This is not a good way to spend the day.....

Get to Hamad Hospital.

They do an x-ray.

They do a CT scan.

They make me drink some nasty-tasting constrast solution.

They do the CT scan again.

They give me another dose of the constract solution, this time by another route. (And that's all I want to say on the matter)

They do the CT scan again.

They decide it could be diverticulitis. Or it could be appendicitis. Their recomendation, lapriscopic surgery to see, and that way they can remove it if it is appendicitis

Prep me for surgery.

Do a chest x-ray

Have them decide that they're not going to do the surgery after all, but instead will keep me overnight for observation

Turns out there's no bed available, it being midnight. They decide to keep me in a bed in the ER until one becomes available.

3:00am, send me back to my flat with prescriptions for a pain killer, an anti-fever med, and two antibiotics. (Panadol, Ibuprofen, Flagyl, and Ciprox)

Total time there - 14 hours.

This is not a good way to spend the day.....

Get to Hamad Hospital.

They do an x-ray.

They do a CT scan.

They make me drink some nasty-tasting constrast solution.

They do the CT scan again.

They give me another dose of the constract solution, this time by another route. (And that's all I want to say on the matter)

They do the CT scan again.

They decide it could be diverticulitis. Or it could be appendicitis. Their recomendation, lapriscopic surgery to see, and that way they can remove it if it is appendicitis

Prep me for surgery.

Do a chest x-ray

Have them decide that they're not going to do the surgery after all, but instead will keep me overnight for observation

Turns out there's no bed available, it being midnight. They decide to keep me in a bed in the ER until one becomes available.

3:00am, send me back to my flat with prescriptions for a pain killer, an anti-fever med, and two antibiotics. (Panadol, Ibuprofen, Flagyl, and Ciprox)

Total time there - 14 hours.

Idiots on the road.....

Now, personally, if it wasn't for the chance he might take someone with him when he finally Darwined himself, I'd say let him on the road......

Driver's veg oil in brakes

"A DRIVER was banned from the roads yesterday — for filling his brake pipes with COOKING OIL.

Tight-fisted David Williams, 25, already had a conviction for using a rolled-up CARPET as a bumper on his rust-bucket Rover.

Horrified cops who stopped him for having a broken tail light also found he had no brakes, a bald tyre, no rear-view mirror and two broken door handles, Swansea Crown Court heard."

Idiots on the road.....

Now, personally, if it wasn't for the chance he might take someone with him when he finally Darwined himself, I'd say let him on the road......

Driver's veg oil in brakes

"A DRIVER was banned from the roads yesterday — for filling his brake pipes with COOKING OIL.

Tight-fisted David Williams, 25, already had a conviction for using a rolled-up CARPET as a bumper on his rust-bucket Rover.

Horrified cops who stopped him for having a broken tail light also found he had no brakes, a bald tyre, no rear-view mirror and two broken door handles, Swansea Crown Court heard."

Lost, one torpedo......

Damn the torpedo: navy loses practice weapon off British Columbia coast

"Beachcombers in British Columbia take note: the navy has lost an expensive practice torpedo that may wash up on shore somewhere.

The three-metre-long torpedo, containing no warhead or explosives, sank unexpectedly in January after it was launched from a military frigate near Victoria, a newly disclosed document shows.

HMCS Vancouver fired the dummy weapon just off the entrance to Esquimalt Harbour to make sure the ship-based firing system was working properly. The frigate has two launching tubes on each side at midship for attacking submarines."

Lost, one torpedo......

Damn the torpedo: navy loses practice weapon off British Columbia coast

"Beachcombers in British Columbia take note: the navy has lost an expensive practice torpedo that may wash up on shore somewhere.

The three-metre-long torpedo, containing no warhead or explosives, sank unexpectedly in January after it was launched from a military frigate near Victoria, a newly disclosed document shows.

HMCS Vancouver fired the dummy weapon just off the entrance to Esquimalt Harbour to make sure the ship-based firing system was working properly. The frigate has two launching tubes on each side at midship for attacking submarines."

My brain hurts.....

I'm all for women and men having the same rights and responsibilities, and I agree that the responsibilities in raising a family should be divided equally. Personally, I don't tend to like women that are doorstops.

If a parent, male or female, choses to stay at home to devote her or his time to raising their family, it's *their* choice.

Unleashing the Wrath of Stay-at-Home Moms

"Everybody started hating Linda, apparently, when I published an article in the progressive magazine the American Prospect last December, saying that women who quit their jobs to stay home with their children were making a mistake. Worse, I said that the tasks of housekeeping and child rearing were not worthy of the full time and talents of intelligent and educated human beings. They do not require a great intellect, they are not honored and they do not involve risks and the rewards that risk brings. Oh, and by the way, where were the dads when all this household labor was being distributed? Maybe the thickest glass ceiling, I wrote, is at home."

I'll agree with the "not honoured" (anywhere near like they should) part. But the rest???

I like this rebuttal though

This is Why So Many People Hate Feminists

"As a "feminist" - whatever that word even means - one would think Hirshman would resist the temptation to infantilize grown women, but she claims she is just "asking women the hard questions." In reality, she is expressing an intolerant world view that women who don't work are losers, which makes her scarcely different than Caitlan Flanagan (aka the Ann Coulter of stay-at-home motherhood) who attacks and lectures women from the opposite end of the spectrum. And to be clear, like Flanagan, Hirshman isn't just expressing an opinon about what she thinks is best, she is saying that any woman who makes a choice different from what she espouses is unequivocally "wrong."

My brain hurts.....

I'm all for women and men having the same rights and responsibilities, and I agree that the responsibilities in raising a family should be divided equally. Personally, I don't tend to like women that are doorstops.

If a parent, male or female, choses to stay at home to devote her or his time to raising their family, it's *their* choice.

Unleashing the Wrath of Stay-at-Home Moms

"Everybody started hating Linda, apparently, when I published an article in the progressive magazine the American Prospect last December, saying that women who quit their jobs to stay home with their children were making a mistake. Worse, I said that the tasks of housekeeping and child rearing were not worthy of the full time and talents of intelligent and educated human beings. They do not require a great intellect, they are not honored and they do not involve risks and the rewards that risk brings. Oh, and by the way, where were the dads when all this household labor was being distributed? Maybe the thickest glass ceiling, I wrote, is at home."

I'll agree with the "not honoured" (anywhere near like they should) part. But the rest???

I like this rebuttal though

This is Why So Many People Hate Feminists

"As a "feminist" - whatever that word even means - one would think Hirshman would resist the temptation to infantilize grown women, but she claims she is just "asking women the hard questions." In reality, she is expressing an intolerant world view that women who don't work are losers, which makes her scarcely different than Caitlan Flanagan (aka the Ann Coulter of stay-at-home motherhood) who attacks and lectures women from the opposite end of the spectrum. And to be clear, like Flanagan, Hirshman isn't just expressing an opinon about what she thinks is best, she is saying that any woman who makes a choice different from what she espouses is unequivocally "wrong."

It's a happy happy happy birthday, it's a happy happy happy birthday........

Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room’s is 43 today!

It's a happy happy happy birthday, it's a happy happy happy birthday........

Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room’s is 43 today!

Hugo Winner Meme

Gakked from selenite. (and since there's a couple on this list I flat out don't like, I commented on those......)

It's a list of the Hugo winners for Best Novel. I've bolded the ones I've read and italicized the ones I own.

2005 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
2004 Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
2003 Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer
2002 American Gods, Neil Gaiman
2001 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
2000 A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
1999 To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
1998 Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman
1997 Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (AND BORING!!!!)
1996 The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
1995 Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
1994 Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (Dull, dull, dull, dull and dull)
1993 Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
1993 A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge
1992 Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold
1991 The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold
1990 Hyperion, Dan Simmons (I don't think there are words to describe the level of distaste I have for this overblown piece of tripe......)
1989 Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
1988 The Uplift War, David Brin
1987 Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
1986 Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
1985 Neuromancer, William Gibson
1984 Startide Rising, David Brin
1983 Foundation's Edge, Isaac Asimov
1982 Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh
1981 The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge
1980 The Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke
1979 Dreamsnake, Vonda N. McIntyre
1978 Gateway, Frederik Pohl
1977 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Kate Wilhelm
1976 The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
1975 The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
1974 Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
1973 The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
1972 To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer
1971 Ringworld, Larry Niven
1970 The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
1969 Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
1968 Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
1967 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
1966 Dune, Frank Herbert
1966 "...And Call Me Conrad" (This Immortal), Roger Zelazny
1965 The Wanderer, Fritz Leiber
1964 "Here Gather the Stars" (Way Station), Clifford D. Simak
1963 The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
1962 Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
1961 A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M., Miller Jr
1960 Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
1959 A Case of Conscience, James Blish
1958 The Big Time, Fritz Leiber
1956 Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
1955 They'd Rather Be Right (The Forever Machine), Mark Clifton & Frank Riley
1953 The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester

Hugo Winner Meme

Gakked from selenite. (and since there's a couple on this list I flat out don't like, I commented on those......)

It's a list of the Hugo winners for Best Novel. I've bolded the ones I've read and italicized the ones I own.

2005 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
2004 Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
2003 Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer
2002 American Gods, Neil Gaiman
2001 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
2000 A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
1999 To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
1998 Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman
1997 Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (AND BORING!!!!)
1996 The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
1995 Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
1994 Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (Dull, dull, dull, dull and dull)
1993 Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
1993 A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge
1992 Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold
1991 The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold
1990 Hyperion, Dan Simmons (I don't think there are words to describe the level of distaste I have for this overblown piece of tripe......)
1989 Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
1988 The Uplift War, David Brin
1987 Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
1986 Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
1985 Neuromancer, William Gibson
1984 Startide Rising, David Brin
1983 Foundation's Edge, Isaac Asimov
1982 Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh
1981 The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge
1980 The Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke
1979 Dreamsnake, Vonda N. McIntyre
1978 Gateway, Frederik Pohl
1977 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Kate Wilhelm
1976 The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
1975 The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
1974 Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
1973 The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
1972 To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer
1971 Ringworld, Larry Niven
1970 The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
1969 Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
1968 Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
1967 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
1966 Dune, Frank Herbert
1966 "...And Call Me Conrad" (This Immortal), Roger Zelazny
1965 The Wanderer, Fritz Leiber
1964 "Here Gather the Stars" (Way Station), Clifford D. Simak
1963 The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
1962 Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
1961 A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M., Miller Jr
1960 Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
1959 A Case of Conscience, James Blish
1958 The Big Time, Fritz Leiber
1956 Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
1955 They'd Rather Be Right (The Forever Machine), Mark Clifton & Frank Riley
1953 The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester

I don't think I have words......

Some things are not improved by Japanese Animation.......

Japanese Animated Toilet Training Video (intended for children, may not be safe for work)

I don't think I have words......

Some things are not improved by Japanese Animation.......

Japanese Animated Toilet Training Video (intended for children, may not be safe for work)