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I'm trying to place a Walmart order with my benefits but it is being a pain. Remove an item and it somehow costs my debit card more.
Ah yes, one of my bigger concerns is if our water heater ever fails. I don't think it will, but it does feel kind of like living with a dragon that wakes up and eats people once every five hundred years. And we should have just missed the last awakening but we don't know if they counted leap years.
My water heater is only 6 years old, but it's on its last legs. Our city has overly corrosive water because of some additive they refuse to add. The plumber who just came out to fix a pipe that had corroded through said that's about how long they last around here. And it's showing signs of impdending leaks. Around here you're not legally permitted to work on water heaters yourself, so it's going to mean a new unit, plumber, permit, electrician and another permit. I'm not looking forward to this.
Hi (waves)!
Ich habe keine Katze. Meine Mutter hat zwei Katzen.
Miau.
Heute ist Caturday!
Ja, samstags ist immer Caterday!
Our city's water website proudly stated that zero of its water lines have lead pipes. However, 27,659 of them have "unknown lines". Our home happens to be in one of the unknown areas. But I suppose as long as it's unknown, it's not lead.
How many "known lines" are there?
It says there are 23,164 "galvanized lines" and 127,194 "non-lead lines" in addition to the 27,659 unknown lines and 0 lead lines.
I missed it all. Everything from Monday morning, through Halloween, to tonight (Sat. 11/2) Emergency ambulance to local Jamestown hospital, then ambulance to "Buffalo General Medical Center/Gates Vascular Institute". Congestive Heart Failure. Grossly swollen legs, couldn't breathe, etc. They drained the excess fluid from legs & lungs, did angiogram and found I have about 1/3 normal function. Eventually decided to give me a stent to open a heart vessel that was about 98% blocked. Forced me to eat liquids and bland food for too many days. Gave me a raft load of new medicines ($$$), but they did ship me home, right to my door. Yay! Heart not all fixed, but at least I can breathe and sleep and walk.
Unknown, but they know they're not lead?? Hmm. I understand your concern.
According to the map on the NRDC website, we don't have lead or unknown. I don't know how trustworthy that is. From what I understand, the pipes here haven't been replaced for like 100 years, unless they've burst and had to be replaced. We've had a lot of that over the past few years.
edit: OMG, LeatherGryphon! How scary! I'm glad you're doing a bit better now.
Why? What do you know that I don't?
Glad they manged to patch you up, hope they can fix you further.
That reminds me, I need to make sure I'm not getting charged. I'm on DAZ strike. I love DAZ, but I can't justify buying stuff at this time. Unless maybe it's the intellectual property to Bryce or Hexagon.
That's good to hear !! The you are back home not the hospital stay though but then again the hospital stay is good too cause you are still here .....
You can test for lead. Home Depot has a test kit for verifying that your dishes are lead-free.
You swab a dish, and if the swab changes color, then lead is present.
As long as you keep getting negatives, you can keep swabbing. A couple years ago, I swabbed a sample dish, cup, utensil, tray, drinking glass, and basically anything made of ceramic, glass, or cast iron in my kitchen. All negative for lead.
And there is no missing a positive hit. The swab turns orange or red or something, and gives you a good slap to get your attention. Okay, maybe not that last part. But it's so bold/bright, you'll see it even if you're color blind, lol.
Glad you're back. Ya gotta take care of yourself, bud. They haven't made any more like you since...well, since you!
About 8 years ago, I got a tankless water heater. Love it. The plumber put a corrosion inhibitor on the input pipe, and a few years later, I installed a water softener, mostly to keep my washer, dryer, and dishwasher from getting internal calcium deposits. I'm concerned about the brine effluent from its monthly flush, but that ends up going to the wastewater treatment plant and not my backyard.
It might be about time to have the corrosion inhibitor replaced...I don't know what their lifespan is.
I have both kinds! My classical is a ... what, 50 year old Kay (Japanese made), and my acoustic is a Taylor.
Damn, I need to get back to playing.
II was indeed better than I. And you kind of didn't need to see I to appreciate II. III (Search for Spock) and IV (Return Home; AKA, "the Whales") were also good. V was a good story but a bad implementation. I thought VI (The Klingon one) was very good.
The 3 with Chris Pine were good stories but had a lot of flaws. Decent action. There's rumor that they want to do another one. Better hurry up, 'ole Chris Pine is going to be pushing 50 in a few years. Captain Kirk's median age is mid-30s, per Roddenberry's original vision.
All good things, no?
Assuming I'm not a Large Language Model having a hallucination, you once said you tend to save money on the antivirus subscription by canceling it before it auto renews, and then buying a new copy of the software, which gives you another year of the subscription at a lower price. But you said you last time you had forgotten to cancel it before it auto renewed, and it was quite a hassle to get the renewal fee back. Like a good Skynet, I've been patiently waiting for almost a year to remind you to cancel that subscription before it auto renews and debits your account.
...Yahoo thinks I live in the UK as everytime I open their main page I get UK and European news as well as sports.
...relieved to hear you're OK. I was getting a bit concerned there. Definitely doesn't sound like a pleasant experience. . .
Ah, yes. I remember. Thank you for your dedicated Skynet concern. I feel honored.
It was indeed an issue, but I have taken care of it about a year earlier, shortly after the new AV was installed, by cancelling the auto-renewal from the subscription. I got burned once, 'twas enough.
And yes indeedy it is time for a new subscription. I have already purchased my new AV for next year, and am awaiting the final day of the current subscription to expire. Then boom! A new licence key and bob's your uncle.
Where are my glasses?
talking about Skynet, I had a dream that some unknown company was trying to get people to buy smart houses. I never saw the house in my dream but it had a bad feeling to it. Maybe it was skynet with their ai dinosaurs and stuff.
The actual emergency experience was not pleasant. I now have a healthy respect for asthma sufferers.
The hospital experience was OK, up to a point. Emergency ambulance to the local hospital at 6:00AM Monday. Stabilized with oxygen & drugs until afternoon. Transport by ambulance to Buffalo by 5:00PM. Nice hospital, clean, efficient, friendly. 1st Angiogram on Tuesday morning and discovery of 20% heart function(60% is normal). One blocked heart artery discovered but they didn't install the stent to open it because the doctor felt that it was an old blockage and the damage to the ventrical had been done. Recovery & stabilization on Wednesday along with a promise to let me out on Thursday. Until different doctors decided to go ahead with insertion of stent anyway. So, on Thursday morning they go through the same artery again
, 2nd angiogram, and insertion of stent, giving major flow improvement(yay), more stabilization on Friday and a promise to let me out on Saturday. Then on Saturday they start experimenting on me and hinting yet another night in Hospital to tweak the drugs because my heart wasn't slowing enough for them, they had to "see what I could tolerate".
Thanks but no thanks, and I put an end to the experimentation. I know my heart will never be normal again. Don't make me suffer another night in bed, and it would have been Sunday, and they would have found an excuse to keep me until Monday 
Increased blood to the heart may awaken old nearly dead muscle but I'm not betting on it. Being in Hospital was surviving, not living. I have letters to write, things long postponed, ducks to get in a row in whatever time is left to me. I have a healthy grasp on reality and my place in it. I'm not worried. I've had a good life and will keep grabbing satisfaction from it as long as the Universe lets me. Thank you all.
Complaint: And I have rediscovered that commercial TV is pure garbage, with endless repetative commercials and rife with stupidity. It's for braindead people. Give me my science lectures, and other on-demand knowlege from YouTube & other streaming services.
Complaint #2: Grrrr..., I finally have to face the fact that I need to change my diet. No more butter cookies, no more chocolate, no more frying foods, away with the canned veggies that I have a 6 months supply of, etc.
Non-Complaint: The stay in the hospital did help my weight control program though. I had been "stabilized" around 200 pounds for years, but immediately prior to the emergency and the resulting fluid gain, I had zoomed up to 212.5 in 8 days. But this morning when I weighed myself again (naked and empty) I was 194.3 Wheee...
In the middle of getting ready for a trip, and dealing with a very stressful sudden Daz issue... just when I think I might make some progress on the Daz front, BAM, a transformer in the alley blows up.
Power came back on, got back online... just in time for the other shoe to drop- or in this case, a second transformer to explode.
On a lighter note, travel at this time always remids me of a trip I took to Seattle. Had a very early morning flight, so I decided to spend the night at the airport. There were a bunch of other people there, too, mostly bound for Alaska. I forget why we couldn't go through security but we couldn't. So, long cold November night on hard floors.
We all forgot that it was the end of Daylight Saving Time. Cue the clock hitting 2 and jumping back to 1, and fifty people all realizing that they have to spend an extra hour sitting on the cold floor. I'll never forget that collective groan of human misery...
I never would have thought that DAZ would have drawn so much power.
an ER visit of 6 six hours is unpleasant... which is the worst I've had to do in years (and accompanyed/companioned by kids) so probably a cakewalk compared to what you went through).
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But it looks like you made some progress so don't be afraid to look for more.
My old man was mid-70s when he on top of complaining about being short of breath he fainted walking up the basement steps. Ma made him go to his Doc, sent to hospital for a stent to be put in. Good timing cause he was on the operating table when he had his major heart attack... and got a triple bypass right then and there. He made it to 86 and it was a couple of screwups by his Doctors that contributed to his only making it that far.
I was 76 when my blood work came back with cholesterol at 115 ... first time ever over 100. Doc wanted to do statins but I said let me check.
Okay, for a couple years I had been having Costco blueberry muffins for breakfast, blueberries are healthy, right. Right but in costco muffins at 600 calories and 40% of the days cholestrol not healthy at all.
Dropped the muffins and looked at my diet for things with cholesterol. Without touching the two eggs a day within a year cholesteral down to 85 -- 15 under goal of 100. And because I was checking ingredients Calories sort of became obvious and I got myself down to about 2000 per day.
When the cholestrol was at the 115 I'd been stablized at 225 for years even with less activity and quitting smoking. That was at 76 ... 18 months later besides the cholesterol down the weight is dropped to 195. The kids did stick me with a nagging apple watch which interupts my dazing out by saying "time to get up and move" and working on the steps which are up to 7000/9000 a day instead of 2000. I do feel a hell of lot better. Granted perhaps one of the most important health decisions in our lives is the one we have no control over the genetic combination that became us. But we can do a lot for ourselves now just by monitoring ourselves and yelling at the Docs when we sense something isn't quite right.
Ma had no cholesterol issues or artery type problems although technically she had congestive heart failure she chugged on to 95.
And was still sitting a desk for 3 to 5 hours a day painting small watercolors.
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Nothing wrong with setting your sights on getting a bunch more time to do art.