Poor Ol' Rooster

#1801

Yeah, and the cartoon character always throws me because the rooster's neck has obviously been broken and is sticking out at a very unnatural angle. I'd get such a crick if'n I tried that pose!

I literally have to look for the head of the rooster. Every time I see it. It's a weird drawing of a bestial beastie from a horrible bloody so-called sport, but ... it's South Carolina. Their roads suck, too also. The place is kind of a hellhole, with a few tiny playgrounds for the rich.

On the bright side, South Carolina was the reason Biden was nominated in 2020. So you see, I do have something nice to say.

#1802

No, seriously.

Today a doctor told me I can join the British infantry.

Where do I sign? Who told them about me?

RTH10260 · #1803

Hurry, get the keys to the TARDIS, King George III is waiting for you

#1804

If youse guize don't stop poking Fun, one of these days Fun is gonna turnaround and box yer hearing holes.

#1805

Numbah Two Son - the one with ADHD - has killed another phone. He took it to the beach and got sand in the USB-C charger port, and tried to jam the charger cable in, and ... well, he's creative. And a math genius. Phone genius, not so much. And it's a very bad idea to not call your mother. Even if you send an email telling her what you did. Bad idea.

We pick him up next Thursday, he's house-and-cat-sitting whilst we loll and cavort in the Atlantic Ocean for a week (I has a new boogie board).

#1806

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#1807

#1808

So my shoulder is a mess. It's not dislocated - I went and got x-rays. But something - nerve, muscle, bicycle parts, something - is caught in the device in my left shoulder.

It happened last Friday, and my arm is unusable with almost zero range of motion. And it's painful. I have to wear the sling or I can't do my daily walk - if I swing the arm normally it stings and swells up. I'm basically back where I was before the first surgery on that arm (my right arm works well).

I haven't mentioned it because I was hoping it would fix itself. I have a CT scan scheduled for tonight at 6 pm. They're also going to do something called an EMG which is some sorta nerve mapping thing. They haven't called about that one.

And it means we're delaying our trip to the beach.

If I can't swim in the Atlantic Ocean for a second year in a row, I'm gonna be apoplectic!

#1809

Have you told your new boogie board yet?

#1810

Pooper scoopers. Sorry that's happening. Damn.

sugar magnolia · #1811

Did they explain the EMG to you yet?

#1812

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2024 10:52 am Have you told your new boogie board yet?

Oh, my emotional support boogie board? Yeah, well, I'm day-to-day right now. We're talking about going to the beach anyway and just trying to deal with the arm. If we get a beachfront hotel in Myrtle - the kids are back in school, it's off-season, and Myrtle is one big empty hotel room, so the rates are sweet - then I can struggle out to the sand with a beach chair and a towel

I'm not quite dead yet. I can even sorta drive a car, a little bit.

So, umm ... no, I haven't had The Talk with my emotional support boogie board quite yet. I still haven't taken off the plastic wrapping it came in. When I go into the garage and see it, I just tell it, "Soon! Soon I will break you out!"

#1813

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2024 11:15 am Did they explain the EMG to you yet?

They said it's a nerve mapping thing, and that's all I know. But it might be weeks before I get it, they also didn't tell me about the timing.

#1814

Go to Myrtle! Hubby and I still have fond memories of our meetup!

#1815

We're talking about allowing the entire beach area to become a desolate depopulated wasteland after Labor Day on Tuesday, and then staying until Saturday. We'd like to get home Saturday for Numbah Two Son's birthday, but Myrtle is only 2 plus hours from here. He's house-sitting the kittehs. We could wake up in Myrtle and take him to lunch in Raleigh (dinner is more likely).

#1816

So sorry about the shoulder. Gentle

I've been in Myrtle Beach in summer and in November. Much prefer November. Enjoy!

#1817

So I told them at the Imaging Center that I heard the CT scan is like a 3D printer and they were gonna make me a whole new shoulder, since this one don't work none. Then I'd be just like 21 instead of 71.

They weren't buyin' it. My shoulder didn't work any better than it did before the scan. I think they messed up somehow.

Slim Cognito · #1818

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#1820

Interesting. :spockeyebrow:

The sediment lines don't align well. Looks like the two blocks were from the same strata in the quarry, and may have been close to each other, but were not immediately adjacent.

RTH10260 · #1821

bill_g wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2024 10:40 am Interesting. :spockeyebrow:

The sediment lines don't align well. Looks like the two blocks were from the same strata in the quarry, and may have been close to each other, but were not immediately adjacent.

Looks like a center slab is missing, likely about the same size, would make features extrapolate and match.

#1822

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2024 11:51 am
bill_g wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2024 10:40 am Interesting. :spockeyebrow:

The sediment lines don't align well. Looks like the two blocks were from the same strata in the quarry, and may have been close to each other, but were not immediately adjacent.
Looks like a center slab is missing, likely about the same size, would make features extrapolate and match.

Agreed. At least one block is missing which begs the question where the rest of them went? Eroded over time I imagine.

RTH10260 · #1823

looks like it a natural thing, no human intervention:

The Al Naslaa rock is a landform 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of the Tayma oasis in Saudi Arabia. It is a large sandstone rock split neatly down the middle into two parts, both balanced on small pedestals.[1] The overall shape of the rock is due to wind erosion and the chemical weathering made possible by the moist conditions in the protected underside of the rock.[2] It is split in two by a joint.

The rock is about 6 metres (20 ft) high and 9 metres (30 ft) wide, and is covered on its south-east face with numerous petroglyphs.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Naslaa

#1824

Ordinarily Nature abhors a straight line. I'm sure science guys are pored over this, and if that is their decision, so be it. But, if these were puzzle pieces, I'd keep looking for others.

#1825

Well, we are AT THE BEACH, by which I mean, oceanfront hotel, 14th floor, view of the Atlantic Ocean, which is WARM LIKE BATHTUB, so very nice.

We stopped briefly in Wilmington, to see Numbah Two Son (and resupply him with various sundries). And we had a lovely barefoot walk in the surfline together.

However, the surf is awful rough today, and I'm not terribly strong quite yet, but ol' Wifehorn very kindly and helpfully assured me that if I go boogieboarding and somehow manage to hurt myself, completely accidentally, she will be super duper pissed off and will never EVAR let me hear the end of it. I better be careful and not go out in too rough of surf.

We have many plannings besides the Atlantic coastal beach bonanza of peace and goodness and mental healthiness.

Tomorrow night we're going to Medieval Times, if you haven't seen it I definitely give it

, highly recommend. Last time we were assigned to cheer for the Green knight, and he won. I'm hoping for something similar mañana. They forced me yell at the top of my lungs, that wasn't me being uncool and really cheering for some stupid fake medieval knight, no sir, not me, honest.

They feed you a baked tater, a piece of corn on the cob, and a piece of delicious fried chicken.

No silverware. It's Medieval! They didn't eat with forks and knives back then, in medieval times!

I think that's right in medieval times, I wasn't really there, except in a previous lifetime which I cannot recall clearly.

Anyway, that's Wednesday. On Thursday ol' Wifehorn has a meeting with clients in nearby Ocean Isle, in the vicinity of our favorite seafood restaurant in the world, Beck's in Calabash. We set the meeting for late afternoon, and we're planning dinner after the meeting. I shall stay in the car and fiddle with camera equipment while she goes over plans and whatever. I don't speak insurance. Not anymore.

On Friday I have very graciously consented to give ol' Wifehorn another lesson in miniature golf (unless she wins, in which case I got the lesson

).

On Saturday we return to Wilmington, site of Numbah Two Son and his 23rd birthday. And then on home after a nice visit.

And Sunday is a day of rest. Yeah, even us agnostics gotta rest sometime, might as well be Sunday once in a while.