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Happy Birthday Richie!!

I will be the last person to wish Richie a Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Richie! Scorpios ROCK!


Merle

sinsboldly, I just wanted to say how much I like your limericks.

oooooo, you're gonna be in TROUBLE!! !!1

OOOOhh, look! Postie came out of his cave!!

Where did you leave Chuck, Postie? You two been out partying? You didn't leave him passed out in the back of the bus again, did you?

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Oh DUH!! !! ! I've ordered things many times and had to pick them up at the distribution center because I'd have to sign for them and wasn't home in the daytime. Have it shipped to be picked up there, yes!

Well, I was incredibly nervous during the night, I woke up every hour fearing that I wouldn't be in time
when I arrived it was cleaning moment, every monday morning all the 4 employers (including boss) do the cleaning,
I found that very relaxing as a start, I did the windows and the tables.
Then we had some talking about last weak and one of the other employees (a young boy of 22) told how it went last week cause boss had been absent and the boy was in charge (just as I will be in the future). I realized the job will be tough some times when the boy told of their journey in the city and the youth wanted to go drinking beer which is not supposed to be part of the activities (except at rock concerts which they also do 4 times a year, or other real parties like carnaval or haloween)
After that I had my lunchtime and went for a walk in the forest.
We did more talking, now about the projects to come and I explained mine. after that I went to my desk and started preparing

So it was rather cool, only a little tiring to talk and listen so much, it was a very verbal day, i'll have to get used to that.
I also had a phone call for another job of 8 hours teaching, will have to think about it.

Well done, lemon! I know what you mean about coming home with all the muscles in your face tired from talking/smiling/looking at people all day. Have you been offered another 8 hours per week, or just one eight-hour day? Are you able to say "Thanks but no thanks" to extra work without anyone getting upset?

Anyway, congratulations!

Happy Birhtday, Richie! Did I get to say it on the right day?

I am so glad you enjoyed your first day,Lemon!! You will get used to the talking in no time. It sounds like a great job for you!!

Good for you! You made it through the first day. It may be overwhelming at times, but just take it one crisis at a time, one day at a time. If it comes to it, one hour at a time. You'll be fine, Lemon.

That is outlawed under the Geneva convention, or the human rights convention or something like that. Look under the section about limits to permissible embarrassment of close relatives, and check the cross reference to justifiable homicide.

Happy (belated) Birthday Richie!
I hope you had a great day, and your birthday wish comes true!

Hello to all!

I finished my 6 weeks off with a bang - seven 18 hour shifts. We had (have) a round of CA-MRSA (community acquired- methcillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus) spreading through the area. People coming in with what looks like spider bites on their extremely swollen faces, (a mark on the cheek swells so big it closes the eye on that side). The 'community acquired' types (as opposed to the 'hospital acquired' types) are much more virulent, but luckily, easier to treat.

I apologize for not being here to answer emails and posts lately. All week I just came home to shower, eat, nap and head back in.

Time to crash! I'll catch up with everybody this week.

Take care! (wash 'hands to elbows' with soap and water before eating, or touching your nose (if you are out and about in public in a known CA-MRSA-infested area). Alcohol kills it easily, and the 'personal alcohol gel pumps (and sprays)' work well if you can't get to a sink to wash (hydrogen peroxide and oxygenating agents don't work well). CA-MRSA lives easily for hours on counters, door knobs, clothing... transmission is mainly 'hand to nose'. Transmissible to pets - and can be acquired from a pet.

I'll leave you with a bedtime story: CA-MRSA has begun replicating inside soil-residing Acanthamoebas (growing from one cell into a thousand inside the amoeba), the Acanthamoebas then form cysts containing CA-MRSA, the cysts then catch air currents and go airborn.... ....and can travel great distances with long-living virulent CA-MRSA. So some strains of CA-MRSA are now airborn as well....

The good news: Most people are exposed to various forms of Staphlococcus areus all the time with no ill effect (an estimated 2 billion people worldwide carry some form of S. aureus. Of these, an estimated 53 million carry some form of MRSA. In the U.S. 95 million people carry some form of S. aureus in their noses; of these, 2.5 million carry some form of MRSA. The bad news: of those, 94,000 develop serious infections, and of those, 19,000 die per year (more than those who die from AIDS). MRSA was discovered in the UK in 1961 - approximately 3,000 people in the UK die of MRSA yearly. (Most at risk: The very young; the elderly; crowds (schools, prisons, military camps, etc.); athletes in 'body contact-type' sports locker rooms; those hospitalized with serious illness, burns, or surgeries; the immunocompromised; those with cystic fibrosis; and those with psoriasis, cuts, or dermatitis on their hands).

HA-MRSA (hospital acquired) is a whole other story - REEEEALLY nasty stuff - (with Panton-Valentine leukocidin beta-pore forming toxins, and enterotoxins) - some deadly in 72 hours. But that's another story.

If you get it - I can tell you how to treat it (either type). Best to try to prevent it though - by washing your hands with soap and water before eating, or touching your nose!

Time for bed!

Chuck

Well, I found out about my father. He is in the hospital, being treated for a second stroke. I did call the police in his city, and they actually called me back and told me that they had gone out to his place, and spoken to him and that he was fine! I couldn't understand why, if he was fine, he wasn't answering the phone or returning calls. The next day, I received a call from a friend of his, who gave me the number of the Rehab Hospital he has been in for a week. I called. Being my father, he is refusing all treatment and demanding to go home. I could barely understand what he was saying, his speech was so badly slurred. I pleaded with him cooperate with the doctors and therapists, but knowing him, I don't feel much hope that he will comply. He has never trusted doctors or hospitals very much, and he is very stubborn about returning home. He even hung up on me. I have been up all night, crying. There is not anything that I can do.

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(((hug)))
It hardly seems fair. We have to stand by and watch as our children make their decisions and mistakes, and then we have to stand by and watch as our parents get older and we can do nothing about their decisions.

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Ummmmmmm....... thanks(?) for the story, Chuck. Nice to see you, I think?......maybe.