I have been watching this for the last 2 weeks. Most of CA dams at above normal levels, some at critical levels. A lot of sitting on pins and needles about this and possible Dam failure. Yesterday they shut down the dam so no water is released for inspection and repairs. They have forecast 6 to 8 good days of weather to do dredging and repairs. Hope all goes well.


I have been watching this guy he has been doing a great job.

Ahhh, a request for a telling of 'the saga of the broken newt'.

The first time was ridiculous, remodeling my bathroom and lifting a heavy cast iron tub by hand, not realizing it was liquid nailed to the sub floor. I crushed a vertebrae, popped a disk, and severed the nerve that operates below the knee. I was completely paralyzed below the knee for over 6 months, then for about 1 1/2 years I had partial feeling and movement, it was like my leg was completely asleep that entire time....and still is to a small extent (weakness, pins and needles).
The second time, I ran my car into a highway divider head on at 55mph and went airborne. Good thing it was an Acura Legend, a tank of a car, or it certainly would have been far worse. I was already so irreparably broken, I didn't even go get another MRI for that one, which was probably a bad idea. I still have extra back pain from that (6+ years after the fact), but it didn't do new nerve damage (that I know of) so I just accepted it as one more injury to add to the (excessively long) list.
I am accident prone, and don't take proper care of myself. I'm now paying for over 4 decades of that behavior.

Whew! I'm SO glad it didn't slither in to frame at the end ... pins and needles I tell ya

'Flavour' (with a 'U') in that while I keep the grass cut and the hedges trimmed, I occasionally host large, loud BBQ's that go way past midnight, I listen to loud music when I'm home alone and cleaning up, and I drive a big obnxious car with loud obnoxious music blasting from the stereo when I come home every day.>> ^rougy:

^ Flavor in the hybrid "sense" of the word?
Flavor in the ethnic edible goodies sense of the word?
Flavor in the doe-eyed love ya honey sense of the word?
I'm on pins and needles here!
EDIT:
1) I'd do her.
2) The tragedy of suburbia is that they can only envy finer neighborhoods while stealing (musically here) from lesser 'hoods.
3) The safer the neighborhood, the more boring the neighborhood.
4) The grass is always greener somewhere in my ass.

^ Flavor in the hybrid "sense" of the word?

Flavor in the ethnic edible goodies sense of the word?

Flavor in the doe-eyed love ya honey sense of the word?

I'm on pins and needles here!

EDIT:

1) I'd do her.
2) The tragedy of suburbia is that they can only envy finer neighborhoods while stealing (musically here) from lesser 'hoods.
3) The safer the neighborhood, the more boring the neighborhood.
4) The grass is always greener somewhere in my ass.

Pins and needles

Yes.

As if nobody was paying attention.

Just my children, and their kids.

This might be the Star Wars of this depression.

The only hope.

and let's not forget what an amazing sense it is...
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Man-Who-Lost-His-Body

>> ^xxovercastxx:
Proprioception (the sense of where your body parts are) fades away when those body parts "fall asleep".
Some years ago I was just waking up one morning and had apparently slept with my arm in an odd position. It had gone well past pins and needles and was completely numb, but I hadn't realized this yet. As I went to stretch, my eyes still closed, I was momentarily horrified when what felt like a large, cold, dead fish suddenly landed on my chest.
Getting the blood flowing again really sucked... pins and needles for like an hour.

Proprioception (the sense of where your body parts are) fades away when those body parts "fall asleep".

Some years ago I was just waking up one morning and had apparently slept with my arm in an odd position. It had gone well past pins and needles and was completely numb, but I hadn't realized this yet. As I went to stretch, my eyes still closed, I was momentarily horrified when what felt like a large, cold, dead fish suddenly landed on my chest.

Getting the blood flowing again really sucked... pins and needles for like an hour.

If you do it right, you get fractal views of things around the room, your surrounding start to migrate about, blend, roll over themselves, and dominate what you can see. You get very surreal hallucinations, ranging, in my cases, from teeth floating out of a smiling face and becoming larger than the originating head, tranquil river valleys as seen through the bathroom mirror, wondering why I can't get there, and utter confusion as to why I arrive back in reality having ripped apart my bedsheets, facing a wall, with my pillow clenched tightly, especially since I started the trip downstairs in the main room on the couch. I naturally don't remember parts of the trip in the middle, I describe it to people who are about to take it that it's like taking a sledge hammer to your brain then trying to pick up the pieces. It's much more fun to watch someone who has never done it before do it. When smoked in little bits your brain starts the "pulling, swirling" sensation, where you feel like you're in a cement trucks mixer, and your falling into the turn, but you never fall, even though you're always falling. Other descriptive things would include "cactus like pins and needles all over", "funny, cartoonish images dancing in ones field of vision" "trying to continuously push yourself out of a stupor created by an artificial bubble of time distortion." I gave the tiniest hoot to a girl once that had never done it, she exhaled immediately, i turned around to say something, turned back to see what everyone was looking at, and she had ran out onto the street outside, like, bolted, and guys ran after her to see what was wrong. fukkked! thank you.

"We had to break the toilet seat away from the stool"

Man, after two years, I bet that was quite the (pile of) STOOL! *ba dum pa ching*

And I thought the pins and needles were bad after reading for 20 minutes on the can...

Phew! I was on pins and needles.

Technically, "pins and needles" is not caused by loss of blood flow, but of a disruption to the limbic (nervous) system.

As to the issue at hand (HAHA pun), trapped arm seems to be a big problem for me and even the superman hurts after a while. I guess I'll just have to work on that stargazer bit...