Introverts, how is your day?

[Pseudonym]

I imagine so, if you just had to read out a word it would be a bit anti-climactic! 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

You will have to solve a variety of puzzles depending on how many rooms there are for your storyline. There will be several clues to help you solve the puzzle in each room. I’ve had friends do it, but I haven’t done it myself.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

As for the councils advice to walk like a penguin, they are correct. Having been raised in the winter weather, I know that to be true. Also take smaller steps so that you’re less likely to send your feet out from under you.

[Pseudonym]

I know how the rooms work, it’s the ‘proving you’re human’ bit I find funny.

As for the penguin walk, what made me roll my eyes was that they thought it wasn’t obvious, when most people automatically walk like that on ice, and that it was SO complicated it needed a diagram.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Escape room sounds interesting, but you have to solve the puzzles together with... people.

Hopefully, those are people in same frequency length, because I think it's quite a niche activity. Well, unless it's hip and people try it just for fun and to socialize. Gah. That could motivate you to solve the puzzles faster.

Hmmm.. how if we put a Sherlock in there? The day would be over in 8 seconds and that would be very expensive activity. Don't do a John and have a sip of coffee, you might miss everything!!!

[Van Buren Supernova]

4 hours ago, SherlockedCAMPer said:

As for the councils advice to walk like a penguin, they are correct. Having been raised in the winter weather, I know that to be true. Also take smaller steps so that you’re less likely to send your feet out from under you.

 

42 minutes ago, Pseudonym said:

I know how the rooms work, it’s the ‘proving you’re human’ bit I find funny.

As for the penguin walk, what made me roll my eyes was that they thought it wasn’t obvious, when most people automatically walk like that on ice, and that it was SO complicated it needed a diagram.

I am so very disappointed that you didn't say pengwing. Sigh.

[Pseudonym]

I think Sherlock should be in charge of setting up the rooms, and then no one would ever escape. If someone does escape they automatically become the next Moriarty.

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I am so very disappointed that you didn't say pengwing. Sigh.

How could we forget to change penguin to pengwing? What were we thinking? Can I blame it on the ever melting 10 inches of snow we received between Thursday evening and Sunday morning (with some melting between the 2 storm systems). I was snowed in for a few hours on Sunday till things got plowed & the snow started melting.

[Pseudonym]

Army has been drafted to help clear roads. 

Wites spotted beyond the wall and heading south. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Hadn't heard that term before, but judging by the photo, I'm guessing it's a specialized respelling of "wights"?

[Pseudonym]

No, I just misspelled it. Lol

[Pseudonym]

Huh, most of the country is battling snow, meanwhile just behind my house the mountain is on fire. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Now there's a sight I don't normally associate with the UK.  Does the fire pose any danger to your house?

[Pseudonym]

Nah, I think it's far away enough to be safe. Though I haven't seen it in person yet. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

So that's not a view from your window, then?

[J.P.]

13 hours ago, SherlockedCAMPer said:

As for the councils advice to walk like a penguin, they are correct. Having been raised in the winter weather, I know that to be true. Also take smaller steps so that you’re less likely to send your feet out from under you.

And above all - grow a big and bouncy hindside.
Since I'd made a starfish on the pavement once, and only by few mm missed loosing my teeth, I always have spikes handy.

I'm sick btw. Really sick again and on a sick leave. EVERYTHING is hurting and my lungs sound like old water pipes.

[Pseudonym]

1 hour ago, Carol the Dabbler said:

So that's not a view from your window, then?

Nope, it came up on a news website whilst I was eyeballing the weather report. And I thought 'hey, a fire... oh, it's in Swansea... oh... it's the mountain I live on...' 

Luckily, it has since snowed and it seems to have gone out. Looks like it was the top that was on fire, and my house is about halfway down, so it's fine. 

 

Uh, illness, hopefully it won't last two long! My sister recently had the flu, proper unable-to-move flu, that sounded bad. 

[Arcadia]

6 hours ago, J.P. said:

And above all - grow a big and bouncy hindside.
Since I'd made a starfish on the pavement once, and only by few mm missed loosing my teeth, I always have spikes handy.

I'm sick btw. Really sick again and on a sick leave. EVERYTHING is hurting and my lungs sound like old water pipes.

REST. 

[Van Buren Supernova]

7 hours ago, J.P. said:

And above all - grow a big and bouncy hindside.
Since I'd made a starfish on the pavement once, and only by few mm missed loosing my teeth, I always have spikes handy.

I'm sick btw. Really sick again and on a sick leave. EVERYTHING is hurting and my lungs sound like old water pipes.

Aiz I hate being sick. (Duh) It feels like wasting time being on bed while when healthy we can waste time being on bed too, but without feeling crappy, shut senses and everything tastes bad.

Speaking of starfish, how come mine looks more like octopus than starfish?

I just had a fall on concrete because I step into a hole that I didn't see (my fault). I was meeting someone and looking at his direction when he appeared. Left knee bled through the jeans and formed a pond while I went through the meeting. It's okay now, just the embarrassment.

Having said that, those movies portraying that it must be romantic to be helped are total crap. Regardless who I am with, whether person I like or indifferent (yes I fall quite a number of times now thinking back about it), I can't wait to get away from anyone's sight or attempt to help as soon as I can. Every single time I always had that invisible deadline 'STAND UP' before anyone reach me no matter how difficult it is based on injury.

That is totally normal, right?

What you guys normally do if you have those clumsy moments?

[Arcadia]

Geez, suddenly everyone I know is sick. I think I'll hide under the bed the rest of the week. Wait, there might be germs down there....

If I'm clumsy? Depends on if I look stupid or not. If I do, I try to act like nothing happened. If it looks like it might be someone else's fault, I milk it for all it's worth.  

[Van Buren Supernova]

Blaming someone else? Hmmm...actually it's very possible.

That's what I always do there. In real life, nah.... prolonged interaction is the consequences that I try not to take. But in this case I'm alright with the guy, so I actually blamed him for making me distracted because I took time to laugh and mock at him about his punctuality and therefore missed the hole. You see, he should provide me with safe setting while I'm mocking him, that's the least one can do.  

 

Anyway, few posts back, I was talking about online stranger who chat in the game.

So yesterday I had one, asking me what do you do in life lady?

The previous software didn't show the gender, but after update it shows, we have to opt out and  I didn't realize it. So I ignore the chat for a while but eventually replied, because who knows, he could be just someone try to be nice, and although the username, geez, boobtown, doesn't sound like someone I want to chat with, but his chat was polite and it was already our subsequent game. So I replied sorry prefer not chatting and just play. He then replied with something that actually makes me laugh and to his credit, everything is good and he didn't disturb me anymore. He just said, You are a robot.

 

[Pseudonym]

SNOW DAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!! WOOP WOOP!

 

When I fall over I spring up and laugh as if it was all good fun and everything is fine. And suppress any injuries out of sheer force of will until I'm out of view. 

I sliced my hand open before and curled it into a fist and pretended everything was fine and dandy whilst there was secretly blood pooling in the palm of my hand. 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Lovely pic of Martin. As for injuries, I take care of them as soon as possible after they happen. Once that meant almost 2 hours later as I couldn’t ice my toe my phone landed on since I had to leave to pick up johnspec.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Apparently I underestimated what I hit when I fell.

Warning, a bit graphic story.

So after the fall, I stood up quickly and went ahead for meeting but slowly realized that blood was gushing on my knee. Although it formed a significant spot on my jeans, it wasn't too bad as after sometime, I didn't feel the flow anymore. It hurt a bit, but I could walk as usual.
When I got back to office, I cleaned it as best I could and put on waterproof bandage. It was tiny, small wound although it looked quite deep. But my jeans was not punctured, so I thought at the very least, outer elements didn't get in and that means it shouldn't be too deep.

I continued my activities for the day (fell early in the morning), went around having multiple meeting but gradually it got more difficult to walk, although still quite ok. I even wanted to take a long walk in the afternoon, to prevent it for being stiff but after a few steps I changed my mind.

It got much more painful and difficult to move that night, and everytime I changed bandage it was soaked, although still contained in the bandage's small fabric patch. As in, the bleeding was not much, but it didn't stop. The next morning I was preparing for work, but realize it took me quite a lot of effort to climb stair and it's still painful to move. I had much worse wounds on knee before, but nothing felt like this. There was a slight swelling too. So I decided to get it checked, call in sick and took an Uber to clinic.

After useless radiology and many painful standup, sit down, stair through those registration, cashier, doctor, waiting, xray, bla bla, I was reduced to grandma turtle speed, and even sitting down made me cringed badly. After another round of bad information etc they finally referred me to orthopedic of a hospital nearby. Nearby means there were nothing to bring me there as it's too close so I walked there slowly. Luckily I was attended fast.

With contradictive radiology report, after doing some simple test, the doctor conclude that there was no dislocation (the report said no fracture or dislocation, but conclude with slight dislocation (??) It definitely didn't feel like dislocation because it would be much worse). So I was happy it was just a wound. 

The doctor asked if I need local anesthetic for the proper cleaning and dressing of the wound. Since both of us thought it's would be over soon and just a tiny wound, I suggested to proceed without which he agreed, since injections would be another unnecessary pain.

But good god!! As he cleaned the wound, digging and swirling he cloth around, it sting so badly. He kept saying there was darker area that was suspicious, worried that it could be something foreign, so he kept digging. At this point my hand was moving towards his neck wanting to strangle him because it was bloody painful. He kept asking me to scream if I needed too, just don't hit him. (He is funny that one). But I didn't want to and finally he stopped . At this time I could look at my knee and saw the tiny hole, just less than 1cm maybe,  looked like small blood swimming pool. But apparently, it was a very deep wound, going in about 1.5 cm (slightly more than half an inch) which he showed me from how deep he needed to push the fabric (whatever that sterile cloth called). He then explain that the wound is more complicated than he thought, and no wonder it doesn't stop bleeding. He would need to do couple of stitches and would start with more rigorous cleaning to make sure it wouldn't get infected etc etc.

He suggest local anaesthetic which I agreed wholeheartedly. Although he needed to inject on multiple angles and they sting more than usual injections, I don't think I could take another round without.
And he was pretty good and thorough. Disinfectant, anti tetanus, he was generous and repeated multiple time to make sure it's proper. Looking at the way he did it, I couldn't be more thankful for the numbness. I saw him using big needle to transfer disinfectant to the wound and from the volume disappearing inside, it was a lot. And a lot of blood.

Finally, he started the internal stitching and explained that it's needed to stop the bleeding. I think he did 3 or 4 stitches, by the forth, the anesthetic ran off and he gave me more injections because he needed to add 2 external stitches in which either the anesthetic ran off again or I just could feel the threads went through and through and hands started to move towards his neck again.
But then, I was patched up and good.

Journey back was quite bad, as I was stuck in traffic and couldn't take the pain killer yet as I had eaten almost nothing since morning, and my movement was worse for the rest of the day. But the slight swelling that I had previously had subsided and today, I felt much better and gradually the movement improved. Just have to keep the leg straight and elevated while sleeping and I'd be good.

I assume when I fell I landed on something blunt that puncture the knee through the jeans, no hole found on the jeans means it must be inverted. Sounds terrifying but at least I didn't get dirt, rust, or sands into the wound.
Regardless all these, I'm very grateful that nothing is broken or fractured, I think that would be more difficult to handle.

Geez, sorry for the long story. That was my day.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Could have been something very, very narrow that went between the threads of your jeans.  Otherwise I don't see how the wound could have been that deep and yet that narrow.  But I may be mis-imagining the shape.

You didn't happen to see any wedding photographers nearby?