The Coffee House

[table1349]

No cats where I brush my teeth. They are just as nasty as they think we are.

Like I said, I don't brush my teeth there. That's the Guest Bathroom.

Do you have a laundry tub?

Nope, laundry room with a working SS sink. No laundry tub.

 

[Gary A.]

Good morning, hosers.

Burns are no joke. The little homebrew accident on Sunday has caused me some issues. I'll spare you the details, but when they say that it can take 72 hours for the damage to truly show from a burn, they weren't kidding.

I'll be headed back to the doctor today. I'm hoping they'll be able to take care of some of the discomfort. I'll start at the walk-in clinic, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I'll end up back at the hospital. If not though, my co-pay is significantly less at the walk-in. Luckily, I have this week off from work. The only thing I can wear on my feet are flip flops. I'm not sure that would fly with my boss.

Gary doesn't know about days after the burn .... but, Gary has heard that significant relief can be attained by thrusting the burn into flour, (an anecdote from Vietnam). While it is vitally important to immediately cool the burn area, icing as in frozen water ... not the sweet stuff on cakes, is not a good treatment. Cooling the area for five+ minutes with cold, running water is considered the best first aid.

If the ankle is still painful, throw a handful of flour at the burn and rub it in ... just to see if that helps. (At worst it will make your ankle/foot appear to have a sock which is a fashion don't with flip-flops.) Good luck.

 

[table1349]

Good morning, hosers.

Burns are no joke. The little homebrew accident on Sunday has caused me some issues. I'll spare you the details, but when they say that it can take 72 hours for the damage to truly show from a burn, they weren't kidding.

I'll be headed back to the doctor today. I'm hoping they'll be able to take care of some of the discomfort. I'll start at the walk-in clinic, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I'll end up back at the hospital. If not though, my co-pay is significantly less at the walk-in. Luckily, I have this week off from work. The only thing I can wear on my feet are flip flops. I'm not sure that would fly with my boss.

Call me if'n yall want some help setten up that stil sos that it wont blow up on ya.



Get better quick.

 

[Gary A.]

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. Gary has started processing the parade photos with Iridient. Solely because his little cream-cheese brain can sorta figure Iridient out and because it has a built in review/light table mode. One can upload an entire folder of images. The images appear as a strip of thumbs and the bottom of the window while a selected image is 'full size' in the edit window. Gary's workflow is to review each image at full-size in the edit window and mark/rate the images he desires to process with a single star. After initial review Gary will upload only the images with a star and process/cull those images. This is nearly identical to Aperture and a system Gary likes. Affinity, as best as Gary can initially determine, hasn't a review/light table mode. In Affinity, one has to load up each image one at a time, which is extremely time consuming. Gary attempted load up multiple images into Affinity and the cursor just spun and spun and after a bit, Gary tired of the game and loaded Iridient. Gary did read that Iridient does the best job on Fuji RAW, but he thinks the differences between Affinity, Iridient and Capture 1 are down to the pixel peeping level.

Gary has ordered an Affinity tutorial book.

 

[limr29 2]

Good morning, hosers.

Burns are no joke. The little homebrew accident on Sunday has caused me some issues. I'll spare you the details, but when they say that it can take 72 hours for the damage to truly show from a burn, they weren't kidding.

I'll be headed back to the doctor today. I'm hoping they'll be able to take care of some of the discomfort. I'll start at the walk-in clinic, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I'll end up back at the hospital. If not though, my co-pay is significantly less at the walk-in. Luckily, I have this week off from work. The only thing I can wear on my feet are flip flops. I'm not sure that would fly with my boss.

Gary doesn't know about days after the burn .... but, Gary has heard that significant relief can be attained by thrusting the burn into flour, (an anecdote from Vietnam). While it is vitally important to immediately cool the burn area, icing as in frozen water ... not the sweet stuff on cakes, is not a good treatment. Cooling the area for five+ minutes with cold, running water is considered the best first aid.

If the ankle is still painful, throw a handful of flour at the burn and rub it in ... just to see if that helps. (At worst it will make your ankle/foot appear to have a sock which is a fashion don't with flip-flops.) Good luck.

Huh. Never heard of the flour trick. Growing up, I was taught to use toothpaste for minor burns and also for mosquito bites. Always worked pretty well for me, but I also don't know how bad Jon's burns are or the feasibility of using toothpaste on them.

The worst burns I ever got happened when I was too young to really remember (although I do have a flash of a memory of my feet being bundled up and hanging over the side of the crib.) According to family stories, my father was holding me up and bouncing me around, and there was a cup of hot coffee on the table in front of him. Half the family says I kicked the cup, and the other half says that my father just bounced me too low and hit the cup. Either way, I ended up with scalding hot coffee all over my feet. Apparently my skin was just peeling right off.

I don't have scars, but I still have discoloration on my ankles that I've always called my leopard spots.

 

[table1349]

That's why we keep one of these growing in the house. Great for burn treatment.

 

[Gary A.]

Toothpaste is for filling in small pinholes in drywall ... not for burns. (Gary guesses some cultures use toothpaste as a cure-all similar to chicken soup ... )

 

[Gary A.]

Gary has tried filling small pinholes with chicken soup, (... he is no longer allowed into offices at the Wells Fargo building.)

 

[limr29 2]

Toothpaste is for filling in small pinholes in drywall ... not for burns. (Gary guesses some cultures use toothpaste as a cure-all similar to chicken soup ... )

Toothpaste has many uses

To be clear, I'd only put it on after the cold water treatment. The cooling effect would reduce the pain of the burn for me.

 

[JonA_CT]

No ketchup, no toothpaste, and no flour.

The doctor recommended honey instead.

Medihoney, that is. It's pretty cool stuff.

MEDIHONEY | Derma Sciences

 

[vintagesnaps]

When I first saw that clip from that airplane I wondered who was screaming and what on earth was going on. From a short clip obviously you can't tell what happened prior for the situation to escalate to the point it did, that police/airport security was called in. (Apparently once they're called to remove a passenger, they have to get them off the plane...) Wonder why they didn't do what's typically done and offer compensation? and see if someone will volunteer to take that for a later flight - before they all got on the plane and before it got totally out of control.

I was just thinking... what this reminds me of is over the years kids who maybe had a dual diagnosis (cognitive impairment and emotional disorder etc.) having a complete meltdown. Or any kid, or toddler, really, to be worn out and scream and throw themselves on the ground, etc. But this just doesn't seem typical adult behavior. It probably would be a more typical adult reaction to be upset, angry, etc.and go back in the airport and raise holy heck with somebody about being bumped, but this reaction seems out of the ordinary. Made me wonder if there was something else going on with this guy. Not that he should have been carried off the plane in that manner, it certainly should have been resolved without that happening.

 

[limr29 2]

No ketchup, no toothpaste, and no flour.

The doctor recommended honey instead.

Medihoney, that is. It's pretty cool stuff.

MEDIHONEY | Derma Sciences

Honey has some pretty powerful antibacterial properties, and it is also a humectant, so it can help keep the area hydrated.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Medical honey??? That sounds funny. I've taken first aid over the years and the running cool water is what I learned to do. Hope Jon it gets better, you must've had a pretty nasty burn.

 

[JonA_CT]

Yeah, I hit with cool running water for about 20 minutes right after it happened. The damage was done. I won't get too graphic, but I have a deep 2nd degree burn. Hopefully, with the medihoney and keeping everything clean, I won't end up with any scarring.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Ouch, second degree, yeah the running water I suppose only did so much, although maybe that kept it from even being worse.

It goes back to ancient Greece and comes from plants in New Zealand... well, you learn something new every day. And I have stuff to do that I don't feel like doing so of course I'm sitting here reading about ancient honey.