[Loki]

Tiste Simeon, on 18 May 2015 - 07:01 AM, said:

Loki, on 18 May 2015 - 06:26 AM, said:

Just found out my uncle had a heart attack earlier today and had to be air-lifted to hospital. Apparently, he had a second major heart attack in transit and is now in intensive care. They're in Spain so it's making it hard to get updates.


If you pray, please keep him in your prayers, he only very recently became a grandfather and hasn't met his grandchild yet.

I'm on it. Keep us updated when you know anything.

Thank you

As of the last update, he is still in ICU and they are working on stabilising him enough so he can be transferred to a hospital with a dedicated cardiac department.

My aunt and uncle recently moved to rural Spain so their nearest hospital isn't much more than an emergency department. So they need to get him to a larger hospital but, as always, there's a risk associated with moving him.

I feel really bad for my aunt as she doesn't have any local friends or family to lean on.

[Maark Abbott]

Double whammy of bad news yesterday. My aunt on dad's side passed on suddenly, and my fiancee's grandfather on her dad's side passed on as well.

I'm gonna have to buy a suit. And I fuckin' hate suits.

[Solidsnape]

Maark, on 19 May 2015 - 06:38 AM, said:

Double whammy of bad news yesterday. My aunt on dad's side passed on suddenly, and my fiancee's grandfather on her dad's side passed on as well.

I'm gonna have to buy a suit. And I fuckin' hate suits.

You can use it for your sisters wedding too!!

...and they say I don't listen.

[Maark Abbott]

Solidsnape, on 19 May 2015 - 07:14 AM, said:

Maark, on 19 May 2015 - 06:38 AM, said:

Double whammy of bad news yesterday. My aunt on dad's side passed on suddenly, and my fiancee's grandfather on her dad's side passed on as well.

I'm gonna have to buy a suit. And I fuckin' hate suits.

You can use it for your sisters wedding too!!

...and they say I don't listen.

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[Solidsnape]

Briar King, on 20 May 2015 - 02:20 AM, said:

Termites Strike Back! Actually it's more like Tanners Truck Strikes Back. I just left my house to go feed my sisters cats and the damn things decided to smarm again. Jumped in the truck real fast and for about a 11 mile stretch all I heard was rain(I mean termites smashing against the Dodge)...

Your life sounds scary and alien to me BK.

Stupid early sunrise is messing with my groove.

[Tsundoku]

Briar King, on 20 May 2015 - 02:20 AM, said:

Termites Strike Back! Actually it's more like Tanners Truck Strikes Back. I just left my house to go feed my sisters cats and the damn things decided to smarm again. Jumped in the truck real fast and for about a 11 mile stretch all I heard was rain(I mean termites smashing against the Dodge)...

Unlucky - not only are there eleventy billion of them, but it seems they all have a superior attitude as well ...

[Maark Abbott]

The painstaking wait when you ask work for emergency holiday and no-one has come back about it.

Funeral in just over a week. Haven't been to one in nearly ten years. Going to have two in this year alone... Ugh.

[Maark Abbott]

Funeral to go to a week from today.

[Mezla PigDog]

The protracted way in which adult friendships die is messing with my groove. Nobody has done anything wrong, it is someone I used to work with but since I moved jobs it is very hard to see each other. We are complete chalk and cheese personalities so it is tonnes of fun when we get together but what used to be going out for lunch or after work is now an epic attempt to fit into each others lives. It is dragging out in fits and starts of both having the best intentions but it not really working out and feeling rubbish. If it was a romantic relationship we would sit down and say "This just isn't working, let's call it a day" but friendships don't tend to have those rules so it is going to continue dying a slow death until we both give up. Bleugh, I hope she doesn't think I'm a shit bag.

[Maark Abbott]

To add to my funerary woes:

Family situation with the missus has come up. Essentially, her uncle blames her mum for her dad's suicide (ten years on) in spite of the fact that her grandparents didn't and accepted her mum as family. Consequently me and Mrs have found lodging, Mrs' sister and mum are struggling. It's all fucking puerile considering that her nan will be upset if Mrs' mum isn't able to go.

Jeuuuuuuj. Time to play diplomat...

[A Demon Llama!]

I got the date of my own birthday wrong. For some reason for the past 2 days I thought it was on May 25th.... its not.

[Gnaw]

http://www.businessi...h-recall-2015-5

GM committed criminal acts. No shit. But probably nobody is going to jail.

[Gust Hubb]

Gnaw, on 23 May 2015 - 04:02 PM, said:

http://www.businessi...h-recall-2015-5

GM committed criminal acts. No shit. But probably nobody is going to jail.

Not surprising. The rich don't go to jail. They just lose insignificant amounts of money.

This is bringing me down. Mostly because I feel like Africa isn't the only place with these people:

http://www.bbc.com/n...africa-32796851

[Andorion]

And the Indian summer is in full swing. 355 dead across the country. Thats the minimum confirmed toll. 48 C highest temperature.

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 24 May 2015 - 04:32 AM, said:

I saw that. Monsoon season would help that a lot. Meteorologists here are predicting a below average summer cause all predictions are coming in that a major to ultra El Niño is gonna start happening soon.

If the El Nino doesn't slow the monsoon down. I am a bit hazy on this but while the El Nino may bring rain to the US, it can retard our monsoon significantly. Hope it rains soon and in a sustained manner. Even the hills are getting 35C + temperature. Taxis dont want to go out in the daytime as 15 drivers have apparently died. And this is only in my city. I have seen people collapse in front of me in the bus. A motorcyclist nearly died when he blacked out due to the heat and crashed his bike on a flyover. Thankfully the other vehicles stopped and they got him to a hospital

[Tsundoku]

Andorion, on 24 May 2015 - 04:51 AM, said:

Briar King, on 24 May 2015 - 04:32 AM, said:

I saw that. Monsoon season would help that a lot. Meteorologists here are predicting a below average summer cause all predictions are coming in that a major to ultra El Niño is gonna start happening soon.

If the El Nino doesn't slow the monsoon down. I am a bit hazy on this but while the El Nino may bring rain to the US, it can retard our monsoon significantly. Hope it rains soon and in a sustained manner. Even the hills are getting 35C + temperature. Taxis dont want to go out in the daytime as 15 drivers have apparently died. And this is only in my city. I have seen people collapse in front of me in the bus. A motorcyclist nearly died when he blacked out due to the heat and crashed his bike on a flyover. Thankfully the other vehicles stopped and they got him to a hospital

And people wonder why I regard aircon (and remote control) as humanity's greatest technological advance instead of the wheel or fire.

In other news ...

http://www.foxsports...u-1227365958324

Really? Please don't let that get a foothold here. Melburnians, I appeal to your (somewhat wayward) good taste. Just because your home is a desolate wet and windy wasteland, and you tend to go to any sport in droves because you have nothing else in your lives, please don't give the impression we actually might be interested in this.

This post has been edited by Sombra: 24 May 2015 - 07:06 AM

[Andorion]

Ac is wonderful but sadly not an option for many people here (including my family) as it quadruples the electricity bill. Plus we live in an old house which is almost impossible to modify to make it AC compatible.

Two small examples of the daily heat over here:

Today around midday I was hanging up washing on our terrace. There were around 10-15 articles. By the time I was done, the first two I had hung up had gone from dripping wet to half dry.

Recently a friend of mine had to go out in the afternoon. He soaked two handtowels in water and used them to cover his face and head. A 20 minute bus trip later, both the towels were dry.

[amphibian]

The monsoons are such a tricky thing, esp right now for Nepal. The landslides turn into far more dangerous mudslides, water pools and turns into cholera and mosquitos, but we still need them for crops and sheer heat relief.

Too much kills, too little kills, just right almost never happens.

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 24 May 2015 - 05:35 PM, said:

Is it wet heat like I get or dry heat?

Oh very wet heat. Here the humidity is usually in the low 90s or the high 80s. But in North and central India its very dry heat.

[Andorion]

amphibian, on 24 May 2015 - 04:10 PM, said:

The monsoons are such a tricky thing, esp right now for Nepal. The landslides turn into far more dangerous mudslides, water pools and turns into cholera and mosquitos, but we still need them for crops and sheer heat relief.

Too much kills, too little kills, just right almost never happens.

Last I saw the landslide caused blockade over the Kali Gandak was overlfowing water. The risk of flash flood remains. i was thinking that the rains coupled with the destabilised landscape will probably make for a miserable monsoon for Nepal.