And I too have dial up. But I get it for free, so I'm exempted from losing my Nerd membership card due to lack of high speed access.
"Max H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ah, dial-up. That brings me back to the days of hand-cranked modems and
using Morse code for file transfers. Well, here's an image-intensive
site, but to the best of my recollection it has no flash or video, and
it's always good for getting me laughing until I snort:
www.tshirthell.com . My favorite is this one:
http://www.tshirthell.com/store/product.php?productid=201
HTH.
-Max H.
hermespal wrote:
>
> Actually, that's a pretty fair approximation full stop. Thanks. I
> take it you've experienced this particular hell?
>
> Would love to check out the link, but unfortunately my parents'
> computer is on dial up and does not handle movies well. Will come
> back to it when I'm on the high speed with the laptop later in the
> week, if I manage to escape the house and get down to the library.
>
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], Eleanor Keyser
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Sigh. I, too, have no life. I've been meaning to second (and now
> third and fourth) the supportive shout out, and I do so now: I'm
> sending out psychic sympathy rays. Do you feel better? No? Okay,
> well then, here's this link:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/7njwc
> >
> > Click "Watch Movie" and turn the subtitles on. I must warn you,
> though, this song will get stuck in your head, terminally.
> >
> > Also, hospitals suck. No, I mean it--they really, really suck. It
> seems almost barbaric as the loved one of a seriously ill person to
> sit endlessly and uselessly as people who could help muddle their way
> through what is to them just another day at a job they're tired of.
> It's a ruthless alternative universe that seems both completely
> shocking and infinite, like you've been doing this and will keep
> doing this all your life. Yet you know intellectually that it's
> inevitably going to stop, and then quite abruptly. There's no
> insulation, and there's no time to process what's happening. You're
> just thrust into a new monotonous routine, surrounded by pain,
> sickness, and death. You can't give your good health to someone
> else, and your friends can't give their good spirits to you. And
> it's especially perverse that the world keeps spinning anyway.
> Worst, you know it has to be this way, and you want so much to get
> back into orbit, but it's not that simple. It feels like a
> > part of your soul is always going to be anchored in this moment,
> and hereafter you're always going to be a little less free, a little
> more tethered down. You can't let it go, but you want to, but you
> feel like you shouldn't. I mean, where does the horror go? The pain
> and grief are so tangible they can't just evaporate, right? People
> memorialize death, but they don't memorialize dying. You'll go stark
> raving mad if it doesn't stop, but you'll be completely lost when it
> does. You feel everything and nothing. You're bouncing from
> reassuring optimist to steeled pragmatist every thirty seconds. You
> love dearly and hate dearly everyone around you. It's rather like
> being a teenager again. Also, hospital soap really smells. It's
> truly nauseous stuff.
> >
> > Okay, so that's like, a fair (and rambling) approximation of about
> a tenth of what you're feeling now, right? And you kind of want me
> to piss off (because I don't really understand) but you want to
> appreciate that I've tried? Kinda sorta? Fair enough. Wish I could
> say something wonderful, but I can't. I'm really, truly sorry. You
> do know how lucky your family is to have you, I hope. It will end,
> and it will get better, and you will be different afterward. Life
> sucks, but at least James will always be here with a well-placed
> snarky comment, so there is that.
> >
> > Also, popsicles help.
> >
> > hermespal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Look, I know it's the weekend
> and most of you actually have lives,
> > but you're really letting me down fellow weingarten chatters.
> Where
> > is the humor? The interesting links to something bizarre or laugh-
> > worthy? (okay, the cow stuff was great, but it was yesterday!)
> >
> > Okay, I hereby withdraw the guilt trip. Sort of. I mean, if I was
> > REALLY going to withdraw it I wouldn't post this, would I?
> >
> > One of your bretheren, or is it sisteren? is going stir crazy in a
> > small town tonight. Missing a HUGE birthday bash for a dear friend
> > aka SO's business partner back home (my home, anyway). Feeling a
> bit
> > blue. If I'd thought of it, I would have sent (er, I mean asked
> very
> > kindly if he would consent) Areo in my stead (which would have
> been
> > truly interesting vis a vis the SO, but what is life without a
> little
> > mystery?).
> >
> > Allrighty then. I feel better just spilling that out. Sorry to
> > impose, but thanks for reading. Hope you had a great weekend!
> >
> > (moving away from the computer now) mumble, mumble, grumble,
> sniff...
> >
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