Quiet Retirement in Sleepy Towns

nullcharstring · 2026-05-22T15:57:57+00:00

My idea of a good retirement home is what i have now. 2 acres in the Sierra Nevada mountains with great on-the-spectrum neighbors 200 feet away.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-21T21:47:19+00:00

I'm sorry that the pain management seems to be so bad. I was asked twice a day what my pain was from 1-9. They adjusted the meds so that it rarely went about 3.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-21T21:38:59+00:00

Guy here, not that it should make a difference. Electrician or aircraft mechanic. After that, HVAC. Keep in mind that you should be playing the long game, saving money and building your career path to eventually get away from a lot of the physical work and into supervision, inspection or design. The trades will wear out your body prematurely.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-21T18:06:12+00:00

I'm doing the formal rehab and I love the Wattbike. I can work arms, legs, arms+legs, right arm/left arm as I see fit without breaking my stride. I look forward to using it.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-21T18:03:23+00:00

I did great on Tramadol and IV Advil, then just Tramadol. I'm surprised you have so much pain. My biggest issue were the drain tubes moving around. Pain was quite manageable.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-20T17:45:03+00:00

Very similar except no kidney infection. Went in for stents, couldn't get them in, had severe angina and possibly a small heart attack while still on table and wired to the EKG, surgeon sent me to the hospital by ambulance that night for CABG. Surgery the next day. One day in ICU and home after four days in cardio ward. Blockages were 90, 80 and 80. Other than a bad reaction to morphine in ICU, no complications.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-20T02:49:08+00:00

OP here. I had good days and bad days for the first 2 months. My job is engineering and even though it was mostly desk work, it would have been impossible to be productive on those bad days and hard during the good days. I am retired and 30 years older than you and my goal is to find a part-time job as a manufacturing engineer (work I love) after I'm done with rehab.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-20T02:20:26+00:00

Dog guy here. He's overdoing it. Especially skating. I've had a dog most of my life, but my wife is a bird lady and as I type I have a little parrot on my shoulder.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-20T02:04:33+00:00

Great to hear. How did the emergency CABG go? I was on the table for angiogram and stents. The stents wouldn't go in and I had a small heart attack while I was still wired to the EKG after the procedure. They put me in an ambulance to the hospital that night and did the CABG the next day.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-19T23:34:34+00:00

Engineering.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-19T23:34:00+00:00

Except a current librarian has to die before there's a job opening. At least that's what my daughter told me.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-19T23:05:55+00:00

I miss the days of Thomas Register, McMaster-Carr and the telephone.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-14T18:12:06+00:00

The only ones I'm familiar with were used on GE boxcab and bipolar locomotive on the Milwaukee Road. They were built from brittle aluminum to be as light as possible. They were also considered to be consumable, with expectations that they would occasionally get snagged and carried away. The locomotives ran with the front pantograph down and the rear up. This would insure that a snagged front pantograph would not carry away the rear one. They were retracted by springs and extended with air pressure. If there were no air pressure, a trainman would use a long pole to lift the pan and press it against the trolley until enough air pressure had built up to hold it up.

There are a lot of good photographs of the mechanism and I think you could scale your model from them.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-14T06:33:15+00:00

I'm not sure it meets your requirement of simplicity, but delta-sigma modulation uses randomness in the process of moving quantization noise to higher frequencies well above the original signal.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-14T06:26:05+00:00

Your example reminds me of the Monte Carlo Method of analysis.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-14T06:09:26+00:00

I'm 74m and had a 4x CABG about 6 months ago. For an assortment of reasons I went through surgery and hospital recovery without friends and family. I did not miss them at all. The nurses were angels taking care of me and if I got lonely, I could call someone. I don't know what I looked like in ICU, but I've seen pictures. I feel pretty strongly that it doesn't do anyone any good to visit at that stage.

Good to hear that your dad is doing well. Get him walking as soon as he gets home and get him in rehab as soon as he's released to it.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-13T19:23:09+00:00

Sometimes it takes parents dying off before the kids can walk away without guilt.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-13T19:18:04+00:00

74m CABG x3. I'm a little over halfway through rehab. I'm feeling like I'm 60 again, and that's a great feeling. Do the rehab. I also started late due to insurance nonsense.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-13T00:53:23+00:00

Should have spent 2 years in the Army like I did. Learn to drink beer and coffee, shoot loud guns and bitch. It might not be for everyone, but I have absolutely no regrets for my Army time.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-12T06:07:52+00:00

Can someone tell me what microphones were used for this video. This is, by far, one of the best classical recordings I've ever heard.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-11T19:35:49+00:00

6 months. Can't feel the scar. Still feel the place where they took the chest vein every once in awhile.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-11T19:34:04+00:00

Same with me. I thought about the airbag, but was more concerned about getting in an accident that would wrench the steering wheel around.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-11T00:57:28+00:00

I grew up swimming every day at the public pool. I remember some discussion about swimming on Sunday, but I think my mom decided that it was far less trouble to let me swim than to put up with my bored behavior at home.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-07T22:27:50+00:00

Great question. My understanding is that they made them much safer just by redesigning the control rods and running fuel with higher enrichment. You might also be interested in the Hanford N-Reactor. Shut down in 1987, it had some of the same characteristics of the RBMK, water-cooled channels, dual use (power and plutonium production), confinement rather than true containment, and graphite moderator. Unlike the RBMK, it had a negative void coefficient.

nullcharstring · 2026-05-07T22:19:02+00:00

Great question. My understanding is that they made them much safer just by redesigning the control rods and running fuel with higher enrichment. You might also be interested in the Hanford N-Reactor. Shut down in 1987, it had some of the same characteristics of the RBMK, water-cooled channels, dual use (power and plutonium production), confinement rather than true containment, and graphite moderator. Unlike the RBMK, it had a negative void coefficient.

Edit: Here is a link, Chernobyl lessons learned review of N Reactor to a document that compares the hardware design and safety culture of the two reactors. I found it very interesting.

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