Spidey's current lack of effort

Ransac

CPA Trash Man
Spidey hasn't been online since 11:59am yesterday. I didn't know that the government let their employees off for 1 1/2 days for St. Patties day. We should check the local pubs for any webbing drunkenly sprayed everywhere.


Seriously though, where is he?


Ransac, cpa trash man
 

Oversoul

The Tentacled One
Ransac;281138 said:
Spidey hasn't been online since 11:59am yesterday. I didn't know that the government let their employees off for 1 1/2 days for St. Patties day.
Maybe he was actually working...
 
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BigBlue

Guest
Well, I hope all is well with our resident web-slinger...

Not that I think anything bad has happened... but did anyone else see the story about the guy who died while he was playing WoW and then his daughter had a helluva time trying to let his online friends know about it? I guess there are 2 online services for this where you pay them and someone can activate it so an email will go out to all your "online" friends letting them know... One is named slightlymorbid.com or something like that... I've often wondered about that with some folks who just "vanish" from online websites they were frequenting...
 
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BigBlue

Guest
rokapoke;281151 said:
In a government job? Not likely!
Well, he is coding COBOL for them, not too many folks can do that these days... :)
 
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Modus Pwnens

Guest
This isn't widely known, but Spidey actually writes Perl in his sleep :D
 
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BigBlue

Guest
Maybe if you'd attacked Melkor instead of him in the Singleton free-for-all he would have come back... now he figures, what's the point... :)
 

Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
I'm touched by all of your concern. Well, not Ransac since he IS beating me up in the Singleton MP game :D

Seriously though, I got a call from my wife on Monday saying that she was having severe abdominal pain and if I could come and look after the kids (and pick them up from school). Which I did and we called our doctor and she recommended that we go to the emergency room. Which, if anyone else has experienced, we knew would take a LONG time, as we've done that before too.

So we weren't seen until about 3 hours after we got there (which was expected) and after questions and prodding, were told it'd be good to get an abdominal CT scan to rule out appendicitus, gall bladder problems, etc. Which would take at least another three hours because she had to drink this stuff called "contrast"(?) so it'd show up on the CT scan but the scan could only be done 90 minutes after drinking so it'd have time to work through the body. Then the results didn't come back until maybe 2 1/2-3 hours after that, so it was about 3 AM on Tuesday.

So the CT scan came back negative for all that stuff but they recommended that she stay in the hospital to take antibotics via IV and see their gastro-specialist. So of course I had to get the kids ready in the morning and take them to school, etc. And later in the early afternoon, it seems she was responding to the treatment (white cell count was down) so they let her go and I took off yesterday to let her recover.

So she seems a little better but still not fully recovered.

And yes, I know COBOL and assembler, but no Perl :)
 
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BigBlue

Guest
Hope everything turns out well, sounds like it may... health stuff is always scary.
 
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DarthFerret

Guest
Echo what BigBlue said. Hope your wife will be back up to snuff soon.
 

Oversoul

The Tentacled One
Spiderman;281214 said:
Which would take at least another three hours because she had to drink this stuff called "contrast"(?) so it'd show up on the CT scan but the scan could only be done 90 minutes after drinking so it'd have time to work through the body.
What fun. The word "contrast" refers to a substance that stands out to the imaging technology and and makes the features of whatever bodily area the contrast is in visible to the doctors. Since this was a gastrointestinal CT scan, the contrast in question was probably barium sulfate, the same stuff I had to drink when I got mine. I compared it to drinking a cardboard-flavored milkshake, only worse and I had to drink a whole lot of the stuff.
 

Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
Heh, the nurse said it'd taste just like water, which of course it didn't. And it was a "Super Gulp" size, probably at least 24 oz, if not more.
 
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BigBlue

Guest
If they used a CB to scan you, they'd probably call it Squelch... :D
 
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