Bruce's Journal

[CntryBoy777]

Glad he didn't give too much trouble getting him backthru. It is amazing sometimes the situations they can get into. We feel the same way about the clock, we just operate year round by the sun, dang what the click says....all those extra hrs of daylight tho would come in very handy with cooler weather to get stuff done...when there isn't any grass to cut every week. Now that the temps have dropped some the dad-gum rain won't stop here...have more coming in tonite. Oh well, it'll just make easier work digging some post holes....been waiting for it. How's your fencing going there?

 

[Latestarter]

It's basically been stagnant for a bit. I'm at the point now where I have to rip out old fencing (that's the yard boundary), T-posts, and corner/support logs that are rotted out. Some are broken off at ground level so may just leave what's there and install new right alongside it. Hopefully I won't find yards of concrete around the bottoms causing me to have to dig huge holes to get around it. I've seen all the rain you've been getting but it keeps missing me. I had the one morning of storm that dropped just about an inch and nothing since. Looks like we're supposed to have the possibility of rain here starting soon.

Just looked at the radar and there's a front moving SE and the tail of it's developing and moving toward you. Looks like you're due for more rain before morning Fred. It's just over the border to your NW, extending up and through Memphis. If you follow the front line SW, it extends just about over the top of me along I-30 but there's no rain with it or on me right now. I expect Mike will be seeing it some time in the morning.

Just took a peak @ the forecast...

Just got out of the spa and couldn't dry off cause the humidity is so high out there right now. Like looking through fog... and it's not steam from the spa.

Have a couple of doc appts over at the VA on Tuesday. Can't even remember what they're for. Guess I ought to call tomorrow as I believe they have me scheduled for a dye and CRT scan and this might be that appointment. I recall them telling me I had to do something the morning of that and can't recall what that was either. Gettin' old(er). Better than the alternative, or that's what I've heard... Course nobody (in a couple of millennium) has ever come back to verify that... justsayin'

So with the much cooler weather coming in later this week, preceded by rain, I need to really push myself to get the fencing done and gates installed. Mike is making me look like the lazy old bum I've become.

ETA: Sorry for spewing font all over your journal Bruce... thought I was on mine.

 

[Bruce]

Spew away, it makes it easier for me to find my journal when I want to post something

Been really poor solar of late. First there was ZIP for 3 days while the power was out (10/30-11-1). It has been grey and rainy since then. Generated 15 kWh on the 4th and only 24.6 kWh for the month to date. We use 15-22 kWhs most days yet somehow used 12 kWhs last Wed when the power was out until 5:30 PM, we didn't get home until 7 to unplug the refrigerator and freezer from the borrowed generator and back into the wall outlets. 12 kWhs in 5 hours?? The ONE daily usage bar on the power company's website that won't show the usage by hour is THAT day. We will be eating into the credits this month if this keeps up, we managed to squeak a $1.80 credit last November.

 

[CntryBoy777]

That does seem a bit strange for just 5 hrs time....maybe they need to check the meter?

 

[greybeard]

Have a couple of doc appts over at the VA on Tuesday. Can't even remember what they're for. Guess I ought to call tomorrow as I believe they have me scheduled for a dye and CRT scan and this might be that appointment. I recall them telling me I had to do something the morning of that and can't recall what that was either. Gettin' old(er). Better than the alternative, or that's what I've heard... Course nobody (in a couple of millennium) has ever come back to verify that... justsayin'

Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence...
No one has returned to dispute it either......

Hopefully you aren't scheduled for a chemically induced nuke stress test. The one i did a few weeks ago was pretty un-nerving. Thought I was drowning. Passed it with flying colors tho, but next time intend to try to opt back in for the treadmill type.

Had a different test done not too long ago where the girl said "You're going to feel it when I inject this, in different places but don't be alarmed."

She was right..I felt it in a very private place the most and wasn't sure I hadn't wet my pants.......or worse down there..but I hadn't.

 

[Bruce]

Well THAT doesn't sound like fun @greybeard, sure hope @Latestarter isn't having the same thing.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I've had a few similar to those...one was to flush clots with the first attack....it was a crazy situation, but I survived it...

 

[Bruce]

And glad we are too!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Ditto!

 

[Latestarter]

The CT scan is the 28th. Tomorrow is more or less a regularly scheduled appt. The CT test is not the stress test. It will involve a radioactive dye injection and I remember it well from the last time. You described the sensation quite accurately I might add. I was rather amazed at how fast I felt it move through my body. When I mentioned it to the nurse, I was informed that's the reason a cut artery leads to bleed out so quick. I have hypoaldosteronism, so bad adrenals (both), that are the cause of the hypertension. The over weight and poor diet doesn't help, but that condition is aided and abetted by the adrenals as well as thyroid issues.