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September
9/24: SoCal #18: Raiding zTimB & Sparky's Wine Lockers
9/24: Minnesota # whatever the heck it would be (also showing as Minnesota #17)

October
10/1: NoVA/DC #25: Churrascaria!!! Large, Grilled Meat!!!
10/21-23: WNY #7: Finger Lakes Wine Tour
TBD: Vegas # 5 CyberPub Cellars-Rogue Rhone-Pub Blend #3

Pending
TBD: NYC #18
TBD: Arizona Verde Valley Winery Weekend
TBD: Dallas #11

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Don't forget, today is Talk Like a Pirate Day!!


And if you are on Facebook, you can change your language to English (Pirate)!

Arrr! Blabber t' yer mates!

Yarrr! From Cap'n Slappy:


Yer midnight pirate haiku (or "Mi-Pi-Ku") fee o' chARRRge:

"Where has the rum gone?
Could it be more obvious?!?
I'm soakin' in it!"

MarkDaSpark wrote:Power outage in Riverside & San Diego counties, parts of OC, Arizona, and parts of Mexico. Prayers for Nallie & Family, and the Madwineaux family for a quick resumption of power to the area.


"The power outage caused the San Onofre nuclear-power plant operated by Edison International's Southern California Edison utility to automatically shut down at about 3:38 p.m. local time, SoCal Edison spokesman Paul Klein said. He said the power plant's two units had enough off-site power to operate the plant's safety systems, but he declined to provide details."


Huh? Let's shut down a power plant so there's even less power for everyone. Yes, I know that they probably had to do something to prevent something else, but really?


Stupid deregulation.

Yeah, I'm behind. Again.

Partially because of this power outage. I was in SD for a business trip. Originally due to leave Thursday night, but rescheduled to leave Friday morning to attend a dinner with the gang.

Outage hits, causing chaos. Dinner doesn't happen, because of the power outage. Hotel cooks up their perishable food for the guests, and shows Spiderman in the lobby. Also hands out flashlights to the guests: the generator powers lights in the halls, but not in the rooms. Estimate is that the power will be out until Friday afternoon. I can't call out on the cell or the desk phone; all circuits jammed. I text a friend to change my flight out on Friday to leave LAX rather than SAN, and go to bed. Power comes back on around 10:45 that night, so I get up, close the window, and plug in everything to charge up, and go back to sleep. I don't bother changing flight, though; I figure I'm tired of changing the travel plans. Next morning I drive the rental to LAX (and when I pass John Wayne, I kick myself for not booking to fly out of there). Find out later that the San Diego Airport did get power at 3:30am Friday, but the computers never came back up, so all checkins were using paper, which created chaos, and I was glad to miss that.

Passed the San Onofre plant on the drive up. The real problem is that once the grid collapses, you need to disconnect all generators from the grid, because no one generator can power the entire grid by itself, and it will damage itself trying. So, San Omofre had no load, and had to scram. Bringing back up the grid is a gradual process: balkanize the grid, connect generators to small parts of grid that they can handle, connect other parts of grid to powered grids, rinse and repeat, interconnect islands.

bsevern wrote:(you are supposed to voluntarily report Internet purchases on your CA state income taxes....yeah...right).

Well, because it's on your CA form, you are committing a felony if you don't pay, so that's not so voluntary.

(By signing, the form, you certify that it is true and complete, and it isn't true and complete and you knew it, that's a felony)

bhodilee wrote:yeah, i was gettign the buy page pretty regular, now I'm not. Whatever. I'm not too concerned, but it's the chase!

It took over 1/2 hour, but I finally did get one.

It's the only thing I bought this woot-off.

bhodilee wrote:You'll get some kind of bag and that's about the only guarantee.

Not quite true. I got the Bucket of stuff when they did that.

LSlipetz wrote:I can never forget that day because it is my wedding anniversary. Of course we didnt plan it that way, but I have a lot of friends that wish me a happy speak like a pirate day as a joke instead of sending their well wishes on my anniversary.

The day was picked by one of the founders because it was his ex-wife's birth day.

Arrrr!

BlackCauldron wrote:What do people think of the new UPS My Choice system? It states that an electronic signature can be used to release packages. Now I haven't seen anything that says it is also for packages that contain alcohol but this is an interesting development. I'm sure the other delivery systems will soon follow if this is successful during the upcoming holiday season.

What I don't like about it is that they'll now charge to have a package be redirected.

Fail!

JOATMON wrote:Yeah, I'm behind. Again.

Partially because of this power outage. I was in SD for a business trip. Originally due to leave Thursday night, but rescheduled to leave Friday morning to attend a dinner with the gang.

Outage hits, causing chaos. Dinner doesn't happen, because of the power outage. Hotel cooks up their perishable food for the guests, and shows Spiderman in the lobby. Also hands out flashlights to the guests: the generator powers lights in the halls, but not in the rooms. Estimate is that the power will be out until Friday afternoon. I can't call out on the cell or the desk phone; all circuits jammed. I text a friend to change my flight out on Friday to leave LAX rather than SAN, and go to bed. Power comes back on around 10:45 that night, so I get up, close the window, and plug in everything to charge up, and go back to sleep. I don't bother changing flight, though; I figure I'm tired of changing the travel plans. Next morning I drive the rental to LAX (and when I pass John Wayne, I kick myself for not booking to fly out of there). Find out later that the San Diego Airport did get power at 3:30am Friday, but the computers never came back up, so all checkins were using paper, which created chaos, and I was glad to miss that.

Passed the San Onofre plant on the drive up. The real problem is that once the grid collapses, you need to disconnect all generators from the grid, because no one generator can power the entire grid by itself, and it will damage itself trying. So, San Omofre had no load, and had to scram. Bringing back up the grid is a gradual process: balkanize the grid, connect generators to small parts of grid that they can handle, connect other parts of grid to powered grids, rinse and repeat, interconnect islands.

Yeah, we kinda got the gist of that before .... but thanks for the more technical details. And what bright genius designed that grid? Sounds like they haven't changed the plans since the blackouts back east in the 60's and 70's.


You also could have flown out of Ontario (straight shot up the 15 to the 10, a little under a 2 hour drive), Cat did that one year. John Wayne (OC) is a little over 1.5 hours up the 5/405, but you hit more traffic.


Edit: Arrrr!

So my Week of Death (and Beyond) may have it's official diagnosis, and once the bloodwork comes back I'll know for sure....
Looks like I may have contracted Hepatitis A.
Ugh, I still totally feel like crap...though back at work since I've already basically missed a whole week.



ARRRRRRR!!!!!!

HitAnyKey42 wrote:So my Week of Death (and Beyond) may have it's official diagnosis, and once the bloodwork comes back in about a week I'll know for sure....
Looks like I may have contracted Hepatitis A.
Ugh, I still totally feel like crap...though back at work since I've already basically missed a whole week.



ARRRRRRR!!!!!!

Are you having yellowing of the eyes?

tiger7610 wrote:Are you having yellowing of the eyes?

Yup, and he even said my stomach skin etc was a bit pale/yellowish too. Hence all the bloodwork to confirm.

Guess no wine for me for awhile, since with Hep-A you're supposed to avoid alcohol & fatty foods and such.
Arrrrrrrr.....no Toxic Hell, no McD's, no BK....what am I supposed to eat now?!?!

tiger7610 wrote:Are you having yellowing of the eyes?

That's kind of what tipped us off - I noticed he had yellow eyes over the weekend and his skin was just wrong. Looked it up and every complaint he's had for the past week perfectly matched the symptoms. On the plus side, he doesn't have any of the additional symptoms associated with B or C.

Timing of symptoms and stuff looks to put contraction time right around Clambake weekend, so maybe something at Miya's? I'm keeping a watch for myself, can take 2-7 weeks for symptoms to develop.

HitAnyKey42 wrote:Yup, and he even said my stomach skin etc was a bit pale/yellowish too. Hence all the bloodwork to confirm.

Guess no wine for me for awhile, since with Hep-A you're supposed to avoid alcohol & fatty foods and such.
Arrrrrrrr.....no Toxic Hell, no McD's, no BK....what am I supposed to eat now?!?!

Judging by the choices given, I'd say food.

Sorry to hear bout the diagnosis, or pending diagnosis.

HAK--given that's usually from contaminated food (in this country), I wonder where you could have picked that up. If one person in the party gets it, usually others will as well--(un)sanitary practices usually apply to all people served. I would see if you volleyball friends or other groups of friends end up getting sick as well.

cheron98 wrote:That's kind of what tipped us off - I noticed he had yellow eyes over the weekend and his skin was just wrong. Looked it up and every complaint he's had for the past week perfectly matched the symptoms. On the plus side, he doesn't have any of the additional symptoms associated with B or C.

Totally wondering how his demon eyes in pictures look now

Hope you get better soon HAK!

HitAnyKey42 wrote:So my Week of Death (and Beyond) may have it's official diagnosis, and once the bloodwork comes back I'll know for sure....
Looks like I may have contracted Hepatitis A.
Ugh, I still totally feel like crap...though back at work since I've already basically missed a whole week.



ARRRRRRR!!!!!!

Well, that's what happens when you party that hard!

Hope everything goes well with you (and no one else from the Clambake gets it!).


My Uncle went home on Saturday, thanks for all the prayers. He's better, but not back all the way yet.

otolith wrote:HAK--given that's usually from contaminated food, I wonder where you could have picked that up. If one person in the party gets it, usually others will as well (un)sanitary practices usually apply to all people served. I would see if you volleyball friends or other groups of friends end up getting sick as well.

The problem is with not knowing when I might have actually gotten it.
First weekend of August was the Clambake (sushi for myself & Cat at Miya's) & then the usual with everyone else.
Third week of August (3rd & 4th weekends) was with Cat and her friends in Michigan. We all pretty much did & ate at the same places.
Labor Day weekend would be my best guess of contamination (though it's pretty close to my symptoms starting) as that place is an outdoor weekend camp that's not the cleanest place in the world, and things like the lunches are a ton of types of food scattered around in platters and carving stations and grills, etc, under a tent with a few hundred people grabbing what they want. I haven't heard of anyone else feeling this ill from that weekend yet, but it could still be early for some of them and I just showed symptoms sooner.

Other than that, everything else has been my typical day-to-day eating habits with not a ton of eating out and most of those being the same fast food places I go to often. And I haven't heard of any outbreaks or anything like that here on LI.
*shrug*

Things to shy away from: Crab Cakes spelled "Krab Cakes" any Crab Cake you find in Nebraska. I just can't imagine they'd be very good.

HitAnyKey42 wrote:So my Week of Death (and Beyond) may have it's official diagnosis, and once the bloodwork comes back I'll know for sure....
Looks like I may have contracted Hepatitis A.
Ugh, I still totally feel like crap...though back at work since I've already basically missed a whole week.



ARRRRRRR!!!!!!

That is supper sucky!!! Keep us posted!

mommadeb1 wrote:That is supper sucky!!! Keep us posted!

didn't you have surgery today? or is it forthcoming?

bhodilee wrote:didn't you have surgery today? or is it forthcoming?

Surgery is tomorrow super frikin early in the morning!!!!! (I HATE mornings) no food or drink after midnight....it is outpatient so I am hoping to be home b4 lunch!!

bhodilee wrote:Things to shy away from: Crab Cakes spelled "Krab Cakes" any Crab Cake you find in Nebraska. I just can't imagine they'd be very good.

scary thought... Krab

bhodilee wrote:Things to shy away from: Crab Cakes spelled "Krab Cakes" any Crab Cake you find in Nebraska. I just can't imagine they'd be very good.

Or any seafood you find in Nebraska ....




I keed! I keed!!


Dangit! Arrrr!

ARRRRR!!!!!!!

HitAnyKey42 wrote:So my Week of Death (and Beyond) may have it's official diagnosis, and once the bloodwork comes back I'll know for sure....
Looks like I may have contracted Hepatitis A.
Ugh, I still totally feel like crap...though back at work since I've already basically missed a whole week.



ARRRRRRR!!!!!!

Arrrrrr indeed!

Sorry it's HepA. Didn't know that happened much in this country. How'd you get so lucky?

Heal up quickly!

MarkDaSpark wrote:Or any seafood you find in Nebraska ....




I keed! I keed!!


Dangit! Arrrr!

no, you're dead on. we have some places that fly it in fresh every morning, but its not even close to the same

HitAnyKey42 wrote:Yup, and he even said my stomach skin etc was a bit pale/yellowish too. Hence all the bloodwork to confirm.

Guess no wine for me for awhile, since with Hep-A you're supposed to avoid alcohol & fatty foods and such.
Arrrrrrrr.....no Toxic Hell, no McD's, no BK....what am I supposed to eat now?!?!

Sorry to hear it. It's bad enough being sick, not being able to enjoy wine for a while is adding insult to injury. Just try to be kind to your liver, difficult though that may be at times.

HAK, sorry to hear that. Be assured of our prayers. Keep us posted.

bhodilee wrote:no, you're dead on. we have some places that fly it in fresh every morning, but its not even close to the same

I actually had "anything" in place of seafood, but realized that would include beef, which negated it.

Plus I didn't want bhomicidal lesbian terrorists after me.



And really guys and gals? No posts? What, everyone ran out to get HepA vaccinations?

I'm home.. all went well. I have been home for about 3 hours. I don't make a good patient.... I'm bored, couldn't sleep when I got home, I rested and now watching mindless tv. Thanks for all ur prayers and well wishes!

mommadeb1 wrote:I'm home.. all went well. I have been home for about 3 hours. I don't make a good patient.... I'm bored, couldn't sleep when I got home, I rested and now watching mindless tv. Thanks for all ur prayers and well wishes!

Glad all went well and you are home safe. Sorry it's so boring ...

I couldn't believe that no one posted after me last night! I've got Open House tonight and still need to do prep work for my special Spanish students--actually, for their parents.

I'm really glad to see the Clif Climber White up on w.w today. I think I'm down to my last bottle, and it has been a great one to open when i don't know what else to open.

What do you think the odds are that we'll see the Climber Red come up in the next day or so?

mommadeb1 wrote:I'm home.. all went well. I have been home for about 3 hours. I don't make a good patient.... I'm bored, couldn't sleep when I got home, I rested and now watching mindless tv. Thanks for all ur prayers and well wishes!

Post surgery, bored sounds like it went well. Hope the recovery is smooth and quick.

The Dr. Is quite pleased.. I haven't needed to take any pain meds. My hubby says I am a type A personality and a very bad patient. After he laid down to take a nap..I snuck my phone and started. Texting and calling people..

Holy Crap I got my first ever golden ticket. I'm excited, but the rest of you will have to wait until friday to find out what it is.

tiger7610 wrote:Holy Crap I got my first ever golden ticket. I'm excited, but the rest of you will have to wait until friday to find out what it is.

Congrats, looking forward to your rat report! Any hints?! ;)