meal worms instead of crickets. The crickets make too much noise and they sometimes get out and you have to track them down so you can sleep...
The cat really likes the gecko though. She can sit by the cage and watch it for hours...
Yeah - knowing that it wouldn't need crickets was a prerequsite before I would get on the gecko bandwagon.
You will have to let me know the name of the restaurants especially the Indian. My DH is English and loves Indian. We go back for the last 3 weeks of August and it is always good to have a new place to go grub.Quote:
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In other news the wind shifted, I can no longer see the fire but I can smell it. Yuck.
Jones
I don't remember the name of the Indian place, but it is between the main part of SLT (Stateline) and the big park area - before the "Y". It is in a shopping center next to a Long's right adjacent to Heidi's breakfast restaurant. On the lake side of the main street there. Heidi's is a pretty popular place, so you should be able to find that place and then go just to the other side of the Long's.
Indian coffee is super good. Sweet, made with instant coffee but steamed and really good!!!
Pretty sure this is it:
Nikki's Chaat Cafe
3469 Lake Tahoe Blvd.
South Lake Tahoe, CA
The BBQ place was right across the street from the gondolas at Heavenly. Truly a hole in the wall next to a bunch of cheesy shops. But SUPER good.
Womack's Texas Style Bar-B-Q
4041 Lake Tahoe Blvd
South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150-6906 View Map
(530) 544-2268
Tomorrow is Friiiiiiday.... :)
Dear parents sitting around ignoring your spawn at the hotel pool:
Please remember that there are other hotel guests who are here on business and must get up at 4 am Central even though our bodies are still on Pacific time. Do you suppose you could ask your children to refrain from shouting and screaming like aliens? If you all want to behave like wild animals there is a wildlife museum down the way at the Bass Pro Shop. I'd be happy to hang up all of you down there in the hall of heads.
SK
...the hall of heads.... ???
:eek:
Thanks for asking! She's doing great! Mr. Fish said she ate lunch really slowly and then took a nap. She almost never takes a nap these days. Her arm that got 2 shots is a bit red and she says it's sore. Other than that - she's acting and feeling normal. She's always done well with shots. No reaction really. She was back to normal and doing her interpretive dance to music in commercials tonight and fishing for her brother (with a rope tied to a glittery baton). She's nuts!Quote:
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Geckos are COOL! I used to run the animal care facility when I was a grad student - we had a Tokay Gecko (and big old one) that would eat pinkies (baby mice). Be sure to let us know what kind it is. A definite plus to not have to feed it crickets. I always wanted a gecko. I had anoles, but never a gecko of my own.
That sounds horrifying!Quote:
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Thanks for the info MP. The BBQ place has been there a long time, it was there twenty years ago when I lived in Tahoe, I know exactly were it is. The Indian restaurant though, sounds intriguing.
Fish, when my daughters were still in there shot getting years, I always warned them a day or two in advanced and again on the way to the Dr.s., I told them it felt like a sharp pinch and let them pinch me to practice. The girls always did well with warning, on the one occasion I forgot to warn my eldest daughter it was a very loud Dr.s appointment. No matter, watching some one hurt your children is never easy and I used to always get teary eyed when the shots came. I am a wimp, a very talkative wimp today but a wimp all the same.
I hope FJ has recovered.
Jones
What? You haven't heard this term? Wasn't your biker bar so carefully decorated? I'm sure Bass Pro Shop had taxidermy services.Quote:
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http://www.mytaxidermy.com/gallery_heads.html
Shots: I don't have to have my twice a day blood thinner shots anymore!!! Yay!
Heads: SK I was picturing that it would be fish heads, which was somehow more disturbing.
Either works. It's so hard to find good eyeballs. Perhaps PP can help out.:p
Nice one. Look who was paying attention to TE instead of her meeting....
Hey, that was at 5:43 MO-land time. It was after the meeting and before the Bass Pro Shop field trip.
I found pink camo jammies.:D
There'll be no living with her now...
MP - I meant to tell you - I had a bottle of the Rafanelli Terrace Select last week with a friend (1997!) and it was wonderful!
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Ah! Fantastic!! Isn't it great?? I will check our stores and see what we have if you want to get one of ours from our most recent order. We couldn't afford any of it, but we got it anyway.... You can kind of see what our priorities are.
Oh, it was such a treat! I forgot I had it in one of my my special wine boxes! Good thing it was a good friend, because that's not a wine for any old person!
Last year I was truly nervous about trying the Seattle to Portland ride with Chris on our tandem--had NO clue at all whether I could manage it (he did it on his own the year before). We did, and I damn near cried when we got there.
So what did we talk about all the way home from Portland that night on the bus? What would we have to do to do it in one day this year (what kind of training, what equipment we took that we didn't need, how much faster would we need to get, etc.)? Why? Because when we stopped the first night at mile 126 of 206, I could've gone another hour or so, AND it was such a drag to get up at 6 the next morning and know we had another 80 miles to go.
Anyway, bibble babble here. What I mean to say is: if we were doing it again in two days this year, I'd be downright blase (or almost, anyway). After all this training, I KNOW I could do it in two days. But because we're going for one day, I am--what else?!!--nervous as hell. Sheesh. Apparently I'm not going for the serenity prize this year. Om...om...om...
I know that you TD guys totally get this because you all do the same thing.
PS Please shoot the tranquilizer darts in this direction.
Sorry, used 'em all up on the hotel pool aliens.Quote:
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