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6 years ago
Happy New Year!
Welcome to the 2020's. Hopefully they won't end the way the 1920's did.
Yes, it's the '20's now. And thus the new 0-based numeric 'decade' though the calendar/astronomy geeks (sticklers about timekeeping issues, generally) will tell you the new decade is another year away (11-20, 21-30 rather than 10-19, 20-29. Matter of counting from 1 rather than 0). Best article I saw about that whole thing was in some astronomy magazine in 1999: "Know the real decade/century boundaries, but go to this year's New Year's Eve party." I did NOT go to any NYE parties. I was rather busy with another matter...
The last days of 2019 were spent dealing with a heart condition. A bit of it (my heart) was sort of misfiring and complicating life. So I wound up getting some cables snaked through me and the bit got zapped a few times in an attempt to burn out the troublespot. I was at least semi-conscious (purposely) for some of that and while I've had worse pains, this was decidedly less than minor. Ever have your heart kicked in the balls? Something like that. Hearing the amount of power they were using (it gets less all the time, but if you know how hot a low power soldering iron can get... well, it's still about double that.) probably didn't help. But I am back home and the procedure seems to have worked or mostly worked. It's never a sure thing. Recovery could be full, partial, or even revert in the very worst case. So far, things look good.
And then I come back to FA and go "WTH?" I'm giving the new design/layout a few days. I do like a few things about it, and dislike a few, and overall it might be a wash. I suppose in a week I'll either be used to it or have decided to revert despite the dropping of updates to the old version.
Welcome to the 2020's. Hopefully they won't end the way the 1920's did.
Yes, it's the '20's now. And thus the new 0-based numeric 'decade' though the calendar/astronomy geeks (sticklers about timekeeping issues, generally) will tell you the new decade is another year away (11-20, 21-30 rather than 10-19, 20-29. Matter of counting from 1 rather than 0). Best article I saw about that whole thing was in some astronomy magazine in 1999: "Know the real decade/century boundaries, but go to this year's New Year's Eve party." I did NOT go to any NYE parties. I was rather busy with another matter...
The last days of 2019 were spent dealing with a heart condition. A bit of it (my heart) was sort of misfiring and complicating life. So I wound up getting some cables snaked through me and the bit got zapped a few times in an attempt to burn out the troublespot. I was at least semi-conscious (purposely) for some of that and while I've had worse pains, this was decidedly less than minor. Ever have your heart kicked in the balls? Something like that. Hearing the amount of power they were using (it gets less all the time, but if you know how hot a low power soldering iron can get... well, it's still about double that.) probably didn't help. But I am back home and the procedure seems to have worked or mostly worked. It's never a sure thing. Recovery could be full, partial, or even revert in the very worst case. So far, things look good.
And then I come back to FA and go "WTH?" I'm giving the new design/layout a few days. I do like a few things about it, and dislike a few, and overall it might be a wash. I suppose in a week I'll either be used to it or have decided to revert despite the dropping of updates to the old version.
i also got similar procedure done in my sinus (through nose), it was not pleasant (read: FUCKING PAINFUL), i can't imagine how much worse to get that same burn in the heart.
STRONG BULL IS STRONG
And in the sinus? Yow! I suspect you might have actually had it worse.