Installed a new seat on my Aeron chair today.

I added more sit-ups to my daily exercises and my tailbone was hurting. I improved my crunch technique to minimize the impact on my butt and that didn't help.

Ordered a new seat and now that I installed it, man, what a difference!

It didn't seem like my old seat was that worn but it must've been sagging more than I thought.

Happy happy!

wrestled with Springer-Verlag paper template and now smoking a cuban cigar.

Back in the US in time for my (N)MRI thanks to a "a state-of-the-art General Electric GE Signa® HDe 1.5T Scanner"

 
Closed scanner, but it was only my embiggened right knee they were imaging, so I went in feet first, and my head stayed outside.
Nice relaxing half hour rest while I was forced to wear some no name headphones ear protectors and listen to what sounded like bad early experimental electronic music ( but was just the magnetic coils getting exited, and relaxed ).
 
Review of the imagery first thing Monday. Lets see if we can get a better diagnosis than "non specific inflammation" I'd be happy with being pain free and a return to normal function.

...what sounded like bad early experimental electronic music ( but was just the magnetic coils getting exited, and relaxed ).

 

So true!  I told the technician when asked, "are you okay, were you alright in there?":  "Yeah, but...that music sucked.  And this is coming from someone who has listened to all of Metal Machine Music more than once."

So true!  I told the technician when asked, "are you okay, were you alright in there?":  "Yeah, but...that music sucked.  And this is coming from someone who has listened to all of Metal Machine Music more than once."

When I had an MRI they let me plug in an iPod in the control room and listen to my own music. The headphones sucked though - it was like the old airline headphones where the speaker is in the machine, and it uses a stethoscope like apparatus (air tubes) to transmit the music to your ears.

Trade you the (N)MRI for my epic three-hour root canal, G-dawg.

 

Feel and look as if someone punched me in the face. With intent!

Ouch, sucks Stretch.  I went to the dentist this morning and other than raping my mouth with floss it was a relatively pain free event that did not identify a need to return for 6 months.  Win.

Yeah, if my mouth had been raped more often (with floss) I probably wouldn't have needed the root canal, Nate. But I am of British ancestry ...

The one root canal I had was one of the most painful experiences of my life... she kept having to give me shots directly into the roots and it just wouldn't get numb.  Sorry Stretch. 

One funny bit, from my very jocular South African dentist while fitting the rubber dam to isolate the tooth.

 

"I'm just going to practice a bit of apartheid here, Mr. Clark, and then we'll go mining."

 

Would have LOLed if I'd had less shit in my maw.

Edited October 31, 201312 yr by Hopstretch

Was there an attractive dental hygenist bending over you to distract you, or did your jocular dentist have seemingly oversized hands and fingers just to make it more "fun"?

Seriously.  I've always had one of those ridiculously good-looking dental hygenists with every dentist I've gone to, and most of them were not shy.

Recover well, Stretch.....

 

My dad is a dentist, and I remember one hygienist who was absolutely adorable.  One cleaning, she was chatting with me and asked if I wanted to be a dentist like my dad.  My smartass reply: "Nothing against you or the profession, but it's not my aim in life to put my hands in people's mouths and have them drool on me...."

 

Thankfully, she laughed, and didn't do anything nasty with those sharp instruments she had!

I am jealous.  Of course, maybe the fear of pain will help me in the long run.  I had to get one from grinding me teeth at night.  You can be sure that, after that experience, I wear my mouthguard every single night now!

When I had an MRI they let me plug in an iPod in the control room and listen to my own music. The headphones sucked though - it was like the old airline headphones where the speaker is in the machine, and it uses a stethoscope like apparatus (air tubes) to transmit the music to your ears.

 

That's what it's been for all of my MRIs.  I assume because they can't use anything metal inside the machine, or even near it.  They literally pipe in the music from outside the room.

 

 

Three hour root canal?  That's insane, Stretch.  I think I have another one coming up in January - hope it doesn't take that long.  They are unpleasant.

 

Good news came to me today.  I won $500 worth of work from a screw pile foundation company.  Now, shall I start on a deck, or an outbuilding, or what?  It doesn't really feel like winning, since the only way I get to collect the prize is to spend another pile of money on the superstructure of whatever the screw piles sit underneath.

I had a quartz bowl sound bath at the Integratron.

I believe John just tried kill me.

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Brent - very belated hug for all you are going through.  Glad kids are good, and hope fault determination for accident goes your way.

 

Todd - condolences on fil's condition, but as you said, and John reinforced, when it's time, it's time.  Never easy, but life goes on.

 

^^^^ How so, Mike?  I find it hard to believe that John would do such a thing.  He is a pussycat.

I agree.  Maybe it was the new guy?

He left me for dead in the middle of the Everglades. Just started running and never saw him again. Left me for this gator.

Actually, is that him in a gator costume?

 

EDIT: Jeffy, have heard of those, looks kind of interesting.....tell us more about the experience.....

Edited November 2, 201312 yr by skullguise

So, Mike ... are you saying you are now undead?

 

While that is a great pic if me I did survive, despite John's best efforts.

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