INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours
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woooHooo
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And sleeping through the night!
Happy Friday!
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Hi ladies---well most are
I'm srry I didn't read everything u guys talk so much.
enerva I did read about u'r sister u know we're all pulling for her, I'll pull Chevy's leg. My sister never got chem or rads, just that monthlyshot wich is now every 3 months and meds for cancer and she is ding wonderfully, better than me that bitch.
Who said ca we trust the government? Made me laugh, living in IL with the past couple of governors and others in politica from our state and are now in jail---I would say never trust the government, plus don't forget I worked the the state for over 20 yrs. I know it's a terrible thing to say but in this stte it's true and we're no 4 as the most corrupt state of all.
Oh and that fever sounds way to high to me can u take a cool bath, have someone rub a dry wash cloth all over you or something similar, that has helped me. If u still have it tonite go to the ER. Let them give u an IV that's the best.
And Spookie u'r not as old as dirt, Chevy is but I'm sure your memory will work about u'r childhood and living in the caves, that's about u'r age group and I helped hllow out the caved so see u'r not so old.
I've been in the bsthroom most of the morning and not to read either. And I got invited to 2 parties tomorrow nite, I'm so upset 2 in one nite and me hovering over the toilet.---there's a party for next weekend too. Oh the woes of being such a party animal, it ain't easy.
OK I just stopped in t say hi and hoping everyone has a better day today.
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thanks Cammi
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Rose, Please calling Chevy and Cami Fossils wasn't harsh. We JOKE allot here. But when they don't read the joke it does make it a problem. You will never find two people like Chevy and Cami . I believe they missed their callings and should have been script writers for Saturday Night Live or Johnny Carson. They could have been Abbott and Costello. It's very unusual for me too make a joke. But that's why I love so much that Chevy & Cami have chosen to be here. I do once and a while try, but of course seems awful if you haven't seen us before. The fossil line was meant to be a straight man lead in line for each of them to run with........
Chevy, nope the opposite, I suggest that we are to saturation point on Ebola. I will compare it to Hurricanes. When I first moved to Florida in 1992, 6 months later Andrew happened. Totally glued to all things hurricane then, and maybe the next year. But then I learned all it did was make me crazy. Plus, it was expensive to get ready for i.e supplies, outdoor prep, money stash, and other stuff.
NOW, I watch the weather once and awhile. If a blow is developing. I watch the track maybe once a day. I lay in supplies in June for the whole summer. I've fixed the shutters so they are either up and covering, to the side of each window and just need to be moved over, or they are stored within feet of the window they are fitted for. I have minimal but functional outdoor stuff. Everything's designed that I have very minimum work. Therefore, if a blow IS coming near, no problem.
How does that apply to Ebola?
We all know the signs and symptoms, so that learning is done.
I suggest STOP watching the news. Only pay attention to what is happening in your immediate area. Why? All the worst is over to a degree. It is in localized places right now. The ineffectiveness and lying has been uncovered. This is good. Media WILL keep on this ad nauseum (Chevy Latin for nausea, you asked me about that before). This is good that the media is bulldogging everything. Government will actually fix this mess, but it will take awhile. It's likely to get messier before it gets better b/c there have been so many screw ups. Like I said before, a ridiculous script.
The positive about the screw ups, is it allows the REAL PROTOCOLS to be put in place and real training to be done. We are better for this, I just hope no on else dies. In the long haul we will have better infection control for everything.
We have had PPE rules since 1986. With the Dallas foul ups, I now understand why infection control has been out of control for decades. CDC thought we had Emory/Nebraska standards, and what is the standard throughout the USA is Dallas. This may be hard to understand. As I keep saying it's the difference between a Lexus and an Escort. What's easy to understand is almost everyone is fearful of hospital based infections. All hospitals outside of the Lexus category are functioning on the Escort category. This is why hospital based infections are such a problem throughout the USA.
What will eventually happen b/c of ALL these foul ups is 1. better understanding of infectious disease/contagion, 2. what constitutes Isolation rules and everything that goes along with infectious disease, and 3. the public is educated RE: what is right.
The bar for standards and the application of standards will be set sooooo much higher. The public will never again accept Escort standards.
So, unless you are in a direct location or taking a trip, do yourself a favor and treat the story right now the same way I treat hurricanes. Check in maybe once a day. Even better take a break.
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In my last post, I suggested why it's now time to take a break from Ebola. BUT I just came across this article that addresses the fear and anxiety that is occurring. It's a good read because some one with a big time reputation and a degree in the field is saying the same thing, essentially. SO please, read, THEN take an Ebola break.0 -
OMD!!!! Harsh? Go back about 40-50 pages, read the banter between those two. And Chevys pole dancing days! Which nobody lets her get by with since she "tripped on a rock last winter"
Um hm
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ok ok this is what you 3 do. Got it. I grew up in a household of nothing but brothers and the only girl. They made teasing into an art form. I never really understood the girl ribbing and teasing. Boys are meat ax blunt! You three do chatter and banter lots. There isn't thread quite like this one. Amusing.
Carry on! Be well.
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Wait a minute.....is there a fight going on here? lol, i'm so confused!0 -
No fights. I never fight. I walk away.
Just acknowledging that sas schatzi calling chevy a fossil was all in fun and not "harsh" as I initially thought.
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Oh you GUYS! Remember when I was "fooling around with Vinnie?" Hah! Now THAT was something to write home about! And yes Cammi! Well Cammi is like my other HALF! She and I would not know what to do if we couldn't tease each other....! MAN, I hope no-one ever takes us serious..... I mean serious about ANYthing we say.
See Cammi used to be a stripper in her olden days.... She worked on the streets, under street lights, while I was inside! I was inside an establishment where they have Pole dancing, and loud music, and slinky clothes.... None of which I did, or had...
Getting back to my ramble..... I actually fell whilst walking in the alley with my Husband.... We did that a lot.... looking for vittles and things we can use.... But I accidentally stepped on a rock the size of a cast-iron stove! I twisted my ankle, and went down with a THUD..... More like a SPLAT! And I could not MOVE....! I could have made that commercial! "Help, I've fallen, and I can't get UP!"..... But I tried, and whined.... and DH was trying to lift me, but I was dead weight! Can you IMMAGINE? I tried pulling myself up on his pants legs.... pulled his pants right off..... right there in the alley.
But I finally got upright.... Then a miracle happened! "Steve" came driving by.... we had been visiting his Mom.... His Dad was in the car with him.... And here we were just STANDING there.... Me holding on to DH for dear life...... He had his pants on by this time..... So he took his Dad in, got the wheel chair out of the car, and wheeled me home, into my car, and to the damn Hospital!
Now I am fine and dandy again.... But Cammi isn't.... She has these things going wrong, and I swear she needs to buy a lifetime supply of Immodium AD.... That will fix her.
But she goes to a lot of parties! Party animal!..... More later.....! xoxoxo
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That's half the story, and she's stickin' to it!
It's a fun thread, stick around, you'll see.
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so no side trip to Orlando, maybe next year.
Going to class tomorrow to learn how to embellish quilts with beads. Should be interesting.
Hope you all have a nice weekend.
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trying to catch up
In the meantime, wonderful video:
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keeping the talk about Ebola going:
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Hey!
All! ~ Just dropping in for a word. Ok, well maybe a question... has there ever been an owlet encrusted in the rocks somewhere and is now a fossil???Well, Yes! And I'm so glad you asked! The New Zealand Owlet-NightJar... aka laughing owl . Albeit they are extinct. And by true definition, only their droppings were ever found..... as a Fossil!
I, for one, am thrilled to be a stone cold fossil!
Thanks for all the info. regarding the Ebola thing Sass ~ Can't wait for this to be contained and Over!
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Wow the news sent me down memory lane. It was 25 years ago the SF/Oakland earthquake. We were newly married and living in the Oakland hills. My husband was in downtown San Fran on I think the 14th floor of an office building. My cat turned into an instant persian hair on end, bird cage swinging and all the rocks on the roof made a roaring sound like a jet taking off. I heard that roaring before the whole building began to shake - no clue what it was. There was a bank of picture windows 20 feet long and I was standing near them- foolish but I didn't know better. The apt homes were terraced down the hillside like stairs. Wonder the retaining walls above each didn't fall over and squash us like bugs. That quake scared the crap out of me. Then there were zillions of after shocks.. rockin and rolling for days. I could see small fires from our apt windows that over looked the city of SF.
I told my husband when he got back late that night taking a ferry across the bay, that when they open the airport I 'm heading back to Philly! Taking the cat and going home..Yikes... Our neighbors were from Germantown and she was equally terrified. For literally months after that quake every time we were on the bridges or elevated freeways my heart rate would zip. Seeing all those photos from the past.. hmm Glad I don't live there any more. They think they're due for another "big one." Wish I bought the tee shirt I saw in a shop window in SF - it said - "Shift Happens!" Too funny. It wasn't funny all the folks who died. Weird to see it on the news again.
Have a great weekend ya'll. The rain is supposed to stop here and sun for the weekend! Yahoo. Sleep well Owlettes
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Had to read that twice. It is funny! And my glasses are clean, before anybody says anything. I am as old as dirt remember.
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Yeah, Chevy! You guys should be nice to me. 😇 Yes, I've had a bitch of a time. ......probably because i started out as a bitch and never got over it? Everyone here has a story and most are more interesting than mine. Especially that weird crap that Chevy told about her alley cat exploits. Interesting cover story for being caught in the alley with her husband's pants down around her ankles.
I love the owl coprolites! Laughing owl poop. Amazing that it can even be identified.
Okay, I'm going to sit on my branch and turn my head around backwards. ...and blink a lot.
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Rosevalley - I think everyone in Northern California remembers where they were during the Loma Prieta quake.
I was living about 3 hours south of SF, but my dad lived in Fremont. I remember him telling me he had a meeting in Oakland the day of the quake, and I knew he would have taken the 880 to get there.
Around 5 pm (?) I was watching the news, when my rocking chair started rocking by itself. Then the pictures started coming in on the TV.... as soon as I saw the freeway collapsed on itself, I tried to call my dad. Couldn't get through. Finally, he called me late that night. He'd gone to Oakland earlier in the day, and was already back in the office in Fremont when the quake hit. I started bawling like an idiot.
Hard to believe it's been 25 years.
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Hi all,
My gosh I'll never catch up. Sorry for those of you feeling sick. Sorry to hear about your sister Enerva. Sending her hugs, you too. Tang I hope your husband is doing ok, can't believe he has been ok'd to return to work. It must be crazy hearing about the schools shutting down. This Ebola stuff is scary.
I've been busy. I've been involved with a dog rescue group and transported a shelter dog from Arizona to Southern CA. The week previous I had water pump go out in my car and had to get a car rental so I can make my long commute to work. Had my yearly liver CT scan with contrast dye this morning. Don't know if I mentioned I adopted my temp foster wire terrier. She has abuse history and she attached to me and stole my heart.
We are getting cooler weather finally...Edison playing with the electricity tomorrow and planning an outage from 8-5.
Good night Owls...
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Well OBviously I'm not the ONLY rinky-tink ON here! Ha, ha!
Phyllionthebranch....YOU were a bitch? question-mark,
question-mark???His pants weren't down around MY ankles, they were around HIS.... along
with ME! So then I had nothing to hang on to!We should have been on candid-camera... And there was this old man at the
end of the alley just standing there looking at us! I mean a lot of help HE
would have been, anyway! I was still laying there, like a beached flounder....
Husband was wringing his hands! I didn't know whether to be pissed, or cry!Morning Alive, and 222222222! ROSE! My folks were in Richmond that awful
time, and my Mom called me just hysterical! (And you wonder where I get it?)
She was just so afraid! I had the game on also... I can't imagine being
there!I have that commemorative book about the Earthquake that came out
afterwards.... And they took me around to see the damage, even a few months
later.Morning Blessings! You were there too? I love that you have a new little
dog... "she stole your heart"..... Yes, they do... Thank you for taking
her!So I suppose Cammi is either mortified, or taking the morning off?
Figures.This "job" quote, unquote, of hers, is just taking up all her spare
time!She isn't spending as much time meandering up and down the boulevard, as we
exPECT! Oh wait.... She's probably at one of those never-ending make-believe
parties she attends... with her mile-hi stiletto's and that Poodle-skirt! I
TOLD her to wear saddle-oxfords, but, well, you know Cammi....0 -
Alive nice to see you here
. I took my own advice and haven't looked at Ebola stuff since I posted about taking a break from it. Nice.Rose and Paws, I was sitting on a couch watching the football game when the announcers booth started shaking. Michaels was announcing. I was in Akron.
Paws, sweet about your new furbaby. Furbaby so lucky to find you.
Philly,
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222222222nd! That was a beautiful video! I shared it on FB! Thank you!
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I was in my Freshman year of high school when the SF quake happened. We were getting ready to watch the World Series when the news of the quake came. Immediately following the news report, my stepdad called his parents because we had relatives at that time lived in the SF/Oakland area. I don't think I slept very well until we heard from my relatives that they were okay.
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hi owls, checking in after a while away. Had computer probs, no internet. The ISP and phone co couldn't figure out why it went kaput or why it came back after more than a week. I'm kinda sorta caught up here, well OK the last ten pages.
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My BIL lived in San Mateo and worked for the highway department. He had the presence of mind to change his phone answering message to say that he was OK and out checking on bridges. I think it took almost 3 days to get thru. All our supplies are in the basement, which doesn't make sense. If we can get to the basement, the house is probably OK and we don't need the supplies. But there's no where else to keep them. We used to backpack, so we have all the tents, sleeping bags, stove, etc.
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My relatives that lived in the SF area still get an earthquake now and then on the minor scale where they are in southern Oregon. We had a chance to experience a small quake a few years ago when the one in Virginia occured. I had just finished folding laundry and had sat down and got to feel a slight shaking. Didn't know what to make of it until I heard about it on the news!
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Chevy! It's nice you thought I adopted a new little dog, but the one who had the big heart was Pawprint. No pets for us... DH is allergic...
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In 1948, when my sweet Kentucky Mama was getting ready to marry her California soldier and move out here with him, all her relatives tried to convince her that she'd be squashed flat as a pancake in an earthquake within days.
Funny... look at Kentucky weather over the past decades... tornadoes, torrential rains, epic floods..... but the ONE thing they were afraid of was earthquakes! Mama finally admitted that she was safer in California.
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