[Closed] What's annoying you currently? II

Still looking for things that I can't find. Got two book cases done so I did make a little dent in the CD's. Will need four and possibly five more.
Tom

Just read the latest forecast and we are headed to below zero fahrenheit tomorrow night. Well, at least there is no snow in the contest.
Tom

I dunno, but I could tell you how to get 4 gallons using only a 5 gallon container and a 3 gallon container. Very useful for disarming bombs.

Only if Simon says so.


No, but with milk powder you can make bombs. I saw that on Discovery.

Hallowe'en night.

I've never been a fan of this night for a long time. I remember going to a neighbour's house when we were very young and dooking for apples in a big metal tub and trying to take bites our of soda bread dripping with treacle that were suspended from string. All without using our hands.

But, more often than not my memories are of lazy and rude kids begging at the door for sweets. Now we tend not to answer the door when people call - it's never any kids we know. And the last couple of years no-one has knocked on the door.

A couple of times we have had eggs thrown at the windows and tonight was one of those nights. At 10.45 in the evening! If I had the chance I'd have them eat the eggs they still had left.

So, first job of the day tomorrow morning is cleaning up.

In St. Anthony Village last night it was rather quiet for Halloween. I just wish that the construction workers didn't have to start at 6AM!
Tom

Actually the opposite Tim. The temperature is in the 30 to 50 degree range Fahrenheit
Tom.

Slight annoyance, already dealt with.
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Thanks Martijn!

Last week I broke my wrist, after which the good doctor at the hospital put it in cast and asked me to come back for a routine check-up and to replace the first-week-cast with a tighter one for the next 3 months (I know...). Today, after removing the temporary cast and while enjoying the roentgen pictures made last week, the doctor started talking about making a scan of the wrist to see if he needed to surgically place a screw in. A screw! He might want to screw my wrist! The scan is tomorrow and I'm really hoping it'll turn out fine, or I'm screwed. Apparently.

Good luck Bob. How did you break your wrist?

Something similar happened to me to once. I was hitting the pedal hard after a stop at a roundabout, and then the whole metal pedal just snapped off. I managed to stay on the bike, awkwardly stopping the bike in the middle of the roundabout. Thankfully, no car was in my proximity; otherwise it could have gone really wrong.

Anyways, hope you'll mend quickly. Thankfully, a sprained wrist heals pretty quickly.

It's usually something very ordinary like falling off something ( thankfully I suppose ).

Every now and again you meet someone who had a lucky escape with a story that makes your eyes

I used to work with an African asylum seeker ( can't remember which country he came from ) who had three bullet wounds, one of which was in his face.

Ow? What was the problem?

Good news! Ish. They won't surgically place the screw right away, but want to give the wrist a chance of healing by itself first. There's a big chance it will recover completely, although I should also keep in kind there is still a fair chance it won't recover at all (which sounds to me like: "basically, we don't know anything about it, so good luck with that!"). The odds are on my side, with 80% of recovery, but its not untill after these 3 months that they'll decide if my wrist needs surgery for the placement of a screw. A relieve, albeit not a definitive answer.