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[wesw]

'cono s gonna be, a visual sta-arrr

cyan s debutant , black ink , all over his car...

print on...

[Guinevere]

I had excruciating foot cramps after work today (both feet, going up into my ankle and shin) and none of my usual remedies worked, so I took some swigs of pickle juice from the pickle jar and they calmed right down.

[Econoline]

wes & Joe

Jim - I don't have a television and I probably spend less on printer cartridges in a year than you do on cable in 2 months.

[wesw]

I had those exact type of cramps. it was a few years ago when things were going poorly.

I was not eating and had lost a lot of weight, I was living on coffee.

are you dehydrated?

pinch the skin on the inside of your forearm. if it snaps back into shape you are good if it holds the pinch shape and slowly returns to it s shape, you are dehydrated

[Guinevere]

I drink plenty of water and eat properly, so I really don't think it was dehydration or an electrolyte issue. The foot cramps typically happen when I'm swimming a lot (although never in the ankle or shin), and from what I've read, they are often a muscle spasm caused by a neurological misfire. For some reason, the pickle juice - perhaps the vinegar - resets whatever is off because the relief happens too quickly for the juice to be absorbed by the stomach. Or it's just a placebo effect.

Regardless, I've never tried that method before and it worked, which was a relief. The front of my right ankle is slightly sore today because the cramps up there were so intense.

[Lord Jim]

Jim - I don't have a television and I probably spend less on printer cartridges in a year than you do on cable in 2 months.

You're far too modest...

You almost certainly spend less on printer cartridges in a year than I spend on cable in two weeks...

Comcast Premium package on five TVs...(and now also adding Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu with Roku boxes on three of them)

And even having cut a pretty good deal initially with Comcast, and avoiding any price increases for the past four years, (by calling and threatening to leave) I'm still paying about $300 a month for television...

[Gob]

Fuck me pink.

We have free to air channels and that's it.

[Econoline]

Holy shit! I didn't know it was even possible to spend that much on TV!

Well...whatever... We all save money and waste money each in our own way, I guess.

[Lord Jim]

We have free to air channels and that's it.

My, how very quaint...

Do you still have to get up to change the channels and adjust the rabbit ears to bring in the signal and adjust the vertical hold?

Lord Jim goes into Geezering Mode:

When I was growing up, we had six channels...

The three networks (NBC, CBS and ABC, with their local DC affiliates, (Channel 4, Channel 9, and Channel 7 respectively) and three others:

Two independents, WTTG Channel 5 (which has since become a part of the FOX Network) and two UHF channels: WDCA Channel 20, and Channel 26 WETA (once known as the "Education Channel" now a part of PBS)

("UHF" versus "VHF"...now there's an historical trivia question to ask some smarmy 20 something computer know-it-all-about...)

[Lord Jim]

Holy shit! I didn't know it was even possible to spend that much on TV!

Five TVs Econo...

One in the living room , one in our bedroom, one in Tati's room, one in my office and one in Jimmy's room. (and actually a sixth one in the kitchen that one of Kelly's shady relatives split off for us from the one in the living room that we don't talk about... )

From that, you might get the impression that all we do is sit around watching television...

(and yes, Kelly and I watch a fair bit...as I said it's what we do now a lot of the time in lieu of having a social life... )

But neither of our kids are just sitting around becoming automaton stereotype obese couch potatoes simply because they have access to so much TV...we regulate that...

(They're both very involved in outside activities, and in fact downright skinny... )

[Gob]

When I was growing up, we had six channels...

The three networks (NBC, CBS and ABC, with their local DC affiliates, (Channel 4, Channel 9, and Channel 7 respectively) and three others:

Two independents, WTTG Channel 5 (which has since become a part of the FOX Network) and two UHF channels: WDCA Channel 20, and Channel 26 WETA (once known as the "Education Channel" now a part of PBS)

When I was growing up we had 2 channels, BBC and ITV.

[wesw]

we had two channels too. cbs on wboc 16, and PBS on MPT-28, later we got ABC on WMDT-47,

i just got cable a couple of years ago, holly pays for it or i d still be in the stone ages....

internet is pretty much necessary to function in society today tho, so we have that thru the cable company too

screw em i say, until they let me pick the channels i want and leave the rest

i ve almost come to blows with cable salesman that have come to my door and been rude and unbelieving that i could live without their cable,
peeking in my house thinking i was stealing something.....

[MajGenl.Meade]

Are you younger than I thought, wesw? PBS didn't start until 1970.

[oldr_n_wsr]

$300 a month!?!?!?
I won't complain anymore about my $125 per month for cable, internet and phone.

Growing up we had "only" 2 (cbs), 4 (nbc) 5 (I forget) 7 (abc) 9 (wor) 11 (wpix) and 13 (pbs). We also had UHF channel 21 which was a Long Island channel.

[MajGenl.Meade]

You were lucky. Seems as good a moment, in view of Guin's feet (sorry for you there Guin), to let y'all know that I was enjoying a very nice meal at NOPA Kitchen and Bar (above the Spy Museum and opposite the American Art Museum) last Friday when something happened. I have this off and on indigestion problem - sometimes water sets it off - and I have to really control my breathing, stay quiet, take a Tums and wait for relief

Didn't happen. Waitress was a part-time EMT and she took my pulse and called EMS. The family at the opposite table decided not to have what I'd ordered. I told them the floor show was added to their bill. BP was 227/198 and the EMTs bundled me off to George Washington Univ. Hosp. at about 8pm. Anyway, they just wanted to keep me overnight and that wasn't happening because Saturday was 7 a.m. John Wilkes Booth Escape Route Tour already paid for. So I insisted on discharging myself (you know what I mean, Gob so stop that!) at midnight.

No ill effects so far - been eating and drinking with caution. My own doc didn't think it important enough to see me before next Wednesday but I do have to take in my "abnormal EKG" print-out. GWUH thinks there's heart damage but who am I to blow against the wind?

Let's hope that's all it was anyway. Wind. I can highly recommend NOPA both for the food and the concern of their staff, including follow-up phone calls last weekend from the manager to make sure I was OK (and not intending to visit ever again - just kidding)

[oldr_n_wsr]

227/198

Holy crap Genl !!!!!!
Lucky you didn't stroke out.
Glad you're ok now. or are you?

[MajGenl.Meade]

Who knows? And yes, that's what the ER docs said

[oldr_n_wsr]

Dr Oldr?

[wesw]

I m glad you are ok meade.

I m 48...., I think...

[MajGenl.Meade]

On a more serious note, my wife has developed a new habit.... all kitchen cabinet and furniture drawers are not longer closed all the way after she's done with 'em. They are open half an inch to an inch. I have pointed this out to her. "Oh", she said.