Endless boxes
I previously mentioned my occasional frustration with never-ending to do lists. One element that appears and disappears from our lists regularly without ever really getting done: unpack boxes.
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My interrupted life
Everyone in the modern world deals with constant distractions. But one of the benefits I expected from retirement was the concept of being able to focus on a task, or to set it aside and come back to it later without nagging guilt. I was, sadly, wrong to expect this.
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New furniture for the office
Irene had some of her medical tests last week. Included in that was a radiograph- basically, you are injected with radioactive stuff, then you have to wait for three hours before the actual scan is taken. It shows bones, bone density, and bone lesions quite well which is why Irene gets it every three months or so.
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Lower back MRI
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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Refried beans
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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Cancelled OpenAI/ChatGPT account
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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A proper weather station
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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Finding photos
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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Concealed carry is a crime now?
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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Getting to hypomania: a litany of tests
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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