Coping: When in Doubt – Work It Out

Been quite a week, this.  The untimely passing of a close neighbor, the heart surgery on my brother-in-law (in the same CICU in Tyler, Texas, BTW – which added to the stress) and lots of other issues.  But sometimes, the best answer to stressful times is just plain hard work.  Must be something passed on from father to son; my son has the same ‘shoulder down and git ‘e done’ gene that was passed onto me as our coping mechanism for difficulty. 

Not everyone has it, and while I’ve been told it’s sometimes like being able to ‘turn off all feeling’ it’s not.  Work just happens to be a most excellent therapy.

Panama Bates will be back home this afternoon and come to find out (as Elaine understood  from his doctors) that the most dangerous part of having a heart stent put in is not the ticker breaking, but of having problems with the femoral artery which is the maintenance maintenance access hatch for getting tools up to the heart in vein (in a manner of speaking). 

I would have thought the heart itself would be, but shows, I suppose, why I don’t get many calls to assist in arthroscopic cardiac operations.

Not that it’s a surprise.  My bedside manner is patterned after government economic reports.  It seems credible when I’m speaking my piece, but upon reflection it sounds like blathering from a cranially impacted proctologist. 

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Pappy handed down a very special bait cutting Case knife that we used for making ‘plug-cut’ herring for trolling for salmon on Seattle’s Elliott bay back in the 1950′s.  I mentioned to Elaine that Pappy’s ‘bait knife’ might be useful at the hospital since it was Bates undergoing an operation.  About all I got from her in reply was a look of horror and then shaking her head…

I suppose that’s why Trinity Mother Francis has one of the top-10 cardiac units in the nation.  They don’t exactly get people up off the operating table and march them home the same day on stents, but 30-hours from knife to street is pretty impressive.

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Don’t know if you’ve had any medical run-ins lately, but I’ve been totally impressed with how this whole field of surgical adhesives has come along.  The first doc ever mentioned it was a dermatologist who told me (responding to some 1/8th inch cracks on my fingers from extreme chapping) to just get a tube of SuperGlue and glue the cracks back together.

Sounds terrible, stung like a mother something, but after 5-minutes of stings-like-hell, it worked great. 

Mr. Funny has promised to ask Bates if the docs used surgical adhesives on him and if they did, was there any of the purple primer on the artery like we do on PVC pipe around here?  That oughta get him to pushing the pain pump button….

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My Work Therapy began yesterday with an admission to myself (and now you) that the podcast test will have to wait until next week.  This week is full.

All day Wednesday was spent in the bowels of the Peoplenomics server installing a better logon system which should be ready for transition in a few days.  If you’re a subscriber you’ll soon be able to retrieve your own lost password, get instant access (within a few minutes of signing up) rather than the Prince of Macros to run a script.

All without offshoring anything to India, I might add.

Nice thing about CGI & PHP scripting (along with MY-SQL) is that the art is to the point where while an IT director would be nice, some personal diligence can set up most anything including SQL database backups and more.

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The next big project in Work Therapy will be migrating from UrbanSurvival’s current local computer, a decent Gateway dual core/32-bit/160 GB laptop to a new 1TB, 12GB, 1333 MHz frontside screamer with the i7 core, n-wireless, W-7/64 and multiple monitors. Provided I can do the transfers involved via USB and transfer software, the new monster system which will surround me with three 24″ LCD monitors  with a 17″ LCD TV above should resolve the occasional typo around here by making things large enough to read.

Coupled with new glasses in a couple of weeks and getting some folks out in a week or two to help with a couple of the extra-large projects around here, Work Therapy is proving it’s value again as the best tonic there is.

Works especially well on computery kinds of things.  I wouldn’t suggest you try it with table saws or other dangerous power tools.  But the hyper work mode has one other happy consequence:  When Elaine got back from dodging tornados coming back to the ranch from Tyler, the house was spotless, dishwasher run, shower chrome polished and more.

I wonder if that’s why fire engines are polished up right away after a bad fire?  Put that in the ponder pile…more substantial work to do first.

Runs In the Family

If you haven’t seen it, go read the article about John & Kay Ure.  They operate what’s probably the most remote tea room in the UK and the article headline sums it up:  “Wife who went to buy Christmas turkey and got stuck in the snow returns home… a month later” in the Mail Online.

A little more family insight?  The Telegraph’s coverage enlightens “John and Kay Ure’s home in a former lighthouse keeper’s cottage at Cape Wrath on the most north-westerly tip of the UK mainland sits on the edge of 900ft-high cliffs and has been cut off by the winter weather for almost a month.”

There are times I wonder about being a Ure, living on a sailboat for 10-years, and now living “out at the end of the string” in the East Texas outback.  The UK stories are quite comforting; maybe there’s a “Ure gene” that drives descendants of the Scottish McEwar clan to remote outposts and being well-stocked with survival rations.  Is this hard coded in the genetic T-6 haplotype?

Worries at the WuJo

Need to point out a very interesting article in Astronomy about a ‘cloud of material’ that has been blocking out a normally easy view of Epsilon Aurigae.

Maybe it’s not a Planet X per se, but let me ask you this:  If it’s a big cloud of ‘stuff’ that can block out viewing of a major star, might it have distributed mass that’s extremely large?  I don’t recall any studies on how thick a cloud of material would have to be in order to have the same effect as amass of a solid body.  Say, you don’t think……???

The Gap

Since I got up early this morning, I thought it would be interesting to draw a quick sketch of how ‘the gap’ in the linguistic structures around 2012 has changed over the past several years.  While not perfect, hopefully this visual will help:

A number of interesting ideas about ‘the gap’ when (blue) linguistic structures fall to a small fraction of current levels (4-5%?) and then come back to 18% of their values out in 2015 or much later. That’s structures, not bit-counts.  Some of the contenders:

“Have you heard that internet activity is down in places. In china there is a region with ‘bad citizens’( a revolution). So China just turned off their internet. Biggest effect is business can’t be done.”

This is a really interesting possibility:  Could we be seeing information warfare breaking out and this is just what it looks like in advance?  Think about it:  What if there was some kind of revolt globally or in the U.S. against ‘authority’.  Could this be what accounts for a sharp decline in ‘net use?  Why sure…but the problem with that theory is it would arise mainly in model space’s GlobalPop entity.  It doesn’t.  It arises from the Terra Entity (meta set).  Which gets us to this idea:

“I find your discussion of the ‘October 2011 – December 21, 2012′ event stream very interesting! Unbeknown to most, the Mayan calendar actually ends on October 28, 2011, NOT on 12/21/2012! You *must* read this article: The risks of believing that the Mayan calendar ends December 21, 2012! I am certain it will assist you in placing “October 2011″ linguistic data into context.

–”…the October 28, 2011 date is based on massive scientific evidence that the Nine Underworlds and Thirteen Heavens known from ancient Mayan sources indeed describe cosmic evolution in all of its aspects.”

—”…In the years ahead we are in for a confusing mixture of seemingly conflicting developments. A critical aspect of preparation for this is the knowledge that the evidence-based Mayan calendar ends October 28, 2011, which at least gives people a benchmark for the rhythms with which things will evolve even though it will take a certain time for things to settle also after this.”

Yeah, we’re not unaware of Calleman’s work.  While we don’t endorse that view, it’s certainly a uncomfortably good fit with the data.

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Think about this: If one were to be really Machiavellian and wanted to come up with a way to make sure the majority of earth’s population would keep working for you as a member of the PTB right up through ‘the event’ – if there is one – what better way than put the nominal threat date out 13-months after the real threat date?

But the PTB and their not-so-secret orders wouldn’t do such a thing to trim down world population so they could ‘own the backside’ of coming events…would they?

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