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richard
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response 201 of 413:
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Oct 29 07:12 UTC 2003 |
IBB I got my new drivers license in the mail (the old one expired this
month), and the picture came out lousy. They only took one picture, and
they should have taken three or four and chosen the best one. It'll be a
pain in the ass to have the picture taken again, and I'll have to pay more
money to get a new ID issued. But it is either that or have this horrible
picture of myself in my wallet for the next four years *sigh*
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rcurl
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response 202 of 413:
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Oct 29 07:25 UTC 2003 |
You should be pleased - people will look at it when you present it for
ID and say something like "you look MUCH nicer than that picture". Think
what they would think if the opposite were true....
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michaela
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response 203 of 413:
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Oct 29 08:05 UTC 2003 |
Heh. :)
The SoS offices in K-Zoo let you see your picture on a little monitor so you
can approve it. If you hate it, they'll take a new one. I'm in love with that
service since my last picture would have been horrid.
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scott
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response 204 of 413:
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Oct 29 13:18 UTC 2003 |
The Ann Arbor office has that little monitor, too. Trouble is, I was so
blinded by the flash I probably would have approved a photo of Saddam Hussein,
let alone the crappy photo of me that ended up on the license.
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gull
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response 205 of 413:
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Oct 29 14:05 UTC 2003 |
I deliberately didn't smile for my picture this time. I figure when
some cop pulls me over and looks at my license, I'm sure as hell not
going to be smiling, so the picture might as well match.
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other
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response 206 of 413:
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Oct 29 14:50 UTC 2003 |
I pulled a "Flash" and held up a mask of Nixon in the instant the picture
was taken. Unfortunately, they looked at the picture and, quite puzzled,
decided to take another.
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mynxcat
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response 207 of 413:
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Oct 29 15:26 UTC 2003 |
They don't let you chose the picture you want in Ohio. And I change my
hair so much, I rarely ever really look like my picture anyways.
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tod
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response 208 of 413:
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Oct 29 16:34 UTC 2003 |
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keesan
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response 209 of 413:
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Oct 29 17:47 UTC 2003 |
I got about 2 hours sleep due to pills that I have to take through Friday.
Tried to sleep again after taking the next pills (before they took effect)
but it sounds like someone outside has been sawing up a tree with a chainsaw
and dumping the results into a truck. I can sleep Sunday all morning.
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i
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response 210 of 413:
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Oct 30 03:21 UTC 2003 |
The hard drive which appeared to die in our main server has, after being
swapped out, worked perfectly. Ditto the server, leaving us wonder which
component(s) actually failed - after well over a year of uptime, too, so
diagnosis may well be impossible.
While torture-testing the "failed" drive this morning, another drive on
the same SCSI bus failed...and that failure persists.
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aruba
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response 211 of 413:
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Oct 30 04:24 UTC 2003 |
It's the solar flares.
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mcnally
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response 212 of 413:
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Oct 30 08:30 UTC 2003 |
The solar flares definitely messed up the ISP I'm working for these days.
They knocked out our link to the (Canadian) mainland, cutting us off from
the rest of the world for most of the afternoon.
On top of that I'm told I missed a fine display of northern lights last
night. I went out to look around midnight but either I was too early or
I need to go someplace with a better view of the northern sky.
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jep
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response 213 of 413:
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Nov 5 03:51 UTC 2003 |
I hit a deer this evening. No one was hurt, but I did a lot of damage
to my car. I'm not sure if it'll be totalled. AAA claims (over the
phone) said probably not but the tow truck driver and police officer
said probably yes. The front end is smashed in, the hood is bent, the
windshield is smashed, and the air bag went off.
Over the weekend I had $550 of repairs done to the car. It is a 1992
Taurus; tpryan sold it to me 2 years ago.
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goose
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response 214 of 413:
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Nov 5 04:11 UTC 2003 |
I'm sorry to hear that John. I know that when my Jeep was crushed by a tree
(and subsuquently totalled) AAA gave me some of the money back for repairs
that were just done on it. I did have to provide receipts. Dealing with the
total loss unit was not a very pleasant experience, but it was partially due
to the guy I was dealing with being fired mid-process. Overall I've been
quite happy with AAA and making claims.
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jep
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response 215 of 413:
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Nov 5 04:22 UTC 2003 |
Three years ago, I totalled my Mercury Topaz due to black ice. It was
a 1989 Topaz, three years older than the Taurus. I seem to have a
thing for killing cars that are 11 years old.
Goose, when the Topaz died, that's when I bought your old car.
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other
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response 216 of 413:
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Nov 5 05:10 UTC 2003 |
Impression:
Broad-based right paracentral mixed disc protrusion at the L3-L4
level results in recess stenosis.
Grade I anterolisthesis at the lumbosacral junction secondary to
bilateral pars interarticularis defects of L5. This results in
moderate neural foraminal compromise bilaterally.
Concentric annular tear within the posterior aspect of the L4-L5
disc.
:( :( :(
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willcome
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response 217 of 413:
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Nov 5 05:17 UTC 2003 |
Hi! I'm willcome here!
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tsty
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response 218 of 413:
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Nov 5 10:17 UTC 2003 |
and welcome as well ... welcome to grex!
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i
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response 219 of 413:
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Nov 5 11:38 UTC 2003 |
Re: #213
Ouch...but glad you're not hurt. Meg's gotten fast & generous pay-outs
from AAA when her cars have been wrecked - keep us updated ('specially
since i just renewed with them...:).
Re: #216
Even allowing for my medical illiteracy, that doesn't sound too good.
How's the treatment prospects?
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mary
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response 220 of 413:
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Nov 5 13:12 UTC 2003 |
Re: #216 Ouch. Looks like a lumbar-lami on the
horizon. Bummer, Eric.
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remmers
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response 221 of 413:
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Nov 5 13:38 UTC 2003 |
Yep, slipped disc. Those are not fun, and you have my sympathies.
(Saw similar medical language when I had mine a year ago.)
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scott
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response 222 of 413:
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Nov 5 14:04 UTC 2003 |
re 216: Ouch! Sorry to hear that, Eric.
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edina
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response 223 of 413:
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Nov 5 14:25 UTC 2003 |
John, glad you're ok. Eric, feel better soon!
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aruba
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response 224 of 413:
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Nov 5 14:56 UTC 2003 |
I'm glad you're OK too, John. And Eric - that sounds like what I had; at
least the L5 part. Is the pain in your leg?
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jiffer
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response 225 of 413:
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Nov 5 15:21 UTC 2003 |
Ew! Ouch Eric! Good luck with healing.
IBB for minor reasons, mainly that my microbiology test may be upped to
the 14th instead of the 26th....We had to vote in class concerning
this. I need my procrastination time! And this time I wasn't
procrastinating that much. Grrr, so I seem to still be
procrastinating. Don't get an education.
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