I just learned my 28 year old ballroom dance instructor of 2 years ago had an unexpected. She went out jogging early in the morning and woke up face down on the street all bloody. Skin abrasions and a bloody nose. She had been laying there long enough for it to clot. 2 days later she fainted again.
Long and short of it the doctors determined the mechanism that regulates her heart beat had simply stopped working. She would go, without doing any exertion from a normal 70 - 80 bpm to a sudden 300 bpm, or drop down to 40 or less and faint. Didn't matter what she was or wasn't doing. She has two children. She is now, in less than 2 years, on her third pacemaker.
The operations are not cheap, and the problem is not really under control. She was, when I knew her a very fit and athletic young lady. Needless to say, her current condition was unexpected.
Hopefully your own unexpected is not that serious.
Oh that (Internet) can vanish at any time. I am dependent on Sprint wireless and no matter what else may happen, the cell towers are as dependent on electricity to work as most of society. :)
Hmm, I need to sharpen some drill bits for a metal shaping project. This is as good a time as any..
In the US Federal courts have ruled that lacking an order of custody grand parents have zero rights and zero custody regarding their grand parents. So from a US perspective the loss of the grandparents in this story is of a son and a daughter in law, but they had zilch grounds for an expectation regarding a grand child.
I am trying to find a publisher. I will be selling my love stories in the magazine at the supermarket check out line. Buy one today. One of my stories may be in it. Or not. You won't know till you buy a copy.
No we did not create death. It was here before us and it will be here after us. It is part of life and all creatures that mingle with other creatures know death and seek to avoid it. Of course nothing can.
Just stop assuming that simply because they can not speak of it they have no conception of it. Yes they do. Perhaps even more so than we do, for in their world it is much more common and sudden than in ours.
Wow, blast from the past. Shades of the 1960s. The VW vans were for about a decade very common in the US. The variant shown however was notorious for leaking at the telescoping roof when it rained. As others say, since the engine was literally inside the van area, a big box on the floor ate a lot of the leg room. No movie about the 1960s or early 1970s and the US could be authentic without one of these in the footage somewhere.
Just a criminal organization with a large footprint. Going by the reports coming out of the areas they control, they are also one of the worse governing bodies. No health care system, no infrastructure building, no agricultural programs, no educational system past the third grade, no food distribution systems, etc. Not much of anything except pillage, raping and drug transports through their territories.
What'd they accomplish in Jakarta? Not much. Told folks they were still around but in shrinking numbers. The Daesh memo about the attack indicates their primary goal was probably the meeting going on in the UN building down the street, but their attack had no effect because it never got to the building and instead they blew themselves up in front of a Starbucks and broke the glass windowns. Meanwhile the conference continued until finished. So their primary mission was a bust and they killed some tourists and locals. And now they have 5 fewer members, which is good. They also gave local officials plenty of stuff to review in terms of what worked well, what worked not so well, how can we respond better, etc. So Isis/Daesh next effort there may not even break window glass before being crushed. And that too is good.
I must very sadly report that the winner of Wednesday nights 1.5BILLION dollar lottery (Powerball) was NOT me. Some lucky Califonia resident purchased the winning ticket.
Walmart has it in their DVD section. I don't think it ever did play in American theaters. If it did, I missed it. I suspect they just (as some foreign films do) jumped from overseas viewing to American DVD release with no (or very limited and brief) theater viewing.
Well moving past the issue of my belief all persons old enough to do so should be required to be armed at all times and my opposition to silly laws and rules that disagree, to your issue, yes, that is silly.
As you write the can is too small to be of any value. Also the issue becomes, what kind of fire is it? A small CO2 extinguisher may work well for some burning paper or a smoldering car seat, but it would be useless for a large gasoline fire, or a burning metal fire. If your fire is under your hood, just turn the engine off and leave. No hand held extinguisher (least of all that one) contains enough extinguishing material to put out an oily engine and plastic fire that started under the hood. If a dashboard short started the fire, again the extinguisher will be useless simply because the fire is shielded by the dashboard and the short is still going on (getting worse too as insulation burns).
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RE: "EXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED"
I just learned my 28 year old ballroom dance instructor of 2 years ago had an unexpected. She went out jogging early in the morning and woke up face down on the street all bloody. Skin abrasions and a bloody nose. She had been laying there long enough for it to clot. 2 days later she fainted again.Long and short of it the doctors determined the mechanism that regulates her heart beat had simply stopped working. She would go, without doing any exertion from a normal 70 - 80 bpm to a sudden 300 bpm, or drop down to 40 or less and faint. Didn't matter what she was or wasn't doing. She has two children. She is now, in less than 2 years, on her third pacemaker.
The operations are not cheap, and the problem is not really under control. She was, when I knew her a very fit and athletic young lady. Needless to say, her current condition was unexpected.
Hopefully your own unexpected is not that serious.