Progress is hard!

[triadruid]

Last night we decided to tackle some of the mountains of Stuff That Needs To Go Elsewhere (mostly either to the dumpster or the Gaia Community Garage Sale). 3 bags & boxes of trash later, and 3 containers of saleable items (at least...), I crashed hard for sleep. But I should document just a smattering of things we found:

• A full set of Asterix the Gaul Pez dispensers, still in the original packaging;
• items from last year's God Auction which will remain unnamed;
• My ^&$@%$* GPS unit which wandered off into a small cardboard box 18 months ago or so;
• My old hair-band tapes (and non-hair-band tapes as well);
• yarn/embroidery floss circa 1972;
• several disposable cameras and rolls of undeveloped, but shot, film;
• my EIR graduation certificate;
• the Forced Values Survey I'd been looking for (that's still on my ToDo list);
• and much, much more!
Find out all about it on July 22nd and 23rd...

But right now, I have to go get ready for an echocardiogram; I should probably mention that this is routine (for a non-functional heart-murmur I've known about for decades), except for the part where they scheduled me for today, on Monday, without asking me. Gotta call my boss first...

::edit:: Echocardiograpm went fine. They did have to stick an IV of saline in to do a 'microbubble' test, which is a strange little experience. Actually I had a lot of fun trying to keep my heart rate even, or seeing what would speed it up, slow it down, etc. A resting rate of 68-75 bpm is a little higher than I'd like, but seeing as I haven't exercised regularly in years, I'll take it. More amusing was the fact that my heart rate actually *dropped* several beats per minute when the nurse put in the IV. That's how little bloodwork bothers me.

Comments

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the ECG.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Aside from a very small amount of crossover from the heart murmur, everything seems to have come out just fine.

I don't think they'll let me keep the video of it though, more's the pity.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

*sends general good wishes for good test results*
But what we really want to know is, are they going to shave your chest?

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

I have no interest in his chest hair or lack thereof, thank you.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I think that was the royal 'we'.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

I figured as much, but I wanted to avoid any possible misunderstanding.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

No shaving involved, though I did get my second use of Institutional Lube™ in a week's time, which probably counts for something, somewhere.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

When I first read that, I thought it said "intestinal lube," which I was thinking was a bit of an overshare. Carry on, then.

[teross50.livejournal.com]

I am glad U R aware that helps Mine came back as my doctor said "Normal-ish" so no ishing with yours LOL

[lysana.livejournal.com]

Dude, check collectors for the Pez dispensers.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

That was my thought. There's some actual memorabilia stuck amongst the 'stuff' and outright 'crap' (most of the latter of which is not going in the sale, unless we think it has value to Somebody Else).

Unfortunately, the sale is in ~10 days and I'm not sure how to go about contacting Pez afficionados in that time frame.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about that either, but I did not put any toys that were still in the package in the sale pile. And, even if I had, I doubt those would have gone in. I mean, Asterix the Gaul pez dispensers. I'm keeping those until I don't think they're funny anymore.
Note: the offer of a large sum of money has a documented tendency to take the humor out of a situation pretty quickly.

[blackfyr.livejournal.com]

eBay kinda got started because of a Pez collection. You might want to try there.