Message from Barbara,
It was 44 degrees, cloudy and windy, when I took Colin out at 7:00.
We did some rain over night.
Hopefully we get some answers today about what the doctors are planning to do next and when.
Monday November 13, 2017
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Bob and Barbara, thanks for keeping us updated. Know that Bob has a lot of friends you have never met out here hoping and praying for both of you.
Computers seriously annoy me at times. I have a surprisingly common last name. My last name isn’t as common as Smith, but it’s much more common than Wesson. So I keep getting emails clearly intended for some other Dave __________. The latest is Kettering Health keeps wanting me to fill out their patient satisfaction surveys. I haven’t been anywhere near any of their locations since the Dayton Hamvention, and while I am accident prone, I didn’t require any medical attention when I was at the Hamvention. I could opt out of future surveys, but then I’ll still get reminders intended for someone else.
Do people really get their email address wrong that often? I guess I shold be thankful that the guy who can’t figure out his email address doesn’t have chemical dependency issues or an Alternative Lifestyle Disease. Well, actually, he may, but at least if he does he’s getting them treated by an FP.
Also praying for OFD and his wife.
Good morning RBT, I hope you get some good news today.
n
People think I’m a nut for carrying at the bouncy house with my kids. And for having a GSW first aid kit…
“Mom, 32, shot dead by her husband in front of their children at one of their Jump N Jam birthday parties – who then shoots himself dead”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5075985/Mom-shot-dead-husband-children.html
n
@Barbara, thanks for the updates. All the best to you and Robert.
@OFD: Same to you, of course – keep them PT nurses in line.
@dave, I’ve got it worse. Someone named Paul actually signed up to receive PHONE CALLS from various service providers, mostly related to aging.
He’s in OHIO, which is not at all near where my phone number is from, although the area codes COULD be miss read. I know it’s legit, because they have his email (yahoo) and address, which they confirmed to me. I was getting several calls a day for this guy on my cell. They callers are aggressive and won’t believe that it’s the wrong number. Paul’s not getting the info he wants, and I’m getting interrupted daily all because someone transcribed a number 4 to a number 9.
The worst part, now he’s on the “suckers list” and his info will be propagated out into the wild and I’ll be getting his calls for the next decade.
n
@Nick,
Both of our problems come from people who live in Ohio, and their inability to correctly enter data. Is this a coincidence?
Easy way to deal with that: “No, I’m not interested in a colostomy bag recycling service, but you have a very sexy voice. What are you wearing?”
Another clear case of someone refusing to do it right. If you’re going to shoot yourself and someone else, you are supposed to shoot yourself first.
“Easy way to deal with that:”
I answer in my mechanical voice: “This call is being recorded and monitored for quality, training and legal evidence purposes.”
If they have not hung up, I continue: “You have the wrong number for me. I am Jenny Jenny, call me at 867-5309.”
Slim, now you’ve done it. The poor sot who really has 867-5309.
Or is that really your number, you sly devil?
-scratch head- Brad, is it possible you don’t know that number?
Good dog!
“Slim, now you’ve done it. The poor sot who really has 867-5309.”
Not possible. That number has not been assignable since the song got to the top of the list.
“They callers are aggressive and won’t believe that it’s the wrong number.”
Easy way to deal with that: “No, I’m not interested in a colostomy bag recycling service, but you have a very sexy voice. What are you wearing?”
Again, if you’re getting calls from overseas, Indians hate to be called “fresher”. “Are you a fresher?” usually gets them off the phone real fast, sometimes screaming profanities in my experience.
Barbara thanks so very much for keeping us updated. The stress on you is in some ways greater than the stress on Robert. Do not feel guilty taking a little time for yourself. Robert has a ton a caretakers and hopefully they are sensitive to your needs too.
Prayers and best wishes all around.
Regarding problem phone calls:
– My “landline” phone is Charter/Spectrum. They have partnered with Nomorobo (https://www.nomorobo.com/) and the problem calls have dropped to less 1 week from dozens a day, many were at night.
– On our cellphones we use Hiya (https://hiya.com/). It takes a bit of learning and getting used to but it very very effective.
Cold (37) and foggy this morning, just like me. Need to brew some high-test coffee and get a shuffling and hobbling along.
From NY Post:
“Police have named the man accused of stabbing two people inside the Mall of America during a botched theft attempt Sunday.
Officials identified him as Mahad Abdiaziz Abdirahaman, 20, according to a local CBS report.”
Was tRump right about immigration?
The joys of diversity!
Note that he was interrupted in the course of a theft, and stabbed two members of the same family who interrupted his crime.
That puts him pretty firmly in the ‘criminal immigrant’ field, even before the attempted murders.
n
Nothing to see here, move along, just a poor misunderstood mooslem.
“Officials identified him as Mahad Abdiaziz Abdirahaman, 20, according to a local CBS report.”
Reading the report in detail we find that religion has nothing to do with this. He was caught in the act of stealing from clothing in a changing room.
Other than the demographics of Minneapolis, and the clash of low trust and high trust societies…..
n
“these more recent immigrants tend to be people of color rather than whites. As former Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak says, “Our diversity is more diverse” than many other places because the state in general, and Minneapolis-St. Paul in particular, have been hubs of refugee resettlement for decades. The region has twice the share of immigrants from Southeast Asia as the United States as a whole (21 percent versus 10 percent of the immigrant population), and five times the share of immigrants from Africa as the nation as a whole (21 percent versus 4 percent).”
Other than the demographics of Minneapolis, and the clash of low trust and high trust societies…..
Target, IBM, and Honeywell (among others) have imported a lot of engineering and IT labor into the greater Minneapolis area. The demographics of the region aren’t what they were even 20 years ago.
I don’t know which is worse, the fact they encourage people to come into this country from cultures that are so different as to make assimilation impossible or the conspiracy of the media to try to whitewash what is happening. They report these events grudgingly and for most online stories, comments are disabled least the rabble say how they feel about it.
This site, https://www.worldwideweirdnews.com/2017/11/homeowners-dog-takes-suspect-jumped-yard-fleeing-police.html detects AdBlock Plus and blocks the page with a scold screen. Printing to PDF works sometimes but not here.
I added http://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/#filterlist and installed. No scold screen, no ads.
YMMV. After installing the above I looked at another tab and found this: http://hidemyadblocker.com/ I haven’t tried it.
Edit: I tried another page on http://www.worldwideweirdnews.com and had the scold screen. R-click and reload worked.
Gah. Sorry, all. I use the Tor browser and, if the page loads at all*, don’t have to deal with popups, nag screens, dire warnings about popup blockers, and all the rest.
* An increasing, though still small, number of sites block the Tor browser completely. A larger number don’t allow access from whatever country my current circuit’s exit point is coming from. Usually not a problem, and if I can’t see a particular site, well, I’ll most likely survive anyway.
Blackwash, surely.
Grrr. I am having an IPv6 related crash on my server side C++ code since Friday. It is incredibly hard to figure out where the crash is occurring but I have my best guy working on it.
Grrr. I am having an IPv6 related crash on my server side C++ code since Friday. It is incredibly hard to figure out where the crash is occurring but I have my best guy working on it.
When all else fails, step back through the SVN revision numbers one at a time and rebuild clean.
Grrr. I am having an IPv6 related crash on my server side C++ code since Friday. It is incredibly hard to figure out where the crash is occurring but I have my best guy working on it.
When all else fails, step back through the SVN revision numbers one at a time and rebuild clean.
It is not a code change. I activated IPv6 on my web server a number of months back and my server side code just started crashing Friday. We found the problem in the geolocation database that we use. I wrote my own database access code and pulled a boo-boo. Sigh, I would have sworn that I protected against that.
Now I need a IPv6 and IPv4 geolocation database.
Now I need a IPv6 and IPv4 geolocation database.
IPv6 will be tough. I think the default approach is to cut a deal with Neustar for REST/SOAP queries.
2^128 addresses possible IIRC.
I went to the feed store. The 12v/7a batteries are now $16.50 each, up from $12.50 a few months ago… closer to a year, actually. Right at $36 with tax for two.
You can buy the same size battery on Amazon for about $14 plus shipping. and waiting. Or at Tractor Supply for $35, nicely labeled “Mighty Mule”.
The batteries in the UPS are stuck together with sticky sheets of plastic. Thicker than packing tape. There’s a spacer between the two which is where the wires are. It was interesting to find the batteries are in series. The hardest part of replacing the battery pack is getting the dang wires out of the way. I’m pretty sure this is all put together “on the half shell” at the factory.
Of the old batteries, one reads 13.5v. The other 12.5. I think I found the problem! I may mess with connecting a brake light and reading voltage again.
At the moment, the CyberPower software says I’m fully charged, remaining time 50 minutes, with the back-up load between 58 and 87 watts. Typing this, 58 with a bounces to 63 watts. Open a few tabs and usage increases. I don’t know /what/ is using the power…. my PC or the switch or the Nanobeam.
I might put the software on a laptop and see what it says when my PC is asleep.
I just turned the monitor off for a moment, back on and using 40 watts….
I have four of this model UPS. Three are the same age and on PCs. One is 6 months old and feeding the TV and that mess…. if the lights go out, quick hit the power off on the receiver!
Edit: After hitting Stop on the Blu-ray player, then turn the receiver off.
Being able to replace the batteries for $36 each is nicer than popping $100 for new UPS units.
Now I need a IPv6 and IPv4 geolocation database.
IPv6 will be tough. I think the default approach is to cut a deal with Neustar for REST/SOAP queries.
2^128 addresses possible IIRC.
I’ve been using the IPv4 version of the MaxMind geolocation database for years. Looks like their version 2 supports both IPv4 and IPv6. Who knew ?
https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-databases
@Nick,
Regarding your phone call problem, if it’s coming from one number or a few numbers, can you block the call. My cell carrier (Verizon) will let us block up to 10 numbers. The block only lasts for 90 or 180 days, but by that time they might get the hint.
It’s not just the batteries that go out in a UPS. All that electronic circuitry ages and the “dirtier” and inconsistent the supply the shorter the life. I have never had a UPS last more than one battery change. Very high priced commercial units do have more robust electronics and batteries that can take more cycles but the cost/benefit is just not there. Treat the UPS as a disposable/recyclable product and be done with it.
Filling in while OFD heals is Lawrence Person:
Clinton Corruption Update For November 12, 2017
“I keep waiting for Clinton Corruption revelations to die down enough to do a lengthy update in leisure, but the hits just keep on coming.“
This just in:
Colin Kaepernick named GQ magazine’s “Citizen of the Year”
“New woman accuses Roy Moore of sexual assault when she was a minor”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-woman-accuses-roy-moore-sexual-assault-minor-202055321.html
There is a lot of smoke here. There may be a fire in a while. Looks like Alabama is going to have a Dumbocrat senator.
And yes, if what these women say is true, the man was a total jerk.
And yes, if what these women say is true, the man was a total jerk.
If being a jerk disqualified one for Federal office, D. C. would be populated only by tumbleweeds.
Practiced getting onto and off the bed today (been sleeping in recliners for a week). Also up and down the halls with a walker and two spotters, and practicing on “baby” stairs.
Most pain now is coming from the huge deflated blister on the top of my left foot, with another one pending on the right one. We figure I got these during the surgery. Right shoulder/rotator cuff situation will have to wait pending yet another MRI and more consultation, and I plan to hit the VA with it.
Frosting on the cake this week for wife and me: her last paycheck is now ten days past the thirty her employers set for themselves. And our furnace is not working properly.
Sent pic to my brother; he has conceded the “slash and stitch” crown to me now.
Best wishes and prayers that the docs sort it out correctly ASAP for Bob.
Most pain now is coming from the huge deflated blister on the top of my left foot, with another one pending on the right one.
Ouch !
Practiced getting onto and off the bed today (been sleeping in recliners for a week).
The nurses at my father-in-laws nursing home XXXXXX XXXXXX skilled nursing and rehab center, have a small portable crane that they use to get him in and out of bed. Getting in and out of bed is the time that he falls nowadays and at 6’2″ and 300 lbs, he is going down hard.
Sent pic to my brother; he has conceded the “slash and stitch” crown to me now.
There is no way that you are close to the wife. She had 35 inches of incisions on her Feb 2005 breast cancer mastectomy and reconstruction surgery. Hip to hip across the front, right armpit to middle rib, right armpit to sternum, and a big ring around her right breast. Plus the new belly button since they removed the old one.
I went to a local RACES meeting tonight. Guest speaker was a HAM who went to Puerto Rico after having previously gone to Texas and Florida earlier this year. The guy is “retired” from the US Military (Special Forces) and law enforcement. He spent a lot of his three weeks there in the middle of nowhere watching the dam that everyone was concerned about. While he was there, he wound up treating a bunch of locals for dysentery. He also got tired of eating chicken and rice. While he was there he also helped set up a lot of amateur radio equipment. All in all was very interesting.
At least they had chickens. Or had they already gone through all the dogs and cats?
If the WHO (World Health disOrganization) would properly admit it, I bet dysentery would be at the top of the list for death.
Clean water and sanitation, necessary for life even before food.
So hear are the points that RBT has been telling us that were mentioned by the speaker last night:
1. Clean drinking water matters in an emergency.
2. Hygiene matters in an emergency.
3. Eating the same thing over and over again gets monotonous.
4. Things vanish during an emergency.
5. Bureaucracy and red tape are always problems.
The one thing that RBT didn’t tell us is that the feds may actually get things right once in a while. One day the guy told the feds he needed 2500 gallons of water. The next day, the feds delivered 10 tons of bottled water.
“one thing that RBT didn’t tell us”
Oh, I think he did. Several times he’s mentioned his belief that while .gov and fema management were a bunch of incompetent time serving political hacks [I may be paraphrasing here], the ‘boots on the ground’ were generally competent and sincere.
Or I could be putting words in his pen….
n
Bah. All it means is that Soros, the RNC, or whoever is “dragging a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park” is doubling down.
Of course the feds will get some of it right. They’ll probably get a lot of it right.
The problems are:
1. It doesn’t scale well to national disasters.
2. When they’re wrong, there is no recourse.
3. You are responsible for your family. Not some nameless bureaucrat in DC.
Which is why we prep….
n
Bigger problem with relying on the feds, or anyone: you can’t count on them. You can’t count on them to get it right, for you, on time, when you really need them.
If the feds (or anyone) come through and can get you clean water or some medical care when you need it, great. They got it right, this time. Will they next time?
If you have any sense, you’ll already have what you need so that your well-being doesn’t depend on someone else getting it right every time.
There is a lot of smoke here. There may be a fire in a while.
Bah. All it means is that Soros, the RNC, or whoever is “dragging a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park” is doubling down.
I am very concerned that this could be the case.
OFD’s concern is that no one has stepped forward to take Soros and a bunch of the other main shitweasels OUT.
And Mssrs; Nick and SteveF are absolutely right. “Ourselves Alone” is the key, with a little help from our friends.
My experience has been that I can’t count on anyone. There are a couple people who have usually but not always been willing to help when I needed it. Many people don’t make even the pretense of actually helping when you need it. No, count on myself and no one else, and if anyone else kicks in with supplies or manpower or know-how, that’s just a bonus.
I can honestly say that the only time I could count on someone else was when I was on my submarines’ (USS Los Angeles SSN 688 and USS Finback SSN 670). Being sealed in a “steel” tube is a real test. Unfortunately I doubt that is the case today. There was an extreme hazing/testing for all newbies on a submarine. The weak were weeded out rather quickly. Too bad gender equality and “safe spaces” have ruined life for everyone.
I feel pretty strongly that I have my wife, GG, and siblings, and vice-versa. Probably Princess and our son. Maybe some fellow combat vets.