Somebody was looking for farm animal cookie cutters

Why do farm animals get cookies and why do you need a special tool to cut them?

Made Craftygal's conservative friend spit up her coffee

Craftygal is on a variety of medications including some fairly large pills. She was complaining about the size of them. I announce...

"Oh, come on...you've had bigger things than that in your mouth."

Weird things and people who knew what they were

So this time I was the one in Emerg

Was having weird flashes on the left side of my vision. Vaguely remembered it having something to do with retina from my last go around.

Called free 24-hour Government-run hotline and talked to nurse who eventually said, "yeah, you'd better go in". It was decided I should go to the hospital near my house.

You may remember from previous threads it's a busy, old hospital in a relatively rough part of town. When I got there, about 230 am, waiting room was about 1/3 full, mostly homeless people with their sacks of belongings. There's a separate "green room" for people who fully pass Covid screening and are vaxed. I was in there with a big guy who'd hurt his head in an industrial accident and a security guard who'd been in an incident and hurt his wrist. The culprit was with police in the main area.

The two injured guys got seen first. Other nurses wandered around checking on the indigents. I was ignored as I was on my phone (on DU using free Wifi) and apparently breathing and coherent, until it was my turn to be called in. Nobody seemed rushed or stressed out. One woman got irate, something about somebody having a baby and who was the father and that some of the people waiting shouldn't be there. Security kicked her out.

When it was my turn a nurse took my history, meds, and symptoms then a tech showed up, shone lights in my eye, then an eye doctor looked as well then they booked me into the eye clinic on the other side of the hospital.

Over there I was seen by yet another eye doctor who put drops in my eyes, then checked my eyes with a bunch of instruments. He was matter-of-fact about one eye being damaged in a forest fire, just said it had healed nicely.

The diagnosis? Vitreous Detachment

I did have to get my wallet out. I had to show my health card a bunch of times. My only expense was $CAN 14.95 for 24 hours parking.

Apple Airpod Pros make not bad hearing aids

Must be the Pro model. Use the Transparency function. Set sound to taste. 3 hours between charges.

Had an interview with a journalist about vaccinations

Wish I'd recorded it but here's the gist of it.

She posted in the Nextdoor app that she was interested in hearing from parents on their opinions on vaccination. I asked her to phone me.

She opened by saying that she was interested on hearing about "both sides of the issue". I immediately noted that in a fact-based world there is only one side to the issue and that anti-vaxers had "their own set of facts" and again in a fact-based world there's no such concept.

She then complained about the phrase "anti-vaxer" to which I countered with "that's the term they use to describe themselves". I went into the history of the movement, starting with Wakefield in England, whom she'd never heard of. I pointed out that I was an old man and that growing up, my next door neighbour had polio, and we got so many shots and sugar cubes with purple fluid on them (tuberculosis?) that I felt like a pin cushion and still had the crescent shaped scar on my left arm from the smallbox vaccination.

Next I addressed "Bill Gates is injecting you with microchips" again saying that I'm an old man, was involved with chips from the beginning and that they're NOT going to fit down a needle, get over it, it's a fact.

She said she wouldn't be able to include all my comments in article and asked for a summary. I repeated that in a fact-based world, there is no "other side" to the issue based on reality.

I subscribe to the newspaper and know the editor. If the article is as bad as I think it's going to be. I'm going to demand a rebuttal.

A guest on Julie Mason's SiriusXM show felt the need to state "Canada is not planning to invade"

Errr...did I miss something?

I helped a lady stop crying

We've had above zero C. weather for the last few days, but it dipped below zero tonight. One of the parking lots I monitor is on a steep hill. A lady had parked there and I wrote her a ticket. Before I left she came gingerly down the hill waving that it was her car. In those circumstances I'm allowed to cancel the ticket with a warning.

The problem was, now she couldn't get enough traction to get out of the parking stall and into the lane. She had front wheel drive and all season tires. Her front end was jammed up to the curb. I told her I'd get something to help get her out and went down the hill to where I parked my car. I put on crampons and got wheel traction boards out of the trunk and made my way back up to find her behind the wheel, crying.

I jammed the traction boards behind her tires, had her put it in reverse, then got in front of her to push. Got her about half-way out then she was stuck again. A guy passing by helped push and we got her out.

To quote Red Green, "keep your stick on the ice, we're all in this together".

Craftygal got a bed in ICU

Craftygal was having trouble breathing and was shaking. Called an ambulance and they took her to the hospital. A little while later I got a call from ICU saying they were keeping her overnight. She was released the next day. She's fine, potassium inbalance.

That's not the point. Read the above again.

We live in a midsize city. The nearest hospital is the busiest one in town. She got triaged right away. She got straight though Emergency. In no time she was in ICU and there was a bed available.

Why? The place wasn't packed with COVID cases. People get their shots here. There's no bullshit about masking. Mandates about social distancing are in place (my church is shut down) and few people bitch and whine.

I'm so confused. Why does my wife use Yahoo to log into her hotmail account?