Subj : moving or not To : BARRY MARTIN From : Daryl Stout Date : Sat Feb 01 2020 03:18:00 Barry, BM>Thatw asn't granola, that was rat bait! Maybe your body was doing a BM>little early Sring Cleaning. (Hope you're feeling better.) Thankfully, I am. While I have a deal with the local ambulance company (I pay a yearly fee, that covers "emergency runs"), I'd rather not have to go to the hospital...driving or in an ambulance. At Arkansas Urology yesterday, in doing bloodwork before surgery (to check my testosterone level, and whether my kidneys were working properly), they have apparently stuck me so many times in the crook of both arms/elbows, that scar tissue has formed. As a result, the veins "pop" or "roll", and no blood is obtained. Moving the needle is excruciatingly painful. BM>Lots of pets are frightened and confused by sudden noises: usually meant BM>something not good happening imprinted from their wild critter days. Good point. BM>Iowa passed a law a few years ago allowing purchase of "low level" BM>fireworks -- there's a term for it; used to be just minor items like BM>sparklers allowed. The good news is most of the cities and towns BM>restricted the hours one could set them off: locally twice a year: I wish that was the case everywhere. But, the temperature of those sparklers can exceed 2000 degrees. Around the "fireworks holidays", emergency rooms are filled with folks who suffered injuries in using them. And, someone noted, "During The Super Bowl, the Emergency Rooms are basically empty...but afterwards, they fill up". BM> Fireworks Ordinance. Consumer fireworks are restricted to the night of BM> December 31 from 10:00 p.m. until 12:30 a.m., immediate following day. BM> Also, July 3 and July 4 from 2:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. each day. While they are "prohibited" here, folks still shoot them off. But, you're afraid to turn them in, as if word gets back that you called the police on them, they'll vandalize your property in revenge. I wish there was a multi-hour/day EMP that would basically render all fireworks useless...EXCEPT for those done by the professional shows, who had a special deal to neutralize that EMP. Yet, the thugs would find a way to get it for themselves. The only way to get them banned is if the area has had such an extreme drought for several weeks, and fire danger is so extreme. BM>A couple years later a 1 MB hard drive for my DEC Rainbow 100 computer BM>was $1,000! No, I didn't get one. The price of RAM had gone done years ago. BM>I hadn't heard about the Canadian medical lab -- the laid-back Canadians BM>being sneaky and doing biomedical terrorism??!! (That's a joke folks -- BM>no fair taking a snippet!) As for spreading rapidly, can understand: by BM>the time figure out what to stop/detain a lot has already slipped by. Apparently, there was a lab in China, for studying pathogens, and it was "intentionally released". BM>Also saw on the news where China is bulding two (?) hospitals as fast as BM>they can because of the outbreak. Makes sense, but I'd be a bit BM>concerned with 'construction details': news shot showed cement being BM>poured. Takes a while for cement to cure, and some of that medical BM>equipment is rather heavy! And where is the hospital equipment coming BM>from? It's not just stored in a warehouse. And then staffing. Never mind ordering a product shipped from China, and related areas; although I'd wonder if the virus would survive the trip "across the pond". BM>The heart's nothing to pooh-pooh with, so a good thing to have it BM>checked out. Could be due to what caused your nausea, could be a BM>subluxated anterior rib head, could be... get it checked! (Which you BM>did.) I still haven't heard from my gastrointerologist...but I did set up an complete physical and full blood work. The A1C level for diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association, is 6.5 -- I've been within half a point of that for several years, but have never exceeded it...and, I'm most likely to develop Type 2. Obviously, that'd be a major game changer. When my cardiologist said "You're overweight", I said "Tell me something I don't know". :P BM>Well spending all your money on visits to cardiologists! (If dead BM>you're certainly not going; at least by checking it out you'll be alive BM>which is a chance of going!) Like the guy who wakes up in the morgue, and wonders "If I'm alive, what am I doing here?? And, if I'm dead, how come I have to go to the bathroom??". :P BM> I'm seeing a woman - no! it's a man BM>dressed in a plaid skirt. Ah! A Scottish man dressed in a kilt! He's BM>on a rocky beach. ...It morphed to Blake Shelton singing "Some Beach"! That's a funny song. I also like the one with Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffet..."It's 5:00 somewhere". BM>There have been times when crawling would have been more comfortable BM>than walking with the kidney stone! Agreed there...some have been on the floor in tears for the pain. BM> DS> * OLX 1.53 * What happens if you get scared half to death twice? BM>Initial reflex answer is "you're dead" but really have a quarter life left. Cats are lucky. :P BM>... American Joseph Gayetty invented modern toilet tissue in 1857. Good thing he did...corncobs hurt too much, and catalogs were messy. :P Daryl * OLX 1.53 * Always forgive your enemies. They HATE that! --- SBBSecho 3.10-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (454:1/33) .