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- On Saturday, my trailer went in to get solar installed. And A/C. But, I won't have enough battery power to run the A/C. I'll need to connect to "shore power" for that.
- The stitches were supposed to be in for a week, which would have been Saturday, the day before yesterday. Unfortunately, the tails of two of the stitches were actually lying in the slice, preventing it from closing. Those two came out last Wednesday. After another 24 hours of seeing how well closed the slice had become, I took out the third one. Now, everything is scabbed over, and I should be fully healed in another week.
- The Dark Knight is very cool. Morgan Freeman had the best line in the movie. Heath Ledger deserves a posthumous nod for Best Supporting.
- Hancock, seen a couple weeks ago, was also very cool, and included a twist I never saw coming.
- So, I don't track my weight. What I track is the notch my belt is on. Last week, right about when I noticed that I was hitting notch 6 from notch 5, my appetite went right through the f'ing roof. I'm back to notch 5... :p I sit around 220-225, normally. I'd love to be around 200. If you believe BMI (which I don't, really), I should be around 180.
( Links )Tags: cool!, links, me
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After 38 years, 5 months, and 26 days, I have finally needed stitches due to injury. And, it's an injury I can only attribute to my own stupidity. See, I was working on putting some electrical conduit in my trailer, and I was stupid enough to try to cut the conduit while holding it next to my body. Of course!, the knife slipped, and I put a 2½cm slice into the bottom of my rib cage, just left of center. I immediately pulled up the shirt I was wearing to bunch up and compress against the injury, gathered my first aid kit, and went into the bathroom. It only needed about three minutes of direct pressure to stop the bleeding. Once I could see it, I realized it was about 3 or 4 mm deep, and the edges wouldn't hold closed. Well, sh*t. So, I put a folded 4x4 over it, with some tape to hold it down, and drove over to the local clinic. They saw me almost immediately, and the doctor whipped three stitches through the injury, neat as you please. At no point did this injury hurt more than the smallest twinge, which I thought was odd, but wasn't going to gripe about. In any case, I'm now current on my tetanus booster.... :-p Idiot. (The conduit is all up, though. I just need to get some stuff I missed to finish the wiring. Then, I get to install the storage bench I'm going to use for the batteries and charging system.) Tags: me
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- So, last Thursday, July 3rd, Support is told that we can all work half-days, provided we ensure that every product has coverage until 15h. I get together with the other Verastream guy, we sort ourselves out, and I'm in at 08h, out at 1145h, and taking the 1245h ferry home...
Back home that afternoon, my pager goes off for a fire half a mile away from me. I pull into a nearby driveway the same time the first unit gets on scene. The Incident Commander's jaw drops as I walk up to check in.
"Who're you?!"
"A volunteer. I only live half a mile away," I grin at him.
So, he pairs me up, and I go inside to help make sure the food on the stove didn't start a fire in the wall behind the stove, and tear down the half melted vent hood.
Had I worked a full day, I'd've never known about the fire. Had I lived any further away, I'd've been cancelled before I ever got there.
Sometimes, things work out... ;)
- The funeral for the family friend went well. Many people told great stories about her.
- Those allergies I mentioned turned into (turned out to be?) a sinus infection! I usually beat those in about a week. So, at Day 12, I went in to the local clinic. I'm now 9 days into a 2-week course of Septra. Having been late with a couple doses, over the last week, I suspect the drug is just beating the bacteria to a draw, and I might get the infection back once the course is done. I hope not, though!
( Links )That was quite a list! Tags: aq, cool!, geekery, links, skfr
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- Tonight, at training, I got a walk through of drafting water out of an unpressurized water source. (Lakes, ponds, portable water tanks...) One walk through, and then I did one. It's absurdly easy, if your pump is air tight...
- Hey,
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) the_ogre? I just want to make sure this gets on your radar, since you'll be up this way during that time period. If you do it, I'll sponsor you.
- Many, many links to come, but it's past my bed time...
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- Taxonomic name: Homo sapiens intoxicans. Common name: rubber-leggéd drunk. ;)
- So, any time you get a large group of people together for what amounts to a weekend party, someone's going to drink too much. This particular individual reached his limit pretty close to the opposite end of the venue from where he was camped. And, where he was sleeping at the far uphill end of where people could camp. We had a cart, but that was a long push!
- This has been waiting a while for me to update: A portrait of a young Elizabeth I has been uncovered. That's kinda cool!
- I forget where I read the article about the woman with the PhD in computer science and animation getting a job with a biotech, in order to animate biological processes. They're really beautiful.
- InTrade is a low cost futures exchange and social experiment. Create contracts on a future event, and extrapolate the moving price of that contract into the likelihood of the event happening. Also kinda cool!
- Hey, lotusice and kimatyza? Does G need to do a science project for school?...
- The Boston Globe has brought back photojournalism.
- Burning Man is driving me nuts!
- Many people have commented on Senator Kucinich's reading out of Articles of Impeachment against President Bush. At this point, I'm content with that being in the Congressional Register. Actually shutting down the Legislative Branch to consider those articles, this close to the election, can only be a distraction. President Bush is already doomed to go down in history as doing a horrible job. In the end, I think his Presidency will be much more poorly remembered than the successful impeachment of President Clinton.
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