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'm doing OK. Doctors say I'm about as good as it is going to get.
I still am paralyzed on my left side, but I Can type, walk a little with a cane and my language sjills are Ok, so I'm good
Just trying to get used to doing everything with one hand.
I'm still mostly in a wheelchair, but that's OK.
I'm semi retired and doing some travveling. Made several trips to Bolivia and radio conventions in
Kansas City, Rweno, NV and Phiuladelphia coming up. I noticed I have to pay close attention to typing with 1 hand- frustraTING, BUT IT'S ok.
i FINISHED MY pHd dISSERTATION AND AM WAITING TO DO MY DEFENSE!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Sorry to hear your having troubles with health. It's amazing what we learn to live with as we grow older.
Good that your still able to travel and continue your education.
Know what you mean about typing with one hand, I find it hard to type with one finger on my phone, I make a lot typos and have to really watch, especially with auto correct, have had some humorous texts.
Take care Walt and stay in touch with us.
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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OK, I'll be around.
It's the simplest things thatr get me, like I went to plug ny headphones into a radio and pushed the rasdio off the desk onto the floor. Fortunately it survived somehow!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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The pros and cons of testing it in production.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I do wonder what breaks first. I mean, these bindings (or whatever they are called) are quite resistant.
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Rage wrote: these bindings (or whatever they are called)
"Cargo straps", or "Ratchet straps".
Those look like 50mm, and the smallest MLC I've seen for 50mm is 2500kg - probably more than the vehicle itself. I suspect what would happen is the plastics of the quad get squashed, then the pickup suspension, then the sides of the pickup, then the wheels would break up.
Followed by shrapnel ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Ratchet straps
These things are fabulous! Not long ago, I needed to lift/suspend/rotate/lower a 300lb concrete tabletop from my movable workbench onto the base. (which was mostly made from pallet material) Not having a hoist, or even anyone to help, I put together a crude lifting frame and used ratchet straps to do all the work...awkward and with a limited range, but it got the job done!
...and the table turned out beautifully, one of my better projects! 
But yeah, I'd expect major damage to the truck and atv!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Came out of a cafe in Manhattan a long time ago. A dude in a green jumpsuit was making a big show of getting on his matching Kawasaki Ninja or some such nonsense. He was so focused on drawing attention that he didn't notice the padlock in the front disc. But a couple of us did.
Got on the bike, started it up, spun the back tire and *clunk* fell over like a stone. We all stood there just as intently watching him work his way out from under the bike and lift it up. No one lifted a finger.
Some say he's still crying.
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Why are some people so stupid?
Because they are!
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I used to like the internet, but now it's all meme meme meme.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Are you insame? I love it!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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use your paddle properly, do not always fight against the current
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Icon understand where you're coming from.
Is Bandwidth just telling you who else is playing at a concert?
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Well I much prefer the videos of Beaker to those of cats.
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What do you expect? This is the meme generation!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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and they've all get their heads in the cloud when it comes to skill sets
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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This week, I've had two reminders of our mortality.
A friend had a stroke and died on Thursday, another friend went to the hospital with chest pains.
He was diagnosed with an aortal dissection - a tear on the interior wall of his aorta and given a 60% chance of surviving surgery.
After 9 hours, we were told he was in the ICU.
He is a law enforcement officer and stays in shape, but he wasn't immune.
No preaching, just a reminder of our mortality.
Tim
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Indeed. I dropped of my gf earlier this morning to go to her aunt's funeral in MI -- she died on Thursday too.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Yep.
back in 2012 my dad went into the Hospital laughing and joking and died 5 days later from heart failure.
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Last April my 56 y/o brother walked into the local ER feeling ill. They measured a 50/0 BP and admitted him immediately. 36 hours later he died of the flu.
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Get saved and it won't be a big thing having absolute confidence that death, which came via the fall off man, can then be just the threshold to eternity in heaven.
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