A nice late evening walk on the parkway by my house. It was cool enough that the cold just soaked into your bones. I welcomed it though, might as well get acclimated sooner than later.
I'm sleeping on my sleeping porch on these cool nights. It's chilly when I first get into bed but I have a heated mattress pad and it gets cozy really quickly.
I pretend I'm in a TB asylum where they used to keep the patients on porches in the cold to heal their lungs.
TB still exists. Infact I think it's like some astronomical number of people who carry it 30%? maybe - and the infection rate was like every minute or second or something.
They vaccinate for it, although I don't think they've been immunizing Kids here since the early 70's. but in the health care industry you still get annual TB tests.
I can sure relate. I hate TB tests. One time, when I had to have a TB test for employment with a small home care agency, the head nurse administered the test. She was distracted and put the needle in wrong and it hurt like hell, and she commented, "oh, I guess I didn't get a very good wheal (the puffy thing they create by injecting TB under your skin) cuz my mind was elsewhere". She was very unprofessional. She corralled me with other co-workers around - sitting there charting - and she starts making comments about the veins on my arms - that they look like an IV drug user's veins - and asking me if I do drugs. These were all new colleagues of mine and I could just see their wheels turning as they passed judgment on me, wondered if that was how they would always see me from then on. Pisses me off cuz I am not in that camp. I've always had bad veins. I tried to donate blood when I was in my early 20s and they told me to never bother to try again. Good thing I've never needed an IV. They have a hell of a time getting blood from me for blood tests. Anyway, glad for the reminder this morning of why I am damn glad I don't work in that place anymore. There was so much corruption going on there. I found out later that someone else there had a known drug problem and this was the head nurse's way of screening people to see who might be willing to divert narcotics.
I held a phelbotimist certificate, and also completed the section on IV training - I can draw blood, insert an IV, and give an injection so good that you don't even know it's happening)
But show me a needle that is going IN TO ME, and I break out in a cold sweat. Once they drew my blood and sprayed me with it - and I passed out.
enjoy.. the gross of my 2 week paycheck being a couple dollars shy of 4k.
I stopped looking at the rest of it - the taxes would have bummed me out. needless to say - I got about 1/2 after Tax/insurance/401k/stock options/flex spending yada yada
we were hanging out over in North East last night... started heading home around midnight or so... took 694 to 35E south....
I usually get off at Maryland.... but I spaced for some reason and got off at Roselawn....
dunno why.... just did...
decided to just go past the cemetary on the way (my dad is buried there, as well as his parents and grandparents, and a lifelong friend of my grandma)....
we go past the cemetary, and the gates were actually open.. this being 12:30-1:00 am...
I've NEVER seen the gates open at this cemetary at night time... so I took it as a sign...
we parked our cars, on a side street and walked in...
found my grandmas grave and my dads.... spent a few minutes there - talking to them....
a car drove in the gates and spooked us, so we took off..
got back here, and we couldnt have been in the house any more than like 10 minutes, when we got a hangup/dead air phone call...
did a *69 and it ended up being the cemetary...
this is the 2nd time this has happened....
I know i've spoken here of the other story - but anyhow -
It happend a few years ago, on a super windy day.... and just the night before hand - we had heard an expert on Art Bell's Coast to Coast radio show talking about how supposedly the dead like to communicate with the living through phone lines, on windy days...
we guessed at that time that it was probably my grandma..
we noticed when we were in the cemetary, that the only stars we could see in the sky were directly above us...
It wasnt cloudy outside at all, but we couldnt see stars anyplace else except right over our heads...
I half wonder if we didnt stir things up recently though....
we're talking about taking a drive up to Boyd, MN - the first weekend in October...
My grandma moved to Boyd with her family, from Norway when she was like 2 or so.... and lived there til she was a teen or so, before moving down here to Swede Hollow....
her friend thats buried in the cemetary also lived up there... and lived with my grandma , down here in the cities, since before my dad was alive
Its supposed to be not much of a town these days....
a few houses and I guess a newly built strip club, and thats about it....
I just feel like I want/need to go...
my grandma and Callie - her friend, had talked about the place so much, back when they were still alive...
me and my dad had talked about it last summer, but never did...
so me and Carolyn and possibly my sister are going to go the first weekend in October....
Surely you're joking. Aren't you? TB, Tuberculosis. That disease that the put that guy in quarantine for and the CDC was all up in arms because he had flown out of the country for his honeymoon when he knew he had it. Although his was a rare form.
I was in kindergarten with a boy who contacted TB. We all had to be tested periodically for it the next couple of years. Every school child in the US got yearly Mantoux Tests. They'd prick your inner arm about ten times in a circle and then it would get all festered. If it got really ugly they sent you on a bus to Red Wing where they did further tests. One boy in my class would work that thing with whatever he could get a hold of to make it fester so he'd get a day off school to go to Red Wing.
One of my sisters had tuberculosis (among other things) when she died. Not sure how she contacted that.
That's way cool Nick. I think I remember you posting about it before.
When I'm in My Gran's house - there are days I'll be working in there, and there is like - I dunno, a calming feeling - like love. I tend to think it's my Dad, as I felt that same feeling when My Gran was still there, and we were in the house. There is also a guiding sort of feeling - I think that's my Gran - it was that feeling that led me to the 10K in the carpet.
Lately tho - there is this - very cold. almost sinister like feeling - that gives me chills and makes me not want to go in the house alone. I think that is my grandfather - as he is prolly not happy with how things are going with the estate settlement (not in his favor)
I've been checking on maps and stuff... yeah... Dawson isnt real far away...
I found it kind of funny, that the guy I was talking to who ended up being related - when I asked him what Boyd is like, he goes: "Oh, theres not much here.... just some houses, and OH YEAH! We just got a new STRIP CLUB!!"...
lmao...
dude had a pretty strong norweigan accent too, just like my grandma had...
dunno though...
should be a fun trip... gonna take the video cam, and the picture cam with.... cause who knows when I'll go back, if ever...
I'm hoping I can find a campground up that way that would be fun to go back to sometime next summer... that would be great...
Hearing of the festering wounds and pin pricks... reminded me of the smallpox shot I got on my deployment. I think I was born just out of the range to have had to have gotten one when I was little. When it is your first shot, they only stick you 3 times. If you were a little older, and had the shots before, it took 10 sticks to "re-activate" it or something.
I just picture all of the younger children having to run around with that icky sore on their arm and not touch it for a month. I was paranoid about it, and had a hard time keeping minimal contact with it. And to get it now, they were required to give us a 'safety class' on the shot first. So not only am I worried about that gross stuff growing on my arm... I also have to worry about being like the people in the pictures they gave us that cross-contaminated another body part. I can still picture the woman who touched here smallpox shot and touched her eyes. Nasty... :lipsealed:
spending my last 2 hours out enjoying the morning with my camera and StPauls foggy landscape....and coffee.
Im glad I changed out of my slippies before going out the door. This mornings fog and dew and the river seems to ease me. yesterday was a very rough one for me. I know this won't hold me over for the whole day but its good for now.
It was crazy. About 7 am over to the east (woodbury, maplewood) I could see low fog cover and the rest of the sky downtown was clear. I went to get my camera and the fog came westbound! it was so dark you couldnt see the sun behind it or even downtown now. Then the sun got high enough in the sky. At one point on Pickeral Lake in Lilydale I swear the fog came off the lake and was being drawn in to the sun. I love laying on my tummy and getting low on the ground and getting shots upward. will post some pics when I get back in to work.
I just recieved a pretty nice older 35 mm camera with filters and special zoom lenses. I just bought film for it so Im gonna play with that for a while.
no sun here - but same kinda thing.. at my house it was clear, and as I drove up to work at 6am, I cross the Russian River. When I came close, I could see the fog winding its way along the river bed - then it just seemd to spill everywhere when it came to the freeway.
As I went father north - it got more dense, but it's like 2 different patchs moving together.
something I get to enjoy often is while crossing the highbridge in the mornings. I can look right and see downtown and the sun coming up and what ever the day is gonna bring... I can look left and see what the sun hasn't touched yet (because of the bluffline the sun isn't high enough yet and its still cooler air)... in this mornings case when I looked to the left I could see a dense fog over Pickeral Lake and another dense patch over Crosby Park.
I just tried to take some photos with my camera phone from the window up here - didn't come out too well, as all it looks like is grey sky - cause the things close are 20 ft away and clear - and everything behind it - is grey.
If I walk to the top catwalk on our 45 foot tanks I'm roof level with a couple of our buildings - and have a great view of the southern part of town.
Did you have flashlights? Or maybe it was the grounds crew chasing you out...
I was up late getting ready for a work event and was turning out my lights when I saw someone walking around with a flash light - When we first moved in I saw the dogs a lot a night - but they haven't been around the past several years, instead I see people walking around.
going shopping for an outfit to wear to a wedding on saturday (ok... that part isnt the enjoy. i Hate shoppoing) but i found 5 dresses n a pair of michael kors shoes for.... $91 total.
n the dresses were all 2 sizes smaller than i used to wear.
oh yeah the bride.. was playing soccer got hit and knocked against the wall. ended up in the hospital w. a concussion (this is not an enjoy... im just typing this from my phone n really lazy)
I'm a Science Museum member and I didn't see anything about a club? spose I have to click on tmks link
I pretend I'm in a TB asylum where they used to keep the patients on porches in the cold to heal their lungs.
http://www2.nurseweek.com/articles/article.cfm?AID=24968
and I had aweful nightmares with some coolercrew and my dad in it :frown:
those kind that are draining and heavy and stay with yah all day :frown: uuuuuhhhhhh
I need a hug
But I blame the happy meal I ate at 9:30.
They vaccinate for it, although I don't think they've been immunizing Kids here since the early 70's. but in the health care industry you still get annual TB tests.
That's 5 years of working in the health profession, and being not so thrilled about annual TB tests - but more paranoid about what I could catch...
I held a phelbotimist certificate, and also completed the section on IV training - I can draw blood, insert an IV, and give an injection so good that you don't even know it's happening)
But show me a needle that is going IN TO ME, and I break out in a cold sweat. Once they drew my blood and sprayed me with it - and I passed out.
I stopped looking at the rest of it - the taxes would have bummed me out. needless to say - I got about 1/2 after Tax/insurance/401k/stock options/flex spending yada yada
Do tell!
we were hanging out over in North East last night... started heading home around midnight or so... took 694 to 35E south....
I usually get off at Maryland.... but I spaced for some reason and got off at Roselawn....
dunno why.... just did...
decided to just go past the cemetary on the way (my dad is buried there, as well as his parents and grandparents, and a lifelong friend of my grandma)....
we go past the cemetary, and the gates were actually open.. this being 12:30-1:00 am...
I've NEVER seen the gates open at this cemetary at night time... so I took it as a sign...
we parked our cars, on a side street and walked in...
found my grandmas grave and my dads.... spent a few minutes there - talking to them....
a car drove in the gates and spooked us, so we took off..
got back here, and we couldnt have been in the house any more than like 10 minutes, when we got a hangup/dead air phone call...
did a *69 and it ended up being the cemetary...
this is the 2nd time this has happened....
I know i've spoken here of the other story - but anyhow -
It happend a few years ago, on a super windy day.... and just the night before hand - we had heard an expert on Art Bell's Coast to Coast radio show talking about how supposedly the dead like to communicate with the living through phone lines, on windy days...
we guessed at that time that it was probably my grandma..
I think last night was my dad
Its been really windy here. I wish Da Yooper would call. But so far, only Charter Communications has been calling and hanging up - dang sales calls.
I think Da Yooper has been messin' with the lights on the back deck, though.
But its only a suspicion - nothing like seeing the cemetary's number on caller ID!!!
we noticed when we were in the cemetary, that the only stars we could see in the sky were directly above us...
It wasnt cloudy outside at all, but we couldnt see stars anyplace else except right over our heads...
I half wonder if we didnt stir things up recently though....
we're talking about taking a drive up to Boyd, MN - the first weekend in October...
My grandma moved to Boyd with her family, from Norway when she was like 2 or so.... and lived there til she was a teen or so, before moving down here to Swede Hollow....
her friend thats buried in the cemetary also lived up there... and lived with my grandma , down here in the cities, since before my dad was alive
Its supposed to be not much of a town these days....
a few houses and I guess a newly built strip club, and thats about it....
I just feel like I want/need to go...
my grandma and Callie - her friend, had talked about the place so much, back when they were still alive...
me and my dad had talked about it last summer, but never did...
so me and Carolyn and possibly my sister are going to go the first weekend in October....
Its a REALLY small town, and since I contacted some lady at their city hall, asking about graveyards and family names and stuff...
she got ahold of some guy who lives in town still, who is like a 2nd or 3rd cousin of my dad and uncle....
gonna possibly meet with him, while we're there...
he told me over the phone though, that as far as he knows, nobody with my grandmas maiden name is buried in Boyd...
although her friend - Callie's parents are buried there, as well as one of her brothers....
Im really looking forward to this trip
even if we dont find much, I'll still be glad that I actually went and spent a couple of days there...
...yet, twice now in the past few years, I've gotten phone calls from dead relatives...
I was in kindergarten with a boy who contacted TB. We all had to be tested periodically for it the next couple of years. Every school child in the US got yearly Mantoux Tests. They'd prick your inner arm about ten times in a circle and then it would get all festered. If it got really ugly they sent you on a bus to Red Wing where they did further tests. One boy in my class would work that thing with whatever he could get a hold of to make it fester so he'd get a day off school to go to Red Wing.
One of my sisters had tuberculosis (among other things) when she died. Not sure how she contacted that.
When I'm in My Gran's house - there are days I'll be working in there, and there is like - I dunno, a calming feeling - like love. I tend to think it's my Dad, as I felt that same feeling when My Gran was still there, and we were in the house. There is also a guiding sort of feeling - I think that's my Gran - it was that feeling that led me to the 10K in the carpet.
Lately tho - there is this - very cold. almost sinister like feeling - that gives me chills and makes me not want to go in the house alone. I think that is my grandfather - as he is prolly not happy with how things are going with the estate settlement (not in his favor)
I've been checking on maps and stuff... yeah... Dawson isnt real far away...
I found it kind of funny, that the guy I was talking to who ended up being related - when I asked him what Boyd is like, he goes: "Oh, theres not much here.... just some houses, and OH YEAH! We just got a new STRIP CLUB!!"...
lmao...
dude had a pretty strong norweigan accent too, just like my grandma had...
dunno though...
should be a fun trip... gonna take the video cam, and the picture cam with.... cause who knows when I'll go back, if ever...
I'm hoping I can find a campground up that way that would be fun to go back to sometime next summer... that would be great...
Spooooooky! :confused: :worried:
thats how it felt the first time
I just kinda sat there this time, like... dejavu man...
I had a feeling when the phone rang too... like oh crap... here we go again
He's never far away when you hold him in your Heart, Nick.
If I were him, I woulda drowed Pacey's punk ass in the creek, for stealin my woman.
I just picture all of the younger children having to run around with that icky sore on their arm and not touch it for a month. I was paranoid about it, and had a hard time keeping minimal contact with it. And to get it now, they were required to give us a 'safety class' on the shot first. So not only am I worried about that gross stuff growing on my arm... I also have to worry about being like the people in the pictures they gave us that cross-contaminated another body part. I can still picture the woman who touched here smallpox shot and touched her eyes. Nasty... :lipsealed:
My mother liked it when it got all red and angry. She said that meant it was working. :eyeroll:
Im glad I changed out of my slippies before going out the door. This mornings fog and dew and the river seems to ease me. yesterday was a very rough one for me. I know this won't hold me over for the whole day but its good for now.
It was crazy. About 7 am over to the east (woodbury, maplewood) I could see low fog cover and the rest of the sky downtown was clear. I went to get my camera and the fog came westbound! it was so dark you couldnt see the sun behind it or even downtown now. Then the sun got high enough in the sky. At one point on Pickeral Lake in Lilydale I swear the fog came off the lake and was being drawn in to the sun. I love laying on my tummy and getting low on the ground and getting shots upward. will post some pics when I get back in to work.
I just recieved a pretty nice older 35 mm camera with filters and special zoom lenses. I just bought film for it so Im gonna play with that for a while.
This morning's fog was pretty cool looking with the sun trying to shine through.
As I went father north - it got more dense, but it's like 2 different patchs moving together.
odd.
something I get to enjoy often is while crossing the highbridge in the mornings. I can look right and see downtown and the sun coming up and what ever the day is gonna bring... I can look left and see what the sun hasn't touched yet (because of the bluffline the sun isn't high enough yet and its still cooler air)... in this mornings case when I looked to the left I could see a dense fog over Pickeral Lake and another dense patch over Crosby Park.
I'm am very thankful for my eyesite.
If I walk to the top catwalk on our 45 foot tanks I'm roof level with a couple of our buildings - and have a great view of the southern part of town.
Did you have flashlights? Or maybe it was the grounds crew chasing you out...
I was up late getting ready for a work event and was turning out my lights when I saw someone walking around with a flash light - When we first moved in I saw the dogs a lot a night - but they haven't been around the past several years, instead I see people walking around.
we saw a van by the main building, so we took off...
on our way up Edgerton, we passed the office, and there were 2 or 3 cars....
I think in the process of locking the gates and stuff....
n the dresses were all 2 sizes smaller than i used to wear.
oh yeah the bride.. was playing soccer got hit and knocked against the wall. ended up in the hospital w. a concussion (this is not an enjoy... im just typing this from my phone n really lazy)