[MTS]

My groove-messer is laughably minor compared to what other people are sadly going through atm (mine is the fact that it is -7 degrees here atm - in Australia!).

[QuickTidal]

amphibian, on 06 August 2014 - 02:05 AM, said:

Stolen smartphone.

Had a big chunk of my life on it (I believe I have back-ups of the important stuff, but damnit).

Frantically trying to find it via remote now and I believe it has been turned off.

Did you have that App which turns on the camera and snaps a pic of whoever turns it on? Find My Iphone is great, but that picture one is even better because that person is 100% NAILED for the theft...and they don't even know the pic was taken. It emails you immediately so they can't delete it. It costs $3/mnth for peace of mind.

http://www.dailymail...bile-phone.html

Sorry it got ripped off Amph, that always sucks. Hope they find the bastard.

[RACHEL]

Lost Marine, on 03 August 2014 - 07:06 PM, said:

6 months ago my wife died giving birth to our first child. They took her in for a C-section and she never came out. I have a healthy 6 month old boy who means the world to me but I also have a nagging empty hole.

I don't feel like I have really processed it fully because work and caring for my son have completely subsumed me.

Sometimes I feel like we're just waiting on her to come back through the door.

That is sooo sad Lost Marine. Sorry for your loss.

[Mezla PigDog]

Oh god, the internet can be a terrible place. Don't you hate when you stumble across someone blogging or writing articles about one of your specialist subjects and their ignorance almost physically hurts? I was just reading up on a new Ebola diagnostic that has been given emergency clearance by the FDA and stumbled across a chap who seems to think that all viral outbreaks are conspiracies - HIV, swine flu and now Ebola. He spouts lots of data to back up his theories but he misunderstands it all. He explains why the diagnostic tests are lying because they don't work every time and that health workers/scientists who claim they do are lying. Nobody made that frickin claim in the first place dipshit.

Must. Not. Get. Sucked. In....... AAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH.

Anyone who wants to hurt themselves in a similar manner can go here: My link (the link inserter isn't working properly so I can only name it "my link").

Also all the peeps up thread with proper shit going on - condolences. It feels shitty to ignore it but there's not a lot you can say. Lost Marine - a friend lost his wife in different circumstances but I think his first year just went by in a complete blur.

[HiddenOne]

Hey, Mez. Since this is your field, how scared should we be of a pandemic? Do I need to start the stockpiling of canned meat and ammunition?

[Mezla PigDog]

HiddenOne, on 07 August 2014 - 11:41 AM, said:

Hey, Mez. Since this is your field, how scared should we be of a pandemic? Do I need to start the stockpiling of canned meat and ammunition?

You should always stockpile canned meat and ammunition! The thing that takes us out will be the one we don't see coming!!

Caveat to my spouting off as an expert - my speciality in life is diagnostic testing for infectious and genetic diseases so I'm not some Ebola guru. Don't ask how I came about having that speciality as it is more accident than design. I really don't think there will be an Ebola pandemic. The spread of these things can usually be prevented by quite mundane and simple measures in western medicine. It is a case of organisation and reaching a critical mass of equipment and know-how to make the difference in resource poor settings. Stuff like bleach, rubber gloves and face shields will keep at bay if it reaches our shores (and isolation wards).

It is a bugger of a virus though. Spread through bodily secretions and its pathology causes excessive bodily secretions! I believe the majority of early cases came via transmission from the bodies during funereal rites. The cleaners at the clinics are some of the most at risk of infection. Also the fact that it can take 21 days to manifest symptoms after exposure is a bit crap.

One thing we should all hope for is that when the much-foretold-by-scaremongering-media humanity-destroying-pandemic does hit, please let it not be a haemorrhagic fever!

[Illuyankas]

One positive is that ebola has killed less than 5000 people, ever. Don't really see that increasing by much unless someone goes lick-happy.

[Gust Hubb]

Illuyankas, on 07 August 2014 - 01:03 PM, said:

One positive is that ebola has killed less than 5000 people, ever. Don't really see that increasing by much unless someone goes lick-happy.

This from the guy with the dog avatar.

[worry]

So between cases of people getting ebola is there like a steady chain of monkeys getting it, and like every few days one monkey explodes and a nearby one gets infected, on and on, week after week, until a monkey finally explodes near a human and we pay attention again?

[Satan]

Lost Marine, on 03 August 2014 - 07:06 PM, said:

6 months ago my wife died giving birth to our first child. They took her in for a C-section and she never came out. I have a healthy 6 month old b
oy who means the world to me but I also have a nagging empty hole.

I don't feel like I have really processed it fully because work and caring for my son have completely subsumed me.

Sometimes I feel like we're just waiting on her to come back through the door.

This fellow just won the groove-messing thread and all he gets are four comments over the next week? Must say, The Inn's grown cold lately.

[QuickTidal]

Fuck.

He was a phenomenal talent.

Goddamit this sucks.

O, Captain, My Captain

[Gothos]

When the only upside of your job is that you at least have one, things are not good. I can't stay here. But where would I go?

[Tsundoku]

Satan, on 07 August 2014 - 10:28 PM, said:

Lost Marine, on 03 August 2014 - 07:06 PM, said:

6 months ago my wife died giving birth to our first child. They took her in for a C-section and she never came out. I have a healthy 6 month old b
oy who means the world to me but I also have a nagging empty hole.

I don't feel like I have really processed it fully because work and caring for my son have completely subsumed me.

Sometimes I feel like we're just waiting on her to come back through the door.

This fellow just won the groove-messing thread and all he gets are four comments over the next week? Must say, The Inn's grown cold lately.

Because the man has been through (and is still) feeling pain we can't ever imagine, and IMHO anything we said would be completely inadequate.

This post has been edited by Sombra: 12 August 2014 - 12:23 PM

[Gothos]

Sombra, on 12 August 2014 - 12:22 PM, said:

Satan, on 07 August 2014 - 10:28 PM, said:

Lost Marine, on 03 August 2014 - 07:06 PM, said:

6 months ago my wife died giving birth to our first child. They took her in for a C-section and she never came out. I have a healthy 6 month old b
oy who means the world to me but I also have a nagging empty hole.

I don't feel like I have really processed it fully because work and caring for my son have completely subsumed me.

Sometimes I feel like we're just waiting on her to come back through the door.

This fellow just won the groove-messing thread and all he gets are four comments over the next week? Must say, The Inn's grown cold lately.

Because the man has been through (and is still) feeling pain we can't ever imagine, and IMHO anything we said would be completely inadequate.

Then there's those like me who don't actually read anything here other than replies to my own posts (aka self-centered assholes).
Also, it's one of those heavy caliber problems that I just have nothing for.

[Mentalist]

Headache. For over a week now.

Went to see my Family Doctor yest. He said it was a "tension headache" and prescribed some tablets to relieve the pain. I lost the prescription on the way home, will have to grab it again tomorrow

from the moment I wake up to the time I sleep, the back of my head is in a gentle vise--not debilitatingly painful, but very annoying. but sometimes it squeezes harder. Only time I don't feel it is when i'm wholly occupied on a task (usually playing soccer, or doing some other physical activity).

[Mezla PigDog]

Ment - I get tension headaches that turn into migraines. Check yourself for things like clenching or grinding your teeth or hunching up your shoulders or frowning excessively. I do it subconsciously when I'm stressed and find that if I notice I am doing any of them, I can stop and work out the muscles and head the headache off. Mine are the front of my head and eyes though so may be different triggers.

[Slow Ben]

Just had to evict a family with 4 kids.

I feel like i'm gonna throw up.

[Gust Hubb]

Goddamn people can smell bad. Today's stale tobacco smoke miasma was courtesy of some dude with a lot of luggage in a camo ball cap. Public transit sucks sometimes...

[Ukjent]

Just got the sad news that my half brothers grandmother passed away.. Fittingly enough I was watching a movie and had paused it on a scene where the whole screen was filled with Seize the day...

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

Ouch.

For me, it seems my depression is coming back full bore. Had a meeting with my boss about it today to let him know what was going on (I've had trouble getting to work/working lately). Scheduled an appointment with my doctor, which probably means going back on meds. Really don't dig this situation. Basically lost years of my life last time I went through this. I am trying do the things I think will help me do better and staying positive when I can, but it can be really fucking tough some days.