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WaterGirl
I screwed up the time zone again, sorry!
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Dammit, WG. You had
one,two,five, 7000 jobs!WaterGirl
@Baud: Sigh.
If you move to the 19-minute mark where Biden really starts, then I think we’re only about 2 minutes behind real time.
WaterGirl
I have been meaning to ask whether anyone else thinks the Wordle words have been harder for the past few days. I barely get them on the 5th or 6th like. If they aren’t harder, then maybe I work up stupid this week.
Baud
I’m confused. What does this have to do with King Charles?
dmsilev
@Baud: They’re renaming the river in Boston after him…
WaterGirl
@Baud: Hahahahaha
WaterGirl
I think this is a big Joe Biden deal:
Airline Customer Service Dashboard
Baud
@dmsilev: Heh.
oatler
ABC should cover this, though reporter Chris Christie is in London covering the Queen’s funeral right now.
schrodingers_cat
OT SIL update
She is recovering nicely from her 20+ hour brain surgery. She ate on her own today. She is still wobbly on her feet but responding well to the physical therapy. She should be able to go home this week.
So far the mass found seems benign. More pathological testing has been ordered on the mass to rule out any malignancy. We spoke to her on Zoom today and she was lucid and smiling.
Now we can all exhale.
Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts. I appreciate it.
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat: Wow, that is amazing news. I’m so glad.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@schrodingers_cat: That sounds like a rough procedure, but a good outcome. Fingers crossed.
JR
@WaterGirl: Got harder once they started using double letters.
H.E.Wolf
@schrodingers_cat:
Wonderful news. Wishing your SIL a smooth recovery!
ALurkSupreme
@WaterGirl: The Wordle puzzles have definitely become more challenging.
Doc Sardonic
@schrodingers_cat: Don’t comment often, but that is good news. Will continue to cast my best wishes to the universe for your SIL.
Also a quick question…Any recommendations for beginner cookbook for Indian cuisine?
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
In the meantime, this gave me quite a good laugh just now. The tractors are back!
ETA: I find it interesting that the three letters I’ve seen most often painted on the invaders’ tanks are V, O, and Z…which happen to be Zelenskyy’s initials in the English alphabet. I know it’s not relevant, but it just made me go….huh….the first time I noticed.
schrodingers_cat
@Doc Sardonic: You can’t go wrong with Madhur Jaffrey. She gives extensive instructions and uses ingredients easily available in the US
I would start with this one
CaseyL
@schrodingers_cat: That is great news!
WaterGirl
@JR: @ALurkSupreme:
So glad to hear you both say that!
Brachiator
@dmsilev:
Ha!
Kinda true, in a way.
WaterGirl
@schrodingers_cat: Very happy for you and your family. It’s pretty shocking that someone can survive a 20-hour brain surgery. I don’t even begin to understand how that is possible. I wonder if they trade out surgeons. Amazing.
M31
@WaterGirl: yeah, Wordle has been “oh man, you fuckers, OK” all week
different-church-lady
Kinda hoping we’re going to use some of it to keep our subways and buses from catching on fire.
Matt McIrvin
@dmsilev: Just learned it was actually named for Charles I, which gives “Head of the Charles” an interesting meaning.
Doc Sardonic
@schrodingers_cat: Thank You. Will go looking, have the house
tomyselfwell let’s just say I am the only human cat servant present for the next 3 days, so I can do some cooking experiments without pressure.WaterGirl
@M31: Glad to hear that! That’s so much better than “what the hell is wrong with me that I can’t figure that out?”
Sometimes I have to go away and come back to it later. Fresh eyes help.
Brachiator
@schrodingers_cat:
This is great news!
Continued good wishes.
schrodingers_cat
@Doc Sardonic: I also like this one which has shortcuts when you are pressed for time and when you don’t have all the ingredients in your pantry
Quick and easy Indian cooking
M31
so did Biden announce he was partnering with Hilary Clinton and the City of Boston to make sure that every street corner in America has a taco truck and a Dunkin Donuts?
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@M31: Yes, and in between them is the abortion clinic/pot dispensary combo shop.
schrodingers_cat
@WaterGirl: They had an entire surgical team with several surgeons and nurses. I am going to try to speak with the surgeon who headed the team.
ETA: The initial estimate was 12 hours but it turned out to be more complicated than initially anticipated.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@schrodingers_cat:
Good news! Wishing your SIL a smooth recovery
JPL
@schrodingers_cat: I’m so glad that you received such good news. It’s had to be difficult for you, since you live so far away.
M31
lol years ago, pre-cellphone I was meeting a friend once in Boston when we were both traveling, so we settled on “the Dunkin right at X exit off the highwy” and wouldn’t you know it there were 4 of them
EarthWindFire
@schrodingers_cat: Wonderful news.
@M31: That really would make him the greatest POTUS in history. (edit after reading in America, not in Boston)
Barbara
@schrodingers_cat: So glad to hear this. I hope it turns out to be totally benign — but I have no idea what in the heck could cause such a thing.
M31
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: “Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that”
JPL
@ALurkSupreme: Valued commenter Debbie, linked to a wordle like puzzle called wordmaster. Anyhow, their puzzles are more difficult because of the double use of certain letters. It prepared me for the change in the NYTimes.
Kristine
@WaterGirl: I think they have been. I often have to remind myself that ‘Y’ is sometimes a vowel and words with double letters do exist.
Old School
@WaterGirl:
Probably a little more challenging, but it sounds like you could still use a nap.
scav
@M31: GSD I hope so as our nearest corner taco truck did so well they migrated to brick. Improved the menu further but it’s still further away. There’s a corner immediately available!
Kristine
@schrodingers_cat: Let the good news and recovery continue!
sheila in nc
@M31: If I were a cynic, I would infer their use of a jiggy, peevy moral basis.
dmsilev
@M31: Now you have me trying to envision a donut taco.
trollhattan
@schrodingers_cat:
Wow, great news! Fingers crossed the biopsy results are correct.
A former boss had developed symptoms mimicking Parkinson’s, and her neurologist put her on medications to suppress the effects (there’s no cure). After a good while and no improvement, while knocked sideways by the meds, she consulted a neurosurgeon who quickly discovered a baseball-size tumor on her brain, just beneath the skull on top.
Successful surgery removed the entire mass, which proved benign, and so she got her life back. (Slowly, they filled her skull with fluid to prevent the brain from “bouncing back” too quickly and causing havoc.)
Tough lady, that’s for sure, as she navigated the entire years-long misadventure with grace and grit.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Excellent news!
20 hours. Wow.
Immanentize
@Baud:
M31
@dmsilev: internet search for ‘donut taco’ has me concerned but also hungry
Baud
@JPL:
is still missing. :-(
Kristine
@schrodingers_cat: Bought!
WhatsMyNym
@schrodingers_cat: All the best for your SIL’s recovery.
@WaterGirl: Sounds bad, but most of the time is deciding how to not damage the brain’s functions.
Even though mine was small and close to surface, they ended up just doing a biopsy. Ended up doing chemo and radiation. I’m still here (and the tumour is as well)
Layer8Problem
@schrodingers_cat: Happy for your sister-in-law and you!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Baud:
Oh, that’s too bad. I hope she shows up soon
Layer8Problem
@M31: Hah! I once told a highly-favored boss I would pick her up at the Dunkin Donuts in Weymouth. She said in a strong South Shore accent “There are like five Dunkin Donuts in Weymouth.” I said not my problem, be at the right one. Luckily for me she understood my sense of humor, after about ten seconds.
catclub
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛:
What about the Critical Race Training reeducation camps?
I am disappoint.
frosty
@schrodingers_cat: Good news! I can’t begin to imagine what a 20 hour surgery must be like. Both for the patient and the surgical team.
cain
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cain
@schrodingers_cat: This is great news – and I know it will continue that way – thanks for sharing this with us. :)
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@catclub: Those are in the basement of the abortion clinics. OF COURSE.
JCJ
@schrodingers_cat: Hoping for a diagnosis of meningioma or otherwise benign lesion. In the brain the location of even a benign growth is like real estate – location, location, location.
Baud
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛:
Valued commenter Suzanne’s architectual tour de force.
schrodingers_cat
@JCJ: It is a meningioma. They are running more tests to be 100% certain. Are you a brain doc?
trollhattan
@catclub: Only if it’s a how-to on finishing the New York Marathon.
delphinium
@schrodingers_cat: That is great news-hope her recovery continues to go well!
oatler
Just read that Liz Truss will be visiting the US soon, but “she is now not thought likely to find time to tag on a trip to the White House.” Doesn’t say what houses or country clubs Truss will be tagging on time for.
JCJ
@schrodingers_cat: Radiation oncologist. Even some WHO grade 1 meningiomas need to be considered for adjuvant treatment, particularly those involving the base of skull. Often they can just be monitored with MRI every six months if a gross total resection has been done.
Spanky
@oatler: Did it say if the WH even invited her?
trollhattan
@oatler: Joe better double his coffee intake that day. I think she could put a roomfull of ADHD kids to sleep.
Spanky
@trollhattan: As wooden as a cigar store Indian, but without the personality.
Old School
@oatler: Sounds like Liz Truss’ trip is based around spending time at the UN.
WaterGirl
@JPL: @Kristine: I wasn’t aware that the original Wordle didn’t have double letters. But something definitely changed because it’s definitely been tougher.
Did they announce the they were doing double letters at some point?
WaterGirl
@WhatsMyNym: Yikes.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
They’ve been a little bit harder, partly because they’re using repeated letters (letter used more than once in the word, not necessarily next to each other). My “get the vowels sorted” strategy has helped a lot with this.
delphinium
@oatler:
Can’t wait for the media headlines to claim that Liz Tuss’ snub of Biden spells doom for Democrats.
p.a.
@schrodingers_cat: 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Yeah, I always start with ADIEU and STORY – which immediately sorts all the vowels and 3 of the most common letters.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@WaterGirl: My starting word is LATER and one of these days….that’ll be the word and I will feel like a god. Unless they already used it once before I started doing it, then I’m probably shit outta luck.
bluefoot
@schrodingers_cat:
That is amazing news! Pathology will take a while, but I am so glad everything looks good so far. I am praying for a fast and complete recovery.
eversor
@schrodingers_cat:
Best of luck and good wishes.
Expatchad
@zhena gogolia: 20 hour craniotomies are as far from trivial procedures as it gets.
Very encouraging and celebratory news!
Geoduck
@Baud: “King Charles”? Did something happen to Elizabeth?
eversor
@delphinium:
This is good, for pork futures!
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: I always figure that getting it in one is dumb luck, but I feel really good when I get it in two or three.
JPL
@WaterGirl: Occasionally they would, but it does seem to be more frequent.
UncleEbeneezer
@Baud: You had one, unpaid internship!
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@WaterGirl: What I hate is when you have one missing letter, but there’s multiple options that could work. When I guess right in that situation, it makes me feel like I should go buy a lottery ticket.
eversor
@oatler:
Since she’s into pork futures maybe she can go to Iowa and get blown up in one of those farms that have floating lagoons of pig shit that randomly combust and send swine for miles, Game of Thrones style but with no amazing Tyrion and Bron broham action to make it entertaining. Just Chuck Grassley meeting people behind the Dairy Queen flying chunks of pig and flaming shit for miles.
Tony Jay
@Spanky:
Bet they didn’t. Dizzy is so deep in the Brextremists’ pocket she’s already droning on about breaking the Northern Ireland Protocol, which would break the Good Friday Agreement, which would make Washington very, very angry. She’s not getting invited to so much as a coffee date with the assistant deputy secretary to the Department of Lost Toys until she and the Tories stop being performative dicks.
Most of her meetings will be with fellow extreme right politicos at the UN and whichever Libertarian sugar-daddies her staff direct her to suck up to.
Steeplejack
@JPL:
This is a good point. I’m still getting most of the Wordles in about 4, maybe because I play Word Master a lot.
Tony Jay
@Geoduck:
From the way the BBC are keeping cameras on or around her cortège at all times I’m coming to the conclusion that, whatever happened, it probably involved the bite of an Infected.
If and when she comes bursting out of that casket looking for brains, the BBC will bloody well be recording it for posterity.
UncleEbeneezer
Thanks to everyone who pointed me in the right direction (up) in earlier thread. This pie has never tasted so delicious!!
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: Yeah, I used to guess in that situation, and sometimes I will take one guess, and then i write down all the letters it could be and my next word contains as many of those letters as possible, along with one vowel. That narrows it down fairly well, by either one letter showing up or by eliminating all of those, and the options that are left are the letters you couldn’t fit into your test word.
rikyrah
@schrodingers_cat:
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
WaterGirl
@UncleEbeneezer: Have you gotten CatCake yet? She’s my favorite.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
It is very good. A lot of the time no, it’s often one surgeon in charge, knows what they’ve done from start to finish. But in extremely long surgeries they might. It depends on the surgeon. But in any case it’s extremely good news.
@schrodingers_cat:
Great to hear. Best of luck to her that everything stays good.
Ruckus
@different-church-lady:
Where is this happening?
And yes I ride the LA subway, electric trains and buses fairly regularly. Far cheaper than driving across town.
Ruckus
@schrodingers_cat:
Glad they took their time, some things can not be rushed.
schrodingers_cat
@JCJ: If you don’t mind can I contact you directly after I have spoken with the head neurosurgeon who did the surgery. I am on Twitter.
@manyworlds1cat
or you can contact me on my blog email
[email protected]
Thanks.
schrodingers_cat
Thanks so much everyone for keeping SIL in your thoughts and for your pawcircle and good wishes.
JCJ
@schrodingers_cat:
I sent an email.
cain
@Tony Jay: There are many UK celebrities/politicians that I’m willing to push in front for their brains to be eaten by zombie Queen Elizabeth. Piers Morgan is on top of the list. Although, I suppose – his brains are probably as fulfilling as a twinkie.
schrodingers_cat
@JCJ: Thanks so much. I got it. I will be in touch.
J R in WV
@schrodingers_cat:
Modern medicine is amazing, miracles happen every day in hospitals. Obviously in India just as here.
So glad for you SIL, hope she continues to do well~!!~
kalakal
@schrodingers_cat: Great news
Another Scott
@schrodingers_cat: Excellent news. Thanks for letting us know.
Best of luck to her and you and all your family.
Cheers,
Scott.
Kayla Rudbek
@schrodingers_cat: excellent news! I hope that she recovers fully!