Talk about your day thread

[BurtReynolds]

good dog.

[Ello Sailor]

[spike]

There’s a guy named Brett Newski playing across the channel from my place tonight. I guess he’s sort of a pro based on some googling. It definitely sounds better than the other bands they’ve had in the past.

[Higgs]

Sorry Biff.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

omg is it bedtime yet?

[washing machine]

My 93 year old grandma who lives in an assisted living place had a wild hair to cook some old recipes today, so my dad was going to pick her up and bring her to his house where I would meet them and help cook.

Well, now he's over at her place and I'm here at his place but she's not feeling up for the drive across town, so I find myself in my parents' kitchen in front of three different pots with three different bags labeled with ingredients.

Fun morning of cooking ahead. I'll portion and deliver these soups to her when I'm done I guess.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

F*ck them. Eat it yourself.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

My mom had hip replacement surgery last week. Had some complications with blood loss and really low blood pressure, but had been doing better the last few days. Then she fell last night and dislocated her hip and cracked her femur. After a long night of back and forths trying to get into an ER they finally just got her in a room.

Parents.old.stuff

[dad]

sorry, lenny.

hope all goes well.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

sorry, lenny.

hope all goes well.

Thanks dad. It had to hurt like hell.

[tree_]

getting old really does suck.. sorry pal

[dad]

sorry, lenny.

hope all goes well.

Thanks dad. It had to hurt like hell.

i can't even imagine. i'm glad you were able to get her in.

[Ello Sailor]

Rough deal, Len. Hope she bounces back asap.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[washing machine]

Sorry lenny. Take care of her and I hope she recovers soon

[Rangi Guy]

That sucks len - hope she heals up quick

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Thanks guys

Surgery is finished and it’s not a good prognosis for a positive recovery. They had to go in through the back of her leg which is much more invasive. Had to put three cables in around the femur. Looking at very long recovery, weaker hip, and prone to future fractures if not very careful.

[JuanHamm]

Sorry to hear that. I'm glad the surgery was successful. How long of a stay in hospital is she looking at?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Sorry to hear that. I'm glad the surgery was successful. How long of a stay in hospital is she looking at?

Sounds like three or so days here, but then straight to rehab. She’s had rheumatoid arthritis most of her life so it’s tough to see another thing limit her long term.

[96583UP]

all-fiber day

massive, revolutionary shit in process