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Yes it can be very painful and what is worse very hard to control as medicines do not always work as hoped. With some luck it may ease off over the coming weeks, without that luck I hope you can find another way to ease things. Is it a general issue, i.e. affecting a wide area or is it narrowed down to particular area(s)?
Some years back I was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia, which can be a life long situation, though happily for me it abated after a relatively short period. It appears it might have been triggered by some dental need and possibly relieved by a dental intervention. It was extremely painful and debilitating while a guest in my person.
Good luck with that one.
April 4, 2019 at 10:40 am in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #32398Today’s reports in the papers suggest that the pilots of the most recent 737MAX incident had tried to follow the Boeing manual’s instructions, but that it failed to return control to the pilots. This cannot inspire more confidence in Boeing’s ability to understand the flight characteristics of this unfortunate design. How much confidence does this inspire that the fix will really work the way that it is intended to work. Positive answers may be written on the head of a pin perhaps? Happily I do not expect to need to worry about flying on one, however I could be on the ground and that does concern me!
Bob, I did start my message with ‘each to his own’. My wife loves fish of all sorts, on the other hand I have made my feelings clear on that one! Though I also cannot stand so called vegan food due to the added ‘flavour’ I do love vegetables, sprouts greens in fact almost every one, though swedes I prefer in great moderation. The only proviso is that I want them to taste of what they are not of salt, or anything else that I have encountered. The problem I often find when eating out is that vegetables are apparently grown in platinum pots filled with pure gold dust the way many places portion control the amounts. Gravy, yes please but it should be just on the mobile side of cut-able with a knife and fork, no dish water muck for me!
After the Friday evening performance, Saturday morning had an early start with SWMBO in the bathroom not feeling well from about 03:30 onwards, not the best way to start any day.
I was scheduled to pick up daughter on what I call the yo-yo run, as series of cross county trips to pick her up and drop her back again. I was not daisy fresh so took it steady in the old car knocking up just under 90 miles at just over 61 mpg, it might be old but it can still move. The lunch booking was just daughter and I but first I did manage to sort out daughter’s finances and apply to renew her passport on line before we went out. It all felt too easy even if stupidly expensive,
A harmonious meal plus a return home saw wife still feel a bit green but better so after fond words from Mum leaving SWMBO to rest I took daughter home to sheltered living again.
Sunday saw me battle some clock resets then take my wife’s car out for its weekly run. after that I felt a restful day was in order. Was it in Whinny the Poo that a character said,
‘sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits’, that sounded too active for me’.
The passport office sent daily reminders over the weekend to send in the old passport. It was posted off first thing this morning.
A good night’s sleep was need so what did we get? a phone call at 04:00 am telling us that a sick friend had died from his cancer. A great start for a day when our afternoon was to be taken up in oncology again, at the start of another 6 months or so of ups and downs. My homework then became blocking strings of future dates to prevent clashes with the programme; great news so far, nothing from the new batch conflicts with anything so far booked.
Each to their own, the sauces sound about OK if perhaps a bit calorific, at least vinegar is about calorie free and does go on chips if you like it that way, but fish? That is not food at least not for me, its something to throw far away while wearing a gas mask and standing up wind from the throw direction.
Sorry the cash machine is out of £9 notes and what do you know the £11 coins are too heavy to post and hard to write upon. On second thoughts it is interesting that Nigeria is not the centre world focus for this sort of thing, though I bet this one started life in some junk-mail boiler house anywhere in the world.
I last went to a pub while I was working, i.e. just a few minutes back. Now we often go to pub restaurants. We find the presence of intrusive* ‘music’ prevented staying. Last evening after a long drive to and from a hospital with hours of my wife being prodded and sampled we wanted a meal. A new place has earned good comments. The very welcoming host said we were welcome to wait for an hour or so and they would fit us in, but for the moment they were in ‘party warm up mode’. At least that is what I think they said. The ‘music’ blocked talking and if the food need an hour of pre-food drinking to make it OK, we decided it was not the place for us!
*Background music or sound needs to be background only in my book.
Have a good one and not just on the day, for the rest of life as well!
Well the heating clock is now right and we got to the allergy clinic on time this afternoon. I even achieved the connect car bit, though the country roads were clear of traffic so nothing much gained really.
The waking up bit is not really an issue for me. I wake at 00:30, 2:30 often 03:30 probably 04:30 and give up about 05:30, though I might lie on a bit. Stupidly the time set wrongly central heating timer is like the PCs and resets to a new (wrong) time automatically for BST. I am going into battle with the thing shortly.
Its the number of what appear to be motorcycles until you get close enough and can see the vehicle details that gets me, the Cyclops brigade as many call them.
My wife has had her car since 2012 and I bought mine new one in 2016, it was supposed to replace old car, but fate took over. It was only a fortnight ago that I found some of the automation on screen wiping. I checked the book and parking assist is a feature, I even found which otherwise unused, (by me) button sets it up. ‘Connected services’ are a whole different ball game, my shallow needs may not warrant the time investment to read the manual and set it up let alone master that function.
The old car very basic which makes it easier to use, though that makes it easier to take a long way round to a previously un-visted hospital 55 miles away at 3:00 in the morning; no satnav in the old car! My normal navigator was the patient, so was running degraded navigation skills.
That is not an especially unique list, I think I have many equivalents, though I have yet to use many of them. The phone integration can be useful but it appears to confuse the phone so that it forgets to bother about the earpiece when I get out of the car. So the car searches in vain for the phone which I leave in Bluetooth ear piece mode. I might have parking assist, but working out how to use some of these bits takes more time than doing the job! Mind you, in the past I often wrote programmes to do things at work rather than trying to fathom out how some gismo on the machine could be made to use the supplied function. The manuals did not make their use the most straight forward thing in the world. I was not helped when someone ordered a super complex pair of modems for a straight private wire connection and it too several weeks to reprogramme the modems NOT to use their smarts as it buggered up the link protocol.
I should not have started on this thread. The kitchen has at least 4 digital clocks, three of which are more or less synchronised, however the central heating is a bugger to adjust and it disagrees with the other three by five minutes. It has been like that for several years but has been ignored, but now it annoys me!
I guess I possibly came from a rather different time. After 70 plus years, I have no problem with a proper ticking clock, though I hate the faux tick of some badly done modern electronic ones. Over the last 40 plus years I have become quite used to switching between digital and analogue, though I find analogue faster to read for most purposes. One glimpse catches the image, which I can analyse as required, the digital has to be read digit by digit with the inevitable was that a three or an eight with a shadow or an oddly formed 5, but the time difference is really only usually micro seconds. Most times the alleged accuracy of one over the other is not important, the nearest minute is more than close enough.
I rarely listen to music, anywhere and the car or home are no different. I only want to hear what I like, which is probably not what anyone else wants, so its either some sort of talk show – NOT ‘SPORT’ or nothing. Creating a play list for the car is certainly NOT for me.
I am very different on clocks and almost a total slut over car washing and for that matter the tyres. I usually have at least matching tyres on the same axel, but front to back it is often a different story. On the old car, the fronts do about 30,000 miles, but the rears went on for closer to 75,000. As marketing moves affect the issue over time, I can easily end up the a miss match front to rear. I did vacuum the front out a couple of days ago and, yes today I was really pleased with the result. However, the dust on the outside would drive many nuts. I do want to see out, but I don’t go much further.
Most rooms have at least one clock and I almost always wear a watch – it is now well over 40 years old and getting the right battery is a real pain. I know the mobile ha a clock, but it is usually burred in an inside pocket and can take what feels like another century to dig it out. A flick of the wrist and I can check the time
I guess it is horses for courses.
You might be right about the spring adjuster being an issue. The old car has done 101,000 plus miles, and is in its 14th year now, but is good enough for hacking with dogs, taking tut to the tip, going to hospital car parks and the supermarket for as long as it goes on.
I am inclined to agree about the gimmicks, in new cars but one person’s gimmicks are another person’s must have. I manage to disable lane assist on the new cars whenever I drive them, the crap state of the local roads means that it often ‘thinks’ holes; gaps and filler, potholes and other rubbish are lane markers, so squawks until silenced. The USB player option is not used by me so is ignored unless charging the mobile. I can link the mobile to the sat-nav to get traffic information, but the rigmarole is such a pain that I have not used it in a year or two. I use my wife for that function… I do find the Bluetooth function useful and the variable speed wipers with their rain sensing function were only found a couple of weeks ago and only by accident, the automatic lights are useful though not a must have. The proximity sensors squawk whenever I drive out of the garage, so I turn them off and concentrate on what I am doing. I am not sure about the automatic seat adjuster that moves the driver’s seat back when you switch off and park; the long term reliability of the electric handbrake worries me, but it does bring some benefits.
I do love the speed limiter now I am used to it, but the sun roof has only ever been opened to see if it works. I do use the MPG gauge, but that was a fitment even on the old car.
As for the automatic speed limiter and other new proposals, I have very mixed views, possibly a good idea until somthing goes wrong. However, I am not certin I will encounter them as I doubt my future holds another new car.
I trust that you are all sorted now John?
Mine failed on one point, headlamp alignment on one beam. They immediately adjusted the one, retested and it passed.
I was surprised that one bean could go like, that as nothing has been done to the lights apart, from polishing out the years of grime and sun discolouration.
March 28, 2019 at 8:57 am in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #32169Ed, while that is one person’s opinion, it appears a definitive account of Boeing’s route to failure. How can they now back out of the mess that they created? Their second failing, minimise pilot certification to the point of; ‘Have you ever flown a paper aeroplane? Yes; then you are a 737Max pilot’, was another major screw up.
Unhappy thought, Ryan Air fly into an airport near me until they crash all their currently ordered ‘wreaks in waiting’. I would never want to pay them for travel anyway.
I have sat on the edge of this thread for a while. When my old supplier folded I needed an address that could have more than one email account so took out my own domain name. I could have a web site there but without a need why bother? The main point is that you might need to think about now and the future, if you are confident that you will ever only want on address, then fine, but I find it useful to be able to create ‘throw away’ aliases.
As for Pub management, my only comment it that judging by the number of places round me that have closed down it could be a challenge and I wish you the very best of hard work and good fortune.
Yes, today has dawned bright and sunny though the cold wind remains a small issue. At least the drier air and the wind have cleared up some of the mud so walking the dogs was a whole lot easier. I spent an hour with them before breakfast today, so they came home tired and almost ready to just sleep. The husky wanted to spend her day relaxing on the lawn where she wants to sleep whenever the sun makes an appearance. Mind you it is still on the cool side at the moment.
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