Medical, Work, TV
By Derek | October 9, 2019
Medical Wednesday. (9th)
Started off today with a doctor’s appointment, at my primary care doctor, to look into my abdominal pain, after all, it happened 3 times in 4 days. Doctor (PA) wanted to schedule me for an ultrasound. So, I got that scheduled for the afternoon.
Second, went to physical therapy, this week it’s on Monday & Wednesday. I have homework, and my legs are tired from the exercise.
Third, off to STRIC for my ultrasound. That went well, and quickly, not too bad. They’ll send the results to my doctor.
Finally, got home so that I could work. Yes, today is a regular work day for me. Working my primary project.
Finished Luke Cage, season 1. Updated my MCU Timeline post.
Started Agents of Shield, season 4. It gets… supernatural, fast.
Then I remembered that I hadn’t finished (or started) Agent Carter, season 2. I’ll have to do that tomorrow.
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Abdomen, again.
By Derek | October 8, 2019
Tuesday. (8th)
Had the pain in my abdomen again shortly after I woke up. It seemed not as bad this time, but it still hung around for a couple of hours.
Didn’t go to lunch with the family today, cause I didn’t feel good. After the pain dissipated I took a shower and went back upstairs to watch some Luke Cage season 1.
Scheduled a doctor’s appointment to see about my abdomen pain. Today is the third day out of four that it’s happened.
Stayed upstairs during the first part of Robotics, but I finally had to come down just to get something to eat, as I hadn’t eaten anything all day.
Went to drop my younger son off at martial arts. Played a little Pokemon (Raid Hour) while we were out.
Came back and did my exercises for the day, then played some Star Citizen before bed. Made a couple of highlight videos:
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Work, PT, TV
By Derek | October 7, 2019
A good Monday. (7th)
Replaced a router And worked on some other computer issues for one of my customers today.
Ate lunch at Chick-Fil-A after that. Yummy.
After lunch, we headed home and shortly after I went to PT.
Had a good workout at PT. So good I came home and took a nap.
Watched a couple of episodes of Luke Cage, season 1 before bed.
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Tummy, Friends, Spider-Man, Pork Ribs
By Derek | October 6, 2019
A great Sunday, overall. (6th)
Got to see my older son briefly today. He was cordial.
Our main plan for the day was to go spend time hanging out with some great friends in Boerne.
When we were about 10 minutes away, though, my lower left abdomen started hurting. I felt kind of like I had a gas bubble. It wasn’t a sharp pain, more uncomfortable than real pain, so we just hung out at their house for a bit.
After a couple of hours there with this pain, I decided to lay down on our friends couch. That ended up with me racing to their bathroom to discharge the contents of my stomach.
I really hoped I’d feel better after that, but it persisted, so Jill and I decided to go to urgent care. On the way there, I had to get Jill to pull over, apparently there were still stomach contents remaining.
Waited in their waiting room for almost an hour, during which time the pain finally slowly went away on its own. It had hurt for about three hours total.
Once we got to see the PA (no doctor of course), he told us that gut issues are very difficult to diagnose, but since the pain was already gone, I should “rest my stomach” for a few days (eat light) and drink lots of fluids. That’ll be $50, in advance, thanks.
Got back to our friends house feeling much better, though!
Watched the new Spider-Man movie ( https://reelgood.com/movie/spider-man-far-from-home-2019 ) with our friends and had some great pork ribs, charro style beans, and Mac & Cheese. That’s a light dinner, right?
Once the movie was over we just sat around and caught up, it had been a while since we’d been able to get together. We stayed as late as we could but still left around 11p, which got us home a bit before midnight.
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Work, Deadmau5, Synchronizerz
By Derek | October 5, 2019
A good Saturday. (5th)
Regular workday for me. Worked on my primary project.
Watched some more Luke Cage season 1. Enjoying it.
Deadmau5 dropped his “last” LP, “here’s the drop!” today. Listening to it now. It’s pretty mellow, but I don’t think it’s very dance-able. I might have to listen to it a couple more times and see if it hooks me.
Watched today’s Synchronizerz stream with Sitarow. Star Citizen just released alpha 3.7 to PTU, and it has a bunch of new features, including caves to explore. The video is over 3 ½ hours, but if you start using the time index on this link ( https://youtu.be/JJVDKYWqt1M?t=5334 ) you get right into the exploration.
Of course, after watching that, I had to play some Star Citizen before bed. I made a few videos, and turned them into a playlist.
It’s about 30 minutes, if you want to watch the whole thing, if not, I’ve listed the individual videos here, as well.
- Can’t buy gear (alpha) 2m22s
- Gearing up 7m22s
- Entering the cave 10m27s
- Crawling 1m
- Found the victim 2m35s
- Exiting the cave 4m35s
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Work, TV, Exercise
By Derek | October 4, 2019
A good Friday. (4th)
Regular workday for me, just focused on my documentation project. Had a small celebration at one of my coworkers house for hitting a large milestone on the project. Also, it was her birthday, so we had pizza and ice cream cake.
Watched an episode of Luke Cage, still working on season 1.
Did my exercises before bed.
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Work, RackerGamers, Star Citizen
By Derek | October 3, 2019
A good Thursday. (3rd)
Regular workday for me.
Ran the RackerGamers t-shirt and merch table during lunch. We did well. We’ll be running the table every Tuesday and Thursday between now and Game Day, Nov 2nd.
Also discussed having a couple more RackerGamers board meetings before the event.
Played some Star Citizen, since PTU 3.7 Wave One came out. Made a few highlights. The first one is a bit long, the next few are shorter, and show off some of the new features of the new patch.
- https://youtu.be/iTUEkzkhmus General gameplay 34m
- https://youtu.be/YuXYRYrqu20 Bad Autoland 1m49s
- https://youtu.be/IVn9F6rAs-s Cave Explorer 7m26s
- https://youtu.be/J5T_EdEJlhc Light and use flare 1m
PT again tomorrow.
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PT, Work, Updates
By Derek | October 2, 2019
A good Wednesday. (2nd)
Today was my first day of physical therapy. They had me start super slowly. I need to build muscles up in my glutes to allow my hips to do more of the work holding me up, rather than putting all that extra strain on my back. Focussing on the glutes is one of the things my previous PT had me start doing, earlier this year, as well. Anyways, I’ve got my schedule through the end of this month, twice a week.
Regular workday for me.
Forgot to mention that I replaced that silly clear iPhone case that I ended up really not liking. It was also bigger and bulkier than I like my cases to be. I bought one that was a few dollars more (like $11) and is very thin and has leather on the back.
I also spent some time adding my previous updates, which were originally posted publicly only to MeWe, here. There’s an entry for nearly every day from here back to Aug 12th, if you’re interested.
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Full Tuesday
By Derek | October 1, 2019
A good Tuesday. (1st)
October already? Wow.
Got the errands outta the way first thing in the morning, including dropping the RackerGamer t-shirts off at Castle.
Then we did lunch at our normal weekly spot.
Robotics starting at 2p, which we’re going to move a bit earlier, as it’s actually our second robotics program, and ending one right when the other one is supposed to start is a bit chaotic.
Youngest son had martial arts.
Worked on my computer for a bit, then watched a movie with Jill, then time for bed.
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Busy Day, ContentID
By Derek | September 30, 2019
A good Monday. (30th)
Woke up early to go downtown to take care of some stuff. Was down there for quite a bit longer than we anticipated, but we got all of our errands run.
Got home just in time for the delivery of our RackerGamer Game Day shirts for this year. They look great.
Worked a bit on getting a new website set up. It’s coming along. Still needs more content ( https://versahomeschool.org ). It’s a club for home schoolers in the San Antonio area to promote STEAM.
Shortly thereafter, our family friend got here from out of town, he’ll probably be staying with us a few days.
I talked him into doing ExtraLife with us this year. He’s working to get himself set up as a streamer, so I figured this might help. Plus, it’ll be tons of fun!
I also gave him permission to use music off my album ( https://digitalpenguins.info ) for his streams, and to put in the background of his YT videos. He’ll give me credit, so I’ll get a little exposure there, too.
Turns out, if I _don’t_ register my music with Google’s “ContentID” anyone can use it in their videos. Hopefully, they’d remember to give me credit as well. The bad news is this: if I want to allow my friend to use it, but I _do_ register it with ContentID, I will get 80% of the resulting advertising money, rather than my friend who created the video. As an artist that’s created music, even I know that’s crap. Why not 50/50 with the video creator, of it’s original content? Man, the music industry “runs this town” don’t they?
After that I looked up some job postings at work to help a friend that’s ready for a change. Not sure if anything I found will help them, but you never know.
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