Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Short but Sweet

In a small town in Eastern Oklahoma is a small city.
This city of about 3000 residents has a high school.
The high school has an Agri Department.
I spent the morning hanging out with the guys that teach in that department.
These guys are great. Friendly. Open. Nice.
Willing to laugh, smile and give you the time of day.
Are all farmers this nice? I've not known many in my day.
But they were nice to me as I struggled to setup a small network printing option and get their SMB scanning working, despite several generations of equipment and software.
But I got it. And they weren't ancy or nervous about me doing so.
Kudos to you guys.
Keep up the good work.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Elbow Begoings and Biofreeze


My friend, Biofreeze.
I'm not even sure when we met. It must have been after I turned 30, at least.
There's got to be some kind of nature's law: Man turns 30, he will start to have creaky joints. In my case it is my left elbow, mostly, and my lower back. The back is another blog, so we'll leave it at that.
The elbow, oh, the elbow.
It was 1993. February. I was on an island outside of Gothenburg, Sweden. We had gone out there for a day to see the sights, climb a big hill and have a picnic.
I thought I was being silly and cool by walking on the water - well, it was frozen Atlantic Ocean water, but water it was. Ice. And after a bit, I bit it. Fell on my side, my left side. Most of my elbow caught the brunt of the fall. Now, I was 20. Didn't think I could ever get hurt. And it didn't. Not until a few months later. Went to the much vaunted but still socialist hospital. Did xrays and said nothing was broken. But here I am two decades later with a bum elbow that can tell me when it is going to rain and if the temperature is changing drastically up or down. When the barometric pressure hits, my elbow throbs.
Not to mention when I type for more than an hour at a time. Which I have done frequently in the last 20 years. I've had a couple of American doctors tell me I damaged the ulnar nerve sheath that holds the nerve going through my elbow. It will get swollen and - POP! It will make my whole left hand go numb.
Not good for a typist. Or a cello player. Or any other instrument player.
So now Biofreeze and I met up one fateful day in my doctor's office. I had used TigerBalm, Aspercreme, and several others. Biofreeze works. It makes the pain either go away - or in some cases makes it tolerable. It also helps my lower back after two back surgeries. But that's another story.
Biofreeze, you're not just a blue gel. You're ... my ... friend. Thank you for being my friend.
*Said in hommage to Red Solo Cup, of course*
So there, internets. Behold my friend. The wife uses it on her back - or more importantly she makes me rub it on her back. Hm. Maybe I should get her to rub it on my elbow... yeah...
Later.

Friday, June 27, 2014

The Dead Rise...

Wow. I thought the blog thing was over. Now I am rethinking it.
Gonna revitalize it. Going to try and blog 3 times a week.
Ricoh. Savin. Star Wars. Geekdom. Nerdhood. IT. Scouting. Tablets. Phones. Family. Faith. Just some of the things I'm gonna blog about. Work related, family related, geek related.

Thinking about doing three blog posts a week. One related to IT. One related to Copiers/Printing. One related to Family/Scouts/Nerd/Geek stuff. A good MWF thing.

We'll see, internets. We'll see...
Me. In Talihina, Oklahoma on a tall hill. Right after Scout Camp, June 2014