tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8727642174306891352024-02-19T11:59:27.247-05:00Turf Management EthicsIf you don't read one blog today, make it Turf Management Ethics. TME strives to provide news, observations, and ways to embarrass the author on a global scale. Thanks to the International Global DanPark (igdp.org) for sponsoring us: IGDP: Questionable Blogs. Unquestionable Progress™.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872764217430689135.post-53048489291764441532013-04-22T01:03:00.000-04:002013-04-22T01:03:51.753-04:0015 Important and Untrue Environmental Facts for Earth Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today, April 22, is Earth Day. You need the Earth, and if you use the Internet, you have developed a dependence on numbered lists. So here is a list of facts to save the Earth, one untruth at a time.<br />
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1. I can recycle anything with recycly arrows and a number on the bottom of it. My desire to recycle it makes it recyclable.</div>
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NO! Motor oil has the arrows, but you can't just throw it the bin. Some stuff will just mess up the process, like greasy pizza boxes and other food containers with residue. Paper cups aren't just paper - the waxy stuff makes them normal trash. Every area has <a href="http://durhamnc.gov/ich/op/swmd/Pages/Recycling.aspx">different rules</a>.</blockquote>
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2. If you take the atomic material out of 100 atomic clocks, you can heat your home and your subdivision with free energy for 5,000 years. Your house will then glow slightly for another 10,000 years.</div>
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NO! Experience has proved this one unworkable. It turns out that atomic clocks just recieve a radio signal from a real atomic clock in Colorado. The clock on your wall contains no fissionable material, even if you squeeze it very tightly :(</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">3. Recycling costs the city a ton of money, but that means it's good for us!</span><div style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">
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NO! The waste recycling company take recycling material for free whereas it charges by the ton for regular waste, so that's more money for other city services, like schools and enforcement services for cat taxes.</blockquote>
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4. The city taxes cats.</div>
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YES! This one is actually true. (However, it's not really about the environment, so it's procedurally incorrect even if it's substantially true). It's $10 a cat if they are fixed. The city occasionally may think your cat has regained her fertility. You can invite them over for an inspection, but the chocolates you bought for them will just get moldy. However, they will send you a new bill, with no discount for your efforts or the chocolates, and you won't be bitter, even after the second time it happens. You will resist the urge to pay it one dollar at a time.</blockquote>
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5. When I get a lot of extra stuff to recycle, I can just put it in bags by the bin for collection.</div>
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NO! First don't use bags for recyclables (excepting paper bags for shredded paper). Only stuff in the bin gets collected by the automated trucks. For large trash items in Durham, see <a href="http://durhamnc.gov/ich/op/swmd/Pages/Bulky-Item.aspx">bulky item pickup</a>, in which you can see a picture of a truck with a cool claw that picks up big stuff. You probably shouldn't put out trash just to see the claw come by, at least not that often.</blockquote>
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6. I can throw plastic and paper shopping bags in the bin. Again, my desire to recycle it makes it recyclable.</div>
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NO! Take shopping bags back to your store's special bins for recycling bags (for example, at the Walmart entrance). First put one bag inside the other. Then put another bag around those. Repeat until you create a mega-bag the size of a small child. Keeping it growing as you repeatedly forget about them, and then eventually take them to the store.</blockquote>
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NO! Toilets use a high percentage of household water. Even if you have a high efficiency toilet, you can switch to an ultra high efficient toilet to save extra water. This means fewer reservoirs and water processing plants have to be built. So the city will help with the cost of installing a toilet. You can get one free after a $100 rebate at Costco or Home Depot (<a href="http://www.durhamnc.gov/departments/wm/toilet_rebates.cfm">rebate form here</a>). You can install them yourself with basic tools, the supplies included in the toilet kit, some caulk, and a less than $10 water supply line.</blockquote>
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8. Earth Day Mardi Gras</div>
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The day before Earth Day is Earth Gras. You should use as much energy as possible to show a big statistical drop in energy when Earth Day conservation starts. Feeling successful about conservation is more important than being successful at conservation! Turn on all of your lights. Turn your air conditioning and heat on at the same time and run them against each other. Turn the oven on and heat the house with it. Leave the lawn mower running in the yard all day - make sure to defeat the safety features with duct tape to keep it going. Turn off the power saving options on your laptop. Wash and dry all of your clothes with hot water. Keep that bus pass in your wallet and drive everywhere.</blockquote>
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Fluorescent lights, both the long ones and the CFL (corkscrew) types, contain a bit of mercury in a gas form, so breaking them releases toxic gas. Always take them to a hardware store to be recycled. If you do break them, ventilate the area and take them to a facility like the <a href="http://durhamnc.gov/ich/op/swmd/Pages/Hazardous-Waste.aspx">household hazardous waste facility</a> on East Club Boulevard in Durham.</div>
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We apologize for the unoffensive parties; we'll try harder next time- Duke University</blockquote>
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The 1% have a right and a duty to party hard - Karl Marx</blockquote>
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I think the recent hoopla over the <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/02/06/2659853/duke-university-fraternity-under.html">Duke Asian-themed party</a> is missing a broader point. We recently received an invitation to another party that seemed to stress the same format. Take a tried caricature of a cultural idea, add sex, add booze and then you get a memorable party. It needs to be offensive enough to be memorable, but not enough to be picked up by the Associated Press; this is apparently the trickiest part. We tend to get offended by the poor cultural taste, but the low taste in sex and booze is just old news I guess. Two sober people not eyeing each other for later could still be some sort of format, but it just doesn't sell as well as the current cliches. (I'm flexible - compromise on some decent wine and double entendres or something, but change up the current cliched ratio of respect to hormones a little bit).<br />
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Due to a fluke, we were invited to "plunder some booty" at the sorority party called "Pirates of the Chi-O-Bbean" last week. It seems to follow the same formula: Pirates + booty + bar = cultural cliche + sex + booze. Pirates aren't marginalized here, so we don't get offended by that (unless you count Somalis with machine guns as pirates instead of Captain Hook. It is statistically likely that Somalis will be the focus of a Duke party eventually). But the sex and booze is considered okay or at least cliche, so there haven't been any protests against the Chi-O party. <br />
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Some notes, from someone a decade or two past undergrad parties:<br />
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1. For purely anthropological reasons, I will see you there. I don't want to be an undergrad partyer . I will be his bodyguard or his driver.<br />
2. Could you please ask them to move the start time back a couple of hours? 11 is kind of late for me to start something and will make attending the after-after party almost impossible. And what is a Metro-8?<br />
3. Please make sure they will have diet drinks available. <br />
4. Do I have to show my abs in my pirate suit? If so, I had better start exercising now.<br />
5. How is dirty old man disgusting different from youngin' man disgusting? Is it just the abs?<br />
6. We can agree to disagree on changing everybody's ringtones to my parrot saying, "Rah! Make better life decisions!" as a way to greet them into their hangovers the next day. I think it was subtle and classy. But for a few students, it literally scared some of the liquor right out of them, which was a net detriment to the overall, still classy, effect.<br />
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7.Did you get the "Yo ho" reference at the end? I didn't at first.<br />
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There is something disappointing about the austere potential perfection of the new maps - each of us now stands as an individual at the center of our own map worlds. - Simon Garfield</blockquote>
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In school, I remember hearing debates on how wall maps discriminates in favor of northern western countries. China is tucked away on the far right, with Europe centered, and Australia is on the bottom --why not the top? Greenland is impossibly big for it's actual size, as is every land away from the equator. So egalitarians created new maps. But they're too late. Map gazers' faces glow with the dull blue of a smartphone, and they only make contact with wall maps with they make physical contact with walls. These collisions will eventually stop once smartphone makers build sonar into their next versions.<br />
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If you are a smartphone map user, the maps centers the world on you. As you rotate the map rotates around you. The rest of the world beyond the radius of your trip to the coffee store need not exist. And if you lose connectivity, your phone won't know about the rest of the world, save for some limited caching abilities that you wished you would have thought about before the phone went dark.<br />
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For purely functional reasons, that doesn't bother me. Having a map of an entire city in front of me presents me with nothing useful unless I know where I am on that map. We spent an hour driving around the outskirts of Paris trying to find our rental cottage only to realize we kept passing it. The address numbering system made it difficult to figure out where we actually were. <a href="http://chasestakeovereurope.blogspot.com/2009/07/airport-adventures-saturday.html">Actual human intervention in the form</a> of a late night phone call.<br />
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Though those who gratefully downloaded Google Maps on their smartphones last week might disagree, there is something valuable about getting lost occasionally, even in our pixilated, endlessly interconnected world.</blockquote>
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Here on functional reasons again, I disagree. My standalone GPS has helped me to get lost on three continents. I have the freedom to wonder off, ignore the signs, and just walk toward something beautiful because I know it can help get me back. Otherwise I would be tied to the safety of only touristy areas with plentiful friendly English speakers who also happened to know where I needed to go. One night in France, I found none of those. The train scheduling system crashed, leaving passengers clueless as to at what time and what platform they needed to be on. I finally got on a train but it got to the outer-lying train station after the local buses were done for the day.<br />
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I could have paid $50 for a taxi, but with a GPS in my pocket, I began a three hour adventure through the countryside. A paper map would have killed me because I would lose myself in the map. <br />
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As I walked through the hills between Mantes des Joliet, the sun appears to rise and set again and again. I took this picture while lying down in the someone's front yard to get the right angle on the sun. I didn't see any actual people for a couple of hours. Eventually the GPS battery did die and it was me at dusk, but I was close enough.<br />
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So use your phone and GPS for good! Get lost and discover some new places and adventures.<br />
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Confirmation that I had navigated to the correct town. <br />
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<b>Cardboard Rocketship</b><br />
Kids always play with the box anyway. So why not just sell them a box? <br />
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Let your children simulate the beauty that is birth in your own living room.<br />
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The toothbrush plays TWO Bieber songs. First you brush with one song, and then you use the toothbrush as a microphone for the next song. Look for Bieber Brand Braces soon.<br />
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Give your bathroom the charm of a roadside gas station.<br />
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Dogs need better digestion and posture. Is that the reason they drink out the toilet?<br />
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Fondue with Nesquik?<br />
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<b>Before</b>: It's got Mr. Darcy, Luke Duke, and a pirate from the Caribbean. How can they go wrong? -Daniel<br />
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<b>After</b>: He must have agreed to do this before he got the Academy Award -Lara, about Colin Firth<br />
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It's neat to see scenes from Durham in a movie, <a href="http://www.mainstreetthemovie.com/">Main Street</a>, with big name actors like Colin Firth, Orlando Bloom, and the guy from the Dukes of Hazzard. It was filmed on location. That makes it worth seeing for locals. It opens in the US in theaters this Friday, the 30th of September. I don't know why, but we already have it here on DVD in Australia, our temporary home until the Department of Agriculture and the city of Durham allow me to import the kangaroos down the street (1). I don't know art, but here are some thoughts about Durham and the movie.<br />
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It makes me cringe when they consistently pick out the sore spots of town. In fairness, it is a movie about urban decay, which is not the current story of Durham. Indeed, the creators of the movie chose Durham based on a visit more than ten years ago. That was before the new ballpark, rebuilt Tobacco warehouse developments like the American Tobacco Campus, a new performing arts center, a new 1.3 million square foot mall, and two other redeveloped malls, blah, blah. All that urban renewal wouldn't help the plot. But the city is still called Durham, North Carolina in the movie, so it's not exactly a postcard for the city. Think positive. Anything to prevent over-crowding is good.<br />
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Ironically, the scenes from an office and a restaurant, shown as upscale places outside of Durham, are also shot in Durham. Your definition of Durham will be defined by the sites you sample. Even in the same location, there are different stories. I looked at the stats for generally well regarded Jordan High School, and I found different populations, almost schools within schools. Some groups were doing very well and going off to prestigious colleges , and some couldn't pass basic reading tests. So no story is going truly showcase the whole of a city. But Durham doesn't get a lot of movies to showcase it different facets. Please support HR bill 1891, which will require two comedies for every serious depiction of a city (2).<br />
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Back to the story.<br />
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I paused in the middle of the movie for a bathroom break. I hit play, and it was over in 5 minutes. It turns out that it was almost all exposition. Develop the characters, the scenery, and the opposing themes. Then you actually do a story (3). Or you can slowly do the first part and forget the second part, and just take a few minutes to wrap things up and roll the credits. It was like part one of a mini-series, but there was no "to be continued..." at the end. At first I was thinking, the setup seems a little slow. Just wait and watch like an adult watching a movie that won't be defined by number of sequels it spawns. And then, poof.<br />
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Overall, I thought it was worthwhile, but don't expect an intense story. <br />
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(1) I'll also have to wait until I learn how to catch a kangaroo. I have gotten close to them. I'm trying to get them used to me, so I walk over there every once in a while. They really are at the end of the block. See <a href="http://landinginoz.blogspot.com/">our blog</a>.<br />
(2) I am thinking of a new Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where Ferris is black and Cameron is white. Ben Stein will still be played by Ben Stein.<br />
(3) Or in an action movie, you paint the picture using exposition, and then blow up the picture in really creative ways. In a romantic movie, you paint a picture and then hang Matthew McConaughey's shirt on it. Women then forget that there was a painting or a shirt.<br />
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<blockquote>That bus they put in - that can just drop off people from anywhere. Any part of the city, and they're coming in to our community to cause trouble.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote>I used to rent myself, but these renters here, especially these section 8 renters - they don't care. We need to change the covenants to outlaw that. [Someone points out this is against federal law, which prohibits discrimination against the rental assistance program]. Well, we should make it more difficult at least.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote>We have to stop all of these loud cars. This kid has a huge speaker in his back window. Where are his parents?</blockquote><br />
Add general nods of agreement. It's Wednesday night at the public library auditorium, and we are in a Homeowner's Association meeting. I've related the quotes above, from different homeowners in our neighborhood, to several friends who come from around the country, and they all cringe. They are thinking, this is the bad part of the south-haven't we moved past this? <br />
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However, the speakers above are all African American. Does that change your perception? This causes surprise when someone hears those quotes. Our community is mostly African American, and the attendance at the meeting was a couple of dozen or so black people and me and another white guy or two, representative of the makeup of the community. Durham is somewhat rare in that blacks and whites are roughly balanced within city limits, although individual neighborhoods vary widely.<br />
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Nobody is for locking up teenagers, keeping poor people from getting transportation, or disallowing people to have an affordable place to rent. But people are entitled to the "quiet enjoyment" of their property, as the law puts it. So if a group appears to stand in the way, it can become us versus them, regardless of race. And statistically, teenagers and renters care less about their properties (it's not entirely theirs) and maybe less about quiet enjoyment. Racism is still alive, but class distinctions are becoming more important as more African Americans are lifted into the upper class. "White flight" is deemed a symptom of racism, but "black flight" happens too. Witness the large concentration of African Americans staying away from Washington, DC city limits by moving over the border to Maryland. <br />
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We didn't come to any conclusions. It didn't entirely matter because we are mostly powerless. We discovered, to my big surprise, that the Board of Directors of the Homeowner's Association, is actually one guy, Jerry Stoltz. He's the developer that started things 13 years and has refused to turn over the board of one to an actual board of homeowners even though it appears the legal requirements have been met (it's common for the developer to direct the board in the beginning stages of a community). Disenfranchising a black community is not a good thing to do, so he was the punching bag for tonight. The meeting was scheduled so he could be present, but he begged off at 9 am and instead sent Drew, who would only call himself a professional acquaintance of Jerry's. His only ability was to take notes. He had no answers nor authority. But anger at the builder was another issue that surfaced harshly in the mostly white HOA where we lived in South Durham. Crime is also a major concern in both areas. I think both neighborhoods are safe, but getting everyone together to relay their worst experiences makes everyone feel less safe.<br />
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In the end, I don't know if we could really change things if we were in charge. People are behind on their HOA dues by $40,000, so we can't really spend much money. Bankruptcy and foreclosure mean we may never see a lot of that. When we are the board, we will have we to blame.<br />
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Another issue I contemplated:<br />
Should I ask about a starting a neighborhood e-mail list? You know, to bring the community together? Or because of the tone created by the false anonymity of e-mailing your neighbors instead of talking to them, would it actually tear the neighborhood apart? I've definitely seen both results. It certainly gives people a platform for complaining: "We will initiate action if everyone does not power-wash his home," etc. But hopefully, it could be a platform for organizing neighborhood cookouts, too. Someone else seizes the initiative and I sign up. We'll see.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872764217430689135.post-49748814999214296362011-02-23T01:29:00.000-05:002011-02-23T01:29:18.367-05:00Stuff My Neighborhood Listserv SaysWhat's a neighborhood without an e-mail list to connect it? Rusty joined the list of one neighborhood near downtown Durham, and it is amazing what is shared and what is argued. Here's a sampling [emphasis mine]<br />
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<blockquote>Sender: [redacted]@duke.edu<br />
Subject: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">kroger coupons i won't use</span></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"></span>going out to the curb at 1:30pm today<br />
[redacted] englewood<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">please take only the ones you'll use</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and please don't take the clothespin</span>save $1 on any 1 listerine 1 liter or larger<br />
save 40cents on 1 kroger graham crackers<br />
save $2 on any nivea body product<br />
save $2.75 on any one charmin 30 double roll<br />
save $1.50 on any 1 brita filter<br />
all expire apr 17<br />
all good only at kroger<br />
you pay sales tax<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">technically "void if transferred" but an employee told me <b>off the record</b> that's not enforced</span></blockquote><br />
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<ul><li>How can you piece together a life from which these items were necessary but no longer are?</li>
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Subject: Free stuff to a good home<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Dinosaur bathtub sprayer and hose. Fits onto a traditional style bathtub faucet and the spray comes out the dinosaur's mouth. Very cute, and functional, too! [how does this fit with the next item?]</span><br />
Tools to assist someone with limited mobility or reach - a long shoe horn, a picker-upper, a very long handled bath sponge, stuff like that left over from knee surgery and mostly never used. Take it all.<br />
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Backpack suitcase - a little too large for my need.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">An opened and partially used package of disposable underpads. Perfect for the old dog that's a little leaky.</span></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Almost new Bioset sprout maker with instructions.</span><br />
Learn Italian cassette tapes.</blockquote><div><div>An hour and a half later, we are informed "still have underpads, the rest is gone." You have to be quick in this neighborhood.</div><div><br />
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</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872764217430689135.post-69546834770793128222010-11-13T00:10:00.000-05:002010-11-13T00:10:42.149-05:00Hendersonville ER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMA0Sc67-SsT7BU_YZnRWTpArsr25Wt4z7HUxzFatPqfrz5uDGTLzB0Fc0gsEPaXNlcs4GXN4hmz5i9p9FsHzcU4ID_3IPR9JfEsMZZBjDxSb4JXQR60LG8YAhJOUEmChlhKChRAs_RV_/s1600/laraHendersonville.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMA0Sc67-SsT7BU_YZnRWTpArsr25Wt4z7HUxzFatPqfrz5uDGTLzB0Fc0gsEPaXNlcs4GXN4hmz5i9p9FsHzcU4ID_3IPR9JfEsMZZBjDxSb4JXQR60LG8YAhJOUEmChlhKChRAs_RV_/s320/laraHendersonville.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The important stuff: Lara is now fine, and not yellow. A few weeks ago, we were visiting friends in Asheville. It was great to see friends who now live several hours away. It was relaxed. Lara took an afternoon nap. She woke up jaundiced. She looked like she had a bad spray tan - $50 of spray with 50 cents of training for the operator.<br />
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These are some observations take while waiting on her to get a diagnosis and get well.<br />
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We have been trained to call the insurance nurses' line, then go to the urgent care doctor, and then lastly the ER. The urgent care people (literally) looked at her and said, "You need to go to the ER." So we ended up in Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, where the urgent care center was open later in the day, instead of Asheville, where all of our friends were. The eventual diagnosis was medication induced liver damage. It was temporary damage and started clearing up when she stopped taking liver-metabolized medicines. It's rare, but we are lucky that way.<br />
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Hendersonville, NC is the not the same as Henderson, NC. -Ville is near TN and -- is near VA. Lara says it is the Durham of Asheville. I don't know for sure if that is a complement to either.<br />
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Upon entry to the ER, we are asked if we have a pocket-knife or weapon on us. Our version of this question at Durham Regional is a metal detector. When I point this out to the nurse, she says that would be a good idea, but she is required to ask the question even though she acknowledges the silliness of it. This sounds like the product of a special sub-committee on regional hospital security coming up with a 5-part plan to improve safety while using no resources (excepting the considerables costs of the committee itself). However, she said it actually prompted one woman to turn over a gun, peacefully. Security retrieved it. I don't know if you would get in trouble if you turned the weapon over when asked for it.<br />
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Lara gets her IV successfully inserted on the third try while the background music is playing "Stayin' Alive." This seems like a good sign for health.<br />
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Many of the people in the ER waiting room know each other. This includes the janitor, who has a long conversation with a patient.<br />
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At 1 AM, 10 hours after my last meal, that 24-hour Krispy Kreme by the interstate is calling my name. It's only five or ten minutes away, but the essence of ER waiting is not knowing if the next fifteen minutes will be mind numbingly boring and a good time for chores<br />
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It's was supposed to an acceptable wait time when we checked, but 3 or 4 ambulances came in, including a car accident. A girl whose Mom was in a wreck was sobbing in the waiting room. The last time we passed by, she seemed to be doing better, so I hope her Mom is okay. It looked like she came from a play, so it was hard to do that ignore her pain to give some level of privacy in a full waiting room. Lara said the dress of the very white girl looked Indian (Mumbai Indian not Oklahoma Indian - is there a good way to more easily clarify that?), not a sarhi but still Indian. She watches the Bollywood movies while I can't stand to be in the room while they are playing, so I'll have to trust her.<br />
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When it seems like we might be here longer than we expected and our carpool buddy needs to go home, I started looking up rental cars. What else to do? Avis.com is down for maintenance. It's midnight, but who goes down at midnight Eastern Time? That not really wise for all of the Californians who are awake then. Switching to a California-routed Internet connection didn't help, so I guess people don't book cars on a Saturday night. The next day I am able to contribute my knowledge of car rental rates to friends who start researching them again to figure out how to get home.<br />
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I figured out how to watch the OU game in the waiting room. It wasn't online, but my computer in Durham picks up the antenna signals of ABC there, and it sent the broadcast to my laptop in Hendersonville. It was my first real outside of the home use of the streaming capability from orb.com, which lets you take videos and broadcasts from your TV card on your home computer and watch them somewhere else. Our Internet connection does not have the fastest upload speed, so it was blurry, but it worked! A victory for the evening. After we got to a room, I continued watching on the laptop for a while before noticing the small TV up in the corner. It got better reception, but the game got worse. We lost, but losing is a distraction.<br />
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We first get taken up to the third floor. Lara gets in the bed, and the nurse looks at her and says, "You're not an 80 year old named Edna." We move down to the second floor where we are really supposed to be. Earlier in the night, someone came to the admissions desk looking for part of another's patient's chart. The nurse handed her Lara's chart because "this one looks pretty thick." The missing information was located and removed to the proper chart. Problem averted (did the missing sheet ask for 16 rabies shots to be administered?). And a doctor asked about her prior gall bladder removal. She still has a gall bladder. It turns out doing some imaging tests differently fails to pick it out on the scan. Medicine's not perfect.<br />
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The nurse and nurse's aide on the floor are very friendly. The doctor on the floor is the nurse's family doctor. Again, everybody knows everybody. The nurse's aide very much wants to give everybody a hot blanket. They are nice and warm, like those hot towels they give you at nice restaurants (or at least I see them giving to people in nice restaurants on TV). Lara refused the towel. I eventually felt obliged to take it after he switched out my chair for a recliner.<br />
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It's a little warm in the room. They bring us a small fan. The nurse's aide is very happy that it is complimentary and that we get to keep it. It makes me happy too, at 4:30 am. Apparently, once they open the fan box, it's not sanitary to use it on another patient. This is a little strange since toilet seats are constantly reused. I guess toilets bleach clean while fans do not. I'm not complaining. The insurance company is buying thousands of dollars for this, so I'm glad to have a souvenir.<br />
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There's a nurse on the second shift called the vampire. I thought this was insulting, but it turns out that she is really good at putting in an IV needle. This part of the experience can be quick and easy or long, miserable, and memorable if it takes multiple sticks.<br />
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The place is flooded with senior volunteers. They serve at the nice cafe, take you in a wheelchair to your card, and provide free valet parking (nice but not perfect- overheard: "This is you car, right? Sometimes we get the wrong one.") Our friends also volunteered heavily with lots of visits and a lot of driving to help us keep a car while Sarah returned to Durham (thank you Brett!).<br />
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Lara emerged with her lab tests going in the right direction and looking better. But when we stop at the CVS, the pharmacist asked, "Are you having liver trouble?"<br />
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I summed up our three day adventure in an e-mail to friends:<br />
We've been a little bored although it's part marriage retreat, spending almost all of the day in a small room two feet next to each other. It's a good marriage, so it's a good retreat:)<br />
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<div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For the record: I love the ladies, my lady in particular. She would <i>not </i>love it if I were to help another lady with her pregnancy pledge to create yet another little lady. My love of the ladies is from a distance - I don't want to be a lady or sound like one. [To be PC, every word in that sentence should have a footnote of "Not there's anything wrong with that."]</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Google targets its text ads based on the content of your e-mails. Facebook does similar things, based on your profile interests. FB advertisers can target people who like a particular sports team, based on on demographic data they have collected on those fans. Google's automated practice of reading your mail would probably result in a privacy panic if other companies did it, but we trust Google.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">First there was the targeted Google Ad for <a href="http://fairfaxcryobank.com/" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank">fairfaxcryobank.com</a> with the Pregnancy Pledge, where I could price myself genetically and then apply to contribute genetically to furtherance of the species. Or maybe they thought I was the woman who wanted the "vials," which gets us to:</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I just got the text ad "Transgender Voice Surgery - YesonVC.net - Travel To Korea For Cutting Edge Voice Feminization." Not my thing. Not really physically possible, I think. I would be their great white male whale. My voice would have to go up four octaves. Maybe I'm wavering when I think of it. Two octaves could enable me to speak at a normal volume. Imagine the bass on the car of a guy who has the entire value of what would be his 401K installed as hardware in his car. My head resonates with itself like that bass. So anyway, my voice sounds loud to me. But it also sounds male, and for a guy who can barely do one pull up, the little things take a difference.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I still remember a friend's horror as a teenager, as he described receiving some sample feminine products in the mail because some database decided he was female. He threw them in his sister's room and ran.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We're fragile, Google. Respect our masculinity.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Wall Street Journal just did a long series on how web sites collect huge amounts of data and cross reference it with more data to effectively target consumers. If they know what they are doing then I don't know me. Or if I do know me (and I spend a fair amount of time with me), I have effectively created a privacy shield so dense that no marketer can truly apprehend me. If I weren't me, I would pay to be me. It would be a monthly fee to someone who would keep the Z-list paparazzi out of my life. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In the end, I'm sure I'm making it worse by clicking on all of these weird ads to find out what's going on.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872764217430689135.post-42360358604727484502010-07-13T13:16:00.000-04:002010-07-13T13:16:29.440-04:00Fire SafetyIt's time to update those fire stickers on windows for present-day sentiments. The International Global DanPark Labs has developed such a notice to help firefighters save what is most dear to us. Slap this is on your window and the fire department will know your priorities.<br />
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You definitely don't need a flash light by 5:30.<br>Fortunately, it heats up more slowly here, so it's not 90 degrees 5<br>hours after the sun is up like in Durham. Sleeping in a tent makes it<br>hard to ignore the rising sun. If you ignore the rising heat and the<br>sun, around 8 am the kids come out, making motorcycle noises on their<br>bicycles, which are ubiquitous. I like the sound of kids having fun,<br>so it is a nice alarm clock.<p>We drove in toward Hartford, first seeing the Magellan castle, one of<br>the homes of a popular play actors when theatre was king. He built<br>his own mini 3 mile railroad. Yet I have air conditioning, and most<br>of the castle does not. It was nice, but the highlights of the day<br>were great seafood at the USS Chowder House IV and the Trash Museum.<br>Durham is only a couple of hours away from the coast, so we have fresh<br>seafood, but here it tastes like they caught it just after you ordered<br>it. I'm especially a fan of<p>The trash museum has a standard museum and gift shop, but it is also<br>an active recycling center. You can watch as trucks come in and out,<br>creating and consuming mini-mountains of trash. It's like construction<br>and trash, two of little boys' passions, at the same time. It has had<br>a fun walk-in 3D collage of trash and scavenger hunt, including things<br>like records, 8 tracks,toys, and other actual trash.<p>When we got back to the campground, I spent some time on the beach.<br>We watched the sunset and then the moon shining off the water again.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872764217430689135.post-53137299616187760232010-06-24T20:49:00.002-04:002010-06-29T18:49:57.846-04:00<div class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3X2OGjJkE9HNe8-8BtWPscjkPoarCEoAt09fks-gXt-b3kB5HomYKWwoUf0WX0Yrh0ceFgN4csNNrpzpZXtHOjcYmm_ibN_Shl9OV2KmILzo-pL0CcgVYf1DQS-R5wNtLj2q4CAolW1-q/s1600/downsize-767995.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486507053943339618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3X2OGjJkE9HNe8-8BtWPscjkPoarCEoAt09fks-gXt-b3kB5HomYKWwoUf0WX0Yrh0ceFgN4csNNrpzpZXtHOjcYmm_ibN_Shl9OV2KmILzo-pL0CcgVYf1DQS-R5wNtLj2q4CAolW1-q/s320/downsize-767995.jpg" 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