wacky1980

he's fully recovered. still hacking up shit (not literal shit, that would be odd) but otherwise, he's doing fine now. thanks!

pretty much this. also, depends on your local ordinances. like in my town, you can't be topless inside a bar, men or women, period. ↙ look, that became redundant. ...oh yeah, moving on. in my state though, you can serve alcohol as long as you're wearing some kind of bikini bottom or underwear. local ordinance takes precedent though

yeah well my bullshit radar has been pegged lately. that and i've maybe had 3 hours of sleep since sunday. i'm not putting a whole lot of thought into things right now.

not sure if being supportive, or telling me to gtfo. i feel like i've missed something.

again, thanks everyone. i honestly had no intention of creating one of these sympathy threads. i just kinda wandered back to this place overnight while everyone else was asleep. that coffee from "b.h. java" (yes, that's really the name of the coffee shop here at blessing hospital) this morning really brought me back from the dead. being up all night every night with 2 sick kids since sunday has been a real treat.

no one is saying anything about heart disease right now, just a viral infection and some potential complications. today is the first day i've taken off work (besides eclipse day) for about 3 months, and i think i'll be due for a couple more once the whole house is healthy again.

that was a read. not sure if i should thank you or ::: but anyways.

the 15-month-old was in to see the doctor yesterday morning because he's been fighting a sinus infection for a couple days. doctors sent him back home at that point, but he went downhill through the afternoon (chest retractions, high fever, real lethargic). took him back to the doctor about 5 in the afternoon, and they sent him over to the hospital. took x-rays, tested for influenza and RSV and a couple other things overnight. everything came back negative this morning, so we're thinking simple bronchialitis. he's been on o2 since he was admitted, but we've been weaning him off gradually. he should go down to room air after a nap if everything goes ok. then maybe a few hours of monitoring to make sure he's still getting enough o2, and we might get to go home tonight if all goes well. thanks for the well wishes. we hopefully have the worst of it behind us, but it's been almost a week of this already. i'm fucking tired.

i can see it today and i crossed 900 overnight.

when you're sitting in the hospital with absolutely nothing to do besides watching the kiddo's heart monitor while he sleeps, you can only browse so much amazon and reddit before getting desperate. sidenote: the quality of the coffee here is a lot better than i recall. so at least there's that.

i feel like the premise for most of these packard threads is lifted from a failed 1960s variety show. think sonny & cher comedy hour, but all the jokes come from don adams.

is this the only ass you're gonna eat this weekend? keep in mind the weekend is a day longer than normal.

i wore a pedometer on festival day this year, and i put down like 36000 steps (~17 miles) in a space roughly the length of one block, and those steps included a lot of manual labor and beer drinking. i'm confident i could do 25 with the shoes i have on right now. but today's boxers aren't really made for fitness stuff, so the nut chafing might kick in before the feet gave out.

i'm pretty close to closing out my list today. finished uploading my fdic exam paperwork, upgraded an ATM, and am about done with a 1st-of-the-month processing day at the bank (always the second worst day, behind last-of-the-month). also before going into the bank this morning, i finished up my monthly gaming and liquor inventory reports for the bar. i'm about 55 minutes away from going home, plopping my ass down with the kiddos, and enjoying my evening. unless we have to work on stuff for the block party we're hosting on sunday, then i might have more work to do tonight. but that will probably involve drinking some beer, so can it really be that bad?

he learned everything he knows by reading packard threads. so, pretty well i'd wager.

ask the people in houston how their full-web-access-cellphones are working on the networks that all went offline after the cell towers' backup generators all ran dry.

your superior homemade radio and trendy apple II home computer will kill that thing dead before you have the chance to form your next ill-conceived post. just keep that in mind.

...yet. at any rate, a single sla battery producing 110v ac power is not going to do much. might keep your minifridge cold long enough to keep your insulin from spoiling until after happy hour this afternoon. but probably not.

that cpap machine will kill your little 7ah battery in a matter of hours, if not minutes.

you're so fucking smart.

prove it. go now.

absolutely. if you think it's worth it to protect your gear, it doesn't matter if it only cost you $100. like i said earlier, i keep my home router and modem (probably $150 total value) on protected ups, because it's worth it to me to keep my wireless internet running during a power outage. the ups would have cost about $100 on its own if i bought it (battery died so bank tossed it, but i brought it home and put a new batt in it for $20). then again, we put a new display cooler in the bar back in april. it cost about $3600, and i plugged it straight into the wall. why? because it would eat up surge protectors like fat chicks eat black dicks. not worth it.

i don't personally own expensive enough gear to worry about dropping protection on the circuits. but i've worked in studios that have $50k+ of recording equipment, and i manage IT at the bank i work for. if you're buying gear that runs $1000 and up, it makes good financial sense to buy $50 circuit protection for it.

also, even the most expensive surge protectors can/will wear out over time, especially if they're dealing with constant "dirty" power (high/low/fluctuating voltage). and a surge protector does jack shit on a non-grounded circuit.

the basic surge protectors will protect against a surge in that they have a circuit built-in (usually 15A). they don't generally protect against voltage spikes (in either direction), or if they do, they aren't very sensitive. good surge protectors will smooth out voltage irregularities, protect against ground fault, short, surge, and sometimes reversed polarity. then there's the thing where a lot of items labeled "surge protector" aren't really doing anything besides acting like a regular old power strip.