sorry to hear grmps, i loathe thieves as well, and i think the worst part about getting something stolen is that you really dont have any course of vengeance. even if you HAD surveillance, would it really help? the feeling of rage that can be directed nowhere is what REALLY gets me during times like yours.
Thanks brother man!
yeah the rage is certainly uncomfortable.
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grmpysmrf
In Australia we don’t have these problems.
I love you all.
Yeah, but every creature on the continent is deadly poisonous.
Yikes, dude. That sucks.
Where I live, nonsense like this happens a lot. Unemployment and meth addiction run pretty rampan here, and while it’s nowhere near “gotta walk around strapped” territory, it does get pretty ghetto sometimes, and even in the best neighborhoods, goofy shit turns up missing.
Bummer.
That’s some ol’ bullshit right there.
Fucking waste, man. So sorry to hear it.
People steal air conditioners around here. Copper too, but especially air conditioners.
If it makes you feel any better vicariously, one of the pieces of shit that broke into our house last year is getting sentenced in a week. I think he’ll be getting about 20. Who knows how long he’ll really stay in though. Personally, it’d be just fine by me should someone happen to fuck him up sideways in the showers one day. Still might pursue a lawsuit against the parents of the minor whose house our shit was found in. Motherfuckers owe me four grand.
also, maybe check out MicroCenter for surveillance gear. Run it all off your computer instead of paying someone to monitor.
That’s some ol’ bullshit right there.
Fucking waste, man. So sorry to hear it.
People steal air conditioners around here. Copper too, but especially air conditioners.
If it makes you feel any better vicariously, one of the pieces of shit that broke into our house last year is getting sentenced in a week. I think he’ll be getting about 20. Who knows how long he’ll really stay in though. Personally, it’d be just fine by me should someone happen to fuck him up sideways in the showers one day. Still might pursue a lawsuit against the parents of the minor whose house our shit was found in. Motherfuckers owe me four grand.
Thanks for the update davely. Yeah I thought of you while I was first posting this. And yeah it makes me feel a little better certainly for you that you found a little bit of justice. I hope that guy gets a little bit of time instead of getting probation or some such bullshit… “because the prisons are over crowded and you committed a non violent crime were gonna let you go as long as you promise… Really really promise not to do it again.” are you going to go to the sentencing?
How long do you have until you decide to press charges on the parents? What’s stopping you?
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grmpysmrf
We were planning on going to the sentencing, but with all the time we had to take of due to my wife’s health issues lately, don’t know if that is going to happen. Main issues with suing the kid’s parents over it is A) good luck collecting anything from them after winning the lawsuit, they don’t have any fucking money and B) how much do we really want to make dealing with that shit part of our lives again- we’ve got other shit on our plates now and maybe we’re just better off living our lives. We really should check and see what our options are at this point though before it gets too much later in the game.
We were planning on going to the sentencing, but with all the time we had to take of due to my wife’s health issues lately, don’t know if that is going to happen. Main issues with suing the kid’s parents over it is A) good luck collecting anything from them after winning the lawsuit, they don’t have any fucking money and B) how much do we really want to make dealing with that shit part of our lives again- we’ve got other shit on our plates now and maybe we’re just better off living our lives. We really should check and see what our options are at this point though before it gets too much later in the game.
All that is understandable. Did you mention your wife was sick before? I don’t remember reading that. Either way, I’m sorry to hear that. I hope she’s on the up and up now.
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grmpysmrf
No, I hadn’t mentioned it before actually. Things have been pretty nutty around here the last few months. First we had like a month and a half of being out of town every weekend (ensuring the house would be just a total disaster for me to deal with all the chores and upkeep while she was laid up), beginning and ending with two regional burning man events- at that last one she got sick with vomiting and diarrhea, which meant she wasn’t properly metabolizing her psych meds, so things got interesting there (on a couple occasions) and I ended up taking her to the hospital for dehydration (she took two whole IV bags of fluids), then trying to figure out what the problem was in the first place we started investigating her lady parts, which had been bothering her with really intense and unpredictable periods.
So, three more hospital visits for tests and scopes and biopsy, about a week and a half ago she got the Novasure Endometrial Ablation, which hopefully should fix everything.
Basically, the lining of her uterus (which should be shed every month), had grown so thick that her uterus was practically solid. So, they stuck a scope up there to make sure it wasn’t cancer, then they went and scraped all that out (a DNC- same procedure as some kinds of abortion- she passed miscarriage sized chunks for almost a week). And then a week and a half ago she had the Novasure, where they put a balloon in her uterus, inflated it, and then heated it up really hot to cauterize the endometrium so (fingers crossed) it will stop growing back every month and she will no longer have periods (it was that or a hysterectomy, so we went with the no-cut option). The doctor showed me the before and after pictures and it went from pink to gray and for real my first thought was “Wow, just like cooking a steak.”
So, she’s just about recovered from that. She’s met her deductible now, so I think she should go get a bunch more stuff done before the end of the year while it’s all taken care of. Allergy tests and stuff. Then I guess it’s my turn to go get checked out. My last two eye exams they told me my blood pressure is bordering on dangerously high, so I should probably get that under control. And I have a few teeth I need fixed BADLY. Sigh. Getting older is a motherfucker.
Jesus brother I don’t know what to say to all that… “I’m sorry that sucks” doesn’t seem like enough.
So were her lady parts the cause of her v&d and dehydration? We’re you two planning on having kids?
Damn monkey wrench.
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grmpysmrf
It’s really hard to say what the problem was with the vomiting and stuff, she was running a fever too, so we think she may have had some sort of virus, plus it was 100+ degrees out there in the woods (with like an ice cold crystal clear river running right next to the campgrounds, otherwise I would’ve died my self from the heat alone) plus she had been a week late on her period and started there, and there’s a possibility that her swollen uterus may have been partially or intermittently interfering with things flowing through her GI tract, and the every day reality that she’s also allergic to like EVERYTHING. Soooooooo… meh?
We weren’t going to have kids anyway. She was already fixed when I met her, she has those Essure coils where they put little tiny springs inside the fallopian tubes and scar tissue just fills in on them until they are blocked completely and eggs can’t make it through. Girls in her family have risky pregnancies and she’d already had one nasty miscarriage when her piece of shit ex husband beat her up. The biggest argument though is that with all her allergies, why the hell would she want to possibly pass any of that on to a kid? Not only is she allergic to cats and pretty much all pollen to some extent or other, and tobacco smoke instantly sets off her asthma, but she’s also allergic to peanuts, some but not all tree nuts, all legumes including all beans and SOY, which, fuck, good luck avoiding soy nowadays… and to top it all off POTATOES! Nobody’s allergic to potatoes! Even if they aren’t your favorite, do you have any idea how much you would miss McDonald’s fries if you find out at age 11 that YOU CAN NEVER HAVE THEM AGAIN?!
So yeah, she has her reasons, and I don’t mind- I’m not in any sort of situation where I feel the need to be making a baby. And, you know, my dad was adopted and we don’t know jack about his family, and when I was a teenager to young adult, my parents took in a string of young people in succession that were down on their luck and needed a hand. This little witchy gay kid my mom’s friends knew who got kicked out of his house for admitting what was obvious anyway, my sister’s best friend whose home life was just fucked, a really talented young artist friend of my mom’s who was on disability for depression and needed a place to stay while she finished college, etc. That to me is just as important a type of parenting to me as making another mouth to eat up the planet. There’s always going to be someone out there who would look up to you and appreciate your influence on their life if you are open to that kind of thing. And I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned it but my wife’s sister is a real crackhead piece of work and there’s a very real possibility her two year old could wind up with us (my mother in law currently has her, the state already told the dad that he’s used up all his chances and they’re not going to fuck around with him anymore, his custodial rights are completely gone, and they are almost to that point with my sister-in-law). Plus there’s her 16 year old niece (who also got taken away from my sister in law and lives with her dad who just got out of prison) and her 15 year old little sister that we try to be as involved with as possible. And now I’ve got this 16 year old black kid that was hanging out on this atheist board reaching out to me and my wife because he recently moved here from Louisiana with his bible-beating parents and feels totally isolated and alienated, so we’re trying to hook him up with some resources and try to be supportive of him while not freaking out his parents like “who are these weirdos and why are they talking to my kid?”
So, combined with the fact that all my friends have got the combining genomes thing on lock, LOL I think I’m good on kids for the foreseeable future. Practically up to my ears in them already.
Wow that’s quite a tale. Again I’m speechless.
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grmpysmrf
Yeah, so that’s why I haven’t been posting much. Sorry for the novel. [laugh]
Holy crap! You and the Mrs. have my best. I hope the procedure works because removal can make things oh so much worse.
My lady’s a fucking trooper. Recovery is going quite well. There is an option to do the novasure another time or two before they would resort to a hysterectomy- but even though we’re crossing our fingers that the periods will be gone entirely, if they are just reduced down to something manageable then it’ll have been worth it. With the DNC beforehand, there’s a pretty good chance this will do the trick though. And her doctor is pretty fucking awesome too.
And we did find out a while back that she can have sweet potatoes, so she can have sweet potato fries and we’ve made all kinds of potato dishes using them instead and it’s pretty yummy. Lots of squash used like potatoes too (butternut squash au gratin is to die for). And sunflower seed butter is almost as good as peanut butter, certainly better than almond butter. Have to get really creative with asian food though, and fried food from restaurants is usually a no go because everything gets fried in the same oil as potatoes, and it might be soybean oil anyway. Qdoba is like the only fast food she can really have, she just has to hold the beans. Have to make our own bread or buy expensive artisan loaves because every single loaf of bread in the grocery store has soybean oil or potato flour in it. Don’t get me wrong, we eat just fine, I’m fatter than I’ve ever been really, but it takes some doing. Another thing that we just discovered might be behind some of her GI problems is that every single bag of shredded cheese at the grocery store now has potato starch added to keep it from clumping! And we’ve been using a lot of shredded cheese. Had no idea, who would think to look for that?
It could be worse though. My old roommate (from like ten years ago now I guess) had his girlfriend die on him a couple weeks back. I went to school with her, she was only three months older than me. She had liver failure (basically drank herself to death, hiding bottles all over the house, the whole bit) and they put her on medicine for that and apparently that caused ulcers all up and down her GI tract and one in her intestines burst and they drained into her abdominal cavity, they operated but she never recovered. Hung on for like a week and a half. We never really got along, me and her, but nobody deserves that. And I worry about my buddy. We haven’t been super close for a while now, but his world just got fucked sideways.
So, you know, we’ve got our dogs and our rats and we curl up in front of the netflix and try not to complain because we’ve actually got it pretty cush. I always say, every day that you don’t wake up in Africa getting your hands hacked off with a machete is a good day.
I had an ex who had to have her uterus scraped.
It’s unpleasant.
I had an ex who had to have her uterus scraped.
It’s unpleasant.
UGGH!!! It’s like one of those things that ends up being EXACTLY like what you would think it to be, but don’t want to believe.
Women are scary creatures. Their parts are a shocking labyrinth of troubles.
My wife had to have some surgery last year up in her business area and I just about died freaking out before and during the operation. Hospitals freak me out and the idea of my wife unconscious and cut open while these butchers play Tetris up in the nether regions was almost too much for me to handle.
Best wishes to you, Davely. I hope everything turns out well.
Should make us all wonder what is being added to our food.
I can’t imagine being allergic to so many different food items when being allergic to one chemical presents problems from time to time. I’m lucky that the one food preservative that I am allergic to is not that commonly used. I have to watch out for mainly four things: lettuce (organic is fine), shrimp (fresh is fine), dried fruit (mainly apricots are to be avoided), and sriracha sauce (I love this stuff too). Sometimes, I forget about the dried fruit. Happened on a flight from Orlando to LAX, and I paid the price for it too.
sriracha sauce (I love this stuff too).
You have my sympathies on this. I too would hate to be told I couldn’t have it any more.
Science just found this crazy new allergy- it’s an allergy to red meat… that you get from a tick bite. No shit. And it’s double weird because the allergy is not to a protein like most allergies, but to a carbohydrate in the tick saliva that is also present in red meat. AND this allergy manifests as delayed anaphylaxis, so you get bit by this particular species of tick, two weeks later you eat a steak, and six hours after that you’re asleep when your throat swells shut. Terrifying, huh?
Scientists came up with an awesome solution for both allergies and autoimmune diseases a couple years ago. They made these little plastic nanoparticles that you put in your system that bind to the histamines or whatever cells it is that are going crazy, and boom no more problem. Only catch is your body can’t break them down so eventually they end up collecting in your liver and clogging it up. Eventually. Science will get it right eventually.
There’s also some evidence that says that allergies and asthma are at least partially caused by our immune system freaking out because it evolved to fight off all kinds of parasites and germs and nowadays it has nothing to be fighting against. Like it’s bored or something. There have been a few trials where people were purposely infected with hookworms and it cleared up their allergies and asthma. Wife isn’t too keen on checking that out though.
Thanks for the well-wishing, everyone. I’ll pass it along to her.