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Some thoughts about Theresa... She wears a cowl. She lures two young street urchen children into earning 5 gold and spending it on something she _knows_ will get one of them killed. She raises you to avenge that killing. She bosses you around, but gives you no moral guidance. People die because of her machinachions. Then she makes you choose ( Read more... )

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So I have been wearing my septum ring to work this week. Nobody said anything except for people I initiated with, until today. Mike (a guy from work) saw it for the first time and just said "decided to go full bull?" and turned back to what he was doing. It made me laugh. I wouldn't have thought of that. 8-)

How reviled must you be to share an agenda with the KKK and be proactively spurned by them...

Well it's official, the "digital walkie talkie kids" have grown up. In Halo Wars they have done this analog radio fuzz effect on the audio field reports from the big and beefy "Sgt Forge", but they have never heard an actual walkie talkie do actual radio fuzz. It has, as an effect, basically give this deep and masculine voice the most adorable lisp ( Read more... )

but it was right up there. I imagine that 5 feet of necrotic bowel removed through a herniated bellybutton is closer to the worst magic trick ever. Now I just feel like someone punched me in the gut. The bleeding stopped like right away, imagine that ( Read more... )

So I had the kidney stone breakup surgery on Wednesday and I have had a "stent" since then. A stent is apparently a fancy name for a tube that goes inside another tube to hold it open. In this case it's a drainage tube that is basically holding open the natural tube from my left kidney to my bladder ( Read more... )

So my kidney stone is "stuck" (or it formed in an odd place, making it a uriter stone) and they have to go in with a scope and a laser and un-stick it. Then for about five days I'll have a stent holding open the path from my left kidney into my bladder, which they will take out with a scope and no ansthetic come that monday or so ( Read more... )

(Heard in response to "I've had enough, I am going home where I have half a gallon of ice-cream waiting")

"Don't eat your troubles, or you will wake with 'thighs of sorrow'" -- Rhea Garner.