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By: sooz
Date: 7/5/98 3:02:36 PM
# Replies: 46
I'm not sure if this is the true and proper place to post this, but I couldn't find "The First Group." Maybe I clicked the wrong button. I dunno. Anyway, all home remedies are welcome for the following ailments:
1) Yesterday I stepped, barefoot, square in the middle of an ant bed. I have somewhere between 60 and 100 bites on one foot. G'head, ask: Why didn't you get yer damned foot out before all THAT happened? See, I had surgery to remove a neuroma (that's "a neuroma", not "an aroma", thank you), and a few nerves were removed, so I can't feel the top of my right foot. It's a little odd, but no big deal, 'cept for something like this.
So anyway, I took Benadryl 'cuz I was swelling up. What do y'all do for the ongoing discomfort of ant bites?
2) My C drive was getting crowded, so I moved Word Perfect (in which I do all my job-related stuff) to drive D. That was all well and good, 'till I discovered I had removed WP from C without saving my nifty macros or special dictionary I had created. I done deleted the directories. Is there any hope?
3) The neighbors went away on a trip and trusted me with the care of their pets (mistake #1). The dog won't eat - do ya think she has separation anxiety or something?
Response #1
By: rorschach
Date: 7/5/98 6:37:58 PM
lets see.....
1) lather massive amounts of hydrocortizone 10%USP onto your foot and consider seeking the advise of a physician, that many ant bites may become badly inflamed and might set off a heretofore unrecognised allergy.
2)maybe... if you have anything like norton utilities for win 95 you MIGHT be able to recover them. if you dumped em using explorer and you haven't emptied the recycle bin yet, they are still languishing away in your recycle bin waiting for you to save em.. sorta like the kitties and puppies at the pound........
3) keep the food dry and fresh, he'll eventually eat.... yes, it's separation anxiety probably, either that or it's used to getting either some other food (like table scraps) or its used to getting the food mixed with warm water or something like that.... in the absence of additional instructions from it's owner, just wait him out. if you start him on table scraps, then the owner'll have problems when they get back and find he won't eat his normal food anymore....
Response #2
By: Ralf
Date: 7/6/98 7:31:13 AM
Ror oughta seriously consider a call-in show.
Response #3
By: sooz
Date: 7/8/98 3:57:05 PM
Ya know, I ALMOST said "Since Ror knows everything, and y'all also might be able to help..." but I thought that would be tacky, and I'm so much more kindler and gentler now.
Well, I was, until I posted this. Oops.
Response #4
By: rorschach
Date: 7/8/98 9:24:32 PM
Well..... YOU ASKED!.....
Response #5
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/9/98 12:53:29 AM
Well, I would have answered, but ror got to it first. He pretty much said what I'd have said (without the smart ass & cynical comments), so I figured why the hell did I need to contribute?
Now I have and I haven't.
Response #6
By: Zipperhead
Date: 7/9/98 8:12:26 AM
Take a hammer and beat on your foot for about an hour. Not only will it feel good when you stop but you wont even remember the Fing ants!
Response #7
By: sooz
Date: 7/9/98 3:36:47 PM
And now, for a stirring, thrilling update:
1) The ant bites are healing. Doesn't matter, I can't feel that foot anyway. 2) I ended up re-doing the macros, better this time than last. 3) The damned dog lived and still barks all day. Never did like that dog.
Response #8
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/9/98 7:17:49 PM
Is this the same foot that got run over by a car some years back?
Response #9
By: Cleotis
Date: 7/9/98 8:39:11 PM
Rorschach is the G. Gordon Liddy of the BBS world.
I don't think there's ANYTHING that either of these men don't know.
And if Liddy's doing it, Ror* should be able to have his own talk show, too!
Response #10
By: sooz
Date: 7/10/98 12:30:07 AM
Geez, Gowan, you don't forget ANYTHING. It was the leg that got run over, but yeah, same side of the body. Also the same side where I have a blind eye and a hand that's been broken multiple times, and a knee that's recently started to make a nifty "crunch" sound every time I bend it.
Getting old is hell, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Response #11
By: Zipperhead
Date: 7/13/98 9:36:23 AM
Old? How old are you sooz???????
Response #12
By: sooz
Date: 7/14/98 5:36:07 PM
I be 34.
Response #13
By: Zipperhead
Date: 7/15/98 9:31:11 AM
34? Old? Wow... Thanks sooz, Shit I guess Im dead. Shit, How am I gonna tell my wife? When I saw your picture sooz, I thought u b like 25 or 26.... hehehheehehehehehehehehehehehe Note the big time butt kissing
Response #14
By: Ralf
Date: 7/15/98 9:55:23 PM
R U A FOX?
WHAT DO U LOOK LIKE????/
Response #15
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/16/98 12:16:41 AM
Hey, her butt's not that big!
Response #16
By: Zipperhead
Date: 7/17/98 8:14:31 AM
Yeah Ralf, sooz is very very cute!!!!
Response #17
By: sooz
Date: 7/17/98 1:24:05 PM
Wait. Zip, you don't know what I look like, we've never met. Ralf and I have met. We've downed beer together. I've even (it doesn't get more personal than this) been in his station wagon. And furthermore, kissing my butt would be an all-day project, as I'm amply blessed in that area.
Response #18
By: rorschach
Date: 7/17/98 8:37:46 PM
just remember sooz... youre only two years older than me....
Response #19
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 7/18/98 6:44:04 AM
Been in his station wagon huh?
Woooo!
Response #20
By: Ralf
Date: 7/18/98 10:43:05 AM
I have seen her Butt. It's not that big.
Oh man, we did things in that wagon that were MAGICAL. Like, take corners at 35 MPH, tires squeeling, hubcaps flying.
"I didn't know you could do that in a wagon," Sooz quietly observes from shotgun.
"Wait'll you see THIS!" WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! Speedbumps at 40. Woooo!
And don't get me started on that swanky AM radio, or the peeling wood panelling... *sniff*. I miss ol' woody.
Response #21
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 7/18/98 11:04:33 AM
I got a new car...sister of misery #1 got a car...
Response #22
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/18/98 11:27:37 AM
Someday, if I ever make it big and I'm rolling in cash, I'm going to have my Ford Escort refinished with simulated wood paneling.
Response #23
By: sooz
Date: 7/18/98 1:00:12 PM
The peeling wood paneling was what really MADE that car. I loved the feeling of lumbering down the road, and all I lacked when I was blessed enough to be a passenger in that magical mystery car was pink foam rollers in my hair. People tended to get out of Ralf's way, because they figgered anyone weird enough to drive that thing was just as likely to splatter them all over 59.
Maybe ya had to be there.
Response #24
By: Ralf
Date: 7/19/98 7:18:23 AM
THIS is scary. I -literally- can't remember what I did with that car. I mean, I don't remember trading it in or anything.
Is it possible I abandoned it? Anyone here remember what I did with my car?
Response #25
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/19/98 9:55:59 AM
Want me to run by your old apartment and see if it's still there?
Response #26
By: rorschach
Date: 7/19/98 2:36:53 PM
hell, ralf, you had it AND the X1/9 last time *I* saw ya....
Response #27
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 7/19/98 9:47:19 PM
You know Rail, I've had nights like that!
Response #28
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/19/98 10:47:43 PM
Fiat X1/9's are evil, evil vehicles.
Response #29
By: Zipperhead
Date: 7/20/98 8:37:39 AM
sooz......Uh, Ive seen your picture...Your cute!!!!! And I dont like skinny girls, bones sticking out all over, poking ya and shit.
Ralfs station wagon? Was he into this pantless thingie back then?
Response #30
By: rorschach
Date: 7/20/98 12:31:43 PM
rail's always been pantless.. it is his natural state....( or is that arkansas? i dunno....)
Response #31
By: Ralf
Date: 7/20/98 12:43:21 PM
Eek! No, pantlessness is a state of mind only. Think of it as "virtually not wearing any pants".
I traded the X1/9 in on a 1992 Geo Storm GSi. I *think* I may have abandoned the wagon. I'm seriously not remembering any kind of ceremonial paperwork or anything. Wow.
Now I'm driving a 1997 Supra Turbo. Wooo! It's got 250 horsepower MORE than the X1/9 had!
Response #32
By: sooz
Date: 7/20/98 5:45:46 PM
Let's change this to a "WHAT ARE YOU DRIVING?" thread.
My brother, the Air Force guy, got a new 1997 Geo Prizm (a so-so car), and got booted to korea 3-4 months later, leaving me with his Prizm. He does the car note, I do the insurance. It seems like quite the deal to me.
Response #33
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/20/98 9:32:27 PM
I drive a 1995 Buick Roadmaster.
It's exactly the kind of car you imagine from the name.
Response #34
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/20/98 10:25:11 PM
My Ford Escort, which I have loved dearly since 1993, is, within the past week, becoming a piece of shit. The air conditioning has gone out. That's the worst thing. Then, I think I took a speed bump too fast, because since then I've noticed at slow speeds that the steering wheel goes woo-woo-woo-woo back and forth rapidly. Then, as I'm sitting idle in traffic, the engine will be idling smoothly and then suddenly go pffft, and then idle idle idle idle PFFT idle idle...
Response #35
By: Zipperhead
Date: 7/21/98 9:13:57 AM
I drive a Go-Kart.
Response #36
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/21/98 4:59:56 PM
Vasque Exodus Hi, grey/blue. Purchased earlier this year.
Response #37
By: Ralf
Date: 7/21/98 5:53:28 PM
Cupholders?
Response #38
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/21/98 7:47:50 PM
Air conditioner's fixed now. Actually it was a *pound* low on freon. But they couldn't find a leak. "70 bucks please."
Oh well. It's blowing cold again, and now even the idle idle idle pffft thing has stopped.
Could my lack of AC have been dragging down my entire engine?
Response #39
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 7/21/98 7:57:55 PM
1997 Ford Explorer V8 all wheel drive..white, running boards, sunroof, CD and other little things.. purchased 1 month ago..
Response #40
By: Cleotis
Date: 7/21/98 9:47:56 PM
I'm so domestic with my '91 Toyota pickup (to haul pinball machines in), and my '95 Windstar minivan.
Gone are the days of my turd brown "Cleomobile".
Response #41
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/22/98 11:34:02 AM
I have no idea what Homer just said.
So, basically, things are pretty normal.
Response #42
By: Ralf
Date: 7/23/98 5:44:02 PM
I'll betcha it's one o them scooter thingies.
Response #43
By: rorschach
Date: 7/23/98 10:14:00 PM
1992 jeep cherokee sport, white, 4 door, 2WD 4 speed OD auto, factory aluminum mags, 4.0 liter straight six. can crush small cars without breathing hard.. (and has... just ask the guy i t-boned in it two years ago... totaled the dodge shadow... drove mine home... the damned thing is a TANK....
my other car is a piece of crap 95 saturn sl-1..... (hint)
Response #44
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/26/98 4:14:06 PM
My Vasque Exodus Hi is a size 8 1/2. It has a mate, too. They're happy together.
Response #45
By: Ralf
Date: 7/29/98 7:51:13 PM
My Mr.Pokey is a size 8-1/2, and I got in trouble for showing him once.
Response #46
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/29/98 9:26:23 PM
You know, Homey's better than all of us because he knows what that is.