texascavers Digest 24 Aug 2013 20:54:23 -0000 Issue 1830
Topics (messages 22504 through 22516):
Re: New Invasvive Species - Raspberry Ants / aka Tawny Ants
22504 by: Louise Power
22508 by: Ted Samsel
22512 by: Louise Power
Emails to Julia Germany the past couple of weeks
22505 by: Julia Germany
22506 by: Stefan Creaser
22507 by: Fofo
22509 by: Charles Goldsmith
22511 by: Louise Power
Re: Salt Dome drains Lake Peigneur, LA 1980
22510 by: Butch Fralia
Twitter related
22513 by: David
Re:Carapace failure
22514 by: dirtdoc.comcast.net
22515 by: Louise Power
Update ver 3.5
22516 by: Gill Edigar
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Oh heck, I was hoping the guy's name was Tawny Crazy.
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 23:59:21 -0500
From: george.nincehel...@gmail.com
To: germa...@aol.com
CC: Texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] New Invasvive Species - Raspberry Ants / aka Tawny
Ants
I've just been trying to sort out the name.
Apparently "Rasberry" (not "RasPberry") comes from the name of the exterminator
who discovered them.
I'm not clear if "Crazy" is part of the preferred common name or not. "Crazy"
would seem to refer to their erratic behavior.
Why the change to "Tawny Crazy"? I've no idea.
Here's another link helpful link:
http://urbanentomology.tamu.edu/ants/rasberry.html
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Julia Germany <germa...@aol.com> wrote:
At last weekend's TCMA meeting, Matt Turner gave a very interesting report
about the rapid spread of the Tawny Ant, formerly known as the Raspberry Ant,
after the man who identified them. Had Matt not previously asked me to "like"
the Tawny Ant FB page, I would not have known what he was talking about and why
cavers should be concerned. He has been monitoring them inside and outside of
Whirlpool Cave (Austin) as well as other caves in the area for a long time, and
they are starting to have serious effects on the caves and the crickets. The
current solution is an evil pesticide that will only cause more problems for
caves.
While watching the 10:00 pm Houston ABC local news tonight, they did a story
about these invasive ants. It's worth the few minutes the story lasts to watch
and learn more:
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/consumer&id=9215910
For even more info, contact Matt Turner. Sorry, I don't have his email address.
julia germany - Houston home owner who will vigilantly be on the look out for
these invasive ants in my potted plants, and around my yard!
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"Evil" pesticide? "Toxic" is a bit more science-driven.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Julia Germany <germa...@aol.com> wrote:
> At last weekend's TCMA meeting, Matt Turner gave a very interesting report
> about the rapid spread of the Tawny Ant, formerly known as the Raspberry
> Ant, after the man who identified them. Had Matt not previously asked me
> to "like" the Tawny Ant FB page, I would not have known what he was talking
> about and why cavers should be concerned. He has been monitoring them
> inside and outside of Whirlpool Cave (Austin) as well as other caves in the
> area for a long time, and they are starting to have serious effects on the
> caves and the crickets. The current solution is an evil pesticide that will
> only cause more problems for caves.
>
> While watching the 10:00 pm Houston ABC local news tonight, they did a
> story about these invasive ants. It's worth the few minutes the story
> lasts to watch and learn more:
>
> http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/consumer&id=9215910
>
> For even more info, contact Matt Turner. Sorry, I don't have his email
> address.
>
> julia germany - Houston home owner who will vigilantly be on the look out
> for these invasive ants in my potted plants, and around my yard!
>
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Ted,
I recommended to Julia that she try food grade diatomaceous earth: " in your
home you can use diatomaceous earth to kill ants among other insects. It's not
toxic to humans or pets, but it is to things like ants, weevils (they use it in
grain silos), fleas, silverfish, etc. It abrades the carapace and they "bleed"
to death. I use it at my doors and window sills along with ground cinnamon. I
also stir up ant hills and cover them with DE. Ants won't cross cinnamon and
they just flip over in DE turn their legs up to the sky and get little Xs in
their eyes." If anyone else is interested, I can recommend a website.
Louise
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 06:35:27 -0500
From: t.b.sam...@gmail.com
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] New Invasvive Species - Raspberry Ants / aka Tawny
Ants
"Evil" pesticide? "Toxic" is a bit more science-driven.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Julia Germany <germa...@aol.com> wrote:
At last weekend's TCMA meeting, Matt Turner gave a very interesting report
about the rapid spread of the Tawny Ant, formerly known as the Raspberry Ant,
after the man who identified them. Had Matt not previously asked me to "like"
the Tawny Ant FB page, I would not have known what he was talking about and why
cavers should be concerned. He has been monitoring them inside and outside of
Whirlpool Cave (Austin) as well as other caves in the area for a long time, and
they are starting to have serious effects on the caves and the crickets. The
current solution is an evil pesticide that will only cause more problems for
caves.
While watching the 10:00 pm Houston ABC local news tonight, they did a story
about these invasive ants. It's worth the few minutes the story lasts to watch
and learn more:
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/consumer&id=9215910
For even more info, contact Matt Turner. Sorry, I don't have his email address.
julia germany - Houston home owner who will vigilantly be on the look out for
these invasive ants in my potted plants, and around my yard!
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Hi All!
First, I apologize if you are unnecessarily receiving this email. It only
pertains to anyone who sent me emails with pictures, attachments or embedded
links.
If you are one those people, and my email bounced back, PLEASE RESEND the
information. I recently upgraded the version of AOL I am using and for the
first time EVER with an upgrade, it made a ton of changes to my account, most
specifically, deciding that I should not receive the above described emails.
ARGH.
Many of you have contacted me to let me know you were having trouble, so please
resend the information. I just tested out my revised settings by sending every
variety of email that has been rejected recently from my biz account, and
finally, with ease and speed, I received all of these emails.
Looking forward to reading the things I missed.
Thanks in advance for resending. And to those who found this an unnecessary
email, I apologize again. Be grateful for the delete key :)
julia
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All i have to say is... Do people *still* use AOL?!!!
-Stefan
________________________________________
From: Julia Germany [germa...@aol.com]
Sent: 24 August 2013 01:49
To: Texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] Emails to Julia Germany the past couple of weeks
Hi All!
First, I apologize if you are unnecessarily receiving this email. It only
pertains to anyone who sent me emails with pictures, attachments or embedded
links.
If you are one those people, and my email bounced back, PLEASE RESEND the
information. I recently upgraded the version of AOL I am using and for the
first time EVER with an upgrade, it made a ton of changes to my account, most
specifically, deciding that I should not receive the above described emails.
ARGH.
Many of you have contacted me to let me know you were having trouble, so please
resend the information. I just tested out my revised settings by sending every
variety of email that has been rejected recently from my biz account, and
finally, with ease and speed, I received all of these emails.
Looking forward to reading the things I missed.
Thanks in advance for resending. And to those who found this an unnecessary
email, I apologize again. Be grateful for the delete key :)
julia
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I know! It's really surprising, but they are still around. It says right there
on their MySpace page.
- Fofo
On 24/08/2013, at 00:04, Stefan Creaser <stefan.crea...@arm.com> wrote:
> All i have to say is... Do people *still* use AOL?!!!
>
> -Stefan
> ________________________________________
> From: Julia Germany [germa...@aol.com]
> Sent: 24 August 2013 01:49
> To: Texascavers@texascavers.com
> Subject: [Texascavers] Emails to Julia Germany the past couple of weeks
>
> Hi All!
>
> First, I apologize if you are unnecessarily receiving this email. It only
> pertains to anyone who sent me emails with pictures, attachments or embedded
> links.
>
> If you are one those people, and my email bounced back, PLEASE RESEND the
> information. I recently upgraded the version of AOL I am using and for the
> first time EVER with an upgrade, it made a ton of changes to my account, most
> specifically, deciding that I should not receive the above described emails.
> ARGH.
>
> Many of you have contacted me to let me know you were having trouble, so
> please resend the information. I just tested out my revised settings by
> sending every variety of email that has been rejected recently from my biz
> account, and finally, with ease and speed, I received all of these emails.
>
> Looking forward to reading the things I missed.
>
> Thanks in advance for resending. And to those who found this an unnecessary
> email, I apologize again. Be grateful for the delete key :)
>
> julia
>
> -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are
> confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended
> recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the
> contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the
> information in any medium. Thank you.
>
> ARM Limited, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ,
> Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2557590
> ARM Holdings plc, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ,
> Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2548782
>
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Actually, as a geek and someone who works with computers a lot, I've been
recommending people to AOL for a few years now. That company has been a
joke for quite a while, but, they are actually doing a good thing these
days.
Now, before you laugh, let me explain.
Most people don't have the knowledge necessary to keep their computer in
working order, how to get rid of malware, viruses, spyware, trojans, etc.
Most people have no clue what those are. There are a LOT of products out
there that claim they can get rid of all of them, and most of them don't
work very well or not at all. Some even add more to your computer.
Aol's software protects you from all of that, and it does a fairly good job
of it.
That's why I've been recommending AOL to people who don't know how to take
care of their own computer.
I recommend Mac's for the same reason.
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Fofo <f...@gzluna.com> wrote:
> I know! It's really surprising, but they are still around. It says right
> there on their MySpace page.
>
> - Fofo
>
> On 24/08/2013, at 00:04, Stefan Creaser <stefan.crea...@arm.com> wrote:
>
> > All i have to say is... Do people *still* use AOL?!!!
> >
> > -Stefan
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Julia Germany [germa...@aol.com]
> > Sent: 24 August 2013 01:49
> > To: Texascavers@texascavers.com
> > Subject: [Texascavers] Emails to Julia Germany the past couple of weeks
> >
> > Hi All!
> >
> > First, I apologize if you are unnecessarily receiving this email. It
> only pertains to anyone who sent me emails with pictures, attachments or
> embedded links.
> >
> > If you are one those people, and my email bounced back, PLEASE RESEND
> the information. I recently upgraded the version of AOL I am using and for
> the first time EVER with an upgrade, it made a ton of changes to my
> account, most specifically, deciding that I should not receive the above
> described emails. ARGH.
> >
> > Many of you have contacted me to let me know you were having trouble, so
> please resend the information. I just tested out my revised settings by
> sending every variety of email that has been rejected recently from my biz
> account, and finally, with ease and speed, I received all of these emails.
> >
> > Looking forward to reading the things I missed.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for resending. And to those who found this an
> unnecessary email, I apologize again. Be grateful for the delete key :)
> >
> > julia
> >
> > -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are
> confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended
> recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the
> contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the
> information in any medium. Thank you.
> >
> > ARM Limited, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ,
> Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2557590
> > ARM Holdings plc, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1
> 9NJ, Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2548782
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Some of us still even use hotmail. It goes thru outlook, but the address still
works and it has a fierce junk mail filter.
> From: stefan.crea...@arm.com
> To: germa...@aol.com; Texascavers@texascavers.com
> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:04:52 -0700
> Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Emails to Julia Germany the past couple of weeks
>
> All i have to say is... Do people *still* use AOL?!!!
>
> -Stefan
> ________________________________________
> From: Julia Germany [germa...@aol.com]
> Sent: 24 August 2013 01:49
> To: Texascavers@texascavers.com
> Subject: [Texascavers] Emails to Julia Germany the past couple of weeks
>
> Hi All!
>
> First, I apologize if you are unnecessarily receiving this email. It only
> pertains to anyone who sent me emails with pictures, attachments or embedded
> links.
>
> If you are one those people, and my email bounced back, PLEASE RESEND the
> information. I recently upgraded the version of AOL I am using and for the
> first time EVER with an upgrade, it made a ton of changes to my account, most
> specifically, deciding that I should not receive the above described emails.
> ARGH.
>
> Many of you have contacted me to let me know you were having trouble, so
> please resend the information. I just tested out my revised settings by
> sending every variety of email that has been rejected recently from my biz
> account, and finally, with ease and speed, I received all of these emails.
>
> Looking forward to reading the things I missed.
>
> Thanks in advance for resending. And to those who found this an unnecessary
> email, I apologize again. Be grateful for the delete key :)
>
> julia
>
> -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are
> confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended
> recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the
> contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the
> information in any medium. Thank you.
>
> ARM Limited, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ,
> Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2557590
> ARM Holdings plc, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ,
> Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2548782
>
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Something that's more amazing to me is that I was there when it happened. I
was staying about two miles away in a Holiday Inn and never knew it until I
got back home and saw it on the news. I was down from Fort Worth, working
for Gearhart Industries modifying some oilfield logging equipment at the
Lafayette Office. There's a good chance if the disaster hadn't happened,
Gearhart would have performed the logging operations for that Texico well.
Hydrocarbons, Oil and Gas tend to settle at the top of salt domes so it's
very common to drill into the top of them. Believe it or not, a lot of West
Texas wells are drilled into salt domes (not to mention the gulf coast).
It's also common to mine salt domes by flushing the salt out. In a few
cases, the salt hasn't been replaced with water to fill the void causing
collapses.
Butch
From: Logan McNatt [mailto:lmcn...@austin.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 3:32 PM
To: Texas Cavers
Subject: [Texascavers] Salt Dome drains Lake Peigneur, LA 1980
The most dramatic collapse of a salt dome--due to human error--occured at
Lake Peigneur LA on Nov 20, 1980. Incredible film/video footage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddlrGkeOzsI
(snip from Wikipedia) On November 20, 1980, when the disaster took place,
the Diamond Crystal Salt Company <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill>
operated the Jefferson Island salt mine
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_mine> under the lake, while a Texaco
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texaco> oil rig
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_platform> drilled down from the surface
of the lake searching for petroleum <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum>
. Due to a miscalculation, the 14-inch (36 cm) drill bit entered the mine,
starting a chain of events which turned an almost 10-foot (3.0 m) deep
freshwater lake into a salt water lake with a deep hole.
It is difficult to determine exactly what occurred, as all of the evidence
was destroyed or washed away in the ensuing maelstrom
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maelstrom> . One explanation is that a
miscalculation by Texaco regarding their location resulted in the drill
puncturing the roof of the third level of the mine. This created an opening
in the bottom of the lake. The lake then drained into the hole, expanding
the size of that hole as the soil and salt were washed into the mine by the
rushing water, filling the enormous caverns left by the removal of salt over
the years. The resultant whirlpool <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool>
sucked in the drilling platform, eleven barges, many trees and 65 acres
(260,000 m2) of the surrounding terrain. So much water drained into those
caverns that the flow of the Delcambre Canal
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delcambre_Canal> that usually empties the
lake into Vermilion Bay
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion_Bay_%28Louisiana%29> was reversed,
making the canal a temporary inlet. This backflow created, for a few days,
the tallest waterfall ever in the state of Louisiana, at 164 feet (50 m), as
the lake refilled with salt water from the Delcambre Canal
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delcambre_Canal> and Vermilion Bay
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion_Bay_%28Louisiana%29> . The water
downflowing into the mine caverns displaced air which erupted as compressed
air and then later as 400-foot (120 m) geysers
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geyser> up through the mineshafts.[4]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur#cite_note-h-4>
There were no injuries and no human lives lost. All 55 employees in the mine
at the time of the accident were able to escape thanks to well-planned and
rehearsed evacuation drills, while the staff of the drilling rig fled the
platform before it was sucked down into the new depths of the lake, and
Leonce Viator, Jr. (a local fisherman) was able to drive his small boat to
the shore and get out.[4]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur#cite_note-h-4> Three dogs were
reported killed, however. Days after the disaster, once the water pressure
equalized, nine of the eleven sunken barges
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barge> popped out of the whirlpool and
refloated on the lake's surface.
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Below are some observations I noted after spending about 4 hours on Twitter
this past week.
The 2014 NSS convention has a Twitter page @2014NSScon. That is a good
way of quickly getting out an important announcement to the cavers on
Twitter.
The NSS, NCKRI, SCCi and a few grottos, have Twitter pages.
At least 20 Texas cavers ( whose names I recognize ) have a Twitter
account, but few are following the NSS.
There are spammers on Twitter, that follow you.
It seems ridiculous that the average Twitter user could follow more than a
thousand pages. But I can see how someone who is heavily involved in
caving organizations could be following 4,000 Twitter sites, and have even
more followers.
Obviously, few people have spare time to actually read all the tweets they
are following.
An example of a good tweet would be, "virgin passage just now found in Kiwi
Sink."
Unfortunately, most of the tweets I see are just info re-posted from other
sites and is old news.
To many tweets are sarcastic immature post about something silly.
I still do not feel like I have a grasp of Twitter, eventhough it is far
simpler than other social media sites.
The best site I know of is the Mars Curiosity page.
David Locklear
@dlocklear01
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Carapace failure materials - for bugs that need a leak.
FYI - I have used Boric Acid crystals (needle-like things) for that purpose
since I returned to Alpine in 1972 with a refrigerator from Austin, that also
brought along a seed population of German Cockroaches. I hauled them in Terry
Raines' old stock trailer (overloaded, of course), whose axle fell off shortly
after we got to the hill country -- but that is yet another story.
Boric Acid crystals work even better than diatomaceous earth . I still have a
pint canister. Bought 25 pounds at some rediculuous low price in Austin. I
think from a chemical supply house - that was the smallest quantity they would
sell to me. I claimed some sort of University research, if I remember
correctly. It used to be sold at 500x the price as "Roach Prufe", which I think
you can still buy for about $5 a pound. I think I saw it at Ace Hdwr. That
should be cheap enough even for cavers.
DirtDoc
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From: "Louise Power" <power_lou...@hotmail.com>
in your home you can use diatomaceous earth to kill ants among other insects.
It's not toxic to humans or pets, but it is to things like ants, weevils (they
use it in grain silos), fleas, silverfish, etc. It abrades the carapace and
they "bleed" to death. I use it at my doors and window sills along with ground
cinnamon. I also stir up ant hills and cover them with DE. Ants won't cross
cinnamon and they just flip over in DE turn their legs up to the sky and get
little Xs in their eyes." If anyone else is interested, I can recommend a
website.
Louise
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Hi DD,
I've never used boric acid Xtals. Is it safe to use around pets? I've found
something that is safe and works for me, so I'm sticking with it. Thanks for
the recommendation, however.
Louise
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:33:54 +0000
From: dirt...@comcast.net
To: power_lou...@hotmail.com
CC: t.b.sam...@gmail.com; texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] Re:Carapace failure
Carapace failure materials - for bugs that need a leak.
FYI - I have used Boric Acid crystals (needle-like things) for that purpose
since I returned to Alpine in 1972 with a refrigerator from Austin, that also
brought along a seed population of German Cockroaches. I hauled them in Terry
Raines' old stock trailer (overloaded, of course), whose axle fell off shortly
after we got to the hill country -- but that is yet another story.
Boric Acid crystals work even better than diatomaceous earth. I still have a
pint canister. Bought 25 pounds at some rediculuous low price in Austin. I
think from a chemical supply house - that was the smallest quantity they would
sell to me. I claimed some sort of University research, if I remember
correctly. It used to be sold at 500x the price as "Roach Prufe", which I think
you can still buy for about $5 a pound. I think I saw it at Ace Hdwr. That
should be cheap enough even for cavers.
DirtDoc
From: "Louise Power" <power_lou...@hotmail.com>
in your home you can use diatomaceous earth to kill ants among other insects.
It's not toxic to humans or pets, but it is to things like ants, weevils (they
use it in grain silos), fleas, silverfish, etc. It abrades the carapace and
they "bleed" to death. I use it at my doors and window sills along with ground
cinnamon. I also stir up ant hills and cover them with DE. Ants won't cross
cinnamon and they just flip over in DE turn their legs up to the sky and get
little Xs in their eyes." If anyone else is interested, I can recommend a
website.
Louise
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3-1/2 week update (24 Aug 2013). Last Wednesday made 3 weeks since I fell.
For the most part there was not much pain after the first week--which
included, of course, some high-powered prescription drugs, none of which I
liked very much for their many negative side effects. By the time 3 weeks
had passed I'd abandoned the scripts and was just taking OTC 200mg
ibuprofen. By Wednesday last I'd also abandoned those, as well, except I
took one at bedtime last night on account of being tired after futzing
around most of the day and helping Galen with his bumper project--mostly
doing design work. I still can't lay on my side without getting the feeling
I'm overstressing something that's not quite ready to be stressed so I
sleep on my back in the hospital bed adjusted with the head end a bit
elevated. I normally never sleep on my back--except when taking a nap on
the couch and want to wake up soon. Last Monday I walked 6 blocks to the
CVS and back and Wednesday hiked about a half mile from Sao Paulo cafe to
the Grotto (cave club) meeting and then back again after the meeting to the
Posse for a cold beer, the first alcohol of any kind I'd drunk since the
fall. Yesterday I had a Ranger beer and hardly noticed it. Also, last
Wednesday I got Galen to cut off the skraggly-ass hair I'd been growing
since the 2012 NSS Convention. The last few days I've had but very little
sensitivity to any kind of stress or movement. I can tell the ribs are
still weak but they seem to be mending beyond my expectations. Maybe I'll
be ready to get back to physical labor in 2 more weeks.
--Ediger
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