Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 2509

kindlekitten · 05-31-2014, 12:06 AM

No one can at least try?

Stitchawl · 05-31-2014, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

No one can at least try?

It's a completely different weapon... It would be like a bench-rest shooter trying to compete in sporting clays, or a golfer trying to play polo. Usually, sabre fencers ONLY fence sabre. Foil and epee fencers often may fence both of these, but there aren't very many of us who fence all three weapons. Foil and epee both use only the point thrust for valid touches although the target area is different. Sabre has a point for thrusting, as well as a full front edge and a 1/3 back edge for cutting. It's a VERY different fighting style.

Stitchawl

kindlekitten · 05-31-2014, 04:35 AM

I've fenced all three and maybe because I learned them more or less simultaneously it didn't occur to me that you would have such difficulty with a sparring partner. I'm still grappling with the style differences that I think I shared before. Maybe with this next replacement I can get back to something!

Rumpelteazer · 05-31-2014, 04:36 AM

I just subscribed to a monthly Project Life kit at my local store. They do not only come with items but also with extra information (e.g. what photo printers are best or how to store your stuff) and videos.

I'm also planning my first bicycle ride of the year for Monday, if the weather is as good as the now predict it to be. Nothing exciting, just my normal round with a reading break at my favourite spot looking out over the river.

Dylrob · 05-31-2014, 11:46 PM

Listening to the Jurassic Park score, replaying the coresponding scenes in my head.

dreams · 06-01-2014, 01:25 AM

Just came in from planting some strawberries and a raspberry shortcake bush; I can't wait for more berries.

Rumpelteazer · 06-01-2014, 04:00 PM

On Tuesday it's a month since I've gone to the doctor for my eyelids, which kept swelling every couple of weeks. I got a antibiotics gel for a bacterial infection and was told that if it wasn't cured in 4 weeks I had to come back. My right eye is doing fine. But my left eye keeps swelling, I follow the instructions (use the gel until 2 days after the symptoms go away) but a week or so later my eyelid gets irritated again.

Tomorrow I'm going to make the follow up appointment, hopefully the next thing will work since I can't wear my contact lenses when using the gel and with the warm weather my glasses are annoying.

Rumpelteazer · 06-03-2014, 12:27 PM

I just got back from the doctor. This time I went to my own doctor instead of the one in training that helped me last time.

I expected to get a heavier dose of antibiotics but instead she prescribed Zwitsal baby shampoo! I have to put a bit on a cotton swab and clean the rims of my eyes with it twice a day. I got the feeling she was a bit annoyed that the doctor in training started with antibiotics instead of trying Zwitsal first. If it hasn't got an effect in six to eight weeks I have to get a referral to an eye specialist.

However, she advised against wearing contacts until the infection is gone. With is a bit of a shame since with the 30C weather predicted for the weekend contacts are so more practical than glasses that keep sliding down my nose.

ProfCrash · 06-03-2014, 12:54 PM

If you glasses are sliding down your nose you should get them refit.

Rumpelteazer · 06-03-2014, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ProfCrash

If you glasses are sliding down your nose you should get them refit.

Normally my current glasses stay on very well, but when it's 30C and humid the nose pads get slippery and uncomfortable. I do hope the Zwitsal cleansings will work, if no infection returns in three weeks I'll start wearing my contact again (though I will probably continue cleaning my eyes for a while longer).

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I have found the solution: piercing glasses!

WT Sharpe · 06-03-2014, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

...I have found the solution: piercing glasses!

That's scary. I've always been wary of piercings of any kind for fear they'd get snagged on something. I can't count the times my glasses have caught on something and been thrown off my head. It's a nuisance, but at least no body pieces have ever been torn off with them.

Stitchawl · 06-03-2014, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

That's scary. I've always been wary of piercings of any kind for fear they'd get snagged on something. I can't count the times my glasses have caught on something and been thrown off my head. It's a nuisance, but at least no body pieces have ever been torn off with them.

I've always found safety pins and spiked studs stuck through lips, eyebrows and cheeks to be quite, quite... memorable. It reminds me of hand grenade victims I've seen. At least eye glasses serve some function, although I really do prefer the type that stay on the more traditional way. I don't find ANY pierces to be enhancing, regardless of who is wearing them where! Same with 98% of the tattoos I've seen.

But then, I wouldn't put a bumper sticker on a Lamborghni either.

Stitchawl

WT Sharpe · 06-03-2014, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I've always found safety pins and spiked studs stuck through lips, eyebrows and cheeks to be quite, quite... memorable. It reminds me of hand grenade victims I've seen. At least eye glasses serve some function, although I really do prefer the type that stay on the more traditional way. I don't find ANY pierces to be enhancing, regardless of who is wearing them where! Same with 98% of the tattoos I've seen.

But then, I wouldn't put a bumper sticker on a Lamborghni either.

Stitchawl

Tattoos are okay. I have one on my right forearm, and have thought for years about expanding on it to cover my whole right arm. Unlike piercings, there no need to worry about catching it on things. I haven't had it snag on anything yet.

Stitchawl · 06-03-2014, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Tattoos are okay. I have one on my right forearm, and have thought for years about expanding on it to cover my whole right arm. Unlike piercings, there no need to worry about catching it on things. I haven't had it snag on anything yet.

It would snag on the entrance to a Japanese hot springs resort or public baths. Many of them have signs that say 'No Tattoos allowed.' Many others will stop you in the locker rooms. This is a hold-over from the days when only the Yakuza had tats, and will be slowly changing now that so many of the younger Japanese kids have been getting them too, and newer apartments have their own baths and showers.

Stitchawl

Rumpelteazer · 06-04-2014, 03:54 AM

I currently have fourteen earrings and only the hairdresser has problems with them. I usually take the top ones out or tape the off when getting my hair cut. In all except the two normal ones I wear small rings that easily come off when they are snagged but I only ever lost two of them. I used to have one more but that one regularly got irritated, I think it was because it was pierced (at a jewellery store, not at a piercing shop) up against, but not through, the cartilage and because of that rubbed up against the cartilage which then got irritated.

I would never get a facial piercing; a nose piercing I don't find hygienic, especially since I suffer from hayfever and have the occasional nose bleed, a lip or tongue piercing is bad for your teeth and an eyebrow piercing just doesn't work with glasses IMHO.

05-31-2014, 12:06 AM	#37621
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	No one can at least try?

05-31-2014, 04:35 AM	#37623
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	I've fenced all three and maybe because I learned them more or less simultaneously it didn't occur to me that you would have such difficulty with a sparring partner. I'm still grappling with the style differences that I think I shared before. Maybe with this next replacement I can get back to something!

05-31-2014, 04:36 AM	#37624
Rumpelteazer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,433 Karma: 27925824 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	I just subscribed to a monthly Project Life kit at my local store. They do not only come with items but also with extra information (e.g. what photo printers are best or how to store your stuff) and videos. I'm also planning my first bicycle ride of the year for Monday, if the weather is as good as the now predict it to be. Nothing exciting, just my normal round with a reading break at my favourite spot looking out over the river.

05-31-2014, 11:46 PM	#37625
Dylrob Murderous Mustela Posts: 10,234 Karma: 48000000 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The other land of schnitzel and beer Device: iPad M1 Pro, Kindle Paperwhite	Listening to the Jurassic Park score, replaying the coresponding scenes in my head.

06-01-2014, 01:25 AM	#37626
dreams It's about the umbrella Posts: 25,110 Karma: 56250158 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Sony 505\| K Fire \| KK 3G+Wi-Fi \| iPhone 3Gs \|Vista 32-bit Hm Prem w/FF	Just came in from planting some strawberries and a raspberry shortcake bush; I can't wait for more berries.

06-01-2014, 04:00 PM	#37627
Rumpelteazer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,433 Karma: 27925824 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	On Tuesday it's a month since I've gone to the doctor for my eyelids, which kept swelling every couple of weeks. I got a antibiotics gel for a bacterial infection and was told that if it wasn't cured in 4 weeks I had to come back. My right eye is doing fine. But my left eye keeps swelling, I follow the instructions (use the gel until 2 days after the symptoms go away) but a week or so later my eyelid gets irritated again. Tomorrow I'm going to make the follow up appointment, hopefully the next thing will work since I can't wear my contact lenses when using the gel and with the warm weather my glasses are annoying.

06-03-2014, 12:27 PM	#37628
Rumpelteazer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,433 Karma: 27925824 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	I just got back from the doctor. This time I went to my own doctor instead of the one in training that helped me last time. I expected to get a heavier dose of antibiotics but instead she prescribed Zwitsal baby shampoo! I have to put a bit on a cotton swab and clean the rims of my eyes with it twice a day. I got the feeling she was a bit annoyed that the doctor in training started with antibiotics instead of trying Zwitsal first. If it hasn't got an effect in six to eight weeks I have to get a referral to an eye specialist. However, she advised against wearing contacts until the infection is gone. With is a bit of a shame since with the 30C weather predicted for the weekend contacts are so more practical than glasses that keep sliding down my nose.

06-03-2014, 12:54 PM	#37629
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	If you glasses are sliding down your nose you should get them refit.

06-04-2014, 03:54 AM	#37635
Rumpelteazer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,433 Karma: 27925824 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	I currently have fourteen earrings and only the hairdresser has problems with them. I usually take the top ones out or tape the off when getting my hair cut. In all except the two normal ones I wear small rings that easily come off when they are snagged but I only ever lost two of them. I used to have one more but that one regularly got irritated, I think it was because it was pierced (at a jewellery store, not at a piercing shop) up against, but not through, the cartilage and because of that rubbed up against the cartilage which then got irritated. I would never get a facial piercing; a nose piercing I don't find hygienic, especially since I suffer from hayfever and have the occasional nose bleed, a lip or tongue piercing is bad for your teeth and an eyebrow piercing just doesn't work with glasses IMHO.