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Chewbacca Defense

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  1. Gonna start calling you Randy "Ban Hammer" Mossman.
  2. That just sucks man, lamotrigene is one of the only, if not *the* only anti seizure meds that does not have horrible side effects. I remember when we were going through the medication options when my daughter got diagnosed, and holy hell it was awful. We felt very fortunate when lamotrigene worked for her. The side effects for everything else were that much worse for women. They pretty much guarantee (70-80%+) any pregnancy would have serious birth defects, and that's assuming the child even survived to term. I think for a couple of meds we were told we would have to sign an agreement guaranteeing she would be on birth control. I really hope your insurance company comes through for you or you are able to figure something out.
  3. If you get serious about it, be careful on your housing search. Parts of Helena has badly contaminated groundwater, and have to rely on bottled water for drinking, cooking, etc. I can't remember the area, but learned about the issue when we looked into moving back to Montana a few years ago. If you are struggling to find info on it let me know and I can hit up family we have living in Great Falls.
  4. I'm sorry to hear that, I am also fighting a losing battle over a prescription right now, and while its not for something as critical as seizures, I still need my medication to function. The crappy thing is that they approved it last year, but they switched pharmacy managers and now the new pharmacy manager won't approve it. My daughter is on lamotrigene for her epilepsy (along with one or 2 other drugs) and the combined out of pocket if she didn't have insurance would be ~$2,000 per month. You can live in a really nice house in a good chunk of the country for that kind of money. I hope you can get it figured out. From my own personal experience, there should be a way to fast track the reviews/approvals. For my insurance company, it was for the doctor to mark the request as "urgent" Unfortunately, for me it just meant them telling me "NO" that much quicker. My prescription is $5k per year out of pocket, not something I can really afford to do.
  5. What in the hell is the "first four" and why I am I in that group #notabasketballfan #dontfollowmarchmadness
  6. A couple of rumbles of thunder and some small hail up here IMBY. Looked like there was an impressive thunderstorm over Bellingham Bay with a couple dozen lightning strikes.
  7. Dude....your reading comprehension sucks....he said his wife went into the Navy to become a nurse. The Navy doesn't really give you a choice on where you are going to live.
  8. Just watched a video by someone in the shipping industry, and he pointed out that when you throw a single screw ship hard in reverse, the stern will walk sideways and turn the ship (I had forgotten about that.) That also takes water water flow off the rudder, so it loses its effectiveness. He said in all likelihood if they had left it in neutral and steered (assuming they had rudder control) they might have been able to avoid hitting the bridge. There are pilings around the pier, and maybe they would have held up to a glancing blow. It almost sounds like a Titanic type situation. I've read that if the Titanic had not turned, it would have hit the iceberg head on. The forward 1-2 bulkheads would have been compromised but most likely the ship would have stayed afloat, or at a minimum stayed afloat long enough to evacuate to another ship Also, it looks like the crew in Baltimore dropped the port anchor in an effort to get stopped, which is a common practice.
  9. Just watching a discussion on all of the issues/resignations within the Republican Party right now, and one of the people said "the Republican Party is so dysfunctional right now they wouldn't even be able to name a Post Office after Donald Trump" So true.... I think if the republicans could grow some stones and kick MTG to the curb, they would be a lot better off. Goetz has enough problems on his own, I don't see him rocking the boat too much if MTG is gone.
  10. You could go through ANY spending bill going back at least the last 30+ years and find stupid stuff in there. Pork Barrel spending at it finest
  11. Quite possible the "full steam" as evidenced by the large black smoke plume was them throwing it into full reverse to try to get slowed down if not stopped. Those big ships absolutely do not stop or turn on a dime. Also, they probably lost rudder control if they lost power. I think those ships are single screw ships, but if it was a twin screw, then if they only got one of the engines back on line, that would have caused the hard turn assuming they went full power reverse.
  12. Beautiful day here today, but unfortunately I spent most of the day in the garage swapping out my water heater. I did find out today that my son is doing Ski to Sea, and I will be doing it as well, so it's gonna be father vs son racing this year. Looking forward to the challenge.
  13. Up to .60" of rain on the day. This afternoon I'll be playing my first soccer game in about 6-7 months since getting a slight tear in my meniscus. Hopefully the rain lets up before then
  14. That's crazy you had pneumonia and didn't know it. Glad you were able to get to the hospital and get things taken care of. When I was in college I didn't have insurance so I ignored the case of bronchitis I had until I woke up one morning and could not breath. I felt like I was drowning. My girlfriend at the time had asthma, so I managed to get a quick phone call to her asking her to come over with her inhaler. Luckily she had a key because I could not get out of bed. My vision was starting to grey out as I heard her pull into the driveway. I did a double or triple dose of her inhaler, and it opened up my lungs....and got my heart racing. In hindsight, I'm lucky I didn't do more harm than good with all those inhaler hits. She took me to urgent care and a chest x-ray confirmed pneumonia, and that was after the inhaler opened things up. I coughed up stuff I did not know could come from a human body. It took me a while to bounce back from that. Take care of yourself and get lots of rest.
  15. My wife grew up in Corvallis at the time and said they could hear it and see the top of the ash plume. She said they got a dusting of ash from it at some point as well.
  16. Go CATS Go! My son graduated from MSU, 4th generation (or maybe 5th) on my wife's side of the family. His Great Grandfather got a Civil Engineering degree after serving as a B17 pilot in WW2 then went on to take over the family ranch. His bail stacks were always very precise LOL. His brother was a Rhodes Scholar from there. My wife grew up in Corvallis and her mom did all her post grad work at OSU, and growing up in Georgia, I am a big UGA fan. My brother graduated from Clemson, so I like to root for them as well. I don't have any skin in the game in Washington, but following my tendency to align with the ag oriented school, I prefer WSU over UW.
  17. Why would he need to do that? He's worth BILLYUNS!!!!! It's interesting (or maybe not....funny...that's the word I am looking for) that 30 different companies rejected his inquiry about them covering his bond. Why oh WHY would they be concerned about doing business with him? They could stand to make a cool $10M off the deal. I guess they could also be out almost half a billion dollars, so there's that.
  18. How neighbourly of you to be so dismissive. Folks who have family and/or property in the area of concern are probably worried, and rightly so. I think @ShawniganLake checks both of those boxes, but f*ck him, he's just a Canadian right? He's too far north to count. The situation he is describing is still not good for the region as a whole, where we usually count on winter snow/moisture to snuff out summer wildfires. This year, that did not happen up there. What does that say about the vegetation up in that area that has not yet burned? Unfortunately the Border Patrol failed to stop the crappy snow pack conditions at the border. It's pretty bad up here in the North Cascades of Washington too, and while I haven't look at data lately, my telltale on the snowpack conditions (parking/carpool area for the ski area is about 200 yds from my house) shows that it is an absolute dumpster fire up there, especially after this past weekend. I can count on 1 hand the number of days the parking area was absolutely packed. Where I live, which is on the edge of the urban expansion for my little corner of Bellingham, I've never been concerned about fire. This year, I'm starting to get a little concerned especially with how dry it has been.
  19. I would not mind that either, I was just looking at the snow water equivalent maps, and its looking pretty craptastic up this way.
  20. Congrats! I didn't finish my degree until I was 47, which was in 2019 and I remember the incredible sense of satisfaction when I turned in that final project and got the grade back. I also remember that for about 2-3 weeks afterwards I would be chilling on the couch watching TV, and have these sudden panic attacks "Oh crap! What am I doing I need to be studying right now!!!!"
  21. We sometimes have people confuse our English Cream Golden Retriever with a Great Pyrenees. Sometimes my phone even gets confused. My wife was down on the waterfront with the dog and actually had a couple argue with her that we actually had a Great Pyrenees and NOT a Golden Retriever. Our dog is AKC registered, and we know the breeder very well. We know what we have. Our doggo is not a fan of the heat either. She can handle 70-80 in small doses, above 80 its not happening unless we stay in the shade. On the flip side, it can be 10-20 degrees and dumping snow, and she will grab a bone and go out in the yard, lay in the snow, and chew on her bone like it is a sunny 70 degree day
  22. Quite hot today…:fire and brimstone kinda hot
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