September's Bells and Schools Thread

[tuq]

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I'll spend forty minutes or so on the first page of Moby Dick.

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Wow, talk about a fate worse than death. If the kids are smart they'll flee like a fire alarm went off.

[katyseagull]

In search of a picture of Mat Sklansky. Don't want him to know. I feel it's safe to post this here. What are the odds he's going to read the Lounge?

You'd think it would be simple. That one pic has popped up all over the forums for a long time now. Db suggested I google it. I was like are you kidding? I don't want to comb through all those 2+2 hits that result from a google search. I don't have all day you know. He goes "Google image". Ok, yea right. Like Google Image is going to pop up my favorite pic of Mat. Sadly, it did not. But I did find some funny stuff.

This one made me laugh.

[daveT]

My friend from England is finally moving to America, but NY and not LA. I am very happy for her. I wanted to bring her out here, but I never did because I couldn't conceivably afford it.

Well, she has to let me meet her in The City, since I never been.

(No, we aren't uh, you know....)

[daveT]

So, I went and got my foot x-rayed yesterday. Can't wait until next week when I can know what is going on with it. Doc thinks it is arthritis, but that doesn't help explain the lack of function in it. It's not coming off, thank goodness.

Yes, Mrs. Utah, the compliment was out of place and random, but I wouldn't know a better place to put it.

[entertainme]

Explain what's going on with your foot. I missed this somehow.

Also, alert to WI and MN drivers: The Boy is now driving, currently with his permit. You have been warned. (Actually he's doing pretty well for just getting started.)

[Fishwhenican]

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Also, alert to WI and MN drivers: The Boy is now driving, currently with his permit. You have been warned. (Actually he's doing pretty well for just getting started.)

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My daughter just got her license a month or so ago and I am still not at all used to it!!! Kids start driving (legally) when they are 15 here in MT and it just scares me to death to have her out driving by herself. I do not know if I will ever get over this!!!!

On ther other hand it is VERY nice to not have to drive her around and she helps out getting her brother back home after football practice which saves us a 40 mile trip (one way) every day to go get him. So at least there is an up side to it. Still doesn't make me feel better though, really.

[diebitter]

15 seems very young for driving!

Says the guy who comes from the country where you can have consensual sex from 16 upwards, and drink from 18 upwards. Driving is 17, btw.

[entertainme]

Well Fish, this is our second one through the process. In WI you can get your license at 16 after having a permit for 6 months first, and putting in the required hours driving with parent and instructor. (Of course, farm kids can get it earlier.) We also have a graduated license, so they can only drive with one friend in the car and only during certain hours for the first year. I think it's a good thing.

This is our second time through and hopefully the first year of driving will be less expensive than it was for The Girl. She totaled my van two months after getting her license, (black ice on a curve on the way to school.) Of course, the important thing is no one was hurt.

Both our kids were way less anxious to start driving than we were at their age and I have a nephew who just got his license at 18. We've been debating the reason they're not screaming for the independence like we were. Have everything they need at home? The expense? It's a mystery to me.

[katyseagull]

Yo, DaveT!


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Explain what's going on with your foot. I missed this somehow.



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entertainme and I want to know what's going on with your foot. What are your symptoms?

[daveT]

Well, according to my papers from the doctor: Patient says he cannot dorsiflex r ft.... now pull out that word on the scrabble board.

For whatever reason, I am not able to lift the front of my foot, if that makes sense. The opposite of the achilles tendon is not working, if that helps the visual. The front of my ankle hurts like ####. Walking is hard because my foot scrapes them clomps down on the ground. Very attractive sound.

But you didn't miss anything entertainme, I ne'er mentioned my foot.

We don't know what it is yet. All that is known is that I apparently injured it several times, and I have some arthritis in it. They know about the arthritis because of the clicking noise when they press on my bones (this hurts).

They gave me some drugs: 500mg of Tylenol, and capsaicin, which is a very very hot pepper (as in DO NOT EAT). I put a dab of this stuff on my ankle twice a day and my whole shin burns... the gel is only made of .025% of this stuff. Of coarse, that is why they gave me the Tylenol. I guess that experience shows that with reduced swelling comes increased pain.

I think the doctor sort of beat-around-the-bush asked me if I wanted a cane. Uh, NO!