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Blog Thread III : Look Who's Blogging Now
Thomas Edison:
Head Injuries:
If you have a concussion it can take up to 5 minutes to 6 hours for symptoms to appear. If you can, check that your pupils are the same size and are responding to light (cover one with your hand for a minute, in front of a mirror, and watch it shrink!). You'll either feel sick, dizzy, have blurred vision or become very drowsy, or all of the above. As you know yourself better than anyone else, if you feel any of these come on, get your puny longboarding arse to A&E and get your head checked out. 95% of the time concussions lead to nothing, rarely it can lead to things such as cerebral compression, which is a major downer.
Wearing a helmet:
The number of times I've been at dirt jumps or a skatepark and some young teenager has smacked his head in because he wasn't wearing a helmet is crazy, but it doesn't seem like the most common thing anymore. Usually now you see kids biting through their lips/tongue when they fall off, which means I've seen more and more people wearing gum shields when they ride.
General blog:
I was up at 5am to start work at 6 wheeeeeeee
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Spluff on 14 Feb 2010, 21:01 ---So You've Decided To Put Your Graphics Card In the Oven; And Other Stupid Ideas You Got From The Internet
--- End quote ---
A few years ago HP made a batch of printer network cards that commonly failed in the field; it was so extensive that if you knew where to call, they would replace them out of warranty just based on the serial number; they did for me. When I had a second failure and was searching for number to call, I found (1) that they had finally stopped doing the replacements, and (2) a claim that heating one of the chips on the board with a heat gun for a minute would fix it.
It did; and I fixed half a dozen others for colleagues after that.
Not quite all urban myths are wrong!
Emaline:
That is crazy and strange, but totally awesome. Also, Spluff, if I were doing the same thing, I would also forget to remove the stickers.
Guys, I have blisters all over my feet from wearing bad shoes for two days and walking a lot. Everything hurts.
So, the symphony was amazing. Today was fantastic, and I would not believe it actually happened if I did not live through it, and even still I don't believe it so much. So, first, we went to the symphony, and it was great and fantastic, and I loved every second of it, and it was so nice to go back to going to that sort of thing(when I was a kid, I went a lot with my school because I went to a fancy art school). It was so nice hearing all those beautiful pieces. I think I was the only person there who had visible tattoos, though, and I got quite stares from the mostly much older crowd. A few people actually talked to me and that was pretty nice. I told some old lady about the band Cursive, because she was checking out my buttons and I think she was intrigued. And another lady and I discussed how crazy the weather was and how we were glad our SOs were going to get their cars to bring around for us.
The weather was quite crazy, though. I wore a shortish skirt, just a bit above my knee. When we went into the symphony, it was fine. It was cold out, but it the upper 30s, and softly snowing. Very nice weather indeed, and the only part of my body that was cold was my thumbs. Leaving the symphony, however, the weather dropped 15 degrees, and it was now quite windy and blustery, and snowing very hard. I was not about to brave the walk back to the car amid crazy weather and ice, and hard winds, and whatnot, so my wonderful bf decided he'd bring the car around for me.
The crazy weather almost ruined the rest of our day because we have a terrible car, and basically, we cannot get up hills when the weather gets bad, or drive over little bits of snow that stack up from cars pushing it to the side. So basically, we are usually fucked. But we got out and back before it got too bad.
For dinner, we went to this really awesome vodka bar, that specializes in sushi and really nice burgers. I had a $19 hamburger. It was a kobe beef Hawaiian burger. It had Canadian bacon, Swiss cheese and grilled pineapple on it. With that burger, I have tasted heaven. It was amazing. With our drinks, two appetizers, two sandwiches(he got a "Sushi burger" which was a grilled tuna steak, with pickled ginger, and wasabi. It was also a little piece of heaven), and a slice of homemade carrot cake for dessert, our total came to $80. So...woo fancy dinner! I guess maybe. I feel bad spending so much on dinner but it was really nice and I'm really glad my boyfriend took me out. We ate like kings so it was worth it.
Overall, Valentines day rocked so hard! Also, my boyfriend bought me Incredible Machine, and we've been playing it together, and A)It is so much fun, B)We spend most of the game laughing our butts off, and C)Man, why do they not make games like this anymore.
In all, I super love my boyfriend and he is great and amazing, and Jesus, sigh, swoon, words cannot explain how great he is. I think he summed it up best when we were laying in bed together after dinner, "Shit, I forgot the engagement ring."
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Slick on 14 Feb 2010, 20:51 ---The fact that a head hit a wall implies the necessity of a helmet. I do not want to say 'you should of been wearing a helmet' but I did want to point out that after my head-hit the doctor gave me that no-sleeping advice to be on the safe side, and I do not want Patrick to die. I reply here again because I find your no-helmet sentiment disheartening.
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I managed to sleep a little bit, because unfortunately I managed to miss seeing your advice. But, fortunately, I am not dead! Doesn't mean I'm not gonna be getting as much caffeine into my system as I can, though, 'cause now I'm scared stupid of dying in my sleep.
For the record, I was not wearing a helmet when I thunked my noggin on that wall. I sure as hell will be wearing a helmet from here on out. You can bet everything I own that I won't step on a fucking longboard ever again without at least a helmet.
I know exactly how lucky I am. The only real injuries I have are the fact that my entire right side aches from taking all the impact shock, and my right knee and elbow got rubbed pretty damn raw when they hit the ground. If I'd been hit by a car while crossing that 4-lane road, I could've died. If I hadn't absorbed 90% of the impact shock by ninja-rolling (which I did completely by accident!), I could've hit my head harder than I did and been knocked out, or worse. Counting my blessings here.
Update: right shoulder moves very, very slowly. It aches and feels very stiff. Owwwwwww.
jodizzle:
Aaron made me a flower out of tissue for Valentines! Our anniversary is so close to valentines ti seemed silly to do anythign for it. Anyway, his Pokemon Nintendo 64 just came in the mail so he is happy.
Only 2 more weeks until our holdiay! Yaaay Noosa and 4.5 star resort and a week of no work and laying about and being sexy!
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