What is on your mind

[Jesse]

How crazy it is to deal with Microsoft! I just spent 3 hours on chat, and then phone with them because I evidently had a counterfeit version of Windows 7 Professional running on my desktop.

First they told me I had to purchase a new OS, then I was informed that oh yes, I could buy a product key but it would cost $79 + $119.99 for them to "assist" me with the install. I was polite, but stuck to my guns and finally got the right person in tech and bought the product key for $40 and stayed on the phone while they installed it remotely. All seems good now!

[Chad]

Originally Posted by Chad

A man in the grocery store about an hour ago. He walked right up to me looked me straight in the eye and gave me a little smile so I smiled back then he stuck his hand out and gave me a firm hand shake. As he turned to walk away I said how are you and he said that he was out of work and walked on.

I have no idea who he is or how I know him or if I know him. Now I wonder if I owe him anything. Does he expect me to hire him or find him work? Am I in his debt? I have no idea.

This is on my mind.

Mystery solved!!
That man is my liquor store guy. He was not "out of work" he was OFF work. Hahaha. He had a treat waiting for me at the store tonight.

Happy endings, yay!

[ferret]

It....hurts...When a friendship/relationship/whatever..."should" go both ways. Not one person putting in the effort. It makes me wonder what would happen if I suddenly stopped communicating with the people in my life who are important to me (am I important to them). I'm a good person, a decent person, and am generally liked....Or at least I thought I was. So why is it just me doing the work - 95% of the time with a good portion of the people I have in my life. If I am indeed worth your time, best you start stepping up.

[Kenna]

It's been a long, productive day. I'm ready for a salon day.

[Bèsame*]

Father's Day. Everyone is talking about it. Or I'm just more aware this year.

I miss my Dad, this will be the first one without him.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by ferret

It....hurts...When a friendship/relationship/whatever..."should" go both ways. Not one person putting in the effort. It makes me wonder what would happen if I suddenly stopped communicating with the people in my life who are important to me (am I important to them). I'm a good person, a decent person, and am generally liked....Or at least I thought I was. So why is it just me doing the work - 95% of the time with a good portion of the people I have in my life. If I am indeed worth your time, best you start stepping up.

There's something I've learned along the way that may be helpful to you. You are treated how you let yourself be treated. If you expect and demand to be treated well and equally, you either will be or you won't have to worry about that relationship going forward. Don't be a tyrant but don't be a door mat either. People will push you as far as you let them. Boundaries are good for everyone.

Good luck with whoever is being problematic.

[Kobi]

CROW's Lil Guy Update:

Happy National American Eagle Day! Lil Guy continues to fight a serious infection in the right leg at the location of the femur fracture. The eaglet continues to eat on its own and is gaining weight and weighs approximately 8 pounds.

He is putting weight on the infected leg and using its talon to grip. The eaglet was moved back outside today to the small flight enclosure to help reduce stress and allow the eaglet more room to move.

The next update will be this Wednesday.

[easygoingfemme]

I really wish someone or something could have warned me about how much patience I was going to need today so I could have prepared better.

[Kobi]

Recent radiographs show improvement in the infected bone. A bacterial culture was taken today from the bone to see how well the antibiotics are working and we expect to have those test results back next week. He remains bright, alert and gripping with both talons. The eaglet remains outside in the small flight enclosure where it has been standing and perching.

We will have another update on Monday. If anything should change in his status before then we will be sure to let you know.

[Talon]

That it's a real trip how different the view can be from the outside, verses the inside.

[Kobi]

Originally Posted by Kobi

Recent radiographs show improvement in the infected bone. A bacterial culture was taken today from the bone to see how well the antibiotics are working and we expect to have those test results back next week. He remains bright, alert and gripping with both talons. The eaglet remains outside in the small flight enclosure where it has been standing and perching.

We will have another update on Monday. If anything should change in his status before then we will be sure to let you know.

Lil Guy needs a heavy dose of antibiotics to treat the infection in the injured bone.

However, bird bones are some of the hardest things to treat with heavy drugs, further complicating his recovery. Three different types of “very bad bacteria” were cultured from his infected bone, said CROW hospital director, Heather Barron.

“They are what we call multi-drug resistant,” she explained.

Antibiotics don’t always penetrate into the bone very well and unlike humans, it’s a complicated scenario the way birds’ bones work,” Barron said. “The side bone and upper arm bone communicate with the respiratory system.”

The antibiotics he’s on presents an additional type of challenge.

A lot is unknown and there can also be potential powerful side effects.

“In particular, it’s very difficult on the kidneys,” Barron said.

But she says right now he is doing just fine. Staff makes sure he stays hydrated, which helps make sure his kidneys stay healthy. It’s too early to tell whether he will return to the great open air.

Usually, Barron said, a normal cycle for the drug lasts about 4-6 weeks.

“But we’re hoping because that particular type of drug is so difficult on the kidneys, we can get the infection under control sooner,” she said.

If the antibiotics do their job without harming his kidneys, CROW will need to make sure he is a strong flyer and he’ll have to show that he’s capable of hunting on his own before he can be integrated back into the wild.

Barron said it might still take a few weeks to build up his strength.

He’s still getting physical therapy on his leg,” she said.

The process is remarkably similar to the same grueling regime humans go through. First doctors give him something to relax, like a Valium.

Then he’ll get pain medication, Barron said, if the session is going to be extra painful.

“It’s just like we do it in people,” she said. “We’ll work out his full range of motion. Use hot or cold packs.”

His injured leg is still a tiny fraction shorter than the other one, but Barron doesn’t think it will impede his ability to hunt and survive in the wild.

His wound is still healing, she said, but otherwise, he is bright and alert and eating very well, and flying around his cage.

CROW wants to put a federal leg band on Little Guy if he’s released so they can identify him in the future.

They don’t have a license to put a band on him, but Barron said she’s thinking about reaching out to other places like the Audubon Society for help.

[Massive]

I hate knowing that from today everything I post anywhere will have people assuming I'm a xenophobic, misogynistic, bigoted and thoroughly ignorant bastard. I didn't vote for the current government nor to leave the European Union. I actually care about the future for my 15 month year old neice, who will now have no choice but to live with the consequences of the idiocy of the general public in Britain. We cannot talk about the United Kingdom or being 'Great Britain' we gave that up when we gave up our human rights.

[Daniela]

Originally Posted by Massive

I hate knowing that from today everything I post anywhere will have people assuming I'm a xenophobic, misogynistic, bigoted and thoroughly ignorant bastard. I didn't vote for the current government nor to leave the European Union.

As an American, I welcome you to the club


Seriously, though...I'm starting to get a little concerned that this is foreshadowing of what might happen to us in November.

[Kenna]

My pharmacy called to "verify the very large copay, we want to check with you before we fill it because it's a substantial amount".... STOP RIGHT THERE! What's on my mind is....I've encountered several customer service reps lately that need to improve their listening skills.

My response to the one that called: Look on the back of the script, my doctor attached a coupon to get it for free. I told that to the guy I gave it to yesterday. ...he put me on hold, then came back on to say he was sorry, it went through for zero now. ...

[JustLovelyJenn]

This year so far is on my mind...

So much has happened and its all a little overwhelming.

Last week I was diagnosed with diabetes. It's just another thing in the long list of things that are wearing me thin. In talking with my doctor about everything that's going on with my health, she convinced me to try mood stabilizers again for my anxiety. She also wants me to look for a therapist... I haven't convinced myself to do that one yet. I went from taking NO pills to taking them twice a day, and now testing my blood sugar every day as well...

It's just a lot.

[JDeere]

Whether or not I should go out this evening.

[Bubala]

There is so much Israeli sadness in me, so much life, and heart and passion, spiteful resilient joie de vivre, insane determination sprouting from that darkness of that immanent and inherent sadness. The laughter, natural, spontaneous, uncontrollable, infectious, so easy to share, so damn projectable into the world, easy to relay to others. But the stubborn sadness, aggregate essence of the utter melancholic exhaustion, so heavy, so deeply embedded into my own shadow, impossible to grasp, impossible to isolate, impossible to do away with, never stops ticking.... Armed with comedy, even the greatest fighters sometimes just need a bite of silence and a sip of space... Close your eyes and breathe.... home... for whatever that means... One must carry on, one must always carry on.

[TL1]

I was supposed to work today but they cancelled it at the last minute. (Yesterday). It's nice outside so I think I will go play some basketball.

What is on my mind though is I have an important appointment Monday. I'm nervous but in my mind things are being put into perspective. Letting go of certain lingering negativities of recent past happenings. Knowing life is short and it's much better to find the positive things and enjoy them. There's a lot of good in my life I feel grateful for. And I plan to make the most of it. And I want everyone in my life and everyone else to be happy.

Ok mushy moment over......

[Bèsame*]

Waking up remembering the yucky dream I had.

There was a wet mattress, that me and another woman moved, only to find a grey snake. (I hate snakes!) We made a fast get away and I had to leave behind the orange envelope purse and my pillow. ???

Next, as someone else went to go retrieve my purse and pillow...there was an orange and green octopus (a painting I saw at The Craft Store yesterday) crawling in a dead tree (how veins were explained to me yesterday, like an upside down tree). The octopus's legs, were shedding and being gooey...and the legs became shorter, and it turned into a spider type thing..and tried to chase me.

....I woke up..... remembering as I was telling Blaze, how much color there was. The gooey dripping, legs being shed. He says, write that down, it would be a good sci-fi movie...yeah, a huh...I'm rolling my eyes now! Lol

[Venus007]

Although I understand the power of tragedy to pull a community together, and am grateful for it. I really really really wish that what it took for people to just be humane to each other wasn't some horrible inhumanity. Couldn't it take just a little less force, eventually, soon, please