12:54:00 6.3 / 113 Post-Bfast<br />16:19:00 8.1 / 145 Post-Lunch<br />18:50:00 6.3 / 113 Pre-Tea <br />22:42:00 6.3 / 114 Post-Tea
Driving Totals: Daytime: 1260 mins of 2400 req // Nighttime: 565 mins of 600 req
30 mins daytime driving
Total Steps: 3425
Breakfast: half toasted cheese sandwich on low GI bread
Lunch: sausage roll w/ cottage cheese
Tea: fish & chips
Notes: A friend of ours from the old Fidonet days (back before the Internet became popular) passed away. I wrote a little bit about him for the Homestead mailing list, website and the CBM Fidonet echo (such as it is these days). Here's what I wrote:
Russell Prater, Former CBM Fidonet Moderator
I received news today from Phil Heberer, a long time Commodore Fidonet member...
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It is with great regret that I inform you that another of the circle of e-friends from the old Fidonet CBM echo has gone on to meet the Lord. Former CBM Moderator Russell Prater died Monday, Jul 7, 2008, from complications of diabetes. He was 69 years old. May God rest his soul.
Phil
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Russell was the moderator of the CBM Fidonet echo for many years, back in it's hey day when hundreds of messages would flow through nearly every day. He often joked that moderating the echo was a bit like 'herding cats'.
What I loved most about Russell was his sense of humor, fairness, and his belief that 'what goes around comes around', which was part of his Commodore friendliness. He helped create a lot of little utility scripts - some that are part of Rod's QWKRR packages, and was always willing to help people with technical problems. I once spoke on the phone with him when he helped walk my former husband through adding additional drive numbering switches to my 1581 drive. He was as friendly over the phone as he was in the echo.
I'm very saddened to learn of Russell's passing. We've lost a wonderful soul.
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Today's XKCD comic, Good Morning, gave me quite a chuckle. I know I've used the technique described quite a bit. - Love this comic - it sure fits me to a tee. Though most of the time lately I've become a 'normal' !!! person and get up in the early morning and conk out around midnight or so.
In the 'things that make you go hmm... Dept. Box falls from sky outside a Saginaw business
It's the LAST paragrph.
Had a dressing change today. The skin still red (way above where the hole is - it's likely from the opsite tape that's used to hold the dressing on), but otherwise everything looks good.
The first Email I received upon returning home was about Russ, and that blew the wind out of my sails for a bit. I went outside and had a good think about the things I liked about him, and wrote it up when I came back in. Rod took the news hard as well, as he and Russ used to share a lot of mail with each other, and they really did a lot of 'work' on lots of little bits of programming code, not to mention a whole lot of humour and comraderie. We're both sorry we didn't keep in better touch with him.
This afternoon I couldn't get settled. I ended up tidyng up my desk, making up a to-do list, and then picking the easiest/quickest thing on the list to do so I could say I've done something. That seemed to help. I did a few of the list items and tonight added a few more ticks off the list. Nothing too hard, just stuff that needed doing. I didn't go to Breastroke today as I am quite sore in the rib area (left side this week) and had extra pain killing meds so figured I was better off taking it easy here at home.
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