I want five minutes alone with that sumbitch that turned up the Grabbity.
Sad to say, it’s still 9.8m/sec – but sometimes I think I’m sitting on top of a mascon (mass concentration, which increases gravity) (but not so much that you would notice).
Fun fact – we used to have a team go to each missile site to measure the force of gravity at the bottom of the launch tube, so we could tell the missile how much it had to accelerate to hit the target properly. Yeah, it’s a thing…
Bullshit, it’s still funny shit right thar. You have to be able to laugh at yourself as well.
My doc is concerned, they ask me every time I go in if I’ve fallen recently
Yeah, that seems to be the new de facto, asking if you have fallen. When I go to wound care they use to hand me a yellow bracelet as well as my admission bracelet which declared me to all that see I was a fall risk because I used a cane. I refused to wear it and my rational was I was never given a fall risk evaluation by a occupational or physical therapist and I would refuse to have one done anyway. So, unless that evaluation was completed, I don’t wear that yellow badge of a klutz…
I get the same question every time I go to a scheduled doc visit no matter what kind of a doc it is.
I usually give them some flippant reply like “the last time I had an unplanned fall was 40 years ago skiing.” They probably write that up in Dr’s notes as some kind of personality disorder, which is my aim.
Fell face first through an attic access a couple years ago, laast conscious thought before impact was “Oh, this is going to hurt”. And it did.
Can verify.
I want five minutes alone with that sumbitch that turned up the Grabbity.
Sad to say, it’s still 9.8m/sec – but sometimes I think I’m sitting on top of a mascon (mass concentration, which increases gravity) (but not so much that you would notice).
Fun fact – we used to have a team go to each missile site to measure the force of gravity at the bottom of the launch tube, so we could tell the missile how much it had to accelerate to hit the target properly. Yeah, it’s a thing…
Bullshit, it’s still funny shit right thar. You have to be able to laugh at yourself as well.
My doc is concerned, they ask me every time I go in if I’ve fallen recently
Yeah, that seems to be the new de facto, asking if you have fallen. When I go to wound care they use to hand me a yellow bracelet as well as my admission bracelet which declared me to all that see I was a fall risk because I used a cane. I refused to wear it and my rational was I was never given a fall risk evaluation by a occupational or physical therapist and I would refuse to have one done anyway. So, unless that evaluation was completed, I don’t wear that yellow badge of a klutz…
I get the same question every time I go to a scheduled doc visit no matter what kind of a doc it is.
I usually give them some flippant reply like “the last time I had an unplanned fall was 40 years ago skiing.” They probably write that up in Dr’s notes as some kind of personality disorder, which is my aim.
Fell face first through an attic access a couple years ago, laast conscious thought before impact was “Oh, this is going to hurt”. And it did.
Yeah, the questions are getting tiresome.
My favorite is “Do you feel safe in your home??