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SAGA ALERT
When I was younger (5 years ago) I never thought that a trip to the grocery store on foot would be a death-defying ride or nightmarish terror! PREPARE FOR A SAGA!!
The day dawned dim and overcast, perfect weather for my eyes - light enough to see, but no direct sun to blind my one semi-iffy eye. Weather said overcast all morning, so I sucked down a cup of coffee and munched some kielbasa to fuel myself. Little did I know what was in store for me...
About an hour after waking, I suited up (Levis, prosthesis, hoodie) and prepared to head out. Popped on my backpack and went to close th window while I was gone. Much to my dismay, I discovered that the clouds had burned off and the outdoors was lit with a stark, laser-bright light! Well, I was too low on food to survive being stuck at home, so I put on y cowboy hat, girded my loins, screwed my courage to the sticking-place and headed out.
Note that sunglasses don't work for me. First, they're not prescription or snap-on so everything is a massive blur without y high-magnification readers. Not to mention light comes in the sides and wipes out my vision. Feh.
Now, in the morning the Sun blasts in directly from my direction of travel. This means that all the way to the grocery store light is blasting in from the left, above the houss but below the brim of my hat, or right into my face. In this situation I have to hold one hand up to block the Sun for close to a mile, with a few small spots of bright light that I can't seem to block.
Even in perfect circumstances modestly clear vision range is from 3 to 5 feet, after that it's ranging from blurry to acid nightmare kaleidoscope.
So, every road and driveway crossing is a potential trip to the ground. There's almost no depth perception so I have to tap my cane around to fine strp-offs and curbs. Crossing a busy street, even with lights, is pants-wettingly frightening. Plus, s KK has known for some time, a lot of drivers are <expletive deleted>.
But somehow, despite the depressing reality of it all, I made it there and back in the same shape I woke up in.
Non-complaints from the trip:
- Whomever invented those dark colored knobby ramps to/from the street should be knighted. So easy to tell where there's no curb to deal with.
- Those crossings with beeps on both sides are a blessing since I can't see the walk/don't walk signs.
- The newfangled crossings that say 'ok to cross' as voice, despite sounding smarmy, are a wonderful invention.
- Helpful employees at the grocery store. Several times I couldn't find what I was looking for, an employee came by to help without me asking! When you have to use a magnifying glass just to read prices and labels, this kind of thing is seriously appreciated.
- Kneeling buses. 'Nuff said.
I guess it's not so bad. Even 10 years ago I'd be in a State nursing home, but here I am still puttering around on my own, at least for now.
So endeth todays saga.
What is that enviroment set for DS that was made by the people who used to work at RDNA?
Off the train now! Heading to my brother’s place now.
Terra Dome 3.
Dana
...ever since I moved out of that house I was in for two years, dust in eh computer has been relegated to a minor issue. Took almost a day to clean my system out after I moved (yuk) and I have filters on all the intake fans (which were also pretty well coated).
...hang in there, that should subside in a week or so as your system becomes accustomed to the medication. If it doesn't, then I'd have another conversation with your doctor and/or get a second opinion. What's the dosage level you are at? My doctor had me start with half the daily dose, then move to the full recommended dosage after about three weeks.
...I miss the sound of their cooing, very comforting. Heard only one in all the time I've lived here and it was near the business park where I used to work on the far west side of the metro area.
...OK here, pretty much back to normal for this time of year now (50s - 60s with occasional liquid water from the sky) no more ice and snow any more.
Crikey, three nor'easters in about as many weeks, not good.
I should look for some tutorials on Daz Studio's DForce before I forget.
...glad it ended up a safe journey even with the frightening parts. Sad when heading to the market seems almost fraught with as much danger as going into the wilds as one gets older and less mobile these days.
Those knobby things we have at intersections here are bright yellow, but just as welcome. For me, I need my sight as I have terrible tinnitus and thus have lost a fair amount of spatial recognition and directional hearing. I can still listen to music fine, but certain frequencies tend to blend into the cacophony of ambient city noise and those audible crosswalk signals are one of them. I'd need those ones like in Bladerunner that actually talk and tell which the street has the green light (we have a few but not many here). Sadly they still don't help when there are cars with the green light that make turns (or those scofflaw cyclists that think stop signs and red lights don't apply to them).
Speaking of two wheel moving hazards, because of the heavier traffic in this area and a number of one way streets, there is a greater profusion of cyclists who take to the sidewalks, again none of whom warn you they are coming up from behind. There are also many areas (particularly to the west of where I am) with outdoor cafe seating or sale tables which makes for less walking space (Northwest 21st and 23rd having the most) so dodging them can become an exercise of extreme agility (something that as you grow older, diminishes measurably). Between them, the impatient uncaring mouth breathing motorists (often on their phones), and high population of hyper skittish ankle biters (I miss all my kitty friends on the old 'hood), being an older pedestrian here with declining mobility can be a real challenge.
I feel a need to start a 'Lesser Portland" campaign to discourage any more people from moving here so it doesn't become any worse.
At least my bus fare is cheap. Oh and our transit system's entire fleet are now the low rider types which can lower even more.
...just needs custom wheels and dingleballs around the windscreen
Emotions are dumb and should be hated.
Thanks downloading now.
0_o
a lot of squinting at it, but
managed to install more rams 16gb should make things go faster
add more dragons to a scene
i cant get to the m.2 slot, its like, under the fan of the nvidia card
ides of march
et tu brutus day?
Hate is an emotion!
Dana
When I had my tower cases, dust and crap was a serious problem. In Sunnyvale we got a lot of tiny ash blown in from the hill fires, and filter washing was about every 2 weeks in fire season. And being on the floor, we'd get damn ants in the case! They'd march in and die.. thank heaven for computer vacs!
The ants are callked pharoah ants, they seek water because of how dry the soil is. The complex hd exterminators out every six weeks. Bloody things are persistent!
Awww. :-( Right now (8:05am) I hear mourning doves, a hawk in the distance, and a few crabby grackles. The grackles ruin everything... :-/
Whoosh, zoom ...
Complaint: Snow, snow, snow, snow, snow ... still more snow
... out of chocolate. 
Non-complaint: 1) Cancelled doctor's appointment.
2) Remembered where I hid my other chocolate bunny. 
Nice bus! Ours are decently modern, last update the city added double-long express buses, super comfy.
We had the yellow markers in California, I like the yellow better but I'll take brown.
Arrogant cyclists were a plague in California. They'd organiz e 'protest rides' in San Francisco where they'd block streets and ride slow. Tons of arrests, when the city sued the orrganization for the cost of police time, it stopped. Here in Austin 2/3 of the cyclists are decent, the other 1/3 are raging <expletive deleted>s. Thankfully in this neighborhood most riders are decent folk, many older people.
The danger here is street racing. We had a hit--and-run a few weeks ago, a street racer hit a pedestrian crossing and took off. This area has a large Hispanic population and there's a deep fear of the cops, I've read reports of fenderbenders where the Hispanic driver simply abandons the car and runs. A very sad state of affairs, but the police here have well-documented issues (many of which have made national news, sigh). :-(
I want to know what Brutus et two of. Donuts? Tacos? :-/
Somewhat overcast this morning at 8:15am. 67f, should hit mid-80f's today. Time to make more ice cubes, iced coffee already chilling in the fridge!
Complaint: sore legs and hips. Very annoying.
Non-complaint: Tostadas for breakfast!! So yummy... :-)
Perhaps brutus is not the eater, but the eaten?
i.e. I had a great breakfast, et tu brutus today.
wasnt he a character on popeye?
mebbe he was eatin that hamberger guy's hamburgers, and that's why he always needed to borrow money for hamburgers
mo ji wan moj nobi?
A very good point, sir! :-O
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ole man winter catankerous curmudgeon
glue some gears on it
rap about tea
just flipped the package over, 960 sodiums
actually, this freezing weather makes for crockpot cooking this weekend.
1st step is to make home made veggie broth, cuz the prepacked stuff trying to kill me with sodium.
what soup greens should i throw in?
I wanted to talk to the secretary of the health clinic that I go to. No one answered the phone today. Therefore, I believe the clinic is closed on Friday. I'll need to wait until Monday or Tuesday to ask them a question.
I use a soupmaker. One of my fave recipes is minestrone, using Onion, Carrot, Courgette or celery, Spring Greens, tomatoes a little garlic, black pepper, chopped parley and organo.