What's on your mind today?

[En_Route]

Sorry DJ!  The reason why I almost had to kick a goose is because it charged me!  Dreadful things, geese. 

There is a very pretty pond area across the street from where I work.  On nice days, I try to get out and do a couple of laps around the pond to stretch my legs.  The geese by the pond are always evil tempered, but they are especially evil tempered right now because they have new goslings running around.  I get that.  If goslings are anything like newborn humans, these geese haven't slept in weeks. But still.

I was walking around the pond, and I was literally as far away from a Goose Family as I could be without actually falling in the pond.  But I was still too close for one of the Parent Geese, and s/he started hissing at me (as geese are wont to do) and then actually started flapping it's wings and ran towards me a few steps.  I've actually been bitten by a goose on a prior occasion (my grandma gave us a sack of stale bread and took us to a duck pond when I was a child.  Big mistake.) so I know that goose bites hurt like hell and leave bruises.  I was unwilling to turn my back to the enemy, for fear that my derrier would make too inviting a target, so I jumped into this kind of karate stance.  The goose was unimpressed.  We stood there glaring at each other for a long moment (me still in my psuedo-karate stance) and then I slowly backed away and moved on.

OldGit, I will have to remember to modify my karate stance to Goose Stance, should another confrontation happen.

I suspect it may have been a Pilgrim Goose, a breed which is always liable to turn vicious if they spot an atheist.

[xSilverPhinx]

Sorry DJ!  The reason why I almost had to kick a goose is because it charged me!  Dreadful things, geese. 

There is a very pretty pond area across the street from where I work.  On nice days, I try to get out and do a couple of laps around the pond to stretch my legs.  The geese by the pond are always evil tempered, but they are especially evil tempered right now because they have new goslings running around.  I get that.  If goslings are anything like newborn humans, these geese haven't slept in weeks. But still.

I was walking around the pond, and I was literally as far away from a Goose Family as I could be without actually falling in the pond.  But I was still too close for one of the Parent Geese, and s/he started hissing at me (as geese are wont to do) and then actually started flapping it's wings and ran towards me a few steps.  I've actually been bitten by a goose on a prior occasion (my grandma gave us a sack of stale bread and took us to a duck pond when I was a child.  Big mistake.) so I know that goose bites hurt like hell and leave bruises.  I was unwilling to turn my back to the enemy, for fear that my derrier would make too inviting a target, so I jumped into this kind of karate stance.  The goose was unimpressed.  We stood there glaring at each other for a long moment (me still in my psuedo-karate stance) and then I slowly backed away and moved on.

OldGit, I will have to remember to modify my karate stance to Goose Stance, should another confrontation happen.

I suspect it may have been a Pilgrim Goose, a breed which is always liable to turn vicious if they spot an atheist.

I think there already is one of those in my Calculus class...

[The Magic Pudding]

As to the goose problem, speaking softly won't work but a bigish stick, even an umbrella will.

[The Magic Pudding]

With our recent attention I wonder if Egor will attempt membership under some not particularly clever guise.

[Asmodean]

Leukemia...  ???

Update: It is, apparently, AML. The outlook is not too shabby, but nothing to celebrate either.

[Ali]

Leukemia...  ???

Update: It is, apparently, AML. The outlook is not too shabby, but nothing to celebrate either.

((Asmo)) I hope your friend is okay.

[Asmodean]

He's not. But he has a real chance to be... That's something.

[DeterminedJuliet]

He's not. But he has a real chance to be... That's something.

That is something. And better than nothing. <3

[Tank]

With our recent attention I wonder if Egor will attempt membership under some not particularly clever guise.

Our sentries are ever watchful 

[Ali]

He's not. But he has a real chance to be... That's something.

That is something. And better than nothing. <3

Agreed. 

[The Magic Pudding]

With our recent attention I wonder if Egor will attempt membership under some not particularly clever guise.

Our sentries are ever watchful 

Cool, I'm sure you'll pick up on any fishy stuff.

[Amicale]

He's not. But he has a real chance to be... That's something.

That is something. And better than nothing. <3

Agreed. 

Agreed as well. I hope that treatments go well for him. Please keep us updated on how he's doing.

[Sweetdeath]

He's not. But he has a real chance to be... That's something.

Your friend is young guy like you?

[Asmodean]

He's not. But he has a real chance to be... That's something.

Your friend is young guy like you?

Same age group, yes. I'm a little older.

[Crow]

I think I am going to build a bike, certainly going to go for a carbon drive system than the traditional chain, I wonder if I can use them with a fixie.