Cold and wet this am. Still no fresh batteries….
This —
“India Bombs Pakistan, Targeting Terrorist Camps In Cross-Border Air Raids; Pakistan Vows Retaliation
Tue, 02/26/2019 – 06:39
With most of the world distracted by President Trump’s second summit meeting with Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, tensions between two nuclear-armed powers flared roughly 2,000 miles West in the contested border region of Kashmir.”
–Could get out of hand very quickly.
n
Erf…did some urgent work last night at home. Get to work today, and find the three main files have somehow synced over to my work computer as “0 bytes”. Now the question: is it a sync error (in which case the files saved correctly, and will be on backup), or did the files somehow get nuked when I saved them?
Overnight backups will tell – I’ll look when I get home tonight. I will be seriously frustrated if the files are really gone…
On the positive side, we’ve had lovely early-spring weather here for a solid week. Sunshine, temps around 10-12C. Still freezing overnight, but the plants are waking up from their winter nap.
Morning started a frosty 35f. Very busy day ahead.
For the last many months I have been having almost constant stomach discomfort and pain. At first I thought it was indigestion but no over-the-counter remedy helped. The symptoms became worse and included bouts of constipation and very uncomfortable feeling of “fullness” accompanied by gas. After enduring this for most of a year, last week I decided to visit a gastroenterologist. My wife said, “First, try a probiotic.” and brought one home from the pharmacy. I have been pain-free for a week now and the difference is amazing. I don’t dread meals now, fearful of the aftereffects. My nightly bouts of gas and pain have stopped. I am VERY surprised and VERY pleased with the results.
Always good to feel better, but why did you wait so long? One of my good friends had stomach trouble for months, finally went to the Dr, was diagnosed with stomach cancer and was dead in two months.
I’m not saying you need to run in for every sniffle, but we are all of us getting older, and we’ve survived all the routine things. Anything out of the ordinary for any length of time is something to take seriously.
n
Woodpile Report is out and Remus quotes VDH on the ongoing coup attempt against Trump… “There are many elements to the first occasion in which U.S. government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election and to remove a sitting U.S. president.”
–I guess he’s not a JFK conspiracy theorist.
n
19º and cloudy on the North Coast. The winds we had over the weekend died down, and it’s almost manageable.
My friend to the south had a horse go down on Monday. – $250 for the vet to put him down, and a couple of hours for his cousin to come over with a backhoe to dig a hole. Sad thing.
I went down to help with some wireless stuff and he showed me his wireless (Alexa) setup, as well as the security cameras he has set up. It’s pretty impressive. Today’s tech lets you do a lot of things. (Not that I want them. I like turning lights on & off myself.) I think maybe I’ll hack in next time I’m down there. Just to show it can be done.
I went down to help him get some networking gear going. We go out on race courses & set up equipment to send times back to the finish line for scoring. The big deal is that we do NOT want to pay for a separate SIM card for each piece of equipment. Each has its own network connection (and built-in switch), so a wireless bridge attached to a hot spot is the way to go. I helped him set that up, as well as configure it so that, when we are at a site without cell service, we can still access the devices on the local network. Worked well. I’m glad I made the trip.
He also gave me some misc gear for timing equipment. I have a smaller operation than he does, so he does a lot of prototyping. I get the benefit in exchange for some technical help. It’s cool.
@Harold – glad it was a relatively simple fix. In my Dad’s case, it was diverticulitis. (Had to check the spelling). Basically, little pits on the intestinal walls. He had a stoma for nearly 2 years while he healed, and he could not eat anything nutty (or grainy) for the rest of his days. But eventually the plumbing went back the way it was supposed to be and he regained all his weight.
Modern medicine is pretty wonderful, even when it’s as simple as bugs for your guts.
why did you wait so long?
Male Stubbornness? The idea that it was just a side-effect of getting old? Doctorphobia?
Not really a fear of doctors but more a general dislike and distrust.
I hear you, but I’m starting to see reason (says the guy who used his DENTIST as primary care physician for too many years). Too much can go wrong too quickly once you start on the downward slope….
n
Too much can go wrong too quickly once you start on the downward slope….
I hear that. Once the incompetent NHS began treating the wife for pre-diabetes she went from diet control to insulin dependent in a year. Once we got out of the UK, her new doctor said their “treatment” would have killed her in another year. Her diabetes has led to heart problems, retinal issues, and now complete kidney failure and I lay that all at the door of the UKs socialized medicine.
Wouldn’t it be something if we saw a nuclear confrontation during our lifetime? Something is gonna give somewhere.
That is suddenly much further up my list of possible outcomes than this time last year.
n
I hear you, but I’m starting to see reason (says the guy who used his DENTIST as primary care physician for too many years). Too much can go wrong too quickly once you start on the downward slope….
Dentist?!? The Warren Zevon medical plan. We all know how that turned out.
My wife’s employer in Vantucky has still not adequately replaced her so people showing up expecting a primary care physician are directed to a mix of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, midwives, and, for a while, Fred Meyer (Kroger) pharmacists. The fact that the current WA State measles pandemic germinated in, among other places, several of their offices speaks volumes about that approach.
For now, in most places, the decent primary care doctors have not shrugged in a Rand-ian sense, but Medicare-for-All will push many over the edge. Non-Prog doctors are out there. Take advantage of their availability while you can.
It is arguably too late already in Vantucky.
This is another time when RBT’s extensive knowledge would be a boon to the community.
I’ve got several surplus geiger counter/survey meters, but I can’t remember why he didn’t like that model.
And I need to lookup the dose and usage for the iodine tablets….
RBT would probably remember off the top of his head and reply in minutes.
n
RBT would probably remember off the top of his head and reply in minutes.
Dig around in the archives. I’ve been around here for a long time, and I remember iodine dosage calculations at least once. Dr. Pournelle’s web site archives might also have insight from RBT on the topic.
You might have to go back a long way. I noticed RBT lost interest in previous favorite topics as he got more serious about prepping and moved to Sparta. The shift probably also coincided with his health issues getting serious.
Again, if you notice something out of the ordinary, like sudden vertigo, see a doctor.
https://emergency.cdc.gov/radiation/ki.asp
Lots of posts from RBT in the archives about iodine.
Like this one (scroll down a bit) http://www.ttgnet.com/daynotes/2011/2011-12.html
Or, this one: https://www.ttgnet.com/daynotes/2009/2009-28.html
Lots of posts from RBT in the archives about iodine.
8-10 years. RBT still had Paul and Mary in his “kitchen cabinet” of advisors.
And this one,
“Saturday, 19 September 2009
09:39 – Thursday afternoon, I made my first doctor visit since Richard Nixon was president. Wednesday afternoon, I was working and suddenly felt dizzy. I wrote that off to too much caffeine, and switched to drinking Sprite. I was fine Wednesday evening and through the night. On Thursday morning, I got out of bed, bounced off the wall, and fell back into bed. The room was spinning, and the only way I made it down the hall to the den was by keeping my hand on the wall.”
Dizziness, diagnosed as inner ear inflammation.
n
this guy has spent years trying to die. He finally had the resources to do so.
“A man who sued a North Carolina police department after being beaten by officers last year has been found dead of a suspected drug overdose one day after he received an $83,000 settlement”
n
India vs Pakistan: in the alternate Lenson-verse we are just about here then:
https://www.amazon.com/Tipping-Point-China-Lenson-Novels-ebook/dp/B00XU113V6?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_3
Dizziness, diagnosed as inner ear inflammation.
Hmmm. Okay.
There probably was an infection, but my wife would have had RBT in a full lab workup and scheduled for a colonoscopy if he walked into her office having crossed 50 without seeing a doctor.
My doctor did that anyway even though I have been seeing him for years. Just had my second colonoscopy, next one is in five years as they found a couple of polyps.
I felt somewhat embarrassed on my last visit. I had stabbed my hand, top of the left middle finger at the first joint. Small knife but it really bleed a lot. I got the bleeding under control and continued on with the video equipment installation for rest of the day and the next day.
On the second day I woke up and that entire top of my hand was purple, ranging from deep purple close to the cut to light purple at the edge. It looked really bad. I went to the doctor’s office to get an appointment. Nurse asked what was wrong and showed her my hand. She said to wait, they would see me next.
Doctor looked at the hand, asked if the area was painful. No. Then felt the area and said it was not hot. Thus no infection. Diagnosis was just a bruise. I really felt stupid.
But I had never seen a bruise from a cut spread that far that quickly. I was seriously concerned about infection. But nope, it was not. I was relieved but felt rather stupid for making the visit and for the stabbing.
I am learning at my age you cannot be too careful. I visit the doctor for an examination every six months as that is what Medicare allows. I also get an email from Medicare listing all the things that I am eligible for for which Medicare covers. There is a lot of items.
Many of those items can be ignored, some are for some fairly serious issues that can be treated if caught early.
Many of those items can be ignored, some are for some fairly serious issues that can be treated if caught early.
I caught a serious staph infection from what started as a minor cut out at our test facility in Taylor. No running water, and my sentence -er- tenure out there was three months. Fortunately, my wife was able to dig most of the problem with a scalpel, but ignoring it could have been fatal.
That was my fear when I saw the massive purple patch on my hand. I had never seen a bruise so large from a small cut. I have had bruises from IV’s and blood donations but nothing like this. The bruise covered most of the top of my left hand. And appeared in two days.
Nurse freaked out, spouse freaked out, I freaked out.
Yeh, I felt stupid. But I might have felt nothing except the weight of six feet of dirt if it truly was an infection. My little pocket knife is not the cleanest blade in the room.
Yikes, maybe clean your knife if you’re gonna stab yourself!
I had a small abrasion on a elbow. Went to bed fine, woke in pain. 2 hours later it was bright red from fingers to mid bicep and hurt SO bad. Another hour and I was in the ER shaking so bad from the pain I couldn’t talk. 1 day later I was in surgery to remove the infected bursal sac from my elbow. Without surgery and really powerful antibiotics, the MRSA would have killed me, or they’d have taken the arm first to try and save me. Without surgery they told me, 6 months in the hospital on IV antibiotics. Of course, they didn’t tell me until afterward that I could have lost the arm. It was a dime sized abrasion, like a rug burn.
@ray, NEVER mess around with a possible infection like that. You did the right thing. Don’t feel bad or second guess.
This is also the best argument I can make for doubling up your hygiene preps, and for getting some meds for your fish… (or see a travel Dr, get your vaccinations and a bottle of the good anti-diarrhea stuff and a bottle of cipro…)
n
Cue Muntz voice– “Ha Ha!”
Michigan, USA
“Wife and her lover ‘kill her husband with a hatchet’ as witnesses tell cops the ‘mentally unstable’ boyfriend would ‘do anything’ for her affection
Ammar Al-Yasari was found murdered in his Holt, Michigan, home on February 4
Charged are Jacob Joseph Ficher, 27, and Bdour Mohammed-Ali Al-Yasari, 28
Cops say the victim’s wife and her boyfriend conspired to commit the murder
Victim was found slain with a hatchet the lovers allegedly bought together”
I will remember to do that before I next stab myself.
I cut my finger badly with a utility knife about a year ago. Went to the doctor instead of the hospital. Cheaper and less wait time. Doctor saw me withing 15 minutes. Said it was a nice change of pace. Even it was only a couple of stitches. I told the doctor that next time I slice my finger open I will try for at least four stitches. He laughed. Mostly he sees people with run of mill complaints, many of those with very unhealthy lifestyles, smokers, heavy drinkers, NASCAR cap, think wrestling is real, etc.
I’ll give ’em credit for not giving up. The change won’t happen for at least a generation in swing states, however, so Cankles will still have to cobble together an Electoral College strategy next year.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/24/696827778/after-stinging-presidential-loss-popular-vote-movement-gains-momentum-in-states
Interesting online color perception test. No demographic questions, so it looks like a bit of fun.
https://www.lenstore.co.uk/vc/colour-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#/game
I got 7 of 10, which is above average, and I’m well outside the two groups that typically do best.
n
“I’ll give ’em credit”
–yeah, in a “wow, I can’t believe you can smoke 8 packs of lucky strike no filters a day” kinda way…
Horrifying, self destructive, short sighted….but still an achievement.
n
9 of 10. The 10th one was iffy (to me), so no worries.
I am in a group that sometimes suffers color blindness.
6 of 10 for me. The last one I could see no number/letter at all. I missed a photo processing job in the film auto machine developing era due to color blindness. My first hint. 🙁
7 of 10. I had to take a color test every year as a pilot. Never got 100%. The backup if you failed was to take you up in helo and pop smoke. If you got that right you were good.
8 of 10 for me.
8 of 10.
Missed s yellow bar and #10 was a toss up.
3 out of 10. Not color blind but I don’t CARE about colors. I usually can’t match shades well.
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I have no idea how long we were on the ropes system.