Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Random mutterings
This year is 30 years since high school. Hard to believe it’s already been 10 years since my 20 year high school reunion.
The last time I saw anyone I went to high school with was at the reunion, but thanks to Facebook I can see what some of them are up to these days.
It’s unlikely I’ll be able to make it back home this year if there ends up being a 30 year reunion thing going on. I hope that if something happens, everybody has a good time and posts pictures of the festivities.
Stopped at my local Radio Shack again to see if it was still open and much to my surprise, it was, although today was the last day.
There wasn’t much left in the way of components, but I still found a few more things to pick up. Hard to turn things down when they’re marked down 90%. A few packs of 1/8 W resistors, 3 packs of terminal strips, 4 spools of speaker wire, some RF chokes and 4 PIR sensors.
After a bit of hemming and hawing over whether I should go back for more (didn’t want to seem greedy or anything), I headed back for round 3. At some point, someone else had stopped there and bought out the rest of the resistors, so I settled on (nearly) cleaning out the capacitors. I’m already pretty stocked up on resistors from the first trip anyway. Also picked up the rest of the heat sinks, IC sockets and a couple of telescoping antennas.
I probably could have grabbed a few more things, but they weren’t things that I would have easily found a use for.
Now to start setting things up so I can build things…
Everything seems to have gone well with the back surgery to remove the bits of the L5/S1 disc that squished out. Checked in to the hospital just before noon yesterday, and was home by about 5:30 that afternoon. The actual surgery only took about an hour (so I’m told) so most of the time was waiting, getting prepped and then recovery in the PACU.
Pain from the surgery site has been pretty minimal (~5 cm incision site in the middle of my lower back). No staples or stitches that need to be removed later, so all I need to do is rest and let everything heal up.
The leg is feeling better with less weakness and numbness. I imagine that will improve even more as the nerves recover.
Off work for the next week and a half for recovery. Planning to use that time to catch up on some reading, do some more work on my equipment tracking application, and binge on some Netflix.
Just as I was getting used to having another Radio Shack near me again, news came of General Wireless filing for bankruptcy (Chapter 11). They ended up with Radio Shack after the 2015 bankruptcy filing.
I stopped by the Radio Shack near the house (one of three left in the Charleston area) and was sad to learn that they would be one of the stores closing.
It sounds like the Radio Shack in Mount Pleasant will remain open (for now) leaving two left in the area. The other one in Summerville is a franchise and is unaffected.
With the store closing, everything was on sale (except for the Sprint stuff), so I picked up a few things.
The receipt was almost 1 m long.
A few packs of hookup wire, variety packs of resistors, capacitors, transistors and diodes, a few reels of solder, toggle switches, 555 and 556 timers, op amps, soldering iron tips, heat shrink tubing and prototyping boards. There was a lot more I probably could have left with.
May need to go back in a week or so to see what’s left.
Somewhere, a bunch of chickens laid a bunch of eggs. Some of them got processed and sorted into two cartons that we picked up from Publix.
All of them were double yolk eggs.
24 eggs, all with two yolks inside them, sorted into cartons that were purchased within a few days of each other.
One or two double yolkers would be interesting. Two dozen of them though?
I wonder how many other cartons were full of double yolk eggs in that batch delivered to my local Publix.
What the heck are these chickens eating?