Penguin4x4

that's what she said

Sadly, in our society of compromise, you have to be extreme in your demands to affect change in any way. You can't just say "we need a system that guarantees a basic level of medical care to all citizens", you have to say "100% FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL!"

then again it was a cruiser/tourer

It's asinine. But i keep on wasting time trying to think of a way when they clearly, clearly don't go together. And surprised Sean remembers i have a buell! my great uncle had a marine amp hooked up to aftermarket marine speakers mounted in (I'm assuming it was a factory option) factory cutouts in his Road Glide/Electra Glide and was plenty loud even at freeway speeds.

the Belgian equivalent of McDonald's

Twirl-a-girl+++

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQwdRN8626w

the cityXplorer maps look interesting, too

Bought the Garmin nüvi 2555LMT; only cost 40 bucks out of pocket after all the gift cards. Seems to have everything but voice activation and Bluetooth, neither of which I care for.

Anyone have opinions/experience with portable GPS units? I got a stack of Best Buy gift cards for Christmas I need to use. Here's their GPS section >>> http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olstemplatemapper.jsp?id=pcat17080&type=page&qp=q70726f63657373696e6774696d653a3e313930302d30312d3031~~cabcat0300000%23%230%23%231bm~~cabcat0301000%23%230%23%234c~~cabcat0301014%23%230%23%231q~~nf873||436172&list=y&nrp=15&sc=carSP&sp=-bestsellingsort+skuid&usc=abcat0300000

The doctor in Durango wanted to do an IM rod + screws, which involves setting the leg in a splint, removing the patella, reaming out the middle of the tibia, hammering in the rod, driving the screws through the tibia into the rod, replacing the patella, and stapling all the incisions shut. After viewing the x-ray, he saw a "soft spot" near the break and decided he wouldn't do anything without an oncologist first biopsying the area to determine if it was a granuloma, sarcoma, or just a soft spot in the bone. He's partially right, because agitating the sarcoma (if it were a sarcoma) with said surgery just makes it go into hyperdrive and spreading through the body that much faster. Sarcomas are a lot like asbestos products that you find in older homes in that they're typically benign unless agitated. An IM rod would be wrong for this application, however, as the leg was not displaced at all; a simple plaster cast to immobilize is all that is required. After the bone has healed, the "soft spot" in the leg can then be biopsied (if they so choose) to determine what it is. This way, the leg heals properly and the "sarcoma" (if it were a sarcoma) remains undisturbed.

did I miss anything while I was gone?

Christmas/New Year's recap my aunt (technically my biological uncle's first wife, but still more of an aunt than bitch he married) lost her battle with cancer my cousin hit a whoop while skiing near Teluride and got launched into a tree, snapped his tibia like a chicken bone; had to load him in the car and drive him to a local clinic, then reload him in the car and drive to some hospital in Durango (surgeon there wouldn't operate on it because his x-ray "looked like there might be a sarcoma", fucking retard), so they spent then night in Durango, loaded him into the car yet again and drove to Lubbock. Clean break, no rod/screws necessary, he got hella lucky another cousin in Houston somehow got a nice gash on her forehead (details are fuzzy) and had to be taken in to the ER for stitches at the same time her dad was in surgery to get his knee drained because of a staph infection (still not sure how that happened either) liquor totals: a fifth of Crown, a fifth of 1792, a handle of Jack, a few cases of "beer" tons of great food, but I was stuck on the toilet a couple days ago shitting pure liquid fire outta my ass for a good 10 minutes straight, so I guess it evens out and uh......the Cowgirls choked like the little bitches they are

Christmas in the Texas Panhandle...or as you may say in the Rust Belt, Labor Day

grilling ribeyes on christmas eve and it's about 30 degrees out...this should be interesting the great thing about the Lubbock area is you can get your hands on some nice grain fed 30 day aged steaks rather easily