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FlippersForFeet

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  1. my uncle and my sister in law both do root canals, though my SIL its her specialty - endontist. I've had a few - no issues at all. i was scared the first time i needed one cause my mom's experiences were seemingly awful. Mine were uneventful. If a tooth is killing me, advil for a few days will dull the pain enough till i could get to the dentist. besides - if the tooth is hurting that bad, and its not infected, you know what's happening? the nerve is dying. It doesn't take that long for it to be killed completely. Then the root canal could theoretically be done without novicaine. yes, seriously. my uncle always test the tooth first without novicaine or he could kill a live root.
  2. So i took the wife to a shooting range today. Our first time shooting in our now home state of TN. Our luck, the beretta 92FS jammed and they said they were having trouble with it all night. So we switched go a Glock 19 gen 4 which was ok, the Gen 3 had a smaller grip somehow that was better for her small hands. We also tried a Ruger P90 DA0 that was awesome and heavy but she HATED. Is there any spec for a 9mm gun that tells you the thickness of the grip and distance from the very top of the grip/back ( where it rests between thumbs and first finger) to the trigger pull? We've been advised that if you know what you want, get it from cheaperthandirt.com and ship it to someone with an FFL to do the work for $50, saves a boatload.
  3. well, i have been dormant a while and found nothing here to respond to. I was hoping for something exciting and this is what i got.
  4. yeah, i dont fully know her story. i know she lives alone but i think has grankids. Originally we got off on the wrong foot and we aren't super chummy, but the more i get to know her, the more she grows on me. She's good, just not easiest to hit it off with.
  5. you have just explained why i'm asking WoFFF for gun lessons and a gun. I want to be able to protect our home. An alarm wont do jack.
  6. The joys of living in the mid-south working with ex-navy and other intersting figures. My ex-navy guy talks about how he loves crown royal, its smooth, etc. He says he always has a headache day after. A nice woman (turned 50 recently) says its great to have followed by pickle juice. I'm like is that the way southerners do thing? instead of salt, tequila, lime, its crown royal followed by pickle juice?
  7. i think one of us should go on a hunger strike until its fixed. The rest of us should protest. If a photojournalist tries to take pictures to report on it, we should get some "muscle" to get rid of him. I hear that's a really effective way of getting what you want now adays....
  8. So apparently swamrning lady bugs is common in TN when it is unseasonably warm in early November (no complaints about the temps, LOVING it) But the building i worked in looked really freaky yesterday afternoon
  9. the best candy corn made (as far i as know since i only eat kosher) is from Jelly Belly. There candy corn is unreal.
  10. i use my cx bike with two panniers and a rack from ibera i got through amazon and so far been pretty darn good. I use some nice bright lights (Even during daylight(, i have a hornit 140db horn (but its a chirper) and so far avoided bad rain. I use 37mm tires from vredstein that rock especially going over the multiple railroad tracks along my commute. It's awesome. We have a shower/gym at work so i clean up when i get there. I wish for a better palce to store my clothes to quasi dry for my commute home, but i deal with it. My towel hangs by my cube.
  11. SO how is TN y'all ask? it's pretty great honestly. WoFFF and I have made lots of good friends, and really become part of the Jewish community here (that's kind of how the gig at the grizz happened). I'm also really enjoying the new job, finding it a fun place to work with interesting people etc. I am slightly unsure of what is it that will eventually lead to promotions or the like which would be an issue for me when we hopefully have kids and therefore much greater expenses but its great for now. Amazingly, lots of colleagues are interested in hearing about my religion etc. People are really respectful of it - refreshing considering how that wasn't the case in all the financial services companies i used to work at. I wish the vacation policy were a little more generous so that it would be like it used to be where i used vacation days for the jewish holidays and the remainder of vacation days for vacation, but right now somehow they were just excused absences and i guess i still have vacation days. Cycling here has been great. I commute to work by bike 14.5 miles each way and so logged 217 miles last week between a sunday ride and commuting every day. I've put well over 2,000 miles on my bike since moving here and only 1300 miles on my car. It's not easy being green but it's pretty good. How's everyone else doing?
  12. sadly a colleague told me a story about his son who has some condition that gave him a ridiculous arm span and man curve. his daughter, who is a model traveling the world as an 18 year old, once saw it hanging out of her brother's shorts and started saying "ewww" funny and embarassing story...
  13. So i've come to apologize to y'all/ya'll for not being around much. I forgot that i miss the forumites as part of my life and should really come back to participate or more often observe the hysterical conversations that go on. A few weeks ago i got to sing the national anthems, israeli and american, as a pre-season memphis grizzlies game against macabi haifa from israel. I just got the video, ripped it and put it on youTube. Enjoy or hate at your leisure :-)
  14. I'll take a look. There is one on board ave in midtown-ish. I stopped in on my ride back from work yesterday. The owner is really awesome, racer of sorts, been on the domestic pro circuit i think. http://www.victorybicyclestudio.com/
  15. All still in one piece, well i guess two less pieces than it used to have since i'm mono-ossicular in one ear (all 3 ossicles are grafted together). Other than that and still can't smell $h!t all is good.
  16. Funny, they sell them and they arrive on saturday in the mail :-)
  17. I moved to memphis TN in early june. Havent found a team or anything to race yet. This season was undoubtedly an off season. I'll consider re-joining next season or for cross in the fall if things look like it will be fun. Just found a bike shop i like here a lot.
  18. My boss's boss at work saw me after a little while after a meeting that went well. He said "Flippers, people are saying good things about you". Why does he say it that way? It sounds so creepy. Just say "i heard you did a great job in the meeting, keep up the good work" I shouldn't complain about compliments but delivery is part of how good it feels.
  19. I need to disassemble a TRP CX9 left brake to put in a new pivot bushing, sprint and spring tension plate/screw, how do i get the existing ones out of the brake arm?
  20. Aren't flipper friendly. WoFFF bought some jalapenos for my pizza. They were little and cute. I think she bought something far more insanely hot. I told her not to worry if i start crying in the bathroom in the morning.
  21. my in laws have a place for the summer near poughkeepsie, in a town called hopewell junction. We usually go up a few times a summer, but with us moving to Memphis, we'll avoid it for good now
  22. east memphis it is. .5 mile walk to either of the synagogues i'd go to on the sabbath and 3 houses down the block from the friends we stayed with when we were there. Tangential story from our visit. Our friends have 3 daughters, ages 5, 3 and 1. The father had some speech issues as a kid and so do the kids, Rs and the like. Either way, they couldn't pronounce our last name, but the parents want them calling people Mister and Misses, etc so I became Mr. Michael for the 5 and 3 year old. very cute. The two older ones argued on the last day who would miss us more when we left. The youngest one got sick the last night we were threw. Projectiled all over mummy (She's canadian). It was green. A little while later they realized one of them or the nanny had fed her an entire avocado. I texted my friend and said " i dare you to feed your daughter an entire avocado, hand her to your wife and say "locked and loaded, safety off"". He wrote back "I do NOT accept that challenge" :-)
  23. FFF and WoFFF finally realized in Mid-April that FFF's employment situation (woefully underemployed) wasn't changing so NYC could no longer be our home. So we very rationally came up with criteria for places to move to: 1) some people we know live there 2) its dirt cheap to live there (compared to Ny that's a lot of places) 3) low or zero state income tax 4) hopefully warmer weather than NY So the top 2 on the list were allentown PA (it didn't meet number 4 so well) and Memphis, TN. We visited Memphis and really loved it. Despite some hiccups on a mortgage, i think we're in the clear (i think) and moving forward on buying the house we wanted. I've had a phone interview with great feedback from the first one. I have two other ones scheduled or being scheduled so prospects look positive. Hopefully the rest goes much smoother and we move out June 4th and in on June 8th. Looking forward to home ownership and hiring someone to do my lawn work :-)
  24. the say lying is hereditary, better check the parents
  25. really disturbing that that picture was posted. For those of us crazy religious folks who read the babylonian talmud, one page this week talked about permissability of nursing a human infant directly from udders of a non-kosher animal type (ie an animal that regardless of how its slaughtered or processed, its not possible for it to be kosher)
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