SS UPDATE

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Shadow Shack
March 21, 2011 - 3:52am

I haven't been posting much lately, PC woes being what they are and all sorts of other stuff depleting the funds for such fixes. But like they say, when it rains, it pours ---


Both my wife & I were treated for kidney stones by this son of a bitch:

http://www.lvrj.com/news/medical-board-suspends-las-vegas-physician-s-license-118035174.html


 

While neither of us were exposed to that particular procedure, who knows what other single use items he recycled...


This is the THIRD doctor here in five years to pull this kind of shit. I may never see another doctor again, it's just starting to look safer not knowing what ails ya.


Apologies for the strong language, but I'm mad as heck.

I'm not overly fond of Zeb's Guide...nor do I have any qualms stating why. Tongue out

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rattraveller
March 21, 2011 - 10:49am
Sorry to hear this. Hope you can find a doctor that isn't bad and get you and the wife checked out.
Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go?

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jedion357
March 21, 2011 - 4:22pm
My plumbing partner had kidney stones after he stopped drinking beer and didn't replace that liquid intake with something else- Chinese doctor told him to drink lots of water to flush his kidney's or he be back for repeat proceedures and all the fun that would entail. Consequently he preaches the gospel of drinking water.

Hope thinks turn out better for you Richard
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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Arclight
March 25, 2011 - 7:04pm
Oh man, SS - my appologies and best wishes. One of the worst fears with the current state of medical care.

I hope he gets his just deserts...
"If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -A Einstein

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Shadow Shack
May 19, 2011 - 3:55pm

Well, I'm back with a new PC and a new high speed connection...both of which are long overdue!

Good news on the doctor, neither of us were affected by it because it was a procedure neither of us had done. Bad news is the wife had to go to the ER once again in April from dehydration and a bladder infection. Discharged teh same day fortunately...but it was a trip nonetheless. Suffice it to say, between last year's renal failure and this year's unscheduled trip she has converted to water as well. Not quite up to the 2-liters per day but getting there.

Now, I got some catching up to do (not to mention file loading etc)

I'm not overly fond of Zeb's Guide...nor do I have any qualms stating why. Tongue out

My SF website

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TerlObar
May 19, 2011 - 4:59pm
Welcome back!
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jedion357
May 19, 2011 - 5:22pm
Hey, Welcome back
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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w00t (not verified)
May 19, 2011 - 6:52pm
...on a five year mission....
these are the voyages of the starship SS Shadow....
be weeee hoooooooo

Smile

so you can download all the SF goodness, no more sending you CD's
lol

lets get that Royal Marine online game running.

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iggy
May 19, 2011 - 8:36pm
You have been missed.  Welcme back.
-iggy

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Shadow Shack
May 21, 2011 - 2:45am
w00t wrote:
so you can download all the SF goodness, no more sending you CD's
lol


Yep, I already downloaded issues 13-16 and the article index Wink

Quote:
lets get that Royal Marine online game running.


Are you talking about Jedion's game or the project here?
I'm not overly fond of Zeb's Guide...nor do I have any qualms stating why. Tongue out

My SF website

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w00t (not verified)
May 21, 2011 - 8:50am

We have two Game Reports in the fanzine, need more. :-)

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Shadow Shack
May 21, 2011 - 1:20pm
Is the game room working here now?
I'm not overly fond of Zeb's Guide...nor do I have any qualms stating why. Tongue out

My SF website

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w00t (not verified)
May 21, 2011 - 9:45pm
Shadow Shack wrote:
Is the game room working here now?

Nope.
Nobody is using it so the chat host sees inactivity, we need to reset it each time people are interested. I don't know that the idle time is. However, most of us use MapTool and Skype. You can play a lot more than typing in chat. 

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iggy
May 22, 2011 - 8:10am
I'd love to try out a game in MapTool.  I've down loaded the program before but never had anyone to connect it up with to test it out.
-iggy