Nightingale

ROFLMAO! Of course I travel with my medications. However, pills do me no good at all when the migraine is so bad that I keep throwing up the medication. And throwing up makes the migraine worse. And the doctors, for the most part don't care that a neurologist has prescribed you migraine preventatives and triptans to treat migraines even when you show them the prescriptions with your name on them. It's been my experience that if you go into the ER with a migraine, you must be an addict despite evidence to the contrary. And unfortunately, in talking with my neurologist and with other migraine patients, my experiences with emergency rooms seem to be the rule rather than the exception.

Unless it's totally unavoidable, I only go to the hospital that's got electronic records linked with my neurologist. They pull up my records with two clicks, confirm that yes, I do have migraines, and treat me accordingly. Thank you, technology! When I'm out of town, I have to choose between going to a hospital where I know I'll probably be treated horribly or living with an out of control migraine for maybe three days. That's a really sucky position to put a patient in. Unfortunately, I think that doctors try so hard to keep opiates out of the hands of addicts that they've created an environment where people needing legitimate pain relief for "invisible" conditions are afraid to ask for help. That's not a good thing.

I'm posting from the patio at Best Friends. This place is amazing. 3700 acres of animal sanctuary, cats, dogs, horses, pigs, wild critters... I completely understand why Shannon loved this place so much. Spending the afternoon touring the sanctuary, and tomorrow volunteering all day. www.bestfriends.org

I've been using it on my new MacBook. Love it. Actually like it better than the newer version of MS Office, though there are a few "hey, where's the...." moments, but it's very intuitive so I usually find whatever it is fairly quickly.

Yes and no... Many women don't want to date a guy who looks like he doesn't take care of himself. That says something about his personality and activity level. I've dated guys of all different body types, but most of them were in at least average shape. If a guy is too out of shape to manage to do the AIDS Walk with me, he's probably not going to want to go hiking, rock climbing, play in the wind tunnel, or do most of the other active things I like to do. I certainly don't mind geeks (I play World of Warcraft, so I'd be terribly hypocritical if I didn't date geeks!) but I eat pretty well and while jogging with a migraine ain't gonna happen, I exercise as much as I can when I'm feeling well, not because it makes me look good, but because it makes me feel good. Being healthy is important. The number on the scale is not. While I've heard women say that they don't want to date a guy who doesn't take care of his health and can't or won't do the active things she likes to do, I have never heard a woman say "I'd never date a guy with a waist measurement of more than 32." I'm not sure women who aren't seamstresses really have a concept of what a 32 waist is, given that our clothes aren't sized like that. I'm sure those women do exist, but they're not nearly as common as men who spout womens dress sizes as a dating requirement.

Best excuse ever! Not for those of us who hate shopping. It's just frustrating. I'd just like to go in, grab something that fits my measurements, try it on once, and leave.

Do you even know what a size 8 is? Because women don't. It's a random number that means something different to each clothing manufacturer and basically totally arbitrary. There's no set "measurement" for women's sizes, which is really annoying and why we have to spend hours shopping. We can't just pick up something and know it's gonna fit like guys can. Personally, I've got stuff that's size 6 and stuff that's size 12 and it all fits, and the clothes are the same size if you lay them out together, but I certainly couldn't tell you what size it really is!

Just that Miguel's DNA was there, and it seems like the jury understood what that could mean, unlike in the OJ trial where jurors walked out afterward saying things like "The DNA doesn't matter because lots of people have the same blood type."

I am glad they got the conviction, particularly in light of the DNA evidence. My prayers are with SkinnyShrek's family and friends, particularly during the penalty phase of the trial.

They can do what they want, but honestly, there's a reason that their religion reads like a bad science fiction novel.

In my opinion, it shouldn't be illegal, as long as all parties are consenting adults. Who am I to decide what goes on in someone else's home?

Did we somehow acquire a national religion when I wasn't looking?

I'm so sorry. My prayers are with you and your family.

I've never seen anyone require a helmet, but I haven't been to that many DZs. However, helmets were something that my instructors and other mentors discussed with me and I took a lesson from other peoples' experiences and decided it was a good idea. I've only got 100 jumps and I just do RW for fun, but in that time, I've been kicked in the face hard enough to put a crack in the face shield on my helmet, and I've knocked my head on the door hard enough to leave a dent in the helmet when the person who was floating slipped before we were done setting up and had a hand on my chest strap and pulled me out too. Either one of those could've easily knocked me out if I'd been wearing something other than a full face helmet. If I want to feel the wind on my face, I'll put my open face helmet on and go play in the tunnel. That said, everyone has their own level of comfort. I wouldn't ride a motorcycle without a good helmet, but I ride with friends who are comfortable with the absolute minimum required by law and take even that off as soon as they hit the state line, and that's their choice.

Totally normal. On your first jump, your brain is going "OOOOOH! SKYDIVING! YAY!" and that's about the extent of the thought process. The experience is overwhelming, and you don't really get to process it until later. After the brain calms down from the high of the first jump, then it starts to realize "OMG, I'm jumping out of a F-ing PLANE. IN THE AIR. With a magic backpack that's supposed to save my life. WTF am I thinking??? I could DIE!!!!" and at that point, you start to research, and find the "Incidents" forum. And, being a newbie, you don't really understand what's going on in each of the incidents, and you're not really able to dissect what happened or why or whether the lessons learned apply to you (for example, a CRW wrap is unlikely to happen to an AFF student), you just know somebody went splat. And then your brain latches on to those incidents and reinforces the "OMG I could DIE!!!" thought process. And at that point, you either accept that skydiving is a sport that might kill you and jump anyway, or you don't. If you're bored, you can read about my AFF 2 wussage and getting myself back in the air afterward here: my website and click on "jump diary"

No! I'll have to check them out when I get home. Can't get youtube here. =( I'm only familiar with dudelsack because of Wolgemut . They play at the So Cal Renaissance Faire and put on a great show.

Not sure I'd want to know what you would think is hot.

Yes, Turtle. Very wrong.

Highland, Uilleann, or something else? I've seen a few guys play Dudelsack (German pipes)... now those were strange.

+1

I sing, and play pennywhistle, Irish flute, piano, guitar, and dabble in bodhran and fiddle. AWESOME! Maybe someday we'll get to session around the bonfire after a days jumps. I'm working on learning more of the traditional tunes. Most of what I know now are traditional songs (the Irish folk songs I grew up with and some I've learned since) rather than instrumental tunes. I just bought a book that has a ton of traditional tunes for pennywhistle and flute and I've been practicing those.

I sing, and play pennywhistle, Irish flute, piano, guitar, and dabble in bodhran and fiddle.

Separated means still married. I agree. However, separated and filed for divorce means they're just waiting for the legal waiting period to run out. Here in CA, it's six months, which is pretty short, but in some other states it can be two years. If someone's filed for divorce a year and a half previously, has been living apart the entire time, and is just waiting for it to be final, that's a different situation than someone who is on a "trial separation" and hasn't filed anything at all. It's a situation that requires careful evaluating, but I wouldn't rule it out completely.

What about military spouses? They live 7000+ miles from their SO... cant get more seperated. "married people who HAVE FILED FOR DIVORCE and are living apart from their soon to be former spouse" That wouldn't apply to the majority of military spouses.

I would say that the married person is cheating, and the single person is enabling them, which makes it almost as bad. I would add exceptions for married people who have filed for divorce and are living apart from their soon to be former spouse and open relationships.