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[KnottedYet]

Kit, take a deep breath... say "ommmmmm" a few times...

ready?

Apple doesn't make our beloved iBooks anymore. The iBook has been replaced with MacBook.

Our iBooks are now collectors items.

(hey, MacBook has a built in camera!)

[Kitsune06]

b...b...b...
b...
*high pitched whine* Noooo!

Aren't the Macbooks the ones with Intel processors in them? The ones most Mac geeks said wouldn't happen and/or were a sure sign of the apocalypse?

My iBook has been an oldie for some time- the G3 icebook... the version of the icebook that had a clear plexiglass outer shell painted with white on the inside, so if you were a total nerd, you could take off the shell, strip the white paint with isopropyl alcohol and paint it however you wanted...

Mine's transluscent blue, with all the RF shielding visible.
The mouse matches, with the clear shell on it painted blue in some spots, silver in the center, with a cutout so you can see the insides and optical laser from the top. ...but this isn't a computer forum.
*locks her inner techienerd into the closet again*

Sorry. I won't let that out for awhile, I promise. My uber-deal jacket should come in the mail tomorrow! Yee!

[SadieKate]

I'm sure my patients have seen that look on my face sometimes. It's a result of + Trying not to let you see that you have just freaked me out! Hah! We do try not to say, "WHAT?! ARE YOU CRAZY?!" I can just see it: "Oh. Well, Ms. Pois, that is interesting. Are you running this marathon? How's your training been? Have you lost your freakin' mind? Have you cleared this with the pulmonologist? Are you aware that you could have died, woman??" And so on. Good for you. Glad to hear things are improving. And yes. No more E2 for you, missy.

See, MP! I told you the doc's thought process was "I'll be in jail for assault and battery if I throttle this patient." So, frozen lack of response is just a self protection manuever.

[Lise]

So, frozen lack of response is just a self protection manuever.

As are so many of my responses in the office, triage, and labor and delivery. (Must not respond...must not respond...)

[Lise]

I love freaking doctors out. I wish there had been a camera in my doctor's office the day we called and said, "we are in Botswana and I think I am hyperstimming". It wasn't my doctor, who is used to my antics, but his associate, who I had not yet met. The poor guy sounded like he was going to pass out. My doctor now tells this story as a cautionary tale when patients ask, "is it okay to travel during fertility treatments?"

I've had patients call me with stuff like that. Well. Not quite like that! But my usual response is, "There's nothing I can do from here. If x,y,z, then go to the closest ER." In the case of Botswana, though, I guess I would've said...."I'll light a candle for you! Make an appointment when (if) you return!" (All the while thinking, "Did I document that I told her not to go to Botswana? Crap!")

[kelownagirl]

My mind is blank but someone must be online here and you're all so creative... I need an Entertainment Reporter pseudonym suitable for an elementary school newsletter. I have to use it for the next 4 months so it has to be a good one. (I am writing tidbits of info every month leading up to our breaking the news that our staff is doing a benefit musical for our school in February.)

Any suggestions?

[snapdragen]

Hey SK - you can have way more than 10 paragraphs with that story. What a roller coaster. I'm so sorry.

Should I bring over my green bar of Scharffenberger....?

I still have one green bar left too - shall I bring it?

[Kitsune06]

Pseudonyms are always interesting. If nothing jumps out at you right away, you can try coming up with an anagram of your name, or something else related, or the old "Fun Name" game... 1st pet+ the street you grew up on... Nothing too 'close to home' because those can be bizarre ways people get your personal information.

It sounds weird, but people remember the *darnedest* things.

[KnottedYet]

Hey, ki-tsu-nay, will you have to take a drink if I say I took FLOSSIE'S new fugly stem to the LBS this evening just as the owner locked it up and walked out the door. I accosted him and said it was a bad stem for a WATERFORD and she needed something prettier. He said to bring in the bike on Wednesday so we could order a good one and really work out the size. So I get a bike ride.

Now I'll put in some bad words about how miserable I feel that I didn't get to hang out in the LBS and that my beloved is languishing, yearning for new stem and bars. (add your favorite Sarah Maclachlan yearning lyric here.)Then I'll DELETE them and you'll have to drink again!

I used to play "Bar Trek" but I think "TE-TD" could be a drinking game to rival it.

[Kitsune06]

Yup. Rum'n coke for me when I get home... and three drinks of it just for Knot and Flossie. (tasteless joke here and ellipsis above, so two more drinks for me!)

This is assuming we play the socially-friendly style of the drinking game, where it's a drink of an alcoholic beverage per incident, instead of a shot per offense. The former takes longer, the latter usually ends badly.

[bikerz]

I think we need to send our closest TE member to Scharffen Berger to get more. Ann? BZ? Don't you need lunch at SB? The calories don't count when you're running an errand for friends?

Send me your orders, ladies - I'm happy to make an SB run for you! I do work just a block from the Ferry Building store, ya know.

SK - I'm signed up for the Foxy Fall metric Oct 15 up in your neck of the woods, I'll bring along all the green bars you desire (and hand them directly to Bubba for safekeeping)!

[Veronica]

My mind is blank but someone must be online here and you're all so creative... I need an Entertainment Reporter pseudonym suitable for an elementary school newsletter. I have to use it for the next 4 months so it has to be a good one. (I am writing tidbits of info every month leading up to our breaking the news that our staff is doing a benefit musical for our school in February.)

Any suggestions?

Liza Cantor

V.

[Bikingmomof3]

Kit, take a deep breath... say "ommmmmm" a few times...

ready?

Apple doesn't make our beloved iBooks anymore. The iBook has been replaced with MacBook.

Our iBooks are now collectors items.

(hey, MacBook has a built in camera!)

In our house we have: Bondi Blue iMac (a real oldie), 2 Powerbooks, 1 iBook G4 (MINE), and 1 Macbook Pro (DH's newest acquistion).

Of all the Macs we have owned and do own, the iBook G4 is my favourite.

[Bikingmomof3]

I love freaking doctors out.

I do this all the time and it is not usually intentional. I tend to get doctors with no sense of humour and I have been told by those near and dear to me that I am sarcastic. My favourite thing to bring up in an appointment is how I will never know if I am having a stroke. This seems to upset my doctors greatly, but hey, it is true. I have migraines which mimic strokes and I have had two TIAs. The looks on their faces is wonderful. When I mention exercise, at first they are excited (they imagine I am walking). When I mention running and what I get my HR up to, they go ballistic. The mere mention of my wanting to begin training for a tri at my last doctor appointment made him squirm. Granted he was sending me off for more tests, personally I think they just like looking at my beautiful brain. I go see a new neurologist on Thursday, maybe this one will have a sense of humour.

[Bikingmomof3]

See, MP! I told you the doc's thought process was "I'll be in jail for assault and battery if I throttle this patient." So, frozen lack of response is just a self protection manuever.

So that is what is going on. The silence and odd looks are preventing them from throttling me.