h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*walks back in looking all windswept*

Have fun then?

Oh yus

Cool!

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Incidentally, quartz has a hardness of 7 and can scratch glass, while muscovite can not. Additionally, muscovite has platy cleavage and you can pull it apart in sheets with your fingernails, while quartz has a conchoidal fracture.

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interesting facts scan!

Hey, someone mentions geology, and you can't stop me.

hey thanks for that Scandrea
i geology too but sometimes the practicals drive me crazy

I'm sorry to hear about your bike Cal.

Actually, speaking of which, I had the strangest dream last night where I was Stevens from "The Remains of the Day", and it was just after my (Stevens) father had died and I had to bring his ashes back to Darlington Hall on a motorbike despite the fact that I don't know how to drive on. Long story short, I droped the urn, ended up picking up 3 hitchhikers, got lost and ended up at a chinese fair in London.

ive done too much work today and ive still got more to do!

Was it insured?

Yes cat


It's illegal in this country not to have insurance

Really? Wow... First you have to pay for the BBC, and now it's illegal to not have insurance...

yup


terrible


and we have to pay road Tax and still pay tolls on certain roads

We do that as well. That's beside the point. And has a reason. Well, ok, they all have a reason, but still.

My thumb hurts.

did you hit it with a hammer?

No. Not quite that stupid. The other one's joined in now *sigh*

My thumbs are screwed. I can't streth them out away from my fingers properly and I can't bend them all the way in. They ache / throb / pulse / send huge amounts of pain up my arm and make it impossible for me to move it (thank god that was only once). It started with my righ one getting a bit swollen and swore, then a few days later my left joined in and was more painful. Then they both died down in the swellin but since then they become painful on and off (longest I haven't been able to move my left thumb and was in pain for was 4 hours last firday (not yesterday)). Quite often I can't move my left thumb at all.

So, I went to see the doctor. And this was the day before music camp and he said to watch it on music camp and if it was worse after plaing clarinet it's a clarinet thing and would have to talk to my teacher about technique and stuff and possibly, worst case scenario, have to quit. Strange thing is for playing the clarinet your thumbs do COMPLETELY different things.

Anyway, music camp happened. It's not the clarinet (which is good while at the same time being bad because we don't know what it is). So I saw him again on Thursday and he still doesn't know what it is. The problem with diagnosing it is it's in both thumbs, and i'm only 15 so shouldn't be developing a lot of the kinds problems associated with hands / thumbs /whatever. Also, the chances I'd get it in both thumbs within a few days of each other are so amazingly small.

So, the doc thinks it could be fluid in my tendons or possibly myelin sheath. Except usually people with that have them stiking out, and I don't, but it's the most likely thing. So I'm on an anti-inflamatory which will help if it's that. If it hasn't improved in 10 - 14 days, though, I have to go see this hand surgeon.

(Who my grandpa is about to see as well, cause he's got arthritis in the thumb joint that's next to your wrist)

Yeah, that's the saga of my thumbs. It's only been going about a month...

Cat

How very interesting..

...Not especially