The Rant Rave thread

Rave: Spain!

Flexichick wrote: are you going to Spain, Beave. I love Spain! In fact, I was planning on going last month until the broken foot postponed everything. Where in Spain?

Honey, Spain comes to me.

HA! *sigh*

anthonycm wrote: Rave: I'm going to Spain for two weeks after Future Wife becomes Wife.

when and where?

Anthony- Barcelona is great...but I spend much more time in Madrid.

Rave: went to the nursery with my friend and bought a boatload of plants and flowers and my garden is looking fabulous!

rant: It's not so nice out now
rave: I got to do all of my planting, plus have a late lunch barbecue and some beer outside before it started raining

Holy cow!! How do you know!? How do we check!!? Coincidentally, ABC is talking about lyme disease right now.

Fucking unbelievable rant: I spent 20+ hours recreating my hard drive and reinstalling everything and the fucking thing just crashed again. I want to cry. Or hit something

Flexichick wrote: Fucking unbelievable rant: I spent 20+ hours recreating my hard drive and reinstalling everything and the fucking thing just crashed again. I want to cry. Or hit something

Feel your pain. Had to install windows on my mac (horror of horrors) for some GIS software I'm using and windows has been very very bad. For starters it decided to install over the Mac OS partition despite telling it to install elsewhere. It just went downhill from there.

Scarlett, I think they have to feed for longer than that to transfer disease. Did you keep it? You can id if it's a type that even carries lymes. And who doesn't pull ticks off? I don't know how many hundreds, possibly thousands if you count seed ticks, I've pulled off of myself. None of those came from my abundant time hiking in NY, btw.

OQ - between needing MRIs and computer problems, I'm feeling like you are my doppleganger

Rant :

I lost the damn stylus pen for my phone. I gave my extra one away.

Working my phone with my finger nails is getting annoying.

Rave :

I didn't come home yesterday with ticks.(Sorry Scar! )

eggcream wrote: [quote=scarlett]mother fucking rant: got a tick at Bear Mountain yesterday and probbaly now have some horrible disease

If it's not too late:



After removing the tick, thoroughly disinfect the bite site and wash your hands with soap and water.

Do not squeeze, crush, or puncture the body of the tick because its fluids may contain infectious organisms. Skin accidentally exposed to tick fluids can be disinfected with iodine scrub, rubbing alcohol, or water containing detergents.

Save the tick for identification in case you become ill. This may help your doctor make an accurate diagnosis. Place the tick in a sealable plastic bag and put it in your freezer. Write the date of the bite on a piece of paper with a pencil and place it in the bag.

Thanks eggcream. Unfortunately, I yanked it off, put it in a tissue to examine it, to make sure what it was, squashed to kill it and keep looking, and then threw it away. Was just a regular little tick, not "full." Hailing from Colorado, I have had them before. Not too worried.

ugh...sorry about that OQ....both of my CT scans were smooth sailing there.

I have a sister although you wouldn't know it (long story). I've "created" sisters from good friends.

(oh, and my laptop hard drive crashed after 20+ hours of putting the new one together).

Mougar wrote: Rant: Arguing with clients about getting paid

Rant: the following makes me both laugh and cry

Rant: On the Iranian election

Obama wrote: "My understanding is, is that the Iranian government says that they are going to look into irregularities that have taken place. We weren't on the ground, we did not have observers there, we did not have international observers on hand, so I can't state definitively one way or another what happened with respect to the election."

Seriously?