Useless Conversation

[Lantyssa]

Be glad.  It's kind of frightening when you can smell the ozone and can tell the thunderclap originated right next to you.  Also a bit deafening.

[Morat20]

Goddamn TD 13. WHY MUST YOU GIVE ALL YOUR PRECIOUS RAIN TO LOUISIANA!

Can't spare any water for Houston, ya asshole?

[WayAbvPar]

Pity it can't drop off some torrential education along with the rain down there.

[Merusk]

Goddamn TD 13. WHY MUST YOU GIVE ALL YOUR PRECIOUS RAIN TO LOUISIANA!

Can't spare any water for Houston, ya asshole?

As I said, this is just your final transformation into a desert.  Just remember it's not global warming, just bad luck.

I'm more concerned about the tremendous price beef is going to have attached to it next year because all the cattlemen are selling off their herds for lack of water & food.  Time to become a vegetarian, I guess.

[Mrbloodworth]

Those storms best not fuck up my trip.

[Morat20]

Goddamn TD 13. WHY MUST YOU GIVE ALL YOUR PRECIOUS RAIN TO LOUISIANA!

Can't spare any water for Houston, ya asshole?

As I said, this is just your final transformation into a desert.  Just remember it's not global warming, just bad luck.

I'm more concerned about the tremendous price beef is going to have attached to it next year because all the cattlemen are selling off their herds for lack of water & food.  Time to become a vegetarian, I guess.

Actually, i don't really think it's global warming. too short term an issue. it's been a ridiculously bad year in terms of rainfall. Global warming isn't going to cut average rainfall by like 80% in a year.

Texas is trending drier, but this year has just been a huge outlier. Temperature wise, even if you just hand-wave in that global warming has raised the average August temperature in Houston by a full degree, August was still like 1 in a thousand in terms of "fucking hot". You have to claim the new, proper, right the fuck now globally warmed average temp for houston is like 4 degrees higher just to get to this sort of shit a few times a century.

The weather here has, flatly, sucked donkey balls. I'm sure changing climate has contributed, but it's also just flat-out been a huge outlier even if you make drastic assumptions about warming trends.

[Yegolev]

I'm of the view that larger corporations should outsource their entire E-mail systems to specific E-mail hosting and that smaller ones should be using more agile cloud solutions.  I also think Blackberry is a pile of shite and it's going to die in flames fairly soon.

I think there must be a lot of executives who worry about handing their email over to someone else.  The alternative for those people would, I suppose, be to run "normal" mail servers and give everyone a smartphone.  Or at least a stupidphone that can accept emails, but isn't a BB.  This is not a region I am familiar with.

"We" are implementing MS Exchange to replace Lotus Notes.  Not entirely, though, since lots of people over the years put critical databases into the Domino servers.  And as a contractor, I don't get an Exchange account nor Outlook client but must remain with Notes.  So no cloud email anytime soon, just pain and suffering.

[Merusk]

I think there must be a lot of executives who worry about handing their email over to someone else. 

I think you hit it right here.  The perception is your employees won't go digging because they fear you, and you can hide anything dirty (business or personal) in a "private" e-mail server where those contract guys go digging and will totally out your insider trading, pics of your golf-buddy's wife en flagrante and the fact that you searched young Asian boys a few hundred times last week.

[RhyssaFireheart]

"We" are implementing MS Exchange to replace Lotus Notes.  Not entirely, though, since lots of people over the years put critical databases into the Domino servers.  And as a contractor, I don't get an Exchange account nor Outlook client but must remain with Notes.  So no cloud email anytime soon, just pain and suffering.

You work for the same company I do again?

Well, except for the contractors getting Outlook, that is (we do).  The company is doing the long enterprise upgrade and conversion thing and my dept/division isn't scheduled to convert until mid-2012, if then.  This on top of finally deploying SAP a bit more properly and maybe finally replacing the really fucking ancient mainframe apps that we're using for some of our financial stuff.  Right now, it's painful how many hands have to touch some of the data before it gets entered into this ancient app just so that it can be used as the "authorized" financial information for our capital projects.  Except we basically ignore the app and consider Project Server, as crappy as it can be sometimes, as our final financial benchmark for our projects.

[Yegolev]

I still get paychecks from HP but I'm not allowed to work on any accounts other than KO.  An d I am pulling strings, ropes and chains to get an architect job with a new division of the company I have so far spent 12 years with.  So there's the quotes around "we".

[Yegolev]

Why do spiders hang out in bathtubs?

[Selby]

Spiders are into water.  It makes them happy.  I usually find dying wolf spiders in the bath tub though...

[MuffinMan]

Tubs are stops on the spider subway system.

[Sky]

I've got a war vet spider living near my front door, 5 legs.

[Chimpy]

Speaking of spiders. There is a tiny one that lives on the roof/windows of my car. I see him every day or so on the windshield. Today, he was on the driver's side window and was able to hang on while I was driving 70 on the interstate.

Talk about some sticky feets.

[Selby]

I've got a war vet spider living near my front door, 5 legs.

There's a widow on one of my machines at work that I walk by regularly, she's gone from 8 legs 3-4 weeks ago to now 6.  Not sure what she got into...

[Sand]

So I'm alive. Survived surgery. This has been without doubt the most intensely painful thing I have ever lived through. They woke me up after surgery without having applied any other anasthethia. At which point I started screaming and crying. I hopefully get to go home tomorrow. Been here four days now I think.

The new lenovo thinkpad tablet rocks.

[Reg]

Damn... was there a medical reason for waking you with no painkillers or are they just total assholes?  And congratulations on making it out of the hospital!

[Pennilenko]

So I'm alive. Survived surgery. This has been without doubt the most intensely painful thing I have ever lived through. They woke me up after surgery without having applied any other anasthethia. At which point I started screaming and crying. I hopefully get to go home tomorrow. Been here four days now I think.

Your doctors probably read what you write on the internet....

[Furiously]

Man Wayabvpar really is mean....

[Minvaren]

I was daydreaming in the line at the liquor store today when I heard the checker ringing up the guy in front of me going, "goodness!" over and over in quite the Southern Drawl(tm).  I looked up to see the guy in front of me dropping $260 on 6 bottles of wine and some Grey Goose.

She rang up my $35 in assorted beers and snacks and tossed it all in a box.  I asked her about the guy in front of me, and she mentioned that she always says "goodness!" when someone buys the expensive stuff.  I've never been a huge wine critic or aficionado, but then again I've never had a $40 bottle of wine since I started brewing - and developing a palate.  Figure I should try a glass the next time I'm out someplace upscale and see if anything's changed.

[Sand]

Damn... was there a medical reason for waking you with no painkillers or are they just total assholes?  And congratulations on making it out of the hospital!

Not that they ever explained. A few friends asked if I was going to take legal action. Guess its one of the biggest medical law suit reasons: inadequate pain management. Not something I care to pursue though.

Weirdest side effect from surgery thus far is I seek to have lost all ability to regulate my bodies temperature due to lack of food or something I guess. I'm always either freezing cold or burning up hot. But don't have an infection of any sort.

[Murgos]

She rang up my $35 in assorted beers and snacks and tossed it all in a box.  I asked her about the guy in front of me, and she mentioned that she always says "goodness!" when someone buys the expensive stuff.  I've never been a huge wine critic or aficionado, but then again I've never had a $40 bottle of wine since I started brewing - and developing a palate.  Figure I should try a glass the next time I'm out someplace upscale and see if anything's changed.

There is a vast difference between a $40 bottle at a store and a $40 dollar bottle at a restaurant.

My suggestion would be to go to a wine store doing a broad tasting where the people giving the tasting have some knowledge.  Try a bunch of stuff, talk about what you like and don't like in clear specifics with the host and then ask for a recommendation for something that has the features you like at the price you want to spend.

[Minvaren]

There is a vast difference between a $40 bottle at a store and a $40 dollar bottle at a restaurant.

Good point!

I already have a fair idea of what general styles I like, so perhaps the best test is to get a $40 bottle at the store and do a side-by-side with a couple of my own.

[Lantyssa]

Damn... was there a medical reason for waking you with no painkillers or are they just total assholes?  And congratulations on making it out of the hospital!

Not that they ever explained. A few friends asked if I was going to take legal action. Guess its one of the biggest medical law suit reasons: inadequate pain management. Not something I care to pursue though.

It could be because you were coming off of a general and didn't want to risk interactions with it and whatever they were moving you to next.  Morphine?

Maybe Nebu could weigh in.

[Der Helm]

I discovered that  screaming because of the pain is a a very efficent way to get very efficent pain medication.

When I had knee surgery they did not want to give me pain medication for as long as the spinal anaesthesia had not worn off. Eventually it did wear off much quicker than the staff and me had expected. It went from complete paralysis  below the waist to "Hey, I can wiggle my toes" and moved on to "OH MY GOD, THE PAIN, MAKE IT STOP" in less than a minute or two.

"On a scale of 1 to 10, how severe would you say your pain ..."

"FOR GODS SAKE, DO SOMETHING !!!"

[Sky]

I WILL BRING UNENDING SUFFERING ON YOUR FAMILY LINE FOR ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS!!!

[IainC]

We went to a big cat rescue shelter near here today and they were doing photo-ops with a two-week old baby tiger. I was mush.


tigercub by Iain Compton, on Flickr

I'm the one at the back, the other people in the picture are my wife, her father and his girlfriend.

[Lantyssa]

That was a quick transition into a cowboy.

[Strazos]

Ok, at least I wasn't the only one curious as to where a Euro would get a hat like that...or why they'd allow for photographic evidence of ownership of said hat.

[IainC]

I bought that hat on a previous trip and I wear it around all the time back home. Being paler than the arctic snow, sun is not my friend and the hat serves in lieu of constant sunscreen applications.

[Nebu]

Maybe Nebu could weigh in.

Opiates are well known to decrease GI motility.  That's about all I can say.  The lack of medication could be an error by the healthcare team, could be due to the anesthesiologist's call due to competing effects, or could be a call by the surgeon.  In any event, I'm sorry to hear of your pain and discomfort Sand.  Get well soon.

[Sand]

Damn... was there a medical reason for waking you with no painkillers or are they just total assholes?  And congratulations on making it out of the hospital!

Not that they ever explained. A few friends asked if I was going to take legal action. Guess its one of the biggest medical law suit reasons: inadequate pain management. Not something I care to pursue though.

It could be because you were coming off of a general and didn't want to risk interactions with it and whatever they were moving you to next.  Morphine?

Maybe Nebu could weigh in.

Actually the more I learn the more likely it is I am going to take action. It seems their post op surgery procedures are to hook you to an IV with a morphine or dilaudid push that is controlled by a squeeze device they put in your hand. They explain all this to you supposedly while you are still in an isolated surgical recovery room with no gaurdians or family with you, waiting for the general to wear off.
it took my general anesthitia three hours to wear off. So by the time I became conscious I was three hours behind on dosages and screaming in pain.
When my wife explored it further she was was told "that's policy." We might simply file suit out of a desire to see them change such a draconian procedure none of which we were warned about ahead of time.
 

[Nebu]

We might simply file suit out of a desire to see them change such a draconian procedure none of which we were warned about ahead of time.

Just be aware that the statement "that's policy" is often code for "that's all your insurance would cover".  I'd say that your fight is with the insurance industry, not the soldiers in the trenches.

[Sand]

We might simply file suit out of a desire to see them change such a draconian procedure none of which we were warned about ahead of time.

Just be aware that the statement "that's policy" is often code for "that's all your insurance would cover".  I'd say that your fight is with the insurance industry, not the soldiers in the trenches.

And if that's the case I won't proceed. I'm not the type to file frivolous suits. But I'm unsure as to how my insurance would involve itself in who is allowed in the post op room, and who is allowed to push the anestehia button. We may never get out of discovery if we find out it wasn't the hospitals fault or their policy.
Also there is some indication it may have been due to some mechanical failure. Computer record the button was pushed 54 times but only three doses were administered.

Edit- BTW awesome picture Ian!very jealous!
I would add acurrent one of myself but it includes adult diapers, five day growth of beard, and a distended belly with multiple incision points all of which would likely result in my being banned!