Still supposed to be a little cooler today, with a chance of rain. Well, someone in the Houston area will probably get rained on. Might not be me. Or I could spend the day driving around in a downpour, since I made some bad choices.
Didn’t get much done yesterday. After I got D2 from band, I had lunch and fell asleep. Woke up to make dinner. Yeah, that was dumb. Stuff is piling up and I’m napping.
Hopefully today will be a better use of my time. I’ve got a couple of pickups, where I won the item I least wanted or needed, with a single opening bid, but didn’t win anything else. I WAS going to stop doing that- using the opening bid as a placeholder. I must have been on autopilot and reverted to my bad habit. I may even abandon a winning lot as it’s in the wrong direction for easy pickup. I need to be more mindful of what I’m actually bidding on when it’s not an auctioneer that is close by.
And I need to get some other stuff done, but it seems like I can only do stuff in bursts lately instead of just working steadily. That’s a me problem and I need to figure it out. When I mention momentum, it’s the burst of activity getting going. Something always seems to cut it short though, turning it into a short burst instead of a continuing effort.
IDK if this is just my reality now, or if I can go back to my old way of working on stuff. I feel like I should try though.
It’s easy to stack. Easy to do a thing or two. Harder to keep it up day after day after day for years.
nick
This. The cloud is convenient, but you cannot trust it. Have your own backups of your data. Also: anything you put in the cloud could be compromised, so never put anything sensitive there, unless it is well encrypted.
For those with some technical chops, both OwnCloud and NextCloud are pretty easy to set up – then you have your own cloud.
That’s odd? Denis (Germany) and I (Switzerland) have surely each visited a couple dozen times in the past 30 days, but neither country is listed.
Or Samba.
Nick, I respectfully think you might be too fatigued to connect the dots…
If you are falling asleep instead of doing things during normal waking hours, and you are experiencing a lack of momentum to work steadily, you are likely trying to function in a state of excessive fatigue.
You need a rest. Listen to your body, protect your health, and get some repose. Do things that give you pleasure, and bring you a sense of achievement rather than costing you energy. Burnout and depression are real risks of excessive fatigue. Be careful!
Brad, about the international visitors, I am probably “Belgium”. 🙂
Opa‘s in Fredericksburg couldn’t get veal to make brats in December. I didn‘t see their product back on the shelf at HEB until March.
@Denis, I am beginning to think along those lines. All the rest of my stuff checked out ok, so I’m supposed to see an allergist and an endocrinologist to make sure stuff is OK. I’m wearing my smart watch to bed to get some insights into my sleep patterns.
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80F and overcast, so not quite as hot and miserable as it could be.
Getting ready to take kid2 to band practice.
n
Be really careful about a referral for an at home sleep study.
Once diagnosed, you will be subject to the whims of the CPAP industrial complex until such time that you are cleared by another study.
Denial of a CDL tops the list of possible outcomes if you ignore the diagnosis, even if minor.
Once diagnosed,
– there are several things I’ve been steadfastly keeping out of my medical records, and one that keeps finding it’s way back that I try to kill every couple of years. I did not know there were downsides to the CPAP and sleep study, but it makes sense.
Since obammmy broke down the wall between medicine and law enforcement, I’ve been especially careful. There are certain things you just can’t say to a “health professional” if you want to remain free to own whatever you like.
And it will be used against you in family court.
n
Absolutely ridiculous, of course. None of goobermint’s business. Doctor’s asking ridiculous questions because goobermint says so. “Own any guns…” etc.
Mr. Ray convinced me to try iPadOS 26 beta. Everything is good, until it froze this morning. I managed to reboot and get it back to normal.
The lesson learned: Don’t listen to Mr. Ray. Just kidding, sir.
Well crap. Dads endoscopy just got delayed until Thursday due to blood and kidney issues. He now has a kidney doctor. This is doctor #4. We are at Methodist in San Antone.
The gall bladder doctor stopped by yesterday morning and got upset that dad was having afib and shortness of breath, he was not informed. He then started talking about end of life to us. He is the head of gastro in the hospital and told us that he does not let anyone else operate on 80+ year olds. Dad is 86 but a young 86.
The endoscopy doctor stopped by in the afternoon and said he will do the endoscopy no matter what to remove the gall stones from the common bile duct. Well, what happened and that is delayed.
Dads afib stopped yesterday afternoon about 2pm. They are pouring iv fluid and antibiotics into him so that may be helping.
So, Dad may have killed himself by not going to the ER a week and a half ago.
MrsAtoz started at Methodist Texsun, but checked out it was so understaffed and rundown. I took her to the ER at Methodist Stone Oak and they admitted her right away. New, clean, attentive staff. Recommended. She had surgery and recovery there.
Hhhrrrmmmppppfffff, I sometimes should not listen to myself.
I have not had any issues with IOS, iPadOS, WatchOS and MacOS 26. Some of the stuff seems a little weird, some of the stuff still needs some tweaks. None of my systems are critical so no big deal.
Another $300 handshake.
My father-in-law got a CD with the handshake when Lisa Loeb’s filthy rich doctor daddy stopped by to check on an eye issue while at UT Southwestern waiting for his transplant.
As much as he was beyond Clintonesque in his perversions, my father-in-law claimed to vote Republican. A freebie would have been the only way he had a Lisa Loeb album.
Another $300 handshake.
The various docs are arguing about how much fluids to give him right now. They do not want to him to load up fluids for the endoscopy but he is dehydrated. The doctors are very concerned about him.
“Methodist” hospitals are legion, and often unrelated.
Houston Methodist is over a hundred years old, and unrelated to the Methodist hospitals in Dallas and San Antonio.
Also as far from Methodist/Christian values as one can get, but that’s another matter.
The good news is that your hospital may be all the better for it’s distance from Houston Methodist.
My wife’s associate and her idiot husband had to flee Texas not long after she finished residency at Methodist San Jacinto.
The idiot did something stinky running for office in Fredericksburg. He’s probably involved with Antifa now.
I’m almost there. From my notes:
advanced sharing button
permissions
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guest (and also) anonymous logon
Give both Full Control and Change and Read
I don’t know which of Guest or Anonymous Logon did the trick. But I can connect to moa’s desktop from emu. From moa, Explorer sees EMU but gives an error to check the spelling.
I changed emu to emu1 and like a dolt clicked the Reboot now button. So I’m typing this again. Anyway, moa now sees emu1. Same error.
I changed my user name from paul to emu. Same error. I think the problem is on this machine, not on moa. Moa did see the changed name.
Halfway there!
I bought the entire series of Voyager for Christmas. I just started season 7. In season 6 there is an episode called Rage. Might be Fury.
Kes comes back much aged and is uh, very angry. She has it in her head that she was stolen from her home as a child and then abandoned by Voyager. She’s out for revenge.
But wait a minute. She morphed into a cloud of light or something in season 4 (I think). The season before Seven of Nine appeared.
So if she morphed into another kind of being, how does she come back?
Someone goofed the story line. I don’t think it’s me.
RIP Bobby Sherman
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/06/25/teen-hearthrob-and-singer-bobby-sherman-dead-at-81-n2190888
Houston Methodist is over a hundred years old, and unrelated to the Methodist hospitals in Dallas and San Antonio.
My mother was in a really old Methodist hospital building in Houston for a while. The ceilings were 7 foot tall or less. Made me nervous to walk around in there.
Don’t fret about it. All the old buildings are long gone, replaced with mulitpie $300 million replacements and towers.
Paid for in cash.
Not bad for a “not-for-profit”, eh?
Stage 8/9 era “Star Trek” started going off the rails near the end of the run of “Voyager”.
The series finale is very strong, however, and, depending on how you view what’s canon, represents the latest into the 23rd century that the TV franchise has explored so far.
The fans were upset about the “DS9” ending, but every script after “The Visitor” is part of a tragic story arc where Jake Sisko sacrifices the future to save his father but still ends up alone.
“DS9” isn’t nearly was awful and unsatifying as the “Enterprise” finale, however.
I just received the “Lower Decks” box set for Father’s Day and plan to spend some time watching that series in the next couple of weeks.
Paramount more or less declared the series to be the only “canon” “Star Trek” material produced under the Jar Jar Abrams era, but I’ve only seen a couple of episodes so I can’t offer an opinion at this point.
The writers do love the Stage 8/9 era.
The underwear model is back. I heard him on with Cutie Pie (Hannity) driving home this afternoon.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-trump-ambassador-scott-brown-launches-bid-flip-key-swing-state-senate-seat-from-blue-red
If anyone has property for sale please let your real estate agent know that you are perfectly willing to sell for a wannabee ex-pat New Yorker, but the price has gone way up.
Some parts of Houston, notably south and east, got hammered with rain again today. Other scattered showers happened all over, but some places stayed dry.
Typical Houston weather.
n
I was once again running in front of the front…
Did my pickups. Sold some stuff. Talked to my auctioneer, but he put me off til next week. He bought a storage unit and it turned out to be full of classic rock LPs. over 600 of them, all in pristine condition. Almost all of them good artists, and great albums. Dang. I don’t think I’ll be able to afford any of them.
He does have some of my stuff in this week’s auction.
Currently I’m bidding on some stuff for the BOL, hope I win enough to make it worth going to pick it up.
n
The high that usually sits on top of Texas is wreaking havoc in the Northeast.
Dry weather will be back soon and then the 100s will start in Austin.
Dads kidneys totally failed today. They are moving him to the ICU and starting dialysis. He is confused and exhausted. They put an air bed under him today as he is not moving at all.
The endoscopic doctor and staff are ready to remove the stones. But they cannot while he still has cumudon in his blood as he will bleed to death of the small cuts.
@lynn, I’m sorry to hear that, but it sounds like he’s getting good care.
n
@lynn
praying for your father. And for your family, sir.
@lynn, sorry to hear your Dad’s latest travails. Hoping for good outcomes. Stay strong…