…And we’re off to Bartlett Lake! Rain is in the forecast, so we’ll see how this turns out! Should be good fun, with a bunch of nerdy guys like me. I think someone is brining one of those crazy ass board games too. No, not Monopoly… The games make Monopoly look like checkers. LOL I usually don’t partake in these games now, since we have COMPUTERS. But, I did my share of nerdy board games back in the day. Starfleet Battles for the WIN! :)
So, I got to take my son to school for the first time today. Well, the first time for his Kinder years. He was trying to be so brave, and almost made it, till I had him come give me a hug. He broke down and started crying. He quickly recovered once I reminded him that he was supposed to be a brave soldier. LOL
It was great to go see him there… a big boy… all grown up… … :( Where did my little boy go!? :( I feel really bad for him because I know it must be so overwhelming to him. He doesn’t understand all the good this is doing for his character, etc. Ehh, by the end of the day he’s forgotten the trauma of the morning so it’s all good. I feel really bad for Heidi though. Having to go through that every morning… well, not every morning, but you know. It’s tough to watch your son feel so scared and nervous and not rescue him…
I can’t wait to go pick him up at the end of the day! :)
Tomorrow I will be jumping in a vehicle and heading up to Barttlett Lake up in Phoenix. Just a bunch of guys, food, beer, whiskey, vodka, and no technology. Time to reboot the system so to speak. Maybe do some networking up there as well, who knows. It’s going to be good to get out with a bunch of great folks and just relax.
The trifecta is complete. The A/C in Heidi’s car crapped out on us, and we fixed it. The A/C in my car crapped out on us, and we fixed it. The A/C in our house just crapped out this weekend, and we fixed it. Several thousand dollars later, hopefully we have appeased the climate control gods enough to go easy on us for a bit.
Seems our evaporative coil and condenser coils were mismatched because the outside condenser unit was replaced with no thought put toward what the evaporative coil was like inside. So, we had a 5 ton condenser coil, and a 3.5 ton evap coil which meant we were cooling off the refrigerant faster than it could absorb the heat from the air. In addition, we had a leak somewhere in the system, which is what prompted the initial call for assistance. Long story short, the coils match now, the leak was probably in the replaced coil, and we should be able to run the unit at a lower temperature than we initially thought and actually improve efficiency.
The A/C fun basically shot our Saturday to hell, and not much at all got done today either. But, that’s ok. Sometimes you’re the bug and sometimes you’re the windshield…
Tomorrow, I go find out what’s wrong with my back. If someone mentions surgery, then someone will be getting the finger.
So, I started my day with an MRI this morning. I remember thinking, “YAY! I finally get to see what’s wrong with my back!” and “COOL! I get to see what an MRI is like!” Well, I now know what an MRI is like. It’s certainly interesting, but not quite what I thought it would be like. Here’s a description I found in the internet:
The patient will be asked to lie on a narrow table which slides into a large tunnel-like tube within the scanner. … There is no pain. The magnetic field and radio waves are not felt. The primary possible discomfort is the claustrophobic feeling that some experience from being inside the scanner. The table may be hard or cold, but you can request a blanket or pillow. The machine produces loud thumping and humming noises during normal operation. Ear plugs are usually given to the patient to reduce the noise. …
Narrow table? Check. Large tunnel-like tube? Not sure where the “large” one is, but not at Eastside Imaging, where I went. The tube has a space just wide enough for my shoulders, and left about 3 inches of space from my face to the roof of this “tube”. Not what I would call large. I’m not claustrophobic, but it did take some mental energy to not freak out in there. The machine is damn noisy! Oh, and you can’t feel the radio waves or the mag field? BULLSHIT I say. I felt like my bones were rattling at a very high frequency. It wasn’t painful, but it would have been nice to expect that sensation rather than having it dropped on me as a nice surprise!
So, my conclusion is it’s a wonderful technology. However, if you are claustrophobic they might pull you out slightly more nuts than you went in.
Why the MRI? Well, I have pretty cronic back problems, and it’s been bad lately. So we’re going to try to find out why… Stay tuned for what we find! Hopefully it’s fixable.
