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Flagon_15 26 Sep 18, 13:06Post
Thanks to my job, I learned that you can pretty much buy your way into a country. Unlike what these "buy real philippine passport" spam ads say, it costs quite a little bit more. On the good side, you buy your passport and get a free villa with it... Or was it the other way around?
JLAmber (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 12 Nov 18, 23:04Post
Learnings of the last 5 days:

Calculating the correct dosage of anaesthetic is tricky.
Reading a patient's notes is (apparently) similarly tricky.
Giving a patient who has lost over 70lbs recently a dose of anaesthetic large enough to knock out the old him is a very bad idea.
I really needed two day's sleep.
NetAirspace's social media really needed me not to go to sleep for two days.

Also, Morecambe is a dismal backwater (sorry Martin).
A million great ideas...
GQfluffy (Database Editor & Founding Member) 12 Nov 18, 23:26Post
Welcome back to the living?
Teller of no, fixer of everything, friend of the unimportant and all around good guy; the CAD Monkey
ShyFlyer (Founding Member) 12 Nov 18, 23:41Post
I've also got a list of things I've learned recently:

I can buy a home, today, with zero down, so long as the home is $280K or less. Here in the DEN metro, that will get me an empty lot. It is an empty lot at a fly-in community, though.

Saying you work at the county jail is apparently a major turn-off, even if the woman's politics generally match mine.

Certain people in my life have yet to figure out that their "helpful" suggestions are actually more hurtful than helpful.

The number of people who can't turn on their vehicle's headlights after sunset seems to be sharply increasing.
Make Orwell fiction again.
ShyFlyer (Founding Member) 13 Nov 18, 05:19Post
This evening, I learned I have a wife that I didn't know about and apparently can only be seen by new home salespeople.
Make Orwell fiction again.
JLAmber (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 13 Nov 18, 19:24Post
GQfluffy wrote:Welcome back to the living?


Pretty much. It's worth pointing out that I wasn't unconscious for the whole time, just in an extreme state of exhaustion which is apparently pretty common after too much anaesthetic. Apparently (I was out at the time so didn't hear it for myself) a theatre nurse asked why I was being given such a high dosage given that I'm not ginger and clearly not 21 stone, otherwise it could have been a lot worse.

I only went in to have some excess bone cement removed {facepalm}

ShyFlyer wrote:This evening, I learned I have a wife that I didn't know about and apparently can only be seen by new home salespeople.


My Father has one of those, and an internet connection that will be cut off if he doesn't pay £50. And an airhorn by the side of the telephone :))
A million great ideas...
mhodgson (ATC & Photo Quality Screener & Founding Member) 13 Nov 18, 20:01Post
JLAmber wrote:Also, Morecambe is a dismal backwater (sorry Martin).


Fair {laugh}

Is that related to the previous 5 points or is it an unfortunate postscript?
There's the right way, the wrong way and the railway.
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 15 Nov 18, 13:48Post
"ATC is an uncompetitive inhibitor."

I think they're still talking about protein...
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
JLAmber (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 15 Nov 18, 16:49Post
mhodgson wrote:
JLAmber wrote:Also, Morecambe is a dismal backwater (sorry Martin).


Fair {laugh}

Is that related to the previous 5 points or is it an unfortunate postscript?


Somewhat related. I was in Lancaster and on a week-long driving ban (due to the anaesthetic), my lift home had to stop off in Morecambe on the way.
We went via the B5273 towards the football club, through what appears to be a toxic wasteland inter-spaced by tidal bogs and featuring a random collection of run down shops in the middle of nowhere.
A million great ideas...
mhodgson (ATC & Photo Quality Screener & Founding Member) 15 Nov 18, 17:30Post
Ah, the glamorous part!
There's the right way, the wrong way and the railway.
Mark 15 Nov 18, 17:58Post
JLAmber wrote:I was in Lancaster and on a week-long driving ban (due to the anaesthetic)


Hmmm... Back in 1999, I had my gall bladder removed. Fours after I got home from same-day surgery, I drove to the casino. Won $440. Paid for my deductible.
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ShyFlyer (Founding Member) 15 Nov 18, 23:31Post
Mark wrote:Fours after I got home from same-day surgery, I drove to the casino.


24hrs after my surgery, I couldn't laugh without nearly passing out from the pain.
Make Orwell fiction again.
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 19 Nov 18, 21:09Post
Someone's discovered a new Weblogic vulnerability. At least, that's the conclusion I draw from a sudden massive inrush of attempts on bea_wls_deployment_internal.netairspace.cc - which doesn't exist.

I've discovered just how much I've been getting ripped off by buying small bottles of Coke in the local supermarket.

Two 0.5 litre bottles, on special offer, €3.50

Two 1.5 litre bottles, regular price, €3.18

OK, so the small bottles are cold...

This has to be some sort of nanny-state "don't grab this to drink with your lunch, you fat bastard" tax. But three times the price per litre? {bugeye}
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
mhodgson (ATC & Photo Quality Screener & Founding Member) 20 Nov 18, 13:14Post
Same at my local supermarket - if you want a nice cold cola drink from the fridge, it's £1.25 from the fridge for 500ml. But wander round and you can get 1l bottles for £1, and usually the larger bottles and can multipacks are on offer.

And thanks to Jamie Oliver {mad} the full sugar version tends to be excluded from meal deals and attracts a surcharge.
There's the right way, the wrong way and the railway.
ShyFlyer (Founding Member) 26 Nov 18, 18:58Post
There is pay progression in my job after all!

When I took the job, and with the last few job vacancy announcements, the listing only gave a bi-weekly & yearly amount. Just one. All the other jobs the county advertised had a pay range listed, the starting rate and the top-out rate.

This lead me to believe that the only pay increased I would see in my current position would be cost of living and/or base-pay raises approved by the county commission.
Make Orwell fiction again.
Mark 27 Nov 18, 01:48Post
I was dis-invited from Thanksgiving for having a toe infection. About a month ago, I whacked my big toe on something. About a week later, it's red and draining pus. Since I'm diabetic, I went to the doctor. Got a ten day supply of Keflex, an antibiotic. That didn't work, so she tried Septra DS. All that did was give me a genital yeast infection.... joyous. Finally, she tried clindamycin and decided to culture the drainage.

Methicillin-Resistant Staph Aureus. Our Thanksgiving host messaged me to say I couldn't come into her home with an active MRSA infection.

I just got back from the podiatrist and he found a splintered sliver of toenail embedded in the toe. He removed it and says I'll heal up in a week.
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bhmbaglock 27 Nov 18, 03:45Post
JLAmber wrote:
GQfluffy wrote:Welcome back to the living?


Pretty much. It's worth pointing out that I wasn't unconscious for the whole time, just in an extreme state of exhaustion which is apparently pretty common after too much anaesthetic. Apparently (I was out at the time so didn't hear it for myself) a theatre nurse asked why I was being given such a high dosage given that I'm not ginger and clearly not 21 stone, otherwise it could have been a lot worse.

I only went in to have some excess bone cement removed {facepalm}

ShyFlyer wrote:This evening, I learned I have a wife that I didn't know about and apparently can only be seen by new home salespeople.


My Father has one of those, and an internet connection that will be cut off if he doesn't pay £50. And an airhorn by the side of the telephone :))


Unlike you, I'm the type who wakes during surgery, has conversations with the docs/nurses and actually remembers them. It's happened several times.

I had bone cement/grout during two surgeries, they never offered to remove it.
JLAmber (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 27 Nov 18, 16:12Post
bhmbaglock wrote:Unlike you, I'm the type who wakes during surgery, has conversations with the docs/nurses and actually remembers them. It's happened several times.


Yikes! Back when I was 300lbs and lifting heavy weights daily I was hard work to knock out too but never woke during surgery, thankfully. I did once come to immediately after while still on the operating table and, due to being in the midst of a vivid hallucination where I thought I was playing an 80's style rock gig, announced "Thank you Scunthorpe and goodnight" {blush}

bhmbaglock wrote:I had bone cement/grout during two surgeries, they never offered to remove it.


It is supposed to be in there permanently but mine had formed a tiny but very sharp ridge at the base of my left Calcaneus that was causing a small but persistent bleed, so they removed some and filed the rest smooth with a device that looked like, and I'm reasonably sure was, a Dremel.
A million great ideas...
ShyFlyer (Founding Member) 19 Dec 18, 02:46Post
I learned that Seth MacFarlane played an Officer aboard both the Enterprise and Columbia on Star Trek: Enterprise.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Rivers
Make Orwell fiction again.
Zak (netAirspace FAA) 21 Dec 18, 09:49Post
ShyFlyer wrote:I learned that Seth MacFarlane played an Officer aboard both the Enterprise and Columbia on Star Trek: Enterprise.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Rivers

He also had a cameo in "Gilmore Girls". And he produced the rather good documentary series "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey". If you ask me, he should stick to that stuff, as I never quite got his sense of humour. But I know that's not the popular opinion.

BTT - I learned that AC/DC's "Hells Bells" sounds pretty cool when it's played on actual church bells:

Ideology: The mistaken belief that your beliefs are neither beliefs nor mistaken.
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 21 Dec 18, 11:03Post
Zak wrote:BTT - I learned that AC/DC's "Hells Bells" sounds pretty cool when it's played on actual church bells:

{check}

I learned why our database server at work has been slow for the last 10 days. Turns out that building a RAID array entirely out of survivors from previous RAID failures is a really stupid idea! Who knew?! {sarcastic}
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
ShyFlyer (Founding Member) 22 Dec 18, 19:29Post
Zak wrote:I never quite got his sense of humour.

It is a bit unique but I find him funny as long as he isn't doing political stuff. He's quite the singer too. He has an album of Sinatra covers.


I learned today that Dollar Car Rental is part of the Hertz family. Found that out as they handled my rental that I booked through Dollar. My flight was late and the Dollar counter at ABQ had closed.
Make Orwell fiction again.
Allstarflyer (Database Editor & Founding Member) 31 Dec 18, 22:55Post
JLAmber wrote:It is supposed to be in there permanently but mine had formed a tiny but very sharp ridge at the base of my left Calcaneus that was causing a small but persistent bleed, so they removed some and filed the rest smooth with a device that looked like, and I'm reasonably sure was, a Dremel.

When I was being wheeled out of post-op for having my ankle repaired years ago, I was told by the orderly(?) that the doctor used a Milwaukee drill putting the stainless steel in there (spiral fracture on the fibula). I told him I liked DeWalt. He said he knows, I'd already said so. Apparently I don't wake up at all.

And, fwiw, my (very slowly) growing power tool line is Bosch.
Mark 01 Jan 19, 01:41Post
The operating room in my hospital used Craftsman tools.
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ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 01 Jan 19, 10:15Post
Mark wrote:The operating room in my hospital used Craftsman tools.

There was a documentary a while back about Jamaica's Kingston Public Hospital. "Jamaica ER", I think it was. They went at some poor bastard's skull with a masonry bit.

Then there was guy who poured various chemicals down his toilet to unblock it, followed them up with gasoline, then struck a match to see what was going on...
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
 

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