Happy birthday Targan!

[TiggerCCW UK]

Just thought I'd kiss up to the mods :-) Happy birthday Targan, hope you have a great day my friend!

[Targan]

Thanks! Older, hopefully wiser? :rolleyes:

[helbent4]

Thanks! Older, hopefully wiser? :rolleyes:

Targan,

Is your birthday tomorrow? Was it yesterday? Next week? You're in Australia, so I never freakin' know. Well, have good one, anyways!

Tony

[dragoon500ly]

Happy Returns!

Another day older and deeper in debt, right?

:rolleyes:

[mikeo80]

Targan,

Hope you will have, have had, or are having a Happy Birthday!

I will hoist a cold Fosters for you!!! :D

Many more in good health.

Mike

[B.T.]

Targan,

just what Mike said (Although I'll have to drink a local brew to your health! :D)

Cheers!

[natehale1971]

Happy Birthday!

[Targan]

Thanks for the kind words, lads! Oh and Mikeo80 - Fosters is rats' piss! When I drink beer I favour the brews produced by a local brewery in our West Australian port city of Fremantle, Little Creatures Brewery. Yum!

[helbent4]

Thanks for the kind words, lads! Oh and Mikeo80 - Fosters is rats' piss! When I drink beer I favour the brews produced by a local brewery in our West Australian port city of Fremantle, Little Creatures Brewery. Yum!

Targan,

Ah, Fosters, the "golden throat harmer".

Tony

[pmulcahy11b]

Happy Birthday! (Said in the voice of Frosty the Snowman.)

[mikeo80]

:bash::bash:Thanks for the kind words, lads! Oh and Mikeo80 - Fosters is rats' piss! When I drink beer I favour the brews produced by a local brewery in our West Australian port city of Fremantle, Little Creatures Brewery. Yum!

Sorry about that Targan. We ignorant savages in North Carolina, USA have no clue as to what local breweries you have at your beck and call. (You DO have them on your cell phone speed dial, right?). Fosters is better than the slime that comes out of most of the American corporate breweries. Sam Adams is not bad (IMHO). But like you, we do have local breweries that make excellent beer.

So, in honor of your birthday, I will go find a good local brew pub, and hoist one for you!

Mike

[Raellus]

Happy belated Targ!

[Targan]

Sam Adams is not bad (IMHO). But like you, we do have local breweries that make excellent beer.

This is not the first time I've seen Sam Adams beer mentioned on this forum. I wonder whether it is possible to get it in Australia? I'd like to try it.

[TiggerCCW UK]

This is not the first time I've seen Sam Adams beer mentioned on this forum. I wonder whether it is possible to get it in Australia? I'd like to try it.

Sam Adams is a great beer, especially if you get some of their seasonal stuff. I've very fond memories from when I was working in Boston of calling into the brewhouse on Boyleston Street for a few Hazlenut Brown's, which was their fall beer. I've seen the ordinary Sam Adams Boston Lager on sale here and on the mainand, but never any of their seasonal stuff. Of course now I don't drink I've not been looking for it, so it might be available now, although I've not heard any mention of it within the licensed trade.

[mikeo80]

This is not the first time I've seen Sam Adams beer mentioned on this forum. I wonder whether it is possible to get it in Australia? I'd like to try it.

I particularly like their Black and Tan, and their Weissel (spelling?) or wheat beer.

Mike

[Rainbow Six]

A belated Happy Birthday Targan.

Cheers

Dave

[Legbreaker]

What'd you get? ;)
For me next week it's a new ankle and a divorce. :P

[pmulcahy11b]

What'd you get? ;)
For me next week it's a new ankle and a divorce. :P

Better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all? OK, I know that's bullshit...

[Legbreaker]

Kicked her cheating arse out about 5 years ago but only got around to the paperwork a few months back.

[pmulcahy11b]

Let me know how that ankle replacement works out -- I'm considering one.

[Legbreaker]

Fortunately it's just a clean out of the joint not an entire replacement. It'll be nice to be pain free again for the first time in a year.
I'm currently laying in the hospital actually, next on the list for surgery. Give it half an hour and chances are I'll be unconscious. :D

[Targan]

What'd you get? ;)
For me next week it's a new ankle and a divorce. :P

Got a limited edition, numbered copy of the Fallout New Vegas Strategy Guide; the Deathwatch RPG (runs parallel to the Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader RPGs); remote control battery powered helicopter (4-channel, takes some getting used to to fly the darned thing); some clothes and a CD (Triple J's Like A Version). Very happy with this year's haul :D

[TiggerCCW UK]

Let me know how that ankle replacement works out -- I'm considering one.

Don't know about ankles, but I've at least one knee replacement to look forward to some time in the future :( Hopefully I'll be able to hold off for a few years yet, but it'll happen one of these days :(

[TiggerCCW UK]

Got a limited edition, numbered copy of the Fallout New Vegas Strategy Guide; the Deathwatch RPG (runs parallel to the Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader RPGs); remote control battery powered helicopter (4-channel, takes some getting used to to fly the darned thing); some clothes and a CD (Triple J's Like A Version). Very happy with this year's haul :D

Good haul mate! I got a wee remote control plane off a friend of mine 2 years back. Great craic, but I've a terrible habit of flying it into things :)

[helbent4]

Got a limited edition, numbered copy of the Fallout New Vegas Strategy Guide; the Deathwatch RPG (runs parallel to the Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader RPGs); remote control battery powered helicopter (4-channel, takes some getting used to to fly the darned thing); some clothes and a CD (Triple J's Like A Version). Very happy with this year's haul :D

Targan,

Sounds sweet!

Tony

[mikeo80]

Targan,

Sounds sweet!

Tony

What he said!

Mike

[pmulcahy11b]

Fortunately it's just a clean out of the joint not an entire replacement. It'll be nice to be pain free again for the first time in a year.
I'm currently laying in the hospital actually, next on the list for surgery. Give it half an hour and chances are I'll be unconscious. :D

That's dedication to computing. A half an hour away from surgery and still at the keyboard!

[Snake Eyes]

Happy birthday. Belatedly. Hope you had a good one. For reference, I have always preferred Steinlager to Fosters. It pissed me off royally when Outback Steakhouse quit stocking it.

[Legbreaker]

That's dedication to computing. A half an hour away from surgery and still at the keyboard!

I blame the Blackberry...

[mikeo80]

I blame the Blackberry...

I hope your surgery went well!

Get well soon!

Mike

[Targan]

So Leg... did they fix your leg? :D

[Legbreaker]

It did actually, thanks. Took a few more hours than expected to wheel me into the theatre, but once there it was all over in about half an hour.
Hobbling about on crutches now though and not allowed to drive for a week due to swelling limiting the range of motion in the joint (not to mention the oxycodon I'm taking for the pain) - it's becoming a little bit of an issue since I live a few miles out of town but I'll manage.
Hopefully I'll be properly vertical again in time to celebrate my divorce being finalised on Tuesday and then birthday two days later on Thursday. I think this coming week might see a few drinks passing my lips. :P

[kota1342000]

Happy Birthday late to Targan, and I hope that leg gets better fast Leg.

<<Slides some Ebeer across

[pmulcahy11b]

It did actually, thanks. Took a few more hours than expected to wheel me into the theatre, but once there it was all over in about half an hour.
Hobbling about on crutches now though and not allowed to drive for a week due to swelling limiting the range of motion in the joint (not to mention the oxycodon I'm taking for the pain) - it's becoming a little bit of an issue since I live a few miles out of town but I'll manage.
Hopefully I'll be properly vertical again in time to celebrate my divorce being finalised on Tuesday and then birthday two days later on Thursday. I think this coming week might see a few drinks passing my lips. :P

When they cleaned up my right ankle, I was capable of driving about a week after they took the cast off, but now allowed to for three months. I wasn't allowed off crutches for two weeks after they took the cast off. And I had six months of physical therapy. But then again, my ankle was a real mess, and I had a childhood Grice-Green procedure mucking up things.

[Legbreaker]

This time around it was a fairly simple op to basically clean out a bit of excess material.
Although I'm not supposed to drive until 7 days after, I was back behind the wheel after 4. Hobbling about today with one crutch but have managed the last few days with none.
Physical therapy? Whatever I do for myself basically to get the joint moving again.

[LBraden]

Yeah, I had to deal with similar after

Breaking Lower neck
Breaking Spine just below shoulder blades
Breaking Spine just above belt/belly button area
Breaking Spine just below belt/belly button area
Both Hips dislocated
Right Knee cracked (like an egg)
Dislocation of Right ankle
Twisting and bruising of Left ankle


Of course, it was more of a "broken bone and cartilage" but still could have resulted in break of spinal cord, and my father in his infinite wisdom and Irishness strapped 2lb's of semtex and pressure switch to the seat on my wheelchair, to force me to walk again.

8 years later and I still need a walking stick, mostly for balance though.

[Targan]

8 years later and I still need a walking stick, mostly for balance though.

Its still impressive to me that you can walk at all. What caused all those serious injuries?

[LBraden]

Blind corner and an illegal Indian cab driver, damn lucky a few cars down the opposite side was a police car, so I got quick medical assistance, but the Indian got away scot free, thanks to legging it.

Motorbike was a write off though.

[Antenna]

Happy birthday Targan

/Antti

[Targan]

Motorbike was a write off though.

Ah, now I understand. My sympathies. I spent a long time on crutches after my first motorcycle accident.

[Targan]

Happy birthday Targan

Thanks Antti!