Patterico's Pontifications

4/3/2016

A Sunday Morning Respite

Filed under: General — Dana @ 10:54 am



[guest post by Dana]

It was nice to take a quick jaunt to somewhere other than the news:

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–Dana

33 Responses to “A Sunday Morning Respite”

  1. Good morning.

    Dana (0ee61a) — 4/3/2016 @ 10:54 am

  2. Nice.
    And the pictures are, too.

    nk (9faaca) — 4/3/2016 @ 10:58 am

  3. where did you go you had adventures!

    happyfeet (831175) — 4/3/2016 @ 10:59 am

  4. Looks like the Central Coast between Cambria and Piedras Blancas.

    ropelight (618a98) — 4/3/2016 @ 11:30 am

  5. Lovely pix — and not a huge toxic furry orange caterpillar to be seen!

    Beldar (fa637a) — 4/3/2016 @ 11:51 am

  6. Sea lions are lazy. Was that taken somewhere near Big Sur?

    JVW (9e3c77) — 4/3/2016 @ 12:20 pm

  7. In Puget Sound sea lions feed on seals, especially baby seals. And a whole lot of salmon that they catch by the fish ladders.

    And speaking of the food chain:

    http://www.krem.com/news/local/boat-crew-witnesses-whale-fight-off-everett/116264438

    I expect the first victim, not identified in order to protect liberal sensibilities, of the Orcas was a seal. I’m glad the grays survived the encounter.

    BobStewartatHome (a52abe) — 4/3/2016 @ 1:20 pm

  8. A baby seal walks into a club.

    nk (dbc370) — 4/3/2016 @ 2:34 pm

  9. genocidal iceberg slaughters little birdies

    happyfeet (831175) — 4/3/2016 @ 2:40 pm

  10. How beautiful. Thank you!

    DRJ (15874d) — 4/3/2016 @ 2:54 pm

  11. Grandpa was the lighthouse keeper at Piedras Blancas. Dad told me the story of how William Randolph Hearst would have them over to the Castle for dinner.
    This was in the 1930’s when dad was a toddler. Hearst bounced my Pop on his knee.

    papertiger (c2d6da) — 4/3/2016 @ 3:20 pm

  12. I had a wisdom tooth extracted yesterday. The dentist advised avoid spitting and swallowing in order to prevent dry socket.

    How do you do that?

    papertiger (c2d6da) — 4/3/2016 @ 3:25 pm

  13. lady gaga got in trouble for filling up Mr. Hearst’s pool and also Andy Cohen was involved

    happyfeet (831175) — 4/3/2016 @ 3:29 pm

  14. Greetings:

    Get your pictures quick.

    Won’t be green long.

    Golden State. Get it ???

    with apologies to “happyfeety” and Colonel Haiku.

    11B40 (6abb5c) — 4/3/2016 @ 3:50 pm

  15. That’s touh, papertiger. I hope it doesn’t hurt too much.

    DRJ (15874d) — 4/3/2016 @ 3:50 pm

  16. That’s some gay concentrate.

    They should drain the lake and burn the castle, just so as not to poison tour groups.

    Now back to issue numero uno. How do you avoid both swallowing and spitting.

    Help me Obi Won. Focus.

    papertiger (c2d6da) — 4/3/2016 @ 3:54 pm

  17. you need to find one of them lil packets of silica gel

    happyfeet (831175) — 4/3/2016 @ 3:57 pm

  18. I think the dentist is messing with my faculties.

    Giggling at my dilemma.

    papertiger (c2d6da) — 4/3/2016 @ 4:01 pm

  19. It doesn’t hurt that much. Kind of loopy from the pain pills.

    Can’t feel my feet.

    papertiger (c2d6da) — 4/3/2016 @ 4:18 pm

  20. Put your tongue on your bottom two teeth. Let some drool accumulate and let most of it dribble out the corners of your mouth and away from your keyboard. with the rest, tilt your head backlift the tip of your tongue up like a dump truck and drain it.
    You can swallow and drool but really what he is telling you to avoid is the normal suction process that creates a vacuum that you can feel back in the molars.
    When my face was broken, I couldn’t swallow, my sinuses where draining like crazy down the back and I thought I was drowning. My tongue was all swollen too and I had lots of time (except for when I was counting down to the 15 minute morphine pump) to try to figure out how to squeeze the drool around the edges

    On a lighter note, one of my friends decided that hell, he’d get all four done at once if the dentist had the time.
    He leaves a little groggy and hungry, he is feeling no pain, face is numb so he goes and has a big steak dinner.
    The waitress rolls up and looks horrified. He looks down and the steak had dislodged all the packing and he is drooling blood all over the plate and table.
    He pretty much empties his wallet onto the table and then really pays for it in pain for a few days.

    No steak. drool. in that particular order

    steveg (fed1c9) — 4/3/2016 @ 4:35 pm

  21. Face broken. What the? G what happened?

    papertiger (c2d6da) — 4/3/2016 @ 4:43 pm

  22. Ignore what the stupid dentist says. Take ibuprofen, 600 mgs (3 tablets) every four to six hours to keep down the pain. Save the stupid Tylenol #3 or hydrocodone for some time you want to feel groggy and sleepy. Drink what you want, rinse whenever you want, spit when you want. Have soft foods the first day (make a pot of pasta) and rinse out good afterwards to get any pieces out of the wound. Gums are contractile tissue; it should stop bleeding soon if it hasn’t already; but it will take months for it grow back so there’s not a hole there. And think of Hugh Glass who was eaten by a bear.

    nk (dbc370) — 4/3/2016 @ 7:03 pm

  23. A baby seal walks into a club.

    A baby seal walks into a bar, and the bartender asks, “What’ll you have?”

    The baby seal says, “I’ll have a Canadian Club.”

    Chuck Bartowski (211c17) — 4/3/2016 @ 7:14 pm

  24. You gotta tell us where this is. These pictures are beautiful.

    Patterico (7de8a8) — 4/3/2016 @ 7:22 pm

  25. Thanks for the tip NK.

    I’m thinking beer and Tylenol. Beer will dry me up a little bit. The socket seems to be healing up already. Not enough to eat a steak, but better than last time I had a tooth pulled.

    papertiger (c2d6da) — 4/3/2016 @ 7:52 pm

  26. Central Coast Calif as ropelight said. Those are elephant seals, the pics don’t really show how huge those things are: males are up to 16 ft long and 6700 lbs.
    Ditto on what nk said about the tooth; save the hydrocodon for when your back goes out. If you go through it again, pack a moistened teabag in the socket the 1st 2 days. Helps develop a nice clot, the tannins cross-link blood proteins

    Angelo (d89b21) — 4/3/2016 @ 8:32 pm

  27. Teabagging it. Good tip Angelo. And it’s in my wheelhouse politically even!

    papertiger (c2d6da) — 4/3/2016 @ 8:46 pm

  28. Dana, hon, thanks. The quiet sure is nice.

    Bill H (dcdd7b) — 4/3/2016 @ 9:08 pm

  29. I’m thinking beer and Tylenol. Beer will dry me up a little bit. The socket seems to be healing up already. Not enough to eat a steak, but better than last time I had a tooth pulled.

    papertiger (c2d6da) — 4/3/2016 @ 7:52 pm

    You looking for the mild buzz or just some refreshment? I’ve gotten to where, instead of soda, I drink plain carbonated water. Not going to the expense of Perrier, none of the flavored sparkling waters (the artificial sweetener is so prominent), just cool sparkling water. Especially on warm days, the bubbles and the cold hitting the back of your throat can be pretty relaxing. Run it through a straw if your pull is still bothering you.

    Bill H (dcdd7b) — 4/3/2016 @ 9:18 pm

  30. Beautiful pics… but have some worry about those horses and all that greenery at their disposal. That can be a recipe for founder and/or colic at this time of year.

    Gramps (39f97a) — 4/4/2016 @ 10:03 am

  31. That little building look like Harmony

    steveg (fed1c9) — 4/5/2016 @ 9:43 pm

  32. I agree on saving the hydrocodone or oxycodone for that odd compound fracture where you realize the ER is so packed with kids with green snot that it will be faster for you go home to make an appointment in the morning with a an orthopedic DR. So you will need those pills to get you though.
    Hide them from the visitors… both the welcomed and unwelcomed visitors often look for drugs before even guns and jewelry since ya burglar might be able to get more for hydromorphone than a gun and it is easier to sell

    steveg (fed1c9) — 4/5/2016 @ 10:06 pm

  33. That is San Luis Obispo County. The elephant seals are near San Simeon, near Hearst Castle.

    David (6f3506) — 4/10/2016 @ 3:04 am


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