@streakmachine The actual quote is: "Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
// @matigo @tomas @hazardwarning
Motels in these parts tend to cost at least $100 per person per night. Uncle Harry's funeral is at 11am on Wednesday, I'll be driving my rather fragile mother there & back, an estimated distance of 400km each way, no way can that be managed in a single day!
The internet has come to our rescue, I have booked a two-bedroom apartment at a motel 4km away from the church & it'll cost a total of $230 for Tuesday & Wednesday nights. Excellent value.
Bus trip to a desalination plant today. I'm taking my Canon IXUS 95IS (aka PowerShot SD 1200 IS) as well as the iPhone SE. The Canon is reslly small, it just covers the iPhone's screen when laid on it.
I used that camera on a 3-week trip six years ago I lost the charger after one week but the battery was still good enough to last another two weeks.
@hazardwarning Totally different concepts: https://rainbowsbridge.com/Poem.htm
Very likely to have been derived from the legend of Bifrost, the burning rainbow bridge linking Asgard to Midgard (Earth) in Norse mythology.
// @joanna
July 16th, 2012, 4:30 am. Woke up with severe burning sensation from my chest to my stomach, no idea what it was. Took myself off to hospital for a checkup & various physical tests, nothing found or diagnosed. Advised to take paracetamol when I was home again the go to bed and see if there was any improvement.
Got home, washed three paracetamol tablets down with a glass of milk.
Instant relief! "Bugger me!" I said, "I guess this is what heartburn feels like."
I'd not experienced it before, or not as severely as on that day.
Reflux treatment working. Gavisgon antacid uses sodium bicarbonate, calcium carbonate and alginic acid. The latter forms a surface barrier over the top of the stomach acid. The the use of various dairy products boosted the amount of calcium present.
@larand Yesterday I hit the emergency meusli supply: I rarely use it but I needed the extra buzz from coconut, peanuts, almond flakes plus raisins, dried paw paw, dried apple, oats & barley flakes. I cooked it up into an almost-solid porridge. It was magnificent.
Tackling a severe gastric reflux episode. Antacids consumed. Now slowly eating a combination of fruit yohurt, custard & cream to get more calcium into the stomach. Following with extra-milk: whole milk fortified with extra milk powder.
In a number of his detective novels, Kinky Friedman refers to death as "stepping on a rainbow."
I like that, so I use it myself.
Here's to you, Uncle Harry, who stepped yesterday.
Started down the road to take Mum to the hospital for her regular checkup. I observed that her appointment was 5 weeks earlier than originally arranged. Then she wasn't sure if the appointment was today (Feb 1) or Mar 1. We turned back to check the paperwork. Yep, wrong day, supposed to be March 1.
Then the phone rang. It was Mum's youngest remaining sister, calling to say that Uncle Harry, their eldest sister's husband had died overnight from the complications of Parkinson's and a stroke he'd had three years ago. He was 90, the funeral whenever that turns out to be will be interstate, at least 5 hours away by road. Mum wants me to take her there.