Hi friends. I've missed all of you [well, mostly ;~) ] and just wanted to say howdy. Or, howDEE .
I am close to buying a replacement computer, and wonder if any of you have a recc. about the new mini 'netbooks' . The $200 and up dealy bobbers. Dell's start climbing up to $600 real quick, w/o a disc drive it appears, and wondered if you have any thoughts.
My goal is to get a ultra minimalist light portable cheap job to surf , almost JUST that, but no cd/dvd player ? hmmm. Then, I want to buy a desktop regular PC in the lower mid range, like CPU and flat monitor no screamer, just enough inards to let me pull up full screen youtubes and CBS old shows etc., and mix my own CD's etc, and have sufficent ram, clock speed, throughput, l2 cache, and any fsBUS mem I am forgetting about that greatly effect performance.
I want to pull up a saved home page of 8 tabs in vista, I like that about vista, but wonder if any of you have had bad experiences with vista and reccomend 'old' XP pro or home instead.
I have deliberately chosen to not discuss my downtime reasons that transcend downed hardware, as in health chronic and new acute issues outside of the context of my recent stay in la 'opital. I DO have some other major issues that arose, needed quite awhile to reflect on them.
I want to be careful
not to imply that detailed explanations of health concerns and trauma/ongoing significant issues are distasteful to post at all. Quite the opposite. Those of you who have threads on ongoing care, such as fezo-steve, are very interesting, and I read them fairly regular when I am on a borrowed PC, as I am right now. I think that threads of that nature are very important, as we all care about one another w/o question.
At present, outside of this "I have not fallen off the earth post" - I just don't wish to write of my health issues; I spect that'll change. A time and place for everything, right ? For now I am quite satisfied to read of other's plights, and find it healthy to periodically do this w/o any me-too'isms. I know those such as fezo are not fragile enough and are not Machiavellian as well, such that another similar thread would not 'steal there thunder'. You guys are not given to that. Admirable, indeed.
Rather, I've been told by many they do not mind at all hearing of my medical, which is very ..significant right now, but this time around I am benefiting from reflection and drawing strength from reading of those of you going through difficult or frightening medical.
Pam and Fezo, and others (Yuri, et al) who are going through/gone through major medical by how they approach theirs - when they do- are most tasteful, and full of healthy-sounding humour. I am trying to re-orient myself such that I no longer pepper medical comments about myself , say in the midst of my lyrics game thread. It seems that route - for me - is in poor taste, distracting from the game thread at a minimum; not at all for others who may do that, because we all care about one another.
I am only more confortable with quietude for now ;~) , but will no doubt open a thread ala Fezo-steve's at some point.
I will mention a real surprise I had 2 weeks ago. In the midst of new chronic and acute diagnoses I've not written of, and for now chose not to, I had a heart attack. Weird - I did not know I had one, but my daughter came over to see me, and said 'Dad, you look like hell...' and called my doctor, as my arm was numb upclose to the elbow down to my fingertips. He said get me to the E/R fast, and there they diagnosed heart attack, and I'm like "what ?". Then, after admitting me, they poked, prodded, drew blood, ekg'd, CT scanned, x-rayed, and every test I believe I have heard of'
They then added to their pronouncement congestive heart failure, and substantive aspiration pneumonia. - That is an ongoing risk what with the nature of seizures I get, where I can have food in my mouth, liquids... zone out, and glug glug inhale organic material right into my lungs. It was a great comfort to me that that type of pneumonia is the second most deadly form of 32 described in a list of types.....NOT. Oh well. They then told me I broke a rib from coughing too hard. So, breathing exercises are just swell..lol.
SO, I was sent home after two weeks, requiring 4 litres flow of liquid oxygen (nifty little arm sling jobs - beat the hell out of the golf cart types I always have rollover accidents with. There are two huge kegs of liq. ox in my bedroom now, and I am ordered to use a walker. Defiant, I bought a platform cane that looks like someone speared a bug with a sharp cane lol.
So, I felt it important to just at least say hello, and give part of the reasons why I've been absentia for so long.
I big hello to all my friends, and best wishes to all of you. If I get a desktop PC, or laptop soon, as I plan, I'll fire up
Lyrics Quizzers !!
I'll PM and what not here and there and catch up with those of you who have expressed interest, and thought leaving everyone for now with something OTHER than a sense of total abandonment was in order. I think of you guys alot, and look forward to being an active member again as circumstances permit.
Take care you guys, keep fighting the good fight, and keep the corfid dream alive, I admire the hard working frequent posters and informative ppl, as well as the misc posts of interest.
Later youse guyz.
geodeticman.5 'geo-steve' says hello.....
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-though I know that it'll be the best and work out for you so you're not having to get needles all the time. Hope it goes well!
