So uh, anyone got any idea about what happens when your eyesight starts flickering in and out?

So uh, anyone got any idea about what happens when your eyesight starts flickering in and out?

 

For me it was my blood pressure causing it. Another time it was the asshole that was punching my face.

So uh, anyone got any idea about what happens when your eyesight starts flickering in and out?

 

I hope you went to the ER.

I hope you went to the ER.

 

That was so last century. Google is the new ER

That was so last century. Google is the new ER

 

WebMD = Universal Healthcare!

WebMD = Universal Healthcare!

Exactly.

Exactly.

Yeah and getting medical advice on Soxtalk is like the equivalent of going to an unlicensed doctor in a 3rd world country, haha.

I didnt get my IL License Plates Renewal Form (or an email). I just noticed it expired today. how do I go about getting it renewed?

I didnt get my IL License Plates Renewal Form (or an email). I just noticed it expired today. how do I go about getting it renewed?

Go to a currency exchange and you can buy one, you just need your VIN

I think you might be able to go to the IDOT website and get it taken care of without the email. You have a month after it expires though

Did they not send out notices this year or something? I just got a ticket at midway and didn't even realize it had expired

Believe they stopped physical notifications to save money.

Son of a b****.

Believe they stopped physical notifications to save money.

 

Yep. Welcome to Illinois.

I just graded the last final. It's all over except for the paperwork. Then a week off. A few weeks of training. A writing project in New Mexico. Family in Chicago and Wisconsin. Another training. And we start over again.

 

Believe they stopped physical notifications to save money.

 

Did the same thing with emission test notices for cars. Waited 45 minutes in line at the Schaumburg emissions place for a 2 minute check. Unreal.

Did the same thing with emission test notices for cars. Waited 45 minutes in line at the Schaumburg emissions place for a 2 minute check. Unreal.

 

That place is a madhouse. I went on a Tuesday at 10 am once and waited an hour

Believe they stopped physical notifications to save money.

 

The good news is that they quit charging late fees until they start sending out the reminders again. This was only after they collected millions of dollars in fines between January and March.

 

 

Between January and March 2016, Illinois vehicle owners paid $4.9 million in fees for renewing their license plates late, up from $2.2 million during the same period in 2015.

 

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Depending on weather, the current leader for "World's largest rocket" will be launching in 1.5 hours [/url(12:59 central) and the launch will be webcast. The payload is a National Reconnaissance Office payload which means we don't actually know what it is and we're lucky we know there's a launch. If weather blocks the launch they'll try again on Saturday. This is a genuinely neat rocket to watch go.

 

It's thought that this is one of a series of NRO satellites that head out to geostationary orbit positions (at a large distance from Earth, where they orbit the planet once for every time the planet turns and thus stay above the same spot on the planet, the same distance as weather satellites). There are a group of satellites out there that are visible from Earth if you know where to look, which means they have to be huge. If this is one of them, then it probably unfurls some sort of transmission catching antenna that is about the size of 3 football fields.

 

This is the actual mission patch for the launch:

 

Edit: Launch delayed until 1:55 CDT.

Believe they stopped physical notifications to save money.

Yeah and its awful. Most of them are in your spam.

There are a group of satellites out there that are visible from Earth if you know where to look, which means they have to be huge.

 

At my campground a couple of weeks ago I had a friend tell me about a website that will let you know when the ISS will be visible. He said that it would be visible that night at 9:02 PM for about 6-7 minutes traveling from the SE to the NW.

 

It was a perfectly clear night so we stood out and watched and sure enough at 9:02 we saw it. We got to watch it travel across the entire sky. It was pretty cool.

Motorola's Iridium satellites are visible on a predictable schedule as well.

At my campground a couple of weeks ago I had a friend tell me about a website that will let you know when the ISS will be visible. He said that it would be visible that night at 9:02 PM for about 6-7 minutes traveling from the SE to the NW.

 

It was a perfectly clear night so we stood out and watched and sure enough at 9:02 we saw it. We got to watch it travel across the entire sky. It was pretty cool.

I catch that all the time

 

At my campground a couple of weeks ago I had a friend tell me about a website that will let you know when the ISS will be visible. He said that it would be visible that night at 9:02 PM for about 6-7 minutes traveling from the SE to the NW.

 

It was a perfectly clear night so we stood out and watched and sure enough at 9:02 we saw it. We got to watch it travel across the entire sky. It was pretty cool.

 

Mike Fossum is from where I was living and we have a few mutual friends from Boy Scouts. I happened to be a one friend's house when Mike called him. I look at the other guy there and said "I thought he was flying". He was calling from the ISS. As a kid growing up in the 1960s that was pretty cool.

Soaked some sliced flank steak in orange fanta last night. Woke up and put it in the crockpot with a 1/2 cup of salsa.. A bowl of weed and 8 hours later, it's the best pulled beef taco I've ever had. Neat.