Lexicus
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My uncle traveled to South America to see the totality, my rant is I'm not sure if he's in Chile or Argentina right now
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Pretty sure the American team is roasting the English right now.
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That is not remotely the same. You poor soul. I wish I thought of insisting earlier.
^Please don't jinx that, Syn-chan.
Does he have a CFC account?
MagisterCultuum
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I took my mother to her vascular surgeon for a followup appointment this morning. Everything was fine, but the doctor got called away for an emergency procedure just before he could see us so we were kept waiting for an extra 2 hours.
I had an appointment to donate blood at a Red Cross Blood Drive at the local library this afternoon. Due to mom's doctor being late, I was 20 minutes late for that. Going at all turned out to be a waste of time.
My hemoglobin level today was a 12.2, which is below the minimum threshold allowed for either men (13.0) or women (12.5) to donate blood. A few years ago my hemoglobin level tended to be on the high end, being over 19 the first time they convinced me to give double red. There was a gradual downward trend as I give blood fairly often, but this is the first time it was ever below 14.
I have not slept great recently, especially the past couple nights, and had assumed I was just tired, but now that I think of it the way I feel now is very much how I would normally feel right after giving blood. Maybe I've been having symptoms of anemia for a while and just not properly attributing it.
I had an appointment to donate blood at a Red Cross Blood Drive at the local library this afternoon. Due to mom's doctor being late, I was 20 minutes late for that. Going at all turned out to be a waste of time.
My hemoglobin level today was a 12.2, which is below the minimum threshold allowed for either men (13.0) or women (12.5) to donate blood. A few years ago my hemoglobin level tended to be on the high end, being over 19 the first time they convinced me to give double red. There was a gradual downward trend as I give blood fairly often, but this is the first time it was ever below 14.
I have not slept great recently, especially the past couple nights, and had assumed I was just tired, but now that I think of it the way I feel now is very much how I would normally feel right after giving blood. Maybe I've been having symptoms of anemia for a while and just not properly attributing it.
Get a diagnosis, MC. In your worry for your family's troubles you might be neglecting your own health.
I am spending time sending out CVs and the like. How did you expect me to be able to afford such a thing?
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No, although he actually indirectly introduced me to civ because he played civ 2 and 3 before I was old enough and I think he gave my grandparents the idea of getting me civ 3 for my 11th birthday.
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Rant: I bought some cat toys at the dollar store and they broke even before I took them out of the package.
That's what I get for buying stuff from the dollar store.
That's what I get for buying stuff from the dollar store.
Most TV presenters know little or nothing about basic astronomy. There used to be a "journalist" (I question which box of Lucky Elephant popcorn her credentials came out of) on CBC.ca named Aleksandra Sagan, who wrote the most idiotic astronomy articles I've ever seen. I remember being appalled and after looking her up, I thought at least she's not related to Carl Sagan - his ashes would be spinning if he had such a stupid relative.
Her idea of a proper source to use for articles on eclipses are... astrologers. And according to her, lunar eclipses can be seen everywhere in Canada except Quebec, and she couldn't seem to remember the names of the Western Canadian provinces, or the name of Nunavut. Her idea of solar eclipses are that they are so rare that they occur only every 50, 100, or 1000 years, depending on who you ask. Not once in that article did she mention how often they actually do occur.
When she wrote an article on exoplanets, she "explained" the term "Goldilocks zone" by regurgitating the story of The Three Bears... and getting half of it wrong.
I got so fed up that I wrote to Customer Relations and complained about slipshod, crappy job she was doing, and pointed out that her own online information shows that she has zero background in science. She was less qualified to write a science article than a junior high school student who was actually taking this stuff in their science classes.
Somebody must have passed my complaint up the food chain and listened. She was fired, and now they have a science writer who actually knows what they're talking about and uses proper sources (ie. real astronomers).
Lunar eclipses are cool.
Lots of it is garbage. But later on in the year, Dollarama sells a package of cat toys in a Christmas stocking-shaped package that has the brand PetStore on it, and the label is in three languages (English, French, and Spanish).
The toys inside include a selection of plastic balls with bells in them, one that's covered with fake fur, a square cloth thing that's stuffed with catnip (my own cats didn't like that and one of them peed on it), a large purple mouse that my cats ignore... and then they have a soft acrylic red mouse that became Maddy's favorite toy. It's small enough and soft enough to be the size and softness of a real mouse, and she plays with that like she would a real mouse. I sometimes find that thing in my bed, since she likes to carry it around and play with it all over the apartment. It's worth the entire cost of the rest of the stuff that she pays no attention to.
This is available for Christmas (which means you should start looking for it around Halloween, when Dollarama starts putting out their Christmas stock). It's $2, and well worth it. I bought several last time, since Maddy sometimes bats stuff under furniture that's too heavy for me to move to retrieve it. So I bought extras just in case.
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Dude, crazy coincidence.
I got my very own set of high-tech security theater - I bought 4 suitcase locks at the dollar store. Each lock has a unique key but all the keys work with all the locks, they're completely interchangeable. It's made of chinesium and the tolerances are so loose that anything which fits in the key hole will unlock it. I'm more amused than mad though, the deterrent only has to look real to turn off opportunistic thieves.
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
So a step up from the cheap little locks that can be unlocked by squeezing it.
Gori the Grey
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I get my dog's poop bags from a dollar store. Used to be 100 for a buck, then 80, now 60.
Thanks Obama!
People are complaining that Trump is going to put on a military parade for Independence Day. The primary complaint being that showcasing military might isn't what the holiday should be about.
Obviously, I disagree. If anything, celebration of our military should be the primary, if not the only, focus of the holiday. Why? Because it was our military might in the form of the Continental Army that won us our independence. Sometimes I think most Americans forget that the nation they live in was only made possible through the warfare they seem to find so abhorrent.
In short: there would be no Independence Day without the military, so a military parade is an entirely appropriate way to celebrate the holiday.
Obviously, I disagree. If anything, celebration of our military should be the primary, if not the only, focus of the holiday. Why? Because it was our military might in the form of the Continental Army that won us our independence. Sometimes I think most Americans forget that the nation they live in was only made possible through the warfare they seem to find so abhorrent.
In short: there would be no Independence Day without the military, so a military parade is an entirely appropriate way to celebrate the holiday.
So, no parades for French military might then? Wasn't it Louis XVI's intervention under the oversight of the Marquis de Lafayette and others that greatly assisted the colonists in fighting for their independence?
We show the French the appreciation they are due every day by making a French made statue one of our most iconic landmarks and symbols of our nation.
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