I am worn out and going to bed.

First I want to acknowledge that I still 11 tabs of comments I did not get to yet today. They are saved for tomorrow. I know Ali and Randy understand my situation so I want to clue the rest in before I go to bed, and yes I am very tired.

I went to bed about 5 PM last night after eating some beef stroganoff that Ron insisted I eat before going to bed. But I couldn’t sleep. So I tossed and turned until Ron came to bed hours later.

Then because we are a couple that love each other and like sleeping together we snuggled, me spooning him first and while he slept I did not. Then he woke and he wanted us to roll over so we did, now he was pressed tight to me … and again he fell asleep. Then about 11:45 he woke up and wanted to stop cuddling which I agreed with. He fell asleep.

Well I fretted but did manage to fall asleep about 11:45 pm or later … only to be woken by our rescue inside outside old cat that need lots of feedings started yellowing at the top of his small lungs. At 12:50 am. I got up. Ron who wakes up if I snort or cry out or hell even turn over wrong, sleeps through his cat’s cries. I feed him, the cat, not Ron. Then I returned to bed. I watched the clock. I was not going to get up, I was not going to get up, I was not going to get up … fuck it I got up. At 1:30 am. No sleep, grumpy.

About 5 am had some sloppy Joe mix Ron made the night before. It is not setting well with me. We have been having trouble finding one that tastes good but doesn’t make me thorw up.

Well I am online answering comments and doing my blogging stuff until Ron gets up at 6:30 am. I ask him if he wants to walk, he says no he wants me to go lay down, I am now two days without sleep. I go lay down at 7 am. I stay there until 7″30 am and can’t sleep, so get up and go to talk to Ron. He says I need to try longer. I do, At 9 am I get up and am determined to start my blogging day.

I am blogging and helping Ron. I do the dishes as Ron has been clearing the Florida Room junked up with stuff after Hurricane Ian we had nowhere else to put. An argument I made for a new shed that no one would listen to me on. We had a huge dresser packed with dishware, and we brought it in to be cleaned. We had a large stand up cabinet we emptied or more dishware and stuff we need so also brought that into the main house to clean.

So all day while I did laundry and helped Ron wash and dry dishes I did some blogging. It was all going great … Until this evening when Ron asked me several uncomfortable questions … Damn it!

Did you eat today he asked? Yes I joyfully told him I had the sloppy Joe mix you made last night, ate two buns so 4 sides. … he looked at me. Did it stay down. Well I stuttered … so far but it is trying hard to come back up. That was when he declared such mix off the menu until I can stomach better despite my counterarguments.

The rest of the afternoon went well, we worked on laundry and even the Florida room and moved / washed the stuff together for their new place in the house.

Then things took an ugly turn. At around 4:45 pm Ron decided I need to eat. I informed him (sounds better than saying I told him) I was not hungry. He got angry. Scottie he tried to sound authoritarian … you have to eat, you are losing too much weight and this is not good for you. I countered with I am not hungry and if I force my self I will be sick … But I relented and said OK how about a small salad. I love salads and in a small bowl even when I am really nauseated I can eat them.

But he had a better idea I liked right away. On the advice of our wonderful brother Randy Ron bought some yogurts for this situation. He gave me one and I did not complain … I knew better. I ate it. Not a flavor I like. I struggled it down anyway or else he was going to make something and watch me while I ate it.

Now it is nearly 6 pm here. I have not gotten to all the comments and pages I have opened … but I keep falling asleep at my desk. Not something I want to have Ron discover me doing. If he finds me asleep he will throw a huge fit that will take a lot more to solve than just going to bed. Plus my eyes keep blurring out and I clear them to realize I typed nonsense or worse. Night all. Hugs and loves. Scottie

Computer was a brick at midnight

Hi Everyone. I woke up at midnight and my blogging computer wouldn’t start. Totally dead. So I went back to bed. Got up at four and took it apart. Couldn’t find a problem, so I figure it is a power supply problem, as to get it started I had to hold the power reset button and the start button at the same time. Now the trick will be to watch it and not let it shut down. The good news is I did not lose anything. I have the Vivaldi set to remember the open windows and tabs for the last three days and they can be switched between computers through sync mode. I can replace the power supply if I have to, the only problem is the case is tight for the wiring, far too many wires in a small space crossing everywhere and each other. But I have replaced them before. Hugs

Kamyk

I am talking to his sister right now. Kamyk was sent to the ER as I told everyone and then admitted. Here is the rest of the story. Hugs

He has a perforated stomach and a huge abcess in his abdomen

He is severely malnutrition from not eating

He was in septic shock from the abcess Wednesday when he went to ER

With a GI BLEED

I asked her some questions on his care and the cards and stuff everyone sent him.

He went to a different hospital this time and they are much more attending I called there today and left a message for the social worker. In my message i asked her not to return to sender and I would

Pick any mail her got up

Well his wbc is going down and his rbc is going up… that’s progress

Kamyk’s sister Julie has the entire family depending on her right now. Kamyk, their other sister who is also in a care facility with a leg broken in two places due to a hospital error, her very elderly parents in their mid 80s with issues, plus she has her own family with a young son to think of. Well I am off to bed, Ron has already headed down to the bedroom and I wish to join him. Hugs

An update on my friend Kamyk

Hi everyone. I am grateful to everyone that sent cards to my friend and also to the support people gave to me. He had ups and downs. This was what I got from his sister on Thursday morning. Hugs

Hi Scottie he is not good

He hasn’t been able to track anyone because his phone is out of time and data.

He was admitted to ICU after 2 ct scans and the placement of 2 drain tubes. I’m scared

My week last week

My week last week talking about how starting on Monday I needed to wipe the hard discs and reinstall the OS and all programs on both computers, the week long problems, and also the end of the week getting sick.

Not a happy camper

Yesterday morning after not sleeping all night I wiped the hard drives and reinstall Windows from an old version of Windows 10 I have. One computer, the XPS which I just added 64 GB of ram to, seemed to be going wonderful, with no hiccups or problems. Sadly the Inspiron computer just wouldn’t install windows or other programs correctly. So last night I went to bed about 9 pm. The XPS seemed ready for finial steps. That was last night when I shut them all down.

However this morning when I went to start the computers, the XPS refused to start windows. The computer started and the bios would work but windows wouldn’t start. It seems something was preventing the boot manger from working. Even trying to reinstall windows wouldn’t let the boot manager start. In fact when I install a new version of windows and I delete the partition set up by the last installation. However it was not deleting them and as soon as I tried to reinstall the partitions would reappear. Well I was not out of tricks yet. I pulled out another older version of Windows 10 and partitioned the C drive. I could have done it with the same USB Windows install stick I had been using but I worried if there was a problem with that USB stick software. Then installed the even older version of Windows. Then I took the newer version and repeated that. Then spent an hour setting up settings. However after spending the morning doing updates and even installing some licensed programs which I do at the last as some of them have a limit to how many times they can be installed. The full stop hard wall happened that screwed everything I had done on both computers.

Well shit and damn. I have a keyboard and mouse that works on three different devices so I have my keyboard set to each computer and my phone. My mouse I set the third device to what ever third device I am working on. But during all this I couldn’t get the flow system from the company to work. That moves the mouse from monitor / computer by going to the edge of the monitor so that I had to manually change the computer via a button on the bottom of the mouse. That meant I had to pick up the mouse and use the button every time I switched computers. That is not something I can keep doing. I race between computers hundreds of times an hour. So I sat here and thought. Each computer I dumped and reloaded and did the updates for hours over the last several days. I figured out a workaround. Since I had already done clean installs, I went into settings, to recovery and set both computers to “recover Windows from the cloud”, that would reset settings that were preventing my programs from working.

Yes, yes, yes! Well it worked. It is 3 pm and I am sitting here typing on the blogging computer and watching Sam Seder on the other. Once the recovery was done I installed the Logitech program for the mouse / keyboard which worked fine. Then I installed the Norton antivirus malware, then installed my VPN, Nordvpn with its anti-malware, advance browser protection, and ad and tracker prevention. So far everything is working grand.

I am on day three with 6 hours sleep. I stopped eating yesterday morning. Yes I am tired, yes I got sick to my stomach this morning. Yes my blood sugar got too low and I had to take glucose tablets. But when I am focused on a problem food and sleep wait until I get it all fixed. So all I have to do today is install all my licensed programs and clean the computers up.

One last thing. Several days ago an elderly lady I gave a printer to because she is poor and did not have one. It is a nice brother printer that in its day was expensive but I had bought a new one and it was in my hoarder closet of electrical parts / equipment gathering dust. The printer’s computer was in error mode with an unable to clean error. Sadly that is part of the built-in obsolescence of our for-profit businesses. The error is caused due to the sponge that the print head uses to clean itself after use so ink doesn’t run all over the desk and the floor. Since they don’t bother to put a sensor in the sponge it is much easier (cheaper) for manufactures to simply put in a number of pages that will shut the machine down. Once you get to that number the “brain” in the printer assumes the sponge is full. If you know the magical steps and the correct numbers to input, you can clear the number of pages back to zero and your printer works again. And tech people can charge you big money for doing this. Sadly I did not like that game years ago and even as poor as Ron and I are, I only took donations for my skills as a technician.

So either to your joy or bad disappointment after 3 days and 6 hours of sleep and only two meals even as Ron threatened to force feed me, I am back online with my computers fully running. Oh during the time I worked on the two main computers I had the big 55 inch TV in my office on the wonderful swing arm Ron mounted running off my Xbox One and a small barely able to function laptop that I used to write most of this. Hugs and loves to all. Scottie

Thank you to everyone who commented on my videos

A big thank you to everyone who commented on my YouTube videos. Unfortunately I just figured out how to see them so I answered them all from months back. Please keep making them and letting me know what you think of the quality and subject matter. Hugs

New Tripod and My Information 11 14 2024

Just some information about Ron trying to build me a camera stand and videos I want to post.

My newest avatar picture

My Day “last week”

Hi All! I have been out of it all day! Yes I can hardly type. I have not slept in days. Today after Ron went for a doctor’s visit and I was starting to do laundry I walked by the bed, fell into it, and passed out. I slept so hard that I never locked the doors. He came home and came into the bedroom and couldn’t wake me. He almost called 911. But after four hours I woke up. I have stumbled around the house. I did a few things. I managed to talk with Kamyk for a few minutes and threw up a few times. After a few times with Ron’s help I managed to make our covid / my flu shot appointments at a local Walgreens (not our own) for Friday. My allergy shot made my entire body itch horribly for days, today Ron insisted I take an

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It is 9 AM on Thursday, the next day. Sorry I dropped off before I could finish and woke up after I fell asleep. I feel so much better, woke at 5:30 am and got up at 6 with Ron. We had coffee, yes I went back to drinking coffee. I drink a smooth less sharp / less bitter coffee than him. So we make individual cups in the wonderful Cuisinart single serve premium coffee maker that wonderful Randy sent me when I was stress out about having a visitor stay in the house and I get up in the middle of the night and wouldn’t be able to have coffee. He bought this for my office so I could have coffee. So for days I have been not feeling well and not able to think. Now I feel better and ready to get to work. Today I got my new tripod for the cameras. After weeks of trying to make one Ron and I went on Amazon and bought the perfect one for less than 35 dollars. But I did save comments so I won’t lose them. So if you get a reply to a comment a week old don’t be surprised. Remember I love hearing what you have to say and I do care about the people who follow the blog. I love Ali and Randy for contributing their posts and thoughts. Best wishes. Hugs