That would make me feel strange too. You can pretend that you're the slightly less than 6 million dollar man though.
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Given the rate of inflation, the 6 million dollar man is worth a lot more today.That would make me feel strange too. You can pretend that you're the slightly less than 6 million dollar man though.
Sounds like an average day at my office. We Germans have a special expression for annoyingly time-consuming paperwork: paperwar. I'm a pacifist!
Welcome back, opaliLong time no see!
Obeying to traffic rules and applying common sense seem to be two abilities on the brink of extinction. The other day I read that on average the human IQ has been dropping 2 points per year lately. In the light of my daily observations on our roads I tend to believe that statistics misplaced a decimal point or two, like the infamous iron-in-spinach formula.
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My dad felt weird about it at first, as well. He essentially got one of the first public prototypes back in '92.
It kept him alive for another 25 years, though, so there's that.
That’s OK, it’s no big deal. I live alone, and have neither the desire nor the ability to cook. So I eat out all the time - sometimes by myself, but my dad and I have dinner together a lot as well. So it’s all good!
Besides, I recently got a CO detector, and I know for a fact that my oven would have set it off. So that was yet another reason why I ditched the oven.
Thank you for sharing that!
I actually admire your fortitude. The one time I actually had a real, go-somewhere vacation (won it, I never could have afforded it otherwise, lol), I was so absolutely sick of eating out all the time, before even a whole week had gone by. To be fair, I suppose it's possible that could be just another way in which I am an outlier to general society!
I hardly ever eat out. Cooking at home is much cheaper.
The comparism is perhaps a bit wide-fetched, but I used to hate my glasses. Now, after 40 years, they have become a part of my anatomy, so much that occasionally I try to put on the reading glasses on top of my normal ones LOL. I just don't notice or feel them anymore. It's just like the tinntus I've had for 35 years now and which I keep forgetting to mention at medical examinations since I've gotten so used to it.
It's perhaps only a matter of perspective. Look at it like at a dental implant or a broken bone that needed to be screwed together. Or like glasses or a hearing aid. It's primarily not a machine but something that assists your own body and helps it mend.
The comparism is perhaps a bit wide-fetched, but I used to hate my glasses. Now, after 40 years, they have become a part of my anatomy, so much that occasionally I try to put on the reading glasses on top of my normal ones LOL. I just don't notice or feel them anymore. It's just like the tinntus I've had for 35 years now and which I keep forgetting to mention at medical examinations since I've gotten so used to it.
I've had tinnitus for many years. I've been told that I have a choice between kill myself or learn to live with it...
I've got tinnitus in my left ear, and for the most part it doesn't bother me because usually I drown it out with the tv, music and at night I sleep with a fan on. When it's dead quiet, though, it drives me crazy.
Pretty much.
No unopened sponges in the house when I've been cleaning for a couple of hours! It's 1:33 in the morning and I'm almost done, but darn it, no other sponges than the one in the sink!
Unfortunately that's precisely the truth.
It was the same with me when my tinnitus started. At the same time I have gotten far more sound-sensitive. I can't stand loud noises, particularly in the low frequency range. Maybe because my tinnitus is in the extremely low frequency spectrum, close to the threshold between sound and vibration. (have you ever heard a large tank getting stuck in a mudhole and trying to get out? that's exactly how it sounds).
When that noise-sensitivity started, I began to sleep with ear plugs and to my surprise I then found the tinnitus less annoying. The ear plugs make you hear your blood flow and that drowns out the tinnitus at least partially. It might not work with every frequency of tinnitus but it might be worth a try.
Also, try to distract yourself and to relax. The tinnitus gets louder when your blood pressure rises.
I can also recommend sleeping with an audio book but mind that you switch the noise to a very low level as loud noises will make the tinnitus worse. You might like to try something quiet, relaxing like birdsong, the sound of the surf, forrest rustling etc.
My tinnitus doesn't generally bother me, but there are times when it seems as if I'll go insane if I hear one more second of it.
Mine is in the far upper range...about the same range as electronic devices make when they're turned on. Yes, I can always hear when a TV or a PC is turned on in my general vicinity, even when the sound is all the way down.
Mine is in the far upper range...about the same range as electronic devices make when they're turned on. Yes, I can always hear when a TV or a PC is turned on in my general vicinity, even when the sound is all the way down.
Quite. Nothing like the blunt force trauma of incompetence in a pinch. I find I attract it.
I can’t claim to be perfect, but I do my best and hope it’s enough. Many just balls it up and insist they’re right. Defending the indefensible. My patience with one of this type has recently overshot its natural end.
I hate roundabouts. There was a road a friend and myself used to go down that's been made into a bit more of a pain with it. Thankfully not that much. But I'm still no fan of them.This is such a little thing, but roundabouts are designed to be free-flowing. For the love of all that is traffic-holy (I say resignedly to the random driver ahead of me almost every day), please don't come to a complete stop when there is no traffic to be seen. It puts to shame the hard work and planning of at least a few civil engineers.
That's how mine is too
^that must be very annoying. I have a high frequency Tinnitus in my right ear, thanks to my deaf dad switching the TV to maximum (grrrr!), but it's not very loud so that I notice it only when I'm already unnerved by something else. The low frequency one is far louder and interfers with my hearing, particularly on the phone.
It is indeed! Have you looked at amazon.co.uk yet? They often have the same book as their US-branch but at a much cheaper rate, even if you count the shipping costs. Or if second hand is ok, try abebooks.com - that's usually the best source for rare books.
Second hand is fine, but it’s a children’s activity book from 1979, so a used one is no good. It might not even have been available in the U.K. Hence the hefty price tag.
Maybe i should write to the publisher and beg them for a reissue.