that could mean any one of a number of things.
but I'm doing fine, back at work, and actually did a little picking up in the yard yesterday.
this weekend, will see if we can get somewhere on the steps to DeBasement. would love to get the furniture in, especially since they've called three times to see if we're ready for it.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
sigh, back to cardiac rehab
it was a good 11 years, but on Sunday I had some recurrent and gradually increasing angina pain. several mild episodes over the past month had me in contact with my cardiologist, and after an office visit, he said it was a toss-up.. no audible issues, good shape... set up an angiogram now, or be watchful, and in any case, come back in 6 months.
we decided to take the watchful route. had exercise resistance on the elliptical machine after 5 minutes (which I ride sorta hard,) but fine on all the presses and lunges and rower (which I have been slacking on.) last Friday, had another Pain Level One walking the mile to the bus after work, and told the wife it was time to make that appointment.
well, the appointment made me.
a little sore after church, faded after lunch. took a nitro regardless. went to Menards for some skirt board and patterned crown molding for DeBasement finishing touches, and walking back to millwork in that medium-sized store, had a #2 level come on. sat down for a few minutes, got to the car, decided we'll not go to the superstore nearer home than church, but get the antihistimine I was out of, and go home.
decided after getting back to the car and having further pain that I was going to hand the keys to Cheryl and have her drive me into the ER at United.
peaked at a #4 on the way in before another nitro and an aspirin took hold.
with the electronic charting across Allina Health, they pulled me up, saw the last month, and immediately put me in a room, on an EKG, and admitted to the cardiac unit within 20 minutes.
diagnosis: unstabile angina with a mild heart attack. treatment: angiogram. result: 95 percent blockage in the LAD artery and one eluting stent put in. everything else that was a problem in the past is flowing clean and clear as a trout stream in the spring.
not bad for 11 years. probably had some intermittent hanging crud off the end of a plaque, so back on the super-aspirin, too.
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delay of a few more days getting a power supply built for the HW-100 and getting on the air for the first time in 40 years as a ham. that's OK. all the hard work is really done anyway, all I have to do is drill in the circuit boards and interconnect stuff. but it's 20 pounds, and I'm not lifting and turning that thing during my "watch-it!!" period.
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we decided to take the watchful route. had exercise resistance on the elliptical machine after 5 minutes (which I ride sorta hard,) but fine on all the presses and lunges and rower (which I have been slacking on.) last Friday, had another Pain Level One walking the mile to the bus after work, and told the wife it was time to make that appointment.
well, the appointment made me.
a little sore after church, faded after lunch. took a nitro regardless. went to Menards for some skirt board and patterned crown molding for DeBasement finishing touches, and walking back to millwork in that medium-sized store, had a #2 level come on. sat down for a few minutes, got to the car, decided we'll not go to the superstore nearer home than church, but get the antihistimine I was out of, and go home.
decided after getting back to the car and having further pain that I was going to hand the keys to Cheryl and have her drive me into the ER at United.
peaked at a #4 on the way in before another nitro and an aspirin took hold.
with the electronic charting across Allina Health, they pulled me up, saw the last month, and immediately put me in a room, on an EKG, and admitted to the cardiac unit within 20 minutes.
diagnosis: unstabile angina with a mild heart attack. treatment: angiogram. result: 95 percent blockage in the LAD artery and one eluting stent put in. everything else that was a problem in the past is flowing clean and clear as a trout stream in the spring.
not bad for 11 years. probably had some intermittent hanging crud off the end of a plaque, so back on the super-aspirin, too.
-0-
delay of a few more days getting a power supply built for the HW-100 and getting on the air for the first time in 40 years as a ham. that's OK. all the hard work is really done anyway, all I have to do is drill in the circuit boards and interconnect stuff. but it's 20 pounds, and I'm not lifting and turning that thing during my "watch-it!!" period.
-0-
commercial: praise the Lord, for His mercy and love is sustaining while His hand guides the professionals who executes His miracles. don't like it, stop reading this blog. as if anybody does. like it, make sure you examine your relationship with God. all who ask, receive what they need. if you need help doing that, check here for a field office near you ;) http://www.wels.net/
Saturday, March 3, 2012
woo-hoo! a General. listen and obey ;)
well, sort of. I tested back into ham radio this morning, direct to General class. it is possible that I could have a call sign in the FCC database within days.
have some DeBasement things to do today, then I gotta get out and finish building the power supply for that HW-100.
// edit // got my call, KD0REQ
have some DeBasement things to do today, then I gotta get out and finish building the power supply for that HW-100.
// edit // got my call, KD0REQ
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Mr. Chair... I PAID FOR THIS HEATING SYSTEM!!!
my annual salute to officious "moderators" who think they know it all, copied from an old sportcaster on the radio.
which arises because we woke up to no heat today, zero outside, and the thermostat sliding down to 56. poked and fiddled, the reset button did nothing. found we had power with the last dying chirp of the "growler" line detector's batteries. cycled the breaker anyway at the panel.
shutting the maintenance switch off and turning it back shortly after got a click out of the burner controls, so downed it for a minute and then power on. after a decent delay, the furnace kicked in and heated up nicely. about three minutes into it, the flue got hot enough to equal one of the earlier cold-day "ouchies," so all is well for now. particularly since the furnace walls were NOT hot, which is sorta significant ;)
didn't inspect this year on advice of our burner mechanic, so we're probably marginal on something (burner "eye", nozzle, ignitor tips) that hopefully we can catch next fall. found and downloaded the burner manual, and it's all full of danger-fire and hotpuff warnings. apparently nobody is supposed to know anything in the manuals except certified servicemen.
since ISO records indicate this house came by this furnace because of a claim, sounds like a good plan. I suspect either the motor overheated and tripped the safety, or a preset on runtime against clocktime was reached and tripped the safety. windows had been left open a crack in DeBasement because of varnished stair treads.
// edit 4/5/12 // replacing the vaporizing nozzle was the fix. if it wasn't the issue would probably have been the transformer, which apparently now is not a VHV transformer, but something more like a voltage multiplier module, like old CRT TV set "triplers." have not had to call the furnace guy back. it's expertise you pay for when you call.
which arises because we woke up to no heat today, zero outside, and the thermostat sliding down to 56. poked and fiddled, the reset button did nothing. found we had power with the last dying chirp of the "growler" line detector's batteries. cycled the breaker anyway at the panel.
shutting the maintenance switch off and turning it back shortly after got a click out of the burner controls, so downed it for a minute and then power on. after a decent delay, the furnace kicked in and heated up nicely. about three minutes into it, the flue got hot enough to equal one of the earlier cold-day "ouchies," so all is well for now. particularly since the furnace walls were NOT hot, which is sorta significant ;)
didn't inspect this year on advice of our burner mechanic, so we're probably marginal on something (burner "eye", nozzle, ignitor tips) that hopefully we can catch next fall. found and downloaded the burner manual, and it's all full of danger-fire and hotpuff warnings. apparently nobody is supposed to know anything in the manuals except certified servicemen.
since ISO records indicate this house came by this furnace because of a claim, sounds like a good plan. I suspect either the motor overheated and tripped the safety, or a preset on runtime against clocktime was reached and tripped the safety. windows had been left open a crack in DeBasement because of varnished stair treads.
// edit 4/5/12 // replacing the vaporizing nozzle was the fix. if it wasn't the issue would probably have been the transformer, which apparently now is not a VHV transformer, but something more like a voltage multiplier module, like old CRT TV set "triplers." have not had to call the furnace guy back. it's expertise you pay for when you call.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
too tired to get DeBased
we did sand everything down. didn't put any new varnish on in DeBasement, but should tonight. looking ahead, I don't like the idea of pulling every blinkin' wire separately for a 6x1 speaker system, two coaxes, Ethernet, video feed up from the theater amp, and a partridge in a pear tree... so I picked up another 500' spool of wire on my way into work. now it's going to be purple and white behind the walls, in the conduits.
12 gauge stranded. take your Monster (tm) cable and twist it in knots, guys, copper is copper. if I built a micro-ohmmeter again (whipped one up in the 70s because I had plans) each connection would have ten times the resistance as the cable. minimum.
did vacuum up the loose dust left after we swept Monday night.
12 gauge stranded. take your Monster (tm) cable and twist it in knots, guys, copper is copper. if I built a micro-ohmmeter again (whipped one up in the 70s because I had plans) each connection would have ten times the resistance as the cable. minimum.
did vacuum up the loose dust left after we swept Monday night.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
oh, about life in DeBasement
got really DeBased over the weekend. had Monday off, so we built 5 bookcases, 4 x 6 feet. red oak. cut 18 shelves. red oak. installed. stained. varnished. lay about Monday with probable varnish poisoning while the heavy air prevented full curing.
Tuesday, flipped the shelves over and varnished the backs before coming to work.
probably do sanding and 2nd coat on the wall units (bookcases over lowers we built a week ago) tonight.
that's damn DeBased.
Tuesday, flipped the shelves over and varnished the backs before coming to work.
probably do sanding and 2nd coat on the wall units (bookcases over lowers we built a week ago) tonight.
that's damn DeBased.
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this is getting really strange. the age of The Big Cigars is long over in Moneyapolis, but there are still sneaky political fixers who tilt the mirrors and redirect the smoke and change the landscape behind the scenes without long meetings at the Minnesota Club or suppers at Manny's.
apparently the lofty digs and spacious parking lots of the Strib, almost bought 6 years ago until the real estate markets caught their first cold of 2007/2008 are not lofty and spacious enough for a modern stadium.
why not bulldoze the whole dayamn thing down through HCMC and Abbot Northwestern hospitals, and over to the Crystal Courts of the IDS Tower?
these Moneyapolis boys are mad, MAD, I tell you. put the darn stadium in Arden Hills and be done with it. that's where the Howling Wilves want it anyway. and there's getting to be no practical cost difference between the many and shifting Minneapolis sites and Arden.