This is the most incredible thing I've ever seen. First question is, what would make anyone aspire to do this and the second question is, how much of this guy's brain do you think is being used with all this multi-tasking?
This is truly amazing and I wanted to share it with you! Don't worry, it's not offensive. You might need to turn your speakers up a bit more than normal because the sound is quite low, but it's worth it! Also, you don't have to download the movie -- just click the play button.
http://www.collegehumor.com/?movie_id=126896
Monday, March 21, 2005
Catch Up
I think I posted that depositions in the lawsuit begin on March 29 at 10:00, beginning with the Director of HR. If I didn't, then I should note that depositions in the lawsuit begin on March 29 at 10:00, beginning with the Director of HR.
I sent my lawyer photocopies of everything -- memos and correspondences and replies between myself and HR; licenses; anything that remotely pertains to the case. He's asked me to be present at the HR Director's deposition as he's quite sure I'll have comments or questions. Who? Me? Comments?
Last Sunday was our one-year anniversary for our New Paltz wedding. We wished each other a happy anniversary but, beyond that, didn't really do much else. There's still a legal cloud of ambiguity surrounding that marriage so we look at July 5 as our true anniversary. July 5, 2001 was when we had our Civil Union in Vermont, and July 5, 2004 was our Canadian marriage.
And yes, it was by design. There's only so many anniversary dates we can remember! LOL!
Lisa's mother continues to have problems. They discharged her from the hospital last Monday evening and she was back in the hospital by Thursday morning in the wee small hours. Seems she'd fainted a couple of times in the middle of the night while on an excursion to the toilet.
The "Band-Aid Doctor" (as Lisa referred to him) told the family that she'd had a "vegal reaction," most likely to food she'd eaten. GIVE US A BREAK!
Lisa's father apparently pointed out to the doctor that she'd been on the Plavix for only three days when the last episode occurred and, coincidentally or not, she'd been on it three days this time when this episode occurred. The doctor's response was that it "shouldn't" have been a problem. Well, "shouldn't" and "couldn't" are miles apart when you're talking about meds. So, me being the "look anything up on the web" sort of person I am, I had to go and search out data on Plavix.
It turns out that Plavix is a bi-sulfide based drug -- one source of sulphur is actually sulpheric acid. The other source is a component of a larger formula. Lisa's mother, her sister, and even Lisa cannot metabolize sulpher-based drugs and they are allergic to them.
In addition, when Lisa called her mother to find out how she was, her mother informed her that she had the flu. However, Lisa's mother didn't feel "sick" like you do when you have the flu. Yes, she's vomiting and has diarrhea but she said she just doesn't feel "sick" beyond that. Guess what a side effect of Plavix is? "Flu-like symptoms," as well as "diarrhea." Now, I'm not a rocket scientist but it seems to me that the doctor could discontinue the Plavix in favor for another blood thinner that isn't sulphur-based and see if her condition improves at all.
As long as they're contending that she has the flu, she'll not be able to have her surgery tomorrow morning to fix the carotid arteries. Poor Lisa -- at one point Friday she was in tears. She says she feels impotent, unable to do anything for her family from here. Her sister, God love her, has been at her mother's bedside every day after work, and has lost a lot of time at work for this whole ordeal. I'm sure the sister is feeling tremendous strain. They're claiming they're going to do some "testing" today to see what's wrong with her -- whatever that means. Seems to me they need to do some testing on the doctor to see what's wrong with HIM!
We scoured the kitchen yesterday, pretty much top to bottom. Cleaned off the counters completely and wiped them all down, moved the refrigerator and got all the nasty crud out from behind there and mopped the floor behind it. Lisa took off the front guard and we looked under the refrigerator into the motor compartment and nearly gagged. Suffice it to say we got it cleaned out now. Then I scrubbed the floor on my hands and knees while Lisa picked up and vacuumed the upstairs. We were pretty pooped and HOT after that and made the command decision to do the downstairs next weekend, if we're around.
Got an email Saturday night from an old, lost friend from the Army. He and his wife were our best friends way back in our early days in the Army (my ex and I, that is). We used to sit up half the night after the swing shift (3-11) and play spades -- guys against the girls. Sometimes we'd send our men out to A&W in the middle of the night for burgers and those nasty old Okinawan "mashed-potato french fries." When we left Okinawa and were transferred to San Antonio, a year later, our friends arrived there. We were transferred back to Okinawa and, a year later, there they were. We were then transferred to Ft. Devens, MA and, a year later, guess who arrived? When we went to Hawaii, it was on a re-enlistment station of choice but it would be the last we'd see of Rodger and Sharon. Rodger was sent to Korea and we just lost touch.
I'd signed on to a Yahoo! Groups site set up for that old unit we'd been assigned to in Okinawa and, even though I had no interest in the day-to-day conversation (which was BORING), I left my information there for anyone to find me. So glad Rodger went to that site!
I called Sharon Saturday and chatted with her for more than an hour -- we caught up a bit, but damn! We're going to have to get together with them! They live in northern Virginia (it seems Rodger retired from Vint Hill Farms, VA in 1994) and I'm thinking it would make an excellent "long weekend" trip! I'm so excited and thrilled to have regained these dear friends whom I had lost to the world out there. The web is a wonderful thing, yes?
I sent my lawyer photocopies of everything -- memos and correspondences and replies between myself and HR; licenses; anything that remotely pertains to the case. He's asked me to be present at the HR Director's deposition as he's quite sure I'll have comments or questions. Who? Me? Comments?
Last Sunday was our one-year anniversary for our New Paltz wedding. We wished each other a happy anniversary but, beyond that, didn't really do much else. There's still a legal cloud of ambiguity surrounding that marriage so we look at July 5 as our true anniversary. July 5, 2001 was when we had our Civil Union in Vermont, and July 5, 2004 was our Canadian marriage.
And yes, it was by design. There's only so many anniversary dates we can remember! LOL!
Lisa's mother continues to have problems. They discharged her from the hospital last Monday evening and she was back in the hospital by Thursday morning in the wee small hours. Seems she'd fainted a couple of times in the middle of the night while on an excursion to the toilet.
The "Band-Aid Doctor" (as Lisa referred to him) told the family that she'd had a "vegal reaction," most likely to food she'd eaten. GIVE US A BREAK!
Lisa's father apparently pointed out to the doctor that she'd been on the Plavix for only three days when the last episode occurred and, coincidentally or not, she'd been on it three days this time when this episode occurred. The doctor's response was that it "shouldn't" have been a problem. Well, "shouldn't" and "couldn't" are miles apart when you're talking about meds. So, me being the "look anything up on the web" sort of person I am, I had to go and search out data on Plavix.
It turns out that Plavix is a bi-sulfide based drug -- one source of sulphur is actually sulpheric acid. The other source is a component of a larger formula. Lisa's mother, her sister, and even Lisa cannot metabolize sulpher-based drugs and they are allergic to them.
In addition, when Lisa called her mother to find out how she was, her mother informed her that she had the flu. However, Lisa's mother didn't feel "sick" like you do when you have the flu. Yes, she's vomiting and has diarrhea but she said she just doesn't feel "sick" beyond that. Guess what a side effect of Plavix is? "Flu-like symptoms," as well as "diarrhea." Now, I'm not a rocket scientist but it seems to me that the doctor could discontinue the Plavix in favor for another blood thinner that isn't sulphur-based and see if her condition improves at all.
As long as they're contending that she has the flu, she'll not be able to have her surgery tomorrow morning to fix the carotid arteries. Poor Lisa -- at one point Friday she was in tears. She says she feels impotent, unable to do anything for her family from here. Her sister, God love her, has been at her mother's bedside every day after work, and has lost a lot of time at work for this whole ordeal. I'm sure the sister is feeling tremendous strain. They're claiming they're going to do some "testing" today to see what's wrong with her -- whatever that means. Seems to me they need to do some testing on the doctor to see what's wrong with HIM!
We scoured the kitchen yesterday, pretty much top to bottom. Cleaned off the counters completely and wiped them all down, moved the refrigerator and got all the nasty crud out from behind there and mopped the floor behind it. Lisa took off the front guard and we looked under the refrigerator into the motor compartment and nearly gagged. Suffice it to say we got it cleaned out now. Then I scrubbed the floor on my hands and knees while Lisa picked up and vacuumed the upstairs. We were pretty pooped and HOT after that and made the command decision to do the downstairs next weekend, if we're around.
Got an email Saturday night from an old, lost friend from the Army. He and his wife were our best friends way back in our early days in the Army (my ex and I, that is). We used to sit up half the night after the swing shift (3-11) and play spades -- guys against the girls. Sometimes we'd send our men out to A&W in the middle of the night for burgers and those nasty old Okinawan "mashed-potato french fries." When we left Okinawa and were transferred to San Antonio, a year later, our friends arrived there. We were transferred back to Okinawa and, a year later, there they were. We were then transferred to Ft. Devens, MA and, a year later, guess who arrived? When we went to Hawaii, it was on a re-enlistment station of choice but it would be the last we'd see of Rodger and Sharon. Rodger was sent to Korea and we just lost touch.
I'd signed on to a Yahoo! Groups site set up for that old unit we'd been assigned to in Okinawa and, even though I had no interest in the day-to-day conversation (which was BORING), I left my information there for anyone to find me. So glad Rodger went to that site!
I called Sharon Saturday and chatted with her for more than an hour -- we caught up a bit, but damn! We're going to have to get together with them! They live in northern Virginia (it seems Rodger retired from Vint Hill Farms, VA in 1994) and I'm thinking it would make an excellent "long weekend" trip! I'm so excited and thrilled to have regained these dear friends whom I had lost to the world out there. The web is a wonderful thing, yes?
Friday, March 11, 2005
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
Gosh, there's been so much going on that it's amazing!
Last Tuesday, in the midst of yet another western NY snowstorm, I slipped on a down-sloping sidewalk and fell straight on my tookas. I fell with such force that it stunned me momentarily and it took me a few moments to realize that I'd fallen and was still flat on my back in the snow. The pain brought reality rushing in. I'd fallen fully on the bone that flares out from the bottom of the spine (the bottom of the pelvis) and that bone just jammed right into the fleshy, muscular part of my fat tookas. The pain was excruciating and the momentary thought that I might have broken something crossed my mind. As I was trying to muster the ability to get up, a couple of students walked right on by on the sidewalk that runs parallel to where I was. Decent human beings, taught nothing but the best values by their parents I'd imagine.
I managed to get up on my own, with tremendous difficulty and quite a bit of pain. I contacted Public Safety and got an injury report done, saw the nurses in Health Services when they opened, and then headed directly to my chiropractor's office. It was determined that nothing was broken but it was pretty evident that I was going to have a lot of pain and discomfort for a while. Yesterday was the first day I didn't have shooting pain or even mild pain -- just mild discomfort if I rolled onto that bone the right way. Thankfully, I think I'm getting over this latest humiliation.
The very next day, I had an appointment for a sonohystiogram (ultrasound) of the cervix and uterus. Imagine trying to get your feet into those stirrups when you've got a majorly busted tookas! LOL! Anyway, the test showed a cervical polyp and a small fibroid tumor in the uterus -- which explains why my periods have been so ferocious lately. I had a follow-up with the GYN yesterday to review the results of the test and formulate a plan for treatment. Someone from her office will be contacting me within the next week or so to set up a polypectomy and a D&C. Lisa will have to take the day off when this happens.
Let's talk about Lisa taking time off for just a few moments. I adore her employer (Ginny).
Five years ago, Lisa had a seizure at work. It scared everyone pretty good, and she subsequently missed around 3 weeks of work. After she was finally able to get back to work, she noted that she'd not been charged sick or vacation time for her absence and, when she inquired of Ginny why, Ginny's response was simple: "I couldn't kick you while you were down."
Lisa asked Ginny recently, just for grins, if she'd allow Lisa to put me on her health insurance, if it were necessary. Ginny never hesitated with her response of "Yes." Her reasoning? "You're legally married, aren't you?"
Lisa's mother is in poor health (details to follow). We decided that we should go to Pennsylvania to see her mother this weekend (she's in the hospital). Lisa asked Ginny if it would be okay if she took her lunch break for today at 4:00 instead of noon, so that we could get on the road to make the 4 hour trip that much earlier. Ginny's reply? "You'll leave here at noon so you can get down there before dark."
Ginny has some warts, to be sure, but it's her HUMANITY that makes it very easy to overlook her managerial warts. That we could all work for someone like this, eh?
Now, on to Lisa's mother...
RuthAnn is an insulin dependent diabetic (as is her own mother). Some years back, some blockages in her carotid arteries were found and they were "roto-rootered" out. It seems that, once again, she has blockages. Very early last week she was sent all the way to Philadelphia where it was determined that the right side was 100% blocked and the left 70% blocked. However, it was also decided that they were going to do nothing with the 100% blocked one (although, why, I have no idea) and they sent her home with follow-ups in the immediate future. This past Monday, she had a bit of chest pain and went and got her husband, who immediately took her to the ER. By Wednesday it was determined that, not only are her carotid arteries blocked, but she has blockages in 3 arteries going to the heart, and two in the heart. She'll need bypass surgery and it now looks like that will occur on Monday. This is why we're going to PA this weekend.
I feel so bad for Lisa -- so much on her plate these past few days. But she remains good-natured and upbeat, albeit a bit more clingy (which I love anyway). How she manages to do so is always a mystery to me. We had a conversation a couple of nights ago where she was fretting, saying that she has her mother to worry about, and me too. I tried to assure her that the polypectomy and D&C are absolutely nothing to be worried about. Polyps are normal in menopausal women and D&C procedures are so routine as to be done on a same-day discharge basis. I promised her that I wasn't just pumping sunshine up her behind and asked her to take her worry for me off her plate.
Going to PA today will do her a lot of good too, I think. I also think it will do her mother a lot of good. They've got a pretty close-knit family, for the most part. When one hurts, they all hurt.
We've packed our Vagina Monologues CD for the 4 hour trip, as well as some of our favorite music. We're taking her truck (it has 4WD) in the event of snow through the mountainous regions in the norther part of PA, and we're hoping to get out of here around 2:00 or so, to get down there around the dinner hour.
Wish us luck!
Last Tuesday, in the midst of yet another western NY snowstorm, I slipped on a down-sloping sidewalk and fell straight on my tookas. I fell with such force that it stunned me momentarily and it took me a few moments to realize that I'd fallen and was still flat on my back in the snow. The pain brought reality rushing in. I'd fallen fully on the bone that flares out from the bottom of the spine (the bottom of the pelvis) and that bone just jammed right into the fleshy, muscular part of my fat tookas. The pain was excruciating and the momentary thought that I might have broken something crossed my mind. As I was trying to muster the ability to get up, a couple of students walked right on by on the sidewalk that runs parallel to where I was. Decent human beings, taught nothing but the best values by their parents I'd imagine.
I managed to get up on my own, with tremendous difficulty and quite a bit of pain. I contacted Public Safety and got an injury report done, saw the nurses in Health Services when they opened, and then headed directly to my chiropractor's office. It was determined that nothing was broken but it was pretty evident that I was going to have a lot of pain and discomfort for a while. Yesterday was the first day I didn't have shooting pain or even mild pain -- just mild discomfort if I rolled onto that bone the right way. Thankfully, I think I'm getting over this latest humiliation.
The very next day, I had an appointment for a sonohystiogram (ultrasound) of the cervix and uterus. Imagine trying to get your feet into those stirrups when you've got a majorly busted tookas! LOL! Anyway, the test showed a cervical polyp and a small fibroid tumor in the uterus -- which explains why my periods have been so ferocious lately. I had a follow-up with the GYN yesterday to review the results of the test and formulate a plan for treatment. Someone from her office will be contacting me within the next week or so to set up a polypectomy and a D&C. Lisa will have to take the day off when this happens.
Let's talk about Lisa taking time off for just a few moments. I adore her employer (Ginny).
Five years ago, Lisa had a seizure at work. It scared everyone pretty good, and she subsequently missed around 3 weeks of work. After she was finally able to get back to work, she noted that she'd not been charged sick or vacation time for her absence and, when she inquired of Ginny why, Ginny's response was simple: "I couldn't kick you while you were down."
Lisa asked Ginny recently, just for grins, if she'd allow Lisa to put me on her health insurance, if it were necessary. Ginny never hesitated with her response of "Yes." Her reasoning? "You're legally married, aren't you?"
Lisa's mother is in poor health (details to follow). We decided that we should go to Pennsylvania to see her mother this weekend (she's in the hospital). Lisa asked Ginny if it would be okay if she took her lunch break for today at 4:00 instead of noon, so that we could get on the road to make the 4 hour trip that much earlier. Ginny's reply? "You'll leave here at noon so you can get down there before dark."
Ginny has some warts, to be sure, but it's her HUMANITY that makes it very easy to overlook her managerial warts. That we could all work for someone like this, eh?
Now, on to Lisa's mother...
RuthAnn is an insulin dependent diabetic (as is her own mother). Some years back, some blockages in her carotid arteries were found and they were "roto-rootered" out. It seems that, once again, she has blockages. Very early last week she was sent all the way to Philadelphia where it was determined that the right side was 100% blocked and the left 70% blocked. However, it was also decided that they were going to do nothing with the 100% blocked one (although, why, I have no idea) and they sent her home with follow-ups in the immediate future. This past Monday, she had a bit of chest pain and went and got her husband, who immediately took her to the ER. By Wednesday it was determined that, not only are her carotid arteries blocked, but she has blockages in 3 arteries going to the heart, and two in the heart. She'll need bypass surgery and it now looks like that will occur on Monday. This is why we're going to PA this weekend.
I feel so bad for Lisa -- so much on her plate these past few days. But she remains good-natured and upbeat, albeit a bit more clingy (which I love anyway). How she manages to do so is always a mystery to me. We had a conversation a couple of nights ago where she was fretting, saying that she has her mother to worry about, and me too. I tried to assure her that the polypectomy and D&C are absolutely nothing to be worried about. Polyps are normal in menopausal women and D&C procedures are so routine as to be done on a same-day discharge basis. I promised her that I wasn't just pumping sunshine up her behind and asked her to take her worry for me off her plate.
Going to PA today will do her a lot of good too, I think. I also think it will do her mother a lot of good. They've got a pretty close-knit family, for the most part. When one hurts, they all hurt.
We've packed our Vagina Monologues CD for the 4 hour trip, as well as some of our favorite music. We're taking her truck (it has 4WD) in the event of snow through the mountainous regions in the norther part of PA, and we're hoping to get out of here around 2:00 or so, to get down there around the dinner hour.
Wish us luck!
Friday, March 04, 2005
Another step forward
Received notice yesterday that my employer's response to the lawsuit was received by my lawyer and, as expected, it was a general denial with "nothing earth shattering" or unexpected in the response.
The first deposition will be on March 29, the HR director. I'm really anxious to hear what her "story" is going to be.
I've kept a binder of all written correspondences between the HR director and myself, as well as anything else pertinent. I'll send that to my lawyer so that he can check to make sure he has everything.
I'm a bit nervous, but I'm psyched at the same time -- that something is FINALLY moving!
The first deposition will be on March 29, the HR director. I'm really anxious to hear what her "story" is going to be.
I've kept a binder of all written correspondences between the HR director and myself, as well as anything else pertinent. I'll send that to my lawyer so that he can check to make sure he has everything.
I'm a bit nervous, but I'm psyched at the same time -- that something is FINALLY moving!
Monday, February 21, 2005
Where does it end?
OK, so we've finally got a bit of equality. It seems that the Bush administration isn't just bashing homosexuals, they're bashing unmarried heterosexual couples and divorced people now, too.
Prince Charles' longtime lover, Camilla Parker Bowles has been banned from the White House because she is a divorcee.
A London newspaper (the Sunday Sun) reported that the Royal Family was notified of the ban, but that the notification did not contain references to Charles' divorce from Princess Diana several years ago.
Citing an official source of the British government, the Sun reported that Charles and Camilla's trip to the US will likely be canceled in light of these new developments.
This must be part of some new foreign policy meant to aid in mending the strained relations with European leaders....
Edited to add:
Other than the Sunday Sun and the Daily Mirror (both UK tabloid like newspapers), I've been unable to corroborate this report. Sent an email to the editors at 365gay.com, asking them for a link to their source or anything which corroborates the report other than the British rags, telling them I could find absolutely nothing in the Sun. I saw that they'd changed their story around a little bit, and no longer quoted the Sun as the sole source, but instead quoted "...the Sun and the Daily Mirror..." as having carried the news article.
Seems to me that, if there was anything to this story, mainstream media would be having a feeding frenzy over this, but I've heard and seen nothing more than this 365gay.com article, with a supporting article from the London Daily Mirror.
Prince Charles' longtime lover, Camilla Parker Bowles has been banned from the White House because she is a divorcee.
A London newspaper (the Sunday Sun) reported that the Royal Family was notified of the ban, but that the notification did not contain references to Charles' divorce from Princess Diana several years ago.
Citing an official source of the British government, the Sun reported that Charles and Camilla's trip to the US will likely be canceled in light of these new developments.
This must be part of some new foreign policy meant to aid in mending the strained relations with European leaders....
Edited to add:
Other than the Sunday Sun and the Daily Mirror (both UK tabloid like newspapers), I've been unable to corroborate this report. Sent an email to the editors at 365gay.com, asking them for a link to their source or anything which corroborates the report other than the British rags, telling them I could find absolutely nothing in the Sun. I saw that they'd changed their story around a little bit, and no longer quoted the Sun as the sole source, but instead quoted "...the Sun and the Daily Mirror..." as having carried the news article.
Seems to me that, if there was anything to this story, mainstream media would be having a feeding frenzy over this, but I've heard and seen nothing more than this 365gay.com article, with a supporting article from the London Daily Mirror.
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