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I have jsut heard a few bangs here also but they are from the next town which is Laguna Hills and that wraps all around Laguna Woods where I live. I haven't noticed any scared kitties yet.
I've never even heard of this before--but I was reading what they said and--it's like yeah, I have that. It's so weird, I just thought I was slow!
@Tallyollyopia I have problems with faces as well and recently learned about prosopagnosia. It's a condition that some people have that makes it difficult for them to distinguish faces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia i took an on-line test (ok, ok, I know they don't mean anything) and learned I have a mild case of it. It's very hard for me to distinguish different characters in movies or TV shows at first and this, in turn, makes it hard for me to follow the plot sometimes. So you are not alone!
I feel your pain. My schedule is all messed up this week; today I had first, tomorrow I have third, Wednesday I have second, and on Thursday I'm back on third again.
Back to work tomorrowNot looking forward to this week because my co-worker is on vacation all week so I'm on my own doing everything... in two facilitiesThis is exactly why we need at least another full time person. If one person is on vacation or something, there's still two people to handle all the work. I am going to get some help from one person but he also has lab stuff to do so I'm not sure how much he will actually be able to do. I'm only going to do the main important stuff. Everything else will have to either wait or be done by the lab people themselves.
Thank you. I bookmarked it so that I can read it during my free time.
I just checked out one of the links from the Wikipedia article, and I think you may find this website useful: http://www.choisser.com/faceblind/ It's written by a guy who has this problem and he talks about adaptive techniques. But it's basically book length; I haven't read the whole thing.
Margret
To your question I point out the party of Carnival--a week long drinking celebration with costumes. Referenced in The Cask of Amontillado.
So after a short rainstorm dark has brought out the low IQ subset in my community. The sheriff dept. has been racing up and down the main road with sirens off and no lights I'm assuming in response to call ins about illegal fireworks.
You know it takes a special kind of stupid to be setting of flying flame throwers out here. But it takes greed for our state and county government to continue to allow the sale of fireworks that are illegal to use. Yep they do that.
I feel bad Mercy is hiding. she gets no sympathy we just go on with life in the house. Mook is out and about. Life happens and getting your pets acclimated to it is a good thing.
I have wondered for a long time when celebrations became excuses to consume excess alcohol or do things that would not normally be socially acceptable.
I want people to have fun. I'm not the hall monitor but when it starts endangering your home or someone else's property you have to wonder what's wrong with people. I constantly hear they want government out of their lives yet they do everything in their power to ensure big brother has to step in to save them from their own stupidity.
My computer club used to meet at the Colorado School of Mines. For a long time it appeared to me that young people went there specifically because they knew that sooner or later they'd get to blow something up. Every year on E-Days (E for "Engineering") they used to have a student-run fireworks show. I went once. People actually cheered when fireworks went into the stands! That's when I decided I was never going to that celebration again. Then one year a tree in the yard of a local house was accidentally set on fire, and they had noise complaints from five or ten miles away, and they switched to a professional company to run the fireworks. I still don't go, though.
Regarding Carnival, "The Cask of Amontillado" is from the mid-nineteenth century, but Carnival is much older than that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival. I think that as long as there have been rules of conduct humans have looked for excuses to get drunk, eat too much, and otherwise let off steam.
Margret
I can understand disliking fireworks when people are reckless with them. And its unfortunate that each year many people get severely hurt because some stupid person didn't know what they were doing (or they were too drunk to know or care what they were doing) when lighting off fireworks.My computer club used to meet at the Colorado School of Mines. For a long time it appeared to me that young people went there specifically because they knew that sooner or later they'd get to blow something up. Every year on E-Days (E for "Engineering") they used to have a student-run fireworks show. I went once. People actually cheered when fireworks went into the stands! That's when I decided I was never going to that celebration again. Then one year a tree in the yard of a local house was accidentally set on fire, and they had noise complaints from five or ten miles away, and they switched to a professional company to run the fireworks. I still don't go, though.
Regarding Carnival, "The Cask of Amontillado" is from the mid-nineteenth century, but Carnival is much older than that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival. I think that as long as there have been rules of conduct humans have looked for excuses to get drunk, eat too much, and otherwise let off steam.
Margret
I have never had the luck of lighting fireworks. I personally LOVE anything that goes Bang. BUT I also want people to use their head. I have a coworker who like you has been setting them off for years. He takes them out in the middle of this lake and he told me they were really impressive. I always wondered how they get these to light off. He talked a bit about how to set them up and be smart about it. He had some 2" diameter cherry bomb type fireworks. Must have been a blast. We had neighbors across the way lighting them off in the road. We live in a deadend area so it was no wheres near my house. I did stay viligent and stepped outside every 15 min to make sure nothing caught fire. its been so dry and windy but no issues last night. They all lit off straight up. I think fireworks belong in a sandpit personally or like you at the end of a pier or on a boat/party boat etc. And yes no drunk people should touch them.I can understand disliking fireworks when people are reckless with them. And its unfortunate that each year many people get severely hurt because some stupid person didn't know what they were doing (or they were too drunk to know or care what they were doing) when lighting off fireworks.My computer club used to meet at the Colorado School of Mines. For a long time it appeared to me that young people went there specifically because they knew that sooner or later they'd get to blow something up. Every year on E-Days (E for "Engineering") they used to have a student-run fireworks show. I went once. People actually cheered when fireworks went into the stands! That's when I decided I was never going to that celebration again. Then one year a tree in the yard of a local house was accidentally set on fire, and they had noise complaints from five or ten miles away, and they switched to a professional company to run the fireworks. I still don't go, though.
Regarding Carnival, "The Cask of Amontillado" is from the mid-nineteenth century, but Carnival is much older than that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival. I think that as long as there have been rules of conduct humans have looked for excuses to get drunk, eat too much, and otherwise let off steam.
Margret
I personally love fireworks... to a point. I have been lighting them off on the fourth of July since I was 12 (so about 10 years) and my dad taught me how to do it the right way. Always in a safe place away from people and things that are flamable. We go to Koontz lake each year on the 4th of July and we always light our fireworks off on the end of our 75ft pier, so, they are launched into the sky out over the water (but not near any boats, obviously). The person who lights the firework has to get away fast though, so we have a rule that no drunk people are allowed to light anything.
Some people don't run back after they light the fuze, but I do. Because that's what you're SUPPOSED to do. They think they're super cool and tough for not running away but they're just stupid and if they get their bloody hands blown off its their own fault.
This year one of my dad's friends brought some of these mortar shells that were literally the size of softballs. They were the biggest single-shot fireworks I had ever seen. And I was out on the end of the pier trying to light one of the smaller mortar shells and he just plunked one of those giant ones into a tube in front of me and told me to light it after I lit the smaller mortar shell. I was really kinda scared to do it, but I figured it'd be okay since the one that he told me to light had a REALLY long fuze. So I figured I'd have time to get away. So I lit mine and then lit the one he gave me really fast and started to run back. I only made it 15ft before that thing launched. And I am telling you, the THUNK noise that that thing made when it launched was DEAFENING and I could barely hear out of my right ear for the rest of the night. After that I decided that I'd let everyone else light the fireworks for the rest of the night.
This is the right way to do fireworks! My husband has all these stories of watching drunk people light them from when he was a kid. I think everyone in those stories is fairly lucky to b alive and to have all of their fingers.I can understand disliking fireworks when people are reckless with them. And its unfortunate that each year many people get severely hurt because some stupid person didn't know what they were doing (or they were too drunk to know or care what they were doing) when lighting off fireworks.
I personally love fireworks... to a point. I have been lighting them off on the fourth of July since I was 12 (so about 10 years) and my dad taught me how to do it the right way. Always in a safe place away from people and things that are flamable. We go to Koontz lake each year on the 4th of July and we always light our fireworks off on the end of our 75ft pier, so, they are launched into the sky out over the water (but not near any boats, obviously). The person who lights the firework has to get away fast though, so we have a rule that no drunk people are allowed to light anything.
Some people don't run back after they light the fuze, but I do. Because that's what you're SUPPOSED to do. They think they're super cool and tough for not running away but they're just stupid and if they get their bloody hands blown off its their own fault.
This year one of my dad's friends brought some of these mortar shells that were literally the size of softballs. They were the biggest single-shot fireworks I had ever seen. And I was out on the end of the pier trying to light one of the smaller mortar shells and he just plunked one of those giant ones into a tube in front of me and told me to light it after I lit the smaller mortar shell. I was really kinda scared to do it, but I figured it'd be okay since the one that he told me to light had a REALLY long fuze. So I figured I'd have time to get away. So I lit mine and then lit the one he gave me really fast and started to run back. I only made it 15ft before that thing launched. And I am telling you, the THUNK noise that that thing made when it launched was DEAFENING and I could barely hear out of my right ear for the rest of the night. After that I decided that I'd let everyone else light the fireworks for the rest of the night.