I returned to the Trail (Kootenay Boundary) hospital on Monday night for an MRI. This one was of my lower back, and traces to my original problem with sciatica / sciatic nerve disruption. The X-rays of that back region had shown bone degeneration, but the MRI should also show any nerve involvement.
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I occasionally produce a large food conglomeration in the form of either chili or tacos. Tacos are actually more complex as all the ‘fixings’ like lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, etc. are part of the meal, but both options feed Irene and I for multiple days.
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I signed up about a year ago to OpenAI’s ChatGPT+ service. This unlocks unlimited (practically) queries for a fee of about $20 a month.
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I have built a simple hyper-local weather station at our house. It has been a wee bit expensive as most of my projects end up being, but I’m fairly happy with the results.
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I currently have about 19,000 photos on my Apple iCloud account. That means a lot of pictures exist but are not actively remembered, which I suppose is kind of sad.
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The U.S. gun lobby is furiously pushing back against a Trump-government narrative after a Veteran Affairs nurse Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE agents. I am using the word ‘murder’ here intentionally: this was not a legal action performed by bonafide police officers. Instead, this was the brutal shooting of a man who by all evidence had already been disarmed during an otherwise peaceful protest.
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I have been diagnosed with hypomania. It is an interesting diagnosis, not easily achieved. I am impressed by the diagnostic work the medical professionals involved went through.
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Irene and I live in a place with a moderately cold climate. The Kootenays can have a few days in the winter with temperatures around -15 or so, although not commonly. It definitely gets cold enough that freezing is a concern.
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I had to travel to Kelowna last week for an electroencephalogram (EEG). More specifically, mine was a “prolonged sleep-deprived EEG’. It sounds a little bit like torture, and it is… a little bit.
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For unknown reasons, I seem to have a cat in my ‘space’. My ‘space’ is the dedicated den / gaming room / office we have over the garage.
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