[R-390] Regret missing Huntsville this year

[Don Reaves]

Flick your wrists and see if a long silky string shoots out.  If so, you
have the power.  Should be useful for anchoring down R-390 boatanchors.  :-)

Some spiders hang out in old radios and you gotta watch out for them -
brown recluse comes to mind.











On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately I was not able to make it to Huntsville this year, it would
> of been good to visit with those who were in attendance. I think of it as
> the premier show in the southeast and it is only 70 miles from my house.
>
> What kept me away from there was a good reason to turn the lights on in the
> house and watch what you are doing;
>
> The evening before, a bit before turning in for bed I went in to the
> bathroom to wash my face. I grabbed a towel off of the shower rod to dry my
> face and felt a stinging sensation on my lip. Turning on the light I found
> that I had smooshed a spider and his last defiant act was to bite me.
> Within an hour the lower half of my face, down to my shoulders and across
> to my ears was completely numb and starting to swell. Figuring that I
> probably wasn't going to die I took a few Benadryl and went to bed.
>
> All day Saturday my face continued to be numb. Drinking water was comedic,
> it went everywhere because whatever was in the venom also affected muscle
> function to some extent. Finally by late Saturday night the numbness was
> going away and by Sunday things were back to normal.
>
> Hopefully the spider was hanging out in the cardboard box full of
> radioactive meters from R-390's and I get spidey-super strength.
>
> *Ms. Tisha Hayes, AA4HA*
> *"*There are many who live in the mountains and behave as if they were in
> **the
> town; they are wasting their time.*
> * It is possible to be a solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd;
> and it is possible for those who are **solitary to live in the crowd of
> their own thoughts.*"*
> **-Amma Syncletica of Alexandria**
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