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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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Went to an award ceremony honoring all the students in our school district who scored distinguished on state testing in @ least one of three subjects Math, Reading & Science. My son James, he's

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After a God awful, sardine in a tin can journey on a train I got to my hotel to be told my room "had a leak" and I was being upgraded to their 4 star sister hotel and a free taxi would be provided to get me there. Hotel is right next to train station too. Result! Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

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Well at least one of us got the all clear. MRI of my head post-crash last year revealed an abnormal vein in my brain that will, at some point, rupture causing seizures and death. Inoperable as surgery will likely rupture the vein so I just gotta live with the idea that death may claim me at any time. Did I mention that on here yet? I think I did.

Shit. That's awful news. Each day really is a blessing for any of us. Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
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Well at least one of us got the all clear. MRI of my head post-crash last year revealed an abnormal vein in my brain that will, at some point, rupture causing seizures and death. Inoperable as surgery will likely rupture the vein so I just gotta live with the idea that death may claim me at any time. Did I mention that on here yet? I think I did.

Damn, that's awful dude, I'm sorry to hear that :(

tomorrow I will go to the hospital, be drugged, and have some contraption use sound waves to break up a big kidney stone. :?

Ugh, sounds indeed nasty. Hope you will be ok :)

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Glad to hear you're ok, Natassja.

And, good luck, Josh. I suppose it's true for all of us that anything could happen, but as Natassja says, that's a heavy thing to carry around. Is there anything you can do to mitigate the risk? 

Avoid head trauma. So provided I never ride the tandem with my brother again I'm golden. Because the vein was more towards the centre of my brain and the impact was to the left of my head from that crash doc theorised it had probably been there my whole life and were it not for the accident I would never have known. Oh well life's a lottery here's hoping I get lucky.

After a God awful, sardine in a tin can journey on a train I got to my hotel to be told my room "had a leak" and I was being upgraded to their 4 star sister hotel and a free taxi would be provided to get me there. Hotel is right next to train station too. Result! Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

Isn't it nice when things work out.

tomorrow I will go to the hospital, be drugged, and have some contraption use sound waves to break up a big kidney stone. :?

Good luck Parker

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I was written of at work today by one of my coworkers for not being a good person. This is someone who I've worked with for years and gone to China with and such. I was gossiping and said some unkind stuff I'm sure. I don't know by what she was put off by exactly, and though I'm curious I strongly feel she does not owe me an explanation about what it was, as I can think of no fewer than three things it might be. It took me off guard, but my reaction was not "Oh but wait, 'cuz I am a good person!". The idea of seeing myself as a good person is something I've been avoiding as it happens. I spend lots of energy being nice at times, and that is a good or at least an OK thing for the most part, but though I'm often well behaved I see how people (including me ) are clumsy monsters for the most part. That is how I see myself in truth. Anyway I was sorry and embarrassed to be called not a good person, but really it's remarkable this coworker felt inclined to put it too me fairly directly, and though it has made me feel a little subdued I honestly don't hold it against her. I don't know if this will make any sense, the way I've explained it, but it was an unusual thing. Interesting and well... I don't get criticized a lot I guess, but I don't mind a little grit in my day. 

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I had a similar experience at work about ten years ago, where a coworker said I had a "weak character". This wasn't a person I liked or had very much respect for, and I don't recall the topic of the conversation, but his observation still comes back to bother me every now and again. 

I sometimes make an effort to be transparent.

Translucency is your strong suit IMO, but your efforts are appreciated. :D 

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May I ask if you two ever had a "thing" together?  Perhaps she was jelly of someone or something?  Without details I cannot have any fun being mean towards this woman. haha.  

No chance of having fun being mean, alas. We've had a series of e-mails today which went pretty well. There is a strange paranoid edge to her reaction, and my boss tells me she has had weird paranoid reactions to a bunch of minor events over the last month or so. The consensus is that she is stressed out and more than a little off kilter. There never was a thing between us. I have been involved in exactly one "thing" during the last 16 years. Details wise I can tell you that I made a joke about how I thought that I was the third best perennial planter on the crew, just above her, which she misunderstood as me criticizing her in front of the whole crew for being no good at planting perennials, and basically being unqualified as a fine gardener. It was pretty off base on her part, and I'm worried she has a real problem with some actual low grade paranoia.

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You're kidding, she's obviously the real Mindy. Lazy spelling, terrible punctuation, inappropriate relationship questions, weird smileys... 

Wait, actually, now that I think about it, Mindy would be easy to fake. Maybe it's not the real Mindy. 

Hey, cut me some slack, I have been in college for 8 years now going on 9, and am now in an intensive writing masters program. The LAST thing I want to do is use professional, correct, punctuation and difficult terms on a metal forum.  I am not Iceni =P

 

No chance of having fun being mean, alas. We've had a series of e-mails today which went pretty well. There is a strange paranoid edge to her reaction, and my boss tells me she has had weird paranoid reactions to a bunch of minor events over the last month or so. The consensus is that she is stressed out and more than a little off kilter. There never was a thing between us. I have been involved in exactly one "thing" during the last 16 years. Details wise I can tell you that I made a joke about how I thought that I was the third best perennial planter on the crew, just above her, which she misunderstood as me criticizing her in front of the whole crew for being no good at planting perennials, and basically being unqualified as a fine gardener. It was pretty off base on her part, and I'm worried she has a real problem with some actual low grade paranoia.

It is ok I was not going to be mean anyways=)  Also I did not mean having a "thing" as anything sexual.  I meant a "thing" as in dating her.  But well, as far as the other stuff, possibly talk to her about it?

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So Mindy you opt to refrain from using proper English on our forum simply because you are required to do so as part of your degree? Secondary query: If you are doing so as a means of rebellion would it not make morese sense to reverse the behaviour? Of course I am not in a position to critique spelling and grammar prone as I am to making boneheaded mistakes. I do, at least, have an extremely flimsy excuse to fall back on whereas you are merely being rebellious at best and slothful at worst. Oh also typing this gave me a thinking too much headache so I is gonna jump up and down like a psycho circus clown 'til it goes away.

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Hey, cut me some slack, I have been in college for 8 years now going on 9, and am now in an intensive writing masters program. The LAST thing I want to do is use professional, correct, punctuation and difficult terms on a metal forum.  I am not Iceni =P

 

I don't get that. It's like if I said I went to college for painting, and I work really hard on illustrations, so in my free time I only want to make shitty drawings. It isn't extra work for me to use decent grammar and punctuation. I'm not saying you shouldn't stick with your idiosyncrasies, but the argument that it's somehow harder and less fun to write "well" doesn't make sense to me. And lazy writing often makes for harder reading. 

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I don't get that. It's like if I said I went to college for painting, and I work really hard on illustrations, so in my free time I only want to make shitty drawings. It isn't extra work for me to use decent grammar and punctuation. I'm not saying you shouldn't stick with your idiosyncrasies, but the argument that it's somehow harder and less fun to write "well" doesn't make sense to me. And lazy writing often makes for harder reading. 

I mean it is not like I am writing in some kind of foreign language?  Art is very different for me than writing/typing.  I am beyond sick of writing and typing I could puke.  Sorry if you cannot understand me at times but I do not think it is as bad as you are making it out to be Professor Haulenbeek.

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