Daynotes On A Budget, V6.0

It's been a busy week, or so...  I know, shocking. I had a good doctor appointment on Friday, where my blood pressure was low enough for the doctor to take me off some of my medications.  So I got that going for me.  I try to stay on the straight and narrow, the past few months have been a titanic struggle (yes, I'd been sinking), when it comes to my blood sugars.  They'd been averaging in the 160s.  As my goal is below 120, that's not good.  However, it turns out that due to my wife's job change last fall to a better insurance package, the change of one of my insulins was ...  Well, it was messed up. I had been using Lantus and Humalog - which I expect are someone's trademarks.  If they are, I apologize, they did me well for a decade and a half.  But my doctor changed me to the oh-so-trendy Ozempic and the insurance company required I use Baseglar.  The Ozempic claims to make it easier to control and reduce blood sugars, food cravings, ...

 I yam just too danged busy... Not really, but the bottom line is that I do end up running in several directions at once...  Kinda.  I do expect that this is something having to do with an aging brain.  That is, there's an awful lot up there...   I do recall Heinlein's suggestion that a fellow named Renshaw might come along and teach us all how to organize our brains.  I do not expect the Musk experiment to work all that well, I do hope that someone with a fairly good track record for bio-technological integration does end up stepping up.  What I do need is the Google Indexer working in there.  I have a lot of stuff I have known, both information and images, and it would be wonderful to be able to review it in any sort of fashion I'd like to review. But then again, I'm one of those folks who does tend to get attached to things.  Not things as in the items themselves, but far more the memories which the items provoke.  One of the ite...

Yep, it works.  On both the new AND old computers.   What's that?  Oh, I suppose there's another opportunity for me to go over the IT infrastructure here.  It's complicated.  Not at all. Seriously.   I have a computer which appears was made in perhaps 2007, is still running, and is, until recently, my primary computer.  It's limped along for a while now, having come out of the ... well, it works, but it was an addition to the family after 2009.  In pre-Pandemic days, there was a shop in Bloomington, Minnesota, known as "The Box Shop".  It was one of those wonderful little shops that used to be probably a donut or candy shop of some sort, because many of the original furnishings were there.  But most of the store was filled with bits of electronics.  Monitors, computers, both desktop and laptop, plus the occasional server here and there, and keyboards, mice, video cards, boxes of memory, cables, drives...  A few corpor...

 I used to joke that I did not like taking time away from work, things tended to happen when I was gone. As ever, so they do.  And in the slightly unpleasant sort of variety. Like the third email I read, of the fifty-odd in my in-box, this morning.  Which noted that oh, by the way, kids, the overtime which had been free and clear for literally the last 18 months, which is now only by pre-approval... It should have been expected, I suppose.  Controls on hours were very tight up to when they rolled out our new primary software system, where I was one of the secondary adopter group.  Most of my co-workers in that group got sent to the exit back about a year later, because a significant number of the sites we supported were also going the way of the dodo.  Not as in totally extinct, just that they would not be providing the same level of service, which includes the stuff that needs my sort of help, any longer.  Other locations would assist, if possible, in...

 How was your Eclipse? Mine so-so.  We did recover a bit of a good time, though.   Things started out a bit late on Monday morning, we woke up an hour later than planned, but got our stuff in a bundle and got out of Maquoketa, Iowa, before 8 am.  The plan was to head Southeast and get into the path of totality somewhere near Southern Illinois/Missouri. And all went pretty well and good until we got outside of St. Louis.  I was looking at getting into our target zone around 1:45, a bit before totality.  Then, south of St. Louis had several problems.  We had a fifteen-minute delay that turned into 20, 25, and finally 28 when I decided right around 1:40 to get off the road that wasn't moving, find a parking lot, and take a look.  So we tried.  And somewhere between Hillsboro and Festus Mo.  We were outside a small convenience store, in what my wife said was verified to be about 96%.  What I did see was about the same amount of sun...

 It seems the only way to get this thing to cooperate is to get a new to-me computer...   Go figure, huh?  Well, now to have brains and time to belch forth once again...   More updates as events warrant...  We'll see what I can get into...  At my age, probably not  whole heck of a lot.