An open thread for personal stuff, continuing from here.
As usual for these threads: no trolls, no MRAs, no I’m-not-really-an-MRA-buts, don’t be mean.
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We Hunted The Mammoth
Those cat circles are cool! Maybe it has the same appeal as crop circles. Cats, remembering their alien past…
@grumpyoldnurse – I’m really sorry that happened to you. I hope you can get the support you need to make sure it doesn’t happen to you or your colleagues again.
OT: Just went bowling with my 3 year old twins. Worst $10 I ever spent.
Wouldn’t the balls be heavier than the children?
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, close enough to the water that we had seagulls in the elementary school playground and knew when it was low tide by the smell. Never had the slightest desire to go into the water deeper than my knees, and that was before learning about sharks. Somehow, though, knowing that I was close to salt water felt right; every time I’ve visited the interior of the continent*, it’s been a little strange.
So far, North America and Europe.
I am really going to have to try those cat traps. 😀
*blinks* Format just changed between one refresh and another
What does it look like now, gilshalos?
Nothing has changed for me.
It reset as before after I posted. For a brief moment the type was bigger
WP being weird again.
What got me was when the theme changed a while back – instead of the sort of wallpaper pattern background, it’s almost uniform black, now.
@cassandrakitty – Excited toddlers with six pound balls on a waxed, slippery surface. What could possibly go wrong?
Yikes!
I just hope it was more “hilarious pratfalls” and less “trip to the ER”.
Well, kind of in between. Twin #2 was “helping” me bowl, got excited, and started chasing the ball down the lane. Instinctively I ran forward to grab him, momentarily forgetting that the lanes are coated with oil. There were two successive “whams” and I found myself flat on my back seeing stars, with Twin #2 flat on his back howling. It took an hour to calm him down. He was hysterical. I wrenched quite a few muscles in my neck, back, and knee, thanks to all four limbs skating in different directions. It hurts when I breathe deeply.
Meanwhile, thanks to Twin #1, we owe the alley one skee ball.
So I guess we can cross professional bowling off the career possibility list.
Eek, I hope you have some really good painkillers. At least the kids probably won’t want to go again either?
Also, it’s amazing how a fall flat on the back can wipe the air right out of you.
Buttercup, holy hell! 🙁
It’s also amazing how you can feel relatively OK right after, and then the effects slowly start to make themselves felt over the next few hours. I can feel other muscles tightening up in response to the ones that got whacked. Hopefully Tylenol and a hot bath will help, but I have a feeling I’m going to be pretty sore tomorrow. Who knew bowling was so hazardous?
Twin #2 has said he’s willing to try again “when I’m fifteen”. You’re on your own, kid.
In a moment of delicious irony this proves that bowling with your toddlers is more hazardous and thus better at building character than gaming.
Was I being misandrous, making them do meat-bowling instead of pressing manly manly man-buttons on a console?
Well, how do you expect them to learn how to get laid at the bowling alley? Not enough pixellated boobs, it’ll never work.
OMG Buttercup! Might I suggest that you add an NSAID to the Tylenol, as long as you don’t have a contraindication to them? I personally prefer naprosyn, but ibuprofen is good, too. You can alternate the Tylenol and NSAID and get pretty good pain control and actually take less medicine! Also try an ice pack after your bath to get the swelling down. Unfortunately, you’re probably going to hurt even more tomorrow. Be gentle with yourself for a few days. Are you sure that you didn’t break any ribs?
I just did the Cat Trap experiment. Some kitties are too clever – or too suspicious – to fall for it.
http://youtu.be/uTAtpcAiGQ4
“And they call it puppy love …”
You’re right, cassandrakitty – they don’t even lift! They’re doomed! Though they also have tantrums and don’t wipe their bottoms, which is uber-manly, so that should cancel out any omega cooties they might have caught from bowling.
grumpyoldnurse – thanks for the tips! I like ibuprofen better than Tylenol for muscle soreness and swelling, but they make a good combination for staying ahead of pain. I think my ribs are OK. It feels more like lots of muscles that were suddenly asked to do startling and new things in midair. I cracked two ribs at a company picnic one year, and I remember what that felt like. It lasted for weeks.
kittehserf – hahaha! I love the tiny arch right at the end. Just the hint of suspicion.
I want to try cat-trapping my kitty, but he’s draped over the cat condo fast asleep atm. Will report back with any results.