Useless Conversation

[Endie]

WE HAVE A FRONT PAGE ??

You said this so I wouldn't have to.

[Sky]

I played very competitive handegg, but think that I'm much more physically equipped to have played soccer.  I sometimes wonder how far I could have gone in soccer.  Ah, hindsight!

My father pushed me into basketball and baseball, I was in league play for baseball for a while. I fucking hate baseball (and basketball). While I enjoyed volleyball and lacrosse in high school...I wonder once in a while how different life would've been if Dad had been a football player rather than a basketball player. Given how much I dig the tactics of football, and the fact that the track coach used to beg me to join the team when he'd see me run in gym class....I was always top of the class in sprinting by a long shot, and my agility was phenomenal.

Ah, well. Glad I found the guitar whatever else happened :)

[Yegolev]

The boy has football camp on the second July week.  He enjoyed handegg so I think he will enjoy that.  My personal opposition to handegg is the pressure to compete and how it turns reasonable parents (and coaches of course) into raging douchebags.  I'll let him do whatever he likes in the end, though.

I wish the school had a pool because I think he would be all for swim team.  He will soon be taking level 3 classes, which is amazing considering he's only five and that I don't swim.

[Margalis]

People don't get turned into douchebags, they just find excuses to express their douchbagedness.

[Endie]

Is handegg something to do with American Football?

[Pennilenko]

Is handegg something to do with American Football?

That is what "soccer" purists call american football.

[Sky]

Is handegg something to do with American Football?

[Ingmar]

Argh I am stuck here til who knows what hour doing about 2 TB of data restores due to a fried RAID controller. 

[JWIV]

My CSA gave me garlic scapes last week.  I sauteed them with Swiss Chard tonight and they were awesome.

[rattran]

I found an old suede hat of mine (sort of old west styled) Saddle soaped it, soaked it a bit, and put it on wet to kinda get it back into shape.

One of my cats (Otto, the seemingly retarded one) seems to now fear and hate me when I put the hat on. Sneaking up, hissing, running away with the hat on. Take it off, sweetness and light, rolling over to get his belly rubbed. He fell asleep in my lap a bit ago while I was playing Overlord2, so I put the hat on. When he woke up, he shrieked and ran off, leaving a couple rips in my pant legs and slight furrows in my legs.

This calls for more experiments.

[lamaros]

I would guess the hat is possessed. Be warned.

I broke my 5th metatarsal the other week and as a result I'm probably not going to go snowboarding on the 9th like I had planned. But in thinking about it I wondered if snowboarding could really do much damage. The ankle is supported pretty well and I'm unlikely to roll it or hit the fracture... so maybe I could get away with it?

[Endie]

I would guess the hat is possessed. Be warned.

I broke my 5th metatarsal the other week and as a result I'm probably not going to go snowboarding on the 9th like I had planned. But in thinking about it I wondered if snowboarding could really do much damage. The ankle is supported pretty well and I'm unlikely to roll it or hit the fracture... so maybe I could get away with it?

I ignored advice and went back to rugby training a few weeks earlier than advised after a metatarsal break.  Non-contact: I just turned quickly at 3/4 pace at the end of a warm-up sprint and was out for weeks longer as a result.

[lamaros]

I ignored advice and went back to rugby training a few weeks earlier than advised after a metatarsal break.  Non-contact: I just turned quickly at 3/4 pace at the end of a warm-up sprint and was out for weeks longer as a result.

Ouch. I'd probably be pretty annoyed if I did risk it and something like that happened, so it's probably not worth risking it really... just sucks to have to give up a planned holiday due to a stupid injury. 

[Endie]

I ignored advice and went back to rugby training a few weeks earlier than advised after a metatarsal break.  Non-contact: I just turned quickly at 3/4 pace at the end of a warm-up sprint and was out for weeks longer as a result.

Ouch. I'd probably be pretty annoyed if I did risk it and something like that happened, so it's probably not worth risking it really... just sucks to have to give up a planned holiday due to a stupid injury. 

well, downhill boots offer a huge amount more support than rugby ones.  With a compression bandage and a well-fitted boot you might be fine.

[Cyrrex]

That same compression might also make it hurt like hell.  I learned that the hard way many years ago, but that was after ankle surgery, not with a broken bone.

[Sky]

When he woke up, he shrieked and ran off, leaving a couple rips in my pant legs and slight furrows in my legs.

That's my cat's normal MO. I'm always covered in cat scratches, it's kind of funny when I'm wearing a suit and I have twenty bloody criss-crosses on my hands. Be glad your cat doesn't have extra toes (extra claws!).

I love when cats get irrationally spooked by something like that. I used to have a hunter cat that would totally lose her mind when she saw this stuffed cat with wide eyes. Stalking it, hissing, ears back and tail fluffed. Good stuff.

[HaemishM]

Metatarsals are funny little bones. I wouldn't fuck with them if I were you. Wait until you feel 100%, then wait a few more weeks after that, because just from watching footballers get taken down with the things, what you think might be a six week process turns into a season-long struggle simply by coming back too early.

[Nebu]

What Haemish said.  Get checked out by an Orthopod before being active again to minimize the risk of re-injury.

Also: Don't let anyone inject the area with cortisone.  It makes you feel much better but will increase the risk of re-injury. 

Is re-injury a word?  Sorry about that.

[voodoolily]

I broke a toe a few months ago and it hurt like a sonofabitch. I kept fucking it up because the pain killers worked and I'd try to do too much on that foot, then they'd wear off and the whole thing would be throbby and achy and hurty. 

[WayAbvPar]

Obviously you need more painkillers. And need to share them with your close personal friends in the greater Seattle area.

[Ironwood]

Get checked out by an Orthopod before being active again

Heh.

[Lantyssa]

I broke a toe a few months ago and it hurt like a sonofabitch. I kept fucking it up because the pain killers worked and I'd try to do too much on that foot, then they'd wear off and the whole thing would be throbby and achy and hurty. 

Yeah, mine took at least three months to really stop hurting.  (Of course having a pin in for a month and not being able to have it set for a week didn't help.)  It's only been recently that it hasn't bothered me at all.

[Signe]

I hate air conditioning.  Hate Hate Hate.  I can't turn it off, however, because it's very hot and will be getting hotter and hotter during in coming days and the air quality has been really dreadful.  I just got back from the doctor and I have an upper respiratory infection which is being exacerbated by bad air quality and lousy air conditioning.  What can I do besides Mucinex and complaining?  Nothing, that's what!  And it fucking costs $24 for 14 fucking gigantic tablets!  Well, at least they're gigantic.  Today I totally understand emo.   

[Ironwood]

Do you smoke ?

[Signe]

Not tobacco and not anything for a while.  I blame outer space.

[Viin]

Michael Jackson dead? oh noes!

(Get your own damn news sources)

[voodoolily]

Michael Jackson dead? oh noes!

(Get your own damn news sources)

According to TMZ? Yeah right.

Edit: dang, and Farrah Fawcett this morning. Ed McMahon makes the celebrity death trifecta. Unless there will be one more pop culture icon from the early 1970s yet to come...

[Johny Cee]

I ignored advice and went back to rugby training a few weeks earlier than advised after a metatarsal break.  Non-contact: I just turned quickly at 3/4 pace at the end of a warm-up sprint and was out for weeks longer as a result.

Ouch. I'd probably be pretty annoyed if I did risk it and something like that happened, so it's probably not worth risking it really... just sucks to have to give up a planned holiday due to a stupid injury. 

well, downhill boots offer a huge amount more support than rugby ones.  With a compression bandage and a well-fitted boot you might be fine.

My folks just called me to let me know they threw away a bunch of my old junk, including my old rugby boots. 

[Abagadro]

It was just stung by a yellow jacket. Behind my ear.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

[Endie]

Michael Jackson dead? oh noes!

(Get your own damn news sources)

According to TMZ? Yeah right.

Edit: dang, and Farrah Fawcett this morning. Ed McMahon makes the celebrity death trifecta. Unless there will be one more pop culture icon from the early 1970s yet to come...

I thought it was pretty poor manners of MJ to cop it right after Farrah.  He just has to upstage everyone :(

I tell you I am not looking forward to Uri bloody Geller infecting my news channels for the next few days.

[Sky]

the air quality has been really dreadful. 

Have you cleaned/changed the filter?

My fiancee loves air conditioning (but is always too cold?), I hate it on all but the couple 85+ days. I'd rather open the windows and get a nice breeze going with an updraft fan, my house is set really well for cross-breezes. I don't use AC in the truck except when she's riding along She always had AC on in her car in the summer and her house has central air.

[Nebu]

Wearing a particulate filter mask will help as well, but most people are too vain to wear one.  

I don't think you're vain Signe... that was more of a general comment. 

[Sky]

I bought a washing machine. Waited until I got home yesterday to do it, if I had ordered it before I left work when I was thinking about it, I could've been home having it put in right now Next wednesday life gets much better. Thank god I'll be able to do my own laundry without going to mom's house before I'm 40!

Old washer is an older cheap front loader that came with the house that just reeks of mold. I've taken it apart and started to clean it out, but fuck that noise. Going to put it back together and throw it on CL, see if I get any bites. I can't believe what a shambles of technology the washing machine market has become. Front-loaders look a little better now, especially if you spend the $$ to get a good one, at least the drain the fucking boot now (), but mine is going in an unfinished basement and I don't want to leave it open, or have to wipe out the boot and door, or have to run cleaning tablets through it, wtf? I was looking at a nice Samsung steam FL, it was $500 off and the tech was decent, but it has a circuit board. And everyone everywhere seems to be bitching about dying boards, and I don't buy extended warranties, so a decent chance of a $500 fix to my $1100 washer?

I ended up getting a nice mechanical top-loading Whirlpool for $500. I'll just wash comforters in the big commercial ones at the laundromat, I guess.

[Sky]

Wearing a particulate filter mask will help as well, but most people are too vain to wear one.  

I don't think you're vain Signe... that was more of a general comment. 

[Pennilenko]

I must have one of those, except in blue, with a Smiley face sticker on it.