Oh, the joy. Of course I’m having some of those last minute trepidation’s and anxiety, but literally millions of other folks have had this same surgery and come out fine. I will too. I’m only 71 and reasonably healthy.
And I get a ROBOT to do my actual replacement! How cool is that? Wish I could video it. (Film it? what is the proper word for that now?)
So, if I’m not doing too badly tomorrow I’ll check back in.
Probably.
Maybe.
Also bought another Quansheng handheld to “brick” by trying out new programming to extend it’s functions into the 6-meter & HF bands. Mostly for “just listening.” Gonna try some shortwave listening on it also and see how that does. Fun! Even better: Fun for less than $25 with 99.9999% chance of not catching an STD.
The Meta Quest 2 VR ‘helmet?’ came in yesterday. Let it charge for all of 10 minutes before it’s irresistible attraction had it on my face going through the ‘set up’ stuff. Nice! There was a ‘shooting arcade” part of the familiarization app that was really cool. Hope I can find that one (or one like it) in the app store.
I did get this thing to do VR in X-Plane though. So, gotta order the cable to attach it to my computer and a better headband and a battery pack. I won’t be spending a lot of money on ‘games’ but hope to find an app that let’s me redesign my house with VR views. That would be fun to play with.
Probably need to clear a large enough space in the living room to “play” in when doing things other than X-Plane. Good thing I have a huge (huge) living room.
And I can totally see buying a 2nd one for SWMBO someday.
Had a nice day a couple of days ago (OR, We had a day a couple of days ago it wasn’t raining for a couple of hours), so I got out on the tractor and ran up and down the driveway and a little bit of the trail to “stir up the gravel.” Quite fun.
Still psyching myself out for surgery next month.
Freeze Dried some more jello jigglers. Cool. They get really hard and crunchy but slowly melt in your mouth with an absolute burst of flavor. I should market these.
Damn! Meant to post this over a week ago! WHERE did my freakin’ mind go?
Had my last pre-surgery exam yesterday. Went well. Not actually doing too badly for an old guy. At least I’ll die healthy someday.
Still getting used to the Oculus. Haven’t been able to get it to attach to my linux system YET so I can do X-Plane. I will when I’m not so danged busy.
SWMBO bought the complete M*A*S*H tv show and had me order the complete Criminal Minds and wants them ripped and on the server sometime soon. She doesn’t often make requests like that. She must like both shows a lot.
Watching WAY TOO MANY Youtube video’s on knee surgery and what you MUST do afterwards.
Getting too old for this shit.
How cold did it get, Brother King?
The drain valve on my freeze dryer froze in the open position.
Damn.
So, having to heat the pantry to do a load of banana’s.
Still, not as bad as that 100 mph wind going through the Gorge right now.
Dang, that’s a first for me. Usually, when I start the freeze dryer it tells me to not do anything for 15 minutes.This time I hit the start button and it told me to load the trays. AND that the room is kinda cold (24 degrees) and the pump may not work right and give me errors. Dang. At least the valve unfroze.
Turned the heater to high. New summer project may be to rip out and rebuild the pantry.
Man, that 1.FM Deep House Radio is kicking it! Nice!
Oops, lazy Sunday now. Other than watched a lot of YouTube video’s on freeze drying (mostly) to learn about home made MRE’s, some dishes, taking a load out (bananas) and putting a load in (Nally’s Chili. – 12 cans of Nally’s Chili), and making fried meatloaf patties, mashed, and peas for dinner, I really haven’t done much today.
My new (refurbished) 16 TB drive arrived today. DOA. Three different computers, three different operating systems (including a Windows 10 laptop), didn’t even recognize I’d attached a new drive (via usb). Finally installed it internally on my linux “ripping” machine. (The computer I have that I rip new movies/music with and all my scanning stuff through a windows vm). That recognized the drive.
No partition table. Of course. Neither GParted nor Discs able to get past the write/read errors to create a partition table. Fsck & fdisk useless. dd was like: What drive? After a couple of hours I finally gave up. Will TRY to return the thing. Good luck with that.
I even put the drive in the RSHTECH disc clone thingie I have and it did not see the drive.
Anywho, Wx clear but Cold. Pantry finally got over 30 degrees. Nothings frozed in there; yet.
Our view on our walk this morning. (Sorry about the size.)
Y’all send westfargomusings some good vibes. He needs them.