In reply to Garrat Wolfrim (msg # 927):

Thank you, Garrat. **hugs**

Every so often, I have something happen that makes me think about what would happen if I died...like coming down with variations of the flu a few times in the past few years (the one that really scared me was when it ended up leading to a headache that none of my usual headache remedies even slowed down...dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, and the doctor gave me a shot of something (wish I could remember what, but he warned me to not try and do much of anything for half a day after it) and a prescription for imitrex, and I was back in working order in a few days.

The other one that's scared me a couple of times is a fainting spell...last one happened while I was in the shower, and I felt it coming on...started leaning forward to try and stave it off, and next thing I remember was coming to on the floor of the shower.  Wasn't out long, the same song was still playing on the radio...but it makes me nervous, it's a reminder of just how fast it can all end. (No, that's not a common occurrence...I think I've blacked out maybe five times in my whole life, and it's usually just after I got up from trying to sleep and started doing something, on an empty stomach and very low on fluids.  But it still is kind of a sobering event.)

I should really put together some kind of 'worst-case event' package.  Right now, at least, my mom is still alive and is in my phone under 'Mom', so I would hope that anyone checking would think to call her...

When I had a stroke, my husband was very good at updating the online groups I hung out with about it - wasn't on RPoL then.

I am fortunate I have very good neighbors.  My sister snowbirds, so she is not always easy to reach.  I've known my neighbors from 5 to near 20 years.  They house sit and pet sit for me and I do so for them.  If we don't see someone for a few days we check on them.  Car snow covered for 3 days..go check.  Helped one neighbor.  His diabetes acted upp and his leg swoll up and he could not walk.  I mmanaged to get him to the hospital.  He"d been on his bedroom floor for nearly 2 days.  He's better now.

On a less morbid note, I almost missed my callback audition last night...got off work 9ver an hour before the audition, so I stopped at a thrift store near the audition location...it was a decent night for thrifting.  Found five books I wanted, two of them hardback copies, and two DVDs, including a still-sealed-in-original-packaging special edition of An American Werewolf In London, with a bonus disc that had a couple of things with Rick Baker talking about developing the makeup for the transformation sequence.  Got to the check-out counter and realized I was supposed to have checked in for 5he callbacks ten minutes earlier!  Got there before they finished, and I wasn't the last one to arrive, so while I didn't make the best impression, I didn't make the worst, either.  Waiting now to hear the results.  It's been an odd year for me, theatrically...I've already been in four shows since July, and this was only my second audition, and only the first one where I had to go through the entire audition process.  Everything else was just being in the right place at the right time and being dumb enough to say 'yes'...*laugh*

 that's neat.. I have  the  VCR thing  for American werewolf.. i have a VCR that will still play them, but.. my smart TV  makes it look like i'm watchign though a dirty windshield?.. we have a  guy who transfers  stuff.. might try to get some Kids stuff transferred...I dunno.

 That's  neat you slid in?.. didn't make you look desperate!

so?..  The Kids  were off  two straight  days from school, because of the cold... I looked at the  warnigns and such, and  windchill warning extended until 7:00am tomorrow..

I told  my son when he picked the girls up, " expect a 2 Hour delay tomorrow"

 sure enough 10 minutes ago..got  a Cell Call..a text..an Email, and a Landline call from teh school saying they had a 2 hour delay.. so?.. Kids  are  comign back  down tonight, for me to get them on the bus, cause  b he and his   GF  both have to elave for work..

 After my wife passed, I used to feel so bad, about not getting off, when the kids  needed me... now that I am retires..i'm all set!

Birthday is tomorrow hopefully get to do something fun.

very  neat..Happy B-day...enjoy yourself!

It's tomorrow for me now so Happy Birthday, ya old demon!

   Happy Birthday Zob.

Hope you have a great birthday, Zob!

And it might not be just the TV making your tapes look bad, Don.  I mean, they are recorded in lower resolution to start with, so they're going to look bad by comparison to everything we're used to seeing now...but one of the drawbacks of magnetic media (like video and audio cassettes) is that they wear out from repeated use...and if you leave a magnetic tape on a spool long enough, the magnetism of the layers interacts with the layers surrounding them and slowly degrades the quality.

I've got a couple of VCRs floating around (we got rid of them at work because we converted everything over to DVDs for our archives), and somewhere, I've got a video converter that's supposed to let me transfer from VCR to my computer...I should find it and make use of it.  I mean, most of the videotapes I've got of movies that I really wanted, I've replaced with DVDs already...but there's a few things that were recorded that aren't commercial copies I can find a DVD copy of...

(in a somber Gregorian dirge chant tone)

Happy birth-dayyyyy!
Happy birth-dayyyy!
May the candles on your cake
 burn like cities in your wake!
Happy birth-dayyyy!

Sung to the tune of The Song of the Volga Boatmen (I think that's what it was called)...*grin*

I have some friends who used to sing that at birthday parties...I think they had like...eight or nine verses...

In reply to Roy Spencer (msg # 943):

only one I can remember.  lol

One other that I (kind of) remember:

When will you ever learn
First you pillage, THEN you burn

maybe they wanted to attack  'Hot chicks"...

ooh potassium that's going to make one hell of a bang...I hope Zob's wearing gloves as that stuff will violently react with the moisture in your fingertips...and the air so I'd chuck it quick if I were you. And thus endeth the science lesson

Through the bottle over the sea and shoot it while it is in the air.

  there was a college in PA.. that a cretain Frat threw a  10 pound block of the stuff in the pool,  it  blew a hole in the pool. canceling   hone swim meets  for  the rest of the season.

I'll bett they didn't have to drain much water from it.

i'm going to play footbaal now, I'll hit the baords  when i get back... at 5:30 ,my time, i'll be at out family  Superbowl party...and I'll hit the boards later tonight.

 if you have posts  or RP..please go ahead and do it.

 our two new guys have been quiet, hoping they pop up soon.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:42, Sun 03 Feb 2019.

Yeah I noticed.  Maybe a few of us can head back to the ship.  lol

   Kira has too