[Centzon Totochtin]

My horribly broken elbow is now mostly healed and I can lift things and use it again mostly! The muscles as still somewhat angry with me and the metal in the arm is not overly comfortable all the time. but I function! And if can really hurt someone if i elbow them in the face Also I have lost 1.1kg in the past week. Always feels good.

Tip for the day: do not break your bones in to pieces. It hurts. Everyone I show the scans to, even after me saying it was quite severe, gets startled at the breaks. It is fun!

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

 - Coltaine -, on 14 August 2018 - 08:07 AM, said:

Summer Breeze Festival is starting tomorrow. And I will be there. Metal and beer for four days

Just back from Bloodstock myself - enjoy!

WMMHT: Well not today, but the weekend just past. I went to Bloodstock and it was wonderful - Nightwish were incredible. But a little more importantly, the festival is where I met my ex and I'd only ever been the once without him before since meeting him, so there was some hefty negative association with going through the gates on the Friday. It took a bit more of an act of will than I expected, but it was so worth it and once inside it felt like coming home and coming back to a family.

I dunno really how to explain it, but it feels like having conquered another tiny little piece of the whole puzzle. It's anothe association effectively looked in the face and told "sod you". Feels like progress!

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[Maark Abbott]

 Tsundoku, on 14 August 2018 - 08:01 AM, said:

 Tiste Simeon, on 13 August 2018 - 05:38 PM, said:

Today is my 7th wedding anniversary! It just keeps getting better!

Oh and we found out a while back but I never shared it: we're having a boy!

"... and I shall call him ... Mini-Simi."

Or should that be semi-Simi?

When Simi becomes a great granddad will the great grandson be Hemi-demi-semi-Simi?

[Malankazooie]

Just the ever so slight cool, crisp snap in the air early this morning. I think this woeful, static, furnace of a summer may be about to break towards the lovely days of cool autumn.

[Coco with marshmallows]

 Centzon Totochtin, on 14 August 2018 - 08:49 AM, said:

My horribly broken elbow is now mostly healed and I can lift things and use it again mostly! The muscles as still somewhat angry with me and the metal in the arm is not overly comfortable all the time. but I function! And if can really hurt someone if i elbow them in the face Also I have lost 1.1kg in the past week. Always feels good.

Tip for the day: do not break your bones in to pieces. It hurts. Everyone I show the scans to, even after me saying it was quite severe, gets startled at the breaks. It is fun!

how did you break it?

[Centzon Totochtin]

 Coco with marshmallows, on 15 August 2018 - 06:55 AM, said:

 Centzon Totochtin, on 14 August 2018 - 08:49 AM, said:

My horribly broken elbow is now mostly healed and I can lift things and use it again mostly! The muscles as still somewhat angry with me and the metal in the arm is not overly comfortable all the time. but I function! And if can really hurt someone if i elbow them in the face Also I have lost 1.1kg in the past week. Always feels good.

Tip for the day: do not break your bones in to pieces. It hurts. Everyone I show the scans to, even after me saying it was quite severe, gets startled at the breaks. It is fun!

how did you break it?

Fell over walking, one step up off the ground and on to concrete, landed on my outstretched arm and watched the elbow go the wrong way... instead of dislocating it broke 2 of the bones in to some pieces. I am talented

[Morgoth]

I just sent a demand for an increase in salary, and a change to a more senior position. I am confident that I will get some of what I'm asking for, but I think I might have gone a little overboard with a 20 % increase. Still, it never hurts to go high.

[Maark Abbott]

 Morgoth, on 15 August 2018 - 12:20 PM, said:

Still, it never hurts to go high.

You have inflated the value of your client's claim for financial betterment. We request full access to your client's medical records and notify you that the claim shall no longer proceed within the MOJ Portal.

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[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Dad's had the all clear from the hospital! He's been signed back into the care of his GP from the heart clinic, and can go back to work as of next week (albeit building up his days slowly). Said it's a textbook recovery, and aside from the fact he'll be on some of the medication for life (I gather that's a given regardless) he's going to be back to normal in time, and in the long run much better than he has been for the past few years as the heart problem was a slowly degenerating genetic thing.

Literally been sat in floods of tears at my desk. So happy and relieved, there aren't words!

[Andorion]

 TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 15 August 2018 - 01:34 PM, said:

Dad's had the all clear from the hospital! He's been signed back into the care of his GP from the heart clinic, and can go back to work as of next week (albeit building up his days slowly). Said it's a textbook recovery, and aside from the fact he'll be on some of the medication for life (I gather that's a given regardless) he's going to be back to normal in time, and in the long run much better than he has been for the past few years as the heart problem was a slowly degenerating genetic thing.

Literally been sat in floods of tears at my desk. So happy and relieved, there aren't words!

That's great news. So happy for you!

[QuickTidal]

 TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 15 August 2018 - 01:34 PM, said:

Dad's had the all clear from the hospital! He's been signed back into the care of his GP from the heart clinic, and can go back to work as of next week (albeit building up his days slowly). Said it's a textbook recovery, and aside from the fact he'll be on some of the medication for life (I gather that's a given regardless) he's going to be back to normal in time, and in the long run much better than he has been for the past few years as the heart problem was a slowly degenerating genetic thing.

Literally been sat in floods of tears at my desk. So happy and relieved, there aren't words!

I totally know this kind of relief about family members and health results...I'm SO Happy that this was the result you all got. Wish your dad all the best from us in his recovery!

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Thanks guys!

[Tiste Simeon]

Awesome Hannah I'm thrilled for you! X

[Macros]

decided to check if Barca were playing when I am going to be in town.

they are indeed.

just purchased one ticket for Barcelona V Huesca. whoop!

[Slow Ben]

Awesomesauce!!



To RB, not Mac's (soccer?) thing.

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[Macros]

Football, the word is football

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

New man in my life

[Macros]

I dunno RTB, you need to watch yourself with this one, he looks a bit flighty

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Yay, puns!

His name is Lancelot (and that is not my fault, they apparently promised a little boy whose family are regulars that he could name the next kestrel...), and he is an American Kestrel - believe it or not, in another year he'll be even more colourful than he is now!

He made a good step in his training with me yesterday in that he ate on the glove (it's a step of trust in a bird, they're relaxed enough to eat within your proximity), so hopefully in another few weeks we'll be able to start teaching him display flight work. I taught my previous kestrel to hover in display, time to see if I can do it again

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[Tiste Simeon]

I hope you get through the hawkward early stages quickly.