Hmmmm? Post-Anniversary Post!

[rabid1st]

So, my lifemate and I have racked up 16 years. And for this anniversary, he got me a digital scale. But I didn't have the usual reaction that the gift of a digital scale might bring on...because I seriously have been lusting after this bit of fitness equipment. However, I have to wonder about the accuracy of this scale. You see...if it is to be believed...I am losing about 1 pound every six hours. Seems unlikely, yes? But first it read xx4 when I felt it should say xx7...then later it said xx2...and I thought, HELLO? And just now...it said xx1.

Perhaps this has something to do with my weird electromagnetic affect on small appliances. Perhaps the scale has been talking to the toaster about my weird electromagnetic field and the scale is now appeasing me. No toaster in this house works properly for me. Brand new toasters basically burn one corner of the toast but fail to even lightly singe the other corners. They work properly for other people, but not for me. I must hover over the toaster and rotate my toast constantly to make sure that it toasts in a moderately even fashion. I have threatened the toaster with dismemberment and/or drowning in the past. But it continues to resist me. Perhaps it has spoken to the scale and the scale has opted for flattery. Or perhaps I do not know how to calibrate a scale or a toaster.

Anyway, in other Anniversary news, we saw Inglourious Basterds. This is part of our tradition, because we saw Natural Born Killers at the beginning of our relationship. So, we try to see a very violent and bad movie as part of our celebration. Tarantino often makes the cut. We saw Kill Bill one year, as I recall. Though we also once saw Titanic. And we saw all of the Lord of the Rings movies, too. All that is required is that lots of extras die spectacularly...I believe. Certainly, that's what happens in I.B. <<--Is it a coincidence that is the same initials as Irritable Bowel? I can't say I particularly like these films. But Inglourious Basterds wasn't as bad as I thought it would be (which I really can't say about Titanic). LOL

I am not sure I would recommend IB to you and yours. But I stand by the assessment that it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Dark? Yes! Pointless? Mostly! Improbably and brightly colored? Definitely! Style over substance? Without a doubt! But...not unwatchable.

Rae

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Congrats on the 16 years!

[sivonni.livejournal.com]

that's like a hundred in today's dog years of marriage!

My mother has that weird electronics thing too. The technicians at the school she used to work at always asked her if she'd ever been struck by lightning, which she hasn't. She has this strange effect on ALL electronics, from coffee makers to copy machines to the DVR.

Her father was the same only he couldn't even wear a wristwatch. He had a wind-up pocket watch to tell time and had to sit far away from the television or it would act weird. Good thing he grew up during the depression and didn't need an iPhone or laptop to survive like his grand-kids do.

I inherited some of his other oddities and those are weird enough, thankyouverymuch! How would you like to get nauseous every time there's an earthquake anywhere within hundreds of miles? 'Cuz that's the least crazy one I inherited.

I can also talk to electronics. When I threaten them they start to behave. Or they issue death threats. But that was just once from a very disturbed printer. I have the letter in a file somewhere. (It said it was "From: _____Death___" and was missing random letters from words like: "_ax__your___py" and "_kill___processors".)

My boss was so freaked out she let me leave early while the techs scratched their heads over it. I wish I was making this up.

Re: Congrats on the 16 years!

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

I have the same effect on radios and on wristwatches as your dad. I used to mess with television but cable and computers don't act up on me. Hence my wish for a digital scale. I have never tried a digital watch. Might work. We will see how the scale does.

The earthquake sensitivity is interesting. First I've heard of that outside the animal kingdom.

I know I'm not the only one with an electronics dampening field around me. But it did impress my pals when I would go up to the radio and the channels would go all funny. The toaster impresses nobody. I keep telling my lifemate that it doesn't work and he keeps producing perfect toast. He insists I must set it wrong. But I don't change the settings at all. It just refuses to toast my bread properly. Finally, he said to me, okay, the toasters hate you...are you happy? But who would be happy with that?

I hope that I've simply dropped a bit of water weight today or something. I would hate for the scale to go glitchy on me fresh out of the box. I am happy that your boss sent you home when the printer threatened you. Come to think of it...I've never had a printer that works at home...I've always thought that was because we buy the bad printers...but maybe they are electronic enough to be affected. HMMMM! We did have one at the office that told us it was refusing to print. It said something like...Bad Job...Work Sucks...Goodbye! We kept the notice for a long time...but again...I didn't really associate it with my electronic worries...I thought it was more like crazy IT guys pulling yanking our chains. Now you have me worried. :grin:

Rae

[mrs_roy.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, Rae! You're such a beautiful person, it's no wonder he's put up with you for this long.

You both have my best wishes, and much love.

Take care of each other. Sometimes, that's all we have in this world, each other! ♥

[astitchintime-9.livejournal.com]

Digital scale!!?!!! You're doing that thing-you-do again! I just checked in with you after working on this and you are weirding me out over the coincidence of that more than your stories about EMFs would! (Well, actually, they wouldn't, because I am amused more than spooked by people with odd powers like that. I haven't any to speak of, so I try to stand near my friends with such, to see if any interesting powers will rub off on me. :grin:)

"Lifemate" -- what a. great word! "Helpmeet" is another partnering word I like, but I like yours better.

Congratulations to you both on your sweet sixteen Anniversary! May each year ahead with one another be better than all that have been!

[monkeybatz.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the Anniversary!

Scales of all assorments never seem to work properly for me. I see that scale shift back and forth from low number to high number all the time so I'm in a constant state of just not knowing my accurate weight number.

Your electromagnetic interference ability is very interesting...have you ever wiped a tape or electronic device clean of any information?

[wickedgillie.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary! Our 12-years-together and 10-years-married anniversary is coming up next week.

I wish we had a big digital scale. We do have a little one for weighing food, and it's hard to convince on some days that we want to know pounds, not kilograms. Someday, I think digital scales shall rule the universe.

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Aw! Thank you for the kind words and best wishes. We do try to take care of one another. I agree that is the most important job we have in this world, supporting our friends and loved ones.

Rae

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the anniversary!

Hmm. Are you sure it isn't hovering over the toaster that is making it nervous?

My scale thoughts: did you move it at all in between? Did you zero it first each time? Are you moving about on the scale while it's thinking?

Re: Congrats on the 16 years!

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[dualbunny.livejournal.com]

Congrats you two! I wish you many many more violent death-filled movies to come. :D

[asahifirsa.livejournal.com]

I think my Wii is more accurate than my digital scale. I've heard they have quite a range, so if you step on it three times within a minute mine shows three different weights... so I stopped using it and use the Wii Fit body check now.

I did like IB, it's definitely a movie that falls in the "worth seeing" category. Probably the first Tarantino that I could say I "liked".

[maniacalshen.livejournal.com]

Congrats! He sounds like a good one, even if he won't believe that toasters hate you. ;)

And Inglorious Basterds actually thoroughly surprised me; I really enjoyed it. I do occasionally suffer from bad taste, but still. It definitely had a great Brad Pitt role - he was hilarious - and definitely was style over substance.

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Brad was hilarious. I had read some foul reviews of his accent on Amazon dot com...but I thought he did a wonderful job of playing over the top. You know immediately that none of this is to be taken seriously...by the Once Upon A Time...in Nazi Occupied France. I mean...who would take that seriously? Well...apparently lots of people on Amazon dot com. But once I relaxed I found most of the movie enjoyable. I suppose Tarantino did get a little carried away during the climactic carnage scene...but then he always does. So I was expecting that.

Thanks for the congrats. He is very special, in my less than humble opinion.

Rae

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

This is supposed to be a very accurate scale. I think what has happened is that I have heavy clothes and weigh a bit more later in the day. So, I am going by my weight on another machine first...then I had expected to lose a bit...so I was fine with the XX4. But I feel what happened is that I undressed...losing a couple of pounds. Then I weighed myself in the morning and had lost another pound. Probably I just need to pick a consistent time of day and weigh-in then for an accurate account of lost weight.

IB is worth seeing. I was talked into it by random people at the library. I asked the staff if it was good and the random people chimed in to tell me that I would like it. Turns out they were right.

Rae

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Aww! You are too kind, DB!

:snicker:

The odd thing is, Hollywood does churn them out over the summer. It is never hard to find one at anniversary time.

Rae

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

I did not move the scale. The instructions with it were very specific about that. And it is apparently calibrated properly. But I did weigh myself with and without clothes and from late afternoon through to morning. Probably I should just be consistent as to when I weigh-in. Like morning and nude should do it for me. It was just odd that I kept weighing less as we went along.

I could be making the toaster nervous. Especially as I threatened it upon arrival. Something like..."The last toaster didn't operate properly, and he's gone now. You better wise up and make decent toast, mister, or I will send you to the scrap heap." So, perhaps it is trying and failing because it fears me. And the scale has heard of my tendency to scrap appliances and has decided to flatter me with weight loss.

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

That's how the Cylons started. Digital toasters and self-operating ice makers. Next thing you know one of them is dating your granddaughter.

I shall wish you a Happy Anniversary now and avoid the rush.

Rae

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

It is the thing that I do, after all.

As for lifemate, yes, I like it as an alternative to companion or significant other or whatever. It expresses the level of our commitment to one another sans legal paperwork. And yet it is not as goopy as soulmate.

The EMF is not really something that bothers me must anymore...outside of toast situation. This is why my Ten has such trouble with toasters. There's a bit of trivia for you. :grin: Back in the antenna days of radio and television I was a walking hazard and I still can't wear a watch. I am also very sensitive to most metals so I have trouble with jewelry in any case. But my watches stopped, too. So I didn't see the point of them. And my car radio never works. I've considered satellite radio, but I'm not sure it would work either. So, I just listen to CDs in the car and forget the static of my radio experiences.

I am seriously wondering now about my printer problems though...I do wonder if the printer and the toaster are in the same union.

Rae

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

I wipe disc drives and also credit cards...or ATM cards. It is very frustrating because I never know when they will stop working on me. Anything with a magnetic strip will stop working after a few months with me. I've never carried a tape to see if I would ruin it. I suppose I might though. I try to keep things like that away from my person, since I know if I carry a disc drive with me it will stop working.

Rae
aka magna-girl!

[astitchintime-9.livejournal.com]

How are you with wifi?

Re: Congrats on the 16 years!

[sivonni.livejournal.com]

>>I have the same effect on radios and on wristwatches as your dad. <<

Actually, it's my Mom's dad, my grandfather. And a doctor told him "You have too much electricity in your body." because the MRI didn't work correctly when they scanned him for cancer. He was also never wrong about the weather. He also used to clean his ear with a key.
I'm not sure how that relates, I just found it odd.

Granpa is the only other person I know that got nauseous from earthquakes that weren't in the immediate vicinity. I once got so dizzy I fell out of my chair just before the blinds started swinging wildly on the windows. Nothing else moved.

My mother's far worse than you with electronics. I used to think she just didn't know how to use them, but that isn't the case. She can use the remote to change channels and something happens that it takes me (and some tech support guy named Dave) an hour to undo.

She also once typed up a letter on my computer. It was sluggish for the rest of the night and died the next morning. I had to reinstall the operating system. (I say once because she isn't allowed to touch my computer anymore. Or Dad's laptop. She dictates her letters and resumes from across the room now)

>>! We did have one at the office that told us it was refusing to print.<<

I had something similar. I printed something that came out weird, words and symbols that didn't make sense across the top of the page, then the word "No" in the middle and the rest was blank. And, then the death threat a couple days later.

The processing system used to argue with me too. I entered an address "#### N Upham Street", which showed up onscreen as "####N UP Ham Street" with UP highlighted in red and a message that read, "Up is an invalid direction".

So I told it (aloud), "One, no it's not. Up is a perfectly valid direction. And two, Up's the street not Ham, north's the direction and it's not my fault that you can't keep up with my typing." My boss walked by on her way to the copier and told me, "You're talking back to the possessed machines again."

P.S. Once I get better sorted in this new apartment, I'll find that printout and scan it so I can post it online.

Re: Congrats on the 16 years!

[np-complete.livejournal.com]

That's interesting: I always noticed that radios *improved* if I got near them. They'd fuzz out and lose the station if I walked away. I could make gestures and the radio would respond.

You mean that doesn't happen for everybody? I always assumed it did!

My digital scale seems to be very correct for me (I find that my weight at the doctor's office matches whatever the scale said that morning) but it keeps telling my sister she's heavy. It will report her as anything from 145 to 195 but mostly hovers around 170. (She weighs about 135, if I'm any judge.)

Re: Congrats on the 16 years!

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

The scale obviously hates your sister. This is what I'm saying. I think some of us are just not compatible with electrical devices. When we mediate, we turn all of the lights, computers and other things off in the house. It is very restful for me when all the electrical current is gone, too, like after hurricanes. If it weren't for the heat and humidity down here I would love it.

Rae

Re: Congrats on the 16 years!

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

That happens with radios with me too. I assume it's because our bodies act as antennae. Which is great if you want to stand by the radio, otherwise, it just makes it harder to tune.