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    Must watch movie/television recommendations & interesting shows

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    Against my better judgement, I went to see Dune 2. Don't worry, this is spoiler free

    Let me start by saying... i really enjoyed it.

    Let me follow up by saying... I HATE DUNE. I seem to vent about this a lot, but the plot of Dune is honestly mind numbing. It's unrelentingly slow. I tried to read it and I got bored. I tried the audio book, the narrator spoke slowly. Dune is so slow that even killing someone with a knife requires you to stab slowly. It's even SLOWER when they took one book and made it into two full length movies.... the second one was almost 3 hours.

    That being said, it's a beautiful film, They found a way to make a bleak desert world really come to life on the screen. The soundtrack and audio were top notch. I will warn you that seeing it in the theater will absolutely wreck your ear drums. At least it did at my location. I shot an AK for an hour or two once without ear pro and besides the buzz that lasted for days, it felt a lot like that (I was like 18, don't judge me).

    Pros:

    If you're into visuals, crazy action and love sci-fi fantasy, you could certainly do a lot worse. It does some some Hollywood diversity tropes... but it didn't get in the way of anything. I also recommend going to see it in the theater.
     

    So the Cons:
    Zendaya. Her role is fine. She fufills it, but it's just her being stern like every other charcter she plays. That's in either Dune film. They didn't even have her try to sound exotic. She and her friend in the film are just kinda like teenage girls who do stuff. It's fine, whatever.

    Around around halfway through the film, you can almost see the point when they realized they filmed too much and had to make cuts. Again... no spoilers, but there's a part where a character seems to almost instantly teleport from one part of the globe to another while on foot. Meanwhile, another character catches up to them in an aerial vehicle that they didn't have before. Just tada! I don't really care for montages and it suffered from that in several places.

    There are at least 450 lingering portrait shots of the main characters. It doesn't take away from the film, but after awhile you have to wonder if they could have cut that out vs something more interesting

    There are a couple of parts where a character appears and you're like... wha??? and then they just kinda... go away....

    Walken is in it, but he's not doing Walken things. That's almost criminal.

     

    Sleep center in TN. Murfreesboro Worth the $$ ????

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    51 minutes ago, OldIronFan said:

    My wife sleeps like a log with a CPAP now. She adapted quickly. It actually annoys me more than her these days since I tend to extend an arm out from my pillow and get my hand/arm tangled up in her air tube. 
    She lost weight and generally improved her overall health.
    She has more energy, wakes up early and rested these days.
    It also improved her sinus and asthma issues. Breathing filtered humidified air ~7 hours a night has greatly cut back on her breathing issues. She nearly died 30 years ago from pneumonia and suffered permanent lung damage as a result. The CPAP while not reversing any of that has lessened symptoms and side effects to a low annoyance, low maintenance level. 

    I was referring to the test lab where they hook you up with all the medical equipment. Everyone struggles with that. Once you get the CPAP/APAP home, it takes a couple of days/weeks to acclimate, but then the benefits become obvious.

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    Sleep center in TN. Murfreesboro Worth the $$ ????

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    On 3/29/2024 at 11:01 AM, jeff43 said:

    Didn’t sleep good with all the hoses, I felt constricted. Mainly I had a bad feeling that it was going to be very costly ,and the insurance wasn’t helping much.Just not in the mood for all that right now.

    So the trick is that nobody sleeps well with the hoses. They also know this.

    I got lucky because I was tested during the pandemic, so they just made me use the at home test.

    Baltimore Bridge Collapse

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    33 minutes ago, Chucktshoes said:

    For the record here, the Francis Scott Key bridge is a part of the federal interstate highway system (I-695). It is also a primary conduit of truck traffic through the area and the designated route for hazmat cargo through Baltimore. this will have a significant impact on commerce and logistics, both by land and sea for quite a while until the bridge has been rebuilt.

    I have a feeling those two tunnels nearby are about to get a workout.

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    Tooth ache

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    26 minutes ago, tacops said:

    Ditto Oil of Clove can be bought at most drug stores hanging on a rack as a kit with applicators (Q-Tips)  it works very well when you are caught like this.  I have used it.

    ...and I think it is time for a new dentist.

    Once when I found myself in a similar situation and my dentist wanted to prep the playing field with anti-biotics before the pull, I drove to small town nearby with a country dentist.  I told him my problem and he asked what I wanted him to do.  I told him I wanted him to put his knee in my chest and pull the sucker out. He did.

    That doc probably doesn't have some large entity of bureaucrats hovering over him with their checklist. None of whom have ever been a doctor and MIGHT have a college degree.

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    Tooth ache

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    You can go to the ER if you need. They won't have a dentist, but they can pump you up with novocain type products. I had to do this once on a Sunday night just to make it until Monday. I can't recall what they shot me up with, it was some kind of '___cain" that blocked the nerves.

    Personally, if i REALLY need a painkiller and don't have one, I will eat 800mg of ibuprofen and 1000mg of acetaminophen. Please take that suggestion with a grain of salt as you're likely not my size, weight, health.

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