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Old 09-07-2024, 06:51 AM   #37486
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I told the PA to back up, and asked how we went from a simply kidney ultrasound to cancer and hospice. She sort of mumbled some more, so said I wanted to know if the Dr wanted to do more blood work for cancer markers, or to check her kidney function again. She said she'd call me back, which she did a few hours later.

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Old 09-08-2024, 05:21 AM   #37488
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Friday night a neighbour came by to tell us she's not home for a couple of day/week since her mother is dying. Her 17 year old son will be home alone for that time (his father lives nearby). She already warned us that on Saturday night he was going to have some friends over, so we might hear some noise. She also told he he initially wanted to have his friends over for multiple days, but she nixed that.

Last night I didn't hear anything. Until some time during the night. When it was raining fairly hard. Someone set off fireworks outside. I didn't get up to look, so I'm not 100% sure it's the son, but I think it's there's a fairly high chance it was him and his friends. Luckily it didn't last long and I went back to sleep quickly.

For reference, in the Netherlands you're only allowed to set off fireworks From 6pm on December 31 until 2am on January 1. And consumer fireworks is only allowed to be sold on 28, 29 and 30 December.
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Old 09-09-2024, 01:00 PM   #37489
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Friday night a neighbour came by to tell us she's not home for a couple of day/week since her mother is dying. Her 17 year old son will be home alone for that time (his father lives nearby). She already warned us that on Saturday night he was going to have some friends over, so we might hear some noise. She also told he he initially wanted to have his friends over for multiple days, but she nixed that.

Last night I didn't hear anything. Until some time during the night. When it was raining fairly hard. Someone set off fireworks outside. I didn't get up to look, so I'm not 100% sure it's the son, but I think it's there's a fairly high chance it was him and his friends. Luckily it didn't last long and I went back to sleep quickly.

For reference, in the Netherlands you're only allowed to set off fireworks From 6pm on December 31 until 2am on January 1. And consumer fireworks is only allowed to be sold on 28, 29 and 30 December.
How strange. We have the same rules about fireworks here, and last night someone set them off outside our house too. No public holiday here, just an ordinary weekend. That's one hell of a coincidence.
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Old 09-10-2024, 03:07 AM   #37490
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How strange. We have the same rules about fireworks here, and last night someone set them off outside our house too. No public holiday here, just an ordinary weekend. That's one hell of a coincidence.
It looks like it probably wasn't our neighbour. The next night fireworks were set of in a nearby neighbourhood, I heard it and read about it on a Facebook group. It's just weird to set off fireworks in the pouring rain on a random September night.

When the school summer vacations were about to start we had a couple of days when fireworks, very light fireworks, was set off throughout the neighbourhood during the day. Especially the alleys between the backs of houses was a popular spot. I assume those were school kids.
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Old 09-13-2024, 07:40 PM   #37491
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Old 09-13-2024, 07:53 PM   #37492
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Old 09-17-2024, 09:13 AM   #37493
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Old 09-17-2024, 11:25 AM   #37494
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Or is it a form of greeting viz velo velo velo?
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Old 09-17-2024, 11:36 AM   #37495
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Velocity, yes. It's a very popular baseball analytic that announcers are now all regurgitating. My personal feeling is that if "velocity" seems too lengthy to fit into normal conversation, maybe try "speed". It's only one syllable compared to velo's two.

1) A pitcher's "velo going down" may indicate an issue.

2) The "exit velo" of a ball off the bat is a metric that might be useful to managers and statisticians, but is not relevant to a fan's excitement for (or disappointment of) a home run.

My preference would be for all baseball announcers to stop using it altogether. Immediately. My preference will of course be completely ignored in favor of pointlessly jargoning up simple concepts.

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Old 09-17-2024, 01:16 PM   #37497
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My preference will of course be completely ignored in favor of pointlessly jargoning up simple concepts.

It's not just jargon in a particular field, it's all those darned kids.
"Agro" for aggressiveness, "rizz" for charisma.


I'm becoming curmudgeonly, if not downright misanthropic these days.


My mood is aggravated (that would be a slightly more sensible meaning for 'agro'), no doubt, by the fact that I was laid-off in February and have not found steady reemployment yet. Kind of hating the world.
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"Agro" for aggressiveness, "rizz" for charisma.


I'm becoming curmudgeonly, if not downright misanthropic these days.


My mood is aggravated (that would be a slightly more sensible meaning for 'agro'), no doubt, by the fact that I was laid-off in February and have not found steady reemployment yet. Kind of hating the world.
I'm very very sorry to hear about the layoff. That sucks, well and truly.

@DiapDealer: Oh, yeah, I can see that. I'm prone toward acronyms, myself but I'm far less enthused about this shortening. I'm a loon about things like "judgement" now being "judgment" and "acknowledgement" being "acknowledgment." WHY? ONE BLEEDING LETTER, for...ugh.

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