Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

WC> for March as February is slated for a CMOS battery, A drive and 
WC> hard drive for the Pentium. I should start the prep, tear down, 
WC> work on the Pentium in a week or ten days as I need to manage my
WC> time so as to not overextend and being an NEC nothing is easy to
WC> get to so I'll have to strip it to the M.B. even going so far as
WC> to remove it to look for the model number on the underside and
WC> checking that 1 IDE male pin I recall being loose and perhaps
WC> solder reflowing it.

RJT> This is starting to sound a bit like the attempts at managing what I
RJT> have to do here -- I made a list the other day,  nowhere near complete,
RJT>  but what is there is all technical stuff and it's all stuff that I've
RJT> been meaning to get to for some time,  but somehow I never quite seem
RJT> to get around to it.  

WC> The Pentium is a priority just now though it has been lingering  on
WC> the back burner for some time.
WC> The beginning of next month I'll buy the A drive and battery first,
WC> install them and make certain I'm good to go there than run out and
WC> snag a 60 Gig. drive to slap in it.

The hard drives that are out there right now sure are attractive,  there's
definitely something about the thought of having some tens of gigs of space
available to me that sorta grabs my attention.  And I *could* go out and
snag one of those,  or something similar.  But at this point I think I'm
inclined to get a scanner and a cd burner first,  and to make better use of
what technology I have on hand here.  Got MBs sitting around and I could
upgrade some of what I'm running,  like this box ferinstance,  by just
taking the time to shut it down and tear it apart,  stick a different MB in
there.  And stuff like working on configs,  getting things working better
together than they are now...

It's really pretty funny,  too.  There was a time when I'd jump at the
chance to get a "new" (usually much faster) system or take a big
jump in drive space, or things like that.  But at this point I'm content to
hold off on that stuff a bit.  My one foray a couple of months back to look
at what was out there in terms of new MBs and such convinced me that I
wasn't ready to jump into that stuff just yet.

RJT> Maybe putting in written form and organizing my thoughts a bit 
RJT> further will help me make it happen,  maybe not.

WC> I should make lists for the next day myself.
WC> Today's only chore is to bathe the dog which I used to do every 
WC> two weeks, than became a month and just now four months because of 
WC> my back. However now I'm waking up smelling like the pooch as he 
WC> sleeps with me so it needs to be done. Short laid down hair indoor 
WC> dog so he's not that bad.

If nothing else there's always the car wash...  :-)

WC> That's what the political climate has fostered. Watched "On Death 
WC> and Dying" with Bill Moyers and a doctor dying of esophegous 
WC> cancer couldn't get adaquate pain medication at the hospital he 
WC> formerly worked in as an oncologist :-(

RJT> Was that on his "NOW" show?  I started to watch that but
gave up after
RJT> one episode in which he really went on a rant,  I couldn't believe what
RJT> sort of crap he was spouting.  I haven't had the inclination to look at
RJT> it since then.

WC> Haven't seen NOW just seen it listed 

It just came on at this point in time,  as it happens.  They're talking
about state deficits at the moment.

WC> however "On Death and Dying" was a separate and independent 
WC> production not related to any ongoing series. 

Oh.  I must've missed that one,  then.

WC> Show followed a number of terminal cases from late stage to the 
WC> end with patient consent. Seems these terminal patients wanted 
WC> the option to die with dignity, voluntary euthanasia, and were 
WC> willing to go public with their very personal trageties to work 
WC> towards legalization. One large formerly active fellow in Texas 
WC> was reduced to having his wife having to feed him and take care of 
WC> personal needs but he was lucky, former farm veteranarian so he 
WC> had what he needed to go when he choose to no matter what the law 
WC> had to say about it.

There's always a way,  if you make that choice.  I don't ever expect to
make that choice,  but am realistic enough to allow that I might possibly
feel differently about it under some circumstances.



RJT> It's a breathing thing,  it's seasonal, and related to weather as 
RJT> well,  which leads me to think allergy,  so there oughta not be 
RJT> too damn much difficulty in finding out and dealing with it.  
RJT> We'll see how it goes from here...

WC> I can relate to the breathing thing, up until 17 I was really 
WC> messed up with allergies, took the shots ect.
WC> Been fine since than, seemed to help when I moved a thousand miles
WC> once or twice and different pollens.
WC> Another thing I did was QUIT SMOKING which was bringing back my
WC> earlier problems with a vengence :-( Two years after quitting all
WC> was well again.

I oughta give some serious thought to that one of these days.  :-)

WC> If I *ever* see a doctor again I'm going to make him do a spinal
WC> x-ray before anything else. Problem there being getting a clear one
WC> as they position me in such a way I involuntarily shake from the
WC> pain and pinched nerves, such was a major problem back in 95.

RJT> A good radiologist is also hard to find.  I remember when I broke my
RJT> collarbone in a car crash some years back the tech screwed up,  and had
RJT> to do it over, while I was seeing only shades of gray,  and according
RJT> to what I'm told turning various shades of green.  What pissed me off
RJT> was that they billed for both of them!

WC> Shoot Finn ran four series before he gave up.
WC> The man's an orthopedic surgeon, you're in there for a severe 
WC> spinal injury and he's no clue nor provisions to allow for the
WC> condition making the positioning for the x-ray to be taken being a
WC> problem? had it been possible to take the x-ray laying flat on my
WC> back that was doable but might not have revealed what he 
WC> needed to see. I've got the x-rays and only one is marginally 
WC> readable. The NMRI's came through clear enough though, in fact 
WC> I went to sleep in the machine which the nurse said she'd never 
WC> seen before.

Heh.  I'm not that far from it myself at this point.  Been shorting myself
on sleep for days,  and I finally have a weekend at hand to make up for it!
 :-)

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