Thank you all!

marina14I wanted to thank you all for the kind words you have sent to me via the website, Twitter and email.  It’s amazing how much it helps while I am lying in bed really sick knowing that my students are pushing for my recovery!

I’ve never experienced such a high fever in my life!  As you can see in the picture on the left.. I have become a little green!  I mean… I did find two bite marks on my neck the other morning…. I wonder if they could have caused my illness? Could I be becoming a…   No.. that’s’ ridiculous!

Anyway…. I did want to thank you all.  You guys have all made this dreadful experience that much more pleasant for me!  I really appreciate it so much and love you all.

Now, keep your hands clean, and don’t let any bats bite you on the neck!

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  • Greatest Potential

    Marina,
    It’s a good thing you went to the doctor. Pnemonia is nothing to sneeze at. Your mom loves you and lots of love here. ~xoxo~

  • Greatest Potential

    typo correction: pneumonia

    Now please don’t rush off to do the word origin of that word, you need your rest!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    We are all pulling for you 100% to get well. You have done a wonderful job on the site while sick. But you do need to rest now and finish the rest later when you get to feeling better. :smile:

    PS. Marina if anyone bites me on the neck it is reserved for you. :wink:

    @Alex you did a great job on the picture of Marina.

  • Greatest Potential

    Just say Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis three times and that should do the trick.

    I’m doing that now…
    Pneu…mono…ultra…micro…scopic…sili…covo…lcan…oco…nio…sis..

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

     
    Marina, you are such a crack up!!!
    I hope I didn’t scare you, and you will be fine. This is the one time you do not want to play superwoman.
     
    While you are recovering, you will be fine. The critical moment in time is after the recovery, when you feel like you can jump buildings in a single bound. That is the time you want to be very careful of any re-infections and exertions. The key is to take it very easy for at least one weeks after recovery and preferably two weeks. Avoid flights and public places if possible. Clean hands often. I use spray bottle of water and lemon juice to keep hands clean. Smell and feel of lemon is refreshing.
    Keeping you in my heart always.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    Marina, you should be sick every day. :lol:
    Did you see the bottom of the page?

  • tratatun

    Hi Marinochka!
    Выздоравливай поскорее)
    и поменьше пей neuro-gasm, through this one you are come to green i think ))

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

     
    “I’ve never experienced such a high fever in my life!”
     
    You are such an overachiever;
    How high did your’s go?
    I had 103.1 degrees F once and had to be carried to bed.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

     
    They say laughter is the best medicine.
    So, when you say it helps while lying in bed recovering while students are pushing for your recovery, what was so
    darn funny that I said? You think I should quit my day job? :lol:

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Pff! You lightweight PK. :razz: I had 104.5 once. I was swimming just lying in bed.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    Ohhhh my gawd, I’m surrounded by overachievers.
    Well, I’m going to see your 104.5 and raise mine to 104.6 or until I start seeing my favorite delusion, whichever comes first.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Marina, I’m guessing that you are the most loved woman in the universe, so you should be able to draw a lot of strength from that.
    At least you clearly still have your sense of humour, which is a very good sign.
    I’m sure many of your fans are praying for you and I am meditating & pushing as many positive waves in your direction as I can.
    Take care and get well soon.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

     
    Love that Bob!
    You got that right, “Most Loved in the Universe
    Meditating, Love and Prayer of Healing is on its way to you Marina.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    Ok my temperature got so high I had to have an ice water enema and a cold water lavage. :smike: :lol:

  • heaven here i come

    Darling Marina

    I’m sorry if my failure to check in to your website caused your ilness. I will pray for your swift recovery.

    The saying goes “Feed a cold and starve a fever”. If you reduce the amount you eat you will be even slimmer and sexier, and no doubt more intelligent because as you always say “Intelligence is sexy.”

    Most people make the mistake of going bavk to work too soon, as pedanticKarl suggested when he spoke of feeling “like you can jump buildings in a single bound.” Please DON’T do that but put your elegant and strokable feet up and don’t move, because your millions of fans have got you covered.

    May the good Lord bless you and keep you; He has put you on this earth to educate us and give us pleasure in our learning.

    Hugs are great, and I have sent you some which are designed to enfold you at exactly the moment when you are feeling low.

    With love,

    Heaven nere I come!

  • originalistrick

    Keeping you in my heart and in my prayers, Marina. There’re more good vibes coming to you than you could possibly know, because you’ve touched so many folks with your wonderful spirit. Hope you recover soon, Dearest Teach. Please rest.

    Always.

  • http://tour-russia.com dsfoto

    to repeat my Tweet as I know not if you get them.
    Dear Teacher Please Get Well Soon, Mama is always right some of her Borsch would fix you right up.

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    :-)

    :-)
    :-) GOD BLESS MARINA and be well…HotForWords…R*U*L*E*S :-)

    :-)

    :-)

  • bobsully

    Get well soon sweetie…. :)

  • http://mraugust.multiply.com augie

    sweetie get well soon and i know that if i was there to comfort you mmmm you may feel better love and kisses August

  • acethebathound

    Hey, Marina!
    Get Well Soon!
    Being sick SUCKS Big Time!

  • eugensdiet

    Hope you went to the doctors. A high fever isn’t anything to fool around with. I went to the ER with a high temp 10 days ago and it took a week before I started feeling better.
    Please do not come to visit if you are contagious.
    Eugen

  • http://www.tony-bernhoffer-photography.com tonyb

    Dear sweet Marina, I did not pray any curse upon you! In fact, last night after a late dinner I got all sweaty like I was having the flu. And I thought maybe I needed to eat something to help my blood sugar. And then I developed a serious diherriah. And I expelled my bowels about five times. And I had to shower my rear end off afterwards. One time I did not get seated on the toilet in time and there was runny diaherria all over the bathroom-the toilet seat, on the toilet, in the bathtub, on the floor! I got some of it up but I was so wiped out by the experience my poor mon helped clean it up. That is almost psychic that you and I got sick last night after dinner,. I thought it was something in the jug of orange juice or my bologna was spoiled!!! Kroger did have the bologna on sale for half price!!

  • http://www.tony-bernhoffer-photography.com tonyb

    It is just my imgaination but as I was going through this, I felt like I was really dying. and in my mind I could imagine a male radio announcer on the Voice of Russia saying they just launched a nuclear attack against the USA!!! I don’t like America or Toledo very much either.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    TonyB that’s just a little more info than we needed. :razz: :razz: :lol:

  • http://www.tony-bernhoffer-photography.com tonyb

    On the Travel Channel today Anthony Boudrain was visiting Berlin and a horror museum. I do sometimes not listen to the sound. There was a coffin in the museum and the sign NO HAVING SEX IN THE COFFIN! Kinkiness right?

  • Greatest Potential

    hmmm. guess i won’t be having that pudding for desert.

  • Greatest Potential

    No, no, hold up on that, no dessert for me. You go ahead, you’ve got chocolate sauce, the nutty toppings, whipped cream, sprinkles, m&m’s, and those crispy european rolled wafers. Any other time I’d say dig right in, but not now. Perhaps in a few hours I will have by then [extrapolated] what i’ve just read from my brainpan and I will be ready to rock n’ roll with the dessert.

  • Greatest Potential

    there’s no edit function and i didn’t get that other “s” into desert to make dessert and so i had to post something else or i’d look like a dimwit for not spelling dessert correctly

  • Greatest Potential

    there’s no edit function and i didn’t get that other “s” into desert to make dessert and so i had to post something else or i’d look like a dimwit for not spelling dessert correctly

  • Greatest Potential

    that’s weird, it posted my comment twice. hey, i didn’t do that. argh.

  • Greatest Potential

    now i really feel stoopid

  • Greatest Potential

    yes, having sex in a coffin, very kinky

  • Greatest Potential

    It’s even more kinky to put a sign up that states it is prohibited for strangers or the public to climb inside a coffin together with their clothes on and engage in sexual activities inside there, especially in a museum!

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    I never laugh so much over someone scribing like you did tonyb… :lol: Vitamin C toxicity is very rare, because the body cannot store the vitamin. However, amounts greater than 2,000 mg/day are not recommended because such high doses can lead to stomach upset and diarrhea.

    U better talk to Captain Jack!!!

    :-)

  • Venomrock67

    Marina! That pneumonia is nothin’ to mess around with! All’s I can say is just try to take it easy and you’ll have a fast recovery. Drink lots of green tea. :smile:

    @alax
    Excellent job on the pic. :wink:

  • Greatest Potential

    Thanks leonard! That Vitamin C info was added an extra touch of the giggles for me. Cherry on top!

  • Venomrock67

    WTF why didn’t the character show up over the a’s, oh well.

  • Greatest Potential

    yeah, good job on the pic äläx. less is more what an extra 30 seconds in photshop can accomplish in under 2 minutes flat.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    I like the edit button just for this reason and if you make a mistake on a url or in the <a href=" to highlight a word.

  • Greatest Potential

    Frank Frazetta is probably rolling around naked in barbaric anger laughter as warm burnt sienna tones thicken on glistening muscular nude models bodies. whisper less is more

  • Damiana

    @marina
    pneumonia is badbadbad.. get lots of rest and get well. : )

    @alex
    that’s the pic you showed me a couple of weeks ago.. awesome job! \o/

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    Greatest Potential
    Member
    Rolling Stone – Gimme Shelter – Bridges to Babylon
    …[shelter]…
    I think it was Meatloaf who said “I want my money back” :oops: Rocking Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu – Jerry Lee Lewis

  • Venomrock67

    tonyB not meaning to laugh at your accidental bowel movement scenario, but I’ve been there too! thanks for keepin it real bro! :wink: :lol: :lol;

  • Greatest Potential

    less is more..
    that’s like the latest tijuanna ass blanket scam going on. buy a throw rug for your donkey with less is more material, less your ass will be sore. redonkulous

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard
  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    :oops: I love the dead

  • http://www.tony-bernhoffer-photography.com tonyb

    I worked in this colored movie house in high school. and one night in walked a drunken poor black man. And he collapsed and puked in the lobby. It was very gross to see. but the policman who was the security guard cleaned up the black man’s puke for me because he said he used to ba an ambulance driver in the Army and was used to that kind of stuff. You really a Fire Department Captain?

  • http://www.tony-bernhoffer-photography.com tonyb

    Just trying to say I can feel Marina’s pain and suffering. I used to try in grad school a few times to make potato soup from scratch as I would listen to Radio Moscow on a quiet saturday afternoon. Let’s imagine in my cockroach infested student housing apartment that I am in Russia!!

  • Greatest Potential
  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    Quote”The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.” – Von Clausewitz 1780-1831_____In 1815, the Russo-German Legion was integrated into the Prussian Army and Clausewitz thus re-entered Prussian service. He was soon appointed chief of staff to Johann von Thielmann’s III Corps. In that capacity, he served at the Battle of Ligny and the Battle of Wavre during the Waterloo Campaign in 1815. The Prussians were defeated at Ligny (south of Mont-Saint-Jean and the village of Waterloo) by an army led personally by Napoleon, but Napoleon’s failure to actually destroy the Prussian forces led to his eventual defeat a few days later at the Battle of Waterloo when the Prussian forces arrived on his right flank late in the afternoon ….

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    YES… close friends…[com-mited] :P

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    Sorry wrong one…President Obama Speaks on Missile Defense in Europe
    …currents floating bottles with pictures

    The President announces a new phased, adaptive approach for missile defense in Europe after the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended that he revise the previous Administrations 2007 plan for missile defense. This new approach is based on an assessment of the Iranian missile threat, and a commitment to deploy technology that is proven, cost-effective, and adaptable to an evolving security environment. September 17, 2009. (Public Domain)

    PS__Santa Klaus has been asking about you!!!…should I tell? :-) Marina is CHRISTMAS

  • http://www.tony-bernhoffer-photography.com tonyb

    Too much stress can make you sick as I personally know.

  • http://www.tony-bernhoffer-photography.com tonyb

    I seen on a ABC news video that Iranian women buy lingerie at a Frederick’s of Hollywood in Iran. I guess those mysterious women dressed in black know something about “home cooking” too. they showed that women in Iran wear makeup and try to make their faces look pretty,. I once had some odd dream in the early 90′s that me and some Iranian women in black were all drinking Turkish collee together in those small cups and saucers. Weird, huh?

  • http://www.tony-bernhoffer-photography.com tonyb

    the local goverment here in toledo made so much fun of my beliefs that there will be a nuclear armageddon that at least at one christmas morning they sounded the emergancy siren when it was snowing outdoors-trying ot make it seem like a nuclear warning! I learned about MADD in the Army in 1977 in chemical corps school. At least I respect the danger.

  • Rijk

    +1 you need your rest

  • Rijk

    I second that don’t do a video or something with the site layout. Try to switch of that Mac once in a while. Your body needs to fight the decease.
    Bet you sound strange now ;)
    It will take at least three weeks before your back on top.
    Don’t rush things!

    Oke Marina told me Ta’s can be an author too, and she is out and needs you now more than ever.
    So make a picture or a video.

    Capman911, I bet there are some pretty strange things on that fire truck with a strange name, go for it!
    CJ nautical terms your division maybe that pirate them?
    PedanticKarl, you got making video’s ass one of your hobby’s, show us that talent. And Pedantic did mean head teacher (rest sounds to negative).
    Pennsysltucky9 looking at the pictures nature is gonna be your topic.

    So Come On Get To It !

  • dellforce

    Hello, Marina! I really hope you heal up soon! Maybe all that traveling has taken a toll on you! My conjecture at the GTW game is the word [oracle]; I’m just going by your numerical clue! I’ll talk to you soon! Btw, “Stop in the name of love, before you break my heart”! “Think it o-wo-ver”!

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Two bite marks? I haven’t bit anyone in LA for years. Well let me think. Oh yeah, there was that one time. Hummm. Oh and that other time. Come to think of it I frequent LA quite a bit for I don’t have to fly down to Mexico. I crave that spicy taco flavored blood every Tuesday and some Wednesdays. It really hard for me to remember for I’m not quite myself at those times. About a week ago or so I about burned my mouth for someone had curry. I like curry but this one woman had super hot curry.
    Well you would know if it was me for I always take an article of clothing. Are you missing anything?

    ———

    When I was little, my orthodontist wanted to remove my canines (teeth) to give me more room. I put up a fight and said no way!
    My parents paid that guy $7,800 in todays dollars to fix my teeth. Now I look at them and it doesn’t look like a dime was spent on them. Grrrrr. I just want to rip them all out and start over.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Marina, are you slightly color blind? Have you taken any of those color blindness test (Pseudoisochromatic Plate Test )? Here is an example of what a test it like. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1484492/test_your_eye_color_blindness_test/
    Tell me which ones you could not see.

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    crazy…<blockquote.[MASS MEDIA is the boss and mobPEACE :P

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    Are you implying that I must be color blind with my new website design? :-)

    I saw them all. Cool test.. was freaking out I’d miss some! How about you?

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    Quote”Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.” – Irving Kristol

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    I hope you feeling better.. :-)

  • http://bphaynes.tripod.com/ elliott610

    Get well, do what I always do, pass your germs off on a neighbor
    elliott

  • http://www.hotforwords.com HotForWords

    A little.

    Thanks for asking.. oh look.. a line break :-)

  • http://jemager.brinkster.net jemager

    Marina, please get well soon! I need more words from you!!!! I need to see you fine, laughing and gorgeous as always.

    By the way, what about the word “Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia”, hopefuly it’ll keep you busy and you’ll forget about your fever and those bad thing.

    Regards
    Jemager

  • thematrix75

    Hello Marina,good to hear from you!Not so good to hear of your being sick!I wish you a quick recovery!I hope your not turning into a Vampire you already have enough troubles!See you later,hopefully in better health!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/animalntaz animalntaz

    :shock: The things one man does for just ONE sex toy! I got another resource that the particular sex toy is a molding of porn star Carmen Luvana’s…… “pelvic region”.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    Checking line breaks on my lunch break
    on my iPhone.

    Lunch was good.

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    Yeah, line breaks work

  • Rijk

    He was redecorating the bathroom. ;)

  • Rijk

    I hope you didn’t see the last one ;)

  • Rijk

    You told a gross story in a very colorful way and made it sound funny,
    I can top it, but not in a funny way, so I won’t

    All I can say my redecorating was red

  • Rijk
  • Rijk

    Had that for 3 months, after 5 different examinations (and not all that pleasant) they found the illness.

    Now to think of it, in hindsight those examinations were funny.

  • thematrix75

    Looks like you have a new picture of Gorby up.How’s he been doing lately?Haven’t seen him in any videos for a while.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Well, I was all in at 104.5 so I fold up my bed , pick it up and walk. (It’s a miracle!)

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    I went to see Captain Jack the other day and this is what he picked me up at the airport in. Captainmobile . Just like a sea fairing man. :lol:

  • wetsuit5

    Tell Gorby we are counting on him to take extra special care of you and your spirits.
    I’ve had tough work outs but none that took me so far down so fast.
    Be well….

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Twice you referred light blue colors as green. The first time you said how we liked the site in green when clearly it was blueish colors. I wrote that off as maybe it was true at the time you typed it.
    Second time you said you where becoming a little green and I looked at the photos and it’s much closer to blue than green.

    As for your website it look (i)much better(/i). In fact when I woke up I was going to just [lie] there for a bit longer. Then I remembered you changed the look of your website and got excited enough to jump out of bed. I’m anticipating that the menu bar and home page will change any day. I know your ill so I don’t expect it to happen for a while. I know how a flu can kick ones ass.

    Oh the test. That was easy. There is a harder one that I had to take to pass my medical exam for my captains license. I passed in flying colors! Pun intended! There were some I didn’t get right, but tried to answer them to see how well I could differentiate colors. Above normal but nothing special. Not too bad for someone that has a large blind spot in the center of the right eye. Funny thing when I was younger doctors made me wear an eye patch on my good eye in hopes to improve the lazy eye. Seeeee… I was born to be a pirate!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    Hey mom the Intelligence is Sexy is a little bland looking. It doesn’t stand out like the rest of the top caption. I almost missed it. I see you have it trade marked “good” idea. Are you going to put the smileys back? One more request I am ducking now could you change your gravatar to this one. It is my favorite and is a more prettier picture. Don’t get me wrong the one you have up is aaaaaaaaa ok but doesn’t do your beauty justice. :smike: :smile:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911
  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    The preferred state for vampires is Washington state. You people think I’m kidding hu? Then read this little article about the author living in WA.

    (b) ‘Twilight’ author buys home in Western Washington.(/b)
    World-famous Twilight series author Stephenie Meyer has bought a million-dollar waterfront home near Port Townsend on Marrowstone Island – and has been apparently living there with her family on a part-time basis. Read more » http://bit.ly/12cAPE

  • Rijk

    wait a minut, she did say she got all of them,
    so she has red green deficiencies ?

    must be the fever

  • Rijk

    make that bee

    damn little keyboard

  • Greatest Potential

    you speak of a particular vampire clan, not of an entire race, anyway, we are done here.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    Dang if she couldn’t bite me anytime. WOW she is gorgeous. \o/

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    :>:(: testing a smiley

  • Greatest Potential

    you desire her, yet that’s just a barely visible tip of a pair of very long bloody fangs that go back through timeless aeons of bounty

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    Tomorrow is talk like a Pirate Day aaaarrrrggg, give me your booty you scallywags. Har Har Har

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    Hey Captain,
    Did you know that, that color test is the exact same one that the Navy uses for qualifying for the electronics programs. I was able to see all numbers, except the last one which of course was not a number. Also, I am able to hear up to around 17 KHz. Glad that old analog TVs are gone as I could hear those horizontal oscillators quite a distance away.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    Hey Jack since tomorrow is talk like a Pirate Day how about a TA post about it? I made a comment at the top of the page but it will get lost in the comments.

  • Rijk

    I seem to have one of those deja vu moments.

    where is that special piece of the firetruck with a strange name? ;)

  • Rijk

    wordrequest for the pirates:
    who used the word keelhaul for the first time?

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    It’s not [flottsam] but it’s definitely Jettasam. :lol:

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    Meh!

  • Greatest Potential

    Thanks. Now I know As Gaye As It Gets 11 is finally out on dvd.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    I don’t know. I tried to Goggle it but came up with to many variables.

  • Greatest Potential

    allow me to tug on that boat string

    yo! ho! ho! i’m feeling pirate fancy today:

    1) An old naval punishment, which involved dragging the offender, by means of ropes and tackles attached to the yards, under the keel of the ship, either by lowering him on one side and hauling him across to the other side, or, in the case of smaller vessels, lowering him at the bows and drawing him along under the keel to the stern. The result was often fatal.

    2) (figuratively) To treat badly, to punish, to beat; rebuke severely, tongue-lash, haul/call/rake over the coals; to defeat or ruin. [adaptation of. Dutch kielhalen from Middle Dutch kiel+ halen with kiel meaning keel and halen meaning to fetch, draw, pull (with the elements englished as keel, haul)] (Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, Oxford English Dictionary, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins*

    saurce: internyt

  • http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top pedanticKarl

    Hey Bob, I like that link to the article about sleep deprivation that you tweeted earlier this morning. http://bit.ly/3skdUA

    So far I have managed my sleep well, even though I hate going to bed. One of my secrets for health and vitality and staying alert is a teaspoon of Apple Cider vinegar with a dash of lemon mixed into a 10 oz glass of water.

    One thing that bears mentioning is that with the cold and flu season upon us, many people resort to medicines that can knock them out while least expected when driving, or they take medicines that when combined with alcohol can cause blackouts while driving. Not a pretty picture.

    My former girlfriend was on muscle relaxers due to an injury she received at Disneyland, and one day she had forgotten she had taken the muscle relaxer and later had a glass of wine. On her way home at 4 AM, she fell asleep at the wheel, crossed several lanes and woke up when she ran across some gravel. She didn’t hit a thing, but is was a clear wakeup call.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    I took a color test in the Navy for other reasons, but I didn’t know they did the same for electronic technicians.

    I lost part of my hearing because of where I worked in the Navy. After Steering units were rather loud. I think I tested it around 95 to 105dB. Some of my hearing has bounced back. I’m like you and there are some oscillators I can hear that most people do not. I can hear the tv oscillators, but only when I’m in arms reach.
    I really don’t think it’s if we can hear the sound but how the brain processes the sound. Some people also call selective hearing.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    I already have a post from last year that is still on the page. Maybe just linking to it in comments?

    Hey everyone. Tomorrow (Saturday), lets all talk like a pirate.
    Here is the official site: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

    No time to learn how to talk like a pirate? Try this translator: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html

    There is a wordpress plugin that would change all the text comments into pirate speak but I couldn’t get Marina to bite last year. Oh well, I guess the translator will have to do.

  • originalistrick

    Are you feeling any better, Marina? Sure hope so.

  • pat haskett

    I’ve had pneumonia 4 times…do the doctors have you breathing into one of those apparatuses to strengthen your lungs? Just wondering. Get well soon, you are missed.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Lots of hoopla here in Washington state. Will Smith will be arriving by helicopter to see his son play at a local high school football game. Along with Smith, Joe Montana is rumored to be helping on the side lines. Tickets are sold out and there were some on Craig’sList selling for a whopping $360.
    The Spartans will be playing the Oaks Christian Lions and ESPN is televising the game.

    Story: “Skyline prepares for glitzy battle against ‘Hollywood High”

    http://bit.ly/o6oab

    *Update* Confirmed, Joe Montana is on the field. Will Smith is going to arrive by heli just before kick off about 6:45pm PDT.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Wow, I had to break out my Oxford Companion to Ships & the Sea book. I don’t use it very much for it’s old (1976) and very hard to come by edition.

    I see GP did the book definition so I won’t need to cover that.

    OCSS says, that the punishment was used in the 15th and 16th centuries. Captain Nathaniel Boteler, (A Dialogicall [sic] Discourse 1634) and Falconer (Marine Dictionary 1711) mention the acts of punishment but I don’t see any date of when the term was first used in the books that I have. It’s time I upgrade my library.

    Interesting note, Keel-hauling went out of fashion in most navies at the beginning of the 18th century, being generally replaced with the sinister Cat-of-Nine-Tails punishment.
    Most sailor survived the Keel-hauling only to die from the infections they got from the cuts they received from being dragged across the barnacles.

  • http://captainjack.ws Captain Jack

    Funny! I got that email last night and laughed when I seen that photo. I found car here in Seattle that looks like a yellow sub. I seen a newscast of a car that had been converted to look like a motor boat. I plan someday to get all these vehicles together and do some kind of video to show them all off.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    I knew Warren had sent you the pictures in an email as I got the same one. I had to share that one with the rest of the crowd. :lol:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    The Doctor may have put her on an Albuterol inhaler or even put her on a nebulizer machine which uses metered doses of different strengths Albuterol Sulfate or Cromolyn Sodium. Both are bronchial dilators which open up the bronchial tubes so she can expel the fluid build up in her lungs. She should be on a good expectorant like guaifenesin to help get rid of the mucus and other material from the lungs.

  • CampKohler – Sacramento CA

    What you need, Marina, is a deep-tissue massage. What you do is reach wayyyyy down into the Kleenex box, pull one out and rub it on your nose. :-)

  • http://www.ultranetworks.com Andrew

    Rest well, Marina.
    Hope you get better soon.

  • http://twitter.com/HotforThai Bob

    :LoL: “clear wake-up call”; did you realise you said that?
    Your recipe of cider vinegar and lemon would be a salad dressing without the bucket of water you dilute it with.
    But you make a serious point about the “over-the-counter” drugs that modern society likes to use, in place of equally effective traditional remedies that cost next to nothing and don’t lead one unsuspecting into danger or, worse, risk of serving time for manslaughter.
    The drug companies and their powerful lobbyists have a lot to answer for.

  • http://www.tony-bernhoffer-photography.com tonyb

    Besides the folk song from Bahamia ALL MY TRIALS to sing to myself when my foes here make me feel badly. I also found the Woodie Guthrie folk song SO LONG ITS BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YOU! Written during the Great Depression of 1929, I had one neat dream of dying I guess and me and Jesus were flying around in a black jet aircraft. And we buzzed the autumn trees and rustic barns at treetop level. Then we climbed into the cloud. and then up into outerspace which was black. I woke up almost crying it was so beautiful. Then I submitted my judgment of fire manuscript to amazon. Maybe God was reminded me that time is short for us all. But I do not wish you dead, my dear white honey!!

  • http://www.myspace.com/churchofruss russell kelly

    bit by a wolf?a wolf spider?
    [lycanthropy]

  • thematrix75

    I love the pics you have had lately.The One when you start this page,and the x-ray picture you have in twit pics now.Looks like this is leading to another vampire or some creature sightings,it’s getting close to that time of season.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    Yes Tony I have been on the Fire Department for 33 years. The last 15 as a Captain.

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