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Friday 147

Keeping the tradition alive, wh00r3z, it's Friday 147. This will be our calm before the storm weekend. Next week involves 4 appointments to get everything ready for the chemo, which will start the following week. I'd love to spend an evening at the cabin, just to take in a little nature and to get my head on straight before all this begins. Might take in a movie or 2 this weekend...not sure when we'll have time again or if/when the wife will feel up to it again. Hoping for a normal/moderate day at work to end the week. What say you?

Might hit the gym tonight. Have been skiing the past two nights though and am feeling pretty beat so will depend if I get a second wind.

Getting our daughter's Nexus card tomorrow. Family vacay ready!

Since we've had actual, shit/winter weather consistently for the first time in many seasons this year, my cardio has suffered greatly. I did get in a mile jog and a mile walk yesterday, however, since we had a rare day of acceptable weather. I did better than I thought I would after so much down time. Back to the weights tonight, as we are scheduled for another deluge and colder air.

It was a week with ups and downs.
Carnival was fun especially for the kids, but we knew we had a funeral to attend at Thursday, so because of that we didn't feel like going on Tuesday.
There's still something of a cold and/or flu going around, which results in not feeling to well and lack of energy. It just doesn't go away.

The Winter Olympics however brought a lot of distraction. Our speed skating women won a gold medal each of four distances till now. Our men at two of three. And the one we didn't win brought Canada gold by a Dutchman who emigrated four months ago. Finally another anthem.
Fun fact was that we got more medals in one hour than Belgium got in the last 94 years together (due to an addition silver at short track) And one of those also was by a Dutchman who emigrated to Belgium for the skating.
Currently still at rank 3 overall is nice for tiny us. We won't hold that, but for a country which actually doesn't have any snow or ice for longer then a couple of days each year and currently sucks on football....

I kinda feel this has been a weird Winter Olympics; it's probably because of the god awful coverage here in the USA, combined with even worse commentary, save for maybe Bode Miller who actually knows what he's talking about.

Our best hope at a Speed skating medal got completely fucking screwed (in the lead, final lap, her hand gets bumped and they judges completely miss it).

Watched USA's Schiffin get gold in an event she usually sucks in, then stack it on her favorite discipline and get beaten by someone she's beaten 30 times in the last 4 years.

Shawn white fucking killed it though. Last run and you pull out the best thing you've ever done. Talk about rise to the occasion.

Snow looks fucking horrible though; the trees are all brown and the snowpack is so cold people are having to take stupid risks just to have a chance. Super G is going to be fucking dangerous tonight.

Then last night watched that Japanese guy do what was probably the most flawless Short Ice Skating program in history yesterday.

There doesn't seem to be a central village theme this time; it just seems like different events taking place in completely different places and very disjointed.

Dunno, just seems like a weird games.

I really shouldn't complain about life, given what you're going through at the moment Zoso, but I'm in a fucking foul mood today.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I really shouldn't complain about life, given what you're going through at the moment Zoso, but I'm in a fucking foul mood today.

Hey, no worries, man...everything is relative. Yes, I am bitching and moaning about my wife being sick, but she'd have no problem with me pointing out that 2 billion people woke up today, stepped out of their mud/grass/tin hut/shack, looked around, and wondered, "how/what will I feed my family today?"

Your wife sounds like a beautiful person, Zoso, nice to hear she's got such a great boss attitude

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Originally posted by DJ RANN I kinda feel this has been a weird Winter Olympics; it's probably because of the god awful coverage here in the USA, combined with even worse commentary

As an unbiased outsider who comes from a country with no medal contenders, I've been enjoying it so far... But I do have to agree with you - the commentary can make or break an event when you're watching at home.

I've come to dread every single word uttered by the figure skating announcers here in Brazil. The guy sounds like an unenthusiastic jaded dad going to a mediocre child's practice for the eleventh time in a week. The snowboarders are awesome though, they make you support everyone. When Hirano and James snatched White's gold medal for a few minutes, they were so overwhelmed with joy it was hard to feel sleepy even though it was way past 3 AM and I should've gone to bed at least a couple of hours earlier

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Our best hope at a Speed skating medal got completely fucking screwed (in the lead, final lap, her hand gets bumped and they judges completely miss it).

Think that was our Yara wasn't it?
I thought the same until I noticed she went through the corner on one skate after giving a bump to the Canadian girl. Also it looks like she lost speed as Yara just slides through the corner much faster. Difficult to see.
https://youtu.be/UL4fmp1Yq_I?t=47

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Shawn white fucking killed it though. Last run and you pull out the best thing you've ever done. Talk about rise to the occasion.

He's from another planet.

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Originally posted by Trance-M Think that was our Yara wasn't it?

Well, the Netherlands dominate speed skating even more than dutch DJs were over-represented in trance music charts, so it was the whole orange tsunami against the few foreigners who stood a chance

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Originally posted by Trance-M He's from another planet.

To this day, my only explanation for his defeat in Sochi is that Isaac Newton wanted to get back at him for breaking the law of gravity

sometimes bad things happen even when you�re not on a snow board

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Originally posted by Lira Well, the Netherlands dominate speed skating even more than dutch DJs were over-represented in trance music charts, so it was the whole orange tsunami against the few foreigners who stood a chance

Good article, as it also explains why we're good at it (dedication, professional teams).
However it's not all due to being in a professional team as Esmee Visser (22 years old, Gold medal 3km women) last year wasn't even good enough for a professional team and trained with some amateurs. Got her gear by crowdfunding and now out of the blue won gold.
Everybody expected Sablikova to win.

Shorttrack today was fun, no medals for us, but Korea is just unbeatable at the women, their men fucked up and made Canada extremely happy. That's shorttrack, always surprising.

Women Super G was the biggest surprise. Japanese men own figure skating again.

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Originally posted by Trance-M However it's not all due to being in a professional team as Esmee Visser (22 years old, Gold medal 3km women) last year wasn't even good enough for a professional team and trained with some amateurs. Got her gear by crowdfunding and now out of the blue won gold.

Whoa, I had no idea. This is the sort of stuff I like about the Olympics

Ester Ledecka's similar upset was also great.

Finishing one of the last "normal" weekends we'll have for a while with a few Modelo Negra and "Blood Father," starring Mel Gibson. When he's not a mouthy, drunken, Jew-hater he can be fun to watch. The bank is closed tomorrow for Presidents' Day in ze States, so it's a 3-day weekend. Surgery for the chemo port got moved to Wednesday, but that works out, because that means she will get her bone marrow biopsy while she is under for the port. Hopefully that means a little less pain. More appointments on Thursday and Friday, then, barring dee-saster, chemo starts the next week. I reckon that's when shiat will get real. Thanks, in advance, for listening to me bitch and moan. I wear my heart on my sleeve, so just slap me and tell me to STFU if I get too mouthy, COR whores.

This might be an obtuse question, but how will this affect your wife's work/job? Does she get any sort of disability or long term sick leave? Apologies, just wondering what your guys' new "normal" might be like...and how illness makes one realize that even mundane life can be taken for granted.

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Originally posted by Silky Johnson This might be an obtuse question, but how will this affect your wife's work/job? Does she get any sort of disability or long term sick leave? Apologies, just wondering what your guys' new "normal" might be like...and how illness makes one realize that even mundane life can be taken for granted.

She's worked only part-time for years, as she has home schooled my younger stepdaughter (now 16) since 2nd grade. However, it will greatly affect our income, as I just don't make enough to pay all of our bills. Her health ins. alone is over $500 a month. Fortunately, we don't have a mortgage or car payments at this time.

Lucky.

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Originally posted by Zoso She's worked only part-time for years, as she has home schooled my younger stepdaughter (now 16) since 2nd grade. However, it will greatly affect our income, as I just don't make enough to pay all of our bills. Her health ins. alone is over $500 a month. Fortunately, we don't have a mortgage or car payments at this time.

Fuck me. I think about this all the time when I take care of really sick patients; the way all the minutiae of daily life can compound one's worries and/or fears.

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Originally posted by Silky Johnson Fuck me. I think about this all the time when I take care of really sick patients; the way all the minutiae of daily life can compound one's worries and/or fears.

We'll make it work. We have a great support network, especially with family. I know at least half a dozen immediate family members I could call right now, and they'd all make a monthly premium payment. Although this is the most serious problem/illness we've faced in our 14 years, it's still "first world" in the sense that at least we HAVE insurance...and a first class hospital/oncology center...and the resources to get to and from treatments...and family/friends, all willing to chip in and support her/us.

That's great to hear, happy you guys have that.

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Originally posted by Silky Johnson That's great to hear, happy you guys have that.

Yes ma'am. I for sure don't want to give the impression that it's all bitch 'n moan/hopeless. Yes, we are both scared sober, but at least we have many positives to focus on as we go through this.

*nods, sips tea*

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Originally posted by Lira Whoa, I had no idea. This is the sort of stuff I like about the Olympics Ester Ledecka's similar upset was also great.

We had a few days without medals and today our women had their B final of the relay in short-track for 5th-8th place, so nothing to win today.
Turned out to become a crazy day for Jorien Ter Mors.
Last race at short-track, set a world record, win the bronze medal and become the first woman to win two medals (gold and bronze) at different sports in the same Winter Olympics (something Ledecka also can achieve, only not as first):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/ter-mors-medals-in-2-different-sports-at-same-winter-games

But I can understand most people mist this as this was simply a stunning performance today

My husband showed that to me and I didn't think it was real, lol.

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“I didn’t qualify for the finals, so I’m really disappointed with that. But I worked really for several years to achieve this,” Swaney replied when asked about her emotions after competing at an Olympics.

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