Fogbow

I’m like that too. In fact, I wanted to like your post!

I also like clever wordplay, like the guy who responded to J6 poem posted on Twitter with
“This must be haicoup”.

Don’t remember if I’ve posted this before. I’ve watched this like 15 times and I’m still hopeless at folding the fitted sheets.

You can stop once the first sheet is folded. It’s the only version I can find right now.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdK61nr2/?k=1

Spent today wondering where everyone was. First, there was no one at the team stand-up, well, I missed the one yesterday due to a conflict, maybe they cancelled it and forgot to tell me? Then no one is responding to my pull requests. My emails. The Slack channel is barren. Finally occurred to me that today my company is observing Juneteenth. Day off. Because observing it today makes a lot more sense than observing in Monday, when everyone else is doing it. Anyway, I'm a big dummy, I'm going to finish working today, and then I'm taking Monday off. Oops. Yay remote work. I would hope to think I would have noticed this in a lot less than five hours if I had been working on-site, but no promises!

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 5:14 pm Don’t remember if I’ve posted this before. I’ve watched this like 15 times and I’m still hopeless at folding the fitted sheets.

You can stop once the first sheet is folded. It’s the only version I can find right now.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdK61nr2/?k=1

the wife follows him. Apparently he has some great vacuuming and dish tips as well? I dunno. I'm not attracted to men, but I'm certainly appreciative of his, uh, form.

This is breaking my heart. 2 police officers have been out with a mental patient for over an hour. They were initially sent to the call for a vagrant panhandling in front of a store. The guy was in jeans, a hospital gown and had a hospital band on his wrist. They called for an ambulance and the dispatcher told them AMR would not respond because they had responded multiple times today already and the guy refused to let them assess him or transport him back to the hospital. A few minutes later, dispatch also advised the officers that no hospital would take him either, for basically the same reason. He was so uncooperative there was nothing they could do for him and he created drama wherever he went. He's obviously out of his mind crazy and no place to go. He's done nothing illegal so they can't take him to jail, the shelters can't take him because of safety concerns for the other guests and he's homeless. One of the officers is a CIT (crisis intervention trained) and she doesn't have any idea what to do with him either. She's exhausted all the usual options.

I have no idea how this will be resolved but it is a small piece of the mental health crisis the police officers deal with every day, and no real solutions in sight any time soon.

Foggy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 7:23 am I get cortisone shots in my knee and shoulder every 90 days, and all of them are done by PAs. But a PA who has worked under a specialist doctor for years is about 98% as knowledgeable as the doctor about that particular specialty. I am very comfortable asking my PAs any questions I have about when I can get my knee and shoulder replaced, which is lurking in my future.

My first true love became a PA at Johns Hopkins for her career. PAs rock.

If it wasn’t for my PA I would have different doctor. I’ve met with my doctor twice in the last 4 years and she acts like she’s irritated to be there, irritated about asking me questions, irritated with my answers and extremely irritated if I ask a question. The last session was so bad that I had to go drive around for three hours so I wouldn’t take my frustration out on people at home. I think my doctor is technically very competent but none of that matters if I can’t talk to her. She should probably be doing research somewhere.

On the other hand, my PA is wonderful. She’s helped me navigate diabetes, asthma, chronic back problems, a handful of kidney stones, some minor arthritis and a string of medication intolerances. I’d be in much worse shape today if we weren’t able to communicate in a direct and honest manner. If she ever changes practices I’ll follow her there.

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 5:14 pm Don’t remember if I’ve posted this before. I’ve watched this like 15 times and I’m still hopeless at folding the fitted sheets.

You can stop once the first sheet is folded. It’s the only version I can find right now.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdK61nr2/?k=1

Oh my… I’ve been folding mine correctly for years, but I might have to watch that video a few more times anyway.

Shizzle Popped wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 8:34 pm
If it wasn’t for my PA I would have different doctor. I’ve met with my doctor twice in the last 4 years and she acts like she’s irritated to be there, irritated about asking me questions, irritated with my answers and extremely irritated if I ask a question. The last session was so bad that I had to go drive around for three hours so I wouldn’t take my frustration out on people at home. I think my doctor is technically very competent but none of that matters if I can’t talk to her. She should probably be doing research somewhere.

On the other hand, my PA is wonderful. She’s helped me navigate diabetes, asthma, chronic back problems, a handful of kidney stones, some minor arthritis and a string of medication intolerances. I’d be in much worse shape today if we weren’t able to communicate in a direct and honest manner. If she ever changes practices I’ll follow her there.

We are part of a bizarre medical practice that I love. Maine has had trouble getting doctors to come up here, so they went to the source of doctors and are making their own.

It’s a joint program with Tufts Medical School in Boston. (There’s also one with Dartmouth.) The schools particularly recruit from colleges in Maine but accept anyone. In return for hefty scholarships, students serve their residencies in Maine. They also get special programming in med school based on rural family medicine. So every 3 years, we get fresh new PCPs, under the very close supervision of senior doctors.

We are on our second batch. The first few appointments are with the senior (who has had us for our entire stay in Maine) and the newbie together. After that, it’s the newbie who reports everything to the senior as we wait, and comes back with additional questions or comments. There’s also experienced NPs available. Our practice is part of Maine Medical Center, a teaching hospital and the only Level 1 trauma center in the state, so we get wonderful access to a large group of specialists. Plus we get to help train up fine doctors.

My first doctor was fantastic. She is from California but loves camping, sea sports, etc. and *really* loves the affordability compared to CA and MA housing prices. She graduated and moved up the coast to Belfast.***

*** Pretty much all Maine towns are named for other places.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 1:22 pm

Michael Brown @45needstogo1 wrote: Jimmy Carter got on our plane and was seated in first-class. Got up before the plane left and shook every single hand on the plane and thanked everybody. The plane erupted in Applause and tears it was awesome

"What a loser. I don't have to go shake people's hands! People come up to ME, big burly people with tears in their eyes, to shake MY hand."

There's never enough positive feedback.

Here's a real fixer upper story...

‘Downton Shabby’: A Commoner Takes on an English Castle

A Los Angeles actor and producer moved across the pond to restore his crumbling ancestral home. But fixing up a 50,000-square-foot manor isn’t easy.

People who search genealogy websites often find birth and marriage records, newspaper clippings, faded photographs or maybe a long-lost relative.

Hopwood DePree found a 60-room English manor.

As a child growing up in Holland, Mich., in the 1970s, Mr. DePree was transfixed when his beloved maternal grandfather, Pap, a history buff, told him about a huge slice of rolling land across the ocean where his forebears had a grand house called Hopwood Castle.

A castle in Britain owned by his family? Named for his family? No way.

Fast forward three and a half decades. Mr. DePree, by then an actor and producer in Los Angeles, was at his computer early one night in the spring of 2013, trawling an ancestry website.

The past had become a favorite destination for him after Pap’s death in 2008 and, two years later, the sudden death of his father, Thomas, from a massive heart attack. Mr. DePree was left unmoored, uncertain about the way forward. Tracing his roots was a comfort.

That fateful evening, he saw a link to a story about a Lord Hopwood of Hopwood Hall and an old black-and-white photo of a very stately home in Middleton, England, just outside Manchester. Increasingly curious, Mr. DePree made some email inquiries and booked a flight to see firsthand the family seat.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/real ... astle.html

We were in Iceland on a tour bus one time, and the guide said something nice about Jimmy Carter. One of the American nuts near the front of the bus lousdly said, "Do you want him? You can keep him." The bus driver and guide looked at him as if he had grown a third eye on his forehead. Americans traveling can be such jerks.

Our 11 year old grandson is here for a while and like most kids his age he's very interested in video games. However, I'd never seen the YouTube gamer videos targeted at kids his age and he watches a lot of them. I haven't seen anything that could be construed as illegal but there's something incredibly creepy to me about a bunch twenty to thirty something guys acting like 10 year olds to get more views. My wife feels the same way about them. Has anybody else run across these videos and had the same reaction?

Shizzle Popped wrote: ↑Sun Jun 19, 2022 2:56 pm Our 11 year old grandson is here for a while and like most kids his age he's very interested in video games. However, I'd never seen the YouTube gamer videos targeted at kids his age and he watches a lot of them. I haven't seen anything that could be construed as illegal but there's something incredibly creepy to me about a bunch twenty to thirty something guys acting like 10 year olds to get more views. My wife feels the same way about them. Has anybody else run across these videos and had the same reaction?

Turn off screen time and send them outside. (that's what my 'rents' did)

neonzx wrote: ↑Sun Jun 19, 2022 3:03 pm

Shizzle Popped wrote: ↑Sun Jun 19, 2022 2:56 pm Our 11 year old grandson is here for a while and like most kids his age he's very interested in video games. However, I'd never seen the YouTube gamer videos targeted at kids his age and he watches a lot of them. I haven't seen anything that could be construed as illegal but there's something incredibly creepy to me about a bunch twenty to thirty something guys acting like 10 year olds to get more views. My wife feels the same way about them. Has anybody else run across these videos and had the same reaction?

Turn off screen time and send them outside. (that's what my 'rents' did)

Yeah, but we don't have any control over the situation when he's not here. Plus, I don't know that there's anything really wrong with the videos other than the fact that they creep us out.

Shizzle Popped wrote: ↑Sun Jun 19, 2022 3:09 pm

neonzx wrote: ↑Sun Jun 19, 2022 3:03 pm Turn off screen time and send them outside. (that's what my 'rents' did)

Yeah, but we don't have any control over the situation when he's not here. Plus, I don't know that there's anything really wrong with the videos other than the fact that they creep us out.

But maybe he'll learn something that he will take home...
Between the joy of just being outside experiencing the moment, and the joy of being self-entertaining..

Hopefully it isn't too late.

It’s never too late.

I'm sure I posted about this on the old Fogbow, but now there's a new slant.

I keep seeing these ads for the "International Fellowship of Christians and Jews." Just the name sets off alarm bells. They used to beg for money for Russian Holocaust survivors, showing grainy footage of elderly who look hopeless, etc., while some earnest young person practically bursts into tears as they narrate how they're starving, etc. It feels fake and manipulative.

A few months ago, I wondered if they'd pivot from Holocaust survivors to Ukrainians. BINGO! They have. Same tone, same tearful pleas. But now about Ukrainians.

Even more interesting, and something I'd forgotten because I'd seen it only once or twice, occasionally a celebrity spokesperson weighs in.

That spokesperson is...Mike Huckabee.

Which confirms my itchiness about this "organization."

I know exactly the ads you are talking about. I don't think I've seen the Ukrainian ones yet.

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 10:28 am I know exactly the ads you are talking about. I don't think I've seen the Ukrainian ones yet.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/bw_d/internatio ... in-ukraine

A Holocaust version with Huckabee:
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/OS_M/internatio ... ke-huckabe