Friday, June 05, 2009

chess, squirrels, blah blah blaaah..

I know I vowed never to do this, but then I got an anonymous greenlight that it was okay to do it, so I'm renegging on my vow. Sorry.


So here's some email banter (looking over it, it's no f****ing shocker that I didn't amount to much at work today!!)

As before, Paul is Times (and repeats back bits of email), I am Courier & editorial comments in italic Arial---


Hammond , Hamel…whatev… I must have some other Hammond swimming around my brain (oh yes one of our HO patients for whom I’m trying to acquire a weird nephrostomy tubing dealie ) and it was too many Ham names for me to keep straight. Obviously. {My first email had been about some Hammond dude and wondering if he was any relation to this chick in our office and Paul had sent me a bewildered reminder that said chick's last name is actually Hamel. Which I TOTALLY knew}
I have seen a quintessential lemonade stand and actually my niece had one in Windsor a few years back during the town’s Heritage Days festival (which I think they’ve opted to discontinue…I always just suggested they try and make it less LAME, but apparently organizers weren’t up to that challenge) I bet you were so revved up for your impending PP meal, that you whizzed on past poor lemonade stand moppet. You know it’s because of people like you that you don’t see these real lemonade stands around anymore!! { Also he mentioned being charmed by seeing a classic li'l kid lemonade stand on his way out to Peyton Place recently. Peyton Place is this eatery that seems to be out in the sticks somewhere. Paul has RAVED profusely about it on more than one occasion. I'd really like to give it a go one of these days, but sadly it looks to be out of my piddly price range}
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>Hammond , Hamel…whatev…
Potato, Potahto…
I must have some other Hammond swimming around my brain (oh yes one of our HO patients for whom I’m trying to acquire a weird nephrostomy tubing dealie )
Weird nephrostomy tubing? I shudder to think what would distinguish that from normal nephrostomy tubing…
>and it was too many Ham names for me to keep straight. Obviously.
Yeah- too much ham around here…we should switch to other pork products.
>I have seen a quintessential lemonade stand and actually my niece had one in Windsor a few years back
That’s pretty nifty…
> You know it’s because of people like you that you don’t see these real lemonade stands around anymore!!

Well, yes, I suppose that I have contributed in my own way to the downfall of the lemonade-stand economy…shame on me.
In other news, in order to correspond with this person from Chittenden VNA, I had to sign up for this:
http://www.zixcorp.com/info/zixmail/ {Tech geek goodness...I did not/do not give a shit}


So, you did hear that the wreckage that they found from that missing plane turned out to not be from the plane at all, yes?
How exactly does one lose an entire airplane in this day and age?
Maybe it’s keeping the B-17 on the moon company?
Namaste',
Me

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No, I did not read about that. Didn’t they dredge those plane bits out of the ocean?? Well, I can’t imagine it’s terribly easy to find a plane in the ocean (‘tis reputed to be a fairly LARGE body of water) and certainly the missing plane du jour could still be in that same big ocean , cohabitating with other plane bits…would not surprise me.
But really, I haven’t been following the plane story (been too morbidly engaged by the Carradine imbroglio I guess. That just got significantly ODDER today, actually..) and haven’t read much more than just the headlines.

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>No, I did not read about that. Didn’t they dredge those plane bits out of the ocean?? Well, I can’t imagine it’s terribly >easy to find a plane in the ocean (‘tis reputed to be a fairly LARGE body of water) and certainly the missing plane du jour >could still be in that same big ocean , cohabitating with other plane bits…would not surprise me.
True, but what with the whole sonar thing, it shouldn’t prove *that* difficult to find at least some bits.
But, no, none of those bits they pulled out turned out to have belonged to the plane in question. It’s still entirely missing.
>But really, I haven’t been following the plane story
Neither have I- I just happened to hear it on NHPR this morning.
>(been too morbidly engaged by the Carradine imbroglio I guess. That just got significantly ODDER today, actually..)
odder in what way? I seem to have missed that bit.

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The 411 in a nutshell – two ropes, one black, one yellow, one not around his neck . Read all about it {the CNN story I linked to at that time is no longer there. HERE is their update}
It would seem the Murray Head song was right…when in Bangkok, it’s best to just focus on your chess game (other forms of recreation can have unfortunate outcomes) {Just in case you don't know what song I mean..check it out : lyrics here & vid below..}



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>The 411 in a nutshell – two ropes, one black, one yellow, one not around his neck . Read all about it
Hmmm…well, given that bit of evidence, there’s a third option besides suicide and murder.{one might delicately call it "misadventure"}
>It would seem the Murray Head
song was right…when in Bangkok, it’s best to just focus on your chess game (other >forms of recreation can have unfortunate outcomes)
Last New Year’s Eve Kelly and her friend Danielle from Revels were alternating paragraphs from the spoken parts of that song back and forth to each other while it was playing on the sound system. I was stunned that they both had it all committed to memory.

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“The crème de la crème of the chess world in a show with everything but Yul Brynner..”
Some great lines in that song. I couldn’t recite the whole thing from memory, but I’d bet if it was playing I could sing right along. {after hunting down the lyrics & reading 'em thru, I think I was overstating my prowess here. I only know the Murray parts ...don't have the "chorus" lines memorized at all}
Particularly I like—“I’d let you watch, I would invite you. But the queens we use would not excite you”
Interesting to note that the song was written by Tim Rice (that part is UNsurprising, I knew it had its origins in some minor musical) and Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson (the male contigent of ABBA.) The last 2/3 of that trio being the surprise (to me) But on second thought, I shouldn’t be surprised—ABBA is magnificent
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{ Now, the other fact I picked up when reading about "One Night in Bangkok" -- Murray Head is older brother to Anthony Head, one is inclined to suffix that name with "of Buffy fame" (Anthony played Giles on that show), but *I* would rather credit him with being in those terrif Taster's Choice commercials--



You know, they went quite a bit further with that storyline over in the UK than they did here. Here in the States they just abruptly discontinued the ads with no denoument whatsoever...I was *so* miffed!!}
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>Some great lines in that song. I couldn’t recite the whole thing from memory, but I’d bet if it was playing I could sing right >along.
I might be able to if it was playing, but would prolly miss a line or two.
>Particularly I like—“I’d let you watch, I would invite you. But the queens we use would not excite you”
That’s a goodie.
Any more, that song reminds me of Tom Robbins’s “Villa Incognito”, which has a few amusing scenes on the streets of downtown Bangkok (including a very amusing chase scene). I suspect that Mr. Robbins had the song in mind while writing those parts.
>Interesting to note that the song was written by Tim Rice (that part is UNsurprising, I knew it had its origins in some minor >musical)
Yep- I do remember that.
>and Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson (the male contigent of ABBA.) The last 2/3 of that trio being the .surprise (to >me) But on second thought, I shouldn’t be surprised—ABBA is magnificent.
I’d debate that last sentence. {doesn't like ABBA..the wanker}For the first part, taking the music in to account, not a huge surprise, perhaps.
So, yeah, I’ve begun to suspect that Mr. Carradine may have been perhaps indulging in a form of entertainment that was written by the likes of William Burroughs and was depicted (with similar results) in the opening scene of the movie “The Ruling Class”.

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{I'm totally veering into new subject matter here...}
A patient of ours is getting a 2 oz catheter tip syringe but her nurse that called into the supply line said they wanted something a bit bigger—3 or 4 oz. I was having trouble finding anything on the McKesson site, but we know how craptacular their search function is…
So I was doing a web search for “3 oz catheter tip syringe” and one of the results I got was from the website:
www.squirrelsandmore.com I just *had* to pop in there for a visit and once there I discovered they tout themselves: “Your One Stop Shop for all Your Rehab Needs”

Huh. Squirrel Rehab. Wow. Although, now that I think about it, the squirrels in my neighborhood do seem to have a problem. It’s not merely that they drink, but they steal it out of my liquor cabinet and then lie about it.
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>www.squirrelsandmore.com
Ummm…wow…
I have no response to that.
BTW, what was that site you mentioned with the user reviews of catheters
? {Seriously, it's appalling, the percentage of my work week that's devoted to catheters. I don't know why I mentioned user reviews of catheters...it seemed to me a funny thing to review, I suppose. In other urological goods news, I don't think the urine collection hat should be called a hat. Why the hell isn't it called like, a basin? That's just misleading...in a bad way. Trust me, it's really not a very stylish wardrobe accent}
> Huh. Squirrel Rehab. Wow. Although, now that I think about it, the squirrels in my neighborhood do seem to have a >problem. It’s not merely that they drink, but they steal it out of my liquor cabinet and then lie about it.
They’re evil little buggers, they are. I bet they’re out there right now, brewing fermented nut milk.
Squirrel trivia for you: DC is infested with black squirrels. They’re not native to the area, tho. The black squirrel population all descend of zoo escapees. Apparently they breed true when they mix with the more common grey squirrels.
Namaste',
Me

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{And then, apropos of nothin' he sends me--}

In other news, although I generally don’t conform to “typical guy” behaviour, I’ll have to say I find it kind of fun having to explain to Pam which of the group that I think of as “The Three Women In My Life” are which and what their status is re: me. {I don't even know what the feck he's on about here, and I don't believe I wanna know. It may be some kinda prompt for me to delve into his wackadoo polyamorous private life but I was NOT going to go there!!}
Namaste',
Me

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{and so I responded with--}

I can’t process that. I’m still reeling over your racist squirrel trivia.
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>I can’t process that. I’m still reeling over your racist squirrel trivia.
“Racist Squirrel Trivia”. That should be a band name or performance art troupe or something…
I’ve occasionally entertained the thought of grabbing a few of the little buggers and letting them loose up here, so we can have grey, black and red squirrels scurrying about.
Namaste',
Me

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Hooray for squirrel diversity!!
Squirrel Diversity: Also a good name for somethin’. And a very noble impulse on your part. I commend thee, and take back everything I implied about your squirrel racism.

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Hooray for squirrel diversity!!
I ask you, what could be better than a veritable rainbow of rodentia?
>Squirrel Diversity: Also a good name for somethin’. And a very noble impulse on your part. I commend thee, and take >back everything I implied about your squirrel racism.
Why, thank you. :)
Namaste',
Me

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