Anyone else post on DU to escape from reality?

[Redstone]

My fucking arm couldn't hurt worse if someone had shot me (and yes, I know what that feels like). So here I am, posting away, replying to others like there's no tomorrow even if I don't have anything substantive to contribute, because what's the alternative? Walk around the room in circles? Done that, and it gets boring after a dozen or so laps.

Are you SURE that one of you didn't work my shoulder over with a ball-peen hammer while I was sleeping last night? If you did, confess now, and all will be forgiven.

Five Vike ESs today, and my daily limit is six. Think I'll go get it now.

Thanks for enduring the whine.

Redstone

[Floogeldy]

1. It is addictive.

;)

[MidwestMomma]

2. I don't post much but I do read the Lounge to escape reality

Sorry about your pain.

I don't know the difference between a ball-peen and a regular hammer so I guess I'm off the hook. :)

[Redstone]

4. You'd know if somebody whacked you with one. The BP has a round

face, as opposed to the flat face of a regular hammer.

Yes, I'm raving here. But thanks for the good thought.

Redstone

[NMMNG]

3. Sometimes

It can be fun to just banter about whatever rather than face the bleak nothingness of work 7 days a week, no time for a social life, no money even if I had time for one, frigid cold outside, corrupt government screwing up the nation and the world, etc, etc.

Damn, I wish I had a drink. :beer:

[Redstone]

6. Damn, I wish I could give you a drink.

Nobody should be without one if they need one, and if you were here, you'd not be thirsty.

Working seven days a week? Sorry you have to do that. Here's hoping things improve for you.

Redstone

[NMMNG]

10. If I were at home I'd be having a Black Russian

Alas I am at work, and must settle for Hazelnut Decaf. :shrug: Thanks for the sympathy though. :hug:

[Redstone]

14. Well, when you do get home, have that Black Russian.

And enjoy it.

Redstone

[NMMNG]

17. Oh, I will

Though I'll wait until after I sleep. No use wasting it by having it in the morning.

[sendero]

5. Yes....

... I'm a confirmed internet addict. Is there a 12-step program? Forget it, I don't wanna be cured :)

[ForrestGump]

7. Sometimes,

I go to reality to escape DU.

[Floogeldy]

8. A post worthy of one who has joined the five digit club.

Thanks.

:)

[ForrestGump]

9. Wait a minute. I just counted, and I'm pretty sure I've actually got

TEN digits. I counted twice, to make sure.

But thanks, anyway. :P

[Floogeldy]

11. I said CLUB.

nOT nUBS.

[CatholicEdHead]

12. Isn't DU the same as reality?

;)

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Reality is for people

who can't handle drugs. :hippie:

I mean, fuck... reality? BOOOOriiiiiing!

Who needs it? :puke:

Redstone, what's up with your shoulder? I've got some rotator cuff "issues" (I call it "mouse shoulder") that flare up from time to time. Meds don't help much, but stretching, chiropractic and acupuncture did.

[Redstone]

20. You know what a "frame-off restoration" is with a car?

That's what I had done to my shoulder (because of an old injury I ignored for almost 30 years). And after leaving 3-1/2 inches of the end of my collarbone in the operating room, and having various tendons resected and moved and re-pinned, and the head of the humerus ground down an polished, it turned out that there was nerve damage as well.

So two years later, there was the nerve release surgery, which entailed two large muscles being detached from their moorings to reach the site of the problem, requiring holes to be drilled in my shoulder blade for re-attachment thereof, and it turns out after all the mucking around that the nerve was too badly damaged to recover.

And the RSDS (www.rsdhope.org) from the original injury as well, which is not a hell of a lot of fun.

Sorry to be carrying on like this, but you did ask.

However, let me stress that I still believe that I'm a lucky son of a bitch, because the rest of my life is damn good and a lot of people don't have such good stuff to make up for the bad, so I don't want to sound like I'm complaining.

Furthermore, there's alway Ambien to put a close on a bad night. Tomorrow will be better than tonight.

Redstone

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. Holy fuck

Makes me feel like a wuss with my little ol' rotator cuff.

Not sorry I asked, though.

How does this affect your photography? I've gotten back from shoots with my shoulder just killing me from holding the camera for a lot of verticals.

(Yeah, I know what a frame-off is. My fondest wish is to have the money and facilities to do one on my truck.)

[Redstone]

27. I've always been one of those who uses a tripod unless I can't.

It's a habit from back when I used a Speed Graphic for almost everything (and I still drag out the Century Graphic now and again for landscape work...there's nothing like a 2 by 3 inch Velvia transparency to get the blood flowing).

Other than that, it affects the photography like it does everything else: I do what I have to do, and live with the pain until what I have to do is done.

Not trying to sound heroic or anything; it's just that you have to get up in the morning and go to work, and deal with things like chronic pain as they are dealt to you.

Thanks for asking, though.

Redstone

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. I used to work with a guy

who shot a 300 mm f 2.8 hand-held. He was a pretty burly guy, but I couldn't understand how that didn't wreck his back and shoulders, much less how he could hold it steady enough for that focal length. I always had my big glass on a stick; couldn't do it any other way. And even then, my lower back would ache after shooting a football game or something where I had to stand for long periods.

[spacelady]

15. One time I was listening to Crazy Train & bobbing my head rather

vigorously to the music and something popped in my shoulder & felt much better. Ya never know.

[RevCheesehead]

16. All the fucking time, Redstone.

But reality keeps interrupting. :(

Is "pain management" an oxymoron?

[spacelady]

18. Sometimes an antonym. n/t

[Redstone]

25. I'll do my "pain management" rant another time.

Too tired just now.

If you have chronic pain in this coutry these days, you might as well be a fucking leper in the 1700s, for all the help you can get.

Later, when I have more energy.

Thanks for responding.

Redstone

[RevCheesehead]

29. I'll be glad to hear it later.

Lots of good people in pain. Would you like a gentle hug? :hug:

[Redstone]

31. Sure. But VERY gently, if you would.

Your kindness is greatly appreciated.

Redstone

[Kali]

19. Check

and my shoulder feels exactly the same - WTF? Alien abductions and vaccinations? I haven't done anything unusual and my right shulder is KILLING me. Been almost two weeks or more now WTF?

[Awsi Dooger]

21. I just had a big escape from reality on the Sports forum

The blindfolded hatred of the '72 Dolphins is pathetically hysterical, to the point you've got posters making up things that don't threaten the truth. I honestly believe there must be some sort of Rush Limbaugh-type sports oriented radio announcer out there who invents facts and the lap dogs gladly slurp them up as the truth.

I just found out the '72 Dolphins didn't have a receiving threat and "wouldn't have stood a chance" against Pittsburgh or Oakland just two years later in '74. Also that the unbeaten '72 record is "soooo overrated," despite only one team managed it among maybe 2000 attempts since the early 1920s.

I guess I'm not supposed to remember Paul Warfield is in the Hall of Fame and averaged 21 yards per reception in '72, or that a depleted and lame duck '74 Dolphin team should have defeated Oakland on the road in the '74 playoffs. Oakland pulled it out 28-26 on Stabler's desperate shove toward Clarence Davis in the final 30 seconds, after Miami played the entire second half without safety Jake Scott and cornerback Tim Foley.

Come on, guys. If Indy goes unbeaten that will be remarkable and I'll salute them. But diminishing the '72 Dolphins just makes you look foolish, or much worse.

[Redstone]

24. Well, now, that's just really fucking stupid. Why would people argue

about a FOOTBALL TEAM'S RECORD, for Christ's sake, especially a record that was set thirty-three years ago? Sheesh.

1972, as it happens, was when I got hurt. May 10th. An Loc, RVN. Many years ago, and thousands of miles away.

Redstone

[Gregorian]

23. What's reality?

/clicks mouse instinctively.



edit- OUCH! Get well. Quickly.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. ALL the time, my dear Redstone......

ALL the time!

My heart belongs to the Lounge.......the heart of DU....

Hope you feel better tomorrow!


:loveya: :hug:

[Redstone]

28. Thank you, m'dear. Tomorrow will be better. It has to be, because

I have a birthday party to go to; another DUer's daughter is turning three...besides wanting to see the other DUer and her spouse (both of whome I really like) again, I would not pass up seeing their absolutely delightful kid for anything.

Redstone

[Redstone]

30. Thanks, all. I'm going to go upstairs now, where Mrs R's touch will

warm my shoulder, and let me drift off to that quiet place where nothing hurts...damn, am I lucky to have her, or what?

Redstone

[faithnotgreed]

33. heres to a peaceful nights sleep

and someone who loves you being there in the morning....

feel better redstone