The EPIC WIN Thread 3: SON OF EPIC

[tegid]

I may have just committed myself to teaching English in Nepal for 4 months.

I love my home, but it's time to get out of here. Nepal is about as far away as it comes. I have no idea how I'm going to afford it, because it's a volunteer program and I have to pay to get there (among other costs), but I've got a little bit of savings and a few family and friends who have offered to contribute to the fund-raising effort.

Besides, it was about time to do something rash and adventurous. Nobody ever lived an epic life by playing it safe.

Wow! Awesome! Do it.

@OC, definitely some epic win there! Congrats

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Now, to my own win. I don't know if it warrants posting here, but it certainly feels too epic to me to post in the minor victory thread.

Last friday, my professor forwarded a mail to me which said... that our oral contribution (i.e. poster) to a scientific meeting has been accepted!! Wow!

Now, to prepare its contents!

[Rob King]

Another huge win for my family.

My aunt has lived with Multiple Sclerosis for 12 years, having in recent years ended up completely confined to a wheelchair, unable to do most things for herself. But recently, doctors in Poland discovered a treatment that has helped MS sufferers regain mobility in their legs. The MS community has been calling it the "Liberation" treatment.

My aunt and uncle have been keeping tabs on this, have sent some emails, and my aunt has just been chosen as one of twelve MS sufferers from Canada to participate in a medical trial of the procedure in Costa Rica.

It'll cost them $16 000 to do it, but the entire family is ecstatic about this. It has the potential to give my aunt and uncle a little bit of their lives back. She flies down on August 25th. I'll probably share an update or two when they go down, and when the treatment happens.

It's a huge win for the family today.

[Gusto]

One of TWELVE!?

That's huge!

Congrats Rob, and I hope everything works out for your aunt's treatment.

[Sparhawk]

Wow, that's great Rob!

[Rob King]

One of TWELVE!?

That's huge!

It is pretty damn awesome. And if I understand it correctly, she's the only one of the twelve that's going who's confined to a wheel chair. They were afraid that because she's already gotten to that point she wouldn't be considered, but I guess not.

[makare]

Ok so FINALLY I got my new bed for real. WOOOOOO.
Now I dont have to worry about getting poked by my bed while I sleep.

We bought a mattress and bed spring from these people across town. Usually when stuff gets moved my sister and her ex girlfriend stacy move it. But we couldnt get a hold of stacy so it was me and my sister. The guy we bought the mattress from helped us load it onto the flat bed so that went well.

When we got home and had to move my old bed out and the new one in by ourselves.. not so good. We have NO upper body strength whatsoever. So it was mostly us rolling a mattress around and swearing at each other. So cries of "fuck you fucking fuck pick up your fucking side goddamn!" rang through out the neighborhood. And my sister had that song, the just to be the next to be with you song. but the only line she knows is the "hold on little girl part" so every five seconds she would say "hold on little girl" which drove me craaazy! >.< So Id bitch at her and she'd change the arrangement or make it "hold on.. miiiicheeeellllee" which really was annoying.

Afterward I bribed her into moving the extra metal frame by herself. She said, "so you can just sit on your ass, you beyotch" and I said "I can deal with being a beyotch if i get to sit on my ass" . She moved it.

Party on my new bed! BYOB!

[Baerdog]

Now you just need someone to help you break it in.

[Amorous Eyes]

The diagnosis. | Amorous Eyes

Thanks to everyone who already commented on this over on Facebook & Twitter.


Also epic (well, in my book anyway) is that my kid loves me.

[Silver Jelly]

The diagnosis. | Amorous Eyes

Thanks to everyone who already commented on this over on Facebook & Twitter.


Also epic (well, in my book anyway) is that my kid loves me.

Very awesome!

[Cajungal]

WOOHOOOOO!

[Enresshou]

The diagnosis. | Amorous Eyes

Thanks to everyone who already commented on this over on Facebook & Twitter.


Also epic (well, in my book anyway) is that my kid loves me.

Congratulations, Ame; I'm so damn happy for you. Let us know how the next few appointments go; I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you

[Espy]

So update on the band situation, this time in the win thread rather than rant thread

My buddy JUMPED at the chance to drum for us, his other band is on hiatus right now so he's got free time. I'm really excited to play with him. We set our gear up last night and stored our old drummers stuff for when his parents think he can handle seeing it come home, apparently he's still not doing well. However, tragic as it is, this has really brought the three of us together as friends and made us a lot stronger as a band.

Can't stop the rock.

[Morphine]

The diagnosis. | Amorous Eyes

Thanks to everyone who already commented on this over on Facebook & Twitter.


Also epic (well, in my book anyway) is that my kid loves me.

Congratulations, Ame!!! =D

[Philosopher B.]

That's awesome! Congrats, Ame!

[Wasabi Poptart]

Congrats Ame!

And ROCK ON Espy!

[tegid]

Wow! That's seriously awesome AmE I'm happy for you.

[Amorous Eyes]

Thanks all!

[makare]

my sister will be gone a week visiting her girlfriend. my general daily frustration level just decreased by 3/4

[Bubble181]

Bit late but still: congratulations OC!
Also congrats AmE and you go for it, Rob!

[escushion]

I'm happy for you Ame .

And for Espy's thunderous rocks.

[Cajungal]

The fella built me a badass computer! But the hard drive I bought came in defective, so we had to get a new one. But now it works, and it's fantastic! This is my first post on my fancy new rig. ^_^ Hooray for the fella!

I finally get to play my Elder Scrolls games and see them the way they were meant to be seen... NOT with all the graphics turned way down!! He even bought me brand new speakers. What a guy.

[Wasabi Poptart]

Yay CG! New computers are always nice. I can't wait to build our next one. .

[Cajungal]

Never been able to see one built before, either. It was cool... and much cheaper!

[Espy]

Thats great CG! Love the smell of a new compy ramping up in the morning!

Sorry I missed your post Ame, thanks for posting your blog, thats really great news!

[Amorous Eyes]

Thanxies all!

and that's great Seej! I know how much fun a new computer is.

[checkeredhat]

So a long long time ago in grade seven, I played alto saxophone. My teacher switched me to the trumpet in grade eight and I couldn't do it, so I never took music in high school. Around grade 10 I got into ska music, and realized if I had not switched to trumpet, I'd probably have stuck with it, cause I loved playing the sax. So for eight years I have been looking for a cheap saxophone. Alto or Tenor, I didn't even care, but the cheapest I could ever find was still around $500.

In China I found a music store where I could get a brand new alto sax for $300 CDN, and a friend bought one, as if it weren't tempting enough for me already. On my last day in China (Which was either yesterday or the day before, depending on how you look at the time difference), when I went to take some money out, the Chinese ATM would not take my card.

"You know what that means." My other friend told me "It wasn't meant to be. You have to take it as a sign. Life will GIVE you a saxophone."

Today I was riding with my friends to the grocery store, and the driver mentioned something about his saxophone. I didn't even know he played. I told him how cool that was and how I wanted one, and he said "you can have mine".

True story. He originally said $50, but now the deal is for my old PS2 and some games. Seems like a good-ass deal to me.

Now I just have to learn how to play an instrument I haven't touched in 12 years.

[Cajungal]

That's not just a good-ass deal. That's a fantastic-ass deal! It's a pretty good instrument? Feels good to you? I hope you have loads of fun with it! Post vids!

[checkeredhat]

Oh, also its a tenor not an alto. I've got to get some reeds for it but as soon as I do I'm going to start practicing. I'm so xcited!

[Baerdog]

Sounds like a smokin' deal man. I'm glad you ended up going with tenor sax, now you can look down on the lowly alto players.

[tegid]

Holy shit! I've been given the best scholarship my governmend gives for Ph.D. students!! God I can't believe it, I'm going to be doing research for the next 4 years and I'll get paid for it! With the best conditions in the country!!!*

*Best conditions for public scholarships, which really doesn't amount to much. But who cares?!!??! I'm a scientist baby (well, on my way)

Edit: I'm really, really happy for this because I thought it was impossible that they'd give it to me, there were 44 scholarships for all the physicists in Spain and I'm not supposed to be that good, but apparently I'm awesome!

Gawd, I'm extatic

[Wasabi Poptart]

Congrats Tegid!

[Baerdog]

Grats Tegid! Though this means that the next time you post a picture of yourself here you had better be wearing a lab coat.

[Cajungal]

Well done!

[tegid]

Noooo I'm a theorist, I wear no lab coats!!

I'll dress appropiately though!

[Baerdog]

Well that doesn't mean you can't wear a lab coat just for funsies does it?