tkdguy Posted August 2, 2023 Report Share Posted August 2, 2023 Vet said my cat's thyroid level is normalizing and she's gained a bit of weight. Good signs. Other cat with diabetes seems to be handling meds when taken every other day at half dose. She's still frail, but at least she's eating, and she likes the special food. rravenwood 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted September 3, 2023 Report Share Posted September 3, 2023 I've been playing Bethesda's new game, Starfield, as part of the Early Access program (It officially launches on September 6). I'm about 7 hours in and I'm having a really good time. One review I saw said that it was "Skyrim in space", and that's mostly correct. I bought my copy, but Game Pass subscribers will be able to play for free on September 6. Most of my time has been spent playing it on my gaming PC, but I did switch over to the Xbox Series X for about an hour (buy once, play on either). Game saves are cloud-based, so it was the same character on both. Space combat is a lot of fun, but there's a bit of a learning curve. Because I'm susceptible to motion sickness, I usually play Skyrim in third-person. I've been playing Starfield in first-person, however, as the video's much smoother and it doesn't seem to trigger my motion sickness. Third-person does trigger my motion sickness, and I think that it's because the character wobbles a bit while you are walking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 15, 2023 Report Share Posted September 15, 2023 (edited) On the way back from having my glasses repaired (screw loose on one of the arms) popped into a discount store and found a detective fiction book just released on sale for half price. As mum has the other three by the same author, I got it for her (having checked the price in the main bookstore where it would have been $8 more expensive). Also broke the scone drought again by getting scones from Marks and Spencer. Also there has been a sighting of one of the old timers, "V". Edited September 15, 2023 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 24, 2023 Report Share Posted September 24, 2023 Got to Reading and gamed. King of Tokyo was particularly brutal with 4 players taken out in one foul swoop. Tried Rivers of London Role Playing Game and we located a genus loci in a book shop and found a way to placate it. Apples to Apples went badly as I did not even get one right. Judge Dredd was as sadistic as ever.. Did not win but enjoyed the brutality. Tried Isle of Cats and that was complicated. Goof but complicated. Dished out pressies to the birthday boy (not me) and the late present that was forgotten in May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 29, 2023 Report Share Posted October 29, 2023 The clocks went back and I had an extra hour in bed. Bliss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 14, 2023 Report Share Posted November 14, 2023 I have been mentioned in a favourable light somewhere else for providing assistance with a little side project. Naturally I am chuffed to boots. Anyone interested will see shortly what I am talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 There are workmen doing roadworks close by. There was a frost this morning and so mother asked them for help in getting the car going which they happily obliged with. Sadly they gad gone before she came back so she could not get them a tea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 Got Christmas present from friends. (Well they paid for it and I ordered it). Castles of the Mad King Ludwig. I have been after this all year. Tried to get it just after Christmas last year and it has only just come back into circulation in shops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 17, 2023 Report Share Posted December 17, 2023 Ordered some things from Amazon and managed to get it all in time for Christmas. Especially the booze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 17, 2023 Report Share Posted December 17, 2023 Life is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 20, 2023 Report Share Posted December 20, 2023 Finally ! Death Tribble has completed the Christmas shopping ! And the posting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 24, 2023 Report Share Posted December 24, 2023 Two bits of good news. A hamper which was supposed to be delivered on December 2nd was delivered this morning at 8:15 am by a different firm. And as this was from people in the States I am very happy. And the parcels I sent to America with chocolate have both reached their destinations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 1 Report Share Posted January 1 I have been involved in the snowball fight on Deviantart. Last year I came third in catching and was in the top 25 throwers. So I wanted to just get involved and get on the catch list and maybe the throw list. It starts on December 1st and ends on the 31st. Each week I get 50 fragments which I can pay for a snowball badge. 3 fragments pays for a snowball. If you get hit by a snowball you get 2 fragments. You throw a snowball by awarding a badge to a piece of art or comment. You can throw more than one snowball at a particular piece of art or comment but for the leaderboard only the first one counts. You still get the fragments. So I have about 2000 odd fragments going in. I was going to budget myself to about 150 snowballs a week so I would have something at the end. I end up using more than that but I am being hit as well. I get onto the catch board and throw board even though there are those with more fragments who easily outclass me. One of these gets removed for unknown reasons, (spamming maybe) but the account is not deleted. This moves me up the board and I get back to being third from fourth. One of the catcher accounts is removed although it is not taken off the leader board so people have to reach 355 to surpass it. I am involved in drawn out battles with several people so that I hit their comments and galleries and they hit comments I leave lying around. One of these is stopped because we did the same last year so we are stopped from giving each other snowball badges. The others I am able to continue with much to our joint benefit. Another guy gets above me on the catch board and is constantly harping on about wanting to be first. But he is not throwing a lot and this is annoying not just me but others who can throw. So when he gets within 80 odd of the leader I throw 10 at the leader to keep him ahead. And I ask others to keep the current leader ahead because we are not going to catch him. It settles down to three of us ahead of the rest by a couple of hundred and we get above 1000 apiece. Meantime I start highlighting where people are and asking people to hit particular people in order to get them above thresholds like 250, 300, 500 etc. We get updates from the site saying who the top 25 throwers and catchers are. The last update is Friday and we are 13,000 short of 300,000. And some people can get to thresholds so I cajole the majority to throw and target certain people while I throw what is supposed to be my last as I run out of enough fragments to do anything. The leader is now nearly 300 ahead of second place. I have reached 1100 and am 37 short of second place. At this stage I think the guy in second place gave up as i saw little activity from them. I still think it is unlikely that I can catch them and concentrate on getting another guy who fell off the catch leaderboard back on. Several others have stalled completely on the catch side and I fall out of the top 10 throwers as I cannot sustain the volume of fire due to lack of resources. I ask several people to concentrate fire on particular targets as I can no longer benefit but they can have an effect. While we do have an effect late entries on the catch side skew the catch leaderboard. Bearing in mind they have to get past 300 and the last entry on the final catch board is 454. Sadly this means two people I have been helping drop off. One of these is the top thrower who ends up with 9,000 snowballs thrown but had around 400 caught. His gallery is a tad odd in that it has fat creatures. So people might throw multiple snowballs at one picture but little else. I helped get him on the catch board by doing one snowball a comment or artwork. I ask some people if I can feature their work as it will draw people to look at their work. I get one refusal but quite a few others say yes and it lets me draw attention to them as well as getting me an odd snowball as well. I also end up with several diamond badges which gets me 100 fragments a piece. This with several Hype badges and about 20 quartz badges all help me. I do manage to ring lead snowballs onto one guy who ends up with 600 putting him in the middle although we lose several others on the catch board who just drop off at the death. Me ? I end up with 1196 caught. 2200 thrown. This makes me 11th in the throwers but I come second on the catchers. I overtook the other guy by ten. The winner was nearly 400 ahead of us. He works out in the Far East, Vietnam way. But I conspired with him to keep ahead of the other guy. I end up by writing a long thank you to all of those who helped me. I name them all which was more involved than I thought. It has not been that good a year so this was a nice surprise to end it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 And in the bizarre realm of ups-and-downs that my life has become, today's long-hoped-for cry-for-joy moment: my daughter shipped out on her full-time first job today. Pariah, L. Marcus, Ternaugh and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 I was cleaning a bit, and I found my stash of Gamecube games, so I decided to buy an HDMI adapter for my old Gamecube, and it arrived today. This is the one I bought: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TR1LM9H I've tried a couple of games so far, and the results are more positive than I expected. It's obviously not as clear a picture as a modern console, but it's good enough. I'm looking forward to playing Metroid Prime 2, which I was surprised to find was still factory sealed. The clock battery probably needs replacing, as the system time was very close to midnight on March 4, 2019. That's only really an issue for games like Animal Crossing, though. And while I have that game, I'm afraid of launching it and seeing all of the weeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 Hooray! I've just been excused from jury duty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 Hi-five! tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 I've only been summed for jury duty once, and they seated no juries that day so I got off free. I may be on the "scientist" blacklist (no one wants intelligent, rational jurors who are smarter than the lawyers). Tom Cowan and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 29 minutes ago, Cancer said: I've only been summed for jury duty once, and they seated no juries that day so I got off free. I may be on the "scientist" blacklist (no one wants intelligent, rational jurors who are smarter than the lawyers). I've served on two juries, a criminal trial, and a civil trial. The criminal trial resulted in a not guilty verdict. I was surprised to be selected for the civil trial. It was a minor fender-bender, but the plaintiff was claiming severe back injuries. I figured that the plaintiff's attorneys would reject me, but that didn't happen. When they asked if I would have any issues with a large judgement, I briefly included the words "tort reform" in my answer, which got a smile from the defendant's attorney, but only a slight look of confusion on the plaintiff's attorney's face. Talking after the trial to the defense attorney, he assumed that jury foreman was either going to be me or the high school science teacher. In deliberations, I had turned it down, and the science teacher became foreman. The case involved a medical component,and I was also surprised that they left a retired nurse on the jury. Plaintiff was asking $12.5 million, we deliberated over initial medical costs (a little less than $8000), or nothing. We went with nothing. The plaintiff's attorneys were far from the smartest in the room. I found out that they were the seventh legal team on the case, and that they turned down a half a million from the defendant's insurance. The original medical bills had already been paid,and if we had chosen that, the plaintiff's lawyers would have been able to get their legal fees paid by the defense. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 Another strike against me, I suppose, was that I was married to a former attorney so I had more than average insight into how the process was supposed to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted February 9 Report Share Posted February 9 Just finished my quarterly doctor visit, my muscle mass is up 2lbs, and my fat mass is down 9 lbs. I was also told to eat more salt. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 On 2/9/2024 at 2:00 PM, Ternaugh said: Just finished my quarterly doctor visit, my muscle mass is up 2lbs, and my fat mass is down 9 lbs. I was also told to eat more salt. I have never heard of a doctor saying "Eat more salt." Did they say why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 1 hour ago, Grailknight said: I have never heard of a doctor saying "Eat more salt." Did they say why? One of my tests came back with me just slightly under the accepted guidelines for sodium. A normal blood sodium level is between 135 and 145 milliequivalents/liter (mEq/L) (taken from here: https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/hyponatremia). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 12 Report Share Posted February 12 Two things. Candy Crush is working again after several weeks when it just would not load and kicked out. Was watching a film called Out of Bounds. Kid goes into a club where a band is playing. Siouxsie and the Banshees. The actual band. Playing Cities in Dust. I was gobsmacked and delighted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 Heaven help you all. I. Have. A. Minnesota. Vikings. Flag ! (I don't have a flagpole but that is beside the point.) (Late Christmas Present) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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