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[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I wonder if buying another eReader is a better way to give Amazon the finger over the merger than leaving Goodreads. lol.

Keep the Kindle, but buy another brand and only use the Kindle for freebies or super sales. :)

[Bryn]

That sounds like a strategy, Terri, and I think is my way forward. :}

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hit them where it hurts. In the money groin. :)

[[deleted user]]

Terri wrote: "I wonder if buying another eReader is a better way to give Amazon the finger over the merger than leaving Goodreads. lol.

Keep the Kindle, but buy another brand and only use the Kindle for freebie..."

Lol! I'm behind the times when it comes to these e-reader things. Dead trees for me. But, if I did own a Kindle, I would definitely follow that example, Terri. Give em that middle finger!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Me too, Derek.
I don't eRead, I am dead trees all the way, but at least when I download samples from Amazon to check out for our group Read Polls, I am doing it to my Acer Tablet through the Kindle app. :D
If I wanted the freebies I don't even have to own a Kindle to do it. I use the free app for Android.

[Darcy]

That news story about the J.D. Salinger letters sold by an elderly woman to pay for her medical care made me think of how difficult that sort of thing will be for our descendants. I won't be easy to find a Facebook status, Tweet or email stuffed in a corner rafter in a loft.

Probably I should I a link to the story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/...
Now this reminded me that they may also have difficulty in finding a news article in the floorboards, or as insulation in the walls.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Yes, you are right. What a shame.

I have some old newspapers from under the floor of an old house on the farm next to my parents farm. They bought that neighbours farm and were doing the cottage up for rent. Dad was throwing all the old newspapers out with complete disregard and mum saved some of the better condition ones for me. I wish I had been there to save them all. They dated from early 1900 through the the second world war. There are some incredible stories in them,

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Derek,
Do you know if our other two Australian NFL players got picked in the draft and in what round?
Brad Wing and Alex Dunnachie.

[Bobby]

Terri wrote: "Derek,
Do you know if our other two Australian NFL players got picked in the draft and in what round?
Brad Wing and Alex Dunnachie."

Couldn't find Alex but Brad Wing was 207th pick by Philadelphia Eagles.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Oh poor Alex. That must be painful (no matter what country they are from) to sit through all that and never hear ones name.

[Mark]

Bobby wrote: "Terri wrote: "Derek,
Do you know if our other two Australian NFL players got picked in the draft and in what round?
Brad Wing and Alex Dunnachie."

Couldn't find Alex but Brad Wing was 207th pick b..."

As a non american footballer fan, how does this picking work?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Mark, have you seen that Brad Pitt movie Moneyball? I imagin it is like that.
Money changing hands, team CEO's selecting and swapping players behind the scenes....I could be wrong though.
Bobby will definitely know the answer to this. Our Bobby is a cameraman with ESPN. I bet he has seen a thing or two behind the scenes. :-)

[[deleted user]]

Terri, Alex Dunnachi was not drafted, but signed as a free agent with the New York Jets. He will have a chance to make the team if he performs well in training camp over the summer. Wow! Had no idea Bobby was an ESPN cameraman. That's awesome!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Oh wonderful. All three of our players got drafted/got signed. Good stuff.
I thought you might like to know that our Bobby does that. Since you are a sports nut :-)

[Leland]

I always wondered what 'Free Agent' meant. Usually I hear that in baseball (which I follow a lot more closely than football). American football, I can watch that without even knowing or caring who's playing (unless it's the Seattle Seahawks or college ball)

[[deleted user]]

Mark, Terri's description of the process is pretty accurate. Basically, the worst team from the previous season gets the first pick & the champion gets the last pick. But it can get complicated because draft positions can be traded for other positions, or players, cash, or combination of things like that. There usually is a lot of wheeling & dealing. It's a headache to keep up with. Love the sport, but the draft is incredibly boring.

[Anne]

Alex has an obiously Scottish name. My friend on FB spells it Donnachie.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Leslie wrote: "I always wondered what 'Free Agent' meant. Usually I hear that in baseball (which I follow a lot more closely than football). American football, I can watch that without even knowing or caring wh..."

Then dude! You totally have to keep an eye out for our Aussie NFL player, Jesse Williams, who just got drafted in the Fifth round by the Seattle Seahawks. :-)
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/j...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Anne wrote: "Alex has an obiously Scottish name. My friend on FB spells it Donnachie."

Yes and pronounced sort if like, Donargee.

[[deleted user]]

For the record, I am a big fan of what is called football every where else in the world (still have no idea why we call it soccer here). I try & keep up with the Euro leagues as best I can, but , unless you have an expensive satellite program, it's a little hard to keep up with over here. Lionel Messi is the man!

[Dawn]

Pffft.....Hockey is the only real sport! ;)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Dawn wrote: "Pffft.....Hockey is the only real sport! ;)"

Field hockey? I agree. :-) (I know you mean ice, but I love the field hockey as that's what I played from 7 years old until about 10 years ago)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Derek wrote: "For the record, I am a big fan of what is called football every where else in the world (still have no idea why we call it soccer here). I try & keep up with the Euro leagues as best I can, but , u..."

We call it Soccer over here. Football (known as Footy) to us is Rugby League, Rugby Union or Australian Rules Football.

[Chris]

Terri wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Pffft.....Hockey is the only real sport! ;)"

Field hockey? I agree. :-) (I know you mean ice, but I love the field hockey as that's what I played from 7 years old until about 10 ye..."

Yea for field hockey! Played it for about 20 years and still coaching an under 15 team at school.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Are you really!? Awesome. I loved in the hockey...and the Footy....when we beat the Kiwis. Our arch nemesis in all sporting codes. :-)
I played either right fullback or right half. :-) And on the wing if I was needed.

[Bobby]

Derek has explained the draft *yawn* perfectly. I was actually working all day and oddly enough I am in Anaheim for the Stanley Cup first round.....ice hockey not field...although I enjoy field hockey as well. Oh yeah, Anaheim beat Detroit 3-1.

[happy]

I am constantally amazed that people will watch 3 days of the NFL draft. I do admit to tuning in to see who my team drafted though :D

[Bobby]

happy wrote: "I am constantally amazed that people will watch 3 days of the NFL draft. I do admit to tuning in to see who my team drafted though :D"

A brutal way to waste your day. I have a hard time believing they really have high audience numbers. I feel its more a contractual thing that ESPN has signed on for.

[Mark]

Thank you all for explaining that for me.

[Dawn]

Ha, I never even consider field hockey when I say hockey. There is nothing but ice hockey around here. You would think it was the only sport in the world based on what gets talked about here.

And I avoid it like the plague! :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Dawn wrote: "Ha, I never even consider field hockey when I say hockey. There is nothing but ice hockey around here. You would think it was the only sport in the world based on what gets talked about here.

And..."

You have all that ice. Its no wonder.

[[deleted user]]

You Aussies call it soccer too? I did not know that. I thought it was just us goofy North Americans.

[Jane]

I thought everyone in the world except us Yanks called it football, and what we call football is American football... good to know...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I think we call it Soccer because we had three codes of football that were popular in Australia before Soccer. The ones I mentioned earlier, Rugby League, Rugby Union and Australian Rules Football. It wasn't until the last 10 years that Soccer became more popular across the country, so it missed the 'football' train and became 'the Soccer' in general conversation over here. :-)

[Jane]

Sounds reasonable.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

We had power out yesterday (the reason i wasn't checking into the group all day.).
When we were sleeping, at about 4am the power went out. Some lights were working, but everything else (power points, hot water, oven etc) were out.
We assumed a fuse had blown, but in case something like a rat or possum had chewed through a wire in the roof hubby grabbed a torch to go turn the power off at the Mains Box that is about 50 metres from the house.

We called trying to get an electrician urgently and nobody was answering their phones. Daylight came, we look out......and there was a bloody power line down across our driveway!! One of the three lines that come across to that mains box. The power line was lying in the grass where mys husband had walked only 30 minutes before. And not only that, but the wire was draped over a metal fence on our driveway and hubby had opened a metal gate connected to that metal fence as he'd checked the Mains Box! The gate is hinged to a timber post. So while the metal fence was live from the fallen line, the metal gate LUCKILY was not live as the timber post wasn't conducting the electricity.
When the powerline crew got here they said he was lucky it wasn't a wet morning (rain) or that timber post would have conducted the electricity into that metal gate that hubby opened.
So he escaped with his life twice in a matter of moments. Missed walking on the live power line in the grass and the metal gate wasn't electrified because the ground and post was dry.
We are still in a bit of shock about it. I was nearly a widow yesterday, :(

[Bryn]

We were worried about you yesterday, what with the absence. Seems we had grounds -- about your hubby, though. Phew.

[Darcy]

The lesson here is always wear your wellies when the power goes out :D

I know you don't do the drink much, but I'm guessing there was a thought of a dram or two.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Definitely grounds for concern yesterday. A breathtaking close call. Two of them.

Haha. Nah, no craving the drink in the face of that near miss...just more coffee.
And since we had power out, we had to go boil water in a pan on the gas BBQ outside.
Then as soon as the power crew made the line inactive and got it off the driveway...we went SHOPPING!! :D
Forgot our dramas with a day of shopping in the big city. Bought a nice new mattress (that hopefully will improve the bad back) and a new reading chair!! For one of my other reading nooks. :D That made us feel better. Shopping therapy.

I went to the shops with the intention of buying this reading chair;
http://www.harveynorman.com.au/catalo...

But surprisingly, the fabric turned out to be scratchy. The velvet has a metallic thread running through it that is scratchy. I was bitterly disappointed.

Plan B...just find a really soft, squishy reading chair that isn't stiff on my back.
I found a leather chair in a completely different style, for a lot less money.
I just need a nice Ottoman to go with it.
This is it, all set up in the corner of my room off the bedroom.


https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net...

[Linda]

You have had some close calls. You nearly lost Hubby twice, and your back isn't completely well. I don't know what is wrong with your back, but no position is good with a bad back. I believe in the chiropractor!
Your room is lovely. I love the arrangement.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Thanks, Linda. :-)
The redecorating of that room is not quite finished yet. It was a bedroom next to our main bedroom.
Since we have a lot of bedrooms in our house we are bringing my office upstairs into that bedroom (the reading chair photo), and making the office downstairs into a bedroom instead.
I am excited about the redecorating. :-) And am glad to have my office set up upstairs now. Not so far away from the main living areas of the house. Won't feel as segregated from the activity as I was when the office was downstairs.

I am not a chiropractor believer I am afraid. I have been to them before and they have always made things worse. I stay clear of them.

[Bryn]

Time alone (a couple of years) seems to be fixing my 'mouse-shoulder', if that helps. The physio was of definite use but time's been the real healer, cross fingers.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I've always found giving something time just to heal is key. Time and lighter duties. As for time alone...haha...I think that would make hubby sad. :)
The Doc wasn't sure, (I can't affors the MRI so we'll never know) but she thinks I had done two things at two different times. Tore a muscle in my back most recently, which was the big culprit the other week, and tore rib cartlege some time back which hasn't healed properly. So when I say bad back...I technically mean back muscles and ribs. Always easier to just say I hurt my back. :-)

[happy]

Ouch!!! - take in easy and get better this time.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I am..as you say...this time. :-) I should not have kept working on the farm the way I do when I damaged my ribs. Now that I have done damage to the muscles in my back I am basically doing very little. Trying to do small amounts of exercise and the stretches the physio told me to do.
Still can't lie down. Have been slipping in the recliner chair in a semi upright position since it happened. Over a month.
Hoping this new mattress I bought will at least let me lay down to sleep as it is quite plush. :-)

[Jean]

Too busy settling in an adopted dog to do anything else then what do I find? Near-death experiences!

Not a bad back here but bad knees. I was sceptical about any physio/osteo/whatever but was prescribed 'kine' here in France (physiotherapy) and had my life and attitide changed. Completely different from the usual physio in the UK, this kine worked my body hands on, using techniques similar to Alexander techniques, and she got me walking normally again and over the self-pity. Since then she's cured a frozen shoulder, and tendonitis. I now know that it's not a question of 'physio' but of quality of the specialist who does it. A good physio makes an incredible difference, working with you, not telling you 'Go away and do exercise A.'

[Linda]

It is interesting to hear about the different cures. The physicians I know are not in love with chiropractors, but they recommend therapists and different exercises. Many of the people at the health plex pool do water therapy for bad knees, backs, shoulders, feet, whatever, and the physical therapist is there telling them what to do. Our athletes get unbelievably hands on good care. Me? I just want a pill to make the pain go away. But those soft tissue injuries take a long time to heal, and doctors cannot give pain pills for an extended period of time. (The wine cure is not monitored.) Terri, your back IS messed up, especially if you sleep in a recliner. I hope the new mattress helps. Can you crawl? That sounds stupid, I know, but with some back injuries one cannot walk, sit, stand, or lie down, but can crawl. Not being able to find any position to get relief is horrible. I want you to get better.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I don't know if kine physio is what my physio did, but she was good in that she massaged the tightest areas around the damage and gave me stretches. No exercises. (I guess exercise can aggravate tears).
When I was a teen I went to physio for my knee (sporting injury) and all they did was send me away with exercises that made the condition worse.
My mother has bad knees and she recently went to a couple physios and they sent her away with exercises and those exercises were agony for her and she stopped doing them. Some physios just seem to think that exercise is the 'physical' remedy for everything. But this one I went to the other day with her showing me stretches to do and massaging the muscles was good.
I just never went back because I didn't want to pay that much money for a 15 minute massage when I could go to a professional massage who does sport and remedial massage for the same price for an hour of all over massage. :-)

My Dad who often puts his back out and things, has swapped chiropractors for an osteopath. I think that is what he calls him. He is having much better resoonse with the Osteo than he ever did with the bone cracker (chiro).

Don't you worry about me, linda. I am mending and have full mobility. :-) No need to crawl. When it was bad the other week and I had to go to the hospital in the middle of the night, I could not do anything, but walk a little, without pain. I have healed from that bad pain and the pain is manageable right now. Still there, still affecting my day to day life, but I can live with it. I just want to be able to sleep lying down again. That is my big goal.

[Jean]

Massage and stretches were the key for me but done by an expert, who gradually developed the supporting muscles so the knees could take normal walking on the flat, no problem. Stairs and hills, to be avoided but I can at least do them again, a bit. I've a lot of experience with dogs' joint problems, and some of what I learned works for humans too. Anti-inflammatories are vital but the nasty side-effects from some of them are off-putting. Harpagophytum is a great natural anti-inflammatory; chondroitin and glucosomine are the two ingredients for prevention of arthritis that seem to have some scientific support and a lot of personal testimony (I'd speak up for the positive effect on dogs). I'm interested in the cider vinegar each day idea but I forget to take it. Any of this might help your Mum with her knee problem - backs are complicated! My stepdaughter's had an operation on hers and it's better but not right :( Glad yours is better than it was.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Thanks for all the advice. Unfortunately my Mum's are bad arthritis. Once that calcification sets in not much can help.
I keep telling her to get knee replacement surgery....but my Mum is old school. Where you live with pain and you don't go to doctors unless it is necessary and you don't do surgery unless it is compulsory.':-)