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vixyish's back pains got so bad during the night that we went into the ER. Turns out to be a big muscle spasm. They gave her a super-ibuprofen injection and a scrip for valium. She will be resting today and I will be working on calming down from 'omg mysterious back and neck pains on the left side of the body bad enough to wake someone up, go go go!'

So, in conclusion, we moved out towards the suburbs and now my wife is on valium. We're totally living the American Dream.

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A couple weeks ago I was sitting in a restaurant, eating dinner with friends, when I was given a steak knife with the hamburger I ordered. Not particularly needing a steak knife to eat a hamburger, it sat unused until after I was done. Eventually my idle hands turned to the devil's work, and I found myself sawing lightly into my left thumbnail. Not too far, just scratching the surface a bit. It was a very poor steak knife.

This might seem like harmless, if weird, entertainment. Tonight I learned otherwise. Because should a thumbnail have a score mark on it, like mine did, it is very likely to buckle there under the impact of a poorly aimed shinai. Like mine did.

So let that be a lesson to all who read this. Don't saw into your thumbnail with a steak knife and then get hit there several weeks later with a bamboo stick. It just isn't worth it.