Walking the Curb without a Net

my sis lives not far from Alaska - vancouver she told me ? - I asked her a 'van couver'? - never seen one of them - but Al aska again soon?
 

Power was out for many hours. We had 88 mph winds!

Many years ago Rex Stout, the author of the Nero Wolfe novels, created a school program for kids to save money. I was a dumb little twerp, about age six maybe. From our classroom, we opened bank accounts at the First National Bank of Anchorage in our own names and made weekly deposits. I worked all week for my grandmother in order to make these deposits.

This went on for several years, but as all things do the school program ended. By the time I could get myself to the bank to check out my balance my account had been closed.

The state had called me a 'bank-account abandoner' and confiscated the money for themselves. I was not notified. What a racket, eh? It's still going on too.

**It was beautiful and simple as all great swindles are. --O. Henry**
 
You're not kidding that's a racket! How much did they steal from you? I just always assumed that even if an account was frozen for inactivity, the money would still always be there... sounds as if I've been wrong about that! I'd better check up on some old accounts! šŸ˜²

Everything good in your world except for losing power? I hope you were able to at least keep warm.
 

CallMeKate said:
You're not kidding that's a racket! How much did they steal from you? I just always assumed that even if an account was frozen for inactivity, the money would still always be there... sounds as if I've been wrong about that! I'd better check up on some old accounts! šŸ˜²

Everything good in your world except for losing power? I hope you were able to at least keep warm.
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I never learned how much was in the account. All evidence had been deleted

Everything is good in my world. Staying warm and fed and entertained. Hoping same for you..
 
Hurricane-force winds cause widespread damage in Alaska's largest city

Remembering is fun. I remember my first and only massage. It was at the chiropractor's. The masseuse was a hairy gorilla. His beard was decorated with Christmas ornaments. He said, "Do you want the full treatment? Or do you want gentle?"

I sighed at his naivete, "Forty bucks is forty bucks. Give me the best you got." When he was finished, I was weak as a kitten. I could hardly see. I had to put my hands out in front of me to make it to the car.

That's what always happens when I talk smart. I pay.

**Never wear your best pants when you go out to fight for justice, freedom and truth.**
 
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gruntlabor said:
Hurricane-force winds cause widespread damage in Alaska's largest city

Remembering is fun. I remember my first and only massage. It was at the chiropractor's. The masseuse was a hairy gorilla. His beard was decorated with Christmas ornaments. He said, "Do you want the full treatment? Or do you want gentle?"

I sighed at his naivete, "Forty bucks is forty bucks. Give me the best you got." When he was finished, I was weak as a kitten. I could hardly see. I had to put my hands out in front of me to make it to the car.

That's what always happens when I talk smart. I pay.

**Never wear your best pants when you go out to fight for justice, freedom and truth.**
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Imagine what he would have done to you for eighty bucks! :ROFLMAO:
 
AnneTeak said:
Doc has been advising a routine bone density test for years to justify putting me on vitamin D. I think it's a money maker. I spent my childhood in Tucson. I figure I got enough vitamin D for a lifetime. My body, my choice.
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That's odd, did they do the blood level test and it was low but you refused the prescription ? Your levels can drop after a period of not enough sun. A couple of years ago we had particularly bad winter and i tested low for D2 so doc put me on low dose tablet of it taken once weekly.

I did express concern because while we need it, too much can have some negative effects on body (as can too much of most anything). After a year or to when my time outside was.back.to normal for me, she switched dose to just a tablet every other week. Also she knew and understood my issues with popping pills as solutions to health issues---some things the side effects and risks not worth it, and individual reactions, both good and bad, can vary widely.
 
Some medical people do seem to forget how much individual 'norms' can vary and they also sometimes get fixated on one or two things as being crucial. A study by psychologist Thomas Szasz showed same symptoms presented in same way by the grad students portraying potential mental health patients got different diagnoses from different docs and most docs seemed to diagnosis one MH problem more often than others. My suspicion is the same could be said of may physical practitioners.

My doc of last few years is leaving the local clinic (small town facility run by large state wide health provider). Next appt is with a Nurse Practioner. Bad news is i have to accustom someone new to how proactive a patient i am. Good news is NPs are often more open to accepting a patient's knowledge of own body and preference for nutritional and life style adjustments as first ways of dealing with issues.
 
Weather Rain transitions to snow as arctic blast arrives, strong winds continue

Recently I was misgendered here on the Forum. It was fun.

I have a theory about that. In our decrepitude, men see decreased testosterone and women decreased estrogen. So it seems possible, reasonable that maybe gender-based aspects of personality could blur. Certainly it was so in the case of my husband and me.

I, feminine in my youth, turned into a marching tyrant. And my better half, far more masculine than average in his youth, turned into a wuss.

Better half, trying to eat his soup: 'This bowl is too hot to touch! It's burning my fingers!
Me, sticking my finger in his soup: 'Aw, you big baby! It's barely lukewarm.'

** It's not murder. It's marriage. **
 
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That's odd, did they do the blood level test and it was low but you refused the prescription ? Your levels can drop after a period of not enough sun. A couple of years ago we had particularly bad winter and i tested low for D2 so doc put me on low dose tablet of it taken once weekly.

I did express concern because while we need it, too much can have some negative effects on body (as can too much of most anything). After a year or to when my time outside was.back.to normal for me, she switched dose to just a tablet every other week. Also she knew and understood my issues with popping pills as solutions to health issues---some things the side effects and risks not worth it, and individual reactions, both good and bad, can vary widely.
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I agree with you there, but it is worrisome that our soils are depleted of nutrients. Maybe just a multivitamin wouldn't hurt?
 
gruntlabor said:
I agree with you there, but it is worrisome that our soils are depleted of nutrients. Maybe just a multivitamin wouldn't hurt?
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Actually i do take.a multivitamin. And often a B-complex.
I know one needs to be careful with calcium tabs. A doc recommended after a bone scan showed age starting to effect my bones. A few months later i started having weird urinary issues. Now at a different job with different insurance i had a new GP as well.

He tested my urine and blood. Said i had way too much calcium in system. Instead of asking questions, or reading the list in medical forms of OTC meds i took he started talking about running tests because parathyroid glands are supposed to prevent that unless they are compromised by disease or tumors. If i hadn't started thinking about how a couple of foods and drinks i consumed regularly said 'Calcium fortified' and told him 'lets wait i'll stop the calcium pills and you can retest.' I'd have been having unnecessary tests and worry.

Two weeks later my calcium levels were fine and my symptoms gone. Yet he didn't trust my knowledge of MY body when some months later i told him that i seemed to have stopped dreaming, awakened way too often at night and most concerning had developed severe headaches. They started out once or twice a week for an hour or two but over the three months they got longer and more frequent till they were nearly all day every day. I wanted referral to neurologist, he wanted to give me a strong prescription.

i insisted. He barely acknowledged my instincts were right when he got the specialist's report that i was having migraines he suspected were caused by sleep disorder and when i had the sleep test? Apnea the problem. Needless to say i changed GP's. I've been on CPAP since. Dreams returned and the migraines ended. One of several reasons i trust my instincts..
 
feywon said:
Actually i do take.a multivitamin. And often a B-complex.
I know one needs to be careful with calcium tabs. A doc recommended after a bone scan showed age starting to effect my bones. A few months later i started having weird urinary issues. Now at a different job with different insurance i had a new GP as well.

He tested my urine and blood. Said i had way too much calcium in system. Instead of asking questions, or reading the list in medical forms of OTC meds i took he started talking about running tests because parathyroid glands are supposed to prevent that unless they are compromised by disease or tumors. If i hadn't started thinking about how a couple of foods and drinks i consumed regularly said 'Calcium fortified' and told him 'lets wait i'll stop the calcium pills and you can retest.' I'd have been having unnecessary tests and worry.

Two weeks later my calcium levels were fine and my symptoms gone. Yet he didn't trust my knowledge of MY body when some months later i told him that i seemed to have stopped dreaming, awakened way too often at night and most concerning had developed severe headaches. They started out once or twice a week for an hour or two but over the three months they got longer and more frequent till they were nearly all day every day. I wanted referral to neurologist, he wanted to give me a strong prescription.

i insisted. He barely acknowledged my instincts were right when he got the specialist's report that i was having migraines he suspected were caused by sleep disorder and when i had the sleep test? Apnea the problem. Needless to say i changed GP's. I've been on CPAP since. Dreams returned and the migraines ended. One of several reasons i trust my instincts..
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Way to go, feywon! You are a tough nut! But your headaches! Could they also be caused, due to our winter season, by carbon-monoxide poisoning, or just lack of oxygen? l've been having headaches too. I step outside and breathe deeply, then drink water and go down for a nap. The headache is always gone.
 
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gruntlabor said:
Way to go, feywon! You are a tough nut! But your headaches! Could they also be caused, due to our winter season, by carbon-monoxide poisoning, or just lack of oxygen? l've been having headaches too. I step outside and breathe deeply, then drink water and go down for a nap. The headache is always gone.
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Actually yes. If you cook or heat with gas, have your stove, heating system checked. In the late 1980's i had issue with gas stove, first clue was always feeling better outside or away from home. But migraines in early 2000's were any and everywhere.
 
It's February! We begin with colder temperatures. It's 3 F here. My daughter says it's 10 below in Wasilla.

February 1, Not-Spring-But-Closer. Time to plan for spring and summer. The first thing for me is to begin calling exterior painters. Patience needs a facial and fresh makeup. A new lease on life.

We used to have a remote recreational fishing & hunting lodge. Every February 1, I used to sit down in front of the phone and wait. I knew it would be ringing off the hook with inquiries. People dreaming of summer fun.

** Four hunters, three Fish-&-Game officials, one angry farmer and a cow.**

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Eruption watch at Alaska's Mt. Spurr volcano continues, earthquake swarms reported

Mt. Spurr is about eighty miles from Anchorage. Its last eruption in 1992 was barely noticeable in Anchorage because it happened in stages. But the 1953 eruption was one single eruption that lasted about an hour. It was a terrible thing!

My grandmother sent me each Saturday (so that must have been a Saturday) to the matinee with a dime for admittance and a sandwich in a sack. This was a ritual, payment in part for chores carried out responsibly.

When I stepped outside, the world was black. It was a three-block walk to the theater. When I arrived, I saw my reflection in a mirror. I was in blackface! My entire body was black.

The ash was terrible, it destroyed machinery and coated living lungs. It was heavy, greasy, impossible to sweep up.

**My lungs are fine, I can finish a cigarette in two drags.**
 
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