paved readings unthinkable reflection planning disregarding?…

Anyone vets out there?

RIP, Bob.  You will be greatly missed.

Are birds popular then, as well?

Okay, this may seem odd… as I am an adult, 30+ but I  love my hams.  I have 5 of them. 2 Roborovski at 7 mths, 1 Mottled Winter White(russian) at 6mths, 1 Golden at 2mths and a baby Black Bear at 3weeks and I love them all to bits!! 
Reading this site makes me feel so sad.. I can’t imagine what will I do when my little babies die and i just feel that 2 -3 yrs is too short to love them…

All the best to all the hammy parents and please do not give up on keeping them, do give them a chance to be with you and be loved by you….

Jac

What really interests me, though, are the postage-paid reply envelopes.  To send in nine thousand dollars worth of gold.  Really?  The USPS is competent, but not that competent.

When she was really sleepy and not moving from her bed and whistling with every breath I thought she was about to die and wanted to make her passing as comfortable as possible so i fed her water from a syringe a drop at a time, a bit like having tea in bed on a sunday. After a few hours of sympathy and water she started to pick up so i fed her a little honey on a spoon.

The up shot is, she is now eating and behaving properly and the whistling has stopped, I dont know if I cured her but dont give up, there is hope.  and if it doesnt do the trick and you cant take the vet option at least you will know their last days were comfortable.  I do usually use the vet for my pets but the hamster is oldish and I thought it was just her time. Thank god it wasnt.

That’s not a bug, that’s a feature. I love the ACLU, and I don’t regret giving them money over the years, but I do regret giving them my personal information. In terms of spam and (more importantly) junk snail mail, letting them get to me was a huge mistake, because they immediately shared my information with any slightly left-leaning organization that they could find.

I just hope some parents find this page before they buy small children hamsters.  I imagine it to be devastating.  It was to me — as an adult.

What I find fascinating — being in the position to see the IP addresses of the posters — is that upwards of 80% of the posters are from the UK.  Hamsters must be far more popular there than they are here in the States — I cannot think of another explanation.

Also this week worth looking at:
B/S chicken breast: $1.99/lb. Marinate and cook the whole batch at once in the oven, slice and freeze in 1 to 2-meal portions. It goes straight from the freezer to the microwave.

Don’t forget to get some vegetables and fruit for good health. Not doing so could cost you more $$ in the long run:
Eggplant $1/lb
grapes $1/lb
Safeway brand frozen veggies, some varieties, $2 (for 20oz to 32oz bags)

By the way, freezer bags are on sale at VONS this week as well.

Ingredients
1 pound dried black beans
1 pound beef stew meat, cubed
1 pound sausage
salt & pepper, to taste
1 onion, chopped

Directions
Soak beans overnight. Pour beans and water into crockpot. Brown beef and sausage. Drain excess fat. Stir ingredients into beans in crockpot. Cook on for for 6-10 hours. Check occasionally and add water if necessary.

I’ve eaten this stuff over rice, on toast, wrapped in tortillas, and with a spoon. Depending on the amount of water you use, it can be served a lot of different ways, and you can make a lot of it for cheap. The key is really to get the cheapest cuts of beef that you can and cube them yourself. I tend to go for the one pound rolls of hot sausage and break it up rather than buying links and cutting them. It doesn’t matter how tough or fatty the beef is; nine hours in the slow cooker will convert rubber tires into something that will melt in your mouth. This is also one of those dishes that works wonders with the Tabasco Smoked Chipotle.

I am fairly addicted to the show and get annoyed when there is any other host besides my favorite Allister.  Surely I need to get a life…lol

Thanks for writing.

Your post isn’t worth a response as long as yours, but I will note a few things:

1. You don’t know me.  You don’t know a thing about me, or even about this site.  I have a “quote rotator’ on the front page.  That quote you reference is one of about fifty that rotate, that stood out from books, movies, or music lyrics and seemed to resonate with me.  If you hover your mouse over the quote, you will see its source.  I’ll save you the trouble on this one: it’s from lyricist Layne Staley, from a song called God Am.  The reference, to people who know the lyrics or bother to check Google, is primarily to the stinging autobiographical critique of the existence of an imaginary God.  You didn’t Google, and you are a computer professional?  “Telling”, indeed.

2. “Predisposed to medical issues”: would that be like someone who has scoliosis, repetitive strain injury, and has been seeing a chiropractor regularly for thirty years?

3. Thanks for the insinuation of elitism.  I guess you were impressed by Jean’s “woman of the people” act?  Great.  Good for you.  If the thing keeping you from pursuing actual medicine (as opposed to “alternative” or “pretend” medicine) is the lofty attitude of doctors, thanks for freeing up the waiting room space at my doctor’s office.  However, even though I probably wouldn’t like you any more if I met you in person than I do having read your diatribe, I really do hope that your current chiropractor doesn’t treat your “subluxations” for the decade it takes for, say, breast cancer to metastacize.  That would be unfortunate, especially if you’ve bred already.

4. Just a general response to your veiled and unveiled threats, that I guess you imagine were rational debate to get me to delete a post: welcome to the Web.  Try the honey-not-vinegar approach some time, and see if it gets you any better results.  Go ahead and send this to Jean.  You think I’ve never gotten a cease-and-desist letter before?  I’ve had websites online for 13 years.  They’re awfully fun to post scans of and ridicule.  You’re not in California any longer, but presumably you are somewhere with the First Amendment?

5.  Why didn’t I go to physical therapy immediately?  Because I was in intense and immediate pain, and the chiropractic community pretends they are a silver-bullet panacea.  Yes, I was foolish.  I’m trying to keep other people from making the same foolish choice I did, especially with a hack like Jean Duffy. 

6. Sorry your arm hurts.  Poor thing.  Sorry if it cramps your typing style.  I was injured in a rear-end motor vehicle accident on-the-job (can’t comment more due to current litigation.)  So, refresh yourself with bullet #1, and then take a hike.

Bye!

First, let me say that although I’ve seen chiropractors since I was a teen (scoliosis), Jean Duffy is the first chiropractor that I stayed with, and there are very good reasons for that.  (BTW, I saw her regularly for about 10 years until the time I moved out-of-state, and now I see her when I am in town visiting — having a long-term practice with long-time patients, she is obviously doing something right!).  For one thing, although you insinuate that she is a “crook” and basically accuse her of having a bad attitude in general, I found her to be more one-on-one rather than lofty like some doctors can be (was it maybe the Yonkers accent that got you?).  As far as working with my insurance company, she was the best — it was very seamless, and I paid my co-pays when the bills came.  Otherwise, I didn’t even have to be involved.  Her staff has always been friendly (and she has the best massage therapist I’ve ever gone to — Mary — whom I miss terribly!) 

I could go on and on about my great experience(s) with Jean Duffy as my chiropractor, but I’d rather address a few things you threw out there.  The main thing that got my attention is that you said your neck popped on it’s own, something that Jean could not do.  Was that later that day?  You said earlier that you couldn’t do it yourself either, so did you think that the relief by just ‘turning your head’ was a miracle?  I’m surprised you didn’t connect her words with the results: “…about chiropractic not being a “pill” that ‘fixes something immediately’.”

You also said that you had great success through physical therapy after an accident a year prior.  Well, why didn’t you go there first, especially since you were already so skeptical of chiropractors?  I also wondered if the neck pain was possibly a result of that injury (I am still suffering the afteraffects of a pinched disk 30 years ago).

You really just sound like you are ranting about an experience that didn’t go the way you expected it.  I know the internet is completely unmonitored and uncensored, and anyone can post anything, but it’s really unfair the way you slander Dr. Duffy’s name (and your intent is obvious by the fact that you state the reason you are posting her name without her middle initial as well is to make it easier for people to find this using a search engine).

I poked around your website a little to see what you were all about.  The very first thing I see is “I’m not fine, f*%# pretending” is displayed as part of your website banner.  Hmmmm, very telling.  On your “about this site” page, you begin by stating that you are “on medical leave from developing software for a living”.  Well, I developed software for 10 years, then switched to graphic design which I continue to do from my computer, and although my right wrist, elbow and shoulder bother me frequenly, I am not on medical leave.  It sounds like you are predisposed to medical issues — with your experience(s) maybe alternative medicine is just not for you.

When I spoke with Dr. Duffy earlier today, she was totally unaware of this incident.  I’m sure she’ll be looking through her 2003 medical records to see who you are and what really happened (there are always at least two sides to every story).  I hope that anyone who comes across this blog will consider the source, and if they are interested in being treated by Dr. Duffy, they should talk to her about this and any other concerns first and make up their own mind.  I also vehemently hope that after 5 years you have reconsidered the situation and understand the repurcussions your blog can have one someones reputation — you should rescind!

(No, seriously, folks — hitech-dolphin.com.  It’s an aquatic Time Cube [where there are two positions: this, and Captain Speedy!])