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It works in Voyager on Android if I tap the image, but it's static in the thread.

Oh, it's my time to shine! 😁

Some of this is quite gruesome, so don't read it if you're squeamish.

I've got a serious health issue that's lead to lots of other health problems. As you can probably imagine, I've been in pain quite a few times.

Years ago, before I found out about my health issues, I'd been out drinking with friends, and one had taken his shiny new bmx with him. I thought it was a good idea to have a go, but promptly fell off and landed on my elbow. I took a deep gouge out of the side of the joint, and it wouldn't heal properly. About a month later, at an outdoor music festival, some dipshit had rollerblades attached to his rucksack and managed to swing the whole thing into my elbow, bursting the wound open. That one hurt quite a bit.

I went to the dentist once with a cracked tooth. The dentist didn't realise that it was infected, and tried to pull it out. They assumed that the anaesthetic wasn't working, so gave me more and tried again. Four times. On the bright side, I went back to work afterwards, not realising that I was high as a kite 😆

Since I've been ill, I've had some interesting ones too.

I had a kidney biopsy that went wrong. A biopsy is taken by cutting a small hole above the kidney as you're lying down, inserting a 'gun' that grabs a small piece of the kidney, then closing the hole. Because of the risk of bleeding, you have to lie still for eight hours. I've had a few biopsies, so after a few hours I knew something was wrong. My back and my lower abdomen were burning and in lots of pain, so I called the nurse. There was a feeling like I needed to pee really badly, like past the point of bursting, but I couldn't, and it kept coming and going. Eventually I managed to go, but it was agonising, and I passed something solid. The doctor came and gave me a mild sedative and I was catheterised. It turned out that they nicked the kidney during the biopsy, and it bled into my bladder. My bladder was then blocked by blood clots that only had one way out.

My favourite one though was the 'helpful' doctor.

When I found out about my illness, it's because I was in a seriously bad way. I had multiple organ failure, and was put into a coma. When I came out of the coma, I had several different lines going into my body where they had been giving me things like meds and fluids. One of the lines went into the right side of my neck but was due to be changed. This is where the helpful doctor came in.

He brought a colleague with him to show him how the procedure worked, so explained everything as he was doing it. He told the other doctor that changing the line is quite straightforward, and explained that you have the option to give the patient some anaesthetic injections to make it less painful. He then explained that as it's mainly removing and replacing some stitches, giving the anaesthetic would actually mean giving more injections and needles than just doing the stitches directly, and would be more painful. Then proceeded to cut into my neck with a scalpel.

Apparently he'd forgotten that cutting would be more painful than a needle...

I really enjoy reading, but I can't picture a scene, or what characters look like. It can be a bit confusing at times, but doesn't usually take away from the enjoyment.

As an example, my favourite sci fi author Randolph Lalonde (great independent author, buy his books 👍) had a scene in a recent book where some characters had a shootout in a warehouse that held several spaceships. The ships were all at least a few metres long, so the warehouse was huge. In my head, everything was centred on a small area around the characters, and I could sort of picture them being within a few feet of each other.

I couldn't picture any details, it was as if he had written that 'the man stood near the woman, and pointed the gun towards the crates', even though the scene was well written with good descriptions. My brain couldn't translate the description into a layout in my head.

I still really enjoyed the scene, but every now and then it was as if my brain realised that things should be further apart, or one character should be taller than another, for example.

Oh, that's interesting, I can see why DuPont objected.

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We drink more.

I can't help with the account, but have you tried searching for Tefal? It's an old brand that used to sell kitchenware in the UK, and is pronounced the same way as T-Fal. I'm wondering if there's been a spelling mistake somewhere along the way :)

Can't you access the files through the Onedrive website?

In that instance I would go for either three or four. The paths either side of the crossing are paving stones, and the crossing itself is asphalt.

I'm not sure what the guidelines are, but I'd lean towards marking the paths as sidewalks. They're not separate areas, they're part of the sidewalk, but crossing the road.

EDIT: Sorry, I missed your last sentence. In that case I would just mark the crossing as asphalt. Although the line crosses the aerial image of the sidewalk, you wouldn't map the overlap. As far as OSM is concerned, the path is the whole sidewalk, and can have a width tag if needs be :)

USB floppy drives are pretty easy to buy online now. I bought one from either Amazon or Ali Express a little while ago, and it works perfectly :)

You can remember what you were thinking about earlier? 🤨🤥

I wish I'd thought to take a photo of a computer I cleaned in 2010. It had been sent to the recycler I worked for from a factory as it had stopped working, and I opened the case to see what sort of components it had.

It was a mid sized ATX tower case, and was literally filled with dust. I don't mean that there was lots of dust, I mean I couldn't see any of the internals. I took the side panel off, and it looked like someone had filled the case with foam.

The business next door sold cars, and had an air compressor, so me and the guy who ran it took it in turns blowing the dust out. I never found out what the specs were, as even the PSU was full, and I didn't want to risk turning it on, even after cleaning it.

It's a great series too. I'm overdue a catchup 🙂