This odd little series ran back in 2004. It introduces Gene’s female friend “Sondra,” and the point of it all is, exactly what kind of “friend” is Sondra? Apparently she wasn’t a serious friend. After this week of introduction, she never appears again. I’m getting a bit of a late start this week; it’s a busy summer. However, over the next few days I will try to stick with the Sondra series to its conclusion.
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Mark, yes, and I may be assuming too much, but I believe that is what Jackie’s surgeon had proposed to fix, many disappointing years ago. A sort of internal ‘plastic’ surgery reconstruction of the flaccid structure which collapses when relaxed in slumber. Unfortunately, skill levels and understanding of structures involved is a variable. Progressing forward we hope.
Separate observation, historical beds were very short. Not because we are so much taller, but because many chose not to sleep fully reclined. The footboard was functional, it stopped the body from sliding lower while the upper body was inclined, either structurally or by mounded pillows. Snoring, and frustrated lovers, have been with us a long time.
The surgery for sleep apnea is no longer done since it does not cure or improve it. It does cause asphyxiation by inhaling liquids or foods including sinus drainage. I learned to do self administration of the heimlic since I lived alone 90% of my marriage.
Neither Hal nor I can spell Heimlich it seems.
Not speaking to your personal condition, Jackie, but similar malformations in structure cause some of us without surgical changes to experience similar difficulties. I’m not sure that any tending physician would offer an opinion on what was extant before, or what was changed by, the procedure of long ago. Describing ‘normal’ first demands establishing ‘most desirable’ and the two are not the same.
Jackie, if I were you, I’d call BS on that woman on FarceTomb. If she’s 49, simple arithmetic will tell you that she was born in ’68, and couldn’t possibly remember Kennedy and any memories she has of LBJ are from after he left office.
Sideburns and Jackie, I don’t recall any getting this level of abuse starting even before they were inaugurated, but I remember several that approached or passed it after giving sufficient reason. My actual recollection starts with Nixon, but I do know LBJ was getting hell enough to stop him running for reelection.
Jackie says I’ve been a really good boy lately, and that I can have a 2017 Ford Raptor.
https://static.bdasites.com/bdac/FORDMERCHANDISE/ProductImages/1430039_a.jpg
Dropping this off, http://www.gocomics.com/roseisrose/2017/06/20 Don’t know how far in advance this was submitted.
Other subject, on the 30th annual memorial of that day in November (maybe 35th), my father told me of the hush that feel over the mess hall when the news was given. One of those shared cultural memories. Then he asked for my memory of the event, like it was a token password or something. It was difficult to re-explain to him.
Ghost, had to look that up. I had thought, eh, the F-150 is a good truck and all, but why all the excitement? I learned better. Got any Baja Truck Racing in mind? Some pretty serious stats on that rig.
Possibly, Morphy. If I can figure out how to get into it. The 1:24 model Raptor, not the race. 😀
Oklahoma has given me just two disappointments so far; however, both are serious, by my lights. The first, a dearth of sundress-wearing females, I have already mentioned. (I am doing my part to remedy that, with Jackie’s help. Terrie the Svelte Housekeeper has been gifted with a couple of suitably skimpy numbers.)
The second, an even more bitter disappointment to me, is the equal scarcity of females displaying pokies in this state. There are lots of t-shirts in evidence, but I can only presume the supporting undergarments are made of Kevlar. I feel Arlo’s pain.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2008/6/4
Ghost, you must be a “model” therapist.
Update: Terrie the “Who Wears Short-Shorts” Housekeeper’s next clothing gift will be a pair of tiny multicolored shorts and a sheer pull-over blouse…supporting undergarment (at least theoretically) optional.
I swear, it’s like having a living Barbie doll (although brunette and more realistically proportioned) running around here keeping house. As I’ve said, hanging with Jackie is never dull.
Yep, my fail. I chose to not follow a questionable link, and looked up the Raptor separately. Glad I gave levity, even unknowingly.
Ghost was supposed to mention that I also have a red Viper of similar size and authenticity. It is in my library on a shelf.
Twenty days into the tropical storm season and under our first TS watch. Could be a long season.
Well… who should we believe?
CNN: “NOAA predicts an ‘above average’ Atlantic hurricane season, with 5 to 9 hurricanes expected”
Weather.com: “2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast Calls For a Near-Average Number of Storms, Less Active Than 2016”
Colorado State University: “CSU team predicts slightly below-average 2017 Atlantic hurricane season”
Don’t know if I’ve got a case of apples/oranges here. But didn’t last year start off with a TS developing 2 days *before* the new season’s official start? Please correct.
As I see it, TR, your three predictions include only one contradiction: CNN and CSU cannot both be correct. Weather.com and CNN are OK as long as 2016 had more than 5-to-9 hurricanes and “near-average” includes 5-to-9. Weather.com and CSU would be in agreement if “near-average” includes being on the low side of average.
Did I think that out correctly?
cxp, full marks for the logic puzzle. But I think the point was three approaches to presenting one set of data.
Akin to the IRS. One set of laws, one set of books, present to 17 different accounting firms, and receive 20 different results. Puzzle that. Or just say, it’s complicated.
Probably. Except that they are most definitely NOT my predictions.
In my lifetime the whether people have improved their accuracy a bit, but not enough for me to trust their forecasts to be right more than a couple of days out. I don’t believe their long-term forecasts of hurricane seasons to be more than wild guesses.
In 2013 the Washington Post ran an article with this graphic, comparing hurricane season forecasts with what happened:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/04/23/how-accurate-are-pre-season-hurricane-landfall-forecasts/?utm_term=.2716ab48f1ee
https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19225893_660118354182909_832236086093902961_n.jpg?oh=a1bb5ab7fef9dabe0b77e02dc60605bf&oe=59DFA962
That’s one heckuva hurricane path to hit Amish country on Ohio Route 528!
(I know it was off topic, nicely picked pic)
TruckerRon, common tactic. Sorta the inverse Straw Man. Make you personally responsible for the words of others.
English is such a sloppy language… I doubt he really meant they were mine, just ones I’d referred to. After all, this isn’t a debating society so much as a village pub without the ale.
Morphy, the difference between scientific weather forecasting and the average person talking about the weather is the difference between an educated guess and a wild-a++ guess, they’re both guesses.