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Grex > Health > #89: Sindi Keesan's Lymphoma Journal Part 3 |  |
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keesan
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response 216 of 475:
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Feb 11 04:13 UTC 2004 |
Hey, klg, how come I am not 'Mr. woman'?
I guess cornbread stuffing. Jim guessed sweet potato pie. Our neighbor often
shares one with us. Her daughter the doctor learned to cook them but I think
she buys the crusts. Their secret ingredient is orange juice.
I wonder if she would like to join us for the buffet.
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gull
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response 217 of 475:
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Feb 11 15:07 UTC 2004 |
OpenOffice runs under Windows as well, not just Linux.
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ryan
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response 218 of 475:
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Feb 11 16:25 UTC 2004 |
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gull
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response 219 of 475:
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Feb 11 17:36 UTC 2004 |
Sure, but is it $350 more convenient? I don't do enough work with the
advanced features of Office at home to justify paying that kind of money
for software.
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keesan
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response 220 of 475:
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Feb 11 18:58 UTC 2004 |
I don't yet need to actually write or even edit any WORD files, just read
them, and WORDVIEW seems to be adequate. The latest .doc file they sent me
was hopeless with Antiword. It has several places where you are supposed to
click on a + or - to get a list of possibilities, one of which the author
chose, and Antiword just left them blank. Also got the date wrong. The rest
of it was okay but what I needed was in the list of possibilities (things like
the person to contact, email address, extension). I sort of doubt that
Abiword will even handle that. Then there were some X's (like radio buttons)
that disappeared in the Antiword version. Looks like I am stuck with one
Win98 computer unless I can get these companies to send me a 4K readable text
file instead of 120K page of WORD that I cannot read.
Today I saved Jim a few hours debugging his program by pointing out that he
was using highly variable spellings of his variables: linght, weigth - they
would have been okay except he used four variants of the first and two of the
second. That is why his program would not compile. He got the ei correct.
Now we are trying to figure out why a computer with a good battery won't hold
its CMOS settings, and why another won't hold its speed setting but keeps the
date okay (I think - we should check this out too). We have one CD-ROM that
will play music if you unplug the data cable, or read software if you plug
in the data cable, but won't do both. I recycled two 720K floppy drives.
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klg
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response 221 of 475:
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Feb 11 19:03 UTC 2004 |
(That could be arranged. Ask your dr. about radiation treatments.)
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ryan
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response 222 of 475:
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Feb 11 19:10 UTC 2004 |
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tpryan
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response 223 of 475:
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Feb 11 19:49 UTC 2004 |
I don't think MSWord is smart enough to not want to modify
a read-only file.
Mom has yet to invite her son to and pay for a $7 lunch
at her retirement community.
Retrirement community / multi-care facility is not the
same as a nursing home. For a nursing home, all are under
medical care and monitoring. For like a place like my mom is
in, you can be rather independant, have staff visit on a regualr
basis to take care of your needs, up until you need the constant
monitoring or hospitalization.
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albaugh
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response 224 of 475:
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Feb 11 20:48 UTC 2004 |
> I don't think MSWord is smart enough to not want to modify a read-only file.
Dunno what version of Word you are running. Modern day Word definitely *does*
know about read-only files, and says "Read Only" on the title bar when you
open such a file, and will not allow you to save back to it - you must use
"Save As". (caveat - this is all under MS-Windows)
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keesan
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response 225 of 475:
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Feb 11 23:16 UTC 2004 |
Tim, have you tried inviting yourself? Maybe your mother thinks you are not
interested in the food there?
Klg, I don't get the reference - why would I want radiation treatment?
The cancer center nurse came by today to give us her old computer, which is
about 24" high and needs recycling. She traded us her HP 520 (DOS) for a
Windows only laser printer (Win9x only). She was telling us how she is about
to make a batch of porter. Scott, would you like to have a mini microbrewery
tour involving her porter and whatever you are currently making? She also
does sauerkraut in the fall. And does water-bath canning of tomatoes.
Do you know anyone else interested in participating, who brews or at least
wants to see how it is done? There was something about transferring it to
another carboy when it reaches a certain stage.
Our screwy motherboard appears to be running any cpu at some multiplier times
50 instead of times 66 - 175 when you set it to 233, 150 when set to 200, 125
when set to 166.
It is usable and has the advantage of having DIMM slots and taking MX cpus.
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scott
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response 226 of 475:
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Feb 11 23:39 UTC 2004 |
I just brewed a big double IPA on Sunday. I might be curious what her brewing
setup is like.
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keesan
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response 227 of 475:
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Feb 12 01:09 UTC 2004 |
I will try to arrange a private viewing of her setup some time soon, maybe
after the winery tour. What is the best few days to see what is happening
wiht your batch, Scott?
We took a look at the AMD 5x86 she traded us (to be recycled) and it turns
out to be a 5k86, which means a Pentium I /socket 7. For some reason the
PR166 cpu in there was set to 100MHz in CMOS and was running at 1/5 the proper
speed. We now have it up to proper speed (less than half what we traded her)
and might use this board (in a much smaller case) for another purpose.
I was supposed to try flashing the BIOS of the CMOS that won't hold any
settings but I found a flash BIOS download for the DFI motherboard 586IPVG
and we have the plain 586IPV. Nothing to lose but time, I suppose.
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gull
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response 228 of 475:
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Feb 12 03:19 UTC 2004 |
Re resp:224: It knows about file locking, too. If another user has a
file open, you can only open it read-only.
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scott
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response 229 of 475:
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Feb 12 03:40 UTC 2004 |
My current batch is basically just sitting in a big glass carboy bubbling.
The fun part was brewing, since I do all-grain brewing instead of extract.
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klg
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response 230 of 475:
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Feb 12 05:00 UTC 2004 |
(Enough radiation could turn you into a "Mr.".)
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keesan
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response 231 of 475:
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Feb 12 15:38 UTC 2004 |
Re 230 - how?
Scott, let us know what days/times are convenient for you for a brewery tour.
She is free on weekends.
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scott
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response 232 of 475:
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Feb 12 17:58 UTC 2004 |
Weekends are probably OK. Seriously, a brewery tour? What kind of brewing
does she do?
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tpryan
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response 233 of 475:
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Feb 12 18:07 UTC 2004 |
re225: Yup.
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keesan
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response 234 of 475:
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Feb 12 18:18 UTC 2004 |
She says she gets beer recipes from the web and she is currently making
porter, in a carboy. That is about all I know.
Jim's old housemate used to make beer in some large glass thing in the
bathroom. Sometimes it would overflow onto the tile floor. He also made hard
cider.
I asked JIm to get the black history week menu today.
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keesan
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response 235 of 475:
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Feb 15 15:49 UTC 2004 |
My most interesting recent side effect is that I seem to have more freckles
on my face than before. Jim asks if it is age spots, but I think those appear
more on hands and I don't have more freckles there.
The miscellaneous little aches and pains continue to occur once in a while.
My left hand aches but less often. Sometimes it aches where the spleen biopsy
was. My leg muscles are still sore but that might be because I am not gaining
weight, in fact I might be losing again. I am getting rather tired of forcing
myself to eat things that taste bad. I have been forcing myself to eat since
at least last July, maybe June. I probably have not gained weight since
December or so. This should improve soon.
The laryngitis is about the best it has been but I still need to yell to be
heard between rooms or if the radio is on. Recently I have been having a sore
windpipe - don't know if this is from the pharyngitis, or from a worn-out
lining, or what. It is more frequent than before. Feels like a heart attack
might feel (not that I have had one) but centralized.
Two days ago what is left of the longer hairs on my head started to come out
again when I pull. The hair on my legs is still not coming out.
I had a bad dream about Tuesday's PET scan. They have me scheduled for an
8:45 ENT appointment and at 9:00 I am supposed to be at Radiology drinking
32 oz of barium sulfate suspension. I have special permission to pick it up
at 8:30 and drink it at the ENT office (assumine I am not seeing the doctor
at 9 instead of 8:45) and then go to Radiology at 10:00 for a radioactive
glucose injection (my last IV ever, I hope - the next 10 years of CAT scans
should be without IVs). I dreamed I was late to everything. That is usually
Jim's dream - being late to all his classes, or lost. It is hard to race
around between doctor's offices when you can only walk slowly. Better than
a wheelchair. I hope the scan goes well. Jim has a class at 1:00 and might
have to take me along.
He thinks he has fixed a motherboard that keeps changing its mind about the
speed of the cpu in it by giving it more voltage from a different power
supply. We are ready to put together some new computers as soon as I get lynx
compiled. The latest attempt complained that I did not have gpm mouse. I
was using some ncurses that was compiled to need it. Time to try another one.
Or give up and let it have a mouse (which will make the program larger).
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keesan
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response 236 of 475:
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Feb 15 18:17 UTC 2004 |
Today after 2 months of compiling assorted other programs I now have a
version of lynx 2.8.5 (non-dev - the final one came out 10 days ago so I
had to start over) with ssl, for linux! It works to access grex over the
web, vanilla interface. (Which to me looks green and yellow, set to
default colors for this lynx version). Boy, is this a slow way to read
grex conferences. Maybe someone is doing a backup today, but dialin was
a lot faster.
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gull
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response 237 of 475:
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Feb 15 18:50 UTC 2004 |
Backtalk is a bit slower than usual today. But it's always a bit slow.
Hopefully when the new machine is set up it'll be snappier.
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naftee
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response 238 of 475:
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Feb 15 19:05 UTC 2004 |
ahaha, "when"
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keesan
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response 239 of 475:
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Feb 16 01:44 UTC 2004 |
I guess the 30 sec wait to read anything was a lot faster than the 2 months
it took me to get a lynx that would work with backtalk.
Today we had a day on the town - walked to a lecture on campus, and then hung
around waiting for a 7 pm concert at St. Thomas. The front doors were locked.
We walked all the way around and found a note on the BACK door telling people
to go to teh front door and that the concert was not at 7, it was at 4. I
wonder how many people froze at the front door around 7 pm wondering why it
was locked. We were early.
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gull
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response 240 of 475:
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Feb 16 15:54 UTC 2004 |
Today I'm seeing more of a 3-second wait than a 30-second one.
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