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WooWOOOO!!!!
Go SNAP!
Now lemme rub your helmet for good luck... I need it!
Used to live near Kirkaldy....ker KAW dee. In a little town called "By Freuchie" (cuz it wasn't Freuchie, but it was close to Freuchie)... by FROO hkhkhee.
Often we'd go to Aughtermuchty. (let you figure that one out yerself)
(Bruno, no hints now! Let 'em suffer a bit!):D
There's always Weyauwega (where I went to HS) and Oconomowoc :eek:
Huh? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
Oh I see, bikerz's comment. I think that's for winddance - I'm still waiting.
I think I knew somebody from Oconomowoc. Wisconsin, right?
She and her wife had the first baby of 2002 or 2003. (born at midnight on New Years) Some wag posted online about how they'd had the baby at midnight on purpose just to get publicity.
Ummmm, I don't think childbirth works like that....
oh... hm. Well... good luck, then, I hope things come through for you. OTOH, Congrats, Winddance!
Knotted- Why do I grin all silly and feel happy when I hear things like that? :D But yeah, Wisconsin. =) I think near either Manitowoc or Milwaukee but I might be waaay off.Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
I've decided to ditch caber tossing guy and adopt a new avatar that's more expressive of the inner me....grumpy and basically antisocial.
What do you think of the new look, or does no-one really care?
I'm skiving...must do some work now, but work is so boring. Still I should have guessed that a life in accountancy would not be full of daily thrills. Roll on 5pm (its only 10 am here).
Like...dour
aw come on Bruno
ya don't haff ta be lak tha' wi' us
anyway, if you want daily thrills... try the Middle East
btw do you know the Fort William/Glen Nevis/ Rannoch area?
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Originally Posted by margo49
Aye - exactly like dour!
"Ya don't haff ta be lak tha' wi' us" - I'm guessing Yorkshire???
It's Scotland - how big do you think it is??? I know it most of it. Yes I know Fort William etc. It always rains in Fort William - based on extensive personal research.
PS now I feel really bad about complaining of boredom!
Bruno, I think of all Scots as my long lost relatives (my mom's maiden name is McQ.... from the Isle of Skye, the ancestor left the old sod over 200 years ago). Grumpy, of course! I like your new avatar.
KN--yeah, birth, and its timing, are impossible to control. Trust me. I've tried!
Lise - I visited your toddlin' town a few years ago and loved it (apart from the bit where North West Airlines ate my luggage:( )
Skye is beautiful - your ancestors must have been hardy tho'. They were probably crofters or fishermen.
My daughter was born at 12:02 AM...But I didn't get any publicity!
I had a bad day yesterday. We went to see World Trade Center. It was a good movie. I didn't know how it was going to end.
(Lise, don't listen) I poured out THREE bottles of sucky wine- the Pinot Peunier that was awful- possibly spoiled, the Rioja I hated- never again, that's the second one I hated, and the Chardonnay that was all oak and overpowering.
(Ok Lise) Then I had a mammogram after work. So I have a strong family history. Because I am so paranoid, I have to have a specific tech do it, and then a specific rad read it on the spot and tell me. Well, this year, how it works is the rad reads it, then a Computer-Aided Detection program reads it, and of course, it found a bunch of stuff, which the rad then said was nothing. So I had nightmares all night, then talked to another rad this morning who reassured me that the sensitivity wa set way way high, and I could trust the rad, especially since this one called more things than anyone else, so if she thought it was fine, then I shouldn't worry. But I still am...He also said that mom getting breast cancer in her 70's didn't increase my risk statistically. I didn't know that.
I just feel drained, though.
I like the new avatar, too. My mom's side of the family is McPherson. We still have land in Leetohatchee, Alabama that was owned by the first of the McPherson clan that settled in the US (Angus McPherson). I love that name - we named our first cat Angus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
Nanci - the mammogram experience doesn't sound like too much fun.
Lise - Good luck today! Do you still like the Zero X?
Hi nanci - we haven't spoken yet but I'm getting to know a bunch of folks here. The mammogram and all that related stuff sounds awful. You deserve a big glass of good wine...but it's probably early morning there - but hey, what the heck! ;) (this time thing's so confusing when your on the other side of the atlantic.)
I share your views on rioja - I've never tasted one I liked. I also hate chardonnay because its nearly always over oaked. I've had some good Chilean reds recently. I've gathered you're quite a wine buff. Over in the UK Chilean wine is cheap and big and fruity and delicious for everyday drinking...so to speak.
Bruno-I'm antisocial too and understand the time difference question as well...living down here...
Nanci-i'd like to go & see Flight 93 but question whether i'd learn anything-is that the movie you're on about???
I think i'll drag ian to go & see "Kenny"-new australian film, supposedly as funny as The Castle...
Actually if you want your child born at a certain time, would sending subliminal messages to it every day help?
My dad was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire & my great uncles/aunts still live in the area...NOt too fond of Paisley though...:eek:
I loved the Shetland Islands..ohh so quiet...
If you'd like strange place names, feel free to look at the NZ/Australia map...or for unpronounceable names, please look at place names in the provinces of Nunavut & Labrador.
Examples-Waikikamukau, whakatane(nice place)-NZ
Australia-Dunnydoo,Kooylanobbing
Canada-Conception bay, Dildo, Come by chance,-Nfld
One of my favorites in the US is Intercourse, PA...been there too...
Well...we put our one & only offer on the house we like tonight...:eek: We''ll find out in a few days if Ã*t's been accepted. If not..oh well & we'll keep looking...blurchhgh..
Off to bed kids..An early morning bike ride with strong winds awaits me...We're in the midst of some really crap weather...but there'll be mud on the trails....mmmm...muddd...
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snapdragen "Huh? :confused:
Oh I see, bikerz's comment. I think that's for winddance - I'm still waiting."
oops, that's what I get for not reading all 350 pages of TD as required. :cool:
Here's to exciting new jobs for all and boredum for Margo.
Sorry for the confusion!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
I should have been more specific, prefacing each line with the person to whom it applied ! I guess I don't post enough in TD to have the habit yet! :o Yes, Winddance started a new job yesterday -
Snap: we know you'll post here first yourself about the job, right?
There will be no deviation from the TE TD format :cool:
I want my new bike. I want it now. Want, want, want.
I am not patient. Having little daydreams of getting it shipped here so I can ride while the weather is still good.
Hmmmmmm, spend $$ shipping or spend $$ changing gear ratios so I can ride on our hills. (I'm very good at pushing bikes up hills as I walk demurely beside them. Lots of practice has perfected my technique...)
Dunno which will be more exciting in December: getting DPITA or getting the Waterford! "Hi honey, great to see ya, I'm going for a bike ride now, back in a couple hours ok?"
I see neurologist #2 tomorrow. The medical history paperwork is huge and thorough, which makes me happy. My entire MRI fits on a CD, which is also cool. Dang MRI cost more than a bike.
Yup, I've got ALL my priorities straight!:D
I have seen both movies- Flight 93, which was pretty emotional, and World Trade Center, which was good, but not that emotional for me.
SPOILER ALERT!!!!!
It is about #18 and #19 of 20 survivors who were pulled out alive.
I don't know if we are supposed to learn anything, or supposed to not forget. I will never forget the sickness I felt at our coutry being attacked. It must be how our parents felt at Pearl Harbor. I will also always remember the instinctive fear I felt upon seeing the first plane in the sky after days of planes being kept on the ground. You can't go back to the innocence of the time before 9/11.
What I learned from Flight 93 was, I thought they, the passengers, tried to crash the plane, but in the film, they tried to get rid of the terrorists and crashed by accident. They had someone all set to try to fly and land the plane.
Whatdya say, party when we hit page 500? And to think, Nanci's the Mother of Thread Drift. :D
Let's see...so much to respond to...
First, the echocardiogram. The guy (I say "guy" because I don't know his title, I guess I'd call him sonographer, Nanci can correct me if I'm wrong) who did the echo was very nice, very chatty, but I know we each develop our own style of interaction with patients. He said at the end that it looked "pretty unremarkable". The cardiologist will render a final verdict, and my doc will call me with the report. I could probably look it up myself tomorrow when I'm at the hospital...<slap on wrist> Bad health care provider! Be a patient! :p
All in all, good news. I was turned away from the screen for most of it, but I did see some. It is very strange to watch my own heart pause in its rhythm just when I feel that pressure in my chest. I wanted to smack the screen and get it going again! Of course it gets going again on its own. Everything I've heard and read says this (the premature ventricular contractions or PVCs I'm having) is a benign condition. Annoying, but benign. I'm doing OK with cutting out the coffee. I want it, of course, but I notice how many more PVCs I have after drinking it. Makes it not worth it.
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Bruno--my revered ancestor, Alexander McQ--, was a younger son on a croft on Skye, as far as I know. He signed up to come over and supress that little uprising we had over here back in the late 1700s. I don't know that he ever saw any action, but King George paid him off in a plot of land in Nova Scotia. Probably stolen from the MicMac Indians. Some of my cousins on my mom's side have a definite MicMac look to them. The older generation swears there was no mixing with the natives, but...I'd be interested to see a DNA analysis! George McQ, my great grandfather, headed south to the colonies as a young man. As far as I can tell, they all married Scots (except for the MicMacs in there somewhere), so my grandpa Devon McQ was pure Scots. He married a Swedish/Danish lass, and my mom married a German/English guy, so I'm your basic Northern European Mutt. :D
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The movies--don't want to see Flight 93. I think it would give me more PVCs than MP's 5 shot latte. I do want to see WTC. Newsweek pretty much told the story, and I could handle that.
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The saddle--still kind of undecided. I rode 30 miles on it yesterday. The uncomfortable part was the crease of my legs. That might be from the shorts, rather than the saddle. We'll see how it feels with the tri shorts on Sunday. I just keep thinking, "$110, that could go a long way toward a bike stand."
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WD--congrats on the new job! Snap--good luck. We've all got our fingers crossed for you. L.
Lise - I'm with you, I don't want to see WTC, watching it live on TV was enough for me thank you.
Still waiting on the job. I must be patient.
Today is weigh in day. Fingers crossed.:D
Snap - good luck with the weigh in! It's tough being patient about a job, isn't it? I can totally sympathize!
I'm working at home today on my slides for my interview seminar. I just can't put it together right. I'm the type that will be changing the slides the night before. That's usually when it clicks. 1 week from today - my interview will be happening! Eek!:eek:
Lise - sounds like good news on the echo! Very good! Let us know the official results (I'm sure you will).
And - I agree with Snap - no WTC movies for me. TV coverage was more than enough.
It's major trouble if you look up your own results where I work. Yes, they can catch you...As I understand it, if they catch you twice, you automatically get fired. People probably wouldn't do this if they got their results in a timely fashion.
Lise, I read in the paper just now that a Florida woman was driving to the hospital in labor at 5AM, and a strong contraction caused her to crash into a water-filled ditch, where she proceeded to give birth, all alone, with a broken leg. A deputy found her later, trying to escape from her car. Mom and baby, Myracle, are fine.
good thing today: get to get out of the office and do some berry surveys in the field, as of right now anyhow, suppose to go in an hour, weather could change that.
bad thing today: i just want to strangle everyone in the office including the one i'm going to do surveys with. i think everyone took a crabby pill this morning before work! :eek:
i can't say i'm interested in seeing any of the WTC movies. to me that day still is only a blurr. i was in the hospital and on LOTS of morphine at the time. all i remember thinking is, 'that doens't look right. hmmm what a wierd dream. i'm actually watching the news. is it time for more morphine?'
:eek: After not seeing SWMBO for THAT long, I can't imagine I would be able to think about the bike that much... I'd have long burned myself out completely obsessing over every little bikey detail. ...but I'd have to hug my bike and tell her I wasn't likely to see her for... oh... six or seven hours.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
Yeah... every time I've gone in for testing, etc, on the same problem, my doctor has either said "It's totally benign, don't worry about it" or "What pause?" because the crushing vacuum simply doesn't happen when I'm being examined. GRRR. I've been told it could be MVP in my case (Mitral Valve Prolapse) but even then, my PCP said "Oh, well, lots of people have that in such a minor way that treatment would be more painful and dangerous than the disease." and waved it off... So I understand how you feel. Esp. after a long, really hard ride, when I'm laying in bed and feel the weight of antimatter spontaneously jump into and out of existance in my chest cavity. And I used to be the sort to have 2+ Red Bulls a day. No more. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
Grumpy pills? I know those! Little fibery ones you find in little piles in the snow in WI here-there-and-everywhere around fields? They get especially grumpy when you tell 'em what they are!Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickWhoRips
okay, okay, I'm here. Is this the spot for all the ADD folks?
I have avoided this forum all this time because i don't do any "OTHER" sports.
but curiosity killed the cat. are there rules? and no, i'm not going to read 200 pages of posts either.
But, that's the prerequisite! The girls will give you a test at the end to make sure you didn't skip anything as well! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
Did you all know that 200 pages is not an absolute? If you go to UserCP and options and change your default to 20 posts per page, then this thread is only 150 pages. At 30 posts per page it's only 100 pages. I think we better work on number of posts - currently 2997. But of course Mimi will catch up sooner if she changes her options and only has 100 pages to read instead of 200!
ahh good point debw. good eye. good eye.
KnottedYet "Dunno which will be more exciting in December: getting DPITA or getting the Waterford! "Hi honey, great to see ya, I'm going for a bike ride now, back in a couple hours ok?""
I think you just answered your own question. Get the bike now.
I only have 76 pages now!! I didn't know you could do that, either.
Doesn't seem like just a few weeks ago we were at post 2000?
I've been back there and there are people who've been lost for weeks. Someone should send in maps and supplies.Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
I'm depressed - I just looked out my window and saw a combine harvester in the field out back. Does that mean summer's over?
OMG, I am so bored at work, so I was reading, up in Charity Rides, A Really Cool Story, by Luvstoride94. She's 11 years old! I hope she doesn't find her way down here...
Anyway, some guy on eBay donated a really nice bike to her instead of selling it, so she could use it for fund raising rides. Very nice.
But you'll miss so much fun! Seriously--I went back at random and read some pages of TD from the past. Jokes, stories, goofy little things that we played with for a day or two...you might want to dabble.Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
And welcome! :D L.
Hi Bruno- I never got what the guy with the big log was, anyway.
I unfortunately bought a Temperanillo (same grape as disgusting Rioja) only a rose. I am either drinking that tonight, or a red blend called Big Red Truck (Syrah, Petite Sirah, Cabernet Franc, Grenache, Mourvedre). I'm betting I will like the red blend, and the rose will probably be dry- don't know if I will like that or not.
I used to hate Chardonnay, but have found a lot of $6-$12 that are fruity- like lemony or pineapple, with the _nice_ flavors of oak, like caramel corn or _light_ butter. I have gradually gotten to like the butter (oak) flavor as long as there is plenty of fruit to go with it. I tend to like more acidic wines, though, anyway. So I alternate whites a lot.
The guy with the big log....it's a stupid Scottish thing.
I find that oaked wines give me a headache and most chardonnay in the UK is heavily oaked. I have the same problem with heavily oaked reds but there seems to be more choice of reds that are lighter on the oak.
I hope you will be posting regular wine recommendations to educate my palate. I like to fork out for a bit of luxury now and then!
Mimi - Lise is right - we've had some pretty funny moments on here and it's worth it to dabble around and see what you stumble in to. Bring snacks, you might get lost for a while.
I just picked up my new contact lenses - I CAN SEE! They are way thicker than the last brand, but this time the prescription is correct and actually accounts for my astigmatism. The computer screen and my children are not blurry. Yippee!
FishJr is liking school! She says it's "play class" though because she hasn't learned anything yet. We feared this. I pointed out to her that she learned to draw a kitty cat today. She wants to learn more math and spelling. Off to the store to get some more workbooks. She was the "leader" today - apparently she did very well!