Samhain Thanksgiving Moon
I’m finally back into a mostly regular rhythm with my workouts. Feels good. I haven’t added back in the resistance work I was doing, the P90X exercises, but I’ll get back to at least some of them soon. Dana’s got me doing a suite of upper body exercises, some tailored exactly for the cervical arthritis, some for the tendinitis. They occupy one full workout every other day. I’ll be able to do leg and back work plus the minimal p.t. exercises on the other days.
Samhain Thanksgiving Moon
After our 15 inch adventure on Monday, I wondered how much of our seasonal total we’d already had. Since we’d had 8 inches not long before that, 23 inches. I thought, maybe half? Boy was I off. I looked up Conifer’s average annual snowfall-140 inches! Don’t know how I missed that in all the research I did about Conifer, but I did. That’s a lot of snow.
That Cub Cadet will turn out to have been a very good purchase. It’s more sturdy and capable than the old Simplicity we sold at a garage sale two or three years ago. Looks like snow removal will become a skill set even with the solar snow shovel.
Samhain Thanksgiving Moon
Nathan and Luke have been on the roof all day. First, they used small pieces of plywood, maybe two feet by one foot, to scrape snow off the roof. They had to do this because the rails now in place make it impossible to use a broom to sweep snow down the roof’s pitch. What a chore.
Now they’re installing the micro-inverters which will allow segregation of panels and their production. This is cold, lonely work, much like roofing in the winter. But, they seem to enjoy it, cheerful and committed to solar energy generation.
Dana, the physical therapist, said her brother-in-law, an electrician, liked the plot of land she and her husband want to purchase. Excited, he said, “I can rig you up with solar panels and a battery that lasts for four days! How many times in Colorado do you go more than 4 days with no sun? You’d be off the grid.” An interesting point and I want to find out about the battery.
Solar is the ultimate sort of disaggregation, moving away from centralization by going directly to the source, no mediation save the solar panels. Being off grid, of course, only makes sense as long as there is a grid. The more folks move off, the less size grids will have.
Samhain Thanksgiving Moon
I’ve seen some of these before. But many, not.
The Quotes of Steven Wright:
1 – I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2 – Borrow money from pessimists — they don’t expect it back.
3 – Half the people you know are below average.
4 – 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5 – 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
6 – A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7 – A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 – If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
9 – All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
10 – The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 – I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ….. But she left me before we met.
12 – OK, so what’s the speed of dark?
13 – How do you tell when you’re out of invisible ink?
14 – If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 – Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16 – When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
17 – Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18 – Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
19 – I intend to live forever … So far, so good.
20 – If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
21 – Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.
22 – What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23 – My mechanic told me, “I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.”
24 – Why do psychics have to ask you for your name
25 – If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 – A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 – Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
28 – The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 – To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 – The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 – The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.
32 – The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33 – Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don’t have film.
34 – If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.
35 – If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
Samhain Thanksgiving Moon
Grandson Gabe’s port finished its work a couple of days ago. Through it Jon and Jen infuse the factor that helps prevent joint bleeds, good for Gabe since he receives a prophylactic dose. That means he gets two to three infusions a week. A port is less painful than a needle stick.
The day the port stopped functioning Gabe had to be infused the old fashioned way, with a needle in a vein. Apparently he did not like that.
Kate and I went into Colorado Children’s yesterday to spend some time with Gabe and his folks. A real family thing and one I was glad we could do so easily. He had just come up from the recovery room, sort of groggy. A constant stream of nurses, nurses’ assistants, cleaners, doctors, hospital functionaries came in to probe him, ask questions, set up IV’s and o2 monitors, position the bed, bring water with ice.
Really, there’s gotta be a better way. In the hospital rest is important, but the pattern, the culture of the hospital works against it. Of course, you don’t want to be a hospital whose patients die of neglect, but there’s got to be a place between the current high traffic and the opportunity to heal.
This port lasted four years, some last six or seven, so he probably won’t have to have this done again until he’s old enough to really get what’s happening. The goal is for him to self-infuse but he dislikes needle sticks so it may be a while.