Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

do you know how docs set their examining rooms and OR at low temps?(I think for fainting, etc)
Well I can guarantee you they were happy this morning, as I sat shivering in two different rooms, next to an outside wall.
A bit chilly in here
No kidding lady. I put another layer back on.

Pleased(kinda) to get a surgical appt in two weeks, where they will move my right elbow's ulnar nerve away from where it is being crushed, and will also
do my carpal tunnel. Two not for the price of one. But at least might as well get both done at once. The last part of my 100,000 mile rebuild.
I told the surgeon I had a date with a motorhome for April 1st and in no uncertain terms, get me fixed by then.

Interesting as I am sitting here that my right elbow is sitting on my desk, exactly where the crushed nerve is. That opened my eyes.
Keyboarding is not helping at all, and when you are as longwinded as I am....well the enemy is me.:confused3:

This afternoon I am loading a new copy of Dragon speech recognition software in the pc and will see if it works worth a hoot.
Wondering if that will help while I'm casted/immobilized for a month. I type 60-80wpm and going back to typing with one finger of my left hand
is going to be seriously interesting.

For once....I might be brief. :dance1:

A balmy 18 degrees out and in the sun, it felt great, behind glass... what an improvement. I think we are all tired of shivering.

Now I'm off to take pics of the family's cemetery plot and headstones, so I can see the stone people on Friday to design something nice for Nadene.
Very plain, per the tradition, but I think I'll slip a little heart in on the backside.
Sure never done this before...

 

[jinman]

Good morning! 42˚ heavy mist/light rain .07" rain.

Jim are you going to start reporting rainfall on CoCoRaHS.

You know, Don, I'm less than impressed with this gage. The stinkin' center tube only goes to 1" total. the base of the gage could have had a bit higher ridge to make placing the inner gage easier and hold it so it doesn't flop around while you try to put on the larger collector at the top. The other thing is that they could have added some markings to the big part of the gage for rains over 1". The fact that you have to pour off the first inch and then refill the inner tube several times for rains over 1" makes this very inconvenient. This gage could have been made so much better with a minimum of effort, but they didn't do it. I could never recommend this to anybody. I was truly disappointed when I removed it from the box and started struggling to put it together.

 

[sodamo]

62F .10 inches since yesterday, raining now
Able to finish plumbing the gutter feeds to tanks along with new inline filter before he rain. Feel good, now tanks are being properly fed. Need to finish the tank overflows and connect last two suction lines.
Stay warm and safe you guys.
Have a great day.

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

do you know how docs set their examining rooms and OR at low temps?(I think for fainting, etc)
Well I can guarantee you they were happy this morning, as I sat shivering in two different rooms, next to an outside wall.
A bit chilly in here
No kidding lady. I put another layer back on.

Pleased(kinda) to get a surgical appt in two weeks, where they will move my right elbow's ulnar nerve away from where it is being crushed, and will also
do my carpal tunnel. Two not for the price of one. But at least might as well get both done at once. The last part of my 100,000 mile rebuild.
I told the surgeon I had a date with a motorhome for April 1st and in no uncertain terms, get me fixed by then.

Interesting as I am sitting here that my right elbow is sitting on my desk, exactly where the crushed nerve is. That opened my eyes.
Keyboarding is not helping at all, and when you are as longwinded as I am....well the enemy is me.:confused3:

This afternoon I am loading a new copy of Dragon speech recognition software in the pc and will see if it works worth a hoot.
Wondering if that will help while I'm casted/immobilized for a month. I type 60-80wpm and going back to typing with one finger of my left hand
is going to be seriously interesting.

For once....I might be brief. :dance1:

A balmy 18 degrees out and in the sun, it felt great, behind glass... what an improvement. I think we are all tired of shivering.

Now I'm off to take pics of the family's cemetery plot and headstones, so I can see the stone people on Friday to design something nice for Nadene.
Very plain, per the tradition, but I think I'll slip a little heart in on the backside.
Sure never done this before...

Hope your surgery goes well and you recover fast or it'll be summer by the time you drive your RV down here to Texas the 2nd week of April.

Keep us posted on that new Dragon software. they sure advertise it heavily. Hope it works for you.

 

[sodamo]

9 months into my lifestyle mod. Pleased to say I'm officially down 59.9 lbs. haven't been this weight in many a year. Seems we also survived the holiday party season - onward and downward
Unfortunately, broke the Treadclimber and a replacement motor control board is enroute. Machine is 5 years old. Am considering unloading on Craigslist for reasonable price and replacing with newer model for the many miles to come.
Wife is also doing excellent and very pleased with the results.

Drew, good luck with upcoming surgery. Are you sticking to your revised exercise plan?

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[daugen]

Hope your surgery goes well and you recover fast or it'll be summer by the time you drive your RV down here to Texas

thanks Kyle. I should have done this over a year ago, just couldn't..., and now it's pretty bad and the surgeon said there was permanent damage,
but they wanted to stop the progression from there. Lovely. I am literally losing my grip in my right hand, and pretty hard to drive a motorhome with one hand.
And I wouldn't do it anyway. But I bet I'll be Ace bandaged up for awhile, and maybe always while I drive. I am pushing it a bit here...but that's nothing
new for me, and I bet most of you.

Ten years ago I expected to be in a wheelchair by now. And I'm doing much better than that for sure.
But if I have to sit down, well I can do that driving a motorhome, a tractor, a lawn mower, a car, etc, etc,
basically anything with a motor and wheels.

but I need my grip...so this operation is a must.

And you keep the light on. I will make it to Texas.

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Morning. 1120, sunny, 38* with 40% humidity. {at 0700 when I got up, it was 26*} Forecast calls for a high of 48* this afternoon, a low of 36* tonight and by the weekend it will be in the high 60's-low 70's with 90% chance of rain. I've been out dumping ice out of the animals' water dishes, and it is nice outside. This is the lowest humidity that I can remember.

Drew, brevity is your friend. Good luck with your surgery.
David, congrats on your weight loss. And thank you for telling me about the 5-2 thing. I'm down 3 stone, and hope that now the holidays are behind, I can lose one more.

Everyone stay safe and warm today.

Larro

 

[daugen]

Larro, thanks. you are right of course.
since I'm going out with my camera, I think I'll take a longer ride and see if I can get some pictures of this, about
ten miles away.

an ice jam has developed on the Delaware River near Trenton.
This has resulted in a few miles of near bank full conditions
north of the ice jam. When this ice jam breaks... there may be
enough water behind the jam to cause flash flooding downstream.

 

[toppop52]

Hope your surgery goes well and you recover fast or it'll be summer by the time you drive your RV down here to Texas

thanks Kyle. I should have done this over a year ago, just couldn't..., and now it's pretty bad and the surgeon said there was permanent damage,
but they wanted to stop the progression from there. Lovely. I am literally losing my grip in my right hand, and pretty hard to drive a motorhome with one hand.
And I wouldn't do it anyway. But I bet I'll be Ace bandaged up for awhile, and maybe always while I drive. I am pushing it a bit here...but that's nothing
new for me, and I bet most of you.

Ten years ago I expected to be in a wheelchair by now. And I'm doing much better than that for sure.
But if I have to sit down, well I can do that driving a motorhome, a tractor, a lawn mower, a car, etc, etc,
basically anything with a motor and wheels.

but I need my grip...so this operation is a must.

And you keep the light on. I will make it to Texas.

Proper surgery by a hand specialist and in 6 months or so you'll never know you had Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. I would be walking along and drop stuff from my right hand and not even know it until I heard it hit the ground. That was in 1985 that I had the surgery, I didn't do as told often and took me a year to get all the way back to normal, but it works fine. I too was told I had permanent damage and my nerve conduction tests could have been timed with an hour glass.

 

[brin]

Drew ..Good luck with the surgery and remember ....without pics it did not happen...:thumbsup: