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The Anchorage, Part 3
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Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
Thanks, Miss B! The bruises on my legs look quite spectacular today
Blowing like hell today, still sunny, still warm out of the wind, but doing anything on the foredeck is unfun. Did what I needed to do up there and now shall ignore it till the wind drops.
Mythocentric
Extraordinary
Take care Lorraine. We don't want Jack Sparrow turning up only to find you in 40 shades of black and blue! Glad you are OK though! 
Just finished roasting a chicken ready for lunch tomorrow, though I somehow suspect it might have mislaid a leg by then!
Best wishes of the season to you all! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!
Just finished roasting a chicken ready for lunch tomorrow, though I somehow suspect it might have mislaid a leg by then!
Best wishes of the season to you all! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!
Myth, that would be a shame! Mmmmm, fresh roast chook, nom!!!
Sounds like Dreamer is feeding an army (you can send the pav over).
We don't have daylight savings in Queensland. I miss it as it gets light so early. I think the sky was so bright because we had a storm that evening (red sky at night sailors delight, red sky in morning sailors warning) it was a pretty light show but I couldn't get pix of the lightning.
We don't have daylight savings in Queensland. I miss it as it gets light so early. I think the sky was so bright because we had a storm that evening (red sky at night sailors delight, red sky in morning sailors warning) it was a pretty light show but I couldn't get pix of the lightning.
Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
My dear Rae, I have experienced your lightning and if I may say so, you can keep it! Scared the living daylights out of me and my daughter and son-in-law as we sheltered under an inadequate cover on a tin boat up a creek on Stradbroke Island while an electrical storm crashed and banged around us and pelted us with huge hail. Super!
I left work an hour early (oh like I hadn't put in my full 7.5 hours since I rarely ever take a lunch) so I could get to the gas station before it was dark.
Nope. I hadn't even got out of Center City before it was dark! and full dark before I got another mile.
Parts of my commute (and the drive to the gas station) are dimly lit. Then the street between City Avenue and Lancaster is practically pitch black. So ... fun, fun, fun!
Though anywhere else in the world, and I'd love driving in the dark. But when you're trying to see pedestrians (and most especially college students) dressed in black crossing against the light or in the middle of the block or those headlightless bicyclists or just other cars, it's so not fun driving on dimly lit streets.
A clearly suicidal guy crossed the street in front of me while I was still in Center City. Wasn't like we were stopped either. Nooo ... traffic was moving, and he didn't even bother to look to see if he was crossing in front of a moving car! Darwinism in action for sure! I just don't want to be the one responsible for removing the "unfit."
And ... it's apparently official. Only 13% of accidents are because the drivers are on cell phones. 67% were caused by distracted or "lost in thought" drivers. These are distractions other than smoking, pets or other critters inside the car, children or other occupants, adjusting mirrors/seatbelts/car controls. Well ... here is the breakdown.
In other words, we're thinking about the day or what to fix for dinner or any of the various things we think about when we're supposed to be focused on the task at hand ... whether that task be driving a car, walking, bicycling or riding public transportation. How else do you explain someone missing their stop on the bus/train, stepping out into the street against a light into moving traffic, or breezing through a red light/stop sign or past a car attempting to turn right or suddenly swerving in front of a car.
Yes indeed. Take us out of the jungle, and we've forgotten survival depends on being fully aware at all times of everything around us or we're someone's dinner.
I really do not understand why it is so freaking important I'm awake in the wee hours of the night! Now, I'm wide awake, and she's off somewhere sleeping. Though first she spent a half hour pestering me since I was still ignoring her. But go back to bed, and she will be pulling at my blanket trying to get me up again. The rules seem to be that if she is awake, I need to be awake too.
Nope. I hadn't even got out of Center City before it was dark! and full dark before I got another mile.
Parts of my commute (and the drive to the gas station) are dimly lit. Then the street between City Avenue and Lancaster is practically pitch black. So ... fun, fun, fun!
Though anywhere else in the world, and I'd love driving in the dark. But when you're trying to see pedestrians (and most especially college students) dressed in black crossing against the light or in the middle of the block or those headlightless bicyclists or just other cars, it's so not fun driving on dimly lit streets.
A clearly suicidal guy crossed the street in front of me while I was still in Center City. Wasn't like we were stopped either. Nooo ... traffic was moving, and he didn't even bother to look to see if he was crossing in front of a moving car! Darwinism in action for sure! I just don't want to be the one responsible for removing the "unfit."
And ... it's apparently official. Only 13% of accidents are because the drivers are on cell phones. 67% were caused by distracted or "lost in thought" drivers. These are distractions other than smoking, pets or other critters inside the car, children or other occupants, adjusting mirrors/seatbelts/car controls. Well ... here is the breakdown.
In other words, we're thinking about the day or what to fix for dinner or any of the various things we think about when we're supposed to be focused on the task at hand ... whether that task be driving a car, walking, bicycling or riding public transportation. How else do you explain someone missing their stop on the bus/train, stepping out into the street against a light into moving traffic, or breezing through a red light/stop sign or past a car attempting to turn right or suddenly swerving in front of a car.
Yes indeed. Take us out of the jungle, and we've forgotten survival depends on being fully aware at all times of everything around us or we're someone's dinner.
I really do not understand why it is so freaking important I'm awake in the wee hours of the night! Now, I'm wide awake, and she's off somewhere sleeping. Though first she spent a half hour pestering me since I was still ignoring her. But go back to bed, and she will be pulling at my blanket trying to get me up again. The rules seem to be that if she is awake, I need to be awake too.
Oh I know the name of that game. I have a friend who, up until she retired back in January, always called me from her cellphone while she was driving home from work. HUH?!?!?!?!? I can't tell you how many times I'd scream at her, CALL ME BACK WHEN YOU GET HOME!! and then hang up on her. ~sheesh~
I don't see much difference between someone talking to the people in their car or someone on the phone ... as long as the phone is hands free/bluetooth. It's when they are holding a phone or fighting with the person on the phone. It's rather scary to look in the rearview mirror and see someone clearly flipping out!
At least you know you have a problem behind you and can start protecting yourself by ... oh. Slowing down to a crawl. It's those people who are zoned out that are really the scariest. There usually isn't any kind of indication the driver behind you has checked out until they ram you because you stopped at a light and they were lost in thought.
I am snuggled in nice and cozy at home now! Both doctor's visits accomplished. Now, I'm waiting on groceries. Nothing at all to do and nowhere to go until Tuesday! Yay!
I was supposed to have gotten blood work done during the last six months, but every time I'd been near the lab, I'd eaten something ... or I just wanted to go home after visiting the periodontist ... or I'd been to the vet and had Tsuki with me. So ... rather than write a new script, my doctor said I could use the one he'd already given me. So, I grabbed the pile of scripts out of my bag and started looking through them. The first one he saw ... he said that's it! No it wasn't. It was dated 2014. So was the next one. And the next one. And so on, all the way back to 2010. He took each one from me and threw them away. Just shaking his head. I never did find the most recent one! So he wrote a new one after all.
He also said I only needed not to eat four hours before the fasting blood work. Sooo ... I could have had the blood work done after all.
At least you know you have a problem behind you and can start protecting yourself by ... oh. Slowing down to a crawl. It's those people who are zoned out that are really the scariest. There usually isn't any kind of indication the driver behind you has checked out until they ram you because you stopped at a light and they were lost in thought.
I am snuggled in nice and cozy at home now! Both doctor's visits accomplished. Now, I'm waiting on groceries. Nothing at all to do and nowhere to go until Tuesday! Yay!
I was supposed to have gotten blood work done during the last six months, but every time I'd been near the lab, I'd eaten something ... or I just wanted to go home after visiting the periodontist ... or I'd been to the vet and had Tsuki with me. So ... rather than write a new script, my doctor said I could use the one he'd already given me. So, I grabbed the pile of scripts out of my bag and started looking through them. The first one he saw ... he said that's it! No it wasn't. It was dated 2014. So was the next one. And the next one. And so on, all the way back to 2010. He took each one from me and threw them away. Just shaking his head. I never did find the most recent one! So he wrote a new one after all.
He also said I only needed not to eat four hours before the fasting blood work. Sooo ... I could have had the blood work done after all.
Very true, and at least my friend has a bluetooth headset similar to mine, so at least she has both hands on the wheel. I guess I was just too used to driving to and from work myself, so the only distraction might be a song on the radio (or one of my CDs) that I would sing along with.
Now that's interesting, as my Internist insists I don't eat for at least 10 hours before drawing blood, so I usually head to her office first thing in the morning, and then pick up breakfast on the way home.
Exactly what I have the blood tests for, though at my age, I'm also worried about my A1C/Sugar number too.