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• 09:13 @irishspy Last night it was stuffed chicken breast with goat cheese and sundried tomatoes, pasta with truffles. #
• 09:14 @irishspy Today is turkey stuffed with leak and corn bread stuffing #
• 09:15 @irishspy I'm spliting the breast and rolling it with the stuffing. Boneless and takes about 50 minutes to roast #
• 09:15 @pookie_uk That is awesome. The Cursed is also in print. Do you want a copy to review? #
• 09:16 @irishspy BTW, you should have some other gifts making their way to you as well. #
• 09:17 Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and whatever else you celebrate. #
• 13:06 @pookie_uk Ok, I will get it out to you at the start of next week. #
• 13:07 @irishspy Last night's was to die for. I just finished butchering the turkey. I have a nice body left over for turkey stock. #

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• 23:24 Oh my god, Belle is so hyped up on the catnip my sister got for the kitties. She's actually /running around./ #
• 23:25 Also, mmm home-made scones with hand-whipped butter and whipped cream and cinnamon peach preserves. #
• 23:25 Even if my first try at the whipped cream did accidentally turn it into the aforementioned butter. But still! #

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So I'm re-watching season 5 of Lost, and right now I have two major observations:

( Season 5 spoilers. )

Jeff and I opted for a quiet Christmas with just us. We had Chinese food, made our phone calls to the parents and then spend hours and hours playing Aion together, killing pixels and going up in level. Yes, we are geeks. We did open presents, too. I got some awesome survivalist stuff, a popcorn pot, jewelry and a great popcorn bowl. We had some leftover chicken and dumplings (the longer you have the leftovers, the better it gets) and chocolate. It's been a good day.

I know everybody is talking about the new Holmes movie right now--and rightfully so--and therefore probably have no interest in finding out how I got the Christmas present which unexpectedly turned out to be the best present in the whole wide world. But, on the other hand, it is the Best Present in the Whole Wide World, and Holmes-related to boot, so you get to hear about it.

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And that is the story of why my Christmas was awesomer than yours. :D :D :D

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Here is a GALLERY from Guy Ritchie's new movie, "SHERLOCK HOLMES", which stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.

"Set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, WARLORDS stars Jet Li as General Pang, who barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, and joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu (Andy Lau) and Wu Yang (Takeshi Kaneshiro). After fighting back attackers from an helpless village, the three men take an oath to become "blood brothers," pledging loyalty to one another until death, but things quickly turn sour and the three men become embroiled in a web of political deceit, and a love triangle between Pang, Er Hu and a beautiful courtesan (Wu Jing-Lei)."

I guess I have too much free time to try new things.

I saw a post from a friend here, so I created an account here too - ontop ofmy Livejournal, Twitter, Facebook accounts, numerous blogs, and many other projects.

I guess I just like to communicate even more every day.

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Sherlock Holmes: Good; far from great, but good. Enough that I'm really hoping for a sequel, since all the performances and character portrayals were great. They were just dragged down by a plot that, though functional, never quite came together.

Actually, if Downey Jr. spent the next decade just bouncing back and forth between Holmes and Stark, I'd be a happy man. :-)

I'm not sure how to research this, but I'm mostly going for a plausibility braincheck in any case (roleplaying character)

( Many and verbose details )

Uh... hi. First post. I hope I'm doing everything right.

American Midwest, 1960s. I've got a man and a four-year-old girl who have just escaped from an underground-lair-type place and are running away from pursuers who are shooting at them with carbines. The man is carrying the girl on his left hip (to leave his right hand free to shoot back). A bullet hits the girl's right thigh about halfway down, breaks the femur but doesn't exit the thigh. They evade the pursuit, and the man has to give the girl emergency medical care.

The man has medical/pre-med training (I can fudge quite a bit on how much), but isn't a full-fledged doctor. He has a Swiss Army knife, matches, his clothes (suit and tie), a handkerchief, and a chocolate bar, but no sterile bandages and no way to boil water. They're hiding in the woods, so he has access to sticks for splints. He's out in the boondocks and has no idea where the nearest medical facility is.

I checked the 1966 Merck Manual on "wounds", but they assume a hospital setting. I also read the posts tagged "gunshot wounds" on this comm and found a lot of helpful info. I still have several questions, which I can't quite figure out how to Google.

#1: (the most important) Would it be preferable to dig out the bullet and/or set the leg right away, or just put on a temporary splint and bandage so they can concentrate on looking for civilization? If the latter, at what point (if at all) would it become preferable to debride the wound and/or set the break in unsanitary conditions rather than waiting any longer in hopes of getting to a hospital?

#2: Given the flexibility of a four-year-old's bones, what are the chances of the bullet causing a clean break versus a greenstick fracture or some such? If it would probably not be a clean break, how much of a difference does that make in the answer to question #1?

#3: Do gunshot wounds start to hurt right away? In other words, would the man (in good physical shape and running flat out, if it matters) know immediately after he felt the bullet hit that it wasn't actually lodged in his back, or would there be a minute or so when he might not be sure? He's been shot several times in canon, so he's got a bit of experience with how it feels, if that makes a difference.

Many thanks for any help!

Setting: modern-day British army

Research: variations on "military funeral" + "ceremony" + "honours" and "Tours of duty" + "Time between" and "promotion" and variations thereupon.

Questions:

1. What does a military funeral ceremony actually include?
I want to know what the 'military honours' that are mentioned in news articles are, as I can't find them explained anywhere.

2. How long would it be (on average) between a soldier's first and second tours of duty?

3. Would they be promoted between tours? And to what rank? (assuming he started as a private on his first tour)

Any relevant inforamtion on any of these subjects is also very welcome as i know next to nothing about any of this and am having trouble researching it  :)

Thanks

None of the critical part of the song is directed at the Christians on my flist- you live your faith, and I admire that. And I hope you know that (like Jackson Browne) I'm a "heathen and a Pagan on the side of the Rebel Jesus."

Love and light and peace to all...

I have not seen "The End of Time, Part One" yet, but under the cut are two spoilery trailers for Part Two and a clip from the opening of Part Two.

( 'A rhythm of four...' )

Um, yeah.

Lawrence got "between 4 and 10 inches" -- nobody's quite sure, because 40 mph winds blew everything around, leading to areas like on our lawn where you can see patches of grass sticking up through the snow, sitting next to 4-foot-high snow drifts.

It's still snowing, and blowing. Expecting another 2 inches tonight, maybe another inch tomorrow before we're done.

Everybody here is snug and safe -- we're going to eat our WHO FEAST within an hour or so -- waiting for side dishes to finish -- Turkey(s) (not Roast Beast) are done. (We have 2 12-pounders, since the store was out of larger birds, and we have 5 hungry people here, a couple of which are teenagers.) Probably watch Doctor Who - The End of Time, Pt. 1 later this evening (Yes, I already have it -- this is me we're talking about).

Laura's family postponed Christmas gathering due to the roads -- although I'm not sure we're going to be able to dig out and go tomorrow, either (no plowing yet around us -- although Ian did a stalwart job of semi-clearing the driveway).

Anyway -- Loot summary over the next couple of days . I've got feasting to do. (Both turkey this evening, and footy tomorrow, during the Boxing Day matches!)

Gawrblezzus, evrywun.

PS - Happy Christmas Live Journal Friends!!!!

Hope you've all had a good one and also have a great New Years Eve next week!!!!!!!!!!!

You may have guessed from the cinema post a few moments ago, but I'm currently in London for a few days.

Heading off to Serbia at 6am Tuesday morning (which means being at Heathrow at 4am....eeeek!) but am in the big smoke until then :)