Moments of the Day

[orichalcum]

1. cerebralpaladin: "So, one of the best meta-moments of Iron Man is when they play the Black Sabbath song over the credits.
Me: Huh?
CP: Duh-duh-da-da-duh....
Mac, in his high chair: Duh-duh-da-da-duh!



2. CP: "Right. Like the Gay Bar Association."
Me: "Um. I kinda hope that lawyers actually call it something different. Because there could be some confusion there."



3. Rereading, randomly, old quotes from the D&D game Stone Tablet, and coming across my favorite personal quote:
kidsnide: "Jerrit's goddess is the goddess of beauty and cheap sex."
fajitas: What's her name again?
Me, playing Jerrit: "I can never remember the next morning."



In other questions to ponder, does anyone have any idea how to stop getting seriously shocked by picking one's child off a plastic slide? I got a shock strong enough to black out for a second or two today.

Comments

[fajitas.livejournal.com]

Leave the child on the slide?

Shock?

[darkforge.livejournal.com]

I presume you're talking about static electricity here? The best thing IME is to find a way to contact the probable object with a non-sensitive part of your body, e.g. a fingernail.

Also, I presume the problem is really Mac's mostly-synthetic-fiber clothing rubbing up against the plastic. Washing the clothing with a static sheet may help.

Blacking out for a second or two seems quite strong/bad.

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

Looks like you're going to raise a little headbanger! ;)

As for the shock... I don't know. Why does Mac need picking up off the slide? You could persuade him to get off by himself and discharge the static on something metal himself?

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

The way I usually discharge static without zapping myself is to hold the handle of a key really firmly so I'm in contact with a lot of its surface area, and then touch the tip to whatever is gonna zap me. But that's not going to work so well for you and Mac.

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

If you wear sufficiently thick rubber soles he shouldn't be able to discharge his static electricity onto you? Of course he'll still be shocked pretty bad the next time he touches something conductive.