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tynic

DMAC wrote: »

(Seriously though. Who hires a deaf lifeguard?)

yeah, that ... that seems like a recipe for disaster. Unless they were trying to cull.

Munkus Beaver

I had to go through my 9th grade year with my face puffed up on prednisone (prednisone being an anabolic steroid, it was the treatment for the first of my many terrible medical problems at the time)

That was also the same year my parents decided I should get braces.

So there I am. Six feet tall, weigh 125 lbs. And my face looks like I've been storing food for the winter. And my smile was...metallic.

I tried asking a few ladies out and was harshly rejected. I was ugly as shit. I felt terrible.

As a result, I don't think I asked another girl out on a date until I got to college.

Lexxy

Ugh, prednisone.

Veritas

ouch MT, that certainly adds insult to injury.

I must have two dozen flying-over-handle-bars incidents from when I was kid but no loss of pants.

Lexxy

Aw man, I have to use someone else's art for a packaging project and it is GODAWFUL.

Prospicience

Lexxy wrote: »

Aw man, I have to use someone else's art for a packaging project and it is GODAWFUL.

This is the worst thing. My condolences.

e: actually, MT, that is the worst thing. But, at least it's led to a life full of pantlessness.

Munkus Beaver

Lexxy wrote: »

Aw man, I have to use someone else's art for a packaging project and it is GODAWFUL.

Draw something and hide it in the art.

Like if you look closely at his biceps you see a colon and the number three.

Or perhaps a capital D and a colon.

McGibs

A few years ago, I was peddling art at a local street festival, and I was wearing these pants that had a really crappy zipper that just unzipped itself all the time (I still have them, but I need to hold my fly closed with a key-ring looped through the zipper and onto the button)

for an indeterminate amount of time, I was sitting at my booth with my fly wide open, AND unfortunately, my boxers unbuttoned. Now, I think for the most part, the general public was protected by my booth, but I'm pretty sure the cute girl selling jewelry next to me got a pretty good view in the good 5-10 minutes I was tanning in the sun.

Felt a breeze, hastily buttoned myself up, taped my fly closed, and went back to selling my wares.
Next day I moved my booth to the other end of the street.

Forbe!

Lexxy wrote: »

Ugh, prednisone.

That shits nasty. Last winter I was taking Prednisone and Tussionex (liquid hydrocodone) for a nasty throat infection I had. Everything was good for the first week, I just stayed at home and rode out the day drinking Tussionex and poppin' my prednisone. The prednisone made me feel a bit weird, but not noticeably. Well after that first week, I was feeling a lot better, but still on the meds. I had to go pay the water bill one day, and decided to go early, right after taking my pills. It was a beautiful day out, but things started to go wrong the second I opened the door to the city hall. I started getting all shakey and sweaty, and everything was super bright. I walked in, and handed the bill to the lady real intense-like: "IM HERE TO PAY A BILL". Then just walked out.

Apparently some people have a reaction to prednisone that is similar to the effect of taking speed.

I'm one of those people.

MagicToaster

Prospicience wrote: »

Lexxy wrote: »

Aw man, I have to use someone else's art for a packaging project and it is GODAWFUL.

This is the worst thing. My condolences.

e: actually, MT, that is the worst thing. But, at least it's led to a life full of pantlessness.

Boxes and pantslessness... this is the best page ever!

Munkus Beaver

Shit I wish that prednisone was like taking speed.

That would have made for an interesting freshmen year at least.

Forbe!

I only took it for two weeks, but all I did was play L4D and TF2 while I was out from school. But my friend is a pharmacy tech and told me shes had the same reaction, and it happens fairly often.

Munkus Beaver

I took it for a year. You don't even get the puffy side effects from taking it for two weeks.

And my dosage was huge. I had to wear a medic-alert necklace and everything.

That was the worst year of my life :<

PROX

My email is screwed over and I was expecting a reply from blizzard. I am locked out of my freakin account.

Nappuccino

garrrh alarm clock, why must your "alarm off button" be in the exact same place as my old alarm's "sleep" button???

This is the 5 th time i've slept through class because I've turned the alarm off instead of hitting sleep.

Chilly

Good Morning AC.

Enjoy a song. It will help you get through Tuesday. Maybe...

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZZlQAOLXjA

ManonvonSuperock

aw man. i was just talking about cake the other day. listened to the fuck out of that album in high school.

e: maybe that was junior high. shit.

DMAC

PROX wrote: »

My email is screwed over and I was expecting a reply from blizzard. I am locked out of my freakin account.

Could make a second account on one of the free e-mail sites and ask them to contact you there.

PROX

I did, they cannot verify my account because I can't give them enough information to verify my account.

Chilly

PROX wrote: »

My email is screwed over and I was expecting a reply from blizzard. I am locked out of my freakin account.

Happened to me when I was keylogged once. They changed my email password so that I couldn't contact Blizzard without physically calling them. I called them and within about 15 minutes I had my account locked down and personal account info changed to secure items I had set up after doing a complete scan and kill of my keylogger.

Was a bitch too, because it took me about a week to get my stuff and characters back. They took my tank and transferred him to another account to be sold, which took the longest of anything to rectify. Once it was all said and done though, I ended up with more money and items that I had lost through Blizzards recovery system. No fun though.

Put into perspective how vulnerable you can feel when someone gets your personal info and does with it what they please. Luckily they didn't want to tread into the area of federal crimes and left my online banking info alone.

Crowleston

how did i not know about Turltes Forever?

PROX

DMAC wrote: »

PROX wrote: »

My email is screwed over and I was expecting a reply from blizzard. I am locked out of my freakin account.

Could make a second account on one of the free e-mail sites and ask them to contact you there.

I'm not locked out of my world of warcraft account. I'm locked out of my gmail account.

Chilly

Gmail should have a forgot my password dealio on the front page that sends an email to the secondary email address you provided when you created your gmail account. As long as you can remember your secondary email you should be able to iron out your gmail that way.

PROX

got locked out of secondary address as well.

that one sends password reset to itself.

DMAC

PROX wrote: »

I did, they cannot verify my account because I can't give them enough information to verify my account.

Can't... or won't?

PROX

I don't remember the date I created my google account. I think that's one of the questions they asked. I'm going to try again from home since they look at IP addresses.

NibCrom

Crowleston wrote: »

how did i not know about Turltes Forever?

Whaaat? Is this any good?

Crowleston

A friend just saw it, says its excellent. If you are big on your turtle trivia throughout their ENTIRE history you will love it apparently. It's full of inside jokes from the first comic, to the live action stuff.

NibCrom

I guess I'll have to wait for the DVD and check it out.

Munkus Beaver

I got my new meds in, I'm going to get them administered tomorrow.

I got this nice little email from the manufacturer:

Serious infections have happened in patients taking HUMIRA. These infections include tuberculosis (TB) and infections caused by viruses, fungi, or bacteria that have spread throughout the body. Some of these serious infections have been fatal. Patients treated with HUMIRA also may be at risk for other serious side effects including certain types of cancers, allergic reactions, hepatitis B virus reactivation, nervous system problems, blood problems, heart failure, and certain immune reactions, including a lupus-like syndrome.

I may have an extremely morbid sense of humor, but I found it hilarious. The emphasis is theirs, not mine.

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So it turns out that if I sleep with no alarm, I sleep for 14 hours.

Daaaaamniiiiit the day is already half over.

NibCrom

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

I got my new meds in, I'm going to get them administered tomorrow.

I got this nice little email from the manufacturer:

Serious infections have happened in patients taking HUMIRA. These infections include tuberculosis (TB) and infections caused by viruses, fungi, or bacteria that have spread throughout the body. Some of these serious infections have been fatal. Patients treated with HUMIRA also may be at risk for other serious side effects including certain types of cancers, allergic reactions, hepatitis B virus reactivation, nervous system problems, blood problems, heart failure, and certain immune reactions, including a lupus-like syndrome.

I may have an extremely morbid sense of humor, but I found it hilarious. The emphasis is theirs, not mine.

It was nice knowing you, Munkus.

Scosglen

So one of my dogs may be dying. Yesterday he was suddenly super lethargic and unsteady, and after a vet visit he seems to have a very low red blood cell count and they don't know why (He's basically suffocating). He's on steroids and antibiotics now but he's just completely helpless and he just lays in his doggy beg while I have to try to get him water from an eye dropper and carry him out to the lawn every few hours.

He is so pitiful and all he can so is half-sleep and keep one eye on the front door waiting for his (my) momma to come home from work.

Crowleston

I'm super sorry to hear that. My dog just had a similar situation with the lethargy, she couldn't even stand to get any unsteadiness, also the low red blood cells, have they checked for Addison's disease?

Munkus Beaver

NibCrom wrote: »

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

I got my new meds in, I'm going to get them administered tomorrow.

I got this nice little email from the manufacturer:

Serious infections have happened in patients taking HUMIRA. These infections include tuberculosis (TB) and infections caused by viruses, fungi, or bacteria that have spread throughout the body. Some of these serious infections have been fatal. Patients treated with HUMIRA also may be at risk for other serious side effects including certain types of cancers, allergic reactions, hepatitis B virus reactivation, nervous system problems, blood problems, heart failure, and certain immune reactions, including a lupus-like syndrome.

I may have an extremely morbid sense of humor, but I found it hilarious. The emphasis is theirs, not mine.

It was nice knowing you, Munkus.

The entire email is a hoot. The rest is saying how great Humira is, but how it's only for people who haven't responded well to any other treatment. It basically reads like a warning label on a last resort. Like they are trying to excise a tumor in my brain with a bullet.

WARNING: BULLET MAY CAUSE GUNSHOT WOUND

NibCrom

lawled @ gunshot wound.

DMAC

NibCrom, I'm not sure how to tell you this but... I hate the shape of your robot character's head.

Loomdun

its quite a dirty shape

NibCrom

DMAC wrote: »

NibCrom, I'm not sure how to tell you this but... I hate the shape of your robot character's head.

Oh... this is the worst thing I have ever heard. It seriously makes me want to cry.

Is there a certain reason you hate it?

DMAC

It's all weird angles and the ear looks like a hinge or something. It sort of looks like it's meant to open and close around his neck. Also, the face is angled up which seems like a strange choice unless he's a ceiling inspecting robot. Aesthetically it bothers me.