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Heh. So what?

prayer request

Hello everyone.

I’m asking for prayers for my wife. Yesterday morning her left hip started hurting so badly that she couldn’t walk on it. It happened very suddenly and the pain disappeared after she laid down for a few minutes. I didn’t even know it happened.

When I came back over from church yesterday she was reading in bed after having another episode. This time it took longer for the pain to subside, but it did. She said it felt funny the rest of the day.

This morning she woke up with her hip feeling perfectly normal, but it didn’t last. It seems that these episodes are triggered by certain kinds of movement. This time it didn’t hurt as bad and she was able to walk, though not much.

She limped to the car and headed off to work promising to call the doctor. I’m waiting to hear when her appointment will be.

So if you would, please say a prayer for her. For me too if you would, she’s limping but otherwise fine, as in not worried. I’m the one who worries.

Thanks.

UPDATE: Just heard from my wife. The hip is back to normal and feeling fine. Her appointment isn’t until late this afternoon.

UPDATE to the UPDATE: She just returned from having her hip x-rayed. We won’t know what that shows until tomorrow, but the doctor thinks it’s a result of her rheumatoid arthritis, or perhaps bursitis. She was diagnosed with RA in the early 1990s.

What in the name of all that is holy?

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looking for at least one more bar (aka, the 4 bar blues)

Back in March or April or something, I got a new cell phone from AT&T and gave my pay  as you go Nokia tracfone to my wife, who has yet to dip below 300 minutes in the tank (I gave it to her with 389 minutes).

In July or August or something we moved here to our new house in the semi-rural wastelands (only kidding, it’s actually very nice, see my banner above for proof… that’s not our house, btw). It was however, a quasi-wasteland in terms of cell phone signal. My verizon friends walk around all by themselves, with no army of techs led by a geeky dude with curly hair following them. My sprint friends, well I don’t even talk to them because their phones are useless here. Don’t know how tmobile is doing, but if any new G1 owners wanna stop by, we’ll check out the reception. Then you can go ahead and forget your phone when you leave.

I on the other hand, had signal. 1 or two bars at the most, but enough so I could, for the most part, stay inside the house to make calls. Sending MMS messages worked okay too, provided I placed the phone in just the right spot in my office while the message winged its way toward the web or wherever.

Until yesterday when the sun dawned on a brave new world. I woke up, turned on my cell (that’s right, I’m one of the, like, 17% of people who actually turn the thing off every now and again… mostly while I sleep) and… NO! WAY! 4 bars of beautiful 3G! I turned off the phone, pinched myself and turned it on again. Four bars again! 3G, again! Let the praises resound! And the post office didn’t call, either. It was a good day!

I texted. I phoned people. I sent picture texts. I exhausted that stinkin’ battery! (Incidentally, the Nokia 6555, my phone, has a battery that yields a 2 hour or less talk time… I think this is low. You?)

I told all my church friends about it last night at a meeting. They were in awe (because they’re all on Sprint or Verizon. Suckers).

Then this morning it was gone like yesterday is gone. Like history is gone. Like Elvis and his mom.

And  now my song is a sad one…

Suddenly

There’s just half the bars there used to be!

There’s less signal that’s surrounding me

Oh yesterday went suddenly.

 

(refrain)

My phone was so strong

And I thought that it would stay

Now my signal’s gone, how I long

For yesterday… ay… ay… ay.

sigh.

are you using youmail?

Do you own a cell phone? If so, are you using youmail?

You’re not?

At the very least you should check it out.

Youmail is a free web service that allows you to access, listen to and reply to any voicemail message via the web. It works just like email but when you reply to an incoming message, you can choose whether to use sms, email, or voice.

Youmail also allows you to set up multiple greetings and assign those greetings to specific callers. It will also import your contacts from gmail and other mail services.

It works great, though is a little slow in loading.

Youmail’s primary usefulness to me is the ability to receive and reply to voicemail when I’m in a place with no cell signal, but where there is wifi. St. Peter’s, PA where I frequently hang out is such a place. The other day I was there and my fellow sub, Ann, tried to call me. Since I couldn’t receive the call, it went to youmail where she left a message. Youmail forwarded the notification to my gmail inbox and I was able to listen and respond to Ann’s message (via sms).

But it’s also useful when I’m in a writing frenzy and dont’ want to bother answering my cell. The resulting scenario is quite similar to what I described above.

Youmail makes me happy.

Try it yourself.

listening to this song

Holding On to You by Peter Frampton. Ear candy.

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sms follies

I was just thinking yesterday that, though I’ve received wrong number voice calls on my cell before, I have never received a wrong number SMS.

Today, of course, it happened. Usually I wouldn’t play it out like this, but I was felling impish after delivering my route plus 1/2 of someone else’s.

 

Mystery Caller (MC): Ewww! I saw A**** H****k at the california tortilla he kept looking at me he’s so weird.

Me (Me): Hmmm… wrong number perhaps?

MC: Isn’t this A****y L*******t?

Me: Nope.

MC: Who is this

Me: Who r u?

MC: I asked u first

Me: Yes, u did

MC: So who r u

Me: No one u kno, apparently

MC: Okay then I guess I don’t know u either

 

Now, wouldn’t it be funny if it turned out that we did know each other? MC, if you’re out there and you’re reading this, well, now u kno who it was.

what it really is

Been sneezing. Been sniffling.

Woke up unable to breathe out one side of my nose this morning.

Kinda scratchy throat too.

Thinking that this allergy attack is really a cold.

Great.

analyze this

From my daughter’s algebra textbook:

 

-3^4   [ed. — that’s a 3 with a minus sign in front and an exponent of 4]

= -(3*3*3*3)

=-81

 

and

 

(-3)^4

=(-3)(-3)(-3)(-3)

=81

 

Anybody see a problem here?

so calm

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