Charles W. Moore

Another Doctor Day

We went to the Nodule Clinic this AM. The initial news was encouraging and I am supposed to return in 6 months for another CAT Scan so they have comparisons.  I had a Nurse Practitioner who seemed quite informed and professional. So, in lieu of other symptoms 6 months it is.

The day is overcast and grey with a NW wind and 30°.  Sort of an unmanageable day and I am hanging out in the Technical Room writing this blog and doing inside things. tomorrow is forecast to be about 40 and sunny so we may take Jess to Pokagon State Park.  That will be fun.

Yesterday I put all the pictures that did not die with the T5400 on a 64GB microSD where they will store for a long time without worry.  I think I will buy a few more MicroSD tone to have on hand and the other for a Raspberry Pi3 Security Camera. Moore later.

Doctor Day

Warm today.  About 40°F and there were clear skies for a part of the day.  We came home I sent some Christmas Letter 2016 to some more friends and then whiled away the rest of the afternoon.  We received a couple more presents from Marc which were quite nice – thanks you. Tomorrow we go and pick up Jess at the Toledo airport.

Momday, Monday

We were busy this morning.  I made several important calls while we waited for the guy who was supposed to be here to pick up the remaining wood but he never showed.  Around 1100 we loaded the car and went north to the FCC, our church, to fix some trim that had popped off.  We took my tools and some Spackle,  Contact Cement, screws and some epoxy.  We used most of them.  SAM found even more things to fix so we did that too.

When we were finished at 1400 hrs we drove back to Angola to eat at Sutton’s Deli on the Mound. The day was sunny and the sun beat through the window so it was a very nice meal.  The crowd was almost nil so we had the place to ourselves.

I just got a call from Dale, my Amateur Radio friend, who is in an Ann Arbor hospital getting chemo for Leukemia, and he said he was not in pain but his bladder is extremely swollen and he has lost hearing in one ear.  This morning when he awoke he did not have any vision for a while.  I feel for him.  I pray for him and so are the Gideon’s.

I took a two hour break and installed a new blower fan in the Honda Civic: A dead simple install that would be even easier if  you did not have to look through a mirror to see up under the dash. Pop a panel off and three torx screws and the motor comes down and it is almost that easy re-installing but what comes in handy is a set of wood block shims to hold the motor up while you that first screw in.  The fan growls at me no more. Yea.

Sunny Sunday

We went to church this morning.  The roads were ok but not great.  It was a good service and full of great cheer and the kids programs. I’ try to post the pictures with this blogline.  I am not sure my Christmas Letter 2016 may not have survived and I will have to start again if it did not. Tonight is forecast to be -9°F  Brrr.  

I needed to call Aunt Mary this afternoon and had a good time talking with her.  Such a sharp mind at age 92.  She does not have email anymore so my call was a substitute for the Christmas Letter 2016.  We had a long talk.  It was fun and encouraging.

Right now I am listening to amateur radio Allstar node 27225.  It always  has interesting discussions going on.  Loves and health to everyone. Cheers. The picture of the manger is of my BIL Lee and Sister Ann at PLUM Church last night.  There was a mist dropping what felt like rain all evening.

End of the Year Funk

I have not been feeling that great for the last couple of weeks and the boat deal fell through, which might be a blessing, and now it is cold up here in the low single digits but today it popped up to 19 Degrees.

We just got back from Walmart where we bought some food and some more presents for the holidays.  I went on Amazon and bought a couple more things.  One of the items is being shipped directly to David  Moore down in Texas – no peaking David until Christmas.

I spent nearly the whole day tracking down some Xrays taken last winter and the winter before.  Who would have known they could be so important. Anyway, they should be on their electronic way to my doctor up here.  Hopefully they help. Cheers.

Nook Glowlight

I bought a Nook Glowlight BNRV500 tonight Refurbished on eBay.  Price was the driving factor and I could have gotten a + model for $79.99 but I figured I did not need the +.  It is supposed to be here before Christmas.  I just had to tell someone about it. Night.

Snow and More Snow

Here in PL it snowed all last night and today and it is still snowing. I guesstimate 5-6″ so we may get the promised 7″ before morning. When it stops I will start to blow snow. The temperatures are reasonably cold in the high 20’s or around 30°F right here. The snow is small and a bit granular so it should blow pretty good when I get out there. Hopefully there is sufficient gas in the small can to plow the driveway enough to get down to  the gas station tomorrow.

I have pretty much spent the whole day inside and taking it easy.  Last night I had a dream about the new Allstar node I am working on so I may go out to the Technical Room tonight and split open the battery, remove the guts and put a small perf board with the resistors necessary to add a home made battery-less adapter.  That should pretty much take care of that part but I need to add the Db-25 connector to the end of the cable and clip off the special earphone plug so as to bypass the internal speaker.  I do not know why I want to make another node as I have two already – a portable one and a rack mounted one in the Technical Room.

I guess there is no Moore for tonight. Cheers.

Start of nothing good

The day dawned with a pee and it was dark and ugly and scary.  I made my way to the ER and they got me in right away and got things started.  Lots of questions and finally after quite a while the ER Doctor ordered a CAT scan.  Then I waited around for a while and they told me three things: Kidney stones, Bladder thickening and a nodule on my left lung.  He gave me a prescription for Cipro and referred me to a Lutheran Urologist and said to see my family doctor to discuss the nodule.  Of course this terrified me.  So here we go down the road of getting old and living a fairly pain free life with no major operations or surgeries. The good news was that the rest of the tests came out positive for liver and kidneys and for that I should be happy.

Here is what is forcast for us tonight and tomorrow.  I filled the car with gas and guess I should have done the same for the truck.  Luckily a month ago I got the snow blower running so it may start when I need it but it will take a mighty tug.  Three to eight inches of snow is predicted.

Thermonic Valves

My introduction into the electronic era was through these device and the shocks I received from time to time. Almost anyone can understand the basic premise of amplification and this is a good WWII Training film.

Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind

Day 1: 12/08/2016

I am reading a thought provoking book by Yuval Noah Harari called “Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind”.  I have had a love / hate relationship with this book and have put it down many times in disgust.  However, eventually, I pick it up and start reading again after my reason for disgust has been forgotten.  There can be no doubt this guy Yuval is a knowledgeable guy and has done a large amount of research.  I have reached a particularly poignant point in the book, my page 288, called Knowledge is Power.  Just that title caused me to press on and read more with ever increasing interest.  The name of the whole chapter that I am reading is called The Discovery of Ignorance and, so far, I found the whole chapter to be thought provoking.  So much so, I woke up about 0530 think about this chapter: It helps that I have always fancied myself to be a scientist and from an early age performed experiments and documented the results.

I think I now see the Yin and Yang of the world as a whole.  There is religion, Yin, that promises a life after death and science, Yang, that promises eternal e-life ( a condition in which there is no death of the body except accidental death).  This is causing me to think of what is the greater good is for humanity.  Or should humanity just be a test tube of swirling debris with no real order?  In any case, I shall have to re-read the book as a whole and in particular, this chapter which I have yet to finish. There are so many thoughts swirling in my head that i cannot organize them into a coherent pattern that would lead me to some conclusion or another.  As soon as I fully awake all this insight will be gone and I will have only this writing to remind me of the thoughts I had in the early morning awakening.

One thought is of a valued friends question of a few days ago: She thought it was worthless pointless to continue extending life when the Earth is already inundated with human life that threatens to terminate all life on the planet, the 6th great epoch of “great dying”, during which, more than 75% of all life on this planet just disappears ( I am concurrently reading a book “Scatter, Adapt, And Remember” by Annalee Newitz). How do you answer this question?  I have thought on occasion that a big war would sort of be good for nature and the Earth.  I really this thinking on my part was sort of faulty since only humans have the extended capacity to really enjoy the beauty of nature.  So, I guess that leaves us with science and technology to sort things out, whereby, e-life has to reach a balance of sustainability with what is available on Earth to sustain it.  For me, I guess it is a mote point since I will probably not live long enough to benefit from e-life so my only recourse is religion and the promises of Christianity.

Being awake is bringing me down to Earth so to speak and the insights of the clear thoughts of sleep dreams are disappearing so I had better terminate this blog and go up and get something to eat to satisfy the primal instinct of hunger.  If I get any clear or additional insight I will add to this blog as an addendum.

Day 2: The Future