Tell us what's happened to you recently (that's interesting)

Creole_Ned · 2010-02-18T23:56:47.000Z

MatthewF:

I’m moving to Austin in a week to start a new job. Ah LA, sorry my stay had to be so short.

Congrats and good luck with the new job!

Shadarr · 2010-02-19T11:05:20.000Z

Editer:

If you scratch it raw, you can get a really nasty infection. Hospital-grade.

Give yourself a good last scratch, medicine up, and get healthy. It’ll come back eventually and you can have fun again later.

Nah, just scratch through your sock.

Mrenda · 2010-02-19T11:22:00.000Z

Shadarr:

Nah, just scratch through your sock.

Did that a week ago, and scratched so much that I know have a circular 1cm cut on my toe. I have applied cream. No matter how enjoyable it is, Athlete’s Foot has to go.

Athryn · 2010-02-19T11:42:26.000Z

Try putting a bandage on it to give it padding.

Jim_Hoffman · 2010-02-19T11:49:24.000Z

Has anyone else here ever had HSP, aka Anaphylactic Purpura? Got it xmas week, now only a couple of the deeper scabs left, and lots of healing scars on my feet.

Robert_Sharp · 2010-02-19T11:55:31.000Z

Never heard of it, but I’m about to look it up. I REALLY hope it’s an STD, as that would make your symptoms awesome.

Damn.

JonRowe · 2010-02-19T14:03:36.000Z

About to audition for a part in some contract voice work. Wish me luck!

Leah_C · 2010-02-19T14:18:55.000Z

Buceph:

I’m not sure how interesting this is, but it’s certainly a dilemma.

I believe I have athlete’s foot on some toes on my right foot. I have cream to put on it to get rid of it and stop the itching. However, I fucking love scratching my toes. It’s the most terrible mixture of pain and pleasure all at the same time. Going to be is awesome because I get to contemplate the combination of the difficulty my toes are causing but the satisfaction of a good scratch.

I really don’t know what to do.

Plus I don’t want to get toe cream all over my bedclothes, or socks. Which is actually ickier than just having a fungus grow on me.

I hope you’re washing your hands after. You can spread that to other parts of your body. Scratching your fungus nuts isn’t as fun as scratching your toes!

krayzkrok · 2010-02-20T19:10:53.000Z

Erin bought me a R/C helicopter for my birthday. Having great fun buzzing the dogs. See, we even built a small heliport for it…

Siren · 2010-02-20T19:24:00.000Z

Yesterday, I attended my dad’s retirement ceremony. He has spent the last 30 years of his life in service to the United States Air Force. The ceremony was beautiful. Listening to the list of his accomplishments (both in military service and in service to his community) was awe-inspiring. He retires as a Chief Master Sergeant. Only 1% of the enlisted members ever attain this rank, and it is the highest rank that an enlisted member of the Air Force can attain.

I was a wreck the whole morning. I took one look at my dad in his dress blues and couldn’t believe that it would be the last time that I would ever see him in them. He looked so very handsome. Those were the first of many tears that were shed that morning.

During the ceremony, I received the Military Child Medal and a Certificate of Appreciation from the Base Commander, but I honestly feel like I don’t deserve them. All I have ever done was love my Dad, and anyone who has known him knows that isn’t a difficult thing to do. I am so very proud of him, and I can’t wait to see what the next chapter of his life will bring him. He truly is my hero.

robsam · 2010-02-20T19:27:48.000Z

Siren, that is so great. I hope my daughter will be as proud of me as you are of your father. I teared up reading that. I must now go post something inane in another thread to get myself together. :)

Brendan · 2010-02-20T21:51:43.000Z

Siren:

Yesterday, I attended my dad’s retirement ceremony. He has spent the last 30 years of his life in service to the United States Air Force. The ceremony was beautiful. Listening to the list of his accomplishments (both in military service and in service to his community) was awe-inspiring. He retires as a Chief Master Sergeant. Only 1% of the enlisted members ever attain this rank, and it is the highest rank that an enlisted member of the Air Force can attain.

I was a wreck the whole morning. I took one look at my dad in his dress blues and couldn’t believe that it would be the last time that I would ever see him in them. He looked so very handsome. Those were the first of many tears that were shed that morning.

During the ceremony, I received the Military Child Medal and a Certificate of Appreciation from the Base Commander, but I honestly feel like I don’t deserve them. All I have ever done was love my Dad, and anyone who has known him knows that isn’t a difficult thing to do. I am so very proud of him, and I can’t wait to see what the next chapter of his life will bring him. He truly is my hero.

What did he do in the airforce?

russellmz00 · 2010-02-20T22:05:58.000Z

crappiest dipstick award goes to nissan. the guys changing my oil broke the dipstick on my nissan sentra.

see, dipsticks are metal. but nissan decided to cap theirs with a yellow plastic ring handle. on something that will be exposed to heat and then cooled hundreds, if not thousands of times of times a year.

broken dipstick shows nissan as the number one result, and there are tons of stories about how the plastic part broke off and the dipstick followed the wire’s intro song and went way down in the hole.

but because it’s so common i got a variety of suggestions:
-shop vac: shove it over the dipstick tube or some oil vent hole or something and watch the dipstick shoot into the air
-telescoping magnet
-superglue at end of an unsharpened pencil
-pay a hundred something dollars to drop the oil pan

i eventually used some gorilla tape (a really sticky tape) at the end of a pencil (not super glue) and managed to get it out. hopefully the residue from the tape won’t mess things up in the future.

also, when i tried to get a dipstick at sears auto the guy said they didn’t sell any. he asked me what kind of car i had and when i told him, he said it figured, and that if i called a nissan dealership they would definitely have dipsticks since this happens all the time.

thankfully one of the complainers said a universal dipstick from advanced auto parts would work, so i’m going to use one of those.

Pogo · 2010-02-20T23:00:01.000Z

russellmz00:

hopefully the residue from the tape won’t mess things up in the future.

Rest easy, it won’t.

JMR · 2010-02-20T23:25:25.000Z

krayzkrok:

Erin bought me a R/C helicopter for my birthday. Having great fun buzzing the dogs. See, we even built a small heliport for it…

I have one just like that. I thought it was the coolest thing ever until I saw this

Holy shit.

Siren · 2010-02-21T00:40:12.000Z

Brendan:

What did he do in the airforce?

He’s done a lot, but he is retiring as a Loadmaster on the C-17s.

krayzkrok · 2010-02-21T01:41:58.000Z

JMR:

I have one just like that. I thought it was the coolest thing ever until I saw this

Holy shit.

The exact words out of my mouth when I watched that. We’re doing some filming with a large heli unit right now, can carry a reasonable payload (HD camera) and the results are impressive. But it requires a lot of skill to fly, which is pretty scary when you’re carrying $10,000 worth of camera equipment. That hexacopter looks much easier, plus it’s a lot quieter.

Rward · 2010-02-21T07:06:06.000Z

Siren:

Yesterday, I attended my dad’s retirement ceremony. He has spent the last 30 years of his life in service to the United States Air Force. The ceremony was beautiful. Listening to the list of his accomplishments (both in military service and in service to his community) was awe-inspiring. He retires as a Chief Master Sergeant. Only 1% of the enlisted members ever attain this rank, and it is the highest rank that an enlisted member of the Air Force can attain.

I was a wreck the whole morning. I took one look at my dad in his dress blues and couldn’t believe that it would be the last time that I would ever see him in them. He looked so very handsome. Those were the first of many tears that were shed that morning.

During the ceremony, I received the Military Child Medal and a Certificate of Appreciation from the Base Commander, but I honestly feel like I don’t deserve them. All I have ever done was love my Dad, and anyone who has known him knows that isn’t a difficult thing to do. I am so very proud of him, and I can’t wait to see what the next chapter of his life will bring him. He truly is my hero.

Really Awesome Stuff, Siren :)

Demon_G_Sides · 2010-02-21T09:51:42.000Z

Siren:

Yesterday, I attended my dad’s retirement ceremony. He has spent the last 30 years of his life in service to the United States Air Force. The ceremony was beautiful. Listening to the list of his accomplishments (both in military service and in service to his community) was awe-inspiring. He retires as a Chief Master Sergeant. Only 1% of the enlisted members ever attain this rank, and it is the highest rank that an enlisted member of the Air Force can attain.

I was a wreck the whole morning. I took one look at my dad in his dress blues and couldn’t believe that it would be the last time that I would ever see him in them. He looked so very handsome. Those were the first of many tears that were shed that morning.

During the ceremony, I received the Military Child Medal and a Certificate of Appreciation from the Base Commander, but I honestly feel like I don’t deserve them. All I have ever done was love my Dad, and anyone who has known him knows that isn’t a difficult thing to do. I am so very proud of him, and I can’t wait to see what the next chapter of his life will bring him. He truly is my hero.

My grandpa recently retired from his much less admirable job (He was a lineman for the local telephone company, and did it for about 40 years before retiring. He was the oldest guy in the group and still went out at like 4 in the morning with all the young guys, despite having no feeling in his left foot and a bad back), and my entire family were a wreck at his party. Thankfully it was a very dressed down affair, more or less just my grampa’s really close friends (He has lots of them, he’s a tour de force of personality in my town) drinking at the local Legion.

Didn’t stop me from getting a little choked up when he made a speech to everyone. And then my uncle (His son) and his wife and daughter came, and no one expected them except for my household, and my grampa broke down and it was the saddest thing I’ve ever seen.

But it still felt good, because you know he’s done a lot. So congrats Siren :)

Sarkus · 2010-02-21T22:12:22.000Z

Yesterday, after I was finished charging my mp3 player at my computer, I tossed it onto my bed because I was planning to listen to some music. It bounced off the comforter and landed in my cat’s water bowl. I dried it out all night and all day today but it still isn’t working right.

Yeah, I can replace it with something equivalent for 1/3 the cost, but all the accessories I have are pretty much junk. Sigh.