I can get it done at my local hospital. Sadly, when I called today to schedule, they said my doctor didn't give exactly what *kind* of contrast she needs.
Hopefully I can get this taken care of next week.
Things that frustrate us all
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Hopefully I can get this taken care of next week.
Yeah, I've never understood this either. You'd think all the years of being told what it does to you have convinced anyone born after the '70s or '80s not to smoke.
I'm familiar with that (Amy in Dr. Who, for instance) but I've noticed it here in the US too. It's rather new here.
Too much British TV?
As someone who does a little voice acting, the glottal stop is damn near indispensable. There are countless words that sound absolutely moronic if you use a hard T... daughter being one of them. I'll admit though, that my education is failing me here, but when the T is fully omitted, as in "Bri-ish" to British, that's not the same thing as saying daughter, with the softer 'D' sound, is it? That softer D is what I consider the glottal stop, not necessarily a complete omission of the consonant altogether.
Many (perhaps most) Americans soften the intervocalic T so that it sounds like a D, but that's not the glottal stop. The glottal stop is an interruption of the flow of air over the vocal cords made by briefly closing the epiglottis. It's what you hear when Stanley Holloway says the word "little" in "With a Little Bit Of Luck" from My Fair Lady.
I'm reminded of the time my family went to England in the summer of '85. At almost every restaurant we ate at or hotel we stayed in, someone would ask us about our accents. Being from the Pacific Northwest/Seattle, our American accent was softer and more neutral than the East Coast accents they were typically used to.
So, last night I'm doing the laundry, the buzzer goes off on the drier, I open the door and my two cats jump in, curl up and go to sleep. I grab my phone, take a quick 30-45 second video and post it on Facebook.
This morning I get up to find Facebook has taken it down because I've violated some fair use over the air rebroadcast law.
You see, playing in the background while I was filming the video NCIS was playing and the phone's microphone picked up the dialogue.
Really? WTF. A thirty second clip of my cats playing in the drier gets taken down because of some background noise of a tv show that I wasn't even paying attention to. Is it really that big of a deal considering all the other stuff Facebook allows people to post.
This morning I get up to find Facebook has taken it down because I've violated some fair use over the air rebroadcast law.
You see, playing in the background while I was filming the video NCIS was playing and the phone's microphone picked up the dialogue.
Really? WTF. A thirty second clip of my cats playing in the drier gets taken down because of some background noise of a tv show that I wasn't even paying attention to. Is it really that big of a deal considering all the other stuff Facebook allows people to post.
I have a good mate who is from London,he gets a great kick out of asking me to pronounce (in my Irish accent) the river Thames.As usual I kinda step hard on the H sound whereas it should be soft as in Tames.
He is completely oblivious to the fact that he calls it the riv-uh Thames.
He is completely oblivious to the fact that he calls it the riv-uh Thames.
I have a good mate who is from London,he gets a great kick out of asking me to pronounce (in my Irish accent) the river Thames.As usual I kinda step hard on the H sound whereas it should be soft as in Tames.
He is completely oblivious to the fact that he calls it the riv-uh Thames.
And I always thought it was pronounced The Riv-uh Timms.
But being a Colonial, what the Hell do I know?
We have one of those around here, too. We pronounce it as "tems".
Oh, and we put the "river" part at the end of the name, instead of the beginning.
Oh, and we put the "river" part at the end of the name, instead of the beginning.
We have one of those around here, too. We pronounce it as "tems".
Oh, and we put the "river" part at the end of the name, instead of the beginning.
Sounds like that might become a navigational problem.
Sounds like that might become a navigational problem.
I guess possibly, if you didn't already know what continent you were on!
Travelling abroad on a plane 1st time in 2 years and realised how frustrating airports can be.
Check in was chaotic, the worse thing is that with you having to show multiple documents for covid reasons and people messing about on phones trying to find the required documents, guy in front of us after 10 minutes of searching was asked to stand to one side as the queue being held up, I know we should be green but if you can't have them to hand on your phone just print them off.
Security, when all the signs and announcements tell you to be ready , coats off etc why does everyone wait until they get there before preparing themselves ?
Boarding gate, announcement seating by rows but everyone jumps up to queue even though we all have a designated seat anyway.
On landing 'please remain seated ' I assume this actually means jump up and start unloading the overhead lockers.
love holidays, don't enjoy airports
Check in was chaotic, the worse thing is that with you having to show multiple documents for covid reasons and people messing about on phones trying to find the required documents, guy in front of us after 10 minutes of searching was asked to stand to one side as the queue being held up, I know we should be green but if you can't have them to hand on your phone just print them off.
Security, when all the signs and announcements tell you to be ready , coats off etc why does everyone wait until they get there before preparing themselves ?
Boarding gate, announcement seating by rows but everyone jumps up to queue even though we all have a designated seat anyway.
On landing 'please remain seated ' I assume this actually means jump up and start unloading the overhead lockers.
love holidays, don't enjoy airports
AIr travel got a lot more pleasant for me when I discovered the United Club. Free drinks! 
What frustrates ME about flying is when the airline screws around with my schedule without telling me.
What frustrates ME about flying is when the airline screws around with my schedule without telling me.
Isn't it obvious?
It'll be quicker to get through check-in if we don't have our documents ready
Who pays attention to announcements anyway those are for other people not me.
if we all jump up togther we'll get boarded faster and therefore get to our destination sooner.
The quicker I get up and get my bag from the overhead locker the faster I'll be off and out of the airport (nevermind if you have to clear customs first.
As I don't fly that often one of the last times I flew, I printed off my documents in duplicate and had them stored in different places one was handy to get the other was a backup in case I misplaced the other set Or forgot to pick them up as I was going out the door.
I wish more countries would implement border preclearance like the USA and Canada have.
If you fly from Canada into the US, you go through US customs before you ever leave Canada. Makes it a LOT easier, especially if you have a connecting flight.
Unfortunately, that only works one way, meaning that if you fly from the US into Canada, there is no preclearance. Still, every little bit helps!
(side note: this is why I haven't yet gone to the winter carnival in Quebec City. Jean-Lesage is, I think, the only remaining major Canadian airport that doesn't have US border preclearance)
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Trying to save money by not calling a plumber. Today has been horrible and I'll probably still have to call a plumber tomorrow.