9079 - Sat

[scottobear]

Nice morning, until I got out of bed, and pulled my back. At that point, I was in extreme pain and after much shrieking and frightening BHK, I took a shower to loosen up a little bit and went to urgent care. I'd say it took me about 45 minutes to work out how to walk from bed to the shower...the pain was pretty significant. Agony is a good word, that sounds about right.

Needless to say, I missed my allergy shots. I get to call on Monday to see what I can do about rescheduling.

After getting looked at, I was given a 'scrip for an anti-inflammatory and a narcotic to knock me out for when I got home. The 800 mg of Ibuprofen given to me took quite a bit of the edge off, as did the change in position from sitting to standing. I was feeling good enough to grab a bite to eat and a haircut... Ledo's calzone for me, and BHK nom nom'ed on some tortellini. We shared the spicy ravioli appetizer... probably the highlight of the meal.

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Seen in the parking lot, after my trip to ouchie-land: if clicked and embiggened - License plate reads "Sons Confederate Veterans "

How do those folks rate a plate? I guess money talks. It is interesting to note that they don't want any connection to the KKK around the Confederacy... The sad fact is that when I see a confederate southern cross "battle flag", whatever else has happened, I assume the worst. Despite the wealth of history and culture... it just smacks of white supremacist behavior to me. I have to wonder if the owners of such plates get into or out of more scrapes with other people... Is a police officer more or less likely to give a ticket instead of a warning? If they drive through different parts of town, do folks cheer or give him the finger?

I wonder the same about pro-life or pro-choice bumper stickers and plates, too.

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First Christmas Present arrived... From Kev, via Amazon (His isn't due to arrive in Guantanamo until after his item is released on the 18th... not telling what it is here, in case he reads this. I haven't peeked at the invoice, so my present is a surprise, too.

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Rested at the in-laws - Chinese food and we watched Flyboys. Not a bad flick. It fed my desire to see biplanes vs triplanes in arial combat, so there you go. I was pleased to see a zeppelin, disappointed that they took a huge pile of liberties with history. (I didn't mind that so many "Red Barons" were there... but it was pretty goofy from a historical context)

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1 year ago - first whole day in MD, unpacking and prep.

2 years ago - icon choices, my links help a local, cake and cartoons

3 years ago - shrimp allergy, mercy lackey writes something good, bro upsets me, drugs on bodies, gozilla on star walk of fame

4 years ago - Cutie-newt, Dale back at FMM, Dreams, First heard the term Sheeple, ancient d20, holly, World AIDS day, bro drama

5 years ago - Ebay Army men, coloringbook, action-figure cam, good guys/bad guys, MH spammer removal

6 years ago - coloringbook started... pretty slow community now.

7 years ago - stream of thought, scotophobin, two guys walk into a bar

Comments

[sirenity.livejournal.com]

Sheesh, I'm so sorry to hear about your back. Hope it's feeling better...

"Heritage not Hate" is what I always heard from my southern friends. =/ But yeah, still kind of hard for me to understand it completely. I don't know - I love the virgin de guadalupe icon for 'heritage' sake and what that strong female icon means to me - maybe they feel that way too? Some people don't take kindly to the acts of the Catholic church and propably don't understand why I would akin myself to that icon. Hmmmm.

Confed plate

[(Anonymous)]

I live in Maryland and have a Confederate flag plate. I do it to honor my ancestors who fought for the South. Sorry, none owned slaves. My ancestors just got tired of northerners coming down stealing stuff, destroying property, raping and starving defenseless women and children.