From A Wide Spot In The Road

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I have spent sometime today reading my camera manual. It's tough to read with an old, tired eye. While taking pictures the other night I encountered a problem I had not seen before. When focusing on the moon, the subject was oscillating between the dark spots on the moon
and a blank moon. I don't know what this means or how to fix it. Tonight I was looking at some shots on playback taken this afternoon in my office. I noticed the same oscillation on a picture that included a mini- blind, he blind was flashing back and forth between black and white. I feel certain there is a setting to fix this but I haven't found it yet. It is confusing when foc using at night. I don't notice it in daylight while taking a picture; only on play back, single photo shooting. In time I know I will solve this. I know this Canon Powershot is capable because someone on the forum has a couple of them and has said they are good camera. My camera is a SX530 with a 4.3 - 6.5 mm lens. I'm workling to understand this rascal. In away here I'm sort of talking to myself.
 
Next on my agenda is to clean and straighten up my desk. I've got bills to pay, a dedication to write in a book I am giving my grandson
on his twenty-first birthday next week. However, this desk is where I live most of the time. My wife is in the living room with the television, that's where she lives most of the time. I like to keep everything at arm's reach here in the office but that's hard to do when you spend so much time here. Everything seems to find itself stacked up in little piles. Yet, I feel an obligation occasionally to straighten things up.
 
drifter said:
Next on my agenda is to clean and straighten up my desk. I've got bills to pay, a dedication to write in a book I am giving my grandson
on his twenty-first birthday next week. However, this desk is where I live most of the time. My wife is in the living room with the television, that's where she lives most of the time. I like to keep everything at arm's reach here in the office but that's hard to do when you spend so much time here. Yet, I feel an obligation occasionally to straighten things up.
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Maybe you need longer arms!:unsure:
 
Alright I have a green plant on the corner of my desk. It doesn't look too healthy; it looks like it is struggling to live. Maybe too much water or not enough sunlight, I don't know. But it is the only plant in the house that doesn't seem to have a permanent home spot.
I'm going to give it a lot of light through my window and not water it too often. It gives out a little oxygen and I've got a whole lot of carbon dioxite in my lungs. Maybe we can help each other. I'll be talking to it a long, telling it how I appreciate its help with my breathing and I hope it gets a little assist from me.
 
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One of Life's little misfires.

My oxygen machine quit working the other day. After a couple of telephone calls a tech brought a replacement. He called first
and asked that we set my machine out on the patio. We did, he left the replacement and carried my machine away to be looked at and or repaired.

Today the replacement machine quit on me and a red light would come on. I'd restart it and it would run a while and quit again.
After several quits with the red light on and instructions on the machine saying if the red light comes on, call in. I called in. after a
conversation and answering a number of questions, a tech came on the line and after testing the nmaching under his instruction, he said to replace my tubing and the machine would work okay, and it did for almost two hours. Now it has quit three times since, once quitting and restarting on it's own. So I've called in again. The supplier said someone would be in touch. I'm hoping so. I've got a backup tank but that's for power outages. I hate to trust this machine all night. We'll see.
 
True to their word, they brought a replacement machine at 6:40 this evening. They wouldn’t come inside the house. i sat my defective machine outside the door. He moved it to his truck and left the
replacement which I brought in and hooked up. By his truck he cleaned the old machine thoroughly before loading it in his van, then filllled out paperwork for five minutes. He wore a mask
and gloves; I wore a mask. I hated to ruin someone’s Easter but glad to have a working oxygen
machine.
 
Hey there drifter...just started on your diary but, wanted you to know that I'm in KS so we be tornado neighbors. Do you have a basement? I at least have a basement. I don't like living without a hidey hole.
 
drifter said:
A day in my life makes me wonder what I am doing on a forum. Every day is the same. I am not house bound but there is little I can do outside the house. I do still drive a little in town but nobody wants to ride with me. My wife will ride to the grocers with me once every two weeks or so but I think
She feels she is risking life and/or limb when she does. I understand and try to drove in a way she does not feel threatened.

When we ge to the grocers, I am out of breath from the walk from the car to inside where the electric carts are parked. After a couple of moments I am breathing better and can unplug the cart and stuff the cord into its storage hole.mshe gets a cart and I follow. We aways have
a list. I get some of the groceries and she gets part of them. I try to get th needed items furtherest
away so she dorsn't have to walk so far. We get help taking the groceries to the car. The hardest part of grocery shopping is getting them from the trunk of the car to the kitchen. We have a cart my wife uses sometime when we have lots of groceries. But unloading them exhausts us. I am always out of breath and my blood oxygen drops to the low seventies.. It is about the hardest thing I do. My wife then puts the groceries away after a rest. We are both stressed.

The remaining part of the day, she watches TV. I spend time on the computer or reading. Sometime I watch birds in the back yard for a while but that is usually in the early morning after daylight. She cooks, I do the dishes and clean up the kitchen. She does the sweeping and mopping. We have hardwood floors.. We have street trash pickup and she carries out the trash most often because my doctors have told me not to do so. We help each other but my wife gives a lot more help than she gets.

Where am I going with this? There's little doubt I'm getting too old to be out in this big wide world with out adult supervision. I might say anything. I might embarrass myself. My drivers license expires next month, I think. What if they don't renew my license? That's why I bought the bicycle. Should have known I couldn't ride it. I was hoping I could. But that was irrational. My thinking at the time was,' I can always donate the bike to GoodwillI or the Salvation Army.' I should have bought a three wheel bike or tryke. My question is or was, did I have enough breath and energy to peddle the thing. I could sit on it but could but could I make it go. I think some in the family probably questioned my sanity. I do wish this section of this forum had a delete button. Any good "Diary" has a lock button so it can be hidden from public view. ince I can't hide it or delete it, what can I say about my irrational public broadcast, about spilling the beans all over the floor with no rug to sweep them under, or no broom to sweep them up?

To be continued.
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My dad's on oxygen too. The trips to the store wear him out. He sleeps a lot.
 
MarciKS said:
My dad's on oxygen too. The trips to the store wear him out. He sleeps a lot.
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Sorry about your dad. I occasionally nap in the afternoons but I try not to, too often. I usually do good unless I get an infection which is easy to do with a lung disease. I don't like to sleep too much.
 
drifter said:
Sorry about your dad. I occasionally nap in the afternoons but I try not to, too often. I usually do good unless I get an infection which is easy to do with a lung disease. I don't like to sleep too much.
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I have asthma & COPD and dad has emphysema and COPD. I just get worn out easy. Makes it tough to work FT and exercise regularly. Drains me.
 
MarciKS said:
I have asthma & COPD and dad has emphysema and COPD. I just get worn out easy. Makes it tough to work FT and exercise regularly. Drains me.
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I understand that. It dries up those little sacks that hold oxygen and renders them useless, making everything we do difficult. No energy. But you've got to hang in, do the best you can with what you've got.
 
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