BS: stay afloat while others don't

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 06:59 PM

Facemask off tomorrow
and I can eat at the same table with others now.

I Just have to watch that residual cough.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 06:59 PM

with any luck,
I will be permitted to join others at the table
for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

But I have to spend Saturday masked and social-distanced first.

At least the weather is fair and mild.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Dec 23 - 02:38 PM

I skimmed back but am not up to what Mrrzy's remark was about (neck and chocolate). And surgery on the 13th - how did it go?

COVID is taking out folks around here also. A couple of professor friends ended the semester with it and passed it to family members before figuring it out. As the commercial says, the pandemic may be over, but COVID isn't gone. I hope everyone is fully vaccinated.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Dec 23 - 01:35 PM

Well, I've now been in and out of isolation.
I am told that it is common for patients treated with Paxlovid
to get lingering faint positives on their first antigen test after treatment, as I did.
Anyway my symptoms are much improved, and there is no fever.

So, the protocol now is to mask and to social distance,
and in particular
not to eat in the presence of others.
Otherwise I can leave the isolation room
and sleep in my own room again.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Dec 23 - 01:21 AM

Bonne chance, Mrrzy, with the surgery today (13th).

Since the Sunday concert, the chorister who stands next to me in performance, has tested positive for COVID-19, and cannot perform in the third concert on Saturday.
I'll get tested tomorrow which will be the third day after exposure.

In the meantime I have a cough which is mild when I am upright
and severe when I lie down to go to sleep. Sleep is elusive.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Dec 23 - 10:19 AM

Lovely, keb.

I am trying not to freak out about my neck. Chocolate is helping, but must be moderate...

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Dec 23 - 08:48 AM

One concert down, two more to go,
and one of those is this Sunday.

Friday went well but felt sort of unreal,
especially being in a church where we have never sung before.
A relief, really, to have overwith.

Our other concerts start in the afternoon.
It will be dark by the time we go home,
but at least we will begin before the sun goes down.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Dec 23 - 04:50 PM

My chorus had the big dress rehearsal two nights ago.
If I didn't know better, I would use the word disaster.
But really it was just a bunch of problems that piled up.
We had the rehearsal all right, and covered all the repertoire.
It's just that:

our performance venue is a church where we have never sung before.
It's hidden away in an old neighborhood on a hill,
and it's almost impossible to find AFTER DARK
which is the time of both rehearsal and Friday performance.
I drove back and forth hunting for the right cross street.

And,
one of the accompanist string players came down with COVID-19
so the string quartet will be a string trio.

And,
our faithful pianist had to rush his ailing wife to the hospital
following dire results on a full CAT scan.

Well, you know what they say about the worst dress rehearsals . . .

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Dec 23 - 09:59 AM

Yikes, keb! Verticality!

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Dec 23 - 08:05 PM

Well, my spirits are good and my person is functional,
in spite of a recent fall in which my face scraped a brick pavement.
I was lucky; I was carrying a packed tote bag in front of me,
which broke my fall, otherwise it would have been a lot worse.

The scabs are almost all healed on my face now, they cleared up quick.
What needs attention now is my knee, which took the brunt of the fall.
It's still swollen and I am still using ice on it.
HOwever, the X-ray of the knee showed no fracture... only arthritis.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 02:21 PM

And hope they had insurance.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Oct 23 - 02:40 PM

Good manners drummed into women made dealing effectively with anger a challenge for the youthful me. As I get older I'm much more likely to push back, if I take a few minutes to consider the situation (if possible.) It means BS is called BS more often.

The SUV alert for oil change and tire rotation has been going off for a couple of weeks now; I've figured out which button to push twice to get them to go away during any given trip, but they come back next time I turn on the SUV. I have a note to call this week (since I also have a coupon for the oil and tire rotation that expires in early November.) Hoping to go a bit longer before new tires are needed.

On Friday during evening rush hour I had to traverse six miles of busy boulevard between my house and a friend's house (to feed her cats). I was headed toward town, so I didn't think it would be as busy, but on Friday it seems all such calculations are off. Things were creeping along and I realized I had to take my turn to weave between a crunched sedan at the curb and a bright red pickup with a smashed in front end that sat perpendicular to my lane. Police and tow truck hadn't arrived yet and the truck seemed unwilling to move. And as I slowly took my turn, I herd another collision in the lane travelling south. A quick glance showed a SUV was rear-ended. That was four drivers having probably the worst day of the week and I am always aware that any of us could be next. The glance was in the rear view mirror because rubber-necking always causes accidents.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 02:36 PM

In MD if the other guy has no insurance the State covers your damage.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 10:17 AM

A friend who had just lost her job was in an awful car accident last week, smashed ler leg up proper.... the ambulance chasers are already circling. Hope she gets zillions.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Oct 23 - 06:23 PM

Thank you, Mrrzy and Helen!

My auto's warning system has been calibrated, and the tires filled,
so now everything is where it is supposed to be.
The timing of that dashboard warning is telling.
I was reminded by an acquaintance that
the change of seasons brings on a sudden temperature change
which can affect tire pressure equally suddenly.
So, although the tires had enough air in them anyway,
there would have been a sudden overnight change
which might have been enough to trigger the dashboard warning.
Anyway, it's done now.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 01:55 PM

Anger is more an obstacle than a spur for me,
thanks to a lifetime of stuffing anger down and numbing it.
Therapy helped me deal with some buried anger this past week
and to my surprise I feel better.
I was always afraid that if I felt the anger,
I would feel sick, disturbed, out of control, I don't know what else.
Still, I feel more healthy now than when the anger was numbed out.
This is a big development for me.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Sep 23 - 06:04 PM

One of these days, I have to get
the Shingrix vaccine against shingles.
I keep putting it off.
But my grandmother had shingles and they were awful,
I remember her being bedridden.

They have just announced the death of Senator Dianne Feinstein,
and shingles was one of the things she was struggling with
in her final days, which sound like they were very difficult.

In the meanwhile,
Jimmy Carter looks set to observe birthday 99 tomorrow,
and Mudcat has a birthday then as well (but not 99).

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Sep 23 - 10:24 AM

Talking of others not staying afloat:
there is a big hot mess in the patient community here.
It finally came to everyone's attention that
a group of very young patients were sharing cannabis and having intimate relationships with each other. It was all in secret,
but an older patient found out, and told.

Close to ten patients are discharging,
which is an unheard-of number to happen all at once.
Some are leaving of their own free will, others got kicked out.

Some within this large group have been through a re-evaluation process
and then were permitted to continue treatment.

It's going to be a little quieter, I think, when they all leave.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Sep 23 - 08:48 PM

The chorus that I joined has had the summer off,
and will resume in about two weeks.

Last year we performed the Brahms Requiem in June;
next June we are to perform Bruckner's Mass no. 3 in F minor,
which is another big long heavy piece.
Although it is supposed to be easier than Brahms for the chorus to sing.

I've just been listening to the
"Benedictus" movement from the Bruckner Mass;
it is slow and gorgeous.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 24 Sep 23 - 04:18 AM

Aaahh! Of course! Sorry Maggie, you or someone else has explained that to me previously - sadly my 76-year-old grey matter doesn’t retain ‘stuff’ as efficiently as it used to!

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 02:20 PM

Had my Covid jab last Saturday, and my Flu jab coming up in a couple of weeks - what is ‘the RSV dose’?

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 03 Sep 23 - 05:00 AM

”The sensors in tires that give pressure information fail after a few years. On my old Pathfinder I was told that 7 is average.”

I’ve never owned a car seven years. Although, in those hard-up times when my kids were small and my wife was a stay-at-home mum, I’ve bought cars, out of financial necessity, that were already seven years old (and more)! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 05:11 PM

I had mine today. Covid jab in the left arm, flu jab in the right.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 06:38 PM

RSV is a respiratory virus that can stick around for a long time and like flu, it can kill people. FDA Approves First Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine. The drug manufacturers are on a vaccine development roll lately.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 02:08 PM

The next round of vaccines for COVID are out, and my appointment is this afternoon. At this point it is a yearly vaccination, I don't think it is considered a booster.

Staying afloat these days means staying on top of the new vaccinations as they become available. Flu last week, and soon, the RSV dose. Everyone stay healthy out there this autumn and winter!

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Oct 23 - 07:12 PM

Maybe that's what people need. Dashboard warning lights.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 02:28 PM

Excellent! I have fear of my anger, too. Autoirasciophobia?

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Helen
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 06:43 PM

Hi keb, well done! :-)

I discovered when I was in my early 20's that I get angry when I feel powerless in a situation. That helped me to divert my attention from my own anger towards examining the situation which made me feel powerless, and then trying to find solutions to that situation or, especially if it was in the past, admitting I could do nothing about it and trying to accept that. My own feelings about my anger were made worse because I realised that when I am angry I cry, and then that makes me look like I am not in control so it was a bit of a vicious cycle until I realised how my mind and emotions were working, often against each other.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 02:36 PM

In MD if the other guy has no insurance the State covers your damage.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 02:21 PM

And hope they had insurance.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 10:17 AM

A friend who had just lost her job was in an awful car accident last week, smashed ler leg up proper.... the ambulance chasers are already circling. Hope she gets zillions.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Oct 23 - 02:40 PM

Good manners drummed into women made dealing effectively with anger a challenge for the youthful me. As I get older I'm much more likely to push back, if I take a few minutes to consider the situation (if possible.) It means BS is called BS more often.

The SUV alert for oil change and tire rotation has been going off for a couple of weeks now; I've figured out which button to push twice to get them to go away during any given trip, but they come back next time I turn on the SUV. I have a note to call this week (since I also have a coupon for the oil and tire rotation that expires in early November.) Hoping to go a bit longer before new tires are needed.

On Friday during evening rush hour I had to traverse six miles of busy boulevard between my house and a friend's house (to feed her cats). I was headed toward town, so I didn't think it would be as busy, but on Friday it seems all such calculations are off. Things were creeping along and I realized I had to take my turn to weave between a crunched sedan at the curb and a bright red pickup with a smashed in front end that sat perpendicular to my lane. Police and tow truck hadn't arrived yet and the truck seemed unwilling to move. And as I slowly took my turn, I herd another collision in the lane travelling south. A quick glance showed a SUV was rear-ended. That was four drivers having probably the worst day of the week and I am always aware that any of us could be next. The glance was in the rear view mirror because rubber-necking always causes accidents.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Oct 23 - 07:12 PM

Maybe that's what people need. Dashboard warning lights.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Oct 23 - 06:23 PM

Thank you, Mrrzy and Helen!

My auto's warning system has been calibrated, and the tires filled,
so now everything is where it is supposed to be.
The timing of that dashboard warning is telling.
I was reminded by an acquaintance that
the change of seasons brings on a sudden temperature change
which can affect tire pressure equally suddenly.
So, although the tires had enough air in them anyway,
there would have been a sudden overnight change
which might have been enough to trigger the dashboard warning.
Anyway, it's done now.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Helen
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 06:43 PM

Hi keb, well done! :-)

I discovered when I was in my early 20's that I get angry when I feel powerless in a situation. That helped me to divert my attention from my own anger towards examining the situation which made me feel powerless, and then trying to find solutions to that situation or, especially if it was in the past, admitting I could do nothing about it and trying to accept that. My own feelings about my anger were made worse because I realised that when I am angry I cry, and then that makes me look like I am not in control so it was a bit of a vicious cycle until I realised how my mind and emotions were working, often against each other.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 02:28 PM

Excellent! I have fear of my anger, too. Autoirasciophobia?

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 01:55 PM

Anger is more an obstacle than a spur for me,
thanks to a lifetime of stuffing anger down and numbing it.
Therapy helped me deal with some buried anger this past week
and to my surprise I feel better.
I was always afraid that if I felt the anger,
I would feel sick, disturbed, out of control, I don't know what else.
Still, I feel more healthy now than when the anger was numbed out.
This is a big development for me.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Sep 23 - 06:04 PM

One of these days, I have to get
the Shingrix vaccine against shingles.
I keep putting it off.
But my grandmother had shingles and they were awful,
I remember her being bedridden.

They have just announced the death of Senator Dianne Feinstein,
and shingles was one of the things she was struggling with
in her final days, which sound like they were very difficult.

In the meanwhile,
Jimmy Carter looks set to observe birthday 99 tomorrow,
and Mudcat has a birthday then as well (but not 99).

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 24 Sep 23 - 04:18 AM

Aaahh! Of course! Sorry Maggie, you or someone else has explained that to me previously - sadly my 76-year-old grey matter doesn’t retain ‘stuff’ as efficiently as it used to!

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 06:38 PM

RSV is a respiratory virus that can stick around for a long time and like flu, it can kill people. FDA Approves First Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine. The drug manufacturers are on a vaccine development roll lately.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 05:11 PM

I had mine today. Covid jab in the left arm, flu jab in the right.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 02:20 PM

Had my Covid jab last Saturday, and my Flu jab coming up in a couple of weeks - what is ‘the RSV dose’?

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 02:08 PM

The next round of vaccines for COVID are out, and my appointment is this afternoon. At this point it is a yearly vaccination, I don't think it is considered a booster.

Staying afloat these days means staying on top of the new vaccinations as they become available. Flu last week, and soon, the RSV dose. Everyone stay healthy out there this autumn and winter!

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Sep 23 - 10:24 AM

Talking of others not staying afloat:
there is a big hot mess in the patient community here.
It finally came to everyone's attention that
a group of very young patients were sharing cannabis and having intimate relationships with each other. It was all in secret,
but an older patient found out, and told.

Close to ten patients are discharging,
which is an unheard-of number to happen all at once.
Some are leaving of their own free will, others got kicked out.

Some within this large group have been through a re-evaluation process
and then were permitted to continue treatment.

It's going to be a little quieter, I think, when they all leave.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 03 Sep 23 - 05:00 AM

”The sensors in tires that give pressure information fail after a few years. On my old Pathfinder I was told that 7 is average.”

I’ve never owned a car seven years. Although, in those hard-up times when my kids were small and my wife was a stay-at-home mum, I’ve bought cars, out of financial necessity, that were already seven years old (and more)! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Sep 23 - 08:48 PM

The chorus that I joined has had the summer off,
and will resume in about two weeks.

Last year we performed the Brahms Requiem in June;
next June we are to perform Bruckner's Mass no. 3 in F minor,
which is another big long heavy piece.
Although it is supposed to be easier than Brahms for the chorus to sing.

I've just been listening to the
"Benedictus" movement from the Bruckner Mass;
it is slow and gorgeous.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Aug 23 - 02:59 PM

That sounds very convincing, about the tire sensors --
so the dashboard light is in fact working fine,
just the sensors are off.

Presently I am driving the car with that light signal on the dashboard,
it does not switch off at higher speeds,
and if the car is stopped and started again, the signal lights up again.

This is probably a job for the service mechanic.
In the meantime the wheels and tires are as they ought to be.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Aug 23 - 02:42 PM

Indeed

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 22 Aug 23 - 01:08 PM

Steve: That sounds suspiciously like the running gag in Big Bang Theory about the engine warning light in Penny's car, which was always on, much to Sheldon's distress. The last exchange I can remember about it was (from memory):

What about the warning light?
That's still working, but the engine isn't.

Subject: RE: BS: stay afloat while others don't
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Aug 23 - 09:35 AM

For at least seven years my old Ford Focus used to flag up "engine malfunction" and put itself into limp mode. All I had to do was pull over, stop the engine for ten seconds and start up. Problem solved. It might do it twice a day, twice a week or twice every six months. You would never know. Issue never resolved and there were no error codes. Blind panic the very first time it happened, breakdown callout, the lot, and shoulder shrugs after that.