Boy this forum is d-e-a-d. It used to be a race to see who opened the new WOTT. It's almost Friday, night! 
Don't miss winter, one bit:
Why People Go South In Winter
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=xkk7DX0l95A&L
We have had only one or two "snow's" this winter, none over 2 inches. Many days in the 50's although not as warm as Jan 2008. The Super Bowl is next Sunday, here, so we'll probably get a blizzard. 
hpmsrm wrote:My wife says it is all my fault. After she fell on the ice last winter and dislocated her shoulder......this late fall I purchased slip-ons with cleats which pull over our shoes. $20 per pair....total $40. Now they sit there on the shelf in the garage. I haven't laid a hand on a snow shovel yet this winter.
I read an article recently about a report from a large association of European scientists. They have evaluated measurements from literally thousands of ocean temp. sensors......have monitored the energy output from the sun during the peaks and valleys of its various cycles (which they say has been dropping) and have inputted various other climate measurements. Their conclusion is that the planetary warming peaked in 1997 and that the cooling cycle has begun. Of course it will take a very long time.....perhaps hundreds of years or more.....but they predict another ice age. The unknowns are how severe it will be and how much influence humanity has had. I wish I had copied a link because I don't remember all the details. There are so many, many variables.....some that most folks are not even aware of. The earth's orbit is not perfectly circular. Rather it is an ellipse so the distance from the sun varies annually. The earth's rotation is not stable. Its axis wobbles over thousands of years. The sun exhibits cycles within cycles. The best known is the 11 year sunspot cycle but there are several others including energy output.....temperature variances in the outer regions of the sun and in the corona. The sun also bloats and shrinks on a regular schedule. So with all these variables it is really quite a miracle that we are here at all......here in the Goldylocks zone. On a cosmic scale it really is quite a fragile existence we lead.
Yup, all that thinking and worrying about what our climate will be like in a hundred years and come December a star on the other side of the galaxy will go supernova and blast us with a gamma ray burst and make the earth look like a golfball in a microwave oven.
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Any one feel the quake in N. IL/ S. WI this morning. 2.3 IIHC and centered on Kenosha, WI. Definately not the norm for around here. I think thats 4 in the last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yRdDnrB5kM
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I really want to become a procrastinator, but I keep putting it off.
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“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them." :Bertrand Russell
Computer-Joe wrote:
Any one feel the quake in N. IL/ S. WI this morning. 2.3 IIHC and centered on Kenosha, WI. Definately not the norm for around here. I think thats 4 in the last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yRdDnrB5kM
Another fracking earthquake??
Uniblurb3 wrote:
Another fracking earthquake??
No, I don't think we have gas in Illinois, unless you want to count all the hot air coming out of Springfield. 
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“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them." :Bertrand Russell
Hey CJ, was just making a quip and trying to "pull your chain"! Looks like it worked. LOL.
Yeah, remember Don Cornelius's voice well and too bad he decided to take his own life.
Hate to keep bringing this fiasco up and I've "washed my hands" of Jack Hanna at his stance on the Zainsville wildlife massacre. But what the heck is going on at the Columbus Zoo where he's the Director Emeritus??
One of the Leopards which was saved had to be euthanized because a keeper lower a big metal gate on his neck breaking it. Just horrible and they blame it on the Leopard's vertebrae problems. But wonder how a healthy Leopard would make out on a large metal gate being dropping on it's neck??
And they also blame the Leopard for darting back into his cage as the gate was being dropped. Keep in mind this Leopard saved itself in Zainsville by staying in his cage, or going back in on his own, and wonder if he had visions of all the other big cats/animals being shot/killed who left their cages?
I'm probably reading too much into this but there's no mention of the keeper being at fault. Believe it was just outright neglect/not paying attention to what he was doing in dropping the gate on this animal's neck which caused this poor Leopards death. Sad. 
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012
Last week a 29-year-old female Bald Eagle (Barbara) died at the Columbus Zoo. At least she raised 16 eaglets, 15 which were released into the wild. Guess an enlarged heart/irregular heatbeat did her in. A little easier to comprehend and cope with than the Leopard story.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012
When I was a teenager I worked a couple summers at the Columbus Zoo and conditions were just horrific for the animals. A keeper told me they had a 50% mortality rate for the monkeys who were all moved into the basement under the monkey house every winter.
Things are a whole lot better at the zoo these days and they have many of the animals in natural habitat type enclosures. Believe they just need to get Jack Hanna away from the zoo completely because he has a black cloud following him. Just my opinion....
oufanindallas wrote:Haven't been in much lately. Wife had surgery last Thursday to repair a torn bicep. Have been taking care of her. Has about a 2 1/2" incision on the inside of her left arm where the repair was made. Hydrocodone keeps her pretty loopy but she's starting to do better now.
Geez, don't you know your supposed to push the car when it runs out of gas?!
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Computer-Joe wrote:
oufanindallas wrote:Haven't been in much lately. Wife had surgery last Thursday to repair a torn bicep. Have been taking care of her. Has about a 2 1/2" incision on the inside of her left arm where the repair was made. Hydrocodone keeps her pretty loopy but she's starting to do better now.
Geez, don't you know your supposed to push the car when it runs out of gas?!
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NOW you tell me. 
She thought she did it around Thanksgiving lifting my son, but dr. said during post op that it was worse than they initially thought and probably had been done before she thought. She only had one small piece of tendon (doc said it was about the size of a sewing needle) keeping the muscle attached. Going to be a long painful recovery, but she should get full mobility back eventually.
oufanindallas wrote:
NOW you tell me.
She thought she did it around Thanksgiving lifting my son, but dr. said during post op that it was worse than they initially thought and probably had been done before she thought. She only had one small piece of tendon (doc said it was about the size of a sewing needle) keeping the muscle attached. Going to be a long painful recovery, but she should get full mobility back eventually.
Ouch!
Tell her best wishes for a speedy recovery.
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I really want to become a procrastinator, but I keep putting it off.
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“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them." :Bertrand Russell
oufanindallas wrote:
Computer-Joe wrote:
oufanindallas wrote:
Haven't been in much lately. Wife had surgery last Thursday to repair a torn bicep. Have been taking care of her. Has about a 2 1/2" incision on the inside of her left arm where the repair was made. Hydrocodone keeps her pretty loopy but she's starting to do better now.
Geez, don't you know your supposed to push the car when it runs out of gas?!
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I really want to become a procrastinator, but I keep putting it off.
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“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them." :Bertrand RussellNOW you tell me.
She thought she did it around Thanksgiving lifting my son, but dr. said during post op that it was worse than they initially thought and probably had been done before she thought. She only had one small piece of tendon (doc said it was about the size of a sewing needle) keeping the muscle attached. Going to be a long painful recovery, but she should get full mobility back eventually.
WOW! Give her my best wishes for complete recovery. Tendon surgery is scary stuff. When I was a teenager I could never reach down and touch the floor while holding my legs straight. Just not possible. Diagnosed as short main tendons in the back of my legs. Surgery suggested would have been to cut the tendons half way through and then, supposedly, when they healed the tendon would be longer. My decision was that I could live my life just fine with short tendons and without the surgery. I was never very interested in athletic pursuits anyway.....totally irrelevant in my life. Now days I doubt such a procedure would be suggested. I pray your wife's arm tendon heals completely and returns to full strength.
We're in Colby, Kansas tonight. Will resume trip to Colorado Springs early in the morning. Trying to beat approaching snow storm. Going to visit my wife's brother and his wife. Wouldn't you know.....we get this far in one of the warmest, snow free winters on record and as soon as I plan a road trip.....a big storm blows in from the west. Yep....my little black cloud is still following me around.
It is amazing what they can do. Several years ago my son did some damage to his finger. He could take it and bend it completely outwards from the bottom knuckle. Monday they took a tendon out of his arm, shaved the bone on his finger and replaced the old tendon with the new one. After so many years, I was amazed they could fix it. (BTW he did it as an adult, I had no say in what he did with it at the time it happened )
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dhascall wrote:
Feel your pain, oufan. My wife tore her bicep and rotator cuff in fall a few years back. She healed nicely, even with not wearing her sling too much!
My mom offered to come down and help with my son and wife after she got back from her trip to Hawaii. Unfortunately she won't be helping me out since she tore her rotator cuff and broke her collar bone while she was at the Byodo-In Temple. Her and her friend had just made their donation and rang the bell for good luck and she fell down 4 stairs and landed wrong. I told her she should have given more than a quarter.
