David777
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Sunny, breezy, a cool 63F outside my window with a large noisy weeping willow. Previous noon Monday 5/5/25 post:
How is your day Today? Chat about your plans and achievements 2025....
So now at post surgery day 6, again prone partially sitting up, typing on the small Windows 11 laptop atop a 12x24 inch piece of white fiberboard conveniently straddling between 2 pillows on my thighs and my stomach. Felt sort of GI tract yukky the last day after stopping the 2 pain meds and taking dicusate sodium, a prescribed laxative. Ate a bit of bite-sized shredded wheat with milk and sugar at 7am that has so far had a positive effect. Since the incision is atop my GI tract, due to nerve proximity, it disrupts normal GI tract functions.
Continue to gradually slowly heal with the worst obviously past. Still need to be careful as any sign of a rising infection could be dangerous. Doctors used Steri-Strips with dissolvable sutures on the still large bandaged unviewable ~5 inch long incision surface skin that seem to be gradually healing as I've read about. Definitely less stitch pain. I have a Friday morning video appointment with my KP surgeon and expect to remove the bandage then so he can evaluate it.
Will watch a bunch of YouTube science videos today. Might go outside later and see how walking a few urban blocks feels. Also given my broken old Dell laptop, have been looking online at new high end desktops/workstations with at least DisplayPort 1.4a dual outputs that would allow connection to future soon to be available 8k pc displays. Most of the graphic card interfaces are either NVIDEA or AMD based. And all target video game enthusiasts needing high refresh rates that I am not. So the advertising on models tends to be annoying with features I have no interest in. Others target high bandwidth video editing users again requiring large power supplies with heat that I am not going to need. Even 30 fps refresh rates are fine for stills.
The PC will most likely be HP or Dell with several bay slots. HP PC design teams are here in Palo Alto and I last worked across the street from AMD for the graphic cards. In 1988 this peon worked for a UNIX computer maker where I trained a dozen or so South Korean engineers with maintaining a system they bought from us for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. That was key to the start of their electronics industry. As a thank you gift, they gave me a nice Olympics ring I could just walk into the San Jose Samsung corporate building, show, and get some preferred treatment maybe to use their 8k displays.
How is your day Today? Chat about your plans and achievements 2025....
So now at post surgery day 6, again prone partially sitting up, typing on the small Windows 11 laptop atop a 12x24 inch piece of white fiberboard conveniently straddling between 2 pillows on my thighs and my stomach. Felt sort of GI tract yukky the last day after stopping the 2 pain meds and taking dicusate sodium, a prescribed laxative. Ate a bit of bite-sized shredded wheat with milk and sugar at 7am that has so far had a positive effect. Since the incision is atop my GI tract, due to nerve proximity, it disrupts normal GI tract functions.
Continue to gradually slowly heal with the worst obviously past. Still need to be careful as any sign of a rising infection could be dangerous. Doctors used Steri-Strips with dissolvable sutures on the still large bandaged unviewable ~5 inch long incision surface skin that seem to be gradually healing as I've read about. Definitely less stitch pain. I have a Friday morning video appointment with my KP surgeon and expect to remove the bandage then so he can evaluate it.
Will watch a bunch of YouTube science videos today. Might go outside later and see how walking a few urban blocks feels. Also given my broken old Dell laptop, have been looking online at new high end desktops/workstations with at least DisplayPort 1.4a dual outputs that would allow connection to future soon to be available 8k pc displays. Most of the graphic card interfaces are either NVIDEA or AMD based. And all target video game enthusiasts needing high refresh rates that I am not. So the advertising on models tends to be annoying with features I have no interest in. Others target high bandwidth video editing users again requiring large power supplies with heat that I am not going to need. Even 30 fps refresh rates are fine for stills.
The PC will most likely be HP or Dell with several bay slots. HP PC design teams are here in Palo Alto and I last worked across the street from AMD for the graphic cards. In 1988 this peon worked for a UNIX computer maker where I trained a dozen or so South Korean engineers with maintaining a system they bought from us for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. That was key to the start of their electronics industry. As a thank you gift, they gave me a nice Olympics ring I could just walk into the San Jose Samsung corporate building, show, and get some preferred treatment maybe to use their 8k displays.
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so I can be ready for a project he's working on. I also added tracks and recorded (on my phone) a draft arrangement for one of my new collaborator/co-host/neighbor's tracks. Later, I went to his studio and we chose instrument sounds we could potentially use to complete the song. These digital music programs have an astonishing number of instrument options! We also designed the flyer for his next broadcast. It was an interesting and surprisingly easy process.
