Well.... to start September off on the wrong foot, I accidentally took a double dose of blood thinner (Eliquis) this morning. I was thinking about something else and grabbed the wrong pill. Cautionary postings on all the "medical advice" websites - possible stroke, uncontrollable nose bleed, excreting or urinating blood, etc etc - enough to scare your pants off. But I know this could be bad. I've had several bleeding "events" in the past and they are not anything like enjoyable.
Called my cartiologist's answer service .... like screaming into a Black Hole.
Decided not to move around too much, don't bang into anything, especially don't hit my head, no acidic food, no sharp knives......
Then decided to engineer the possiblities - what do the numbers look like? ("Numbers don't lie.") Made 2 gross assumptions about how fast Eliquis gets into and out of your blood stream. Graphs are over there.
Based on this highly accurate scientific analysis, I figure that I'm out of danger between 6PM-8PM this evening.
Attack !!
NYC Vintage Trains
I stumbled upon news of an event that happens this weekend in NYC. You can ride on a vintage train Saturday and Sunday for $2.75. If I was close to the city, I'd do that, because back in the day, these are the trains that I took to school in Brooklyn. (The fare back then was 10¢ !!) In fact I started taking the D-train to-and-from Coney Island across Brooklyn (by myself, every day) when I was in the 5th grade (about 9½ years old!).
As Cousin Pete reminds me, the seats were rattan wicker* that would splinter and stick your butt and scratch your hands.
The train I took back in 5th grade !!
The olden days.
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"..... rattan is a material, whereas wicker is the style and method of weaving."
Been ages since we saw Jake, and we haven't met Sarah yet, but they are a cute couple, I'd say. Loretta sent this recently.
Well we planned for the Itailan Car show at Tuscan Village in Salem, NH, but the weather did not cooperate. So we just headed to lunch and a visit to Jim and Audrees'. Lovely people, excellent afternoon.
They are cat people, and here are Dandelion and Violet - handsome, pretty and people friendly.
Well, up here, the day lived up to its reputation for bad things. A rainstorm hit and just targeted our city much worse than anyplace else in Massacusetts. We got 10.5" of rain in 5 hours. Never saw anything like this deluge in my life. We've been on the TV news all day today - people suffered all kinds of flood damage in a very short time period. Highways major flash floods, city response guys rescued 100s people for flash floods after dark. We were relatively lucky with only moderate basement flooding. Still a big deal for us. I could not keep up with the inflow. Had 2 shop vacs running for 3 hours last night, then gave up and went to sleep.
Mike came over this morning and had some good ideas for pumping the water out and he rolled up the wet carpets etc etc and got a grip on the situation.
Now I have fans and a dehumidifier running full blast and the future looks bright again.
Cars that could not get on the flooded highway were stuck for hours in the pouring rain. Even the firetruck couldn't get by.
This is the highway nearby.
Mike's plan was pump the vacuum water into the basement sink - must faster than emptying each tankload manually. We agreed that shop vacs should have built-in pumps for this purpose.
Clean and drying out now ....
Roofs
Mike/Chris's slate roof being replaced this week after early Spring storm & trees crashing. (It's a 4-week job !!
My leaking shed roof covered with tarp as of yesterday (Mike did the "heavy lifting").
Luka....
Very pleasant, low budget, family grade sci-fi movie.
A trailer park teenager sets an all-time high video game score. It turns out the game is actually a test to recruit Starfighters and - well, one thing leads to another - in a battle with the Kodan Armada he alone saves the universe from total distruction.
Great acting by Robert Preston ("Centauri") and Dan O'Herlihy ("Grig").
This is the time and place that I grew up in, and I miss it dearly. I am so glad that people take pictures.
A set of photos that I shamelessly downloaded:
Footnote:
Report from Loretta
She has a favorite spot overlooking the Blue Ridge mountains while she has her morning snack and crochets the goodies she sells at the market. Not a bad scene.
When I was in college, I wanted to be as cool as Illya Kuryakin, played by David McCallum.
Well ... time passes and so do we.
Very, Very Cool Jazz From Years Gone By
Spent hours the other day listening to this over and over. So much jazz . . . . so little time.
Well.... to start September off on the wrong foot, I accidentally took a double dose of blood thinner (Eliquis) this morning. I was thinking about something else and grabbed the wrong pill. Cautionary postings on all the "medical advice" websites - possible stroke, uncontrollable nose bleed, excreting or urinating blood, etc etc - enough to scare your pants off. But I know this could be bad. I've had several bleeding "events" in the past and they are not anything like enjoyable.
