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That's the Way It Crumbles, Cookie-Wise

I use one of those pill boxes too. Each day has four seperate boxes. Since I take meds twice a day at 9:00 AM and PM, I use the boxes for Morning and Noon for one week, and Evening and Bed for a second one. That means I only have to fill it twice a month. I usually fill it after I take my meds on the first Monday, and start the two week cycle on Tuesday. Then there is meds in the box for the first Monday, two weeks out.

Like most things I have to remember, I have little memory tricks that help me. Each night before I hit the rack I put the next day's pill box in front of my keyboard. I typically sleep four hours, and get up after I wake up to go to the bathroom, because I can't back to sleep. When I sit down in the morning, there's the pill box. That forces me to remember to take them. Then when I sleep the other half of my "night" several hours later, I put the pill box in front of the keyboard again.

Since my days are usually split into two parts because of my sleep pattern, I used to get confused as to whether it was day or night once in awhile. I differentiate the two by how I set the pill box there. With my asthma inhaler is daytime, without it it's night time. Like most of my memory tricks, they really help me to remember to do things. Sometimes, I set timers in the Calendar in Thunderbird, such as when I have something cooking or I turn the AC on.

I used to forget to take my meds a lot, and the times were never consistent. That changed after I got covid in December 2022. After I got out of the hospital two years ago, my Doc drilled it into me that since my meds are to be taken twice a day, I need to take them at the same time every day, or I might end up back in the hospital again. Specially if I don't take my diabetic meds. So I chose 9:00 AM and PM and so far I am sticking pretty close to it. Then of course, I take my fast acting Insulin with meals and the slow acting Insulin when I eat dinner.

I must be doing it right. I'm still alive and kickin'. (y)
 
Nancy Hart said:
You know the Progressive commercial about becoming your parents? I'm now using one of their old weekly pill organizers. The doc keeps telling me to take B12, D3 and Calcium. Throw in a multi-vitamin for good measure. I start out with good intentions, then it drops off the radar screen. I'm up to three weeks in a row without a miss. A new record. :rolleyes:
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Axel Slingerland said:
... I must be doing it right. I'm still alive and kickin'. (y)
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Keep up the good work, Axel. I'm sorry to hear you had Covid. That must have been frightening.

I've also gotten in the habit lately of dividing the 24 hours into two parts. Mostly because I like to stay up late, and don't like to be asleep during business hours. It works out pretty well.

My biggest problem is putting something on the stove to cook and forgetting about it. I'll set the timer on the phone but forget to hit START. Or forget to take the phone with me. Why don't they make stoves with at least one burner with a timer, like the toaster ovens?
 
During commercials of one TV program, I watched parts of the movie June Bride (1948), with Bette Davis and Robert Montgomery, on TCM. Heard just a tiny bit of a song in the background that triggered a memory. Was it a theme song from an old TV show from the 1950s? Took a while to track it down.

Anyone remember the show?


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Our family didn't even care much for this show, but there were only 3 choices back then. Anyway, it's a pretty little song.
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Nancy Hart said:
Keep up the good work, Axel. I'm sorry to hear you had Covid. That must have been frightening.
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It was. Waking up in the hospital, at St. Joes in Eureka no less, tied to the bed by probe wires and a high flow oxygen tube, unable to even lift up my head was pretty scary. I felt that due to how they failed to take good care of Cindy over the years that I was going to die for sure.
 
Mission Creep

I know fooling around with old plumbing always opens a can of worms. But I think this is a disaster just waiting to happen in my lifetime anyway.

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The good news is the drain changes from steel pipe to PVC as soon as it passes through the floor to the basement. The two are connected with one of those black rubber couplers with screw rings. It should be easy, right? :rolleyes:
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Nancy Hart said:
... It should be easy, right? :rolleyes:
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Wrong again! What we have here is called an S-trap. S-traps are illegal since at least 2009. Even replacing an old S-trap with a new S-trap is illegal. It is even more serious in a bath that is rarely used, because S-traps can allow sewer gasses to escape into your house.
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To do this up to code will require a "P-trap" instead. Also an air breather thingy (AAV), and a lot more fittings because they cut a hole in the floor right below the drain. It may look complicated like this.

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I'm already in trouble with the satellite dish police. Don't need no plumbing police nosing around. BTW it has rained at least 4 times since the dish rewire. TV is perfect.
 
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I've been gluing beadboard planks to walls. It's important where you put the first plank, because everything follows from that. There are no do overs if you find out you made a bad choice only when you get to the other end. There might have been a time when I could use pencil, paper, and a hand calculator to figure out where to start the first piece. Not with this project. There are too many "unknown unknowns" (D. Rumsfeld, 2002). It's easier just to tape some scraps on the wall and use trial and error.

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All the panels are now glued in, up to 3 panels away from the sink. That's where it stops until I figure out what to do with that sink. I'd have to break it into pieces just to lift it out. Still thinking of trying to cover it with epoxy. I'd like to reproduce this pattern. Probably too difficult.

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To pour epoxy the sink must be perfectly level. I managed to pry it loose from the vanity enough to level it, so it can be done in place. Not optimistic, but who knows. It might turn out OK. Not much to lose by trying.
 
The new Kroger has 24 self-checkouts. Four of them have a conveyor belt, just like the grownup lanes. Sometimes all 4 are down, but tonight one was open. The belt starts turning when an item is placed on it and stops when it's empty. These machines refuse to record the next item if you scan too fast. Sometimes the little beeper beeps, but the item doesn't get recorded on the screen. That happens often on all the self-checkouts. Tonight it happened on the conveyor belt.

The unrecorded item went halfway down the track and stopped. Nothing more would scan. Just as I was about to go retrieve it to rescan, the conveyor belt shifted into reverse and deposited it within reach. :cool: You are not required to memorize what was "the last item you scanned." I don't talk back to the conveyor belt machines like the simple ones, because it doesn't talk to you and scold you out loud in front of everyone. "Please place the item in the bagging area" gets on my nerves after the 15th time.

Meanwhile the attendant bagged all the groceries for me. This was fun. I need to get out more.
 
Nancy Hart said:
Meanwhile the attendant bagged all the groceries for me. This was fun. I need to get out more.
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In California they charge 10¢ per bag, which is supposedly incentive to not throw them on the ground. People do it all the time anyway. So I go to self-checkout and when it asks how many bags I want I just answer 0, and the attendant bags all the groceries for me. It's not my fault that they don't know I didn't pay for a couple of bags, when they have traditionally been included in the price of groceries. Specially now that food costs are through the roof. I need to get out more too, which won't happen until Fall. The only reason we'll be going outside until them to go get groceries.

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6/26/25 Thursday

Picked up the new eyeglasses today. Cat Eyes are back in style, but not as exaggerated as in the 1950s.

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I read that 90-95% of eyeglass frames are made in China. Must have beaten the tariffs. I picked these frames from the Walmart virtual try-on webpage. :cool: Still like them best in the store. They turned out to be really inexpensive ($48). Actually I'd have preferred a little better frames, because those are always the first to go. It's taking a while to get used to them. Vision is fine at all distances, but I have to learn to look at different places in the lens. Only trouble is while walking because you have to keep checking the ground.
 
The Three Corner Problem

How to merge 3 different types of trim molding where the outer corner of the shower opening meets the transition between the wainscotting and the painted wall. This has taken several rounds of trial and error with scrap pieces.

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The tiny, mitered corner molding on top right is slightly taller than it is deep. It would look better the other way around. Doing this on an actual uneven wall is a whole different story. It scares me enough that I keep putting off even starting. Fortunately, there are only two of these junctions in the whole bathroom.
 
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